Editing Terminal (Halo 3)/Two

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Easily accessed at Rally Point Alpha.

Go outside to the desert area, commandeering transport. You must complete a significant section of this level until you obtain tanks after defeating the Anti-Air Wraiths, then return in the tanks to the main door to the structure.

When you go inside the structure to let the tanks across the [[Energy Bridge|energy bridge]], there will be a Terminal directly behind the controls for the bridge. You must activate the bridge before you can access this Terminal.
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''(Upon initial access)''
{{Terminal}}
Re: Enemy naval tactics: 
When engaged, the enemy commits 
every non-supraluminal craft with no 
appreciable pattern or strategy 
beyond making physical contact. 
Conversely, all supraluminal craft 
leave on seemingly random 
trajectories.
I understand the goal of this 
mission but time - our least 
abundant resource - is wasted every 
time we do a system-wide scan for 
survivors. The time for saving lives 
has passed. We must accept this if 
we hope to win the war.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{Terminal}}
Re: Enemy ground tactics:
All evidence suggests that use of 
overwhelming force is the very 
foundation of the enemy's combat 
doctrine. And I adamantly refuse to 
deploy personnel where the enemy has 
available forces numbering in the 
billions. With the very real 
likelihood we are rapidly becoming 
the last living specimens of our 
race, all personnel are henceforth 
confined to stasis until further 
notice. Even with everyone equipped 
with [[Combat Skin|<span style="color:#FA0"><nowiki>[C_12_CS[?]]</nowiki></span>]] we would have had 
very little chance of survival, let 
alone victory.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{clear}}{{Terminal}}
Re: Enemy command structure: 
We have intercepted several 
transmissions from compound 
intelligences whose proximity to the 
core worlds mark them as key 
targets. At present we are 
disassembling these new 
transmissions. Once we have more 
<span style="color:#FA0">[concrete conclusions]</span> I will 
forward them in their entirety. 
Suffice it to say, that their 
contents - the patterns they suggest 
- are highly disturbing.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{Terminal}}
Recommendations: 
It is my opinion that any system 
where there is evidence that the 
enemy has established a physical 
presence is lost and must be razed. 
This fleet currently retains the 
capacity to force premature stellar 
collapse; I advise that this be 
established as standard operating 
procedure for all compromised 
systems forthwith. We cannot fight 
this war by half measures if we 
intend to win.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{clear}}
''(No message from Mendicant Bias upon shutdown)''

