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{{quote | {{quote|We're going to take this fight to the Covenant. We're going to launch a first strike.|''John-117''}} | ||
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|place=[[Tau Ceti System|Tau Ceti system, inside the Oort cloud]] | |place=[[Tau Ceti System|Tau Ceti system, inside the Oort cloud]] | ||
|result=UNSC Victory | |result=UNSC Victory | ||
*Covenant | *Covenant armada destroyed | ||
*Temporary Covenant delay into the [[Sol System]] and [[Inner Colonies]] | *Temporary Covenant delay into the [[Sol System]] and [[Inner Colonies]] | ||
|side1=[[United Nations Space Command]] | |side1=[[United Nations Space Command]] | ||
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*[[Sergeant Major]] [[Avery Junior Johnson]] | *[[Sergeant Major]] [[Avery Junior Johnson]] | ||
|forces2=*1 Refit battle station (the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'') | |forces2=*1 Refit battle station (the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'') | ||
*Over 500 | *Over 500 vessels (various classes) | ||
*[[ | *[[Unggoy]], [[Kig-Yar]], [[Mgalekgolo]], [[Sangheili]], [[Jiralhanae]] | ||
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*Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb | *Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb | ||
* | *Lieutenant Haverson | ||
*[[Grace-093]] | *[[Grace-093]] | ||
|casual2=*Approximately | |casual2=*Approximately 486 vessels | ||
*The ''Unyielding Hierophant'' | *The ''Unyielding Hierophant'' | ||
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'''Operation: FIRST STRIKE''' was a raid by the survivors of the [[Battle of Installation 04]] on the Covenant space station ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''. It was the largest UNSC victory after the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]], and the most decisive since [[Preston Cole|Admiral Cole's]] [[Admiral Cole's Last Stand|last stand]] at the [[Battle of Psi Serpentis]].<ref>''[[Halo: Evolutions]]'' - ''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]'', Codename: SURGEON mentions Cole's record (especially in light of Psi Serpentis) rivals that of any SPARTAN II.</ref> | '''Operation: FIRST STRIKE''' was a raid by the survivors of the [[Battle of Installation 04]] on the Covenant space station ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''. It was the largest UNSC victory after the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]], and the most decisive since [[Preston Cole|Admiral Cole's]] [[Admiral Cole's Last Stand|last stand]] at the [[Battle of Psi Serpentis]].<ref>''[[Halo: Evolutions]]'' - ''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]'', Codename: SURGEON mentions Cole's record (especially in light of Psi Serpentis) rivals that of any SPARTAN-II.</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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===The Raid=== | ===The Raid=== | ||
In a desperate attempt to stop a massive Covenant armada heading for Earth, five Spartans infiltrated the Covenant battle station ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'' on-board a captured [[Spirit]] dropship. This was one of the first Spartan encounters with [[Jiralhanae|Brutes]], who guarded a temple in an | In a desperate attempt to stop a massive Covenant armada heading for Earth, five Spartans infiltrated the Covenant battle station ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'' on-board a captured [[Spirit]] dropship. This was one of the first Spartan encounters with the [[Jiralhanae|Brutes]], who guarded a temple in an atrium-like structure in the battle station. One of the [[Spartan-II]]s, [[Grace-093]], was killed by a [[Brute Shot]] through COM triangulation tactics. John-117 rigged her suit to execute a fail-safe fusion reactor overload, killing all Covenant in a ten-meter radius (among which were a dozen Grunts and four Elites).<ref name="alamo">''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', pages 328-333</ref> The Spartans fought their way to a reactor room and set the generators to overload. Once the reactors were set to overload, the Spartans returned to the atrium, opened the airlocks, and blew out a heavily enforced window that enclosed the atrium with hijacked [[Banshee]]s, sucking all Covenant forces inside the atrium out to space. One of [[Cortana]]'s clones was taken along and had to open the airlocks for the Spartans. Her copy of a copy in the Covenant network was discovered and forced to make hundreds of copies to protect herself. She successfully opened the airlocks and tied up the Covenant's communication by repeating error messages on their COM systems endlessly. The Spartans then traveled to the far side of a nearby moon and unexpectedly met the ''[[UNSC Gettysburg]]'', now separated from the Ascendant Justice. [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]] and [[Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]] took the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'' and crashed straight into the ''Unyielding Hierophant''. Using a hologram, Whitcomb pretended to have the [[Forerunner Crystal]] on board the ship and challenged all Covenant forces in the system to try and take it from him. The Covenant battleships all gathered around the ''Ascendant Justice'' and the overloading battle station, attempting to take the Crystal from Whitcomb. The battle station then overloaded and exploded, killing the Vice Admiral and Lieutenant, destroying most of the Covenant fleet, and saving [[Earth]] from an unexpected attack.<ref name="alamo"/> | ||
The outcome and historical result of the battle was noteworthy as the Covenant did not yet know the strategic importance of their intended target, Earth. Thus, their actual first entrance into the [[Sol System]] was with a much smaller force than the [[Battle of Reach|ill-fated]] [[Epsilon Eridani System]]. This was crucial to the survival of the [[human]] home world and the significant UNSC presence on Earth. | The outcome and historical result of the battle was noteworthy as the Covenant did not yet know the strategic importance of their intended target, Earth. Thus, their actual first entrance into the [[Sol System]] was with a much smaller force than the [[Battle of Reach|ill-fated]] [[Epsilon Eridani System]]. This was crucial to the survival of the [[human]] home world and the significant UNSC presence on Earth. | ||