Editing Halo: Retribution

{{Title|''Halo: Retribution''}}
{{Status|RealWorld}}
{{Novel infobox
|name=''Halo: Retribution''
|image=[[File:Halo Retribution.jpg|300px]]
|author=[[Troy Denning]]<ref name="Amazon">[https://www.amazon.com/HALO-Retribution-Troy-Denning-ebook/dp/B01M5IJKL7/ '''Amazon.com''': ''Halo: Retribution'']</ref>
|cover artist=[[:Category:Images by Benjamin Carré|Benjamin Carré]]{{Ref/Site|Id=KnowScope|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/know-scope|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=News - Know Scope|D=30|M=6|Y=2021}}
|illustrator=
|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]{{Ref/Reuse|Amazon}}
|publication=[[2017|August 29, 2017]]{{Ref/Reuse|Amazon}}
|media=Digital and print{{Ref/Reuse|Amazon}}
|length=368 pages{{Ref/Reuse|Amazon}}
|ISBN=[[Special:BookSources/9781501138362|9781501138362]]{{Ref/Reuse|Amazon}}
}}

'''''Halo: Retribution''''' is a [[Halo novels|novel]] by [[Troy Denning]].<ref>[http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/HALO-Retribution/Troy-Denning/9781501138362 '''Simon & Schuster''' - ''Halo: Retribution'']</ref> Having first appeared on Amazon's website,{{Ref/Reuse|Amazon}} ''Retribution'' was officially announced on June 23, 2017, and was released on [[2017|August 29, 2017]]. Set in late [[2553]], the novel follows up on Denning's ''[[Halo: Fractures]]'' short story ''[[A Necessary Truth]]'', although many of the central characters from the preceding novel ''[[Halo: Last Light]]'' also make a return.<ref name="Know-Scope">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/know-scope '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Community Update - Know-Scope'']</ref>

==Official summary==
{{Article quote|December [[2553]]. Less than a year after the end of the [[Human-Covenant War|Covenant War]], a string of violent incidents continues to threaten the tenuous peace in human-held space, culminating in the assassination of UNSC fleet admiral [[Graselyn Tuwa]] and the abduction of her family. It is a provocation so outrageous that the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] must retaliate swiftly and ferociously—but only after its operatives identify her killer and rescue the hostages.

This mission will be the first for homicide-detective-turned-ONI-operative [[Veta Lopis]] and her [[Ferret|young team]] of [[Spartan-III]]s, and something feels wrong from the start. The obvious suspect is an [[Castor|infamous]] [[Jiralhanae|Brute]] who leads the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]], an ex-[[Covenant]] [[Covenant remnants|splinter group]] in fierce opposition to the UNSC. But Lopis and her team soon realize that the truth is much more insidious than they could ever have imagined, and with [[Frederic-104]], [[Kelly-087]], and [[Linda-058]] of [[Blue Team]] for combat support, they must stop a plan hatched in the bowels of the secret research station [[Argent Moon]] — a plan so sinister it could destroy all those still reeling from thirty years of intergalactic [sic] conflict…<ref name="Know-Scope">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/know-scope '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Community Update - Know-Scope'']</ref>}}

==Plot synopsis==
In [[2553#December|December 2553]], [[Veta Lopis]] and her [[Ferret]] team—comprised of the [[SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-IIIs]] [[Ash-G099]], [[Olivia-G291]], and [[Mark-G313]]—are on a mission to find the abducted family of [[UNSC]] [[Fleet Admiral]] [[Graselyn Tuwa]], who was recently assassinated. While disguised, the team gain the trust of a group of [[Kig-Yar]] in league with the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]], their primary suspect. While aboard the Kig-Yar's ship, which is heading to the Keepers' hidden [[Salvation Base]], the Kig-Yar attempt to [[Ostanalus|gas]] them, but the Ferrets take over the ship for themselves, posing as "believers." Meanwhile, [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] [[Blue Team]] tracks the Ferrets from aboard the {{UNSCShip|Silent Joe}}, one of the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s {{Class|Sahara|heavy prowler}}s, as backup. Eventually, the Ferrets infiltrate Salvation Base—on a strange [[Forerunner]] [[planet|world]]—in search of the Tuwa family.

