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|manufacturer = [[Covenant Empire]] | |manufacturer = [[Covenant Empire]] | ||
|class = [[Covenant supercarrier|Supercarrier]]<ref name="Rerelease">'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''' (2010), ''Bonus Content''</ref> | |class = [[Covenant supercarrier|Supercarrier]]<ref name="Rerelease">'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''' (2010), ''Bonus Content''</ref> | ||
|length = 3000 meters<ref> | |length = 3000 meters<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 36''</ref> | ||
|engine = [[Repulsor Engines]] | |engine = [[Repulsor Engines]] | ||
|slipspace drive = Yes | |slipspace drive = Yes | ||
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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
It had [[List of "seven" references in Halo|seven]] [[plasma turret]]s and was noted to have three thousand Covenant personnel, mostly composed of [[Huragok]], along with an unusually small crew of combat personnel: a light company of [[Unggoy]] and only a hundred [[Sangheili]]. There were apparently enough Huragok on board to merit them having an access tunnel of their own. John-117 noted that he "...hadn't seen anything like this on the ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]''," and that it was "''armed like a ship of war... yet had the support staff of a refit vessel.''"<ref> | It had [[List of "seven" references in Halo|seven]] [[plasma turret]]s and was noted to have three thousand Covenant personnel, mostly composed of [[Huragok]], along with an unusually small crew of combat personnel: a light company of [[Unggoy]] and only a hundred [[Sangheili]]. There were apparently enough Huragok on board to merit them having an access tunnel of their own. John-117 noted that he "...hadn't seen anything like this on the ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]''," and that it was "''armed like a ship of war... yet had the support staff of a refit vessel.''"<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 63''</ref> It possessed a crude Covenant [[Associated Intelligence]] [[Unnamed Covenant AI|construct]] and software for replicating AI matrices. | ||
It should be noted that despite its classification as a supercarrier, the ''Ascendant Justice'' is nowhere near as large as the ''Long Night of Solace''. This may be an indication that Covenant supercarriers vary in size. | It should be noted that despite its classification as a supercarrier, the ''Ascendant Justice'' is nowhere near as large as the ''Long Night of Solace''. This may be an indication that Covenant supercarriers vary in size. | ||
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After fleeing from Eridanus Secundus, the crew of the ''Ascendant Justice'' discovered the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'', a Covenant refit-and-repair station, which was being used to service a Covenant [[Truth's fleet|invasion force]] that was poised to invade [[Earth]]. Vice Admiral Whitcomb then initiated [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]], in which the UNSC-commandeered ''Ascendant Justice'' the remaining SPARTANs near the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' in a heavily modified [[Type-25 Troop Carrier|Spirit dropship]], and started a self-destruct sequence in one of the station's reactor rooms. The SPARTANs managed to escape from the station and travel to the far side of a nearby moon where the ''Gettysburg'' was waiting for them. Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson had detached the ''Ascendant Justice'' from the ''Gettysburg'' and taken it in a slingshot orbit around the moon. Vice Admiral Whitcomb pretended to have the Forerunner crystal by using a hologram and challenged the Covenant to come and claim it. The Covenant did not want to fire on the ''Ascendant Justice'' because the crystal was supposedly on it. The two used the momentum from their slingshot orbit to crash into the station even after the Covenant had cut the ship's engines off with laser fire. Whitcomb then ordered John-117 to see what was left of the Covenant and then "''...hightail the intel back to Earth.''" The last few seconds of visual and audio record from the Ascendant Justice showed the door crashing to the ground and the Admiral opening fire with an [[M7/Caseless Submachine Gun|SMG]]. The reactors on the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' then overloaded and exploded, destroying the ''Ascendant Justice'' and over four hundred enemy vessels. Only a few Covenant ships survived the catastrophe, which delayed the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s plan to invade Earth. Both Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson were killed. The ''Ascendant Justice'''s Slipspace drive allowed the ''Gettysburg'' to reach Earth and warn the UNSC leadership of the Covenant's plans to invade Earth. | After fleeing from Eridanus Secundus, the crew of the ''Ascendant Justice'' discovered the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'', a Covenant refit-and-repair station, which was being used to service a Covenant [[Truth's fleet|invasion force]] that was poised to invade [[Earth]]. Vice Admiral Whitcomb then initiated [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]], in which the UNSC-commandeered ''Ascendant Justice'' the remaining SPARTANs near the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' in a heavily modified [[Type-25 Troop Carrier|Spirit dropship]], and started a self-destruct sequence in one of the station's reactor rooms. The SPARTANs managed to escape from the station and travel to the far side of a nearby moon where the ''Gettysburg'' was waiting for them. Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson had detached the ''Ascendant Justice'' from the ''Gettysburg'' and taken it in a slingshot orbit around the moon. Vice Admiral Whitcomb pretended to have the Forerunner crystal by using a hologram and challenged the Covenant to come and claim it. The Covenant did not want to fire on the ''Ascendant Justice'' because the crystal was supposedly on it. The two used the momentum from their slingshot orbit to crash into the station even after the Covenant had cut the ship's engines off with laser fire. Whitcomb then ordered John-117 to see what was left of the Covenant and then "''...hightail the intel back to Earth.''" The last few seconds of visual and audio record from the Ascendant Justice showed the door crashing to the ground and the Admiral opening fire with an [[M7/Caseless Submachine Gun|SMG]]. The reactors on the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' then overloaded and exploded, destroying the ''Ascendant Justice'' and over four hundred enemy vessels. Only a few Covenant ships survived the catastrophe, which delayed the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s plan to invade Earth. Both Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson were killed. The ''Ascendant Justice'''s Slipspace drive allowed the ''Gettysburg'' to reach Earth and warn the UNSC leadership of the Covenant's plans to invade Earth. | ||
Only four members of the ''Ascendant Justice'''s original Covenant crew survived its capture. A [[Special Operations Sangheili]] who engaged the Master Chief in hand-to-hand combat was shot and pushed into an escape pod, and a few Huragok that were taken to Earth on the ''Gettysburg'' were turned over to the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref> | Only four members of the ''Ascendant Justice'''s original Covenant crew survived its capture. A [[Special Operations Sangheili]] who engaged the Master Chief in hand-to-hand combat was shot and pushed into an escape pod, and a few Huragok that were taken to Earth on the ''Gettysburg'' were turned over to the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref>'''Halo: First Strike'''</ref> | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Many fans originally believed this vessel to be the flagship of the ''[[Fleet of Particular Justice]]'', though this idea was contradicted by the ''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]'' story ''[[The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor]]''. The ship had already been confirmed in 2003 to be part of the [[Second Fleet of Homogenous Clarity]], which protected ''[[High Charity]]''.<ref> | *Many fans originally believed this vessel to be the flagship of the ''[[Fleet of Particular Justice]]'', though this idea was contradicted by the ''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]'' story ''[[The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor]]''. The ship had already been confirmed in 2003 to be part of the [[Second Fleet of Homogenous Clarity]], which protected ''[[High Charity]]''.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 68'', (''"This [[High Charity|visitor]] was so important that these warships were only the advance scouting party. [[High Charity Defense Fleet|More ships were on their way. Hundreds of them]]."'')</ref> However, the bonus content in the 2010 re-release of ''[[Halo: The Flood]]'' revealed it to instead be a supercarrier assigned to the ''Fleet of Particular Justice''. | ||
*While aboard, Cortana successfully completed the first recorded<!--Two previous cases of in-atmosphere jumps by the UNSC are known to have happened, though they were never confirmed by the UNSC - at least officially.--> in-atmosphere Slipspace jump, usually impossible due to the inter-lapping gravitation fields. This information was later leaked to the Covenant fleet around Reach by the ship's AI. In-atmosphere Slipspace jumps were subsequently performed by Covenant forces during the [[Battle of Earth]]. | *While aboard, Cortana successfully completed the first recorded<!--Two previous cases of in-atmosphere jumps by the UNSC are known to have happened, though they were never confirmed by the UNSC - at least officially.--> in-atmosphere Slipspace jump, usually impossible due to the inter-lapping gravitation fields. This information was later leaked to the Covenant fleet around Reach by the ship's AI. In-atmosphere Slipspace jumps were subsequently performed by Covenant forces during the [[Battle of Earth]]. | ||