M312 Elephant: Difference between revisions

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The '''M312 Heavy Recovery Vehicle''', commonly referred as the '''Elephant''', is a UNSC Mobile Assault, Support, and Recovery Platform.<ref name="visual"/> The vehicle is used primarily as an armoured mobile recovery vehicle and has seen action most noticeably in the [[Human-Covenant War]].

When the {{UNSCship|Spirit of Fire}} arrived in [[Shield World|Shield]] [[Shield 0459|0459]] in pursuit of the Covenant Arbiter [[Ripa 'Moramee]], who captured [[Ellen Anders]], the UNSC forces onboard utilized three of the M312 HRV to perform reconnaissance on the world's surface. Two of these were captured by the Flood, but were rescued under the leadership of [[Sergeant]] [[John Forge]] and [[SPARTAN-II Program|Spartan-II]] [[Red Team]].<ref name=as>'''Halo Wars''', campaign level ''[[Anders' Signal]]''</ref> These three M312s provided support in the battles later on the battles on Shield 0459's surface.<ref>'''Halo Wars''', campaign level ''[[The Flood (level)|The Flood]]''</ref> When the UNSC forces were recalled to the ''Spirit'', [[Bravo Platoon]] was accompanied by an M312 HRV.<ref>'''Halo Wars''', campaign level ''[[Shield World]]''</ref> When the ''Spirit''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew planned to trigger Shield 0459's artificial sun into a supernova,  they used an M312 to pull a Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine to the artificial sun.<ref name="react"/>