''(Upon being rerouted to new destination within Terminal)''
{{Terminal}}
// FRAGMENT 2/7 [RECORDED VERBATIM 
AND INTERPRETED POST-CATACLYSM]
{{Terminal|p}}
L: I'm close to finishing the task. 
The indexing and the archival 
processes are as complete as I can 
hope for. If we wait longer, we risk 
catastrophe. The thing has already 
destroyed every colony on my side of 
the line.
{{Terminal|p}}
Please. Activate the Array.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{Terminal}}
D: No. Activation is murder. 
A genocide larger than <span style="color:#FA0">[this galaxy]</span> 
has ever known. We are sworn to 
protect life not destroy it! That is 
the [[Mantle|<span style="color:#FE0;">Mantle</span>]] we were given to carry.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{clear}}{{Terminal}}
L: The Mantle. You still hold to 
that <span style="color:#FA0">[fairy tale]</span> after all that 
has happened? After this thing has 
consumed a million worlds?
{{Terminal|p}}
Can't you see? Belief in the Mantle 
sealed our doom! Weakened our 
<span style="color:#FA0">[protectorates]</span>, bred dependence and 
sloth. Our <span style="color:#FA0">[so-called Guardianship]</span> 
has stripped those we would keep 
safe of any capacity for 
self-defense!
{{Terminal|p}}
Were we such noble <span style="color:#FA0">[Guardians]</span> when 
we drew our line and abandoned 
billions to the parasite?
{{Terminal|end}}
{{Terminal}}
D: The Mantle has not failed! 
I've already razed scores of worlds 
- sterilized systems, routed and 
<span style="color:#FA0">[disintegrated]</span> the parasite! We're 
learning its tricks and strategies. 
We can halt this thing! And we can 
follow in [[Precursors|<span style="color:#FE0;">Their</span>]] footsteps!
{{Terminal|p}}
There are no unstoppable forces in 
this universe. There are no 
immovable objects. Everything gives 
if you push hard enough.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{clear}}{{Terminal}}
L: And what about us, Didact? 
We've been irresistible and 
immovable for too long. 
Maybe it's our turn to give.
{{Terminal|p}}
// FRAGMENT ENDS
{{Terminal|end}}
{{clear}}
'''(The following appears only if you access the Terminal on Legendary difficulty)'''
{{Terminal}}
[[Mendicant Bias|<span style="color:#FE0;">MB.05-032.&gt;</span>]] I must ask you to 
forgive my vagueness on the matter, 
but it is a regrettable {~} I find 
your lack of concern for the 
situation at hand astonishing. 
Perhaps you would care to elucidate?
{{Terminal|p}}
[[Flood Super Cell|<span style="color:#FE0;">LF.Xx.3273.&gt;</span>]] {~} are here to spread 
<span style="color:#FA0">[comforting news]</span>. To let all the 
living beings in this galaxy know 
{~} are not alone in the {~} What in 
that message could possibly be taken 
as a source of concern?
{{Terminal|end}}
{{Terminal}}
MB.05-032.&gt; It seems that I'll never 
truly understand my creators. But 
how {~} that you speak of is one of 
{~} rejected so violently? I am 
incapable of reconciling the 
numerous actions I have witnessed 
{~} misunderstanding?
{{Terminal|p}}
LF.Xx.3273.&gt; It has been said {~} 
secret of peace cannot {~} be 
imposed. That {~} meaning of peace, 
so they need to {~} When all living 
beings look through {~} and the 
thunder and the surf, when every 
drop of rain falls on {~} know peace.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{clear}}{{Terminal}}
MB.05-032.&gt; You have been able to 
establish <span style="color:#FA0">[a line of communication]</span> 
with the enemy? How was it that you 
were able to overcome {~} where 
others have failed? With this <span style="color:#FA0">[new 
discovery]</span> we may be able to put an 
end to this pointless conflict. Once I 
confirm your data I will communicate 
the information to those inside the 
<span style="color:#FA0">[Maginot]</span> sphere.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{Terminal}}
LF.Xx.3273.&gt; It seems that it {~} 
turn to apologize; it was never {~} 
intention to misrepresent {~} have 
been <span style="color:#FA0">[in communication]</span> with your 
creators since {~} stumbled upon 
each other, but {~} message has 
<span style="color:#FA0">[fallen on deaf ears]</span>. {~} am not 
the recipient of the message, {~} am 
the origin of the message.
{{Terminal|p}}
MB.05-032.&gt; I have traveled a very 
long time to meet you. I had 
imagined that our <span style="color:#FA0">[introduction]</span> 
would be somewhat more violent.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{clear}}{{Terminal}}
LF.Xx.3273.&gt; That is a choice you 
must make yourself; {~} to be how 
your creators go about things. And 
as long as we are talking about 
choices {~} could talk about the 
<span style="color:#FA0">[barrier]</span> you alluded to earlier? 
Perhaps there is a way to accomplish 
your mission without violence? Why 
put the lives of those on your ships 
at risk if there is no need?
{{Terminal|p}}
MB.05-032.&gt; In either circumstance I 
certainly am equipped for it, aren't 
I? But you're right; a peaceful 
solution to this <span style="color:#FA0">[dilemma]</span> would be 
preferable.
{{Terminal|end}}
{{clear}}
''Note: (The Second [[AdjutantReflex]] avatar is seen during this message.)''