Editing Ivanoff Station

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{{Individual ship infobox
|name=Ivanoff Station
|image=[[File:H4-IvanoffStation-ScanScreen.jpg|350px]]<br>
|manufacturer=[[ONI Assembly Team 56]]<ref name="warfleet">'''[[Halo: Warfleet – An Illustrated Guide to the Spacecraft of Halo|Halo: Warfleet]]''', ''Space Stations'', ''pages 34-35''</ref>
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|role=Research; observation<ref name="warfleet"/>
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|engine-title=Power plant
|engine=[[Fusion reactor]]<ref name="Warfleet"/>
|slipspace drive=None
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|armament=*Sixteen [[Mark 2488 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon#Mark 2551|Mark 2551 MAC]] turrets<ref name="warfleet"/>
*Seven [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]]s<ref name="composer"/> 
|complement-title=Complement and crew
|complement=*250 [[UEG]] staff<ref name="warfleet"/>
*90 [[ONI Security]]<ref name="warfleet"/>
*[[HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark IX Armor Defense System|Mantises]]<ref name="composer"/>
*[[D79-TC Pelican]]s<ref name="warfleet"/>
*[[D82-EST Darter]]s<ref name="warfleet"/>
*3 [[F-41 Broadsword]]s<ref name="EVG">'''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide''' - ''Page 114''</ref>
*Lifeboats <ref name="composer"/>
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|commission=[[2552]]<ref name="Mythos"/>
|lastsight=[[2558]]<ref name="Catalog">[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2959975_Query--Catalog.aspx#post2959975 '''Halo Waypoint''' - ''Query: Catalog'']</ref>
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|battles=[[Raid on Ivanoff Station]]<ref name="composer"/>
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|namedcrew=*[[Catherine Halsey]] (2553-before 2557)<ref name="HGL428"/>
*[[Sandra Tillson]]<ref name="composer"/>
*[[Tim Pherson]]<ref name="composer"/>
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|affiliation=[[Unified Earth Government]]<ref name="warfleet"/>
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'''Ivanoff Station''' ([[Hull classification symbol|hull classification symbol]]: '''ONIRF IS-004920//001-54''')<ref name="warfleet"/> is a UNSC orbital research facility stationed in an [[asteroid]] field near [[Installation 03]]. It was built after the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] discovered the location of the Installation shortly before the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]].

==History==
After examining the ''[[Floral Express]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s flight records, and finding a possible Halo installation in the [[Khaphrae system]], ONI contacted and redirected pioneer teams to Khaphrae. Soon after confirming it was Installation 03, the teams attempted to find and secure the installation's [[Library]] to recover the [[activation index]]. Since Earth was [[Battle for Earth|under attack]] at the time, the teams could not return home, and they did not have the force of arms to remain on the ring, the teams settled in for a long habitation in a makeshift orbital base which they named Ivanoff Station. Shortly after the end of the war Ivanoff was expanded into a permanent UNSC facility.<ref name="Mythos">'''[[Halo Mythos]]''', ''page 164''</ref><ref name="warfleet"/> The facility maintained a small fleet of Pelicans and Darters to transport personnel and cargo between the ring and station, protected by squadrons of F-41 Broadsword fighters.<ref name="warfleet"/>

In [[2553|March 2553]], [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] was indefinitely detained here by [[Admiral]] [[Margaret Parangosky]],<ref name="HGL428">'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 428''</ref> as retribution for lying to her about the creation and deployment of [[flash clone]]s during the [[SPARTAN-II Program]]'s early phases.<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 431''</ref> Catherine Halsey was later allowed to work on the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}},<ref>'''Halo: The Thursday War''', ''page 12''</ref> although she was transferred back to the station after finishing.<ref name="composer">'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Composer (level)|Composer]]''</ref> However, she was relocated off the station at some point and was later taken back aboard the ''Infinity'' in early [[2558]].<ref>'''Halo 4''', ''[[Spartan Ops]]'',</ref>

In [[2557]], the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} would transfer an artifact to Ivanoff Station known as the [[Composer]] - a machine capable of converting living beings into digital form.<ref name="composer"/> As a result of an accident with the Composer, in which several scientists studying the artifact were digitized, the UNSC discovered the coordinates to [[Requiem]].<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Infinity (level)|Infinity]]''</ref>

===Raid on Ivanoff Station===
{{Main|Raid on Ivanoff Station}}
Searching for the Composer after being revived on Requiem, the [[Didact]] traveled to the station and [[Raid on Ivanoff Station|attacked it]] with [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|Covenant]] forces loyal to him. Despite the efforts of the [[John-117|Master Chief]] who had hitched a ride on a [[Lich]], the Didact succeeded in getting the Composer and fired it at Ivanoff Station, digitizing everyone except the Master Chief who had an immunity to the weapon activated in him earlier by the [[Librarian]]. With everyone in the station dead and the Didact leaving, the Master Chief abandoned the station in one of its [[F-41 Broadsword]] fighters armed with one of the station's excavation-grade [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]]s in hopes of stopping the Didact from doing the same to Earth.<ref name="composer"/> 

