october 27 2542
its been a week and we've been hold up here with no comms. the flood have either given up or lost interest in us, with the exception of the ocasional group of flood forms testing our perimeter. jack and i have been discussing a scouting mission to surch for more intel. "there's gotta be something we can find out, there are two other colony worlds in this system surely someone out there has noticed whats going on here" jack said while takeing a bite from his ration bar." the chief has given the ok for you an me to search the area for some sign of reinforcements or intel" i said takeing a swig from my canteen. we left at dawn as the flood have been less active in daylight. we searched for hours before coming upon the body of a marine comms officer. we cautiously aproached it and a quik check proved he wasnt infected. "here help me plug diana into this equipment, she can access the unsc satalites to estabish a link with anyone out there watching this mess" i asked jack as i rolled the body over. as jack keeped watch diana tapped into the satalite. "initiating contact with satalite, got it, here's some good news there are 15 frigates holding station just outside of orbit, their not responding to my hails, whats this an automated signal telling us to hold our ground reinforcments are on there way, that doesn't make sence, its ONI coded" said diana. "well thats good news right, i mean that means they know we're here right" jack said scanning the buildings for movement. " it would seem its more complicated than that, this message was sent hours after the initial attack, they've stranded us here"