While at the base, Olivia-G291 discovers a [[Turaco]] ship with evidence of a connection to [[Dark Moon Enterprises]], which planted the bodies of the Tuwa family within the detention center of Salvation Base to frame the Keepers of the One Freedom. A battle occurs when the Ferrets cross paths with the Keepers' leader, [[Castor]], but Lopis and the Ferrets escape in the Turaco with Blue Team as Salvation Base is destroyed.

Castor, having also discovered the Tuwa's corpses, decides to search for the Dark Moon operatives as well. Although not working together with Lopis, they both follow the trail of evidence back to a laboratory on [[Gao]], where President [[Arlo Casille]] admits to having made dealings with Dark Moon. Casille allowed them to use his labs if they promised to deal with the Keepers, who wanted vengeance on Casille after [[Operation: JOVIAN WHISTLE|the recent conflict]] on the planet. Dark Moon had previously attempted to manufacture [[Asteroidea merozoite|a harmful bioweapon]] researched on [[Argent Moon]] using the Tuwa's remains, but they succeeded within the labs on Gao.

After interrogating Casille, Veta Lopis and her Ferrets were led to [[Pinnacle Station]] above [[Meridian]], where the [[AI]] [[Sloan|Governor Sloan]] had initially advised Casille to work with Dark Moon Enterprises. The Keepers, the Ferrets, and Dark Moon with their [[bioweapon]] all converge on Pinnacle Station and a battle erupts, eventually traveling to the surface of Meridian. Although the Spartans and Ferrets manage to neutralize the bioweapon and Dark Moon, Castor escapes.

After the narrative ends, it is revealed that the [[Ancilla|Forerunner Ancilla]], [[Intrepid Eye]], was behind the bioweapon plot and Dark Moon Enterprises. With her plot at least temporarily foiled, Intrepid Eye framed [[Bartalan Craddog]] with creating the bioweapon and remained secretly in control of the station and further secret projects. The Spartans and Ferrets never learn this truth, and the true mastermind of the plot is only revealed to the reader.

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==Appearances==
{{Featurelist|secondcolumn=title-5|title-1=Characters|
====Artificial intelligence====
*[[Argie]] {{1st}}
*[[Damon]] {{1st}}
*[[Intrepid Eye]]
*[[Oriel]] {{1st}}
*[[Rooker]]
*[[Sloan]]
*[[Wendell]] {{Im}}

====Flood====
*[[Gravemind]] {{Mo}}

====Human====
*[[Agnes Sabara]] {{1st}}
*[[Andera Rolan]] {{Mo}}
*[[Anki Hersh]] {{1st}}
*[[Arlo Casille]]
*[[Ash-G099]]
*[[Ashveld]]
*[[Bartalan Craddog]] {{1st}}
*[[Bhu Zdenyk]] {{1st}}
*[[Catalin Tuwa]] {{1st}}
*[[Cirilo]] {{Mo}}
*[[Clovis Petriv]] {{1st}}
*[[Duena Sandos]] {{1st}}
*[[Franklin Mendez]] {{Mo}}
*[[Frederic-104]]
*[[Friedel]] {{Fm}}
*[[Georgi Baklanov]] {{1st}}
*[[Graselyn Tuwa]]
*[[Hector Nyeto]] {{Mo}}
*[[Hovane]] {{1st}}
*[[Jarves]] {{1st}}
*[[Jess Wallace]] {{1st}}
*[[Jessum]] {{Fm}}
*[[Johanson Sloan]] {{Fm}}
*[[Kelly-087]]
*[[Kerbasi Tuwa]] {{1st}}
*[[Kopek]] {{Fm}}
*[[Kris Gaston]] {{1st}}
*[[Krosbi]] {{1st}}
*[[Laru]] {{Fm}}
*[[Linda-058]]
*[[Malcolm-059]] {{Im}}
*[[Mark-G313]]
*[[Marco]] {{1st}}
*[[Margaret Parangosky]] {{Mo}}
*[[Miguel]] {{1st}}
*[[Neola]] {{Fm}}
*[[Nita]] {{1st}}
*[[Olivia-G291]]
*[[Panya]] {{1st}}
*[[Piers Ewen]] {{1st}}
*[[Prudence Tuwa]] {{Fm}}
*[[Porter Sahir]] {{1st}}
*[[Ramond]] {{1st}}
*[[Rodas]] {{1st}}
*[[Ross Nyeto]] {{1st}}
*[[Senola Lurone]] {{Mo}}
*[[Serin Osman]]
*[[Seruphi]] {{1st}}
*[[Tabor]] {{1st}}
*[[Taj McAvoy]] {{1st}}
*[[Thurlo]] {{1st}}
*[[Vankus]] {{Fm}}
*[[Veta Lopis]]
*[[Yera Sabinus]] {{Fm}}
*[[Yuso Tuwa]] {{1st}}

