Editing UNSC Ghost Star

{{Title|UNSC ''Ghost Star''}}
{{Era|UNSC|HCW}}
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*Strike missions
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|armament=*30mm autocannons{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS8|HSS|Chapter=8}}
*[[M28 Shrieker missile]]s{{Ref/Reuse|HSS8}}
|complement=*22 sailors{{Ref/Reuse|HSS16}}
*40 [[ODST]]s<!--Held in the drop bay.-->{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS7|HSS|Chapter=7}}
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The '''UNSC ''Ghost Star''''' was a {{Class|Razor|prowler}} assigned to [[Ghost Flight]] of [[Task Force Yama]]. It served during the [[United Nations Space Command]]'s [[Operation: SILENT STORM]] in early [[2526]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS8}} Its crew was composed of [[insurrectionist]] agents hand-picked by [[Hector Nyeto]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS16|HSS|Chapter=16}} Ultimately, the ''Ghost Star'' would be destroyed by rebel forces during [[Operation: ICE DANCE]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS8}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS10|HSS|Chapter=10}}

==History==
===Ghost Flight===
The UNSC ''Ghost Star'' was built to be part of [[Ghost Flight]], a flight of four {{Class|Razor|prowler}}s within the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s [[UNSC Prowler Corps|Prowler Corps]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS8}} At some point during the [[Insurrection]], [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Hector Nyeto]] became the commander of Ghost Flight and slowly replaced the crew of each vessel with personnel sympathetic to the [[insurrectionist]] cause.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS25|HSS|Chapter=25}} When [[Vice Admiral]]s [[Preston Cole]] and [[Michael Stanforth]] initiated [[Operation: SILENT STORM]] in [[2526#March|March 2526]], ''Ghost Star'' and the other prowlers of Ghost Flight were selected to join [[Task Force Yama]] for the duration of the mission. The [[task force]] soon left for [[Seoba]], a [[Natural satellite|moon]] of [[Biko]], where they would wait for the [[Covenant]] [[Covenant fleet|fleet]] arrive.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS5|HSS|Chapter=5}}

===ICE DANCE===
{{Main|Operation: ICE DANCE}}
Upon arriving in the [[Kolaqoa system]] on [[2526#March|March 18]], [[Colonel]] [[Marmon Crowther]] of the [[21st Space Assault Battalion]] decided that his [[ODST]]s and the [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartans]] that would be assisting in the operation should practice a mass deployment into the [[Seoba Ice Quarry|ice quarry]] where Task Force Yama would be hiding. Ghost Flight was selected to deploy the Black Daggers and [[Blue Team]], with each prowler carrying forty ODSTs and one Spartan. However, as the flight approached the moon, insurrectionist forces were detected in the quarry, preparing to overthrow Biko's chancellor. Despite this, Crowther decided to go forward with Operation: ICE DANCE and clear out the quarry.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS7}}

During the ensuing [[Battle of Seoba|battle]], Ghost Flight managed to cripple the insurgents' communications relay at the top of the quarry. ''Ghost Star'' and the three other prowlers continued dropping off their infantry complement while supporting those already on the ground with their 30mm autocannons and [[M28 Shrieker missile]]s. As it attempted to destroy a convoy of rebel [[Civet]]s climbing up the quarry to repair the relay, the ''Ghost Star'' was shot down, forcing Nyeto to pull the rest of Ghost Flight out until the convoy was either destroyed or distracted.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS8}} All twenty-two of the ''Ghost Star''{{'}}s crew perished in the crash.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS16}}

===Legacy===
The day after, a Covenant [[Bloodstar Flotilla|flotilla]] arrived at Seoba,{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS13|HSS|Chapter=13}} causing even more casualties.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS15|HSS|Chapter=15}} On [[2526#March|March 20]], a funeral service was held on the {{UNSCShip|Vanishing Point}} to honor the UNSC personnel who had died over the course of the previous two days. The remains of the ''Ghost Star''{{'}}s crew had been cremated and placed into twenty-two duraplas interment capsules. The ceremony was held in the ''Vanishing Point''{{'}}s command [[Hangar bay|hangar]], with a total of two-hundred-and-three capsules resting by the outer hatch. After a eulogy from [[Ojombo|a chaplain]], Lieutenant Commander Nyeto—now the de facto leader of Task Force Yama after [[Captain (NAVCOM)|Captain]] [[Halima Ascot]]'s death—delivered a committal speech as the capsules were jettisoned into space.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS16}}

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'' {{1st}}

==Sources==
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