'Operation Hodges'

Operation Hodges was a black operation conducted by private military contractors belonging to the private military company MM Group. The target of this operation was data preservationist William W. Hodges.

Background
William W. Hodges was a data preservationist based in Wallasey, England contracted by overseas companies to backup confidential information. These documents were stored in Hodges' estate which was located on the coast of England in the town of Wallasey. Blueprints of the estate indicate that servers and filing cabinets were stored underground inside of a vault. On September 10th 2003, Hodges threatened to leak confidential information to the general public unless he was paid a ransom of 20 million dollars.

Pre Operation
MM Group filed for a permit for the English government to allow their contractors operate in Wallasey on October 28th 2003. This permit was approved and the Wallasey police, headed by Captain Deane, assisted with the operation.

During Operation
No footage of this event is available due to Hodge's estate being located in the countryside. According to a leaked scan of a MM Group report: "our unit was able to secure Hodges' though it was tough. He had a lot more security than we expected. We tripped the alarm to make him hole himself up inside of his vault because he saw us on the cameras. We tripped the alarm on purpose because even though the vault had a separate vent system than the main house's air supply, the vault's air supply was from a sewer going into the ocean so we were able to get a team in there to introduce sleeping gas into the vault which incapacitated Hodges. We drilled into the vault and found him trying [The text is blotched over by ink in the scan, rendering it unreadable]. We got him to the airport with pretty much no incident and [the readable text ends here, with the rest of the paper ripped off].

Email
Details: This is an excerpt from an email sent from an anonymous source responding to MIPS Hole's Reddit post about information regarding 'Operation Hodges' The source claimed to be living in Wallasey at the time.

"...I was hiking along the coast, I did that pretty much every week, take a long hike from town along the coast, and from like about 300 yards away I saw the estate. I couldn't really see what was going on but I think I saw some military trucks close to the house. There police cars close to where I was. A perimeter was cordoned off with police tape and police cars about 300 yards away from the house. I walked up to one of the officers to ask him what was going on and he told me that I needed to get out of here because they were conducting a raid on a drug operation based in that estate. I got out of there because I did not want to be anywhere near that police operation..."

Email 2
Details: The best information available to us regarding the purpose behind "Operation Hodges" was a two audio files sent anonymously to MIPS Hole's tipline. A note was sent along with the file.

"Hello, MIPS Hole

I found these files inside of a USB thumb drive that was in a old fishing boat in a junk yard. I thought I would send it to you because it might be about the conspiracy theory 'Operation Hodges'."

Transcript of weird_military_radio_chatter_10/28/03.mp3
Details: This appears to be radio chatter picked up from MM Group's Contractors during Operation Hodges.

Speaker 1: Alpha Team, do you read me? Over

Speaker 2: Yes sir, we are in position to breach the front door. Over

Speaker 1: Copy

(Audio glitch)

Speaker 1: This is command to Beta Team, do you read me? Over

Speaker 3: Yes we do command, we are in position to release gas into the vault. Over

(Audio glitch, same as before)

Speaker 1: This MM Group Command to Captain Deane, are your officers in position? Over

Speaker 4: Yes, this is Captain Deane, we have secured the perimeter. Over

Speaker 1: Copy, thank you Captain.

(Audio glitch, same as both times before)

Speaker 1: This is command to all MM Group teams, you are clear to proceed with Operation Hodges, repeat you are cleared to proceed with Operation Hodges

(Audio cuts out for 20 minutes before returning)

Speaker 1: Have you guys secured The Princess yet? Over

Speaker 2: Yes, command we have, our ETA to extract out of the castle is t-minus 4. Over

Speaker 1: Copy, did you secure the files for The Toymakers? Over

Speaker 2: Yes sir, we got the stuff, we are ascending in the elevator now. Over

Speaker 1: Alright, a cleanup team is coming there in two hours, get to the airport and back the the base. Over

Speaker 2: Copy, Command

(Audio cuts out, proceeds with static for 3 hours until stopping)

Notes: "The Princess" is likely a code name for Hodges' and "The Castle" is likely a code name for Hodges' estate. "The Toymakers" is likely a codename for MM Group's clients.

More_Military_Stuff_10/28/03.mp3
Notes: This appears to be microphone inputs of MM Group's contractors during Operation Hodges. Why these microphones were broadcasting is unknown.

Speaker 1: Alright, Dunn, you have the canisters?

Speaker 2: Yeah I do, here they are

Speaker 1: Guys, help me set this up

Speaker 1 (the following is dialog patched together from a voice picked up by speaker 1's microphone through the vent in the sewer, presumed to be from Hodges): You fools, do you even know what you're doing? What they are doing is wrong! They are messing with the sanctity of human life! Trying to make a machine just like a human to mess with a video game? The abomination isn't just going to make a game better for the player, it is going to have thoughts and dreams, ambitions, everything that a man has. You know who it will probably hate? Your client, for trapping it inside of cartridge. What you're doing (Hodges' cuts of, probably due to the sleeping gas)