====Huragok====
*[[Roams Alone]] {{Mo}}

====Jiralhanae====
*[[Atriox]] {{Mo}}
*[[Castor]]
*[[Creon]] {{1st}}
*[[Orsun]]
*[[Picus]] {{1st}}

====Kig Yar====
*[[Sarch Rach]] {{1st}}
*[[Gyasi]] {{1st}}

|title-2=Species|
*[[Asteroidea merozoite]]
*[[Forerunner]] {{Mo}}
*[[Grattle-bah shrew]] {{Fm}}
*[[Human]]
*[[Huragok]] {{Mo}}
*[[Jiralhanae]]
*[[Kig-Yar]]
**[[Ruuhtian]]
*[[Sangheili]]
*[[Unggoy]] {{Mo}}

|title-3=Organizations|
*[[Bandeus Arms]] {{Fm}}
*[[Chalybs Defense Solutions]] {{Mo}}
*[[Covenant]] {{Mo}}
**[[Bloodstars]] {{Fm}}
**[[Silent Shadow]] {{Mo}}
*[[Covenant remnants]]
**[[Banished]] {{Mo}}
**[[Keepers of the One Freedom]]
***[[Fleet of Glory]] {{1st}}
*[[Dark Moon Enterprises]]
*[[Ecumene]] {{Mo}}
**[[Builder]]s {{Mo}}
**[[Juridical]]s {{Mo}}
*[[Eld Ventures]]
*[[Gao Republic]]
**[[Gao Ministry of Aeronautics]] {{Fm}}
**[[Gao Ministry of the Environment]]
**[[Gao Ministry of Protection]] {{Mo}}
**[[Gao Ministry of War]] {{Mo}}
***[[Gao battle-jumpers]] {{Mo}}
*[[Jenny Lynn Workings]] {{1st}}
*[[JOTUN Heavy Industries]] {{Mo}}
*[[Liang-Dortmund Corporation]]
*[[Nephis Coalition]] {{Fm}}
*[[New Leaf]] {{1st}}
*[[New Tyne Armory]] {{Fm}}
*[[Pinnacle Station Security Force]]
*[[Sevine Arms]] {{Mo}}
*[[Traxus Heavy Industries]] {{Mo}}
*[[Unified Earth Government]]
**[[Colonial Administration Authority]] {{Mo}}
**[[UEG Mine Safety and Health Administration]] {{Fm}}
**[[United Nations Space Command]]
***[[Incident Response and Investigation]] {{1st}}
***[[UNSC Armed Forces]]
****[[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]] {{Mo}}
****[[UNSC Navy]]
*****[[Covert Services]] {{1st}}
*****[[UNSC Fleet Command]]
*****[[Naval Special Warfare Command]]
******[[SPARTAN-II program]]
*******[[Blue Team]]
*****[[Office of Naval Intelligence]]
******[[717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion]] {{Mo}}
******[[Reverse Engineering and Prototyping–Xenotechnology department]] {{Mo}}
******[[Section Two]] {{Mo}}
******[[Section Three]]
*******[[Beta-5 Division]]
******[[SPARTAN-III program]]
*******[[SPARTAN-III Gamma Company|Gamma Company]]
******[[Ferret]]s
***[[UNSC Testing and Evaluation Command]] {{Fm}}

