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===UPPER CUT and LEFT JAB=== | ===UPPER CUT and LEFT JAB=== | ||
{{Main|Operation: UPPER CUT|Operation: LEFT JAB}} | {{Main|Operation: UPPER CUT|Operation: LEFT JAB}} | ||
With 'Barutamee's forces spread across the system, the next stage of the UNSC's plan began, simultaneously launching Operations: [[Operation: UPPER CUT|UPPER CUT]] and [[Operation: LEFT JAB|LEFT JAB]]. For LEFT JAB, Stanforth began using his fleet to begin probing the Covenant lines for vulnerabilities,<ref>''Halo: Fleet Battles'', [[Scenario Six: Left Jab]]</ref> using his [[task force]]s to attack Covenant scouting fleets.<ref>''Halo: Fleet Battles'', [[Scenario Seven: Finishing Blow]]</ref> While the Covenant fleet was distracted, Operation: UPPER CUT was led by [[NOBLE Team]] Spartans [[Jorge-052]] and [[SPARTAN-B312]], employing [[FSS-1000 Sabre|Sabre]] [[starfighter]]s and the {{UNSCShip|Savannah}} as support. The mission was to use the starfighters to board the {{ | With 'Barutamee's forces spread across the system, the next stage of the UNSC's plan began, simultaneously launching Operations: [[Operation: UPPER CUT|UPPER CUT]] and [[Operation: LEFT JAB|LEFT JAB]]. For LEFT JAB, Stanforth began using his fleet to begin probing the Covenant lines for vulnerabilities,<ref>''Halo: Fleet Battles'', [[Scenario Six: Left Jab]]</ref> using his [[task force]]s to attack Covenant scouting fleets.<ref>''Halo: Fleet Battles'', [[Scenario Seven: Finishing Blow]]</ref> While the Covenant fleet was distracted, Operation: UPPER CUT was led by [[NOBLE Team]] Spartans [[Jorge-052]] and [[SPARTAN-B312]], employing [[FSS-1000 Sabre|Sabre]] [[starfighter]]s and the {{UNSCShip|Savannah}} as support. The mission was to use the starfighters to board the {{Pattern|Ceudar|heavy corvette}} ''[[Ardent Prayer]]'' and set the ship on a refuelling run with the supercarrier, while a secondary team armed a [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|slipspace drive]] to "malfunction", ripping space-time apart and destroying the supercarrier whole.{{Ref/Reuse|lnos}} | ||
The ''Savannah'' lended its slipspace drive to the cause, and served on station for electronic warfare, point-defense and coordination with Stanforth's [[battlegroup]] but ultimately was destroyed by the [[plasma cannon]]s of ''Ardent Prayer''. Nonetheless, UPPER CUT was a success and the ''Long Night of Solace'' was destroyed, with the supercarrier's wreckage falling to Reach's surface.{{Ref/Reuse|lnos}} However, this operation would be in vain, as almost immediately following the destruction of ''Long Night of Solace'' a second Covenant fleet from the [[Ministry of Resolution]] appeared above Reach, and proceeded to attack the planet. This fleet began to attack Reach in earnest, as opposed to the artifact-recovery operations sought by Rho 'Barutamee. [[Kantar 'Utaralee]] assumed command of what remained of Rho's forces, rallying the Fleet of Valiant Prudence near [[Turul]] in an attempt to finish what Rho had started and recover the Site 17 artefact. What remained of the UNSC fleet was issued an emergency order to initiate the [[Cole Protocol]] and rally at [[Rally Point Zulu]].<ref>''Halo: Fleet Battles'', [[Scenario Eight: Rally Point Zulu]]</ref> | The ''Savannah'' lended its slipspace drive to the cause, and served on station for electronic warfare, point-defense and coordination with Stanforth's [[battlegroup]] but ultimately was destroyed by the [[plasma cannon]]s of ''Ardent Prayer''. Nonetheless, UPPER CUT was a success and the ''Long Night of Solace'' was destroyed, with the supercarrier's wreckage falling to Reach's surface.{{Ref/Reuse|lnos}} However, this operation would be in vain, as almost immediately following the destruction of ''Long Night of Solace'' a second Covenant fleet from the [[Ministry of Resolution]] appeared above Reach, and proceeded to attack the planet. This fleet began to attack Reach in earnest, as opposed to the artifact-recovery operations sought by Rho 'Barutamee. [[Kantar 'Utaralee]] assumed command of what remained of Rho's forces, rallying the Fleet of Valiant Prudence near [[Turul]] in an attempt to finish what Rho had started and recover the Site 17 artefact. What remained of the UNSC fleet was issued an emergency order to initiate the [[Cole Protocol]] and rally at [[Rally Point Zulu]].<ref>''Halo: Fleet Battles'', [[Scenario Eight: Rally Point Zulu]]</ref> | ||
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The ''Pillar of Autumn'' enters into slipspace with elements of the Fleet of Particular Justice pursuing.<ref>''[[Halo: The Flood]]'', [[Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit]]</ref> | The ''Pillar of Autumn'' enters into slipspace with elements of the Fleet of Particular Justice pursuing.<ref>''[[Halo: The Flood]]'', [[Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit]]</ref> | ||
At some point after the mission to Gamma Station, a {{Class|Paris|heavy frigate}} and an {{ | At some point after the mission to Gamma Station, a {{Class|Paris|heavy frigate}} and an {{Pattern|Ceudar|heavy corvette}} battled each other near the station in orbit of Reach.<ref name="condemned">''[[Halo: Reach]]'', multiplayer level [[Condemned]]</ref> | ||
==Aftermath== | ==Aftermath== | ||