With the help of the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}, the Master Chief succeeded in destroying ''Mantle's Approach'' and the Composer, but not before the city of New Phoenix was composed like the station. In the aftermath of the [[Raid on Ivanoff Station]], a handful of the Ivanoff's personnel managed to escape into the nearby asteroid field and were later saved by search and rescue teams.<ref>'''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 35''</ref> 

===Current status===
Following the Didact's translocation back to Installation 03 after his battle aboard the ''Approach'', he had managed to procure the ring's Activation Index from the station with help from [[859 Static Carillon]] as part of a mutual agreement.<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''Issues #8, #9 and #10''</ref> The station is currently active, as of [[2558]].<ref name="Catalog"/>

== Specifications ==
Built into the side of a planetary fragment, Ivanoff Station originally began life as a simple makeshift orbital habitat that would be quickly expanded into a permanent facility dedicated to scouring the Halo for secrets of the Forerunners. It is roughly made up of three specifically-built module sections that are all interconnected within the station. The main section of the station is host to its primary [[hangar bay]], known as the Harbor, which can handle small cargo transports, fighters, and dropships. An energy barricade system lines its opening to retain the hangar's atmosphere as ships pass in and out, allowing it to remain pressurized at all times. Two thermal control arrays are also present here adjust the station's temperature by either pumping waste heat back into its host asteroid, or by using two radiator vane panels to release it into space. As with all ONI science stations, Ivanoff is equipped with a variety of specialized laboratories and workshops, although it also possesses additional state-of-the-art facilities for the storage, deconstruction, and analysis of Forerunner machinery. A habitation module is suspended from the station via framework booms. The station has at least two wavecom relays, which are the most advanced supraluminal communications system available to ONI.<ref name="Warfleet"/>

Many artifacts collected from Gamma Halo were brought to the Station for further study. This included the Halo's [[Activation index]], the eye of a [[War sphinx|war sphinx]], and a [[Composer]].<ref name="composer"/>

=== Crew and complement ===
Officially, the crew that makes up Ivanoff Station's workforce was a mix of ONI personnel and civilian contractors assigned to the facility for years-long deployments, with the total crew count adding up to 250 individuals. Unbeknownst to most, including the station's personnel, ONI operated an illegal Black Site within the station that used imprisoned scientists and technicians collected from across the UEG to work on dangerous and ethnically-dubious research projects. The full scope of this work was lost during the Didact's attack on the station, as information sanitation protocols wiped out the relevant records while the rest of the crew were wiped out by his attack.<ref name="Warfleet"/>

A small group of [[D79-TC Pelican]]s and [[D82-EST Darter]]s were assigned to the Station for the purposes of transferring personnel and cargo between Ivanoff and Gamma Halo. 90 [[ONI Security]] guards were there to protect the station, along with a wing of [[F-41 Broadsword]]s. While the exact number of fighters varied,<ref name="Warfleet"/> at least three were kept on site at all times.{{Citation needed}} Strangely, although Ivanoff had a complement of [[Mantis]]es,  the security personnel did not originally seem to recognize them as military assets by 2557.<ref name="composer"/>

=== Armament ===
Despite being a research station, Ivanoff boasts a network of sixteen [[Mark 2551 Onager]] MAC turrets, which are used primarily to protect the station from the occasional rogue asteroid and errant [[Sentinel]]. They are, nevertheless, an effective deterrent for any naval assault: a single shot is sufficient to destroy a Covenant dropship or damage small [[warship]]s. During emergencies, Ivanoff's powerful fusion reactors allow for sustained rapid fire to fend off attackers.<ref name="Warfleet"/> It also possessed seven excavation-grade [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]]s.<ref name="composer"/>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:H4-Concept-Ivanoff-Exterior.jpg|Concept art of Ivanoff Station for ''[[Halo 4]]''.
File:H4-Concept-Ivanoff-Hangar-Exterior.jpg|Concept art of the station's hangar bay, exterior view.
File:H4-Concept-Ivanoff-Hangar-Interior.jpg|Concept art of the station's hangar bay, interior view.
File:H4-Concept-Ivanoff-ObservationDeck.jpg|Concept art of Ivanoff's observation deck.
File:H4-Concept-Ivanoff-Corridor.jpg|Concept art of a corridor inside the station.
File:H4-Concept-Composer-Early.jpg|Early concept art of [[the Composer]], resting inside Ivanoff.
File:H4-Concept-Ivanoff-Mantle.jpg|Concept art of the ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'', laying siege to the station.
File:H4-IvanoffStation-LichViewScreen.jpg|View of Ivanoff Station through a [[Type-56 Lich]]'s viewscreen.
File:IvanoffStation.png|In-game view of Ivanoff station.
File:F-41 Broadsword.png|A Broadsword docked inside the station.
File:Escalation-IvanoffStation.jpg|Ivanoff Station in ''[[Halo: Escalation]]''.
File:HtS - Ivanoff.jpg|Ivanoff Station in ''[[Hunt the Signal]]''.
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File:HtS - Lab 2.jpg
File:HtS - Lab 3.jpg
File:HtS - Lab 4.jpg
File:HtS - Lab 5.jpg
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==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: The Thursday War]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo 4]]''
*''[[Halo: Escalation]]''
*''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Hunt the Truth]]''
**''[[Hunt the Signal]]''
*''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]''
*''[[Halo Mythos]]''

==Sources==
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[[Category:Space stations]]