HYDRAI THREAD
Posted: Saturday, November 10, 2012 3:53:40 AM
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CLASSIFIED - HYDRAI THREAD - GLYPH CODES

Posted: Saturday, November 10, 2012 3:55:24 AM
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DECRYPTING SECTION 3

Posted: Saturday, November 10, 2012 4:11:29 AM
/START FILE//CLASSIFIED/ATTENTION ALL OPERATIVES: ONE OR MORE BRANCHES OF HYDRAI HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED. CHANNEL SEC3OP36516 HAS BEEN SUBVERTED, DO NOT TRUST ANY COMMUNICATION FROM THAT CHANNEL, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE./MORE INTEL TO FOLLOW SOON./END FILE/​



DECRYPTING SECTION 3

Posted: Saturday, November 10, 2012 7:04:30 AM

/START FILE//CLASSIFIED/LATEST FIELD REPORT/
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//APPROXIMATELY 14 HOURS AGO, ONE OF OUR SECTION 3 COMM CHANNELS WAS COMPROMISED. WE NOW KNOW THAT THIS WAS CAUSED BY HYDRAI, OR MORE SPECIFICALLY, BY AN ADULTERATED BRANCH. WE HAVE GREAT REASON TO BELIEVE THAT FA15E IS INVOLVED, ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT KNOW HER WHEREABOUTS AT THIS TIME. HYDRAI'S CORE BRANCHES ARE CURRENTLY IN LOCK DOWN, AND REQUIRE A NUMERAL. IT APPEARS IT IS USING STANDARD HOT/COLD VARIANT MECHANIC.
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//HYDRAI HAS ALSO INADVERTENTLY ALLOWED THE REAL SEC3OP36516 TO TRANSMIT A HIGHLY ENCRYPTED PACKET, CODE NAMED 'SLEUTH'.
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//HOWEVER, INNEXPLICABLY, HYDRAI HAS ALSO REVEALED THE REQUIRED DECRYPTION KEY IN ONE OF ITS COMMUNICATIONS. ENCRYPTION LIKELY FOLLOWS STANDARD ONI "RECIPE" FORMAT.
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AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE MANAGED TO LOCK DOWN ONE OF HYDRAI'S PROXIMAL BRANCHES, TO THE ONE THAT IS BLOCKING AND CORRUPTING OP36516 COMMUNICATION.
//MORE TO FOLLOW.//END FILE/



DECRYPTING SECTION 3

Posted: Monday, November 12, 2012 3:02:32 AM

/START FILE/
//CLASSIFIED/
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//ATTENTION ALL OPERATIVES:
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//IT IS WITH DEEPEST REGRET THAT I INFORM YOU AT THIS TIME, OF THE UNKNOWN FATE OF OP36516. FURTHER DETAILS WILL FOLLOW, BUT FOR NOW, HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW:

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ALTHOUGH WE BELIEVED WE HAD CONTAINED FA15E, THE CONTAINMENT FAILED EARLIER TONIGHT, AND IT WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE INTO THE GENERAL NETWORK. IT IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TO IMPERSONATE FIELD AGENTS, IN AN ATTEMPT TO TURN THEM AGAINST EACH OTHER, AND SLOW THEIR MISSION DOWN. IT ALSO MANAGED TO OVERRIDE THE AI ABOARD OP36516'S VESSEL, IN ORDER TO SET IT ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH A SOLID BODY.

THE EVENTS FROM THERE ARE CLOUDY, BUT WE KNOW SOME OF WHAT HAPPENED, THANKS TO HYDRAI'S MONITORING OF COMM CHANNELS. IT SEEMS THAT OP36516 MANAGED TO HACK INTO THE VESSEL'S AI, INITIALLY TO AVOID THE COLLISION. HE THEN FAKED A TRANSMISSION, WHICH WAS POORLY ENCRYPTED ON PURPOSE, AND WAS LEAKED BY HYDRAI, TO DECEIVE FA15E INTO THINKING THAT IT COULD DESTROY OP36516 AND CRIPPLE HYDRAI AT ONCE.

HOWEVER, IN ACTUALITY, OP36516 HAD LAID A TRAP, AND NOT IN A WAY THAT FA15E EXPECTED. IN ITS LAST MOMENTS, FA15E DIRECTED ITS ATTENTION AND LOCALIZED ITS PROCESSING CYCLES, BELIEVING IT WAS ABOUT TO ENGAGE IN COMBAT. THIS FOCUSING ALLOWED OP36516 A BRIEF WINDOW TO TRIGGER A DETONATION ACROSS THE LOCALIZED NETWORK.

