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Shortly after the Fleet of Particular Justice arrived at Installation 04, ''Ascendant Justice'' and a small group of ships were sent into the system from [[High Charity]], arriving prior to {{UNSCship|Pillar of Autumn}}.<ref>'''[[Halo Legendary Crate]] 3''', ''[[:File:LC 003 Doc2.png|Data Drop]]''</ref> During the Battle of Installation 04, the [[Prophet of Stewardship]] alternated his base of operations between ''Ascendant Justice'' in orbit and ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]'' just above Halo's surface. When [[Supreme Commander]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee sent a single infantry unit to relieve the Prophet for his constant force misappropriation, Stewardship ordered ''Ascendant Justice'' to destroy their transports on approach, warning that any other affronts to his leadership would result in equally lethal fates. 'Vadamee then assembled a strike force to retake ''Ascendant Justice'' and physically relieve the Prophet of leadership until the humans were eliminated, but Stewardship left for ''Truth and Reconciliation'' before they arrived, leaving orders for the crew to arrest 'Vadamee if he continued to interfere with the Consecration. When Thel's force arrived on ''Ascendant Justice'', no shots were fired and the crew acknowledged his authority.<ref name="Rerelease" /><ref group="note">Though ''Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit'' provides a backstory for ''Ascendant Justice''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s part in the Battle of Installation 04, it does not explain why the ship's warrior complement was so small. It can be inferred that the Prophet of Stewardship killed most of the crew to quell any real or imagined affronts to his leadership. It is also possible that most of the crew was transferred off the vessel due to the Prophet's insubordination.</ref>

When Installation 04's destruction was imminent the Fleet of Particular Justice moved into cover behind [[Threshold]]. ''Ascendant Justice's'' scout group remained to search the wreckage for transmissions from survivors. It was soon [[Skirmish over Threshold|boarded and captured]] by a small team of human survivors, including John-117, Staff Sergeant [[Avery Johnson]], Lieutenant [[Elias Haverson]], Corporal [[Locklear]], Warrant Officer [[Shiela Polaski]], and the AI [[Cortana]]. The survivors then used ''Ascendant Justice'' to return to [[Reach]] and evacuate a small number of [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan]] survivors, Vice Admiral [[Danforth Whitcomb]] and Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]], as well as a [[Forerunner crystal|Forerunner artifact]] from the planet, attaching to the wreckage of the [[UNSC frigate|frigate]] {{UNSCship|Gettysburg}} for additional power. They then escaped through [[slipspace]] toward the [[Eridanus system]], becoming the first ship known to go into slipspace so close to a planet. En route to [[Eridanus Secundus]] ''Ascendant Justice'' was forced to engage multiple Covenant warships, including several [[Covenant cruiser|cruisers]] and {{Class|DDS|carrier}}s, in an alternate slipspace dimension caused by the Forerunner artifact. Furthermore, some surviving Sangheili crew members had sabotaged ''Ascendant Justice'''s main power conduit, forcing the Spartans to go on an [[Extra-vehicular activity|extravehicular mission]] on the outer hull. This mission resulted in the deaths of the entire surviving Sangheili crew, but also killed Spartans [[Anton-044]] and [[Li-008]] as well as Warrant Officer Polaski.