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ONI//S3 DATA NODE FOUR
Posted By: IESUproductions<iesuproductions@gmail.com>
Date: 11 November 2011, 6:07 am
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>>>RECORD OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE OVERSIGHT SUB-COMMITEE CHAIRMAN AND FORMER PRIVATE CONTRACTOR TO THE UNSC [NAME WITHHELD]>>>
Dear Professor,
I want to thank you for your openness to our Sub-Committee's request for more information. I hope you are finding your new teaching position adequate. We were unfortunately disappointed when our recovery force reported a total lack of usable intel from the ruins of mining colony on Coral.
We do not wish to disrupt your civilian life any more than is necessary, but instead to find a way to find a way we can work together in a way that befits all our responsibilities. I am certain you will agree, and we look forward to making this review process as painless as we possibly can.
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Dear Chairman,
While I am quite obligated to assist your investigation, per the demands of my release, I ask that you not waste my time with irrelevant questions. My new position keeps my quite busy, and without the time or the energy to respond to such questions in as prompt and thorough a manner as you require.
I can, however, assure you that my former agency was normally unconcerned with such minute directives as troop reassignment. Except of course, in the most critical of matters. I hope that this will suffice as an adequate response.
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Dear Professor,
Due to your busy schedule, we have begun to interview members of your former company, many of whom have been successfully integrated into the S-IV Program as of 2553. However, our debriefings keep coming back to a single subject. Namely the pursuits of a SPARTAN team, designated "Grey", and their operations on the planet Coral. Any light you could shed on this "Grey Team' and their operations would be much appreciated.
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Dear Chairman,
I know of no SPARTAN team with that designation that operated with any members of my agency. The agency often shared assets between ourselves and S-II, whom I understand did designate fire teams by color. Perhaps you would be better served taking that query to Charlie Hotel.
I am quite interested in how those SPARTANS formerly under my employ came to offer such seemingly irrelevant information. A study of modern interrogation techniques would make a fine study theme for my curriculum. Any information you could offer on the subject would be appreciated.
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Dear Professor,
The measures we employed with the members your former company should no longer be your concern. But you can rest assured that Admiral Parangosky, the head of S-IV, signed off on all measures employed.
We can all respect the physical and mental toll that your incarceration has taken upon you. In that spirit, we have attempted to accommodate your brief explanations to our serious inquiries. None the less, I feel compelled to inform you, that even our trust has its limits. Do not assume that simply because you were properly punished for one crime, that you will not be fully investigated for another.
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Dear Chairman,
I appreciate your respect in regards to my well being. I am indeed a tired old man. I know it is a waste to try to hide my actions in the matter under investigation at this point, so I will say only that that I hope you understand.
I hope you can understand that, in war, it's judgement that defeats us. In war, men do all they can to suppress their better natures, because the alternative would mean the death of us all.
I want you to understand - clearly - that I am unashamed. I am proud of all that I have accomplished, and all that my agency did to secure our victory during that great war. Whatever "evil" that I have done, I consider it to be in the pursuit of a greater good. I hope your committee will see it the same.
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Dear 'Director':
Per your suggestion, we did consult with Charlie Hotel in regards to "Grey Team" and to the SPARTAN deployment on Coral. She was more than willing to answer our questions throughly, and was forthcoming in regards to your company's involvement with the SPARTAN class that "Grey" and the members of your company were derived from, in addition to the full extent of the events on Coral.
I regret to inform you that by the authority of this sub-comittee, officers have been dispatched to place you under arrest, and we expect your full cooperation. You will be tried alongside Charlie Hotel, and Juliet Hotel, your conspirators and the other leaders of this clandestine SPARTAN class.
I also regret to inform you that your response to these allegations, your assertion that you are "unashamed" of these actions, and that they served the "greater good", is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Every member of this committee is now somehow less constrained by the bounds of simple righteousness and of humanity for having borne witness to it. I award you no sympathy, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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Dear Chairman,
I am disappointed by your decision to press charges, but I am not surprised. My only hope is that the courts will see the matters differently than you have. You see, I never had the chance to serve in battle, nor did fate provide me the opportunity to sacrifice myself for humanity as it did for so many others in the Great War.
But the efforts of my agency and of the SPARTAN class that I helped create have ensured that I will have a noble place in history. No court can take that away from me, no matter how low their opinion of my actions may be. So send your men. They won't find themselves a fight. They'll only find an old man. An old man tired, but satisfied he did his duty. An old man weary from a mind more filled with memory, than it is with hope.
Sincerely Yours,
Former Director of Project Freelancer,
Dr. Leonard Church
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