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Shortly later, the Office of Naval Intelligence dispatched a [[UNSC prowler|prowler]], the {{UNSCShip|Red Horse}}, to the Soell system, with the apparent mission to "jump to coordinates classified higher than top secret, retrieve samples of an alien artifact for study, conduct basic recon, expect Covenant trouble."<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Mona Lisa"'', ''page 237''</ref> However, none of the crew, including the ship's [[Commanding officer|CO]] [[Commander]] [[Tobias Foucault]], were informed of the Flood. ONI also had the ship's old AI, [[Chauncey]], removed and replaced by the secretive ONI AI [[Rebecca]].<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Mona Lisa"'', ''page 225''</ref> | Shortly later, the Office of Naval Intelligence dispatched a [[UNSC prowler|prowler]], the {{UNSCShip|Red Horse}}, to the Soell system, with the apparent mission to "jump to coordinates classified higher than top secret, retrieve samples of an alien artifact for study, conduct basic recon, expect Covenant trouble."<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Mona Lisa"'', ''page 237''</ref> However, none of the crew, including the ship's [[Commanding officer|CO]] [[Commander]] [[Tobias Foucault]], were informed of the Flood. ONI also had the ship's old AI, [[Chauncey]], removed and replaced by the secretive ONI AI [[Rebecca]].<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Mona Lisa"'', ''page 225''</ref> | ||
By the time the ''Red Horse'' arrived, the [[High Charity defense fleet|Covenant fleet]] that had been present in the system had left in pursuit of what UNSC intelligence assumed was a "[[Installation 05|higher value target]]".<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Mona Lisa"'', ''page 236''</ref> After sifting through Installation 04's debris field for three days, occasionally conducting reconnaissance missions via [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelicans]],<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Mona Lisa"'', ''page 223-224''</ref> the crew of the ''Red Horse'' discovered an escape pod launched six hours earlier from the ''Mona Lisa'' | By the time the ''Red Horse'' arrived, the [[High Charity defense fleet|Covenant fleet]] that had been present in the system had left in pursuit of what UNSC intelligence assumed was a "[[Installation 05|higher value target]]".<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Mona Lisa"'', ''page 236''</ref> After sifting through Installation 04's debris field for three days, occasionally conducting reconnaissance missions via [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelicans]],<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Mona Lisa"'', ''page 223-224''</ref> the crew of the ''Red Horse'' discovered an escape pod launched six hours earlier from the ''Mona Lisa''. Rebecca then revealed Foucault the "extended" mission parameters; they were to assess the status of the ''Mona Lisa'', with the orders to destroy the ship if it had been "compromised beyond retrieval".<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''"The Mona Lisa"'', ''page 237-238''</ref> | ||
==Reconnaissance mission== | ==Reconnaissance mission== |