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**''Argent Moon'' successfully scuttled | **''Argent Moon'' successfully scuttled | ||
**Blue Team makes contact with [[Cortana]] and depart for [[Meridian]] | **Blue Team makes contact with [[Cortana]] and depart for [[Meridian]] | ||
*[[Intrepid Eye]] manages to escape from the ''Argent Moon'' | *[[Intrepid Eye]] manages to escape from the ''Argent Moon''{{Ref/Novel|Id=DW5|DW|Chapter=5}} | ||
|side1={{Icon|UNSC Post}} [[United Nations Space Command]] | |side1={{Icon|UNSC Post}} [[United Nations Space Command]] | ||
|side2={{Icon|Mdama}} [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant]] | |side2={{Icon|Mdama}} [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant]] | ||
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As Blue Team reached the third level, they received reports lighting up the [[Covenant battle network]] and witnessed numerous [[Blockade Runner|Covenant starships]] exiting slipspace. With no chance of reclaiming ''Argent Moon'' against a numerically superior alien force, John changed the team's objective from capture to asset denial. Their plan now was to head to the ship's reactor and shut off its safeties so the reactor would overheat and detonate, destroying the ship, 'Mdama's Covenant aboard, and any Covenant warships surrounding it. | As Blue Team reached the third level, they received reports lighting up the [[Covenant battle network]] and witnessed numerous [[Blockade Runner|Covenant starships]] exiting slipspace. With no chance of reclaiming ''Argent Moon'' against a numerically superior alien force, John changed the team's objective from capture to asset denial. Their plan now was to head to the ship's reactor and shut off its safeties so the reactor would overheat and detonate, destroying the ship, 'Mdama's Covenant aboard, and any Covenant warships surrounding it. | ||
Blue Team continued lower in the ship to reach the reactor, and on the way, encountered the Mgalekgolo pair, ambushing them in a lab. Many more Covenant troops were defending the ship's reactor. After fighting and killing them all, Blue Team deactivated the reactor's failsafe for its overload. However, ''Argent Moon'' responded with automatic safeties, moving the reactor to a cooling center where it could be contained. To ensure its overload, Blue Team followed the reactor to the cooling center in vacuum, using [[Type-54 Banshee|Banshees]] to destroy its coolant pipes. With their interference, the cooling system failed and the reactor began overheating, prepping ''Argent Moon''' | Blue Team continued lower in the ship to reach the reactor, and on the way, encountered the Mgalekgolo pair, ambushing them in a lab. Many more Covenant troops were defending the ship's reactor. After fighting and killing them all, Blue Team deactivated the reactor's failsafe for its overload. However, ''Argent Moon'' responded with automatic safeties, moving the reactor to a cooling center where it could be contained. To ensure its overload, Blue Team followed the reactor to the cooling center in vacuum, using [[Type-54 Banshee|Banshees]] to destroy its coolant pipes. With their interference, the cooling system failed and the reactor began overheating, prepping ''Argent Moon's'' destruction. | ||
===Escape=== | ===Escape=== | ||
Blue Team needed to escape, but their Banshees would not escape the explosion in time and their arrival Pelican appeared to have been destroyed. John thus ordered them to the hangar where they could take a {{Class|Winter| | Blue Team needed to escape, but their Banshees would not escape the explosion in time and their arrival Pelican appeared to have been destroyed. John thus ordered them to the hangar where they could take a {{Class|Winter|Prowler}} and escape into [[slipspace]]. Arrived at a hangar, the Spartans found the parked [[ONI Acrisius|ONI ''Acrisius'']], but needed to recharge its fuel cells. A huge Covenant force, including another Mgalekgolo pair and numerous [[Type-58 fuel rod cannon|fuel rod cannon]]-wielding Unggoy attacked the Spartans, forcing them to defend themselves, waiting for the Prowler to prep for launch. | ||
With the hangar cleared and ''Acrisius'' ready, John-117 radioed the [[UNSC Infinity|UNSC ''Infinity'']] and informed them that he would be sending Blue Team to Meridian. However, ''Infinity'' was mysteriously already aware of Cortana's return and ordered John back to them while another Spartan team was sent to deal with her. Rejecting their orders, John and Blue Team chose to go AWOL and evacuated aboard ''Acrisius'', leaving ''Argent Moon'' as it exploded and killed all of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant in its vicinity. | With the hangar cleared and ''Acrisius'' ready, John-117 radioed the [[UNSC Infinity|UNSC ''Infinity'']] and informed them that he would be sending Blue Team to Meridian. However, ''Infinity'' was mysteriously already aware of Cortana's return and ordered John back to them while another Spartan team was sent to deal with her. Rejecting their orders, John and Blue Team chose to go AWOL and evacuated aboard ''Acrisius'', leaving ''Argent Moon'' as it exploded and killed all of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant in its vicinity. | ||
Unknown to the Blue Team, the Forerunner ancilla [[Intrepid Eye]], who was captured by the UNSC five years ago, also managed to escape ''Argent Moon'' by attaching herself into the ''Acrisius''.{{Ref/Novel| | Unknown to the Blue Team, the Forerunner ancilla [[Intrepid Eye]], who was captured by the UNSC five years ago, also barely managed to escape ''Argent Moon'' by attaching herself into the ''Acrisius''.{{Ref/Reuse|DW5}} The UNSC mistakenly believed that the ancilla was destroyed along with the station.{{Ref/Novel|DW|Chapter=6}} | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||