Locke's team: Difference between revisions

[[Jameson Locke|Lieutenant Commander Jameson Locke]] of the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] led his own '''team''' of field operatives in 2556.<ref name="Colter interview"/><ref name="SDCC panel">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZOLp6pYCE '''YouTube''': ''Halo: Nightfall Panel - SDCC 2014'']</ref>

During their search for the origin of the bioweapon, they discovered the element used in the weapon was mined on [[Alpha Shard]], a partly functional fragment of [[Installation 04]], a [[Forerunner]] [[Halo Array|Halo installation]] destroyed by [[John-117]] years prior. They traveled to the fragment on a [[D81-LRT Condor]], intending to capture the smugglers who obtained the element and destroy the deposits with a [[HAVOK]] nuclear warhead.<ref name="nf1"/> However, their Condor was brought down by [[Lekgolo]] swarms present on Alpha Shard. With the survivors hunted by the Lekgolo, it became clear that the only means of escape was the smugglers' {{Class|Bactrian|freighter}}, which could only hold two.<ref name="nf3">'''Halo: Nightfall''', ''Chapter 3''</ref> Factions soon started forming within the team; after Ramos failed to convince Estrin to ally with him and discard the mission to save themselves, he let Estrin fall to his death. Soon after, Horrigan and Ramos mutinied against Locke and proceeded back to the smugglers' tug. However, Locke and the remaining two Sedrans—Colonel Aiken and [[Talitha Macer|Private Macer]]—managed to retrieve the HAVOK warhead from the crashed Condor. With Aiken detonating the nuke and Ramos and Horrigan killed by the Lekgolo on their way to the smugglers' spacecraft, Locke and Macer were the only ones to successfully escape Alpha Shard aboard the tug.<ref name="nf5">'''Halo: Nightfall''', ''Chapter 5''</ref>