Report - Meredith Freeport, S-D054 Addendum

2563 MEREDITH FREEPORT THREAT ACTOR COMPENDIUM v.1.0.1.3
PERSONAL ADDENDUM BY SPARTAN-D054:
Please read this section carefully. The agent knows it is not customary for agents to add personal notes to reports unless it’s important but this agent think the preceding addendum to the requested Meredith Freeport threat assessment needs a further HUMINT-attached bias that this agent can provide, that few others can.
After a decade in military service, and having traveled the galaxy more than my parents ever dreamed possible, its hard to discern truth from fiction. Even this agent is fallible to false information. This officer cannot corroborate the official Naval Intelligence record on Forerunner Domain activity from 29 October 2558 to 13 December 2559 with Cortana’s official date of defeat. Much less any events about Forerunner technology outside of activity within the Meredith Freeport-designated “Pale Zone.” Such details often go omitted altogether per revisions to the reinstated Official Secrets Act.
However, it is reasonable in a simple deductive sense to say Cortana’s death and the collapse of the Created had much more tangible and objective effects in the galactic-political arena. A beginning to new Napoleonic struggles. Such a metaphor is weak on context, but the kind of fighting on the human territorial periphery called the “New Colonial Frontier” fits the definition where observed alliances and loyalty are matter of agenda and circumstance than unifying personal or ideological factors.
It is hard to call our own human government “Unified Earth” or the “United Nations” while the planet remains in a quasi-fiefdom environment between stubborn AI holdouts and hardened human conclaves refusing to fall back into administrative line. However, frontier gossip remains forever pitched in an anti-Earth slant and it is better that such complexities and nuance be left to interior colonial assets to make cleaner judgement on.
Below this section is a comprehensive list and reports on most or all threat actor gossip with connections or gatherings in Meredith Freeport territory.
Noteworthy include War Master Atriox and his Jiralhanae-dominated Banished, who operates in the designated Pale Zone through a New Colonial Alliance proxy; the appointed Second Chapter Reclaimants, led by a resurfaced Captain, or Commodore, Daniel Clayton. The connection between his incarceration at Midnight Facility and eventual escaped remains unclear. Much of Meredith Freeport politics is dominated by his Second Chapter Reclaimants with increasing collaboration of the suspected Created offshoot/splinter elements operating the Freeport’s infrastructure and security in exchange of unknown returns. Bringing clarity to their identity and activities will require more time, and caution.
Clayton has also allowed safe harbor to Far Harvest Legion ships and activity, those belonging to Commodore and Chairman Jefferson Khoren—better known as disavowed ONI agent, LCDR Jefferson Korn. Since 2560, public record suggests his flagship, the Bewitched Paragon, made port 23 times. Since the emboldened invasions of Covenant species homeworlds in 2560 by the Banished, this officer suspects a major deputy of War Master Atriox seeks collaboration with human elements to enable a significant movement into Inner Colonial space and as locals claim, the “human heartland.” Other items of concern include increasing numbers of all manner of former Covenant specimens in civilian travel paths on Meredith Freeport. This macro-phenomenon includes increased dimorphism and diversity among present Kig-Yar mercenaries, rumored Unggoy batch-armies belonging to someone named “Wimid,” possibly a Unggoy deacon of some sort, and a 4-fold increase in gene therapy human operatives taking work for the Freeport factions.
The last one is of additional concern, or more so curiosity, as this agent notes a defining difference between Spartan augmentation synthesized under ASTER, CHRYSANTHEMUM, and ORCHID. But a cultural likeness towards Spartan “copy cats” maybe emerging at rapid iteration since Created-improved bioengineering agents flooded the black market.
This agent has never met Ilsa Zane, but her likeness is everywhere. New Colonial Alliance propaganda continues to use the proto-SPARTAN-IV as recruitment material while also retouching the likeness of the Master Chief, John-117 as an undefined but “present” rebel superhero. It seems civilians and mercenaries are all aware of the disinformation, but are in on the joke. Seeming to give them some manner of twisted hope.
It maybe not too long before another “supersoldier factory” emerges on Meredith like the major one terminated by UNSC forces a couple years back. Putting a full company of Spartans with support elements maybe the best response to prepare, but not yet deploy, to Meredith Freeport under these circumstances.
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