CMA Argo: Difference between revisions

|name           = CMA ''Argo''

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|slipspace drive = [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]]

|firstsight     = [[2525]]

|destroyed       = April 20, [[2525]]

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The '''''Argo''''' was a [[UNSC]]-built scout ship operated by the [[Colonial Military Administration]]<ref>''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''</ref>. Though small, it was equipped with a [[Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace Drive]].

It was sent to the [[Harvest]] system in [[2525]] after the UNSC lost all contact with that world. It sent a signal back, informing its location after dropping out of [[Slipspace]], (presumably to aid in further increasing Slipspace jump accuracy), but after that, nothing was heard from it. The UNSC lost contact with it on the 20th of April, 2525.<ref>''[[Halo Wars]] Timeline''</ref> It met a [[Covenant]] cruiser in orbit, still in the process of glassing Harvest, and was destroyed. [[JOTUN]]s under the control of [[Mack]], Harvest's agricultural [[AI]], witnessed the ''Argo'' enter orbit, and tried to warn them off, but, with communications options limited, Mack was unable to warn them in time<ref>[[Halo: Contact Harvest]], pg 393</ref>. Battlegroup Four, lead by [[Captain]] [[Maribeau Veredi]] on the [[UNSC Heracles|UNSC ''Heracles'']], was dispatched to find out what happened to the ''Argo''.<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], pg 96</ref>.

*The ship was presumably named after the ''Argo'', Jason's ship in Greek Myth. It was said to have been planned or constructed with the help of the goddess Athena, and on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed to Colchis retrieve the Golden Fleece. It was named after the ship builder, Argus.