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In [[2553]], to destroy a [[Covert Support Base 4276|Forerunner installation]] located in the [[Montero Cave System]] on [[Gao]], Blue Team dropped a Havok BB 2550 nuke into an [[Well of Echoes|opening]] in the caverns which detonated and destroyed the installation.<ref name="ll376"/>
In [[2553]], to destroy a [[Covert Support Base 4276|Forerunner installation]] located in the [[Montero Cave System]] on [[Gao]], Blue Team dropped a Havok BB 2550 nuke into an [[Well of Echoes|opening]] in the caverns which detonated and destroyed the installation.<ref name="ll376"/>


During [[2553#December|December 2553]], ten disarmed HAVOKs were used as part of [[Operation: RETRIBUTION]] by [[Veta Lopis]]' [[Ferret]] team. The team claimed to gunrunner [[Ross Nyeto]] that they were [[piracy|pirates]] who had stolen the HAVOKs from the {{UNSCShip|Taulanti}} and were on the run from Blue Team as a result. In reality, four of the HAVOK shells contained their weapons while one was in fact a [[distress beacon|slipbeacon]] intended to signal their location to the {{Class|Sahara|prowler}} {{UNSCShip|Silent Joe}}. After being brought aboard the ''[[Stolen Faith]]'', the team retrieved their weapons from the HAVOKs. With the discovery of the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]]'s [[Salvation Base]], it was decided to have Blue Team reactivate the nine HAVOKs by replacing their missing tritium booster cylinders and use them to destroy the base. [[Linda-058]] managed to reactivate six HAVOKs in the time she had and the explosion obliterated the base, unfortunately killing the human and [[Sangheili]] prisoners within that they did not have time to rescue.<ref>'''[[Halo: Retribution]]'''</ref>
During [[2553#December|December 2553]], ten disarmed HAVOKs were used as part of [[Operation: RETRIBUTION]] by [[Veta Lopis]]' [[Ferret]] team. The team claimed to gunrunner [[Ross Nyeto]] that they were [[piracy|pirates]] who had stolen the HAVOKs from the {{UNSCShip|Taulanti}} and were on the run from Blue Team as a result. In reality, four of the HAVOK shells contained their [[M7S SMG|M7S submachine guns]] while another was in fact a [[distress beacon|slipbeacon]] intended to signal their location to the {{Class|Sahara|prowler}} {{UNSCShip|Silent Joe}}. After being brought aboard the ''[[Stolen Faith]]'', the team retrieved their weapons from the HAVOKs. With the discovery of the [[Keepers of the One Freedom]]'s [[Salvation Base]], it was decided to have Blue Team reactivate the nine HAVOKs by replacing their missing tritium booster cylinders and use them to destroy the base. [[Linda-058]] managed to reactivate six HAVOKs in the time she had and the explosion obliterated the base, unfortunately killing the human and [[Sangheili]] prisoners within that they did not have time to rescue.<ref>'''[[Halo: Retribution]]'''</ref>


In [[2556]], the destruction of the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} on [[Installation 04]] was discovered to have created deposits of a new element unique to a fragment of the installation known as [[Alpha Shard]]. The new element was fatal only to humans and was used in [[Terrorist attack on Sedra City|a terrorist attack]] on [[Sedra City]]. To prevent such an attack again, [[ONI]] Commander [[Jameson Locke]] got [[Goodwin|Rear Admiral Goodwin]] to approve the use of a HAVOK to destroy the deposits. Accompanied by forces from the [[Sedran Colonial Guard]], [[Locke's team]] undertook [[Mission to Alpha Shard|a mission]] to the shard. In order to escape the shard, the HAVOK's emergency fuel cell was used to briefly power a [[Condor]] dropship, but this required a manual detonation of the warhead. As Locke and Private [[Talitha Macer]] escaped the shard in [[Bactrian-class freighter|the smugglers' ship]], Colonel [[Randall Aiken]] detonated the HAVOK, destroying the deposits and preventing their use ever again.<ref>'''Halo: Nightfall'''</ref>
In [[2556]], the destruction of the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} on [[Installation 04]] was discovered to have created deposits of a new element unique to a fragment of the installation known as [[Alpha Shard]]. The new element was fatal only to humans and was used in [[Terrorist attack on Sedra City|a terrorist attack]] on [[Sedra City]]. To prevent such an attack again, [[ONI]] Commander [[Jameson Locke]] got [[Goodwin|Rear Admiral Goodwin]] to approve the use of a HAVOK to destroy the deposits. Accompanied by forces from the [[Sedran Colonial Guard]], [[Locke's team]] undertook [[Mission to Alpha Shard|a mission]] to the shard. In order to escape the shard, the HAVOK's emergency fuel cell was used to briefly power a [[Condor]] dropship, but this required a manual detonation of the warhead. As Locke and Private [[Talitha Macer]] escaped the shard in [[Bactrian-class freighter|the smugglers' ship]], Colonel [[Randall Aiken]] detonated the HAVOK, destroying the deposits and preventing their use ever again.<ref>'''Halo: Nightfall'''</ref>