Line #29 ARG/HuntTheTruth


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3	->''"I'm Benjamin Giraud, and this is [[TitleDrop Hunt the Truth.]]''"
4	-->-- '''Benjamin Giraud'''
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6	''Hunt the Truth'' (sometimes stylized [=#HUNTtheTRUTH=]) is a 2015 AlternateRealityGame that [[ViralMarketing served as advertising for]] ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians''. It can be found on {{Website/Tumblr}} [[http://huntthetruth.tumblr.com/ here]], and is published through a series of photo blogs and audio journals.
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8	In 2558, six years after the end of the Human-Covenant War and one year after the events of ''{{VideoGame/Halo 4}}'', former propaganda journalist Benjamin Giraud (Creator/KeeganMichaelKey) is hired by the Office of Naval Intelligence to write a biographical article on legendary SuperSoldier John-117, the Master Chief himself. Giraud enthusiastically signs up for the job, and is being paid well to interview exclusive witnesses who claim to have known John since his childhood. But as Giraud does his own investigating on the side, he finds that the stories he's hearing don't match up with the evidence. Soon Giraud finds himself doubting everything ONI's been telling about the Master Chief, and sets out to discover the truth, even if it's not the heroic story he wants to believe.
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10	A second season ran from September 22 to October 26 of 2015, ending just before the release of ''Halo 5: Guardians''. It follows the story of FERO, the recurring [[RebelLeader Insurrectionist Leader]] from Season One.
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12	!!''Hunt the Truth'' provides examples of:
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15	[[folder:Season One]]
16	* AdaptationalVillainy:
17	** ONI has never been shown to be a particularly nice organization, but in general they were shown in the games and novels to be a group of [[WellIntentionedExtremist well intentioned]], if not amoral operatives working to protect humanity from alien threats like the Covenant and the Flood. In the ARG, however, they are the main antagonists and are shown to be an incredibly ruthless organization that will crush anyone who threatens to expose their dirty secrets to the public. They even try to frame the [[spoiler:Master Chief for a terrorist attack when he appears to go rogue from the UNSC.]]
18	** In-universe, ONI tries to do this to the Insurrectionists on Eridanus II, making them out to be an armed mob that took over the colony and committed war crimes against the civilian population, including the murder of John's parents and many others in Elysium City by death squads. However, one of the interview subjects, a former resident of the colony and childhood friend of John's confirms that the Insurrectionists were just political agitators, there was little if any violence, and John's parents were alive for years after they were supposedly "executed".
19	* ArcWords: "Glassed Planets Have Bad Records", a common journalistic phrase as to how difficult it is to find accurate information in the wrecks left of planets scoured by the Covenant. It ends up taking a more devious turn when Ben suspects ONI's reminding him of this only to divert his attention from their coverups. Then it takes a darker turn when [[spoiler:Ben finds a treasure trove of data about ONI in the glassed ruins of Bliss, only to find it was all bait for ONI to discredit immediately the moment he tried to use it.]]
20	* AwfulTruth: Giraud's opinion of what he finds. Of course, most of the truth he initially finds ''is'' seen in the main games and/or well-known by fans who've also read the books and other EU works, but it's completely hidden from civilians, so that they can see the Chief as a heroic ComicBook/CaptainAmerica-type. That said, some things are completely new, particularly in the later episodes.
21	* TheBadGuyWins: In the final episode, [[spoiler: ONI manages to convince Giraud's sources to turn on him, and release the second video that exonerates the Chief. Because of this, Giraud is publicly humiliated and taken away. In addition, the chances of ONI facing consequences for the SPARTAN II Program become practically nil, with the crimes behind it relegated to nothing more than a discredited conspiracy theory.]]
22	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: The second photo entry of Giraud's blog was a picture of the cover of ''Halo 2'', which turned out to be an edited photo that he took. He put up the unedited version for comparison. Among other things, ONI had the scoring and damage to Chief's armor removed.
23	* BigBad: On the whole, ONI is set up as this for the entire ARG, in particular [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Michael Sullivan]]. Other agencies and people prove antagonistic, but the main crux of the plot is [[BrokenMasquerade breaking the SPARTAN masquerade]].
24	* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: ONI is pretty much watching everyone in the galaxy, and can do whatever they can to shut you up for good. Left your house? They'll condemn the entire building and wreck your apartment. Fled underground? They'll find you. They can even disable the Internet for whole planets or cut off your bank account or destroy your feed at the press of a button, and they are willing to track whoever has talked to you and make them disappear. And so far, as Ben so painfully finds out, [[spoiler: you cannot bring them down.]] They've also started seizing various Twitter accounts, most prominently Sapien Sunrise's.
