Editing Scyllion Warehouse District riot

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{{Battle infobox
|prev = [[Operation: SMOKING ACES]]
|next = [[Battle of the Rubble]]
|name = Scyllion Warehouse District riot
|conflict = [[Insurrection]]
|date = [[2535]]
|place = [[Scyllion Warehouse District|Warehouse District]], [[Scyllion]], [[Charybdis IX]]
|result = ;UNSC victory 
*Source of modified [[Covenant]] weapons discovered 
*Jason Kincaide killed 
|side1 = *[[United Nations Space Command]]
|side2 = *[[Civilian]] rioters <br>
*[[Insurrectionists]]
|commanders1 = [[Corinthia Hansen|Captain Corinthia Hansen]] <br>
[[Lieutenant]] [[Jacob Keyes]] <br>
[[Major]] [[Faison]]
|commanders2 = [[Jason Kincaide]]†
|forces1 =*1 {{Class|Punic|supercarrier}}<ref name="spartan games">[http://shop.spartangames.co.uk/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=HFUN05 '''Spartan Games''': ''UNSC Punic-Class Supercarrier'']</ref>
*1 {{Class|Stalwart|light frigate}} 
**{{UNSCShip|Midsummer Night}}
*[[ODSTs]]
*16 [[ONI]] agents
*[[D77-TC Pelican]]s
|forces2 = *[[Insurrectionist]]s
|casual1 = *3 ONI agents
**[[Akio Watanabe]]
**[[Josh Smith]]
*1 D77-TC Pelican
*All ONI vehicles and trailers
*[[Jeffries]]
|casual2 = *Heavy infantry losses
*[[Jason Kincaide]]
}}
{{Quote|This wasn't a victory, it was a cluster --|[[Jacob Keyes]] on the outcome of the riots, before being interrupted<ref name="cp135">'''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''', ''page 135''</ref>}}

The '''Scyllion Warehouse District riot''' was a riot that took place in the [[Scyllion Warehouse District|warehouse district]] of [[Scyllion]], the capital city of [[Charybdis IX]], shortly before the arrival of the [[Covenant]] in the [[Battle of Charybdis IX]].

==Prelude==
The riots were caused by lack of food and supplies.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 106''</ref> [[Charybdis IX]] had been a mining world, run by a corporation. The planet's capital city of [[Scyllion]] was established by the government for workers to live in. Every aspect of the workers' lives was controlled by the companies to ensure that the profits always went back to the companies; they bought food and supplies from company markets or lived and paid rent for company-provided habitats. Soon the pay was simply insufficient to make up for the workers' cost of living, leading to intense rioting.<ref name="cp107">'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 107''</ref>

Scyllion had long been a city of political turmoil and [[Insurrectionist]]s were a constant problem. In [[2534]], the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] recommended for the [[UNSC]] to implement martial law in the city, but the UNSC was unable to do so, due to the escalating [[Human-Covenant War]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 106-107''</ref> Fifteen ONI agents (disguised as workers), and a convoy of [[civilian Warthog]]s were sent to the planet to spy on the rioters, who were being incited by insurgent [[Jason Kincaide]]. They also carried mobile command centers disguised as trucks and trailers.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 109''</ref> Originally, ONI was only spying on the rioters, but after they discovered that the rioters had gotten their hands on modified Covenant weapons, they decided it was time to take action against them. [[Major]] [[Akio Watanabe]] proposed a mission for the {{UNSCShip|Midsummer Night}} to find and eliminate the source of the Covenant weaponry.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 100''</ref>

==The riot==
Shortly after [[Jacob Keyes]] and Major Akio Watanabe were ferried to the planet by [[Jeffries]], they were introduced to ONI agents [[Corinthia Hansen|Captain Corinthia Hansen]], the leader of the operation, and [[Josh Smith]], a surveillance agent. Hansen pretended to be supplying [[Jason Kincaide]]'s weapons, in an attempt to discover where the weapons were being distributed, but escalating riots nearby forced ONI agents to capture Kincaide and two of his bodyguards.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 112''</ref> The rioters quickly retaliated, firing [[RPG]]s at the ONI convoy of disguised command centers, resulting in the death of Smith and most of the ONI team. Kincaide escaped captivity and began to incite the mob.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 122''</ref>

