Editing Night Flight

'''Night Flight''' was a [[Wikipedia: Flight (military unit)|flight]] of four [[prowler]]s attached to the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Navy]]'s [[Task Force Yama]]. During [[Operation: SILENT STORM]] in early [[2526]], [[Captain (NAVCOM)|Captain]] [[Halima Ascot]] commanded the flight—and the entire task force—from aboard the {{UNSCShip|Starry Night}}, a {{Class|Razor|prowler}}.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS13|HSS|Chapter=13}}

In [[2526#March|March 2526]], at least one vessel of Night Flight—[[Captain (NAVCOM)|Captain]] [[Halima Ascot]]'s {{UNSCShip|Starry Night}}—participated in [[Skirmish over Netherop|a mission]] to board and capture a [[Covenant]] [[Covenant frigate|frigate]]. The operation would be undertaken by three teams of [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-IIs]] led by [[Petty Officer First Class|Petty Officer]] [[John-117]]. On [[2526#March|March 5]], the Spartans deployed from the ''Starry Night'' as it and [[Radiant Arrow|its target]] orbited [[Netherop]]{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS1|HSS|Chapter=1}} While they were able to board the ship undetected, the mission went south when an [[insurrectionist]]-aligned sensor operator on one of [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Hector Nyeto]]'s [[prowler]]s purposefully revealed the Spartans' presence on the vessel. Ultimately, they were forced to abandon ship when the frigate's [[self-destruct]] was activated.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS3|HSS|Chapter=3}}

This operation took Night Flight and the rest of Task Force Yama to [[Seoba]], an icy [[Natural satellite|moon]] of [[Biko]]. Here, they planned to wait until the [[Covenant fleet]] arrived, planning to catch them by surprise.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS5}} Upon arriving at Seoba on [[2526#March|March 18]], the task force discovered insurrectionist forces hiding in the very [[Seoba Ice Quarry|ice quarry]] that the task force had selected to hide its prowlers, leading to an intense [[Battle of Seoba|battle]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS8|HSS|Chapter=8}} The UNSC captured the quarry,{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS10|HSS|Chapter=10}} only for a Covenant [[Bloodstar Flotilla]] to arrive the next day.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS11|HSS|Chapter=11}} With their window rapidly closing, the prowlers of Task Force Yama were loaded up with the [[ODST]]s of [[Colonel]] [[Marmon Crowther]]'s [[21st Space Assault Battalion]]—the troopers that would be carrying out the boarding operations. The final company had just boarded the four vessels of Night Flight when the flotilla began bombarding the quarry, forcing Captain Ascot to launch them immediately. However, it was too late and the ''Starry Night'' was hit by one of the [[plasma]] blasts, causing it to crash into the quarry. Lieutenant Commander Nyeto was able to confirm that the vessel itself was still intact, but its crew could not be raised on [[COM|comms]]. Colonel Crowther scrambled to find a unit of his that could check on them. The three remaining prowlers of Night Flight—and the Black Daggers they held—were eager to assist, even if it meant turning back into the increasingly heavy plasma barrage. Crowther denied their offer, not wanting to lose another prowler. As a result, John-117 decided that he and his Spartans were the only unit that could make it to the ''Starry Night'' in time. Once they completed their assignment of loading the captured insurgents into [[Emmeline|a transport]] to be taken to Biko, the Spartans ventured back into the quarry to search for Ascot's prowler, ignoring the fact that Crowther had refused to send them into battle after learning of their young ages.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS13}}