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[[File:2817466-gallery.jpg|thumb|left|John-117 firing at Sangheili on the ship.]] | [[File:2817466-gallery.jpg|thumb|left|John-117 firing at Sangheili on the ship.]] | ||
{{Quote|Captain Keyes is tired of our company and wants us to leave this tub. There’s a construct down there, complete with an atmosphere, gravity, and the one thing Marines love like beer—and that’s dirt beneath our feet. Most of the crew—not to mention your fellow jarheads—will be leaving the ship in lifeboats. They’ll ride to the surface in air-conditioned comfort, sipping wine, and nibbling on appetizers. Not you, however. Oh no, you’re going to leave the Pillar of Autumn by a different method.|Silva, addressing his troops.{{Ref/Reuse|flood1}}}} | {{Quote|Captain Keyes is tired of our company and wants us to leave this tub. There’s a construct down there, complete with an atmosphere, gravity, and the one thing Marines love like beer—and that’s dirt beneath our feet. Most of the crew—not to mention your fellow jarheads—will be leaving the ship in lifeboats. They’ll ride to the surface in air-conditioned comfort, sipping wine, and nibbling on appetizers. Not you, however. Oh no, you’re going to leave the Pillar of Autumn by a different method.|Silva, addressing his troops.{{Ref/Reuse|flood1}}}} | ||
With Keyes planning to crash the ''Pillar of Autumn'' on the surface of the ringworld, a general evacuation was ordered. For most personnel, this meant evacuating the ship in [[SKT-9 Bumblebee]] lifeboats. Eventually, the Master Chief was able to find a lifeboat that had not yet launched, and paused to throw a stumbling marine into the craft before boarding himself.{{Ref/Reuse|CEPOA}}{{Ref/Reuse|HFR}} Fireteam Raven were just behind and covering fire, and soon headed for the [[SOEIV]] drop bays to join their comrades in dropping "feet first into hell".{{Ref/Reuse|HFR}} The troops were ordered by Silva to abandon the reactor bay and make preparations to drop, with McKay entering her pod last and launching just as someone began to play the [[Helljumpers' anthem]] over the radio network shared by all the drop pods. Despite being against regulations, nobody ordered the music to be turned off.{{Ref/Reuse|flood1}} | The Prophet of Stewardship's insistence on attacking the Pillar of Autumn through boarding actions rather than engaging in standard ship-to-ship combat had seen wave upon wave of Covenant combatants flood into the human vessel, as they attempted to halt its approach to the ring. Yet despite their relentless and vicious assault, and inflicting at least modest causalities, the Covenant boarding parties suffered disproportionate losses as they were checked by stiff resistance offered up by the defenders, who for their part were composed largely of experienced Marines, many of them veterans of multiple campaigns, and all of whom fresh from the [[Fall of Reach]]; determined to survive and with their backs to the wall, but also itching for revenge. The tenacity of his defending crew, as well as his own considerable skill ensured that Captain Keyes was able to make good on his bold course of action. With Keyes planning to crash the ''Pillar of Autumn'' on the surface of the ringworld, a general evacuation was ordered. For most personnel, this meant evacuating the ship in [[SKT-9 Bumblebee]] lifeboats. Eventually, the Master Chief was able to find a lifeboat that had not yet launched, and paused to throw a stumbling marine into the craft before boarding himself.{{Ref/Reuse|CEPOA}}{{Ref/Reuse|HFR}} Fireteam Raven were just behind and covering fire, and soon headed for the [[SOEIV]] drop bays to join their comrades in dropping "feet first into hell".{{Ref/Reuse|HFR}} The troops were ordered by Silva to abandon the reactor bay and make preparations to drop, with McKay entering her pod last and launching just as someone began to play the [[Helljumpers' anthem]] over the radio network shared by all the drop pods. Despite being against regulations, nobody ordered the music to be turned off.{{Ref/Reuse|flood1}} | ||
[[File:HR GearUp.png|thumb|250px|right|Fireteam Raven readies for battle.]] | [[File:HR GearUp.png|thumb|250px|right|Fireteam Raven readies for battle.]] | ||