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|next=*[[Harvest campaign]]<ref name="ground command">'''[[Halo: Ground Command]]''', ''Core Rulebook - page 7''</ref> | |next=*[[Harvest campaign]]<ref name="ground command">'''[[Halo: Ground Command]]''', ''Core Rulebook - page 7''</ref> | ||
*[[Skirmish over Netherop]] | *[[Skirmish over Netherop]] | ||
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|conflict=[[Human-Covenant War]]{{Ref/Reuse|ground command}} | |conflict=[[Human-Covenant War]]{{Ref/Reuse|ground command}} | ||
|date=[[2526|March 1, 2526]]<ref name="Harvest">'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]", ''pages 463-467''</ref> | |date=[[2526|March 1, 2526]]<ref name="Harvest">'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]", ''pages 463-467''</ref> | ||
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==The battle== | ==The battle== | ||
[[File: | [[File:Outcome of Second Battle of Harvest.png|thumb|250px|The super-destroyer is destroyed]] | ||
{{Quote|Fix bayonets.|Vice Admiral Preston Cole during the final charge, quoting Colonel [[Wikipedia:Joshua Chamberlain|Joshua Chamberlain]] from the [[American Civil War]]<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions''', "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 471''</ref>}} | {{Quote|Fix bayonets.|Vice Admiral Preston Cole during the final charge, quoting Colonel [[Wikipedia:Joshua Chamberlain|Joshua Chamberlain]] from the [[American Civil War]]<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions''', "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 471''</ref>}} | ||
On [[2526|March 1, 2526]] at 0120 hours [[Military Standard Time|MST]], the forty-warship strong UNSC Battle Group X-Ray arrived near Harvest in the Epsilon Indi system. Moving towards the planet, the battle group descended below Harvest's planetary plane and detected a single, stationary Covenant [[Rasus-pattern interdictor|super-destroyer]] near the planet. Increasing velocity, Vice Admiral Preston Cole plotted a parabolic course to allow the battle group to engage the Covenant warship through a slingshot maneuver around Harvest. Now accelerating towards the ship, Cole ordered the battle group to fire upon the hostile vessel at will. As the UNSC warships fired their [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]]s and hundreds of [[Archer missile]]s at their target, the Covenant super-destroyer's powerful energy shielding prevented the ship's [[nanolaminate]] hull from taking any damage.{{Ref/Reuse|Harvest}} Fully realizing the effectiveness of the Covenant warship's energy shielding, Cole assessed that an overwhelming attack from Battle Group X-Ray's entire armaments needed to be used against the super-destroyer to disable its shielding.{{Ref/Reuse|genesis}} | On [[2526|March 1, 2526]] at 0120 hours [[Military Standard Time|MST]], the forty-warship strong UNSC Battle Group X-Ray arrived near Harvest in the Epsilon Indi system. Moving towards the planet, the battle group descended below Harvest's planetary plane and detected a single, stationary Covenant [[Rasus-pattern interdictor|super-destroyer]] near the planet. Increasing velocity, Vice Admiral Preston Cole plotted a parabolic course to allow the battle group to engage the Covenant warship through a slingshot maneuver around Harvest. Now accelerating towards the ship, Cole ordered the battle group to fire upon the hostile vessel at will. As the UNSC warships fired their [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]]s and hundreds of [[Archer missile]]s at their target, the Covenant super-destroyer's powerful energy shielding prevented the ship's [[nanolaminate]] hull from taking any damage.{{Ref/Reuse|Harvest}} Fully realizing the effectiveness of the Covenant warship's energy shielding, Cole assessed that an overwhelming attack from Battle Group X-Ray's entire armaments needed to be used against the super-destroyer to disable its shielding.{{Ref/Reuse|genesis}} |