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|status = In active service as of [[2526]]{{Ref/Reuse|HSS21}} | |status = In active service as of [[2526]]{{Ref/Reuse|HSS21}} | ||
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|mass = 1.1 million tonnes{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | |mass = 1.1 million tonnes{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | ||
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|slipspace drive = [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]] | |slipspace drive = [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]] | ||
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With the ''Vanishing Point'' nearing the designated drop-off point, Blue Team boarded their Banshees as a Baselard remotely piloted by an operator in the stealth cruiser's observation bubble powered up on the hangar deck just ahead of them. Moments before launch, a decoy flight of three manned Baselards soared past the hangar aperture with a Banshee squadron hot on their tails. The ''Vanishing Point'' cold-launched a salvo of twenty pre-targeted [[Archer missile|M42 Archer missiles]], and an instant later, the remote Baselard shot out of the hangar and fired on the Banshee squadron. Meanwhile, the ''Vanishing Point''{{'}}s missiles activated and flew after the Banshees as well. The Banshees scattered, giving the manned decoy Baselards a chance to escape. John gave Blue Team the order to launch their Banshees and fall in behind the alien fighter squadron before firing on the remote-controlled Baselard until it self-destructed into a fireball that helped distract the Covenant forces. Simultaneously, the ''Vanishing Point'' evacuated its waste holds to try to fool any long-range sensors before slipping away. Blue Team managed to convince the enemy squadron that their communication equipment was damaged, buying time to reach the air-skimmers. At this point, Gold and Green Teams successfully ejected from their Baselards, boarding and destroying the designated equipment freighters.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS20}} Blue Team's destruction of the air-skimmers soon followed and all twelve Spartans were recovered.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS20}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS21|HSS|Chapter=21}} | With the ''Vanishing Point'' nearing the designated drop-off point, Blue Team boarded their Banshees as a Baselard remotely piloted by an operator in the stealth cruiser's observation bubble powered up on the hangar deck just ahead of them. Moments before launch, a decoy flight of three manned Baselards soared past the hangar aperture with a Banshee squadron hot on their tails. The ''Vanishing Point'' cold-launched a salvo of twenty pre-targeted [[Archer missile|M42 Archer missiles]], and an instant later, the remote Baselard shot out of the hangar and fired on the Banshee squadron. Meanwhile, the ''Vanishing Point''{{'}}s missiles activated and flew after the Banshees as well. The Banshees scattered, giving the manned decoy Baselards a chance to escape. John gave Blue Team the order to launch their Banshees and fall in behind the alien fighter squadron before firing on the remote-controlled Baselard until it self-destructed into a fireball that helped distract the Covenant forces. Simultaneously, the ''Vanishing Point'' evacuated its waste holds to try to fool any long-range sensors before slipping away. Blue Team managed to convince the enemy squadron that their communication equipment was damaged, buying time to reach the air-skimmers. At this point, Gold and Green Teams successfully ejected from their Baselards, boarding and destroying the designated equipment freighters.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS20}} Blue Team's destruction of the air-skimmers soon followed and all twelve Spartans were recovered.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS20}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS21|HSS|Chapter=21}} | ||
===Rendezvous=== | |||
After observing the remnants of the logistics flotilla until a new Covenant supply convoy arrived at Etalan five days later, the Vanishing Point and its two escort prowlers rendezvoused with the rest of Task Force Yama in the [[Polona sector]] on [[2526#March|March 31, 2526]]. By this time, Hector Nyeto or one of his operatives had managed to slip a sophisticated data miner into Dr. Halsey's personal lab computer, which stole her most closely guarded data and regularly caused [[Déjà]], her assistant AI, to regularly experience glitches. Despite discovering this, Halsey decided that she would not remove the data miner in case that tipped Nyeto off that she knew his true allegiances. Tolerating the glitches, Halsey and Déjà tried to work out the location of the logistics base from which the Covenant had sent the new supply convoy. Since it had taken five days for the convoy to arrive, Halsey assumed that the base must be between half and three-quarters that distance at Covenant slipspace travel rates. However, it did not appear that there were any habitable worlds in that range. Déjà suggested that they may have [[Luminal Beacon|instantaneous interstellar communications]] and that [[Zhoist|the planet]] situated near [[Transit Node Bhadra]] within five days from Etalan should be their target. Halsey agreed with the AI's assertion.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS22|HSS|Chapter=22}} | |||
Crowther returned to the ''Vanishing Point'' and visited Halsey's lab, as she had requested under the guise of flirting with him. Once they were alone in her private quarters, Halsey revealed that she was putting on a show in the event that Nyeto or one of his agents were watching; this way, they would not suspect that Halsey and Crowther were meeting to discuss their suspicions. With that settled, Halsey stated that they needed to decide how to handle Nyeto before he tried to kill her Spartans again.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS22}} | |||
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