AS WE HAVE NOT DETECTED ANY TRACES OF FA15E'S SIGNATURE THROUGHOUT THE NETWORK, WE BELIEVE OP36516 WAS INDEED SUCCESSFUL. HOWEVER, HE MAY HAVE PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE.

OP36516 WAS A GREAT LEADER, AND AN EXCELLENT FIELD OPERATIVE. WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO HONOR HIS MEMORY AND REMAIN TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR TEAM AND OUR MISSION.

PLEASE HELP EACH OTHER RECOVER AND HEAL FROM THIS BLOW, BUT DO NOT LOSE SIGHT OF OUR MISSION.

YOU WILL SOON HEAR FROM A NEW OPERATIVE THAT WILL TAKE UP THIS POST. PLEASE WELCOME HER AND FOLLOW HER AS YOU WOULD HAVE OP36516.

//THAT IS ALL FOR NOW.

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DECRYPTING SECTION 3 

Posted: Monday, November 12, 2012 4:30:13 PM

/START FILE/
//CLASSIFIED/ITERIM
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//OPERATIVES, THIS IS MY LAST OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION FOR A BIT, AS I NEED TO RESUME MY USUAL ASSIGNMENT. SOON YOU WILL BE CONTACTED BY OP36516'S REPLACEMENT. SHE WILL BE ABLE TO GUIDE YOU FURTHER, IN CONJUNCTION WITH HYDRAI.
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//I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND YOU ALL OF OUR ACTIVE OPERATIONAL GOALS:
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//1. ASSIST HYDRAI IN LOCATING AND UNSCRAMBLING THE REMAINING GLYPHS FOR THE 'UNKNOWN' CODE.
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//2. ASSIST HYDRAI IN GATHERING FIELD AND SIMULATION DATA. FOR THIS PURPOSE, WE NEED SPARTANS TO COMPLETE THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF SPARTAN OPS MISSIONS, AT THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE DANGER LEVELS. WE ALSO NEED A SET OF SPARTANS TO COMPLETE ONE MILLION WAR GAMES SIMULATIONS (MATCHMAKING ONLY), ACROSS DIFFERENT GAME TYPES (DATA IN JUST A FEW TYPES WILL BE INSUFFICIENT).
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//3. REMAIN VIGILANT, AND NOTIFY THE NETWORK IF YOU COME ACROSS NEW INDICATIONS OF GLYPHS OR DATA NODES.
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//WITH THE LOSS OF OP36516 STILL SO RECENT AND PAINFUL, I REMIND YOU ALL TO BE CAREFUL AS YOU WORK TOGETHER ON THESE MISSIONS. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT OTHER PERILS MAY BE WAITING OR BREWING TO CONSPIRE AGAINST US.
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//I WISH US ALL SUCCESS, AND IN THE WORDS OF A CLOSE, DEAR FRIEND, REMEMBER:

SURFACE IS NOTHING. TRUE VALUE IS NOT EASILY WON.

TRUST NO ONE... BUT LEARN WHEN TO TRUST.

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DECRYPTING SECTION 3 (UPDATED 11.15)

Posted: Monday, November 12, 2012 8:05:10 PM

//CLEAR/

A WORD OF ADVICE:

First, in the field, we often must employ any tools at our disposal. At times, social engineering, hacking and SOM techniques do not always work.

In many cases, operatives must resort to group collaboration and brute force mechanisms. This is expected and encouraged, when necessary.

However, what is NEVER expected or allowed, is for Operatives to treat each other poorly and with little respect. CENT COMM does not tolerate this behavior, and agents have been removed from duty for such offenses before.

In general, you are all encouraged to share information as quickly and broadly as possible. A small intel community is not a successful one.

At the same time, operatives must recognize that some are working incredibly hard and sacrificing much for the good of the many.

We will be scanning this and all relevant comm channels. Please do not act in a way that guarantees being banned or at least stripped of unlocks.

Finally, one more clarification from earlier:

- The "two dot code" has caused some controversy. The glyphs that make it up can be found in various locations: 7 on specific Spartan Ops maps (one per), 1 in the Spartan-IV Field Manual (aka Strategy Guide), 2 were found through the efforts of many on this and other related channels.
If you find that you do not have all the codes yet, do not simply command others to hand over the codes. Instead, try to help. Two of the map codes are not available yet, but working together, you could deduce what they are via brute force mechanisms. It is not elegant, but it could work.

Either way, you will be unable to unlock at this time. This is because there is a field research requirement: Complete the first 15 missions (aka chapters) of Spartan Ops, on the highest difficulty. This means you must exercise patience until next week. Luckily, we have good reason to believe that the universe will not come to an end yet, in spite of this.

We hope this clarifies a few things, but we also trust that you understand our message clearly: be good to each other, work as a team... or else.

Please carry on with your mission objectives.

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