|title-4=Locations|
*[[Crow's Eye Nebula]] {{1st}}
*[[Detention Center 3063-OM-Y]] {{Fm}}
*[[Doisac]] {{Mo}}
*[[Earth]] {{Mo}}
*[[Ganymede]] {{Mo}}
*[[Geryon sector]] {{1st}}
*[[Hestia system]]
**[[Hestia V]]
***[[Meridian]]
****[[Jenny Lynn Tantalite Mine]] {{1st}}
****[[Meridian Station]]
****[[Pinnacle Station]]
*[[Isbanola sector]]
**[[Cordoba system]]
***[[Gao]]
****[[Avelos Academy]] {{Fm}}
****[[Montero Cave System]] {{Mo}}
****[[Montero Vitality Center]] {{Mo}}
****[[People's Palace]] {{Mo}}
****[[Wendosa]] {{Mo}}
****[[Yosavi Diversity Reserve]] {{1st}}
*****[[Yosavi Jungle]] {{1st}}
******[[Candado de Xalapea]] {{1st}}
*******[[New Leaf Extractions Field Complex]] {{1st}}
**[[Qab system]]
***[[Venezia]]
****[[New Tyne]]
*****[[New Tyne Airfield]]
*****[[Trattoria Georgi]] {{1st}}
*****[[Via Notoli]] {{Fm}}
****[[Uashon Station]] {{Fm}}
**[[Shaps system]]
***[[Pydoryn]] {{1st}}
****[[Taram]] {{1st}}
*****[[Lake of Transcendence]] {{1st}}
*****[[Salvation Base]] {{1st}}
*****[[Suluhu Contemplarium]] {{1st}}
***[[Shaps III]] {{Mo}}
*[[Luna]] {{Mo}}
**[[Academy at Mare Nubium]] {{Mo}}
*[[Mill]] {{Mo}}
*[[Neos Atlantis]] {{Mo}}
*[[Nereus system]] {{Fm}}
**[[Nereus X]] {{Fm}}
*[[Reach]] {{Mo}}
*[[Rhea Station]] {{Fm}}
*[[Saturn]] {{Mo}}
*[[Shamsa]] {{Fm}}
*[[Tisiphone system]] {{1st}}
**[[Barugi]] {{Fm}}
***[[Barugi Preparatory Academy]] {{Fm}}
**[[Hephestes]] {{Fm}}
***[[Nephis]] {{Fm}}
*[[Urs system]] {{Mo}}

|title-5=Events|
*[[Barugi incident]] {{Fm}}
*[[Great Schism]] {{Mo}}
*[[Human-Covenant War]] {{Mo}}
**[[Battle of Meridian]] {{Mo}}
**[[Fall of Reach]] {{Im}}
*[[Insurrection]] {{Mo}}
*[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]
**[[Operation: JOVIAN WHISTLE]] {{Mo}}
**[[Operation: RETRIBUTION]] {{1st}}
*[[Threshold Ceremony]] {{Fm}}

|title-6=Vehicles|
*[[Ajax]] {{1st}}
*[[Argent Moon]]
*[[Bronto]] {{1st}}
*[[D77 Pelican]] {{Mo}}
**[[Bravo 001]] {{Im}}
*[[Frigate]]
**{{UNSCShip|Swift Justice}} {{1st}}
*[[GA-TL1 Longsword]]
*{{Class|Hyades|yacht}} {{1st}}
**{{UNSCShip|Donoma}} {{1st}}
*[[JOTUN Arilus]]
*{{Class|Laden|freighter}}
**''[[True Light]]'' {{1st}}
*[[M121 Jackrabbit]]
*[[M274 Mongoose]]
*[[Mudoat starsloop]] {{1st}}
**''[[Stolen Faith]]'' {{1st}}
*[[Murat gun truck]] {{1st}}
*[[D102 Owl]]
**{{UNSCShip|Silent Claw}}
*{{Class|Razor|prowler}} {{Fm}}
**''[[Ghost Flag]]'' {{Fm}}
*[[Rescue crawler]] {{1st}}
*[[Roamer]] {{1st}}
*[[S77 Crow]] {{Fm}}
*[[Scouter truck]] {{1st}}
*{{Class|Sahara|heavy prowler}}
**{{UNSCShip|Silent Joe}} {{1st}}
*[[Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle]] {{Mo}}
*[[Stork]] {{Fm}}
*[[Tri-wheel minivan]] {{1st}}
*[[Ogoro Workshop Tronto|Tronto]] {{1st}}
*[[Turaco]] {{1st}}
*[[Seraph]]
*[[Typhoon]] {{Fm}}
*{{UNSCShip|Taulanti}} {{Fm}}
*{{Class|Winter|prowler}}
**{{UNSCShip|Fast Gus}} {{1st}}

