Editing Keepers Eradication Campaign

{{Status|Canon}}
{{Battle infobox
|name=Keepers Eradication Campaign
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|conflict=[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]
|date=[[2557]]-[[2558]]
|place=Orion Arm, Milky Way galaxy
|result='''Decisive UNSC victory'''
*The [[Keepers of the One Freedom]] are decimated
*[[Castor]] and the surviving Keepers take refuge with the [[Banished]]
|side1=*[[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]]
|side2=*[[Keepers of the One Freedom]]
|commanders1=*[[Rear Admiral]] [[Serin Osman]]
*Lieutenant [[Veta Lopis]]
|commanders2= *[[Dokab]] [[Castor]]
|forces1=*[[Ferret]]s
|forces2=*[[Keepers of the One Freedom]]
|casual1=*Presumably light
|casual2=*About 15,000 Keepers{{Ref/Novel|Id=DW11|DW|Chapter=11}}
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The '''Keepers Eradication Campaign''' was a massive campaign undertaken by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] to eradicate the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]]. Hugely successful, the campaign decimated the Keepers of the One Freedom and caused the survivors to take refuge with the [[Banished]].
==Prelude==
In [[2553]], the [[UNSC]] came into conflict and conflict with the radical [[Covenant remnant]] known as the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]] during [[Operation: JOVIAN WHISTLE]] and [[Operation: RETRIBUTION]]. During this time, the special operations unit known as the [[Ferret]]s has particularly close contact with the Keepers and their leader, [[Dokab]] [[Castor]].{{Ref/Novel|LL}}{{Ref/Novel|Ret}}

==The battle==
In [[2557]], ONI sent the [[Ferret]]s undercover to infiltrate the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]]. By joining an allied doomsday cult, the [[Humans of the Joyous Journey]], the Ferrets were successfully able to penetrate the Keepers and spent eight months gathering intelligence on the faction and relaying it to ONI.

Eight months after the Ferrets infiltrated the Keepers, ONI put the intelligence that had been gathered to use and began a massive campaign to eradicate the Keepers. The campaign was highly successful, killing about 15,000 Keepers. As a result, the Keepers of the One Freedom were left decimated with less than a hundred members left.{{Ref/Novel|Id=DW1|DW|Chapter=1}}{{Ref/Reuse|DW11}}

==Aftermath==
Much to everyone's surprise, the campaign had an unexpected effect: [[Castor]] sought refuge with the [[Banished]], forming an alliance with the much larger ex-Covenant faction. Although the Ferret's mission was originally supposed to end once the campaign was over, ONI ordered them to remain undercover in the hopes of getting a shot at assassinating [[Atriox]], the leader of the Banished. However, Atriox [[Second Ark Conflict|vanished]] with his [[flagship]] the {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}} ''[[Enduring Conviction]]'' soon after and the galaxy fell under [[Created conflict|the control]] of [[Cortana]].{{Ref/Reuse|DW1}}

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Divine Wind]]'' {{Fm}}

==Sources==
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{{Post-Covenant War conflicts}}
[[Category:UNSC victories]]