John-117: Difference between revisions

On October 7, [[2559#October|2559]] John and the rest of Blue Team, now outfitted with new sets of [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN3)|third-generation Mjolnir armor]], were deployed from ''Infinity'' on Reach in an [[Owl]], the {{UNSCShip|Special Delivery}}. The team's mission concerned the penetration of the rubble-filled ruins of [[CASTLE Base]] and the recovery of top-secret assets locked away in Doctor Halsey's abandoned laboratory there. It was hoped that the assets in question could prove useful against Cortana.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Chapter 1|HSoR|Chapter=1}} Trying to escape the enemy pursuit, who discovered their insertion craft, the Owl's pilots, Major [[Eznik Van Houte]] and First Lieutenant [[Maks Chapov]], attemted a vanishing maneuver resulting in their emergency crash-landing on glassed surface of Reach. To repel the enemy attack on their crash site, whom John identified as the [[Banished]], Spartans used the [[Wikipedia:Drilling jumbo|drilling jumbo]] as an anti-aircraft turret against [[Morsam-pattern Seraph|Seraph]] patrol. Collecting the Owl's crew and mining machines, Blue Team proceeded in the direction of [[Highland Mountains]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=Chapter 2|HSoR|Chapter=2}} To speed up the mission John suggested to commandeer a [[Banished Phantom|Phantom]] from Banished controlled [[Kisköre Base]]. Splitting his team in two, John ordered Linda to protect the Owl's crew and mining machines while he, Kelly and Fred infiltrated the base. However, as the fighting started, his squad came under heavy attack by [[Banished Banshee|Banshee]] squadrons guarding the base. John was hit in left leg, Kelly took a serious shot to the chest and Fred suffered a severe concussion. In order to escape the enemy fire, Kelly blew a hole in the glassed surface of [[Kisköre Canal]] and the team ended up inside an old half melted water pipe going under the canal. There John, Kelly and Fred encountered members of [[Viery Militia]] led by Colonel [[Sasa Boldisar]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=Chapter 5|HSoR|Chapter=5}} The militiamans led Spartans to their [[Logistics Base Gödöllő|base]] where John learned that there were actually three different clans amongst the Banished: [[Legion of the Corpse-Moon]], [[Ravaged Tusks]] and [[Keepers of the One Freedom]] working together to find something and that the militia were planning to use [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon|HAVOK]]s recovered from an old UNSC armory to draw the Banished away from Reach. Realizing that nuclear explosion would inevitably draw attention of Cortana and chances of success of Operation: WOLFE would be reduced to zero, John suggested helping the militia to take down Banished armory in [[New Mohács]], calling in additional Spartan support from ''Infinity''.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Chapter 10|HSoR|Chapter=10}}