Margaret Parangosky

Vice Admiral Margaret Orlenda Parangosky (service number 00230-00923-MP; UNSCMID 03669271) is the former Commander-in-Chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence. In office by 2511, she coordinated ONI's activities during the Insurrection, throughout the Great War, and in the years that followed. By 2555, she had been succeeded by her protegé, Admiral Serin Osman.
== Biography ==
=== Early career ===
Margaret Parangosky was born in Leeds, Great Britain in February, 2461 to Shabana and Morgan Parangosky. She joined the UNSC Navy at the age of twenty-two, serving her first tour of duty aboard the light cruiser Lutyens. After her eventual rise to the rank of Captain, she was given command of the destroyer Whirlwind Reaper. When the Colonial Administration Authority fell from grace due to a series of scandals Parangosky elected to take on the Department of Colonial Security, which nobody wanted, with the intent to improve it. In doing so she instantly acquired a virtual army of civilian spies with no preexisting loyalties to anyone else in the UNSC.
=== CINCONI ===
On January 2, 2511 Parangosky, now a Rear Admiral, issued an order reclassifying all materials concerning the planet Onyx as Top Secret, Eyes Only. This order affected anything mentioning, referencing, or containing reports, surveys, personal notes and logs, images, or any other data pertaining to the planet. It also was accompanied by an ONI-authorized system-wide network purge under the direction of a military artificial intelligence. The Office of Naval Intelligence Section Three project that would come to be christened "SPARTAN-II" had been in its planning stages as early as 2510. The program eventually involved the abduction and conscription of young children in order to create the ultimate fighting force for the UNSC, and Parangosky approved almost every aspect of it.
On March 6, 2525 Parangosky announced through another order that after almost fifteen years of continuous and ruinously expensive research without the discovery of a single new useful technology, the Onyx initiative's budget had been reprioritized. Though the alien artifacts and hieroglyphics there continued to be of interest, she said that recent rebel activities in the Outer Colonies demanded that A.I. and military personnel were reallocated. Parangosky emphasized that Onyx was to remain classified and shared that all its materials and files had been re-designated under new nomenclature. Any breaches of confidentiality, she added, would be punishable by death in accordance with various legal articles. A skeleton crew and one A.I. would continue to probe the mysteries of the site known as Zone 67 on the planet, she noted. She closed by saying that in the meantime, the rest of them had a war to fight.