The Director of PFL was lying to us the whole time. Told us we were the good guys, that we were special ops against the Insurrectionists. Rebels against the United Earth Government, I mean. It was a bad thing, we were already fighting the Covenant - they were aliens - just to survive. We couldn't afford to have old human-human disputes picking at our edges, too.
Turns out he'd been breaking the law for years. Tortured the Project's one smart AI until it tore itself apart to produce the "fragment" personalities he needed for his experiments, used us to steal private property. Killed and hurt a lot of people just doing their jobs.
He did a lot of damage before some of us started to catch on. And even then, not everyone believed us.
private text; RvB S9-10 spoilers ahoy
The Director of PFL was lying to us the whole time. Told us we were the good guys, that we were special ops against the Insurrectionists. Rebels against the United Earth Government, I mean. It was a bad thing, we were already fighting the Covenant - they were aliens - just to survive. We couldn't afford to have old human-human disputes picking at our edges, too.
Turns out he'd been breaking the law for years. Tortured the Project's one smart AI until it tore itself apart to produce the "fragment" personalities he needed for his experiments, used us to steal private property. Killed and hurt a lot of people just doing their jobs.
He did a lot of damage before some of us started to catch on. And even then, not everyone believed us.