UNSC Codes

UNSC Protocols and Codes:

The UNSC Insertion Protocols: govern the deployment of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers via drop pod. These protocols dictate that commanding officers' pods accelerate faster than those of their enlisted subordinates

Bandersnatch: emergency code to be declared following a radiological- or energy-based disaster

Bloody Arrow: UNSC emergency code signifying the complete and decisive defeat of friendly forces, usually following the overrunning of friendly units and positions by hostile forces. It is effectively the complete opposite of S.O.S - it means that one should not, under any circumstances, attempt to land, reinforce, or attempt rescue. Rather, it signifies to any reinforcements that the cause is lost and they should turn back.

Hydra: signifies imminent threat from biological weapons of mass destruction.

Omega Three: UNSC emergency code to be used during combat operations. It is the final panic code, an order to break and run no matter what the cost. As such, Omega Three is used only in extreme situations, when a combat situation suddenly turns extremely grim for the UNSC forces and they would be massacred if they do not immediately retreat.

Code Three-Nine-Two: UNSC code term brandished by Special Warfare teams to ignore hails from other forces due to a higher-priority mission.

Article 428-A: a UNSC protocol in effect in 2552. The protocol forbids soldiers from discussing matters related to classified missions to any personnel who do not have the clearance. This includes anyone, even an AI, who questions the soldier or marine before they are debriefed.

BACKBURN protocol: a protocol used by ONI. It is supposed to be enacted if there is any compromise, or loss of operational integrity to Section Three reports and investigations.

Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1/General Order 098831A-1 (COLE PROTOCAL): to prevent Covenant retrieval of human data that contained the location of Earth, no retreating vessels under any circumstances may set a direct slipspace course toward any human population center. As well as to prevent capture, any military or civilian vessel, in the event of an emergency evacuation, is to self-destruct, after wiping all data matrices, to prevent the advance of the Covenant.

Foxtrot Tango Angel 7012: a security directive of the United Nations Space Command's Office of Naval Intelligence that mandates the distribution of information on Forerunners and their technology.

Lockdown Protocol: a United Nations Space Command protocol that pends to military bases. Should a Firebase receive a certain amount of damage, a lockdown will be enforced, doors closing around its walls and preventing entry or exit. Only when the base has been returned to operational status will the protocol be lifted.

The Official Secrets Act of 2550 prohibits any unauthorized dissemination or distribution of any contents of any messenger satchel. Failure to adhere to the mandated prohibition makes it an offence punishable with a summary execution by a UNSC authorized firing squad.

ONI.SEC.PRTCL.1A is an Office of Naval Intelligence security protocol that restricts certain classified files and documents, or cancels searches for classified material.

STOLEN GAUNTLET is a red alert fail-safe protocol developed by the Office of Naval Intelligence in the event that any Spartans were to operate subversively outside mission parameters and operations protocol.

The UNSC Insertion Protocols govern the deployment of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers via drop pod. These protocols dictate that commanding officers' pods accelerate faster than those of their enlisted subordinates.

UNSC Regulation 12-145-72, Article 55 regards the procedures for decommissioning UNSC Smart AIs who are at the end of their lifespan.

UNSC Training Protocol 165F-D is a United Nations Space Command training exercise that was required by all front line UNSC personnel to complete due to an increasingly focused Covenant. With the completion of the exercise to be sent to UNSC Fleet Command for assessment.

WINTER CONTINGENCY is an official United Nations Space Command emergency plan that deals with situations where Covenant forces have become aware of, or are present at, a human colony world.

The Wartime Articles of Secrecy are a set of United Nations Space Command emergency military laws concerning the confidentiality of classified information, dictating that the breach of code-word classification confidentiality is punishable by death.