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This operation was one of the most effective raids in [[UNSC]] history. In a desperate attempt to stop a massive [[Covenant]] armada heading for [[Earth]], five [[Spartans]] infiltrated the Covenant battlestation ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'' and set the generators on one side of the station to overload. This was the first Spartan encounter with [[Brutes]], who guarded a temple in an Atrium-like structure in the battlestation. One of the [[Spartan-II]], [[Grace-093]], was killed by the Brutes' [[Brute Shot]]s and COM triangulation tactics. Once the reactors were set to overload, the Spartans returned to the Atrium-like room, opened the airlocks, and blew out a shield-like structure that enclosed the Atrium. 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 sucessfuly 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]]''. [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]] and [[Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]] took the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'' and crashed into the ''Unyielding Hierophant''. Whitcomb pretended to have the [[Forerunner Crystal]] on board the ship (using a hologram), challenging all the Covenant in the system to try and take it from him. The Covenant battleships all gathered around the ''Ascendant Justice'' and the overloading battlestation, attempting to take the Crystal from Whitcomb. The battlestation then overloaded and exploded, killing the Vice Admiral and Lieutenant, destroying most of the Covenant fleet, and saving [[Earth]] from an unexpected strike.