25	* BigDamnHeroes:
26	** [[spoiler: Just as ONI finally finds Ben, FERO saves his ass by storming in and shooting up the agents.]]
27	** [[spoiler: Chief's real actions during the Biko Incident count too.]]
28	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Ben's name is publicly ruined, ONI manages to pin the faked footage and records on him, and he's "black-bagged" by the Feds to space-Gitmo. On the other hand, Petra is more than motivated enough to [[TakingUpTheMantle take up his banner]], since she delivered the bait that screwed over Ben, and she says that unlike Ben, she's not making it about respect. ''She's'' making it about fear.]] Goes into DownerEnding territory when Season 2 reveals that [[spoiler:she was captured by ONI after a few months]].
29	* BrokenMasquerade: In Episode 8, [[spoiler:Ben leaks all of his information on the SPARTAN programs and other ONI secrets, followed shortly after by leaking them again, along with testimonies he had found, on live television]]. The fallout from this is disastrous, in [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression more ways]] [[BigBrotherIsWatching than one]].
30	* TheBusCameBack: In Episode 10, [[spoiler:Andrew Del Rio, former Captain of the UNSC ''Infinity'',]] thought gone after ''VideoGame/Halo4'' comes back, [[spoiler:now a Senator who whips up an anti-Master Chief campaign in wake of the Biko massacre]].
31	* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: ONI turns out to be a terrifyingly good one.]]
32	* ConspiracyTheorist: Ben slowly turns into one. This is also Mshak's day job.
33	* ConspiracyThriller: Very much so.
34	* ContinuityPorn: Whoever's running this show loves their ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' mythos. We've got Benjamin Giraud, our protagonist, straight from ''ComicBook/TheHaloGraphicNovel'', Michael Sullivan from ''Film/Halo4ForwardUntoDawn'', references to the ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' comic ''ComicBook/HaloHelljumper'', and of course Master Chief's origin story from the books weaved into the plot, and many more besides. Episode 8 also showed that Mshak knew about the [[Anime/HaloLegends two Spartan-II escapees that killed themselves once they met their clones.]]
35	* DeadAllAlong:
36	** In the first episode, Giraud finds an old population record claiming John-117 died when he was six, throwing everything he's heard about the Chief into doubt.
37	** [[spoiler:Deon Govender, one of the people ONI set Giraud up to interview, was revealed to have died seven years prior; the man that Giraud interviewed was apparently once a homeless drunk. Then Episode 11 reveals that the man was actually an actor known as Simon Kensington, hired by ONI.]]
38	* DeathWorld: Bliss, a former human colony glassed during the Covenant War. The whole planet is basically a dry wasteland of sand and glass plains and melted cities. At one point, Ben nearly dies from a massive wind storm of razor-sharp shards.
39	* DidntThinkThisThrough: During episode 9, ONI has every bank freeze Ben's assets after he [[spoiler:leaks the truth of the Spartan Program to the UNSC senate]]. Ben immediately laments not withdrawing every credit to his name before trying to actively take on possibly the most powerful agency in human history. Granted, walking into a bank would likely immediately alert ONI to his location, and he is technically on the run.
40	* DreamRealityCheck: [[spoiler:Ben]] makes [[spoiler:FERO]] show him the time on her datapad twice so that he can know he's not dreaming.[[spoiler: When he learns of [[TheMole FERO's identity]], he begs her to show the datapad again as she's walking away so he confirm or deny that it's reality.]]
41	* EntryPoint: Since it's part of a ViralMarketing campaign, the entry points are ads on ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' official social media that lead to the Website/{{Tumblr}} blog that hosts the ARG.
42	* EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture: Giraud describes ONI headquarters as being designed this way (mirroring what players have seen in ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' and ''VideoGame/HaloReach''.) Everything is black and white, seamless, no decorations on the walls, chairs are too low to the ground, doors only open the second before you walk into them...
43	* FantasticRacism:
44	** Senator [[spoiler:Del Rio]] thinks SPARTAN-[=IIs=] are outdated pieces of junk that should be all shot on sight, while SPARTAN-[=IVs=] are amazing, top-of-the-line super soldiers that don't [[spoiler:attack peace conferences]].
45	** Sapien Sunrise is an human-supremacist group that advocates revenge against the former Covenant species.
