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{{References}} | {{References}} | ||
{{Title|''Ascendant Justice''}} | {{Title|''Ascendant Justice''}} | ||
<center>''This article is about the Covenant Flagship. For the blog, see [[Ascendant Justice (blog)]].''</center> | |||
{{Individual ship infobox | {{Individual ship infobox | ||
|name= | |name = Ascendant Justice | ||
|image= | |image = [[file:Halo CEA terminal Ascendant Justice.jpg|300px]] | ||
|manufacturer= | |manufacturer = | ||
|class= | |class = [[CSO-class supercarrier|Supercarrier]]<ref name="Rerelease">'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''' (2010), Adjunct - ''[[Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit]]''</ref><ref name="AJ class" group="note">In ''Halo: First Strike'', (both the original and 2010 printings), ''Ascendant Justice'' is consistently stated to be three kilometers long. This indicates that ''Ascendant Justice'', despite being considered a supercarrier, is not part of the ''CSO'' class. However, the ship's identification as a supercarrier is probably a typographical error; given her length, she is likely a heavily modified [[DDS-class carrier]].</ref> | ||
|length= | |length = 3000 meters<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 36''</ref> | ||
|engine=[[Repulsor engine]]s | |engine = [[Repulsor engine]]s | ||
|slipspace drive= | |slipspace drive = Yes | ||
|poweroutput= | |poweroutput = | ||
|shield | |shield gen = Yes (Resistant to at least four plasma torpedoes) | ||
|hull= | |hull = Unknown Covenant material (Resistant to at least two plasma torpedoes) | ||
*Equipped with energy shields | *Equipped with energy shields | ||
|armament=*[[Pulse laser turret]]s | |armament = *[[Pulse laser turret]]s | ||
*[[Energy projector]]s | *[[Energy projector]]s | ||
*[[Plasma turret]]s | *[[Plasma turret]]s | ||
|complement=Several [[Seraph]] | |complement = Several [[Type-31 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter|Seraph-class starfighters]] | ||
|crew=*Hundreds of [[Huragok]] | |crew = *Hundreds of [[Huragok]] | ||
*About 100 [[Sangheili]] | *About 100 [[Sangheili]] | ||
*Legion of [[Unggoy]] | *Legion of [[Unggoy]] | ||
|firstsight=[[ | |firstsight = September 22nd, [[2552]] - after the [[Battle of Installation 04]] | ||
|destroyed=September | |destroyed = September 13th, [[2552]] (temporal anomaly) - [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]] | ||
|battles=*[[Battle of Installation 04]] | |battles = *[[Battle of Installation 04]] | ||
*[[Skirmish over Threshold]] | *[[Skirmish over Threshold]] | ||
*[[Raid of Reach]] | *[[Raid of Reach]] | ||
*[[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]] | *[[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]] | ||
|fleet=[[Fleet of Particular Justice]] | |role = [[Flagship]] | ||
|affiliation=[[Covenant | |era = [[ages of Reclamation|9th Age of Reclamation]] | ||
|fleet = [[Fleet of Particular Justice]]<ref name="Rerelease"/> | |||
|affiliation = [[Covenant Navy]], later [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] | |||
}} | }} | ||
'''''Ascendant Justice''''' was a [[Covenant]] | '''''Ascendant Justice''''' was a [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] [[CSO-class supercarrier|supercarrier]].<ref name="Rerelease"/><ref name="AJ class" group="note"/> It was the [[flagship]] of a scouting party sent to [[Installation 04]] after its discovery by the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]].<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 68''</ref> In [[2552]], it was captured by [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN]] [[John-117]] and the other human survivors of the [[Battle of Installation 04]]. | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
It had [[List of "seven" references in Halo|seven]] [[plasma turret]]s and was noted to have three thousand Covenant personnel, mostly composed of [[Huragok]], along with an unusually small crew of combat personnel: a light company of [[Unggoy]] and only a hundred [[Sangheili]]. There were apparently enough Huragok on board to merit them having an access tunnel of their own. John-117 noted that he "...hadn't seen anything like this on the ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]''," and that it was "''armed like a ship of war, yet had the support staff of a refit vessel.''"<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 63''</ref> It possessed a crude [[associated intelligence]] [[Unidentified Covenant AI|construct]] and software for replicating [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] matrices. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
[[File:HaloAJ.png|thumb|left|300px|The ''Ascendant Justice'' holding position in the distance as Halo burns.]] | |||
