Pacem Network

Dona Nobis Pacem (Latin: "Grant Us Peace"), referred to by the and the general public as the Pacem Network, is a purported, loosely-aligned organization of terror cells spread across multiple UEG colonies. The organization's public notoriety comes from their digital notes left after attacks, often penned with the group's iconographic Latin phrase. It may share history with sects of historic Friedensbewegung (German: "Peace Movement") due to similar iconography though ideologies seem radically dissimilar.
Despite a well-established presence in hacker and resist music cultures of the Insurrectionist movement, little is known about the terrorist organization outside of their results and rare public distributions, usually following a espionage action or cyber attack. The general public knows even less than political analysts or the intelligence community, rarely hearing their name in routine news cycles compared to well-established antigovernmental organizations. Little is known over their ideology and agenda other than a predisposition of attacking government and industrial targets, and committing crimes that seek to sow public distrust or dissent. Some ONI agents believe they might not exist at all.
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==Background==
The commotion created by unwitting Pacem Network hacker Elena Zaytseva on Sirona in revealed a rare glimpse into their hacking operations and ideology, an organization created to undermine the rule of the Unified Earth Government through engineered dissent. Pacem Network operations seem to extend across human space but concentrate in and around the or wherever UEG/UNSC power is concentrated. Cells seem to receive orders from unknown Insurrectionist commanders referred to as "Peacemakers." Pacem Network employs a poorly-understood programming ecosystem called "Innoc-Net" that appears to have no origin within established UEG information technology societies. 
Subtle rumors appearing within the halls of ONI and their operational sophistication suggest deep penetration by Pacem Network agents. While unfounded, some loose facts seem to suggest the Pacem Network as an early example of Insurrectionists augmented by potential operatives and possible sympathetic insiders within Naval Intelligence.
The claim that Vice Admiral suffered from early-onset dementia and other neurological conditions appears to originate from the Pacem Network upon deeper investigation. Where this particular claim started is unknown but its proliferation extended to many parts of ONI, its senior leadership, and even Parangosky's inner circle. The rumor appears unfounded, however, it may have accelerated her vacating the role of ONI Commander-in-Chief and the hijacking of Delta Company into an ensuing scandal involving former Rear Admiral Jazmine Utah of the .
The last major instance of recorded Pacem Network activity before the was found at the Patuxent River Academy of Military Science on in after increased keyword harvesting suggested suspect Insurrectionist activity among an incoming student body and staff dominated by reintegrated refugees and formal colonials displaced by the Human-Covenant War. Despite an ensuing undercover investigation by the SPARTAN-III unit Ferret Team Boson, no active agents of the Pacem Network was present. However, their handiwork was very present as overlooked curriculum revealed subversive and contradictive messaging regarding the UNSC and UEG. Several senior staff including the school commandant, Kate Guillou, came under suspicion despite being instrumental in the original frame of investigation.
The investigation ended inconclusive with no one at the school proving guilty of any wrongdoing. The PRAMS incident revealed another development however: the use of the rather innocuous military school as a multi-threaded staging point for further breaching the entire cyber ecosystem of the Unified Earth Government, the , and the . Everyone at the school was under surveillance while on premises by an unknown party and anything connected to the facility or even beyond. Members of Team Boson described a sense of "being watched" throughout their undercover operations. Naval Intelligence scrambled to identify the extent of the attack and the origin but revealed nothing other than seeming surveillance operations, or otherwise "stumbled upon ongoing enemy surveillance activities." The attack made ONI consider moving their dark secrets like the Spartan programs further underground, or more "" options.
Since the beginning of the uprising, documentation and active investigations into the organization stalled in favor of more immediate concerns for the UNSC and ONI, what's left of them anyway. Due in part to the societal interrupt, the organization has retreated into modern myth. During the Created conflict, Spartan-III Merlin-D032 suspected the Pacem Network attacks may have originated from a peer-level threat to the UNSC military, likely shadowy groups within the Wealthian Coalition or the Far Harvest Legion.
==Capabilities==
===Innoc-Net===
UVTO 18-pq38-3931 ("Unknown Virtual Threat Object"), or "Innoc-Net,"...
===Loose Lips===
UVTO 23-g10f-8293, or "Loose Lips," is a virtualized botnet discovered by the Office of Naval Intelligence in mid-2558 from Ferret Team Boson's Pax River Military Academy investigation. Beginning as a injected strain of nonvolitional cyber-worms targeted towards personal intelligences (), it remains unknown how long they have operated in the UNSC and ONI data spheres due to the difficult-to-crack, quantum encryption system matching the Innoc-Net data language, a signature of the Pacem Network rebel hacker group. The program name comes from what little of the quantum encryption was translated early on, possibly an injoke by hackers given the anxious personalities of FRET personalities and archetypical "chattering."
The Loose Lips cyber-worms are delayed-action attack programs that multiply endlessly across injected networks looking for FRETs due to their common relation to military intelligence, analysis, and command-and-control systems. Non-FRET computer systems are largely ignored but the worms use compromised machines as access points, hopping across networks until they find and infect FRETs. Due to the stratified deployment strategy, Loose Lips can distribute large amounts of remote-access trojan software to infected FRETs across multiple systems with minimal data usage and minimizing detection.
Infected FRETs are then unified as said botnet under control of an unknown enemy party and used for any manner of cyber-espionage and warfare purposes though manipulation and spying seemed the main purpose of Loose Lips upon discovery. The Office of Naval Intelligence maintained internal and external advisories on updating and protecting FRET systems against Loose Lips until the Created conflict. The Pax River Military Academy instance was isolated by the Smart AI Althea in accordance with ONI cybersecurity best practices. Loose Lips appeared again in 2560s, evolved by Spartan-AI cyber-specialists from the infamous Blackjack Company for targeting 'opfor automated data directors' but expanded the program capability to most variations of Dumb AI.
==Members==
*Elena Zaytseva 
*Kaine Carver 
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