46	* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Sully tells Ben several times that "glassed planets have bad records" by way of explaining away inconsistencies. Ben finds his "silver bullet" on a supposedly abandoned ONI facility on a glassed planet. Not only are the files he finds bait, but the "property records" also indicate that the land is actually owned by terrorists.]]
47	* FromBadToWorse: As the ARG goes along, Ben gets threatened and hurt several times by ONI, then [[spoiler: drugged on a flight]], then [[spoiler:Chief turns the peace conference to a gunfight]], and by Episode 9, [[spoiler:FERO and Mshak disappear while severe and violent rioting breaks out in the outer colonies.]] By Episode 10, [[spoiler:he discovers that the UNSC is covering up the mitigating circumstances of Chief's attack for reasons of their own, and returns home to find out that his entire apartment building has been condemned, with everything in it, his emergency funds included, all gone]].
48	* GoneHorriblyRight:
49	** Giraud was hired to write an account of the Master Chief, and so decided to go above and beyond and do his own investigating rather than just rely on the sources that [=ONI=] gave him, leading to him uncovering some nasty secrets.
50	** Trying to get rid of him, Sully is ''very'' insistent that Ben get on the next shuttle leaving Earth, giving him a ticket with only the minimum amount of time to get home. [[spoiler:Moradi sabotages its passenger list so Jakob Walker, an interviewee who was supposedly permanently stationed on Castellaneta, is aboard the same flight as Ben.]]
51	* HateSink: [[spoiler: Ex-Captain Del Rio returns in Episode 10, now a Senator demanding the Master Chief's arrest.]] He was already a piece of work back in ''Halo 4'' for being the biggest JerkAss in the franchise, but now he somehow manages to be even ''worse''.
52	* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: As it seems to have turned out, nine members of an anti-alien terrorist organisation were attempting to attack the conference, and Chief was actually trying to save everyone else, including Sekibo. It worked. Almost. Too bad the UNSC, for whatever reason, is apparently trying to cover up the involvement of said terrorists, despite the protests of both Sekibo's people and the aliens.]]
53	* HopeSpot:
54	** FERO and Ben [[spoiler:hijack a UEG meeting with evidence of the SPARTAN Program's crimes.]] It's ignored.
55	** After finding a relay on Bliss that gives Ben all the evidence he possibly needs to torch ONI to the ground. [[spoiler:The files there were bait for Ben to proven untrustworthy in front of the public and made to appear like he fabricated them.]]
56	* InternalReveal: Anyone familiar with the Halo mythos knows the origin of the [=Spartan-II=] recruits. But for Ben Giraud and the rest of humanity, it's treated as an incredibly shocking leak, on par with the Pentagon Papers, even inciting massive riots across the outer colonies.
57	* IntrepidReporter: Ben, and Petra to a lesser degree.
58	* InUniverseFactoidFailure:
59	** Part of ONI's cover up of John's history was having Deon Govender saying how a 12-year old John participated in high school boxing and easily defeated the other boys. The only problem was that not only was boxing ''illegal'' on Eridanus II, the colonists there had never even ''heard'' of the sport until after they got off world.
60	** Another point in ONI's cover up story was how Insurrectionists were abducting civilians in Elysium City, among which where John and his parents, the latter having died during the experience. Questioning John's childhood friend, Ellie, reveals that the Insurrection's presence on Eridanus II was purely political and relatively peaceful, and that there were no abductions; while Ray pulls up files that proved Katrina's (another of John's friends) claims that John's parents were still alive and employed up to 2528, four years after their supposed deaths.
61	* MarkedBullet: A ''Hunt the Truth'' trailer showed a bullet marked '''[[spoiler:TRAITOR]]''' shattering the Chief's helmet.
62	* MeaningfulName: Mshak was an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mshak Armenian language newspaper]] that espoused liberal democratic ideals during the final decades of the Russian Empire. After the Russian Revolution, it was shuttered in 1921 with other anti-Bolshevik media.
63	* MilitaryScienceFiction: The plot details a journalist's attempt to unearth a disturbing military conspiracy in the far future.
64	* MoodWhiplash: The whole series in general, so far. It reveals that, even though Chief is Halo's ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'', he was the ''only soldier left alive'' in the Battle of Mombasa. That ONI [[spoiler: can cut off the whole internet in a second, ruin your life, try to kill you and let police fire on royally-pissed off colonists while sieging them at the same time.]] And if you ever speak out of turn, you're really, really, fucked.
