Editing Fleet of Particular Justice

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|image = [[File:Particular_Justice.png|300px]]

|formed = [[2535]]<ref name="TCP"/>

|size = Around 60 vessels <ref>'''[[Halo 2 Anniversary]]''', ''[[Terminal/Halo 2 Anniversary|Terminals]]''</ref>

|battles = [[Fall of Reach]]<br/>[[Battle of Installation 04]]

|commanders = [[Supreme Commander]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee

 

The '''Fleet of Particular Justice''' was a [[Covenant]] [[Covenant fleet|naval]] unit. It was formerly led by [[Supreme Commander]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee. This fleet was largely responsible for [[glassing]] [[Reach]], and it pursued the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} to [[Installation 04]]. The Fleet of Particular Justice was one of the Covenant's largest fleets, surpassed only by the [[Combined Fleet of Righteous Purpose]], led by [[Imperial Admiral]] [[Xytan 'Jar Wattinree]], and the [[Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity]], whose purpose was to defend the Covenant capital city, ''[[High Charity]]''.

The Fleet of Particular Justice was formed in [[2535]] during a reorganization of the [[Covenant military]] as ordered by the [[Hierarchs]], against the wishes of many conservative [[Sangheili]] [[Sangheili Councilor|High Councilors]] and fleet commanders. In gratitude for his service at [[the Rubble]], [[Shipmaster]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee was given command of a ship in the fleet.<ref name="TCP">'''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''', ''page 349''</ref> The fleet first consisted of only five vessels, but eventually grew in size to nearly sixty ships. The Fleet of Particular Justice was first identified by the UNSC shortly after 2535, with Thel 'Vadamee now in command of the fleet.<ref>'''[[Halo 2 Anniversary]]''', ''[[Terminal/Halo 2 Anniversary|Terminals]]''</ref>

During the [[Fall of Reach]] in [[2552|summer 2552]], a massive combined fleet was dispatched to invade the planet,<ref name="log">'''[[Halo: The Flood|Halo: The Flood (2010)]]''', ''[[Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit]]''</ref><ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', "[[The Return]]"</ref> though the ''Fleet of Particular Justice'' did not arrive until August 30.<ref name="TFoR"/><ref>'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 151''</ref><!-- Halo: The Essential Visual Guide confirms that the Fleet of Particular Justice did not arrive until August 30, as is stated in Halo: The Fall of Reach.--> By this time, 'Vadamee had become the fleet's Supreme Commander.

Before the initial battle, the Covenant sent a smaller advance fleet, the [[Fleet of Valiant Prudence]], to Reach;<ref>'''Halo: The Essential Visual Guide''', ''page 111''</ref> after Valiant Prudence's flagship, the {{Class|CSO|supercarrier}} ''[[Long Night of Solace]]'' was destroyed, another Covenant fleet, possibly the [[Fleet of Righteous Vigilance]] or the [[Fleet of Holy Respite]], arrived and began attacking the planet in earnest.<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level ''[[Long Night of Solace (level)|Long Night of Solace]]''</ref><!-- Halo: The Essential Visual Guide states that the fleet that arrived after Long Night of Solace's destruction was not the Fleet of Particular Justice.--> Over the coming weeks, the Covenant continued to whittle away at the UNSC's defenses until, on August 30, the Fleet of Particular Justice arrived. Over two-thirds of the fleet was destroyed, mainly because of the planet's defending [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon#"Super" Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|"Super" MAC]]-equipped [[orbital defense platform]]s and an intervening nuclear minefield, though the defenders were soon overrun. Much of the fleet remained behind to [[Glassing|glass]] the planet, though Supreme Commander 'Vadamee recalled those vessels nearest his flagship, ''[[Seeker of Truth]]'', and pursued the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} as it escaped the planet.<ref name="TFoR">'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page ??''</ref>

On [[2552#September|September 19]], the Covenant warships, being faster than human ships, were the first to arrive at the ''Pillar of Autumn''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s destination: [[Halo Array|Halo]] [[Installation 04]]. They quickly established a blockade to prevent the humans from landing on the installation. In the battle that followed, the ''Autumn'' managed to destroy at least four of the fleet's cruisers and damage several others, including the ''Truth and Reconciliation.'' The [[Prophet of Stewardship]] then decreed that the fleet may not fire on the ''Pillar of Autumn'' for fear of hitting the ring, prompting several [[Boarding|boarding parties]] to be dispatched to the ship; the ''Autumn''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew managed to hold off the boarding parties long enough to launch its escape pods at Halo. Supreme Commander 'Vadamee, ignoring the Prophet's edict, had his ships open fire on the ''Pillar of Autumn'',<ref name="log"/> destroying some of the pods, though the rest landed on the ring. The ''Pillar of Autumn'' itself soon crash landed on Halo despite the fleet's best efforts to stop it.

Shortly after the fleet's arrival at Halo, a small scouting force with the [[CSO-class supercarrier|supercarrier]] ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'' as its flagship was sent from [[High Charity]] to accompany the fleet in the recovery of the Forerunner construct.<ref group="note">In ''[[Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit]]'' featured in the Adjunct section of the 2010 reissue of ''Halo: The Flood'', it is stated that the ''Ascendant Justice'' was already present at Installation 04 during the Battle of Installation 04. Meanwhile, page 68 of ''Halo: First Strike'' (2001 edition) specifies the ship was part of a scouting picket from High Charity, separate from the Fleet of Particular Justice. From this, it can be inferred that ''Ascendant Justice'' and its scouting picket must have arrived before or very early into the battle.</ref> Over the next several days, the fleet remained in orbit around Halo, sending numerous troops to the surface in an attempt to both learn the secrets of the ring and to eliminate the human presence. Because the ring was considered sacred, the fleet was unable to simply wipe the humans out from orbit as they were accustomed to doing.