During the ambush, Hansen, Keyes, and Watanabe escaped the ONI mobile command center they were in. While the rioters searched for survivors, they engaged in small skirmishes against the rioters and retreated to a building. Along the way, the rioters captured one ONI operative and beat him to death.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 123''</ref> They rode the elevator up to the roof of the building, where they tried to get evacuated by Jeffries. However, Jeffries was shot down by Insurrectionists with RPGs. They then requested [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]] support, which was scheduled to arrive within twenty minutes. At that point, Keyes, Hansen, and Watanabe were extremely short on ammunition at this point, with all of them being limited to about one magazine each.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 124-127''</ref>

Soon, both sides only fired warning shots at each other and Kincaide began to arm the rioters with modified Covenant weapons.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 128''</ref> While waiting for ODST support to arrive, the three decided to check on the rioters downstairs. While Hansen remained upstairs, Keyes and Watanabe sneaked down the stairs and moved in opposite directions. There, Kincaide and three rioters attacked the trio. Watanabe shot two of the men, but Kincaide thrust the final rioter into Watanabe, shooting them both multiple times with his modified {{Pattern|Okarda'phaa|plasma rifle}}, fatally wounding the ONI officer.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 129''</ref> In an act of revenge, Keyes wrestled control of the plasma rifle from Kincaide and shot him in the legs, then decapitating him with another shot. He then threw the man's corpse into a crowd of rioters below, and warned them to disperse and cease hostilities, or else they would be shot.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 131''</ref>

After the death of Jason Kincaide, twenty ODSTs, led by Major [[Faison]], arrived and broke up any remaining resistance. Two snipers, [[Magnus]] and [[Jeremy]], were assigned to kill any rebels with RPGs who were still firing on Pelicans, which they accomplished. The remaining rioters, no match for ODSTs, retreated. Any remaining individual on the streets were Insurrectionists and were quickly eliminated by the ODSTs.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 133''</ref>

==Aftermath==
Despite the relatively heavy losses that the UNSC took fighting the rioters, they discovered from Kincaide, during his brief captivity, the source of the modified Covenant weapons: a ship known as the ''[[Kestrel (Ship)|Kestrel]]''. Several Pelicans then arrived to pick up the ODSTS, Hansen, and Keyes.<ref name="cp135"/>

[[Carson]], the pilot of the dropship Keyes and Hansen were on, informed them that [[Commander]] [[Dmitri Zheng]] detected a [[Covenant fleet]] arriving near Charybdis IX. While Keyes and Zheng were in favor of making a last stand alongside the three [[UNSC destroyer]]s guarding the planet, Hansen revealed that she had a rank higher than both of them and ordered them to continue their search for the ''Kestrel''. She ordered that they drop her off at an orbiting depot first, leaving her to certain doom at the hands of the Covenant fleet.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 139''</ref> As the ''Midsummer Night'' left the [[Charybdis system]], the Covenant [[Battle of Charybdis IX|attacked]] the planet and ultimately glassed its surface.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 148''</ref>

==Legacy==
Keyes would later remember killing Kincaide while he was being absorbed by a [[Flood]] [[Proto-Gravemind]] aboard the ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]''.<ref>'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''', Chapter 8, ''page 198'' (2003 paperback); ''page 221'' (2010 paperback)</ref>

==Participants==
===UNSC===
*{{UNSCShip|Midsummer Night}}
**[[Jacob Keyes|Lieutenant Jacob Keyes]]
**[[Jeffries]]
**[[ODST]] response team
***[[Faison|Major Faison]]
***[[Magnus]]
***[[Jeremy]]
*[[Office of Naval Intelligence]] operatives
**[[Corinthia Hansen|Captain Corinthia Hansen]]
**[[Akio Watanabe|Major Akio Watanabe]]
**[[Josh Smith]]

===Insurrectionist===
*[[Jason Kincaide]]

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: The Flood]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo 4]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Fleet Battles]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
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[[Category:UNSC victories]]