UNSC Lord of Monster Island

The UNSC Lord of Monster Island was an Endless Night-class prowler that was operated by the Office of Naval Intelligence from 2547 to 2552, and was the primary hub of the LOMI conspiracy. 
==LOMI Conspiracy==
The LOMI Conspiracy refers to the actions of a small number of UNSC officers and officials that took place between 2549 and 2552. These individuals undertook several special weapon projects to either halt the advance of the Covenant or destroy the Covenant outright. These projects were entirely unauthorized at the time and the personnel who oversaw them were swiftly punished when their efforts were discovered by ONI Section 0. 
===Project: BLACK HARVEST===
Launched in 2549, BLACK HARVEST was aimed at producing toxic materials that could be manufactured in sufficient quantities to literally poison a world against the Covenant, with the intent to deploy a proven version against Covenant worlds. 
===Project: TISIPHONE===
TISIPHONE, started in 2550, was envisioned as causing lasting neurological damage to Covenant forces; exposed Covenant soldiers would fall to insanity and infighting. 
===Project: BABYLON THE GREAT===
BABYLON THE GREAT, running parallel to TISIPHONE and initiated in 2550, was intended to cause debilitating sickness throughout Covenant armies and fleets. The sickness would need to be highly contagious and demoralizing. 
===Project: NEBUCHADNEZZAR===
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, building on the earlier BABYLON THE GREAT, skipped debilitating illness in favor of a contagion that would spread rapidly and be enormously lethal. Launched in 2551, the project involved the use of Covenant prisoners and an immense quantity of recovered Covenant corpses. 
===Project: BELSHAZZAR===
BELSHAZZAR was the last project started by the Lord of Monster Island conspirators, and intended to use the newly discovered "Flood" against the Covenant. To this end, a number of organisms were recovered from the Soell system and were taken aboard the prison ship Mona Lisa for intensive research. 
====Mona Lisa incident====
Mona Lisa suffered a Flood outbreak event in October 2552: a single member of the research team was rescued by the prowler UNSC Red Horse, which subsequently destroyed the compromised prison ship with a nuclear device on October 25. The debriefing of the survivor, as well as limited records obtained from the Mona Lisa before its destruction, reached ONI Section 0 on October 28. 
====TROJAN ARROW====
There had been some suspicion of morally questionable research related to the Lord of Monster Island as early as 2550, but given the nature of the ongoing war and the reality of questionable ethics in war-winning projects such as the S-II and S-III programs, Section 0 had been content with the status quo. The Mona Lisa disaster ended Section 0's passivity on the matter. On October 31, TROJAN ARROW was initiated, and a task force was authorized to take custody of Lord of Monster Island, its crew, and its commanders. 
===Downfall (December 7, 2552)===
On December 7, 2552, thirteen days after the destruction of the Mona Lisa, a UNSC task force intercepted the Lord of Monster Island and forced its surrender. At least two senior conspirators took their own lives before conspiracy leadership was arrested. Eight days of interrogations followed: senior leadership, several researchers, and a number of crew members were ultimately executed on or before December 15. The few remaining personnel were sworn to silence and reassigned, and the prowler Lord of Monster Island was scuttled. Within ONI, the prowler was officially lost in an accident involving recovered Forerunner technology; publically, the prowler was just another casualty of the war. Information related to the actions of the conspirators would not become public until the 2680s. 
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