|title-7=Weapons|
*[[12mm Comet]] {{1st}}
*[[Archer missile]] {{Mo}}
*[[Argent V missile]] {{Mo}}
*[[C-12 shaped charge]]
*[[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]]
*[[Heavy plasma cannon]]
*[[BR55 battle rifle]]
*[[BR85 battle rifle]]
*[[Combat knife]]
*[[M19 missile]] {{Mo}}
*[[M301 grenade launcher]]
*[[M41 SPNKR]]
*[[M441 Hornet Remote Explosive System]] {{Mo}}
*[[M45 shotgun]]
*[[M68 Gauss cannon]] {{Mo}}
*[[M6C magnum]]
*[[M6C/SOCOM]]
*[[M6G magnum]]
*[[M6P pocket pistol]] {{1st}}
*[[M7 SMG]]
*[[M7S SMG]]
*[[M9 fragmentation grenade]]
*[[Shiva-class nuclear missile|M947 Shiva-class nuclear missile]]
*[[MA5C assault rifle]]
*[[MA5D assault rifle]]
*[[MA5K carbine]]
*[[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]] {{Mo}}
*[[Pulse laser turret]]
*[[SAD-10]] {{1st}}
*[[SAM-8 battle rifle]] {{1st}}
*[[SAMP-10]] {{1st}}
*[[SRS99-AM sniper rifle]]
*[[Satchel charge]] {{Mo}}
*[[Sawtooth chaingun]] {{1st}}
*[[Type-2 spike grenade]]
*[[Type-25 Brute Shot]]
*[[Type-25 plasma pistol]]
*[[Paegaas Workshop Spiker]]
*[[Type-52 Mauler]]
*{{Pattern|Gadulo|needle rifle}}

|title-8=Technology and equipment|
*[[Active camouflage]]
*[[AlON pressure barrier]] {{1st}}
*[[Artificial intelligence]]
**{{Class|Archeon|ancilla}}
**[[Dumb AI]]
**[[Remote aspect]]
**[[Smart AI]]
*[[Ballistic assault vest]]
*[[Cryo-jar]] {{1st}}
*[[Data pad]]
*[[Energy barrier]]
*[[Energy shielding]]
*[[Gelignite]] {{1st}}
*[[Halo Array]] {{Mo}}
*[[Hard light]]
*[[Heads-up display]]
*[[Jiralhanae power armor]]
*[[Memory matrix]]
*[[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor]]
**[[ARGUS-class Mjolnir]]
**[[CENTURION-class Mjolnir]]
**[[EVA-class Mjolnir]]
*[[Observation pane]] {{1st}}
*[[Riemann matrix]] {{Mo}}
*[[Semi-Powered Infiltration armor]]
*[[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]] {{Mo}}
*[[Space elevator]] {{Mo}}
*[[Spy gnat]] {{1st}}
*[[State-shifter]] {{Fm}}
*[[TACPAD]]
*[[Vacuum energy]]

|title-9=Miscellaneous|
*[[Boson bead]] {{1st}}
*[[Lethron]] {{1st}}
*[[Living Time]] {{Mo}}
*[[Ralex]] {{Fm}}
*[[Tossers]] {{Fm}}
}}

==Trivia==
*The novel's cover is illustrated by artist Benjamin Carré, who also provided artwork for ''[[Halo Mythos]]''.{{Ref/Reuse|KnowScope}}
*''Retribution''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s official summary describes the [[Human-Covenant War]] as "thirty years of '[[Wiktionary:intergalactic|intergalactic]]' conflict". This is an incorrect usage of the term, as the war was never fought in more than one galaxy; a more appropriate word would have been "interstellar", which is defined as occurring between stars. The [[Battle of Installation 00]] was the only battle of the war to be fought outside the galaxy, though not in another galaxy altogether, and the wording in the summary regardless implies the war was waged on an intergalactic scale consistently for its thirty-year duration.

==Gallery==
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==Sources==
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