Shortly after the Fleet of Particular Justice arrived at Installation 04, the ''Ascendant Justice'' and a small group of ships were sent into the system from ''[[High Charity]]'', arriving before or early on in the [[Battle of Installation 04]].<ref group="note">In ''Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit'' featured in the Adjunct section of the 2010 reissue of ''Halo: The Flood'', it is stated that the ''Ascendant Justice'' was already present at Installation 04 during the Battle of Installation 04. Meanwhile, page 68 of ''Halo: First Strike'' specifies the ship was part of a scouting picket from ''High Charity'', separate from the Fleet of Particular Justice. From this, it can be inferred that the ship must have arrived before or very early into the battle.</ref> | |||
During the Battle of Installation 04, the [[Prophet of Stewardship]] alternated his base of operations between the ''Ascendant Justice'' in orbit and the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' on the ring. When [[Supreme Commander]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee sent a single infantry unit to relieve the Prophet for his constant force misappropriation, Stewardship ordered the ''Ascendant Justice'' to destroy them on approach, warning that any other affronts to his leadership would result in equally lethal fates. 'Vadamee then assembled a strike force to retake the ''Ascendant Justice'' and physically relieve the Prophet of leadership until the humans were eliminated, but Stewardship left for the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' before they arrived, leaving orders for the crew to arrest Thel 'Vadamee if he continued to interfere with the Consecration. When Thel's force arrived on the ''Ascendant Justice'', no shots were fired and the crew acknowledged his authority.<ref name="Rerelease" /><ref group="note">Though ''Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit'' provides a backstory for ''Ascendant Justice''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s part in the Battle of Installation 04, it does not explain why the ship's warrior complement was so small. It can be inferred that the Prophet of Stewardship killed most of the crew to quell any real or imagined affronts to his leadership. It is also possible that most of the crew was transferred off the vessel due to the Prophet's insubordination.</ref> | |||
When Installation 04's destruction was imminent, the Fleet of Particular Justice moved into cover behind [[Threshold]]. The ''Ascendant Justice's'' scoutgroup remained to search the wreckage for transmissions from survivors. It was soon [[Skirmish over Threshold|boarded and captured]] by a small team of UNSC survivors, which included John-117; [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Junior Johnson|Avery Johnson]]; [[Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]]; [[Corporal]] [[Locklear]]; [[Warrant Officer]] [[Shiela Polaski]], and the AI [[Cortana]]. The survivors then used ''Ascendant Justice'' to return to [[Reach]] and evacuate a small number of [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN]] survivors, [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]] and [[Catherine Elizabeth Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]], as well as a [[Forerunner crystal|Forerunner artifact]] from the planet, attaching to the wreckage of the [[UNSC frigate]] {{UNSCship|Gettysburg}} for additional power. They then escaped through [[Slipstream space|Slipspace]] toward the [[Eridanus system]], becoming the first ship to ever go into Slipspace so close to a planet. En route to [[Eridanus Secundus]], ''Ascendant Justice'' was forced to engage multiple Covenant warships, including several [[Covenant cruiser|cruisers]] and {{Class|DDS|carrier}}s, in an alternate Slipspace dimension caused by the Forerunner artifact. Furthermore, some surviving Sangheili crew members had sabotaged the ''Ascendant Justice'''s main power conduit, forcing the Spartans to go on an [[Extra-vehicular activity|extravehicular mission]] on the outer hull. This mission resulted in the deaths of the entire surviving Sangheili crew, but also killed Warrant Officer Polaski, and Spartans [[Anton-044]] and [[Li-008]]. | |||
Only four members of ''Ascendant Justice'''s original Covenant crew survived its capture. A [[Special Operations Sangheili]] who engaged the Master Chief in hand-to-hand combat was shot and pushed into an [[Covenant escape pod|escape pod]] and a few Huragok that were taken to Earth on the ''Gettysburg'' were turned over to the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref>'''Halo: First Strike'''</ref> | The ship received assistance from remaining [[Insurrectionist|rebels]] in the small asteroid colony of Eridanus Secundus, who provided personnel and repairs for the ship's weaponry, before being discovered by the Covenant. Though the ''Ascendant Justice'' engaged the initial Covenant forces in ship-to-ship combat, reinforcements arrived en masse, forcing it to abandon the colony to the Covenant. | ||
