343i knows how to hit me like a ton of bricks. It's hard not to imagine a story like this has played out with real-life oppressive regimes before, and it leaves the only hope of real exposure, real truth, in the hands of the very people committing unspeakable acts.
Let's see.... We now know the fate of all the major players from season one (or do we?). FERO is alive and is an undercover agent who's having a change of heart, Petra was captured or killed seemingly before she could do much, Mshak is dead, and Ben is alive and still in custody. (I say this because FERO is talking to us about all this and she's under pressure from ONI and feeling the pressure of what she's done, and because FERO talked about Ben getting released and the Time preview said Ben would show up, and what happened with Petra and Mshak was directly stated.) We also know Ben's whole escapade was engineered by ONI-- or maybe not the whole thing? We know at least the later stages were. I hope it was the whole thing because there are issues with the beginning that I think can only be explained with stupidity (by ONI or the writers) or intentional "leaks".