User:Subtank/United Nations Space Command Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1

Article 1
United Nations Space Command Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1 Encryption Code: Red Public Key: file/ rst light/ From: UNSC/NAVCOM Fleet H.T. Ward To: ALL UNSC PERSONNEL Subject: General Order 098831A-1 ("The Cole Protocol ) Classification: RESTRICTED (BGX Directive)

The Cole Protocol
To safeguard and protect the Inner Colonies and Earth from surrounding threats, all UNSC vessels or stations must not be captured with intact navigation databases that may lead Covenant forces to human civilian population centers. If any Covenant forces are detected:
 * 1) Activate selective purge of databases on all ship-based and planetary data networks.
 * 2) Initiate triple-screen check to ensure all data has been erased and all backups neutralized.
 * 3) Execute viral data scavengers (Download from UNSCTTP://EPWW:COLEPROTOCOL/Virtualscav/fbr.091)
 * 4) If retreating from Covenant forces, all ships must enter Slipstream space with randomized vectors NOT directed toward Earth, the Inner Colonies, or any other human population center.
 * 5) In case of imminent capture by Covenant forces and borders, all known UNSC vessels within an ONI priority focus MUST self-destruct.

Violation of this directive will be considered TREASON and pursuant to UNSC Military law articles JAG 845-P and JAG 7556-L, such violations are punishable by life imprisonment or execution.

Article 2
Article 2 governs protocol in terms of abandoning a vessel. Article 2 could be theorized to mandate the removal, not destruction, of a shipboard AI if the ship in question will still be extant and it's crew able to protect the AI in question.

Subsection 7
"Subsection 7: No [captured] Covenant craft may be taken to human controlled space without an exhaustive search for tracking systems that could lead the Covenant to Human bases."