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| | The ''Ascendant Justice'' is a [[Covenant]] Flagship, probably the [[UNSC]] equivelant to a destroyer. It appeared in [[Halo: First Strike]]. It had seven plasma turrets and was noted to have three thousand Covenant personnel, mostly [[Engineers]], along with quite a small crew of combat personnel, a light company of [[Grunts]] and only a hundred [[Elites]], when its size was taken into consideration. There were apparently enough Engineers on board to merit them having an access tunnel of their own. The [[Master Chief]] noted that he "hadn't seen anything like this on the [[Truth and Reconciliation]]" (p. 63), and that it was "armed like a ship of war... yet had the support staff of a refit vessel" (p. 63). |
| <center>''This article is about the Covenant Flagship. For the blog, see [[Ascendant Justice (Blog)]].''</center>
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| |name = Ascendant Justice
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| |manufacturer = [[Covenant Empire]]
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| |class = Flagship
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| |length = 3000 meters<ref>[[Halo: First Strike]] page 36</ref>
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| |engine = [[Repulsor Engines]]
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| |slipspace drive = Yes
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| |slipspace speed = 8 light-years/day
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| |poweroutput = (at least enough to fire 1 projector and 2 torpedoes at any 1 time)
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| |shield gen = Yes (resistant to 4 plasma torpedoes)
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| |hull = Unknown covenant material (resistant to 2 plasma torpedoes)
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| |armament = *[[Pulse Laser Turret]]s
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| *[[Energy Projector]]s
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| *[[Cortana]]-enhanced [[Plasma Torpedo]]es
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| |complement = Several Seraph fighters
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| |crew = *Hundreds of [[Engineers]]
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| *About 100 [[Sangheili|Elites]]
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| *Legion of [[Unggoy|Grunts]]
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| |firstuse = September 22nd, [[2552]] - after the [[Battle of Installation 04]]
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| |role = [[Flagship]]
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| |era = [[9th Age of Reclamation]]
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| |affiliation = [[Covenant Navy]]/[[UNSC]]
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| }}
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| The '''''Ascendant Justice''''' was a [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] [[Flagship]], one of the seven ships sent to [[Installation 04]] shortly after its destruction. It was the ship that MCPO [[John-117]] and the other survivors of Installation 04 had taken over.
| | This ship was present at the destruction of [[Installation 04]], and was hijacked by surviving UNSC forces. The ship was in turn, used against the Covenant, and was responsible for the destruction of the battle station [[Unyielding Hierophant]], delaying [[Earth]]'s inevitable doom. Prior to its sacrifice, the ship also helped rescue survivors from [[Reach]], more specifically, from [[ONI]]'s [[CASTLE Base]]. |
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| ==Background==
| | The [[Slipspace]] generators were placed on the Gettysburg, making it the fastest and most accurate ship in the UNSC to navigate Slipspace. |
| It had [[seven]] Plasma Turrets 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 Engineers 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>
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| ==History==
| | The future [[Arbiter]] was mentioned as "the incompetent" (p.340) "who lost Ascendant Justice" (p. 340) at the end of First Strike, and the [[High Prophet of Truth]] instructed [[Tartarus]] to "let his fate match the magnitude of his failure" (p. 340). Although not THE head starship of the Covenant forces that pursued the [[Pillar of Autumn]] to Installation 04, Ascendant Justice obviously was of great importance to the Covenant for Truth to issue such a severe punishment as witnessed in [[Halo 2]]. |
| The ship was present at the destruction of [[Installation 04]], searching the wreckage for transmissions from survivors. It was [[Skirmish over Threshold|boarded and captured]] by a small team of UNSC forces. Among them was [[John-117]], and [[Sergeant]] [[Johnson]], who used it to return to [[Reach]] and evacuate a small number of [[SPARTAN II|Spartan]] survivors, [[Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb]] and [[Dr. Halsey]], as well as a [[Forerunner Crystal|Forerunner artifact]] from the planet, attaching to the wreckage of the UNSC Frigate [[UNSC Gettysburg|''Gettysburg'']] for additional power and escaping through [[Slipspace]] to the [[Eridanus Secundus]] System, becoming the first ship to ever go into slipspace so close to a planet. It was forced to engage multiple Covenant warships, such as [[Cruisers]] and [[Covenant Carrier|Carriers]], in an alternate slipspace. To make things worse, some surviving Elite crew members had sabotaged the ''Ascendant Justice'''s main power conduit, forcing the Spartans to go on an extravehicular mission. This mission resulted in the deaths of the entire surviving Elite crew, but also killed [[Warrant Officer]] [[Polaski]], and Spartans [[Anton-044]], and [[Li-008]]. | |
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| The ship received assistance from remaining [[Eridanus Rebels]] in a small asteroid colony, who provided personnel and repairs for the ships weaponry, before being discovered by the Covenant. Though the ''Ascendant Justice'' engaged the initial Covenant forces in ship-to-ship battle, reinforcements arrived en masse, forcing it to abandon the colony to the Covenant.
