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The ship was present at the destruction of [[Installation 04]], searching the wreckage for transmissions from survivors. It was boarded and captured by a small team of UNSC forces, among them was [[John-117]] (Master Chief), and [[Sergeant Johnson]], who used it to return to [[Reach]] and evacuate a small number of [[SPARTAN II|Spartan]] survivors, [[Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb]] and [[Dr. Halsey]], as well as a [[Forerunner Crystal|Forerunner artifact]] from the planet, attaching to the wreckage of the UNSC Frigate [[UNSC Gettysburg|''Gettysburg'']] for additional power and escaping through [[Slipspace]] to the [[Eridanus Secundus]] System, becoming the first ship to ever go into slipspace so close to a planet. It was forced to engage multiple Covenant warships, such as [[Cruisers]] and [[Covenant Carrier|Carriers]], in an alternate slipspace. To make things worse, some surviving Elite crewmembers had sabotaged the ''Ascendant Justice'''s main power conduit, forcing the Spartans to go on an extravehicular mission. This mission resulted in the deaths of the entire surviving Elite crew, but also killed [[Warrant Officer]] [[Polaski]], [[Anton-044]], and [[Li-008]]. | The ship was present at the destruction of [[Installation 04]], searching the wreckage for transmissions from survivors. It was boarded and captured by a small team of UNSC forces, among them was [[John-117]] (Master Chief), and [[Sergeant Johnson]], who used it to return to [[Reach]] and evacuate a small number of [[SPARTAN II|Spartan]] survivors, [[Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb]] and [[Dr. Halsey]], as well as a [[Forerunner Crystal|Forerunner artifact]] from the planet, attaching to the wreckage of the UNSC Frigate [[UNSC Gettysburg|''Gettysburg'']] for additional power and escaping through [[Slipspace]] to the [[Eridanus Secundus]] System, becoming the first ship to ever go into slipspace so close to a planet. It was forced to engage multiple Covenant warships, such as [[Cruisers]] and [[Covenant Carrier|Carriers]], in an alternate slipspace. To make things worse, some surviving Elite crewmembers had sabotaged the ''Ascendant Justice'''s main power conduit, forcing the Spartans to go on an extravehicular mission. This mission resulted in the deaths of the entire surviving Elite crew, but also killed [[Warrant Officer]] [[Polaski]], [[Anton-044]], and [[Li-008]]. | ||
The ship received assistance from remaining [[Eridanus Rebels]] in a small asteroid colony, who provided personnel and repairs for the ships weaponry, before being discovered by the Covenant. Though the ''Ascendant Justice'' engaged the initial Covenant forces in ship-to-ship battle, reinforcements arrived en masse, forcing it to abandon the colony to the Covenant. | The ship received assistance from remaining [[Eridanus Rebels]] in a small asteroid colony, who provided personnel and repairs for the ships weaponry (But not until after neing threatened with nukes), before being discovered by the Covenant. Though the ''Ascendant Justice'' engaged the initial Covenant forces in ship-to-ship battle, reinforcements arrived en masse, forcing it to abandon the colony to the Covenant. | ||
Vice Admiral Whitcomb initiated [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]]. The [[UNSC]]-commandeered ''Ascendant Justice'' then inserted John and his Spartans near the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'' in a slightly-modified [[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 near moon where the [[UNSC Gettysburg|''Gettysburg'']] was waiting for them. Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and Lieutenant Elias 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). He used the momentum from their slingshot orbit to crash into the station even after the Covenant had melted the ship's engines off with plasma torpedoes. Whitcomb then ordered Spartan-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 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. Both Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and [[Lieutenant Elias Haverson]] are listed as [[KIA|Killed in Action]]. | Vice Admiral Whitcomb initiated [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]]. The [[UNSC]]-commandeered ''Ascendant Justice'' then inserted John and his Spartans near the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'' in a slightly-modified [[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 near moon where the [[UNSC Gettysburg|''Gettysburg'']] was waiting for them. Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and Lieutenant Elias 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). He used the momentum from their slingshot orbit to crash into the station even after the Covenant had melted the ship's engines off with plasma torpedoes. Whitcomb then ordered Spartan-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 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. Both Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and [[Lieutenant Elias Haverson]] are listed as [[KIA|Killed in Action]]. | ||