Battle of Zhoist

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Previous:	Battle over Etalan
Concurrent:	Battle of Circinius IV
Battle of Zhoist
Conflict:	Human-Covenant War Operation: SILENT STORM
Date:	April 15, 2526
Location:	Zhoist, Buta system
Outcome:	UNSC victory Destruction of Covenant assets including the Ring of Mighty Abundance, Hammer of Faith supercarrier, two of the Ten Cities of Edification, and a Luminal Beacon. Decimation of the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience Defection of Ghost Flight to the Insurrectionists
Details Belligerents UNSC Navy Marine Corps Covenant Insurrectionist Commanders COL Marmon Crowther† LCDR Hector Nyeto (Defected) PO1 John-117 Fleetmaster Nizat 'Kvarosee First Blade Tel 'Szatulai Minor Minister of Artifact Survey† LCDR Hector Nyeto Strength Task Force Yama Dagger Force Sierra Force Ghost Flight (Defected) UNSC Ghost Song (Defected) Fleet of Inexorable Obedience Sacred Whisper† Almighty Persuasion† Ghost Flight UNSC Ghost Song Casualties Heavy Heavy Minor Minister of Artifact Survey Light

The Battle of Zhoist was the final engagement between the UNSC Navy's Task Force Yama and the Covenant in Operation: SILENT STORM that took place on April 15, 2526 at the Covenant relic world of Zhoist, both in orbit and on the ground.

Background

SILENT STORM

Main article: Operation: SILENT STORM

In March 2526, the UNSC enacted Operation: SILENT STORM with the goal of slowing the Covenant's advance through the Outer Colonies. For this operation, Task Force Yama was split from Battle Group X-Ray and managed to deduce that the Covenant's Fleet of Inexorable Obedience was planning to attack Biko. Task Force Yama travelled to Biko's moon of Seoba where they planned to lie in wait for the Covenant, ambushing them and boarding their ships to destroy them from within. However, due to an Insurrectionist presence on the moon, a flotilla of Covenant intrusion corvettes discovered that the UNSC were using it as a staging ground and attacked. After the fighting on Seoba had subsided, UNSC recovered a kelguid from the wreckage of one of the intrusion corvettes.

Counterattack at Etalan

Main article: Battle over Etalan

Shortly after the battle on Seoba, the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience arrived at Biko. As the human defense forces tried in vain to beat back the Covenant, a detachment from Task Force Yama was sent to the nearby colony of Etalan, which had been glassed a few days earlier. Here, the detachment, led by the Spartan-IIs of Blue, Gold, and Green Teams, decimated the logistics flotilla serving the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience.