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Minutes later, much of Task Force Yama had launched from Seoba, taking the Black Daggers along with them in hopes that a boarding opportunity would present itself. The ''Starry Night'' and the rest of [[Night Flight]] received the last company of ODSTs as Ascot was informed of an incoming barrage from the alien flotilla.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS13|HSS|Chapter=13}} After witnessing multiple of the human stealth vessels rising into space without his own [[intrusion corvette]]s detecting them, [[Sangheili First Blade officer|First Blade]] [[Tel 'Szatulai]] ordered the flotilla to fire on the quarry. If he was lucky, one of the vessels would be shot down and remain intact so that it could be recovered for further study.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS12|HSS|Chapter=12}} With the [[plasma]] barrage heading right for them, Ascot ordered Night Flight to launch immediately. As the ''Starry Night'' rose into the Seoban sky, one of the blasts hit the prowler, causing it to crash back into the quarry.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS13}} The prowler impacted the quarry wall, demolishing a two-hundred-meter section of terrace and heavily damaging the vessel. This resulted in an avalanche that partially covered the ''Starry Night'', which came to a rest on top of the ice pile approximately seven hundred meters above the quarry floor.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS14|HSS|Chapter=14}} Halima Ascot and her crew were killed in the crash, with only Avery Johnson and four ODSTs surviving.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS15|HSS|Chapter=15}}
Minutes later, much of Task Force Yama had launched from Seoba, taking the Black Daggers along with them in hopes that a boarding opportunity would present itself. The ''Starry Night'' and the rest of [[Night Flight]] received the last company of ODSTs as Ascot was informed of an incoming barrage from the alien flotilla.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS13|HSS|Chapter=13}} After witnessing multiple of the human stealth vessels rising into space without his own [[intrusion corvette]]s detecting them, [[Sangheili First Blade officer|First Blade]] [[Tel 'Szatulai]] ordered the flotilla to fire on the quarry. If he was lucky, one of the vessels would be shot down and remain intact so that it could be recovered for further study.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS12|HSS|Chapter=12}} With the [[plasma]] barrage heading right for them, Ascot ordered Night Flight to launch immediately. As the ''Starry Night'' rose into the Seoban sky, one of the blasts hit the prowler, causing it to crash back into the quarry.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS13}} The prowler impacted the quarry wall, demolishing a two-hundred-meter section of terrace and heavily damaging the vessel. This resulted in an avalanche that partially covered the ''Starry Night'', which came to a rest on top of the ice pile approximately seven hundred meters above the quarry floor.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS14|HSS|Chapter=14}} Halima Ascot and her crew were killed in the crash, with only Avery Johnson and four ODSTs surviving.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS15|HSS|Chapter=15}}


Although Crowther wanted to send a unit of Black Daggers to search for survivors after the ''Starry Night'' could not be raised on comms, none of his men remained on the moon, and sending them back would require putting them and another prowler into extreme danger. As such, John-117 diverted himself and his Spartans to assist, once they had completed their assignment of loading captured insurrectionists onto [[Emmeline|a transport]] to be taken to Biko.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS13}} After receiving a [[Navigation point|waypoint]] from Task Force Yama pointing to the ''Starry Night''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s projected crash site, the Spartans found it on the avalanche, with a Covenant [[intrusion corvette]] deploying warriors and preparing to recover the prowler for study. Crowther suggested that they activate the vessel's [[Fury tactical nuclear weapon|nuclear]] self-destruct system remotely. However, this could only be done by Ascot or the captain of the ''Vanishing Point'', who could not be reached in time. Thanks to John's quick thinking, the Spartans prevented the Covenant from accessing the ship by causing a second avalanche with their [[M301 grenade launcher]]s.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}} Ultimately, a team of three Spartans were able to enter the ''Starry Night'' through its shattered bow, finding that Ascot and her crew had perished in the crash. They rescued the five survivors and activated the prowler's self-destruct to keep the ship out of Covenant hands, destroying the looming intrusion corvette in the process.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}}
Although Crowther wanted to send a unit of Black Daggers to search for survivors after the ''Starry Night'' could not be raised on comms, none of his men remained on the moon, and sending them back would require putting them and another prowler into extreme danger. As such, John-117 diverted himself and his Spartans to assist, once they had completed their assignment of loading captured insurrectionists onto [[Emmeline|a transport]] to be taken to Biko.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS13}} After receiving a [[Navigation point|waypoint]] from Task Force Yama pointing to the ''Starry Night''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s projected crash site, the Spartans found it on the avalanche, with [[Worthy Silence|a]] Covenant [[intrusion corvette]] deploying warriors and preparing to recover the prowler for study. Crowther suggested that they activate the vessel's [[Fury tactical nuclear weapon|nuclear]] self-destruct system remotely. However, this could only be done by Ascot or the captain of the ''Vanishing Point'', who could not be reached in time. Thanks to John's quick thinking, the Spartans prevented the Covenant from accessing the ship by causing a second avalanche with their [[M301 grenade launcher]]s.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}} Ultimately, a team of three Spartans were able to enter the ''Starry Night'' through its shattered bow, finding that Ascot and her crew had perished in the crash. They rescued the five survivors and activated the prowler's self-destruct to keep the ship out of Covenant hands, destroying the looming intrusion corvette in the process.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}}
 
===Legacy===
After Ascot's death, Lieutenant Commander Nyeto assumed her role as the de facto commander of Task Force Yama, as he was the senior fight commander at the time. He took over the duties that she would have fulfilled, such as delivering a Committal speech while the casualties of the conflicts at Seoba were ceremoniously jettisoned into space. Since Ascot and crew's bodies had been atomized in the detonation of their ship, their interment capsules were left empty.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS16}}


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==