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==Unidentified Seraph encounters==
==Unidentified Seraph encounters==
On [[2526#March|March 26, 2526]], [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II]] [[Blue Team|Blue]], [[Gold Team|Gold]], and [[Green Team]]s led [[Battle over Etalan|a mission]] to destroy the logistics fleet serving the [[Fleet of Inexorable Obedience]]. In orbit over [[Etalan]], the Gold and Green Teams piloted four [[S-14 Baselard]]s alongside sixteen other Baselards. To accomplish their goal of destroying four Covenant [[Freighter|equipment freighters]], the Baselards had to fight through swarms of Seraphs and [[Type-27 Banshee]]s.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS19|HSS|Chapter=19}}
Seraphs have seen operational use as early as the [[Harvest campaign]], and would later become a common adversary of Longsword fighters. These starfighters provided excellent fire support to all Covenant forces in space and on the groundside. Elite pilots considered piloting a Seraph merely a means to attain enough glory to be reassigned to a ground combat position, valuing their fighters only as tools to accomplish this. Despite their extensive training, their honor code gave them a tendency to peel off from their squadrons to engage in one-on-one dogfights, making them vulnerable in combat. Brute pilots were excluded from such training, but their pack mentality and rigid social hierarchy made them far more effective teams. Human pilots soon learned to fear Brute-piloted Seraphs, identified by clan markings and Forerunner symbols carved on their hulls, more than Elite-piloted Seraphs.<ref name="warfleet">''[[Halo: Warfleet]]'', p. 58-59</ref>
Seraphs have seen operational use as early as the [[Harvest campaign]], and would later become a common adversary of Longsword fighters. These starfighters provided excellent fire support to all Covenant forces in space and on the groundside. Elite pilots considered piloting a Seraph merely a means to attain enough glory to be reassigned to a ground combat position, valuing their fighters only as tools to accomplish this. Despite their extensive training, their honor code gave them a tendency to peel off from their squadrons to engage in one-on-one dogfights, making them vulnerable in combat. Brute pilots were excluded from such training, but their pack mentality and rigid social hierarchy made them far more effective teams. Human pilots soon learned to fear Brute-piloted Seraphs, identified by clan markings and Forerunner symbols carved on their hulls, more than Elite-piloted Seraphs.<ref name="warfleet">''[[Halo: Warfleet]]'', p. 58-59</ref>