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Seventh Fleet

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Seventh Fleet
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Affiliation:

United Nations Space Command

Branch:

UNSC Navy

Type:

Expeditionary fleet

Role:

Expeditionary

Engagements:

Commanders:

 

"So then the Covenant fleet really starts to tear into the orbital defenses. It's getting ugly up there. Major skirmishes with the Second, Seventh, and Sixteenth Fleets."
Sergeant Laura "Smokes" Tanner[1]

The Seventh Fleet is a numbered expeditionary fleet of the UNSC Navy.

History

Consolidation

Following the Fall of Reach, the Seventh Fleet and all other surviving naval assets of the United Nations Space Command were recalled back to the Sol system and consolidated into a single command grouping under the Home Fleet in preparation for the inevitable Battle for Earth, effective September 5, 2552. Fleet Admiral Joseph Harper of the Fifth Fleet was given primary administrative and tasking authority for all naval assets in the Sol system, as authorized by UNSC High Command and the UEG Security Council, though the Second Fleet and its fellow fleets retained control over their battle groups.[2]

Battle for Earth

Serving in the front lines of the Human-Covenant War in late 2552, the fleet was recalled to defend Earth after the Covenant invasion.[3] One of the fleet's Charon-class light frigates, UNSC Chioglossa, was destroyed in the initial stages of the Covenant's attack on Mombasa on October 20.[4] On November 3, the fleet was engaged in major skirmishes with Covenant vessels in Earth orbit in conjunction with the Second and Sixteenth Fleets.[1]

On November 17, at least seven Seventh Fleet frigates led by Commander Miranda Keyes (with the Forward Unto Dawn as the flagship)[3] engaged the Prophet of Truth's Forerunner Keyship as he attempted to use the vessel to activate the portal structure buried near Voi, Kenya.[5] As Truth's fleet fled through the now active portal, at least two frigate, the Dawn and Aegis Fate, traveled with the Sangheili Fleet of Retribution to the Forerunner Ark installation,[6][7] leading to the destruction of the Covenant and the end of the war.[8]

Composition

Charon-class light frigates

Production notes

List of appearances

Sources

  1. ^ a b Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 205
  2. ^ Halo Legendary Crate, Data Drop #2
  3. ^ a b Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 74
  4. ^ Halo 3: ODST, campaign level Prepare to Drop
  5. ^ Halo 3, campaign level The Storm
  6. ^ Halo 3, campaign level Floodgate
  7. ^ Halo 3, multiplayer map Sandtrap
  8. ^ Halo 3, campaign level The Covenant
  9. ^ Comment by Stephen Loftus
  10. ^ Halo 4, Mark VI design