65	* NothingIsScarier: There are "anomalies in deep space" that a ConspiracyTheorist has been tracking with his friend. Nothing is known about them in-universe, ''and they're getting stronger.''
66	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
67	** In Episode 8, the Master Chief [[spoiler:attacks a peace conference and kidnaps an important UNSC diplomat for seemingly no reason, starting a firefight which ends with nineteen humans dead, while escorting the aliens to safety (said diplomat ends up being found dead in a nearby field). This, naturally, shocks the galaxy]]. As it turns out in Episode 10, [[spoiler:the Chief was apparently trying to ''save'' the diplomat (and the aliens) from human-supremacist terrorists who had infiltrated the conference, with the nine humans he actually killed being said terrorists]].
68	** In Episode 9, Mshak shows some uncharacteristic worry and tells Ben he has to tell him something important in person. [[spoiler:Ben claims he never heard from him again.]]
69	* OldSoldier: As it turns out in Episode 7, [[spoiler: Petrosky is a homeless ex-ODST veteran, living on the streets with a titanium arm after seeing action for 14 years.]]
70	* OhCrap: Giraud has a ''nasty'' one when he realizes that [[spoiler: he conducted a conversation that revealed a possible government coverup over Waypoint (basically future-Skype), meaning that [[BigBrotherIsWatching anyone could be listening]].]]
71	* OnlyOneName: The pre-Master Chief is just John, with his last name unsaid and actually blacked out when written down.
72	* OutrunTheFireball: Ben outruns a gigantic storm of howling glass in Episode 11.
73	* ParanoiaFuel: In-universe one: ONI has enough power to target anyone you've spoken to and make them disappear. They can drug you on flights, withdraw your money, cut off the Internet because you spoke out of line...and even completely destroy the apartment you live in, and condemn the whole building.
74	* PlotArchaeology:
75	** The ''Hunt the Truth'' advertising campaign features Benjamin Giraud, the previously unnamed ONI photojournalist from ''ComicBook/TheHaloGraphicNovel'' story "Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa". After nearly nine years, that's quite a dig through continuity.
76	** Following episodes also included the once-little girl from "Starry Night" (a trailer for ''Halo 3'' released in 2007), but as an adult.
77	* PropagandaMachine: Initially, and probably deliberately averted. Giraud was excited to write about the Chief, but he wasn't a puppet for the government, so people would actually trust him. However, it's clear that [=ONI=], with its supplied sources, want him to be the vessel of this. [=ONI=] wants Giraud to tell a story that would, in his words, give people "Patriotic goosebumps-" a child with charisma and essential heroism from birth, who enlisted at 16. It makes the [=UNSC=] as a whole look good, it smears the Insurrectionists! But, unfortunately, Giraud was a bit too curious for his own good.
78	* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler: At the end of the last episode, ONI finally lays their hands on Ben. But Petra picks up on where he left off, just as determined to bring ONI down.]]
79	* {{Retcon}}:
80	** The first episode reveals that the girl from the ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}'' ''Starry Night'' trailer is Ellie Bloom, a childhood friend of John aka Master Chief back on Eridanus II. When the commercial was first released, the kids were claimed to be merely symbolic, and the trailer as a whole was assumed to be non-canon.
81	** ''Literature/HaloGlasslands'' claimed ONI was declassifying the SPARTAN Project (albeit while [[NeverMyFault blaming everything on Dr. Halsey]]), and we saw that the Spartan-[=IVs=] in ''Spartan Ops'' had some vague knowledge of the Spartan-[=IIs'=] true origins. However, ''Hunt the Truth'' claims that the [=S-IIs'=] origins are still classified to the general public and ONI has been releasing a false narrative.
82	* TheReveal: In Episode 11, [[spoiler: Ben finds out that several of his "interviewees" were bribed to do so, or outright acting.]] Oh, and in Episode 13, [[spoiler: his sources too.]]
83	* RevealingCoverUp: ONI's attempts to feed Ben a false backstory for the Master Chief ends up exposing a much larger conspiracy about the true origins of the [=Spartan-IIs=].
84	* RogueProtagonist:
85	** Ben eventually whistleblows on ONI's atrocities, and [[spoiler: Chief seems to have become one by escorting alien diplomats to safety after opening fire on a peace conference and kidnapping human diplomat Richard Sekibo]].
86	** [[spoiler:By the final episode, Ben turns into this.]]
