Chair,

Does this mean that the Insurrectionist movement had a route to Reach? (I bet that caused a lot of "Oh *bleep*" reactions.) Was the innie entry portal ever sealed off? I shudder to think of a weapon capable of such devastation.

I think I'll be needing some help to get to sleep. (Straight, no ice....)

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Subject: Brown pants moment

Captain,

You're right. It caused a definite brown pants moment when the UNSC realized that there was indeed a method for the Innies to get to Reach. Fortunately, they took a little comfort on two matters. First, the gate to Reach from the Halo had closed before the Innies even knew it existed. Secondly, when they located the gate to Niflheim, it had closed as well.

According to the Monitor, the exits to the gates were blocked on the other side. This told us a lot. First, the Covenant hadn't found the one on Reach. Good news indeed; if they'd realized that there were humans on the Halo, it probably would have caused... problems. The mines that the gate on Niflheim was located in had been blown, sealing it.

That was a little more lamentable. It would have been a nice way to get the Innies in a pincer attack. Maybe then we wouldn't have lost Niflheim to them when it declared its independence from the UNSC.

Well, officially the UEG, but we both know that it exists in name only these days. It makes our jobs both easier and harder, though. We can monitor for Innies much more easily with the UNSC being in charge, but it means that Section Two work that much harder to keep people viewing us as the good guys. Thank you, Terrance, for making that delightful decision. Just another way you BLAMed things up for us after the war.

Sincerely,

Chair