Editing Team Alpha

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'''Team Alpha''' was a splinter team of the [[Spartan-II]] [[Red Team]] of the [[United Nations Space Command]] during the [[Fall of Reach]]. It consisted of [[Frederic-104]], [[Kelly-087]], and [[Joshua-029]], and was in charge of the other Spartan splinter teams.

== Operational history ==
===Fall of Reach===
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====Landing====
As Red Team made planetfall in the morning of [[2552#August|August 30, 2552]], their [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican]], ''[[Bravo 001]]'', came under attack. The [[Mitchell|pilot]] was killed and the Spartans had to jump out of the rear exit. On landing, they suffered four casualties, and many Spartans were wounded. Upon arriving at the [[ODG Facility A-331]], they found the remaining members of [[Charlie Company]]. Red Team split up after receiving a distress call from [[Danforth Whitcomb|Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb]].<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''pages 2-22''</ref>

====Defense of Reach====
At the ODG facility, Red Team split up into Teams Alpha, [[Team Beta|Beta]], [[Team Gamma|Gamma]] and [[Team Delta|Delta]]. Team Alpha set out to destroy a [[Unidentified cruiser (Particular Justice)|Covenant ship]] that was supplying a large number of Covenant troops in a valley nearby. The team commandeered three [[Banshee]]s and flew into the valley. They planned to deploy several [[Fury tactical nuclear weapon]]s into the Covenant ship and destroy all the troops. This went according to plan, except that Joshua was killed due to the fact the Covenant figured it was a ambush.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''pages 26-32''</ref>

The group then fell back up the valley to a river (after barely succeeding with their plan), where they were attacked by a [[Hunter]] pair. One Hunter was killed when [[Kelly-087]] crashed her Banshee into one of them. After that, they received a transmission from Team Beta that the generators were over-run and they might be able to save one of the last generators. After they contacted the other teams and told them to fall back to [[CASTLE Base]], the two Spartan-IIs then came across a vehicle depot full of [[Wraiths]] and [[Unggoy|Grunts]]. Secretly commandeering two Wraiths, they blew a path to CASTLE Base and to Team Delta.

====CASTLE Base====
Regrouping with Team Delta outside CASTLE Base, they couldn't gain access until they whispered [[Oly Oly Oxen Free]] into the microphone to a metal reinforced door, and inside was [[Dr. Catherine Halsey]]. Dr. Halsey tended to their wounds and sent Fred on a supply run. Soon after, the base came under Covenant attack again, forcing them to activate "[[Operation: WHITE GLOVE]]" and seek shelter in the [[titanium]] mines below the base. Whilst traveling through the caves, Frederic came across and tunnel which led to a [[Forerunner]] [[Menachite Forerunner complex|complex]] and a [[Forerunner crystal]] that warped reality.

====Rescue====
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After a short period of time in the cavern, they came under attack and the group fell back to a tunnel, but [[Isaac-039]] and [[Vinh-030]] were killed when they activated satchel charges and blocked the tunnel. Some time later, the tunnel was unblocked and they found [[John-117]], the members of [[Team Gamma]], [[Sergeant Major]] [[Avery Johnson]], an ODST named [[Corporal]] [[Locklear]] and Admiral Whitcomb. After a few minutes, the group realized that they were surrounded by thousands of [[Covenant]] troops; they then escaped after a brief firefight. They escaped Reach in a captured [[Spirit]] dropship, piloting it to the captured [[Covenant]] [[flagship]] ''[[Ascendant Justice]]''.

===Slipspace battle===
When the ship jumped into [[Slipstream space|slipspace]], the Forerunner crystal found on Reach distorted slipspace and several other Covenant cruisers were engulfed in the bubble and a vicious battle started. The shots from the cruisers disappeared and reappeared in random places and destroyed several ships. On board the ''Ascendant Justice'', several rogue units of [[Sangheili]] sabotaged the ships' plasma conduit, forcing the Spartans to perform a dangerous [[Extra-vehicular activity|EVA]] mission to repair it. When a rogue plasma torpedo hit the dropship, Spartans [[Spartan-044|Anton-044]] and [[Spartan-008|Li-008]] and their pilot [[Shiela Polaski]] were killed. Their ship dropped out of the bubble and into normal space shortly after the repairs.

===Operation: FIRST STRIKE===
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The members of Team Alpha participated in the destruction of the Covenant mobile command platform ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''. This mission was going well until they came across a pack of [[Jiralhanae]] and [[Grace-093]] was killed in the skirmish. The station was destroyed as the Spartans detonated its [[Pinch fusion reactor|reactors]]. The operation destroyed almost 500 Covenant ships, delaying the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s plans to invade Earth.<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/theuniverse/events/complex/ten-twenty/f4adbef8-e9bc-44f8-aefa-d8e9b69f7139 '''Halo Waypoint''', ''Ten Twenty'']</ref>

==Dissolution==
With most of the Spartan-IIs who had constituted Red Team during the Fall of Reach dead or missing, the former members of Team Alpha would be integrated into [[Blue Team]], consisting of Fred-104, Linda-058 and Will-043 after John-117 left Earth aboard the {{UNSCShip|In Amber Clad}} in pursuit of the ''[[Solemn Penance]]''.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 203''</ref> The new arrangement of Blue Team would then defend Earth over the course of two weeks, before being reassigned to [[Onyx]] in early [[2552#November|November]].<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 211''</ref>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]''

==Sources==
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