In their opening cinematic released like 4 weeks ago, it seems like they take orders from Palmer, which means they’re probably just another Spartan-IV fireteam aboard Infinity, under the jurisdiction of the Spartan Branch. However, in certain snippets we’ve also seen them listening to Lasky, who I guess could be construed as ONI, considering he’s Navy and in command of ONI’s experimental warship.
Nonetheless, Osiris is made out to appear “special” in some sense, different from the other Spartan fireteams. I would assume them to be nothing less than ONI lapdogs, but I haven’t found a source yet confirming either way. Does anyone have an answer to this?
Edit: could Locke’s ONI emblem on his armor, then, be explained away as the “personal touch”/previous unit signifier that I read about somewhere, just as Buck pays homage to his ODST roots through his HELLJUMPER-class armor? Or is it simply because Locke is actually wearing an armor developed by ONI?
They answer to ONI, but following chain of command, if they are abroad the Infinity or close by, Parmer becomes their Commander Officer.
Still, her orders cannot override ONI’s.
Locke’s ONI logo is exactly like the previous branch logos on everyone else’s armor. No recent info suggests he’s ONI now.
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Actually Palmer can, and indeed should, countermand any ONI orders that haven’t come through the chain of command if she’s their CO. ONI might have a lot of clout and could get whatever orders they want passed through the chain but not even they can just take command of assets from a completely different branch on their own accord, same as any real military.
To answer the OP, all we have seen is that Osiris seems to belong to task force Infinity, a navy-led multi-branch unit, and execute missions passed on to them through the task-force chain of command. Where the task force itself gets its orders from we simply don’t know at this point in time.
If you are asking who is in charge of the entire UNSC…it is Vice Admiral Serin Osman, who is also director of the Office of Naval Intelligence. She is a Spartan-II reject and replaced Margaret Paragosky as VA sometime around 2554. Sarah Palmer is Lasky’s right hand woman aboard Infinity; she commands many fireteams, but Fireteam Osiris was assembled personally by VA Osman and they report directly to and only to her.
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> If you are asking who is in charge of the entire UNSC…it is Vice Admiral Serin Osman, who is also director of the Office of Naval Intelligence. She is a Spartan-II reject and replaced Margaret Paragosky as VA sometime around 2554. Sarah Palmer is Lasky’s right hand woman aboard Infinity; she commands many fireteams, but Fireteam Osiris was assembled personally by VA Osman and they report directly to and only to her.
Source about Osiris being assembled by Osman? And they seem to report to Lasky and Palmer to me.
Also, CINCUNSC is Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood.
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Many, but to make it simple, Halo Nation. Type in “Fireteam Osiris”. Then type “CINCONI”. If you possess any knowledge of halo canon in other forms of media, you would know nothing happens in the UNSC without cinconi approving or at least knowing about it.
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> Many, but to make it simple, Halo Nation. Type in “Fireteam Osiris”. Then type “CINCONI”. If you possess any knowledge of halo canon in other forms of media, you would know nothing happens in the UNSC without cinconi approving or at least knowing about it.
Halo Nation has always been filled with conjecture. Just sayin’. Serin Osman isn’t the leader of the UNSC, but she is one of the most powerful people in human territory. As head of the most extensive intelligence network in the galaxy, she’d be bad at her job if she didn’t know about everything that happened in the UNSC.
Sarah Palmer leads all Spartans on the UNSC Infinity. Fireteam Osiris is on the UNSC Infinity. Therefore, Osiris reports to Palmer and serves under the Spartan branch. Also, Captain Lasky isn’t ONI anymore than Captain Keyes was.
Didn’t anyone play Spartan Ops? Osman can override lasky and Palmer (like when she ordered Palmer to assassinate Halsey). If Osiris was given a task as important as hunting blue team, it stands to reason Osman would be pulling the strings. Osiris is just along for the ride on infinity. Lasky and Palmer most likely relay orders rather than give them.
