Loot Crate/Transcriptions/Great Schism

//APOLLO LEADER TO CDR S. PALMER
//UNSC INFINITY//VIA ANE 3567-7

Commander, we're on our way home now, but while we're refueling at Lisbon, I thought I'd patch this through protected channels.

Apollo conducted a recon at the Site for 576.7 hours, based out of the Lamb facility. Community there is vibrant and growing, but lack of sophisticated security. Recommend additional military personel.

Per protocol, we deployed RQ-370V drones on overlapping bands for multi-modal asset procurement, then followed up leads as necessary. Lots of data incomming to call out one in particular.

Debris of intelligence significance, especially as related to High Charity's impact with the Site in 2552, was spread out across 521km² area, most of this isolated and quarantined by local systems.

Some of it was not.

On the fringe, we recovered a T-31 records module from the Covenant frigate TWILIGHT COMPUNCTION, one of the warships that fought against the Elites when all hell was breaking loose during their civil war.

The module not only provided a visual readout of their force allocation during High Charity's last battle, which might be useful for tracking down some of their naval assets, but it also offered a profile of major chieftains and pack alphas at the opening salvos of the Great Schism, some kind of loyalty index done by leadership.

Flagging one we might want to keep our eyes on: HEKABE OF MAARDOTH

This chieftain initially fought in this battle aboard the cruiser GATHERING OF PRAISE (since renamed FOEBANE), but ended up trailing the Prophet of Truth to the Site. When he did, the Elite cornered a handful of Brute ships in his protection and wiped them out.

The issue here is that almost the entirety of Hekabe's familial clan were represented on those ships. Paper trail says that this Brute now has a serious axe to grind, not only with the Elites, but with us.

Actionable intelligence of concern is that ONI records track him having gone AWOL during the Prophet's war over the Site, and rumors in the outland territories say he found something. Something big.

Whatever Hekabe found, he's got more than enough reasons to turn it against all of those he perceives as responsible. Humanity is certainly on that list, ma'am. If he really found something from the Site, his risk level should be significantly upgraded.

STRONGLY RECOMMEND IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION.