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Data Drop is a viral campaign for Halo: Glasslands, centered around the planet Onyx.^[1] It is a collection of six classified documents, all of which recovered from CASTLE Base by Section III of the Office of Naval Intelligence.

List of documents

Data Drop One

The image contained in Data Drop One.

The first data drop is nothing more than an image of a blue grid overlaying a starfield with a single section being identified by a large arrow. The image also possesses a white box containing text detailing an object within the indicated section. The text provides details of planet XF-063, the third planet in the Zeta Doradus system.^[1]

Data Drop Two

The second data drop is an investigation report on Operation: BRAVADO made by Vice Admiral Hieronymus Stanforth to Admiral Parangosky.^[2] The report, reproduced below, provides a brief summary of the battle, including the UNSC efforts of securing the planet from the Covenant.

OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE/SECTION 3

DUE DILLIGENCE REPORT – A340021
2300 HOURS, JULY 18, 2552
CLASSIFIED TOP-SECRET
COMM-SCRIBED/PTS 9386-9

>> 00834-19223-HS // VADM STANFORTH, HIERONYMUS MICHAEL
<< 00230-00923-MP // ADM PARANGOSKY, MARGARET ORLENDA

RE: OPERATION: BRAVADO

Margaret,
Paperwork's almost done on this end. So is the whiskey. I guess that means I’ll be headed back your way before long, especially after the number I put Levi through this time around. Boatswain says it’ll be sidelined for two months at least, so I've already filed with Fleet to transfer the crew to Coenwulf when I make my rounds in Sydney.

At any rate, this one was certainly a victory, as difficult as it is for me to call it that. I know the casualty reports are going to look ugly, but that's nothing new. We lost about half the battlegroup, as well as Cradle. Surface didn't fare much better either: Caracas, Huiren, Côte d'Azur, Silma and Enfield, all parking lots now...some because the enemy’s good at what they do and others because we refused to give them the opportunity.

It's just been so long since we’ve walked away from one of these things alive. We crushed eighteen of those bastards. I can't remember the last time that happened. And now they're gone. It'll take us a few years to clean up, probably a dozen or so to fix what was done on the ground. But they're gone... that's got to count for something.

A file's attached with some interesting data Iroquois picked up. The Covenant were transmitting something from the planet’s surface before we blew the lid off it. We’re not sure what it was, but it would not surprise me in the least if it ends up being grouped with sites like Onyx, Meridian, Arcadia or even that thing Halsey’s digging up on Reach.

Anyway, AAR is en route. Talk to you soon, maybe over tea?

-HMS

Trivia

When the PDF for Data Drop Two is opened in a web browser, the loading screen shows that the file contains 1117 kilobytes.

Sources

[one-1] Waypoint: Office of Naval Intelligence//Section 3 - Data Drop One

[two-2] Waypoint: Office of Naval Intelligence//Section 3 - Data Drop Two

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+>> 00834-19223-HS // [[Hieronymus Michael Stanforth|VADM STANFORTH, HIERONYMUS MICHAEL]]<br />
 << 00230-00923-MP // [[Margaret Orlenda Parangosky|ADM PARANGOSKY, MARGARET ORLENDA]]
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 Margaret,<br />
-Paperwork’s almost done on this end. So is the whiskey. I guess that means I’ll be headed back your way before long, especially after the number I put Levi through this time around. Boatswain says it’ll be sidelined for two months at least, so I've already filed with Fleet to transfer the crew to [[UNSC Coenwulf|Coenwulf]] when I make my rounds in Sydney.
+Paperwork's almost done on this end. So is the whiskey. I guess that means I’ll be headed back your way before long, especially after the number I put Levi through this time around. [[Boatswain]] says it’ll be sidelined for two months at least, so I've already filed with Fleet to transfer the crew to [[UNSC Coenwulf|Coenwulf]] when I make my rounds in Sydney.
-At any rate, this one was certainly a victory, as difficult as it is for me to call it that. I know the casualty reports are going to look ugly, but that’s nothing new. We lost about half the battlegroup, as well as [[UNSC Cradle|Cradle]]. Surface didn’t fare much better either: [[Caracas]], [[Huiren]], [[Côte d'Azur]], [[Silma]] and [[Enfield]], all parking lots now...some because the enemy’s good at what they do and others because we refused to give them the opportunity.
+At any rate, this one was certainly a victory, as difficult as it is for me to call it that. I know the casualty reports are going to look ugly, but that's nothing new. We lost about half the battlegroup, as well as [[UNSC Cradle|Cradle]]. Surface didn't fare much better either: [[Caracas]], [[Huiren]], [[Côte d'Azur]], [[Silma]] and [[Enfield]], all parking lots now...some because the enemy’s good at what they do and others because we refused to give them the opportunity.