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Operating using cloaking technology and stealth tactics, the Covenant had created a fortified landing zone on Reach, with anti-air guns around the perimeter of their staging area in the [[Viery Territory]] where they had covertly inserted a large amount of forces, including several corvettes. | Operating using cloaking technology and stealth tactics, the Covenant had created a fortified landing zone on Reach, with anti-air guns around the perimeter of their staging area in the [[Viery Territory]] where they had covertly inserted a large amount of forces, including several corvettes. | ||
[[File:Jorge n' Six.jpg|thumb|right|200px|SPARTAN-B312 and Jorge-052 watch a Covenant corvette sinking after being neutralized by an orbital strike.]] | [[File:Jorge n' Six.jpg|thumb|right|200px|SPARTAN-B312 and Jorge-052 watch a Covenant corvette sinking after being neutralized by an orbital strike.]] | ||
Two days after the skirmish at Visegrád, the Covenant attacked [[SWORD Base]] in an attempt to overrun the ONI facility and access the [[Babd Catha Forerunner complex|Forerunner structures]] there.<ref name="sword">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level ''[[ONI: Sword Base]]''</ref> However, these forces were repulsed after NOBLE Team reinforced the base and brought its [[M71 Anti-Aircraft Gun]]s and communications back online. The Covenant [[SDV-class heavy corvette|corvette]] attacking it was forced to retreat and was destroyed by an [[orbital defense platform]]'s [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]].<ref name="sword"/> | Two days after the skirmish at Visegrád, the Covenant attacked [[SWORD Base]] in an attempt to overrun the ONI facility and access the [[Babd Catha Forerunner complex|Forerunner structures]] there.<ref name="sword">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level ''[[ONI: Sword Base]]''</ref> However, these forces were repulsed after NOBLE Team reinforced the base and brought its [[M71 Anti-Aircraft Gun]]s and communications back online. [[SDV-class heavy corvette at Sword Base|The]] Covenant [[SDV-class heavy corvette|corvette]] attacking it was forced to retreat and was destroyed by an [[orbital defense platform]]'s [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]].<ref name="sword"/> | ||
===UNSC counterattack=== | ===UNSC counterattack=== | ||