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==Covenant arrival== | ==Covenant arrival== | ||
During the midst of the meeting, the {{UNSCShip|Vanishing Point}} relayed a message informing the Task Force that a Covenant [[Bloodstar Flotilla|flotilla]] of five [[corvette]]-equivalent vessels was on approach to Seoba, with an ETA of twenty-two minutes. Ascot ordered all Prowler crews to scramble and evacuate the surface within seventeen minutes. The Task Force agreed to continue the operation as planned, using the Black Daggers to board the Covenant fleet, with Crowther insisting on using the SPARTANs to guard the three-hundred insurrectionist prisoners while they loaded onto the {{Class|Banta| | During the midst of the meeting, the {{UNSCShip|Vanishing Point}} relayed a message informing the Task Force that a Covenant [[Bloodstar Flotilla|flotilla]] of five [[corvette]]-equivalent vessels was on approach to Seoba, with an ETA of twenty-two minutes. Ascot ordered all Prowler crews to scramble and evacuate the surface within seventeen minutes. The Task Force agreed to continue the operation as planned, using the Black Daggers to board the Covenant fleet, with Crowther insisting on using the SPARTANs to guard the three-hundred insurrectionist prisoners while they loaded onto the {{Class|Banta|colony ship}} ''[[Emmeline]]''.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS11}} | ||
The departure of the prowlers alerted [[Sangheili First Blade officer|First Blade]] [[Tel 'Szatulai]] to the humans' stealth capabilities, and he resolved himself to capture one of these "shadow ships" to learn more about how they were able to avoid Covenant detection systems. The [[intrusion corvette]]s had a roughly 80% effective cloak system and had thus entered the system undetected with the orbital traffic around Biko continuing as usual. From aboard the ''[[Sacred Whisper]]'', the Sangheili ordered the [[Bloodstar Flotilla]] to open fire on the quarry, bombarding it from orbit in an attempt to shoot down any vessels that may try to escape.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS12|HSS|Chapter=12}} The [[Chancellor's Guards]] would notice this barrage and respond with force, with Nyeto estimating they would destroy the fleet within the hour.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}} | The departure of the prowlers alerted [[Sangheili First Blade officer|First Blade]] [[Tel 'Szatulai]] to the humans' stealth capabilities, and he resolved himself to capture one of these "shadow ships" to learn more about how they were able to avoid Covenant detection systems. The [[intrusion corvette]]s had a roughly 80% effective cloak system and had thus entered the system undetected with the orbital traffic around Biko continuing as usual. From aboard the ''[[Sacred Whisper]]'', the Sangheili ordered the [[Bloodstar Flotilla]] to open fire on the quarry, bombarding it from orbit in an attempt to shoot down any vessels that may try to escape.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS12|HSS|Chapter=12}} The [[Chancellor's Guards]] would notice this barrage and respond with force, with Nyeto estimating they would destroy the fleet within the hour.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}} |