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| {{Infobox Military Unit
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| |unit_name=UNSC Home Fleet
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| |image=[[Image:UNSC Fleet.jpg|300px]]
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| |dates=[[2163]]
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| |allegiance=[[United Nations Space Command]]
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| |branch=[[UNSC Navy]]
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| |type=[[Fleet]]
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| |role= Defense of the [[Sol System]]
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| |size=*Over 100 Ships
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| *300 MAC Platforms
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| |march=
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| |anniversaries=
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| |equipment=
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| |battles=*[[First Battle of Earth]]
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| *[[Battle of Installation 05]]
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| *[[Second Battle of Earth]]
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| **[[Battle of Voi]]
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| *[[Battle of Onyx]]
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| *[[Battle of Installation 00]]
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| |commanders=*[[Fleet Admiral]] [[Sir Terrence Hood]]
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| *[[Fleet Admiral]] [[Harper]]
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| The '''UNSC Home Fleet''' is a fleet in the [[UNSC Navy]]. Their assignment is to protect [[Earth]] and the [[Sol System]] from an invasion or attack <ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', level ''[[Crow's Nest (Level)|Crow's Nest]]''</ref>. Its commanding officer is [[Fleet Admiral]] [[Sir Terrence Hood]] <ref>''[[Halo 2]]'', level ''[[Cairo Station (Level)|Cairo Station]]''</ref>.
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| ==History==
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| The UNSC Home Fleet's known history is short but distinguished. It is likely that the UNSC Home Fleet existed ever since the formation of the [[UNSC]] in the [[2160|2160's]], most likely for the defense of [[Earth]] during the [[Interplanetary War]], and also against the [[Insurrectionist]]s.
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| ===First Battle of Earth===
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| The Home Fleet's first known engagements were during the last stages of the [[Human-Covenant War]] in [[First Battle of Earth]], where it successfully defeated the [[Covenant Navy (Service) |Covenant Navy]] in Earth's orbit. The engagement however was against a very small fleet of two assault carriers and thirteen cruisers. This engagement was commanded by both Fleet Admirals [[Hood]] and [[Harper]].
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| On ''Cairo Station'', Fleet Admiral Hood was awarding [[John-117]], [[Avery Johnson]] for their actions at the first Halo. When [[Cortana]] received a slipspace rupture report near Io, she relayed the information to FADM Hood. When the Covenant Force arrived, the Home Fleet was ready and waiting. Opening up with Marathon-class Cruisers and MAC Shells, they decimated the Covenant Fleet, but suffered heavy losses themselves. Also during the engagement, the Covenant released boarding pods to occupy and destroy the MAC Platforms using antimatter bombs. Stations ''Athens'' and ''Malta'' were both destroyed, but ''Cairo'' was spared destruction by [[Spartan-117]], who later took the bomb and destroyed one of the two [[Assault Carriers]].
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| At New Mombasa, the UNSC followed the surviving Assault Carrier to the city. The only known ship in this engagement was the {{UNSCShip|In Amber Clad}}, commanded by [[Miranda Keyes]]. The IAC's ground forces engaged the Covenant until, in retreat, the Assault Carrier fled the battle. The UNSC ''In Amber Clad'', {{UNSCShip|Paris}}, {{UNSCShip|Redoubtable}}, {{UNSCShip|Coral Sea}} and the {{UNSCShip|Dusk}} made it into the slipspace rift before it closed.
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| ===Battle of Installation 05===
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| Only ''In Amber Clad'' successfully kept pace with the carrier. ''Dusk'' arrived days later. ''Coral Sea'', ''Paris'', and ''Redoubtable'' never arrived at all, most likely due to the imprecise physics of [[Slipspace]] and the [[UNSC]]'s rather limited technology for slipspace navigation.
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| The ''In Amber Clad'' dropped ODSTs on Installation 05, along with Spartan-117 to assassinate the Prophet of Regret. The rest of the ''In Amber Clad's'' crew went to find the Index. [[Avery Johnson]] and Miranda Keyes got through the Quarantine Zone before encountering the Arbiter and being captured by Covenant. They were taken to High Charity and were taken to the Control Room to fire Installation 05. ''In Amber Clad'', however, was taken over by the Flood and crashed into High Charity. [[Cortana]], the IAC's AI, vowed to destroy it, but never did. <ref>''[[Halo 2]]'', level ''[[High Charity (Level)|High Charity]]''</ref>
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| ===Second Battle of Earth===
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| During the [[Second Battle of Earth]], starting in [[2552|November of 2552]], the Home Fleet was still fighting the Covenant Loyalists above Earth. However, they seemed to be holding their own judging by the order of Admiral Hood regarding Truth's ship (before the Master Chief contacted him) - "It's not one of ours, take it out.".Later in the battle Truth's fleet arrived and, according to Commander Keyes, "...smashed what was left of the home fleet...". At about this time, the Home Fleet had less than 300 ships and was almost to the point of destruction. <ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', level ''[[Crow's Nest (Level)|Crow's Nest]]''</ref> The UNSC was using its' last reserves of ships to launch hit and run attacks on the Covenant.
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| During the [[Battle of Voi]], three ships of the Home Fleet, the {{UNSCShip|Forward Unto Dawn}}, {{UNSCShip|Aegis Fate}}, and the {{UNSCShip|Adriatic}} led a strike force of [[Longswords|C709 Longsword Interceptors]] over the [[Portal|"Ark"]] in [[Voi]], [[Kenya]]. Although they damaged the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]], it escaped though the slipspace portal.
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| The [[Covenant Separatists]], led by the [[Arbiter (Character)|Arbiter]] and [[Rtas 'Vadum|Shipmaster Rtas 'Vadum]], later helped the Fleet to push the Loyalists off of Earth.<ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', level ''[[The Storm (Level)|The Storm]]''</ref><ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', level ''[[Floodgate (Level)|Floodgate]]''</ref>
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| It is unknown what actions the Home Fleet took after the ''Forward Unto Dawn'' took off into the slipspace portal, but it is known that they were able to hold off the Covenant long enough to win the War.
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| ===Battle of Onyx===
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| The UNSC Home Fleet dispatched [[Battlegroup Stalingrad|Battlegroup ''Stalingrad'']], commanded by [[Admiral]] [[Carl Patterson]] to Onyx to recover forerunner artifacts reported by [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Halsey]]. When the battle group arrived, they engaged two [[Covenant Destroyer]]s. {{UNSCShip|Glasgow Kiss}} was the first to be destroyed when it purposely turned into plasma fire from the destroyers intended for the {{UNSCShip|Stalingrad}}. They believed they had won the engagement, destroying one ship and heavily damaging the other.
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| [[Image:UNSC Home Fleet.JPG|300px|right|thumb|A ''Marathon''-class cruiser of the Home Fleet]]
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| Then, twenty Covenant Ships appeared from slipspace, and began to destroy the Battle Group <ref>''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', page 286-300</ref>. In the volley of plasma, five UNSC ships made it through, and launched a suicide assault on the Covenant ships. The {{UNSCShip|Iwo Jima}} got in between eight Covenant Warships, and detonated a nuke inside of its engine room, sacrificing itself to destroy two Destroyers. The UNSC ships disengaged, passing around Onyx, when [[Sentinels]] destroyed three Covenant Ships using plasma capture.
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| The {{UNSCShip|Dusk}} planted fourteen Hornet Mines around the moon of Onyx. Then, the surviving ships of Battle Group ''Stalingrad'' launched an attack. The attack however, was a trick to lure the Covenant force into the mine field. The mines detonated, but four Covenant Destroyers made it through the nuclear fireballs. The rest of the UNSC ships thought they would win the engagement, until thirty-two Covenant vessels, reinforcements from [[Joyous Exaltation]] arrived. They decimated the surviving ships of the battle group <ref>''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', page 325-333</ref>.
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| The only ship to make it out alive was the {{UNSCShip|Dusk}}, narrowly missing the shockwave when Onyx exploded <ref>''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', page 375-378</ref>.
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| ===Battle of Installation 00===
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| At least two ships of the Home Fleet, the {{UNSCShip|Aegis Fate}} and the {{UNSCShip|Forward Unto Dawn}}, fought during the last battle of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the [[Battle of Installation 00]]. There, the ''Dawn'' and the ''Fate'' helped UNSC Marine and Covenant Separatist forces against the [[Covenant Loyalist]] [[Covenant Army|Army]].<ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', level ''[[The Ark (Level)|The Ark]]''</ref><ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', level ''[[The Covenant (Level)|The Covenant]]''</ref> The UNSC and Covenant Forces fought valiantly, until they were ordered to evacuate due to the eminent firing of Installation 04 II. The {{UNSCShip|Forward Unto Dawn}} was badly damaged, and it is not known if the {{UNSCShip|Aegis Fate}} was able to escape.
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| ==Known Vessels==
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| ===Ships===
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| *{{UNSCShip|Adriatic}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Aegis Fate}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Brasidas}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Dusk}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Coral Sea}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Forward Unto Dawn}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Glasgow Kiss}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|In Amber Clad}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Iwo Jima}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Onan}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Paris}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Redoubtable}}
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| *{{UNSCShip|Stalingrad}}
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| ===[[Orbital Defense Platforms]]===
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| *[[Cairo Station|ODA-142 ''Cairo Station'']]
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| *[[Malta Station|ODA-143 ''Malta Station'']]
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| *[[Athens Station|ODA-144 ''Athens Station'']]
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| ===Speculated Vessels=== | | ===Speculated Vessels=== |
| *[[Nassau Station|ODA-??? ''Nassau Station'']] | | *[[Nassau Station|ODA-??? ''Nassau Station'']] |
