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[[File:Fight_on_Ascendant_Justice.png|thumb|250px|John-117, Corporal Locklear, and Lieutenant Haverson fighting aboard the Ascendant Justice]] | [[File:Fight_on_Ascendant_Justice.png|thumb|250px|John-117, Corporal Locklear, and Lieutenant Haverson fighting aboard the Ascendant Justice]] | ||
After fleeing from Eridanus Secondus, the crew of the ''Ascendant Justice'' discovered the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'', a Covenant refit-and-repair station, which was being used to service a Covenant [[Truth's Fleet|invasion force]] that was poised to invade [[Earth]]. Vice Admiral Whitcomb then initiated [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]], in which the UNSC-commandeered ''Ascendant Justice'' the remaining SPARTANs near the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' in a heavily modified [[Type-25 Troop Carrier|Spirit dropship]], and started a self-destruct sequence in one of the station's reactor rooms. The SPARTANs managed to escape from the station and travel to the far side of a nearby moon where the ''Gettysburg'' was waiting for them. Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson had detached the ''Ascendant Justice'' from the ''Gettysburg'' and taken it in a slingshot orbit around the moon. Vice Admiral Whitcomb pretended to have the [[Forerunner]] crystal by using a hologram and challenged the Covenant to come and claim it. The Covenant did not want to fire on the ''Ascendant Justice'' because the crystal was supposedly on it. The two used the momentum from their slingshot orbit to crash into the station even after the Covenant had cut the ship's engines off with laser fire. Whitcomb then ordered John-117 to see what was left of the Covenant and then "''...hightail the intel back to Earth.''" The last few seconds of visual and audio record from the Ascendant Justice showed the door crashing to the ground and the Admiral opening fire with an [[M7/Caseless Submachine Gun|SMG]]. The reactors on the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' then overloaded and exploded, destroying the ''Ascendant Justice'' and over four hundred enemy vessels. Only a few Covenant ships survived the catastrophe, which delayed the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s plan to invade Earth. Both Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson were killed. | After fleeing from Eridanus Secondus, the crew of the ''Ascendant Justice'' discovered the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'', a Covenant refit-and-repair station, which was being used to service a Covenant [[Truth's Fleet|invasion force]] that was poised to invade [[Earth]]. Vice Admiral Whitcomb then initiated [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]], in which the UNSC-commandeered ''Ascendant Justice'' the remaining SPARTANs near the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' in a heavily modified [[Type-25 Troop Carrier|Spirit dropship]], and started a self-destruct sequence in one of the station's reactor rooms. The SPARTANs managed to escape from the station and travel to the far side of a nearby moon where the ''Gettysburg'' was waiting for them. Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson had detached the ''Ascendant Justice'' from the ''Gettysburg'' and taken it in a slingshot orbit around the moon. Vice Admiral Whitcomb pretended to have the [[Forerunner]] crystal by using a hologram and challenged the Covenant to come and claim it. The Covenant did not want to fire on the ''Ascendant Justice'' because the crystal was supposedly on it. The two used the momentum from their slingshot orbit to crash into the station even after the Covenant had cut the ship's engines off with laser fire. Whitcomb then ordered John-117 to see what was left of the Covenant and then "''...hightail the intel back to Earth.''" The last few seconds of visual and audio record from the Ascendant Justice showed the door crashing to the ground and the Admiral opening fire with an [[M7/Caseless Submachine Gun|SMG]]. The reactors on the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' then overloaded and exploded, destroying the ''Ascendant Justice'' and over four hundred enemy vessels. Only a few Covenant ships survived the catastrophe, which delayed the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s plan to invade Earth. Both Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson were killed. The ''Ascendant Justice'''s Slipspace drive allowed the ''Gettysburg'' to reach Earth and warn the UNSC leadership of the Covenant's plans to invade Earth. | ||
The ''Ascendant Justice'''s Slipspace drive allowed the ''Gettysburg'' to reach Earth and warn the UNSC leadership of the Covenant's plans to invade Earth | |||
Only four members of the ''Ascendant Justice'''s original Covenant crew survived its capture. A [[Special Operations Sangheili]] who engaged the Master Chief in hand-to-hand combat was shot and pushed into an escape pod, and a few Huragok that were taken to Earth on the ''Gettysburg'' were turned over to the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref>'''''Halo: First Strike'''''</ref> | Only four members of the ''Ascendant Justice'''s original Covenant crew survived its capture. A [[Special Operations Sangheili]] who engaged the Master Chief in hand-to-hand combat was shot and pushed into an escape pod, and a few Huragok that were taken to Earth on the ''Gettysburg'' were turned over to the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref>'''''Halo: First Strike'''''</ref> | ||