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| [[File:Fight_on_Ascendant_Justice.png|thumb|250px|John-117, Corporal [[Locklear]], and Lieutenant [[Haverson]] fighting aboard the Ascendant Justice]]
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| Vice Admiral Whitcomb initiated [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]]. The [[UNSC]]-commandeered ''Ascendant Justice'' then inserted John and his Spartans near the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'' in a slightly-modified [[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 near moon where the {{UNSCShip|Gettysburg}} was waiting for them. Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and Lieutenant Elias 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). He 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 Spartan-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 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 and likely were part of the force that the Prophet of Regret lead to Earth soon after. Both Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and [[Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]] are listed as [[KIA|Killed in Action]].
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| The ''Ascendant Justice'''s Slipspace drive allowed the {{UNSCShip|Gettysburg}} to reach Earth and warn the UNSC leadership of the Covenant's plans to reach Earth. It is not currently known what has become of the ''Ascendant Justice''s Slipspace drive, though it is assumed that it was studied by UNSC technicians.
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| Only four members of the ''Ascendant Justice'''s original Covenant crew survived its capture. A [[SpecOps Elite|Special Operations]] Elite who engaged the Master Chief in hand-to-hand combat was shot and pushed into an escape pod, and a few [[Engineer]]s that were taken to Earth on the ''Gettysburg'' and were then turned over to [[ONI]] scientists.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]''</ref>
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| *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]]''. In Halo: First Strike, the ship is suggested to be part of the Second Fleet of Homogenous Clarity protecting High Charity.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 68, "This [[High Charity|visitor]] was so important that these warships were only the advance scouting party. [[Second Fleet of Homogenous Clarity|More ships were on their way. Hundreds of them]]."</ref>
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| *When the ''Ascendant Justice'' first arrived at [[Reach]] in the greeting that Cortana received, someone called the 'Guardian of the Luminous Key' was supposed to be in command of the ship, according to the string of honorifics attached to the greeting. It is not possible that "Luminous Key" refers to the Index, the key for the activation of Halo, as Cortana had the Index and the Covenant had no way of knowing this.
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| *The ''Ascendant Justice's'' computer had a software replication program which allowed [[Cortana (AI)|Cortana]] to make imperfect replications of herself, which made it easier to destroy the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''.
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| *Though ''Ascendant Justice'' contained a very small amount of combat personal, it was very heavily armed. Being part of the "advanced scout", it was likely used this way to attack enemy ships with little casualties, the many Huragok would have been assigned to make constant repairs.
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| *The ''Ascendant Justice'''s upgraded weapons, thanks to [[Cortana]], seem to resemble the weapons of the unnamed supership at the [[Fall of Reach]].
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| *While aboard, Cortana successfully completed the first known 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 Covenant AI. The second was performed by the [[Prophet of Regret]].
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| *The Covenant AI aboard the ''Ascendant Justice'' was the first of its kind to be discovered and after being found, was copied and deleted by Cortana.
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| *Due to having the same length, purpose, and ship armament, it is likely a [[Reverence-class Cruiser]].
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Summary
The Ascendant Justice is a Covenant Flagship, probably the UNSC equivelant to a destroyer. It appeared in Halo: First Strike. It had seven plasma turrets and was noted to have three thousand Covenant personnel, mostly Engineers, along with quite a small crew of combat personnel, a light company of Grunts and only a hundred Elites, when its size was taken into consideration. There were apparently enough Engineers on board to merit them having an access tunnel of their own. The Master Chief noted that he "hadn't seen anything like this on the Truth and Reconciliation" (p. 63), and that it was "armed like a ship of war... yet had the support staff of a refit vessel" (p. 63).
This ship was present at the destruction of Installation 04, and was hijacked by surviving UNSC forces. The ship was in turn, used against the Covenant, and was responsible for the destruction of the battle station Unyielding Hierophant, delaying Earth's inevitable doom. Prior to its sacrifice, the ship also helped rescue survivors from Reach, more specifically, from ONI's CASTLE Base.
The Slipspace generators were placed on the Gettysburg, making it the fastest and most accurate ship in the UNSC to navigate Slipspace.
The future Arbiter was mentioned as "the incompetent" (p.340) "who lost Ascendant Justice" (p. 340) at the end of First Strike, and the High Prophet of Truth instructed Tartarus to "let his fate match the magnitude of his failure" (p. 340). Although not THE head starship of the Covenant forces that pursued the Pillar of Autumn to Installation 04, Ascendant Justice obviously was of great importance to the Covenant for Truth to issue such a severe punishment as witnessed in Halo 2.
