Editing Halo: Escalation Issue 13

{{Title|''Halo: Escalation Issue 13''}}
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|image=[[File:HaloEscalation13.jpg|250px]]
|author=*Duffy Boudreau (writer)<br>
*Sergio Ariño (penciller)<br>
*Rob Lean (inker)<br>
*Michael Atiyeh (colorist)<br>
*Daniel Chavez (cover artist)
|publisher= [[Dark Horse Comics]]
|publication= December 24, 2014
|Length=32 pages
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'''''Halo: Escalation Issue 13''''' was released on [[2014|December 24, 2014]] and is the thirteenth comic in the ''[[Halo: Escalation]]'' series.<ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=55484 '''Comic Book Resources:''' ''Dark Horse Comics December 2014 Solicitations'']</ref> It is the first part of the four-issue story arc ''"The Janus Key"''.

==Official summary==
{{Article Quote|Requiem has been destroyed, but the real war between Commander Sarah Palmer's Spartans and Jul 'Mdama's New Covenant is just beginning... and everything hinges on control of one all-powerful artifact. Duffy Boudreau (BlackAcre, Bloodshot) and Sergio Ariño (Ms. Marvel) team up for an all-new chapter of the Halo saga and a great jumping-on point for new readers!}}

==Plot synopsis==
Issue #13 begins two months after the events of Issue #12, on [[2558#July|July 15, 2558]], with Dr. [[Catherine Halsey]] making a personal journal entry on her views on the Forerunners and their technology, her contribution to humanity's survival and subsequent condemnation by the UNSC, as well as her encounter with the [[Librarian]] on [[Requiem]]. Despite the UNSC turning against her, she remains determined to combine the halves of the [[Janus Key]] and take them to the [[Absolute Record]] to fulfill the Librarian's plan.

The next day, [[Oban]] is attacked by [[Promethean]]s and [[Covenant remnants|Covenant]] forces. Spartans [[Gabriel Thorne]], [[Sarah Palmer]] and [[Joel Thomas]] are deployed to repel the attack. Palmer orders to all UNSC forces search and find [[Jul 'Mdama]], and Thomas orders an airstrike attack to a couple of [[Type-44 Phantom]]s. Palmer orders Thorne to get to a [[M12 Warthog LRV]] but they are ambushed and pursued by [[Promethean Crawler]]s. They dispatch them and Palmer jumps direct above the Phantoms. The Warthog lands on the ground, injuring Thorne and the Phantoms are about to kill them but the airstrike attack, a [[GA-TL1 Longsword]], destroys both Phantoms.

On July 17, onboard the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}, Captain [[Thomas Lasky|Lasky]] reprehends Palmer about her attitude on Oban. Palmer ask him why Jul would effort so much resources on attack a small colony, and Lasky answer her maybe it was to stop colonization efforts and maybe it wasn't Jul the one responsible of the attack. Lasky then tells Palmer that she is frustrated by losing not Jul's track but Halsey's, knowing "one will lead to the other". Lasky reveals he wants Dr. Halsey back to the custody, but Palmer says when Halsey is on her sight, she will kill her. The next day, Palmer visits Dr. [[Henry Glassman|Glassman]], examinating one of the halfs of the Janus Key. Palmer orders Glassman to give her the final head count of [[Galileo II Base]] and she has prepared a security escort for the team. When the ''Infinity'' jumps to [[Slipspace]], the ship suddenly reappear in an asteroid belt, causing damages inside the ''Infinity''. The ''Infinity'' jumps to slipspace again, just to reappear a quarter of a kilometer of her last position. [[Roland]] tells Captain Lasky there's no advisable to make another jump, then Lasky orders Palmer and Dr. Glassman to go to ''Infinity''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Engine room. Dr. Glassman discovers the [[Slipspace drive#Macedon|''Infinity''<nowiki>'</nowiki> slipspace drive]] is overriding any coordinates except the one of the location in which they are, sticking the ship in a "Slipspace ''[[Wikipedia:Cul-de-sac|Cul-de-sac]]''". In that moment, Roland finds an unusual energy reading coming from the equator of an uncharted planet near their position. Glassman and Lasky supposed that the location is the source of the problem and Palmer orders to gather a team and send them with Dr. Glassman to the planet. 

In a {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}}, Dr. Halsey and Jul 'Mdama are in front of a Forerunner actifact, recovered by 'Mdama before Requiem exploded. Halsey explains 'Mdama that the artifact made Halsey to be able to contact with ''Infinity''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Forerunner components, including her slipspace drive and stuck them into the system. 'Mdama then tells Halsey his lieutenants called for her head after the failed attack to Oban, but Halsey tells him that the attack was only a bold move to attract the ''Infinity'' near the artifact and be able to connect the artifact and ''Infinity''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s drive. Halsey then tells him that now they won't need to invade the ship to retrieve the other half of the Janus Key, as it will be ''Infinity''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s crew who will give it to them.

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==See also==
*''[[Halo: Escalation]]''

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