Editing Battle of the Rubble

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{{Quad battle infobox

|next    = [[Battle of Jericho VII]]

|image    = [[Image:CP armor.png|250px]]

|conflict = [[Human-Covenant War]]

|result  = UNSC/Insurrectionist Victory, leads to Battle of Metisette

|side1    = [[United Nations Space Command]], Rubble civilians that supported the UNSC

|side2    = [[Covenant]] (under command of the Prophet of Regret)

|side3    = Covenant (under command of the Prophet of Truth)

|side4    = [[Insurrectionist]] forces & Rubble civilians that did not support the UNSC

|commanders1    = *Lieutenant [[Jacob Keyes]]

*[[Grey Team]]  

*[[Ignatio Delgado]]

*[[Thel 'Vadamee]]

*[[Reth]]

|commanders4    = *[[Peter Bonifacio]]†

|forces1  = *[[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]]

*[[UNSC Midsummer Night]]

* 3 [[Spartan-II]]'s

*[[Mighty Sparrow]]

|forces2  = *[[Retribution's Thunder]]

*[[Infinite Spoils]](Captured)

*4 [[Sangheili]] Zealots.

|forces3  = *Hundreds of small Kig-Yar raiders

*[[A Psalm Every Day]]

*[[Kig-yar]]

*[[Jiralhanae]]

|forces4  = *Insurrectionists

|casual1  = *Very few ODSTs

*Commander [[Zheng]]

*Major [[Faison]]

|casual2  = all crew on Retribution's Thunder save Four zealots

*Reth

|casual4  = *AI Juliana

*Diego Esquival  

*unknown number of Rubble civilians and rubble defense force

==Background==

When the [[Prophet of Regret]] was unable to find the [[Earth|Human homeworld]], the [[Prophet of Truth]] had a group of [[Kig-yar]] merchants ally themselves with humans in order to find its location. The Kig-yar found a human population around a group of asteroids called "The Rubble", trailing the gas giant [[Hesiod]] in the [[23 Librae]] system. Originally, they pretended to be allies with the [[Insurrectionist]] and refugee citizens, and even made a trade agreement with the Insurrectionists that they would hand them Covenant weapons. However, their ultimate motive was to get the navigational data that led to Earth. The Insurrectionists, not caring about Earth or the UNSC, agreed. However, the weapons they were handed were modified and sent to other Insurrectionists across UNSC space. When Regret found some of the weapons on sale on [[High Charity]], not knowing that they were part of Truth's plan, he sent some of the Covenant's top soldiers to silence the "rebels". The [[UNSC]] sent the stealth-equipped [[UNSC light frigate|light frigate]] {{UNSCShip|Midsummer Night}} to investigate the Insurrectionist activity. Earlier, the [[SPARTAN-II]] [[Gray Team]] had been sent to the Rubble to eliminate all traces of navigational data that led to Earth.

The Kig-yar ship ''[[A Psalm Every Day]]'' attacked and disabled the Sangheili-held [[Covenant destroyer]] ''[[Retribution's Thunder]]'' as they arrived at the Rubble. Thel 'Vadamee and his crew were taken captive and stored within one of the habitats. The ''Midsummer Night'' arrived shortly after while stalking the [[Kestrel]] and was taken out with a [[mass driver]] round and missile fire from the Rubble Defense. [[Commander]] [[Dmitri Zheng]] was shot by [[Lieutenant]] [[Badia Campbell|Campbell]] but pushed himself to lock the arm codes for the [[Shiva-class Nuclear Missile]]s on board. As Zheng died, Keyes was forced to take command of the ship. Keyes surrendered the ship to save the crew, resulting in them being imprisoned on the Rubble as well. The Rubble's resident AI construct, [[Juliana]], now had the proper forces to defend the Rubble from the second Kig-yar assault, and she collaborated with Gray Team and Keyes to infiltrate a docked Kig-yar ship ''[[Infinite Spoils]]''. The ''[[Mighty Sparrow]]'', filled with ODSTs, latched onto the ''Infinite Spoils'', allowing them to plug Juliana into the Kig-yar battle network. This allowed them to gain data on the upcoming invasion by [[Reth]] from ''[[Metisette]]''. During the infiltration the [[Sangheili]] under Thel attack the ''Mighty Sparrow'' which was docked with the Kig-Yar raider, Thel encountered [[Jai]] and declared him a [[demon]] before the Spartan retreated back to the docking bay.

The battle led to the [[Battle of Metisette]] in which Keyes used the ''Midsummer Night'' to attack the Kig-yar settlement [[the Redoubt]]. He entered the atmosphere and air braked while ejecting [[HEV]]s to destroy the anti-space defense to use the abandoned rubble as weapons. The Shiva Nuclear mines were used to destroy the defense system leaving Metisette open to the Rubble bombardment leaving nothing left of the Kig-Yar City or Reth's forces. The human forces were picked up by [[pelicans]], and the [[Habitat Exodus]] was launched, jumping away to [[Falaknuma]] in the [[18 Scorpii System]]. Lieutenant Keyes was briefed by none other than [[Preston Jeremiah Cole|Admiral Cole]] himself. Afterward, Keyes was promoted to [[Lieutenant Commander]] for his protection of 1 million people.

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