87	* SarcasticConfession: [[spoiler:ONI deliberately leaks tons of their own data to Ben in Episode 11, revealing the truth about the Spartan Program and the actors they've hired, but hide numerous flaws in it to make it easy to discredit. As such, when Ben tries to tell everyone the truth, nobody believes any of it and mistakes it for fabricated data.]]
88	* SerialEscalation: Ben simply investigates and gets more and more puzzling clues to the origin of Chief. Eventually, his investigation leads to galaxy-wide grumbling, [[spoiler:the revelation of Chief seemingly attacking the Biko peace conference (and subsequent revelations about the ''real'' circumstances of that event)]], and by Episode 9, severe rioting in the outer colonies.
89	* ThisIsUnforgivable: Ben is willing to go along with ONI, get paid, and publish a story he knows is lies, until [[spoiler:he finds a recording of them drugging him a minute after he meets Walker then shoving his unconscious body on another flight. Giraud is so infuriated at how they treated him that he cancels the story and leaks everything he's recorded to the public.]]
90	* TookALevelInJerkass: Michael Sullivan, once a jokester recruit as a kid in ''Film/Halo4ForwardUntoDawn'', is now met again as an adult working for ONI. While still friendly, it's in a StepfordSmiler way, and he treats Ben like a special-needs child, frequently acting fake-excited and using catchphrases while not paying him much attention and doing covert stuff on his compad behind his back. [[spoiler: And he cuts off Ben's bank accounts, and the whole of Waypoint.]]
91	* UnPerson: ONI's specialty, as it turns out, is this. [[spoiler: And Ben painfully finds this out in Episode 10, as they completely destroy his apartment and make sure the whole building is about to get demolished.]]
92	* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: The outer colonies go ''berserk'' and begin severe rioting [[spoiler: once they find out what happened to their children.]]
93	* WhamEpisode:
94	** Episode 8. [[spoiler: The galaxy goes crazy over the leak FERO and Ben started, people are beginning to riot in the outer colonies, the anomalies in deep space are increasing and worst of all, the Chief, TheHero of the ''Halo'' universe and beloved by many players, attacks Biko's peace conference for seemingly no reason, killing several human bodyguards and kidnapping the head diplomat (who's later found dead), all the while escorting the ''alien'' delegation to safety.]]
95	** Episode 13: [[spoiler: Ben's whole work and world comes crashing down on him and he's dragged off by ONI to be either imprisoned or killed. BUT, Petra decides to take up his sword in revenge against ONI.]]
96	* WhamLine: In the preview for the ''Hunt the Truth'' campaign, a bullet bearing words describing the Master Chief is fired before hitting the Chief's helmet. The last word is quite a wham:
97	-->''SON, ABDUCTEE, VICTIM, ORPHAN, RECRUIT, SOLDIER, WARRIOR, ALLY, HERO, SAVIOR, [[spoiler:TRAITOR]].''
98	* WhatTheHellHero: Petra gets ''very'' upset with Ben after he [[spoiler:recorded a conversation of them without her permission and uploaded it to his public audio journal. A conversation where she averted ONI surveillance and they discussed things considered treasonous]]. She compares it to pointing a gun at someone's face... [[spoiler:and points ''her own gun'' at his face to make her point.]]
99	* TheWoobie: In-universe in Episode 7, Ben presents the [[spoiler:flash clones as these, infants painfully stretched into newborns and plunged into another kid's world as soon as they're ready, with nobody to comfort them. Then, they're barely settling into their new home when they start rotting and suffering from a slow, ''incurable'' wasting disease, with only the terrified parents who they don't even ''know'' watching them rot away.]] All of this [[spoiler:to cover up the disappearance of the actual kids]] who would be soon made into {{Super Soldier}}s.
100	* WouldHurtAChild: This time, the [[spoiler: abduction of children]] and [[spoiler: agonising deaths of the flash clones]] are treated as this by the general public. It's also the spark that [[spoiler: sets off rioting]] in the outer colonies.
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102	[[folder:Season Two '''''(Major Spoilers)''''']]
103	* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:"After living as FERO for five years, I have no idea what Maya is supposed to think about any of this."]]
104	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Maya Sankar AKA FERO dies at the hands of Bostwick, but thanks to Mshak her warning about the Guardians is spreading throughout the colonies, and she will be remembered as a heroic martyr. Bostwick has taken up her mantle as an Insurrectionist leader and advocate for colonial independence.]] And, for better or worse, [[spoiler:Maya's brain has been saved by ONI, and she will be resurrected as a UNSC Smart AI.]]
