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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
By this point in the battle for Reach, a Covenant victory was all but inevitable. The UNSC's [[Epsilon Eridani Fleet]] had been routed by the combined Covenant fleets, and the Covenant ground invasion was now reinforced by | By this point in the battle for Reach, a Covenant victory was all but inevitable. The UNSC's [[Epsilon Eridani Fleet]] had been routed by the combined Covenant fleets, and the Covenant ground invasion was now reinforced by large scale naval forces in low orbit. Surviving UNSC ground forces maintained a tenuous hold on the [[Aszod ship breaking yards|ship-breaking yards]] at [[Aszod]], the only off-planet extraction point left on the [[Eposz]] continent. UNSC convoys on the way to the shipyard in the hopes of escaping the planet were destroyed by Covenant air attacks. | ||
After a successful mission to ''[[Gamma Station]]'', the {{Class|Halcyon|cruiser}} {{UNSCship|Pillar of Autumn}} touched down in the shipyards for the transaction of an important [[The Package (data storage unit)|package]], which contained a fragment of the AI [[Cortana]], from [[SPARTAN Program|SPARTAN]] [[Noble Team]]. Near the ''Pillar of Autumn'''s landing site, surviving UNSC forces engaged inumerable Covenant ground forces that were advancing toward the ''Pillar of Autumn''. The battle raged with unabated ferocity, but the UNSC forces were enclosed in a steadily constricting pocket despite their best efforts.<ref name="TPoA"/> | After a successful mission to ''[[Gamma Station]]'', the {{Class|Halcyon|cruiser}} {{UNSCship|Pillar of Autumn}} touched down in the shipyards for the transaction of an important [[The Package (data storage unit)|package]], which contained a fragment of the AI [[Cortana]], from [[SPARTAN Program|SPARTAN]] [[Noble Team]]. Near the ''Pillar of Autumn'''s landing site, surviving UNSC forces engaged inumerable Covenant ground forces that were advancing toward the ''Pillar of Autumn''. The battle raged with unabated ferocity, but the UNSC forces were enclosed in a steadily constricting pocket despite their best efforts.<ref name="TPoA"/> | ||