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'''Alpha Headquarters''' was the name of the lead [[Firebase]] set up by the [[UNSC]] [[Marines]] on planet [[Sigma Octanus IV]], [[Sigma Octanus IV Grid 19 x 37|grid 19 x 37]] during [[The Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]] in [[2552]].

It was guarded by bunkers, armed checkpoints, guardhouses, and sandbags.<ref>[[The Fall of Reach]] page 171</ref> It contained a main barracks, a command office, and a munitions bunker. It also had a main hospital.<ref>[[The Fall of Reach]] page 172</ref> It was set up near [[Cote D'Azur]] so that the Marines, under command of [[General Kits]],<ref>[[The Fall of Reach]] page 160</ref> could assault the city, which had been captured by the [[Covenant]].

The base was staffed by 400 marines when it came under assault by the Covenant forces. They attacked with [[Wraith]] tanks, [[Banshee]] fliers, and thousands of [[Grunt]]s.<ref>[[The Fall of Reach]] pages 171-172</ref> The Marines were able to hold them off, but at heavy cost. Almost the entire base was destroyed, and only ten marines survived the incident.<ref>[[The Fall of Reach]] page 175</ref> When a single [[Warthog]] with [[Corporal Harland]] arrived, he assumed tactical command of the entire ground operation. He was quickly relieved by a team of [[Spartan]]s.<ref>[[The Fall of Reach]] page 174</ref>

The Spartans landed their [[Pelican]] in the base and used it as a staging area. They successfully killed all the Covenant soldiers in the area with a [[HAVOK|HAVOK tactical nuclear device]],<ref>[[The Fall of Reach]] page 211</ref> and along with the surviving marines and civilians, were evacuated and docked with the ''[[UNSC Leviathan]]'' for a return to [[Reach]].

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