105	* BoomHeadshot: Ilsa Zane killed Ari Rezneck by blowing out his brain with her pistol.
106	* BlackSite: ONI Midnight Facility is one of these. You don't go there for rehabilitation, you go there to [[UnPerson disappear.]]
107	* CanonImmigrant: Black-Box from the [[Literature/HaloGlasslands Kilo]]-[[Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar Five]] [[Literature/HaloMortalDictata novels]] is assigned as Maya's partner/handler. [[spoiler:Ilsa Zane and her New Colonial Alliance rebels]] from the ''ComicBook/HaloInitiation'' comics are also major antagonists, as are [[spoiler:Dasc Gevadim and his Triad cult]] from the ''Literature/HaloEvolutions'' anthology.
108	* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The Kig-Yar (Jackal) pirates keep a wall of dead alien and human body parts on their ship as a bizarre trophy/history display. [[spoiler:Bostwick]] comes very close to joining the collection.
109	* DeadpanSnarker: Black-Box.
110	* GoMadFromTheIsolation:
111	** What usually happens at [[BlackSite Midnight Facility.]] [[spoiler:Poor Ben...]]
112	** [[spoiler:Mshak is suffering from this as well, locked in a safehouse in the middle of nowhere without internet access.]]
113	* GravityScrew: A side effect of the [[spoiler:Guardians]] emerging.
114	* GreyAndGreyMorality: Neither the UNSC or the Insurrectionists really give a damn about the innocent victims of the colony attacks, they only want to understand and control the anomalies for their own benefit. Both sides claim they are working to protect human lives, but when [[spoiler:the colony on Laika III is being destroyed]] the two factions are more interested in fighting each other than trying to evacuate the locals, which Maya notes with disgust.
115	* HappyEndingOverride: After the end of Season One, Petra promised to take up Ben's fight to expose ONI. [[spoiler:She's been captured by ONI in between seasons.]]
116	* HeroicBSOD: Finding out that [[spoiler:FERO is actually an undercover ONI agent destroys what's left of Ben's sanity.]]
117	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Maya, until ONI resurrects her as a smart AI.]]
118	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: By Episode 3 [[spoiler:Maya gets fed up with ONI's treatment of her and their attacks on innocent civilians, and goes rogue with the Guardian data.]]
119	* TheMole: [[spoiler:FERO]] turns out to be [[spoiler: Commander Maya Sankar, an ONI spy within the Insurrection.]]
120	* OldSoldier: One berates FERO as she [[spoiler: tries to delay the angry civilians from attacking ONI again.]]
121	* ProperlyParanoid: Anyone going up against ONI, including an [[spoiler:ex-agent like Maya or an ex-Spartan like Ilsa]].
122	* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Petra Janacek]] was captured by ONI shortly after Ben, and [[spoiler:her]] whereabouts are unknown.
123	* SelfHarm: [[spoiler:Ben]] used to do this, but he's getting better![[spoiler: Until he learns of [[TheMole FERO's true identity]], then he either starts to claw at himself or hit the window between him and FERO so hard ''his hands start to bleed.'']]
124	* SkewedPriorities: After [[spoiler:Mshak Moradi]] regains Waypoint access after months of being forced to go without.
125	-->[[spoiler:'''Mshak:''']] Wow, I have a ''lot'' of unread messages. [[OhCrap Oh no...]]\
126	'''Maya:''' What?\
127	[[spoiler:'''Mshak:''']] The unthinkable has happened! I fell off the leaderboards at Unggoy Farmer.\
128	'''Maya:''' [[spoiler:'''''MSHAK!''''']]\
129	[[spoiler:'''Mshak:''']] One billion percent focused!
130	* WhamLine:
131	** From Episode 00:
132	--->'''ODST:''' Whoa, calm down [[spoiler:"FERO"]]!\
133	[[spoiler:'''FERO:''']] Hey, I outrank you Lance Corporal! [[spoiler:You don't get to call me FERO! It's Commander Sankar to you, copy?!]]
134	** In Episode 01, [[spoiler:we learn that the "glassed planets" thing was in fact Sully's best attempt to ''warn'' Ben.]]
135	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fates of [[spoiler:Mshak, Ilsa Zane, and Dasc Gevadim after the events on Laika III are unknown.]]
136	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Black-Box's after-action report to CINCONI Admiral Osman.
137	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Averted. When ONI learns that [[spoiler:Ilsa Zane]] is on Conrad's Point, they [[spoiler: order an immediate airstrike on her position. It doesn't work.]]
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