[[File:Fight_on_Ascendant_Justice.png|thumb|250px|John-117, Corporal Locklear, and one of the other survivors fighting aboard ''Ascendant Justice'']] | |||
After fleeing from Eridanus Secundus, the crew of the ''Ascendant Justice'' discovered the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'', a Covenant refit-and-repair station, which was being used to service a Covenant [[Truth's fleet|invasion force]] that was poised to invade [[Earth]]. Vice Admiral Whitcomb then initiated [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]], in which the UNSC-commandeered ''Ascendant Justice'' the remaining Spartans near the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' in a heavily modified [[Type-28 Troop Carrier|Spirit dropship]], and started a self-destruct sequence in one of the station's reactor rooms. The Spartans managed to escape from the station and travel to the far side of a nearby moon where the ''Gettysburg'' was waiting for them. | |||
Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson had detached the ''Ascendant Justice'' from the ''Gettysburg'' and taken it in a slingshot orbit around the moon. Vice Admiral Whitcomb pretended to have the Forerunner crystal by using a hologram and challenged the Covenant to come and claim it. The Covenant did not want to fire on the ''Ascendant Justice'' because the crystal was supposedly on it. The two used the momentum from their slingshot orbit to crash into the station even after the Covenant had cut the ship's engines off with laser fire. Whitcomb then ordered John-117 to see what was left of the Covenant and then "''...hightail the intel back to Earth.''" The last few seconds of visual and audio record from the Ascendant Justice showed the door crashing to the ground and the Admiral opening fire with an [[M7/Caseless Submachine Gun|SMG]]. The reactors on the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' then overloaded and exploded, destroying the ''Ascendant Justice'' and over four hundred enemy vessels. Only a few Covenant ships survived the catastrophe, which delayed the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s plan to invade Earth. Both Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson were killed. The ''Ascendant Justice'''s Slipspace drive allowed the ''Gettysburg'' to reach Earth and warn the UNSC leadership of the Covenant's plans to invade Earth. | |||
Only four members of the ''Ascendant Justice'''s original Covenant crew survived its capture. A [[Special Operations Sangheili]] who engaged the Master Chief in hand-to-hand combat was shot and pushed into an [[Covenant escape pod|escape pod]], and a few Huragok that were taken to Earth on the ''Gettysburg'' were turned over to the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref>'''Halo: First Strike'''</ref> | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*While aboard, Cortana successfully completed the first recorded in-atmosphere slipspace jump, a feat previously believed to be impossible due to the complexity of factoring in a planet's gravitational field. This information was later leaked to the Covenant fleet around Reach by the ship's AI. In-atmosphere slipspace jumps were subsequently performed by Covenant forces during the [[Battle of Earth]]. | |||
*During the [[Ur-Didact|Didact's]] [[Battle of Earth (2557)|attack on Earth]] in [[2557]], Cortana used the AI replication matrix from ''Ascendant Justice'' to split off the rampant elements of her personality construct array; this enabled her to operate in a quasi-normal state for a brief period. Much as she had done on ''Unyielding Hierophant'' years prior, she used these clones to infiltrate the [[Mantle's Approach|Didact's ship]], allowing the Master Chief to destroy it.<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Midnight]]''</ref> | |||
*While aboard, Cortana successfully completed the first recorded in-atmosphere slipspace jump, a feat previously believed to be impossible due to the complexity of factoring in a planet's gravitational field. This information was later leaked to the Covenant fleet around Reach by the ship's AI. In-atmosphere slipspace jumps were subsequently performed by Covenant forces during the [[Battle | |||
*During the [[Ur-Didact|Didact's]] [[ | |||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}} | |||
*''[[Halo: The Flood]]'' (2010) | *''[[Halo: The Flood]]'' (2010) | ||
*''[[Halo: | *''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: | **''[[Terminal/Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary|Terminals]]'' | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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[[Category:Covenant Ships]] | |||
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