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The Office of Naval Intelligence, often abbreviated as ONI (pronounced as /oʊni/), is the intelligence service of the UNSC Navy. Its formal name is the UNSC Military Intelligence Division.[1]

Introduction

The Office of Naval Intelligence is a division of the UNSC Navy that is responsible for UNSC intelligence, including electronic intelligence, naval intelligence, counter-espionage, and propaganda.

Although it is under the jurisdiction of the Navy, ONI appears to report directly to HIGHCOM, and is responsible for intelligence matters that are handled across the UNSC and are not restricted solely to the Navy. As such, ONI employs members of other military branches, or even civilians, to complete the Division's shadowy work.

Many of its functions and subdivisions, like the Beta-5 Division and the SPARTAN-III Program, are enigmatic, and its personnel are regarded as mysteries to mainline naval officers, who often refer to ONI personnel, especially officers, as "spooks". ONI personnel appear to enjoy a significant amount of liberty in their duties, oftentimes violating moral boundaries to achieve their ends or acquiring a vast amount of UNSC resources.

Operations

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Pre-Halo 3:ODST ONI symbol.

The Office of Naval Intelligence is often isolated from other UNSC branches and often carries out its operations in isolation, at times even going against protocols and laws to complete top-secret missions. However, they appear to have a surprisingly large amount of military equipment for an intelligence service, and have a strong fleet presence, possibly because of ONI's association with the Navy. The Office of Naval Intelligence possesses a destroyer-class prowler starship, the UNSC Point of No Return, which is used as a command vessel and a secure conference location. ONI also maintains the UNSC's force of Prowler craft, a major source of Covenant deployment intelligence, under the UNSC Prowler Corps. ONI also operates field intelligence, with units such as ONI Recon 111 liaising with mainstream UNSC military units.[2]

However, intra-ONI dynamics are often tense with severe competition amongst its own personnel. Personnel are oftentimes heavily scrutinized by their commanding officers and are given notably low room for errors under intense pressure of demotion or otherwise.

Sections

Section Zero

The most secretive section of ONI. Almost no one knows that it even exists, let alone exactly what they do in the supposed high chain of command. From the records of an AI named Melissa, it is thought to be ONI Internal Affairs, charged with rooting out and eliminating illegal programs.[3] They are very secret in their work. The true nature and activties of Section Zero are highly classified and unknown outside of the hierarchy of ONI command. Zero is, essentially, an internal investigations division that polices other ONI activities. [4]

This section has gained notoriety as the section that has sealed SPARTAN-I Program files, including Avery Johnson's. As Internal Affairs states they enforce the rules and standards, and ensure they are followed. They are willing to use lethal force in carrying out their mission.

Section One

Section One is the main branch of ONI and the branch most utilized by the UNSC. Information released by Section One includes evacuation notices for colony worlds and Covenant force deployments. [5]

Section Two

Benjamin Giraud working to propagandise a battle scene.
A civilian contractor works with Section Two to make battlefield imagery look less intimidating.

The propaganda branch of ONI. They handle communication to and from colonies to reduce the level of rumors and information that would cripple morale.[6] They were responsible for going public with the SPARTAN-II program to boost morale through the UNSC ranks.[7] Once information about the Spartans was released to the public, Section Two had to maintin the Spartans' near-mythical status within the military by listing those killed in action as MIA, beleiving that news of Spartans being lost would prove too great a blow to the UNSC's already-flagging morale. [8]

Section Three

The top-secret projects division of ONI. They are responsible for the SPARTAN-II project, the NOVA project, the MJOLNIR Program, and many other "black ops" and classified programs. [9] The secrets possessed by ONI are the key to Earth's continued survival, for the Covenant cannot be beaten with military forces alone. Though a few of Section III's programs are well known and prominent for their success and diverse victories, the Marines and brass of the UNSC treat most with contempt. This is especially true of the capability of the Spartans, who are regarded as "freaks" by some Humans in the Armed Service of the United Nations Space Command. The Beta-5 Division is the sub-cell of Section III that operates the SPARTAN-III project. [10][11]The Spartan-III project was even kept secret from the vast majority of section 3. This is not particularly rare, as section 3 is a large division with various production cells. We can see this, as some groups were tasked with MJOLNIR and others with the actual Spartan-II program. The division and compartmentalization is to ensure secrecy and security.

UNSC Prowler Corps

The ONI branch that handles the Prowlers and their electronic intelligence gathering.[12]

ONI Signal Corps

The Signal Corps is tasked with broadcasting radio signals in order to confuse Covenant Fleet and troop movements, diverting attention from UNSC Colonies who are evacuating.[13]

Known ONI Personnel

ONI Ships

ONI Facilities

Reach

Onyx

Earth

ONI Units

NavSpecWar

Trivia

  • The Office of Naval Intelligence is a real life existing organization within the U.S. Navy.
  • ONI operatives are referred to in slang as "spooks".
  • ONI is a reference to an older Bungie game called Oni.
  • Oni means demon in Japanese.
  • ONI's motto, "Semper Vigilans", is also the motto of the United States Air Force Auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol.
  • ONI's insignia features the all-seeing eye, a nod to ONI's line of work.
  • It appears that ONI's policy regarding the Spartans to register them as MIA, despite the fact that they are dead, however, apparently does not apply to Master Chief, as he is listed as KIA, though in fact, he survives.
  • ONI reactors are available in the Halo Wars campaign and are all abandoned.

Sources

  1. ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, Chapter 1
  2. ^ Halo 3 Epsilon, Tsavo Highway
  3. ^ I Love Bees
  4. ^ "Halo Encyclopedia"
  5. ^ "Halo Encyclopedia"
  6. ^ Halo: First Strike, page 98: ONI Section Two had done a brilliant job of preserving the fiction that Earth forces held their own against the Covenant.
  7. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 46
  8. ^ "Halo Encyclopedia"
  9. ^ "Halo Encyclopedia"
  10. ^ Halo: First Strike
  11. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
  12. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
  13. ^ TVG Chats To The ILoveBees Operator
  14. ^ I Love Bees
  15. ^ Halo 3, Tsavo Highway

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