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> Didn’t anyone play Spartan Ops? Osman can override lasky and Palmer (like when she ordered Palmer to assassinate Halsey). If Osiris was given a task as important as hunting blue team, it stands to reason Osman would be pulling the strings. Osiris is just along for the ride on infinity. Lasky and Palmer most likely relay orders rather than give them.
Osman being able to supersede someone she outranks doesn’t automatically mean she’s behind everything that happens on the Infinity.
When it comes to something as sensitive as Osiris getting Blue, yes…that’s exactly what it means. Didn’t the POTUS observe every second of the raid on OBL in 2011? In osmans case, she knows how to handle military ops. If it was me, I’d have Osiris’s live feed streaming 24/7 and a mic to bark orders.
Osiris probably reports to the UNSC directly, and ONI if needed.
(Sigh) fine…ONI is separate from the UNSC…
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No, they’re not. Why would they be? Office of Naval Intelligence… who’s Navy? Santa Claus’s?
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Maybe you get it but the others don’t. It was snide resignation. “They report to the UNSC directly and ONI only if needed”. Sweet mother of didact! I’m done explaining.
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> Didn’t anyone play Spartan Ops? Osman can override lasky and Palmer (like when she ordered Palmer to assassinate Halsey). If Osiris was given a task as important as hunting blue team, it stands to reason Osman would be pulling the strings. Osiris is just along for the ride on infinity. Lasky and Palmer most likely relay orders rather than give them.
Halsey was an ONI prisoner/asset on loan to Fleet but under the sole jurisdiction of ONI and as such Osman had the authority to order her termination after Fleet allowed her to collude with the enemy and then let her fall in to enemy hands. Fast forward a bit in Escalation and you have Osman falsifying a covenant remnant WMD threat in order get the authorization from HIGHCOM to divert the Infinity and set it up to take out the true target: A Jackal pirate base. Meaning that she doesn’t have the authority to directly command the Infinity task force without approval from HIGHCOM. Even she has a boss and his name is Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood, the chairman of the UNSC security council and the most likely source of the order to retrieve John and Blue Team.
Serin Osman is one of the most intelligent humans alive in Halo and holds a great deal of clout with her peers but she isn’t the all-powerful goddess people make her out to be nor would she have time to personally supervise an individual operation when she has a sprawling, amorphous organization like ONI to manage. She signs documents ,talks to admirals and generals and maybe makes a vidcall when she feels that the gravity of the situation needs to be hammered in with an admirals authority. How people make her out to be some sort of supervillain i’ll never understand.
At the end of the day the only thing we know is that at least one of Fireteam Osiris’ missions throughout Guardians’ campaign is to locate the Master Chief. However, we also do not know who tasked Locke to track down the Chief specifically. As a Spartan, Locke is going to be part of that branch. Yet much like Palmer it doesn’t mean he can’t be tasked by someone like Osman or someone else in Fred’s case to undertake a mission for a different party. A lot of people are jumping to conclude ONI, but it could easily be a mission handed out by Hood or someone else in the UNSC that simply wants the Chief found in light of recent events.
Obviously, the way the last E3 trailer was cut seems to imply that the mission Buck says “everyone” is “gonna hate [them for]” is to nab the Chief in a manner that doesn’t sit too well with the rank and file. Sure it screams sinister ONI, but doing something that fits military discipline guidelines (Chief did go AWOL after all) despite extenuating circumstances isn’t exactly exclusive to ONI personnel cough Del Rio cough. Though to also note, Buck’s line never did exactly mention the Chief in the same go as it was spliced into a collage of lines to give that impression he’s referring to the Chief. For all we know Buck’s line is taken completely out of context and the reference could be a completely different mission of questionable importance. There still isn’t much context surrounding the specifics of Locke’s orders and where it came from exactly. Perhaps Hunt the Truth will reveal more prior to the game, but for now it could be anyone’s Op.
Buck: “Hey, what branch of the Government do we report to?”
Locke: “Well, none. They ask too many questions.”
(Men in Black reference)
Osman’s evil, bro. Mark my words: she’s eventually gonna get wasted…by Blue Team. Just watch.