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==The battle== | ==The battle== | ||
{{Quote|no=two|q1=I seem to remember us destroying your ships yesterday. Did you think we were going to let you just waltz right in?|Admiral Preston Cole|q2=Yesterday? Three ships, human? You boast about [unintelligible] three of our vessels when you had five times that many, and lost almost all?|Subject 386|Admiral Preston Cole and Subject 386{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}}}} | {{Quote|no=two|q1=I seem to remember us destroying your ships yesterday. Did you think we were going to let you just waltz right in?|Admiral Preston Cole|q2=Yesterday? Three ships, human? You boast about [unintelligible] three of our vessels when you had five times that many, and lost almost all?|Subject 386|Admiral Preston Cole and Subject 386{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}}}} | ||
On [[2530|December 24, 2530]], a total of three [[Covenant]] [[warship]]s,{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}} including a {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}},{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}} engaged forces of the [[United Nations Space Command]] led by [[Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] in the [[Groombridge 1830 system]]. Cole's fleet, consisting of seventeen ships, battled the invading Covenant warships, destroying the enemy force but losing eleven [[destroyer]]s in the process. Two of the Covenant ships were destroyed directly in combat,{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}} while the assault carrier attempted to flee to the surface of the nearby [[Groombridge-1830]], a [[human]] [[Human colonies|colony]]. However, the assault carrier was disabled by pursuing UNSC forces, and the ship crash | On [[2530|December 24, 2530]], a total of three [[Covenant]] [[warship]]s,{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}} including a {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}},{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}} engaged forces of the [[United Nations Space Command]] led by [[Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] in the [[Groombridge 1830 system]]. Cole's fleet, consisting of seventeen ships, battled the invading Covenant warships, destroying the enemy force but losing eleven [[destroyer]]s in the process. Two of the Covenant ships were destroyed directly in combat,{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}} while the assault carrier attempted to flee to the surface of the nearby [[Groombridge-1830]], a [[human]] [[Human colonies|colony]]. However, the assault carrier was disabled by pursuing UNSC forces, and the ship crash landed on the planet's surface.{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}} | ||
During the battle, the Covenant deployed two waves of forces to assault Groombridge. However, both forces were defeated and repelled from the system by Cole's fleet, earning the UNSC a rare decisive victory at a high cost.{{Ref/Reuse|journal}} Personnel of the [[UNSC Marine Corps]] also participated in the engagement, including [[Edward Buck]], who demonstrated exemplary service during the battle.{{Ref/Reuse|lootcrate2}} | During the battle, the Covenant deployed two waves of forces to assault Groombridge. However, both forces were defeated and repelled from the system by Cole's fleet, earning the UNSC a rare decisive victory at a high cost.{{Ref/Reuse|journal}} Personnel of the [[UNSC Marine Corps]] also participated in the engagement, including [[Edward Buck]], who demonstrated exemplary service during the battle.{{Ref/Reuse|lootcrate2}} | ||
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Following the assault carrier's crash landing on Groombridge, two heavily armed tactical strike teams recovered a [[Sangheili]] [[Subject 386|survivor]] within an enclosed compartment which survived landfall at [[Waterford]], [[Lemuria (province)|Lemuria]] that day at approximately 1805 hours [[Military Standard Time|MST]]. The following day, the Sangheili was interrogated by Cole and [[First Lieutenant]] [[Richard Barclay]].{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}} Through this interrogation, the UNSC learned that the Covenant were wiping out humanity because they had been deemed "unclean." More importantly, Cole discovered that the Covenant were largely unaware of the size and whereabouts of human space, leading to the formulation of the [[Cole Protocol]].{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}<ref name="Evolutions">'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]", ''page 470''</ref> | Following the assault carrier's crash landing on Groombridge, two heavily armed tactical strike teams recovered a [[Sangheili]] [[Subject 386|survivor]] within an enclosed compartment which survived landfall at [[Waterford]], [[Lemuria (province)|Lemuria]] that day at approximately 1805 hours [[Military Standard Time|MST]]. The following day, the Sangheili was interrogated by Cole and [[First Lieutenant]] [[Richard Barclay]].{{Ref/Reuse|adjunct}} Through this interrogation, the UNSC learned that the Covenant were wiping out humanity because they had been deemed "unclean." More importantly, Cole discovered that the Covenant were largely unaware of the size and whereabouts of human space, leading to the formulation of the [[Cole Protocol]].{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}<ref name="Evolutions">'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]", ''page 470''</ref> | ||
The Battle of the Great Bear was not only one of the few battles in which the UNSC won a decisive victory against the Covenant, but one of the | The Battle of the Great Bear was not only one of the few battles in which the UNSC won a decisive victory against the Covenant, but one of the only engagements of the [[Human-Covenant War]] in which the UNSC successfully repelled two Covenant onslaughts on the same world. The UNSC would not earn such a victory again until the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]] in [[2552#July|July of 2552]].{{Ref/Reuse|journal}} | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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[[Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Great Bear]] | [[Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Great Bear]] | ||
[[Category:UNSC | [[Category:UNSC Victories|Great Bear]] |