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File:BL Black vs Red.png|Red Team competing with [[Team Black|Black Team]] during a training exercise.
File:HW-Concept-RedTeam.jpg|Concept art of Red Team for ''[[Halo Wars]]''.
File:Red Team.jpg|Red Team in the earlier years of the Human-Covenant War.
File:Red Team.jpg|Red Team in the earlier years of the Human-Covenant War.
File:HW-Concept-RedTeam.jpg|Concept art of Red Team for ''Halo Wars''.
File:Hw-prima-blog-01-01-crop.jpg|Sergeant [[John Forge]] with Red Team.
File:Hw-prima-blog-01-01-crop.jpg|Sergeant [[John Forge]] with Red Team.
File:Hw-prima-blog-05-01-crop.jpg|Red Team in combat.
File:Hw-prima-blog-05-01-crop.jpg|Red Team in combat.
File:Halo Wars 2 Still searching shadows.jpg|Red Team aboard the [[Spirit of Fire]].
File:BL Black vs Red.png|Red Team competing with [[Black Team]] during a training exercise in ''[[Halo: Blood Line]]''.
File:HW2-Shadows.png|Red Team aboard the ''Spirit of Fire'' in ''[[Halo Wars 2]]''.
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Revision as of 00:59, August 5, 2015

This article is about the Spartan-II unit. For the Spartan-III unit, see Red Team (SPARTAN-III).
Red Team
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Affiliation:

United Nations Space Command

Branch:

UNSC Navy

Type:

SPARTAN-II

Size:

Varied by mission

Engagements:

Battle of Arcadia
Battle of Shield 0459
Battle of Sigma Octanus IV
Fall of Reach

Commanders:

Jerome-092
Fred-104

 

Red Team is a name given to a number of mission-specific formations of Spartan-II commandos subordinate to the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command. The size of Red Team was fluid, ranging from as few as six members to almost two dozen depending on the needs of a given mission. They actively participated in several battles, including the Battle of Arcadia, the Battle of Jericho VII, the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV, and the Fall of Reach.

History

Early Human-Covenant War

Red Team in February 2531

In February 2531, Red Team was under the leadership of Jerome-092. It was a nine-person unit, with the core of the team comprised of Jerome, Douglas-042, and Alice-130, and the other six members organized into Team Omega;[1] these Spartans' MJOLNIR Mark IV armor was equipped with a prototypical energy shield system which would not become standard until the release of the Mark V twenty years later.[2] Red Team participated in the Battle of Arcadia, where they assisted forces from the UNSC Spirit of Fire to evacuate Arcadian civilians and to destroy a Covenant excavation operation at a complex of Forerunner ruins. After Covenant forces had been driven from Arcadia, Jerome, Douglas, and Alice remained with the ship's forces. After the Spirit of Fire's crew destroyed a Forerunner shield world in order to eliminate a fleet of Forerunner ships which the Covenant planned to reverse-engineer and use to swiftly eradicate humanity, the three Spartans were presumed missing in action with the rest of the ship's crew.

During the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV in July 2552, Red Team was led by Joshua-029. They were tasked with scouting the city of Côte d'Azur's wharves while Blue Team planted a HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon in the sewers beneath the city. In the meantime, they rescued numerous civilians, the only ones the Covenant had not massacred.

Fall of Reach

Main article: Fall of Reach

By August 30 Red Team had been assigned to the Template:UNSCship to participate in Operation: RED FLAG. However, before the Autumn could exit the system and initiate the mission, all UNSC ships were recalled to defend Reach. Red Team, consisting of twenty-two members under the command of Fred-104,[3][4][5][6][7][8] was deployed to the surface of Reach to defend the generators that powered the planet's twenty orbital defense platforms.

Though they inflicted heavy damage on the Covenant, including destroying a Covenant cruiser and a military base set up to secure the ground, many members of Red Team were killed during their insertion and in the engagements that followed.

Known members

A member of the Omega splinter-team firing an MA5B assault rifle

Although Red Team generally operated at a size of around six members, more Spartans could be selected for missions that called for a larger force.

Fall of Reach splinter arrangement

After their D77-TC Pelican, Bravo 001, was shot down during the Fall of Reach and four team members were killed, the surviving members of Red Team were split into four groups: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.[note 1]

Template:Col-1-of-4AlphaTemplate:Col-2-of-4BetaTemplate:Col-3-of-4GammaTemplate:Col-4-of-4Delta

Halo Wars gameplay

Red Team plays a significant role in Halo Wars' campaign. In gameplay the Spartans have prototypical energy shields[2] in addition to health. All three Spartans (as well as the six-member Team Omega in the level Arcadia Outskirts) count as hero units; if their health is depleted, instead of dying, they are "downed", at which point their health bar begins to regenerate. Once the health bar is at least half full the downed Spartan can be revived by touching them with any other unit under the player's or co-op ally's control. The Spartans are capable of hijacking enemy vehicles and commandeering friendly vehicles, similar to the FPS games, but at a much slower rate. Any vehicle driven by a Spartan receives a stat boost and the ability to earn more veterancy points. Spartans cannot be harmed by Flood infection forms while their shields are intact, and as hero units they are immune to being infected.

Gallery

List of appearances

Note

  1. ^ Several sources, (see above), explicitly state that Red Team consisted of twenty-two members during the mission to secure the orbital defense generators. Four members, including Malcolm-059, were killed on impact after jumping from Bravo 001, which would leave eighteen survivors. According to Halo: First Strike, Alpha and Gamma teams each consisted of three members, Delta had six, and Beta had eleven, (the latter count being reiterated in Halo: Reach), paradoxically resulting in twenty-three survivors. However, the 2011 definitive edition of the novel states that Team Beta had six members, leaving eighteen survivors, which is consistent with twenty-two total Spartans, four of whom died upon impact.

Sources

  1. ^ Halo Wars, campaign levels Arcadia City and Arcadia Outskirts
  2. ^ a b Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 119: "Energy shielding was a key feature of Mark V, although other Spartan squads had field-tested prototypes of this technology as early as 2531."
  3. ^ Data Drops
  4. ^ Halo Wars timeline
  5. ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach Definitive Edition
  6. ^ Halo: First Strike (2010 edition)
  7. ^ Halo Waypoint: Defiant to the End
  8. ^ Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Library - Pelican