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It was hoped an opportunity to capture an enemy ship would present itself, however the course of the battle forced the Spartans to deploy on other missions. [[Blue Team]] went to Reach's [[Gamma Station]] to enforce the [[United Nations Space Command Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1|Cole Protocol]], while [[Red Team]] went planetside to reinforce the [[Orbital defense generator]]s. While the cruiser performed well, the battle was lost as the [[Orbital defense platform]]s fell silent. There was only time to recover the remnants of Blue Team, John-117 and the clinically dead [[Linda-058]], before the ship was forced to flee the system. | It was hoped an opportunity to capture an enemy ship would present itself, however the course of the battle forced the Spartans to deploy on other missions. [[Blue Team]] went to Reach's [[Gamma Station]] to enforce the [[United Nations Space Command Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1|Cole Protocol]], while [[Red Team]] went planetside to reinforce the [[Orbital defense generator]]s. While the cruiser performed well, the battle was lost as the [[Orbital defense platform]]s fell silent. There was only time to recover the remnants of Blue Team, John-117 and the clinically dead [[Linda-058]], before the ship was forced to flee the system. | ||
During the | During the battle over Reach, ''Pillar of Autumn'' attacked and destroyed a Covenant supercruiser in single combat. This prototype vessel was responsible for the destruction of many powerful UNSC warships. The unlikely victory of the ''Autumn'', for a brief moment, left her as one of the most successful and powerful ships in the Navy. | ||
At some point during the conflict, the ''Pillar of Autumn'' returned to drydock at the Aszod ship-breaking facility to rescue any survivors on the planet and retrieve [[Cortana|a package]]. Shortly before the ship fled the system, the remnants of Noble Team were tasked with delivering a fragment of Cortana's data chip to the ''Autumn''. The ship left drydock immediately afterward. It was nearly destroyed by a Covenant battlecruiser before it could take off, but the Covenant ship was destroyed by [[SPARTAN-B312]] with an [[Mark 2488 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|Onager MAC]]. | At some point during the conflict, the ''Pillar of Autumn'' returned to drydock at the Aszod ship-breaking facility to rescue any survivors on the planet and retrieve [[Cortana|a package]]. Shortly before the ship fled the system, the remnants of Noble Team were tasked with delivering a fragment of Cortana's data chip to the ''Autumn''. The ship left drydock immediately afterward. It was nearly destroyed by a Covenant battlecruiser before it could take off, but the Covenant ship was destroyed by [[SPARTAN-B312]] with an [[Mark 2488 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|Onager MAC]]. | ||
The ''Pillar of Autumn'' was supposed to | The ''Pillar of Autumn'' was supposed to have made a random [[Slipstream space|Slipspace]] jump in accordance with the Cole Protocol. However, Cortana surreptitiously guided the ship to the [[Soell]] system and, ultimately, to [[Installation 04]] instead. The AI used coordinates obtained from two [[Forerunner]] artifacts: [[Sigma Octanus IV artifact|one]] on [[Sigma Octanus IV]],<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', Epilogue, page 336</ref> and [[Babd Catha Forerunner complex|one]] underneath [[Reach]]. The Covenant pursued along the cruiser's exit vector and arrived at Soell first with a battle group of {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}}s. | ||
===Battle of Installation 04=== | ===Battle of Installation 04=== | ||