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'''Emergency Thrusters''' are standard equipment on [[UNSC]] vessels. They are often the reason a UNSC ship is able to escape a confrontation unscathed. These thrusters are used only in dire situations; for instance, to dodge enemy fire where the standard propulsion systems would not be able to do so. They consist of strategically placed tanks on the ship's outer hull, containing [[Trihydride tetrazene|Trihydride tetrazine]] and [[Hydrogen peroxide]]. These substances, when mixed, produce significant explosive force to blast the ship onto a new course. <ref>Halo: The Fall of Reach page 149</ref> However, the thruster is expended in the process and must be replaced in a ship dock before it can be used again. The real-world term for this reaction would be a hyperbolic propellant, which is used in some of today's modern spacecraft.

The ''[[Iroquois|UNSC Iroquois]]'' had six of these devices on it. Two of them were used during [[The Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]], the first during the performance of the "[[Keyes Loop]]" in order to cause several [[Plasma Torpedo|plasma torpedoes]] to hit a [[Covenant]] [[Covenant Destroyer|Destroyer]], the second time to blast the ''Iroquois'' out of the gravity well of [[Sigma Octanus IV]]. The Pillar of Autumn also had several of these, though "The portside emergency thrusters were missing". <ref>Halo: The Fall of Reach page 271</ref> However, this is a discrepancy, because they are later used twice. <ref>Halo: The Fall of Reach page 292</ref><ref>Halo: The Fall of Reach page 320</ref>

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