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==History== | ==History== | ||
[[File:HaloAJ.png|thumb|right|350px|The ''Ascendant Justice'' holding position in the distance as Halo burns.]] | [[File:HaloAJ.png|thumb|right|350px|The ''Ascendant Justice'' holding position in the distance as Halo burns.]] | ||
Shortly after the Fleet of Particular Justice arrived at Installation 04, the ''Ascendant Justice'' and a small group of ships were sent into the system from ''[[High Charity]]'', arriving before or early on in the [[Battle of Installation 04]].<ref group="note">In ''Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit'' featured in the Adjunct section of the 2010 reissue of ''Halo: The Flood'', it is stated that the ''Ascendant Justice'' was already present at Installation 04 during the Battle of Installation 04. Meanwhile, page 68 of ''Halo: First Strike'' specifies the ship was part of a scouting picket from ''High Charity'', separate from the Fleet of Particular Justice. From this, it can be inferred that the ship must have arrived before or very early into the battle.</ref> | Shortly after the Fleet of Particular Justice arrived at Installation 04, the ''Ascendant Justice'' and a small group of ships were sent into the system from ''[[High Charity]]'', arriving before or early on in the [[Battle of Installation 04]].<ref group="note">In ''Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit'' featured in the Adjunct section of the 2010 reissue of ''Halo: The Flood'', it is stated that the ''Ascendant Justice'' was already present at Installation 04 during the Battle of Installation 04. Meanwhile, page 68 of ''Halo: First Strike'' specifies the ship was part of a scouting picket from ''High Charity'', separate from the Fleet of Particular Justice. From this, it can be inferred that the ship must have arrived before or very early into the battle.</ref> | ||
During the Battle of Installation 04, the [[Prophet of Stewardship]] alternated between the ''Ascendant Justice'' in orbit and the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' on the ring. When [[Supreme Commander]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee sent a single infantry unit to relieve the Prophet for his constant force misappropriation, Stewardship ordered the ''Ascendant Justice'' to destroy them on final approach, warning that any other affronts to his leadership would result in equally lethal fates. Thel then assembled a strike force to retake the ''Ascendant Justice'' and physically relieve the Prophet of leadership until the humans were eliminated, but Stewardship left for the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' before they arrived, leaving orders for the crew to arrest Thel 'Vadamee if he continued to interfere with the Consecration. When Thel's force arrived on the ''Ascendant Justice'', no shots were fired and the crew acknowledged his authority.<ref name="Rerelease" /> | During the Battle of Installation 04, the [[Prophet of Stewardship]] alternated between the ''Ascendant Justice'' in orbit and the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' on the ring. When [[Supreme Commander]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee sent a single infantry unit to relieve the Prophet for his constant force misappropriation, Stewardship ordered the ''Ascendant Justice'' to destroy them on final approach, warning that any other affronts to his leadership would result in equally lethal fates. Thel then assembled a strike force to retake the ''Ascendant Justice'' and physically relieve the Prophet of leadership until the humans were eliminated, but Stewardship left for the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' before they arrived, leaving orders for the crew to arrest Thel 'Vadamee if he continued to interfere with the Consecration. When Thel's force arrived on the ''Ascendant Justice'', no shots were fired and the crew acknowledged his authority.<ref name="Rerelease" /> | ||
When Installation 04's destruction was imminent, | When Installation 04's destruction was imminent, the Fleet of Particular Justice moved into cover behind [[Threshold]]. The ''Ascendant Justice's'' scoutgroup remained to search the wreckage for transmissions from survivors. It was soon [[Skirmish over Threshold|boarded and captured]] by a small team of UNSC survivors, which included John-117; [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Junior Johnson|Avery Johnson]]; [[Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]]; [[Corporal]] [[Locklear]]; [[Warrant Officer]] [[Shiela Polaski|Sheila Polaski]], and the AI [[Cortana]]. The survivors then used ''Ascendant Justice'' to return to [[Reach]] and evacuate a small number of [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN]] survivors, [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]] and [[Catherine Elizabeth Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]], as well as a [[Forerunner crystal|Forerunner artifact]] from the planet, attaching to the wreckage of the [[UNSC frigate]] {{UNSCship|Gettysburg}} for additional power. They then escaped through [[Slipstream space|Slipspace]] toward the [[Eridanus system|Eridanus System]], becoming the first ship to ever go into Slipspace so close to a planet. En route to [[Eridanus Secundus]], ''Ascendant Justice'' was forced to engage multiple Covenant warships, including several [[covenant cruiser|cruisers]] and {{Class|DDS|carrier}}s, in an alternate Slipspace dimension caused by the Forerunner artifact. Furthermore, some surviving Sangheili crew members had sabotaged the ''Ascendant Justice'''s main power conduit, forcing the SPARTANs to go on an [[Extra-vehicular activity|extravehicular mission]] on the outer hull. This mission resulted in the deaths of the entire surviving Sangheili crew, but also killed Warrant Officer Polaski, and SPARTANs [[Anton-044]] and [[Li-008]]. | ||
The ship received assistance from remaining [[Insurrectionist|rebels]] in the small asteroid colony of Eridanus Secundus, who provided personnel and repairs for the ship's weaponry, before being discovered by the Covenant. Though the ''Ascendant Justice'' engaged the initial Covenant forces in ship-to-ship combat, reinforcements arrived en masse, forcing it to abandon the colony to the Covenant. | The ship received assistance from remaining [[Insurrectionist|rebels]] in the small asteroid colony of Eridanus Secundus, who provided personnel and repairs for the ship's weaponry, before being discovered by the Covenant. Though the ''Ascendant Justice'' engaged the initial Covenant forces in ship-to-ship combat, reinforcements arrived en masse, forcing it to abandon the colony to the Covenant. | ||