[[File:H2A Terminals - Fleet waiting for Autumn.jpg|thumb|250px|The fleet awaiting for the arrival of ''Autumn''.]]

Over the course of the battle, an internal crisis occurred within the fleet between Supreme Commander 'Vadamee and the Prophet of Stewardship. After the Prophet sent several artifact retrieval teams to a supposed [[Flood containment facility|Forerunner weapons cache]], 'Vadamee ordered the Minor Prophet to stop misappropriating his forces. Receiving no response, 'Vadamee dispatched a team to ''Ascendant Justice'' to relieve the Prophet of his duties until the human forces were eliminated. However, Stewardship had the incoming ship destroyed and vowed to do the same with any future attempt to challenge his authority. 'Vadamee prepared to personally lead a strike force to apprehend the Prophet, but this was interrupted by the revelation that the [[Flood]] had broken loose on the ring. Meanwhile, the Prophet of Stewardship relocated with his personal security contingent to ''Truth and Reconciliation''. 'Vadamee and his team subsequently boarded ''Ascendant Justice'' whose crew quickly swore allegiance to him.<ref name="log"/>

On September 21, the fleet's [[Covenant agricultural support ship|agricultural support ship]], ''[[Infinite Succor]]'', was boarded and subsequently hijacked by the [[Flood]].<ref name="Halo Graphic Novel">'''Halo Graphic Novel''', ''The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor''</ref> Realizing that the battle on Halo's surface would be lost due to the overwhelming Flood, Fleet Master 'Vadamee ordered the Fleet of Particular Justice to retreat from Halo — ignoring the Prophet of Stewardship's fleet-wide requests of rescue aboard ''Truth and Reconciliation''.<ref name="log"/> ''Truth and Reconciliation'' was taken over by first the Flood and then the humans, but was ultimately destroyed by being crashed into Halo. Upon learning that [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan]] [[John-117]] was about to detonate the ''Pillar of Autumn''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s engines in an effort to destroy Halo, 'Vadamee ordered all ships to take refuge behind [[Threshold]] to avoid being destroyed.<ref name="log"/>

During the battle, an expeditionary team led by [[Sesa 'Refumee]] and [[Loka 'Bandolee]] had been sent by the Prophet of Stewardship to investigate a [[Threshold gas mine|Forerunner gas mine]] in the atmosphere of [[Threshold]], the gas giant that Halo orbited.<ref name="log"/> Shortly after the ring's destruction, its monitor, [[343 Guilty Spark]], came into contact with this team within the gas mine. Upon meeting the [[ancilla]], Sesa ordered that all communication with the fleet was to be cut so as to avoid the San'Shyuum's interference as it told him the truth about the rings.<ref>'''Halo Waypoint''' [[Terminal/Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary|bonus terminal: "Threshold"]]</ref>

A [[Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit|routine log]] of the fleet's actions during the battle was filed. Supreme Commander [[Thel 'Vadamee]] sent a copy of this log to [[Lak 'Vadamee]] while he awaited the [[High Council]]'s ruling on the matter of his part in Halo's destruction.<ref name="log"/> 'Vadamee was soon brought to ''[[High Charity]]'' before the Council and lost control of the fleet, but was given the title of [[Arbiter]].<ref>'''[[Halo 2]]''', campaign level ''[[Heretic (level)|Heretic]]''</ref><ref>'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[The Arbiter]]''</ref>

*''[[Ascendant Justice]]'' - {{Class|CSO|supercarrier}} - Destroyed

*''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]'' - {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}} - [[Lat 'Ravamee]] - Destroyed

*''[[Sacred Promise]]'' - ''CCS''-class battlecruiser - Destroyed

*''[[Purity of Spirit]]'' - ''CCS''-class battlecruiser

*''[[Penance (ship)|Penance]]'' - {{Class|CAR|frigate}}

*''[[Esteem]]'' - {{Class|CPV|heavy destroyer}}

*''[[Commitment and Patience]]'' - Unknown class - Destroyed

*''[[Devotion]]'' - Unknown class - Destroyed

*''[[Infinite Succor]]'' - [[Covenant agricultural support ship|Agricultural support ship]] - [[Minister of Etiology]] - Destroyed

*[[Unidentified cruiser (Particular Justice)|Unidentified cruiser]] - Destroyed

*[[Unidentified Covenant warship|Unidentified "sniper" ship]] - Unknown class - Destroyed

*Unidentified [[Covenant destroyer|destroyer]] - [[Orna 'Fulsamee]]

*''[[Glorious Advance]]'' - [[Type-52 Phantom|Phantom dropship]] attached to ''Seeker of Truth''

*''[[Brilliant Gift]]'' - [[Type-25 Spirit|Spirit dropship]] - Destroyed

*[[Shipmaster]] [[Orna 'Fulsamee]]

File:H5-Truth-Ships.png|The Fleet of Particular Justice in [[Truth (level)|Truth]], a multiplayer map for ''Halo 5: Guardians''.

**''[[Terminal/Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary|Terminals]]''

*''[[Halo 2 Anniversary]]''

**''[[Terminal/Halo 2 Anniversary|Terminals]]''

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