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New terminal, new Noir post. Coincidence?
Cortana, that great AI to end all other AIs, was copied from a real person and is a "smart" AI. Enkidu, too, could be a smart AI. If so, perhaps he is at the end of his 7 year life span and starting to flip out. If that were the case, he may "remember" what it was to be human (the reference in a previous terminal to fitting into skin) and feel that ONI or whoever else was involved screwed him over. Obviously, he thinks that JD was also screwed over so the parallel could be a hard and fast one: John Doe is heavily augmented. Spartan or not, he has to have high-tech up to his eyeballs which could possibly lend to his superhuman ability to kill Covenant on his own.
Somebody mentioned that it'd be difficult for a pale, thick-necked 7-footer to blend in on a spaceship. Unless of course he was stationed someplace out of the way and acted as somebody unimportant. Like maybe a Cryo-Bay technician. Notice that all of the earlier terminals are linked to Cryo-Bay B of the Lebanon. John Doe wouldn't have to be dead average and easily blend in if he worked in a place where everyone else had the observation skills of a fudgesickle.
Others are questioning why they would send a Spartan on a secret mission along with a patrol unit. Perhaps, ONI knew (due to the fighting Keyes was involved in previous to Reach) that there were Covenant forces deployed in nearby systems and wanted to use a special ops, minimal impact covert action against such a fleet. Perhaps a suicide mission to destroy ships from the inside and/or gain intelligence on force deployments, mission objectives, etc. The Humans don't seem to care too much about Forerunner relics, don't have much use at this point in time for simple exploration, and the Lebanon just wasn't sent deep enough into space to scout anything really useful. John Doe had to be sent on a one-man mission to gather intel and maybe sabotage some stuff given the chance. Only a Spartan could pull that off, in my estimation.
Just a quick correction of something I saw above. Somebody said that the magnetosphere was what was holding down the ships. The magnetosphere is the natural electro-magnet field of a planet. The reason it is included in the metatags is because of the reference to auroras, like the Northern Lights in the Frigid sky which is a function of solar radiation screwing with the magnetosphere. The reason that the ships can't leave the surface has to do, apparantly, with machinery from the Forerunner installation itself.