User:ODSTHawkins/GHOST Research Facility Alpha



 "Welcome to the UPU Sponsored GHOST Research Facility Alpha. I am the AI, Gladice. I will serve as your guide through this facilities basic functions and I will provide all members of the facility, guest or staff, with necessary information. Please stay within guest and non-personnel designated areas, or you will be removed by force." ~Gladice AI upon detecting personell entering the facility.

Facility Appearance
The facility has a very medical appearance. It's walls are made out of a pure white metalic material. The entire facility appears the same and it becomes very easy to get lost. There are a few chambers made out of a similar black material, and live fire courses are often a mix of the two.

Summary
The GHOST Research Facility Alpha was desined to assist Eric Manheim durring his time with the UPU on advancing his research as far as possible. The facility was constructed within a massive meteor. The facility was the most costly and maybe most advantageous projects the UPU had over the UNSC.

The facility was built durring the Human-Covenant war, it was built in an asteroid belt around a star without any inhabital planets as a safe house from any covenant troops that may be searching for human colonies. Upon the facility's completion an AI was installed within the very heart of the facility, along with an intricate and highly advanced defensive system. The AI itself was not created from a human brain like most others, as the UPU did not have the ability to create their own AI, their scientists reverted to an older form of technology used to created the earliest of AIs. An AI structure with total control of the facilities structures and mechanisms was installed and multiple Personality Cores were attached to the AI that controlled its emotions.

Early History
"This facility has experienced two years of full service. We have assisted with the GHOST program in many different ways. As you can see to the left, we hold multiple test chambers to test the capabilities of new specimens. To your right are the viewing rooms of the Active Person-*Power drain* Pleas ignore the mess."

The facility is thought of as one of the most successful memorials of the UPU. It contains the first all UPU AI, and is home the the Super Soldier GHOST Project. However the original Prime Minister of the UPU used the facility as a medical developement and testing facility. When the second Prime Minister came into power, Manheim was allowed to open the full GHOST project once more. However at first the project seemed to be failing, soon results began to appear as the augmentations were enhanced and the gear supplied to the GHOSTs was enhanced. Soon the facility was running at full capacity, testing rooms were used almost constantly.

Soon some of the defense chambers were changed into Live Fire courses and the facility was showing amazing results. The UPU began to put even more money into the project. However, the UPU's amazing acheivement was doomed to end in gore. One of Manheim's personal assistants rebelled against him and his staff and accessed the AI Gladice's housing chamber. Using his personal fire arm the assistant caused severe damage to the AI's Protocol Core. As soon as the damage was done, defenses kicked into overdrive and began an onslaught against all staff and personnel within the facility.

The AI remained much like its former self once the personnel were able to evacuate and escape from the facility. The AI used mobile units to add more Personality Cores to it, making it more complex and self aware. The facility remained abandoned except for the GHOSTs left in Cryo sleep and operation. It is uncertain what the fate of these GHOSTs were.

Aftermath
"Welcome to the UPU Sponsored GHOST Research Facility Alpha. We are now under new management and would like to welcome the UNSC to their place. We hope you enjoy the- *Power drain*" Gladice as TFO enters the Facility.

After Perez rescued Manheim he also discovered the location of the facility. He also discovered the UPU had abandoned hope of reclaiming the facility. Perez released Cortez after having his word that he would not investigate on the incidents with Manheim, and gave him the coordinants to the facility. With the coordinates Admiral Cortez brought his fleet hoping to find an abandoned facility that had fallen into disrepair. Instead he was greated y deadly force, armed turrets and weaponry kept his sheeps at bay, and internally the Facility was a massive death trap for anyone who set foot inside.

After Oregon became a GHOST and Alice comendeered much of the GHOST Projects information, sending it to ONI, Task Force Oscar made their own assault on the Facility to assist one of Cortez's teams trapped inside. They found it increasingly difficult, the facility being set up to test all sorts of different armor varients and the Personnel Access ways filled with increasingly grim scenes of murder while Gladice continued to degrade, starting out friendly and greeting, giving advice and tips, and beginning to mislead the Unit as they traveled through the Asteroid Facility. Eventually the team was trapped and only Oregon Hawkins and two of the SPARTANs could continue into the chamber before the AI's Housing Chamber where Cortez had trapped his men.

Oregon and the two SPARTANs entered the AI's Housing Chamber and were greeted by a large computer unit built into the wall, fifteen or so sphere like structures hung from it on cables. Each of them seemed to whipser in a different way, however were greatly outmatched by the voice that sourced from the structure. In the end, Oregon and the SPARTANs were able to unseal the doors and allow Perez his team through, where Nova Bryce fired on the machine with a SPARTAN Laser and destroyed the computers central control unit, causing a mainframe collapse and shutting down all life support and power systems within the facility.