Editing Sunray 1-1

{{Status|Canon}}
{{Quote|Id Quot Circumiret, Circumveniat (What goes around, comes around.)|Official motto{{Ref/Reuse|CF100}}}}
{{Military infobox
|image=[[File:HW2 Sunray Patch.png|300px]]
|formed=
|affiliation=*[[UNSC Marine Corps]]
**[[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]]
***[[9th Shock Troops Battalion]]
****[[Boomerang Company]]
*****[[First Platoon (Spirit of Fire)|First Platoon]]
|type=[[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]]
|role=
|size=*Five ODSTs
|nicknames=
|battles=*[[Human-Covenant War]]
**[[Harvest Campaign]]
**[[Battle of Arcadia]]
**[[Battle of Trove]]
*[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]
**[[Second Ark Conflict]]
***[[Operation: SPEARBREAKER]]
|commanders=*[[Major]] [[Vaughan]]
}}
'''Command Squad Sunray''',{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=59}} known by the callsign '''Sunray 1-1''', is a small team of [[UNSC Marine Corps|UNSC Marine]] [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]], and the lead element of [[Boomerang Company]] - one of the UNSC's elite forces of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.{{Ref/Site|Id=Frosty|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/stay-frosty|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Stay Frosty|D=25|M=10|Y=2021}} 

==Members==
[[File:Sunray1-1.png|thumb|left|250px|Sunray 1-1's current roster.]]
*'''[[Major]] [[Elijah Vaughan]]''' - Team Leader, CO of Boomerang Company.
*'''[[UNSC rank structure|Warrant Officer]] [[Alannah Quinn]]''' - Technical Liaison.
*'''[[UNSC rank structure|Petty Officer]] [[Helena Gruss]]''' - Medic. 
*'''[[Corporal]] [[Chloe Turpin]]''' - Drone Operator.
*'''[[Lance Corporal]] [[Devon Sparks]]''' - Designated Marksman.

==History==
===Human-Covenant War===
Sunray 1-1 was assigned to {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} in the early years of the [[Human-Covenant War]], and were present on the ship in February of [[2531]] when the ship was pulled to the uncharted [[Korinth Prior system]]. During the ensuing [[Battle of Trove|fight against]] the [[Covenant]] on the surface of [[Trove]], a [[Forerunner]] [[shield world]], Sunray were deployed on the ground against the forces of the [[Fleet of Glorious Interdiction]]. After the ship's [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|Shaw-Fujikawa translight engine]] was sacrificed to destroy the shield world, the members of Sunray 1-1 entered [[cryostasis]] along with the rest of the crew.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}

===War on the Ark===
{{Main|Second Ark Conflict|Operation: SPEARBREAKER}}
Over twenty-eight years later on March 28, [[2559]], Sunray 1-1 and everyone else were awakened to find themselves drifting above the extragalactic [[Installation 00]], also known as the Ark.{{Ref/Game|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Detail=Alice-130 Report #1}} There, the vessel's forces were forced to contend with the [[Banished]], a heavily-armed faction of ex-Covenant that sought to control the Ark largely due to its capacity for producing [[Halo]] superweapons.

In May of 2559, a month following the [[Battle of Installation 09|departure]] of [[Installation 09]] from the Ark, Sunray were deployed onto the Ark to investigate a cloaking field set up by the Banished to hide a new site of operations commanded by the [[Mgalekgolo]] [[Swarmlord]], [[Colony]]. Sunray landed on the Ark 1.8 miles from the site perimeter, and were tasked with performing a reconnaissance and observation mission. After the Banished presence was confirmed, ''Spirit of Fire'' deployed [[India Company]] to reinforce Sunray as they began to push deeper. Eventually, Sunray stumbled upon a Banished base of operations, and were able to acquire intelligence on the nature of their plan: reactivate an ancient Forerunner {{Class|Despair|fighter}} and use it to destroy ''Spirit of Fire''. However, the fighter was still a dormant [[design seed]], which meant that there was a short amount of time available to stop the plan before it could be brought to completion. Sunray proceeded to act as the spearhead of a large combined-arms force supported by ''Spirit of Fire'' in an attack on a number of control points critical to the operation of the cloaking field surrounding the site, successfully fending off numerous Banished and [[Sentinel]] attacks including a large [[Retriever Sentinel]].{{Ref/Level|HW2|Gatecrashers}}

With the first stage of the operation a success, Sunray then proceeded to move on to an assault on the launch site itself. This second attack resulted in the deployment of numerous [[HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark II (J) Colossus|Mark II Colossi]] to help destroy the Forerunner mechanisms constructing the ''Despair''-class fighter, delaying the fifteen-minute countdown sufficiently long enough to allow UNSC forces an opening to destroy the site with an [[AV-14 Hornet]] air strike.{{Ref/Level|HW2|Not On My Watch}}

Upon returning from their successful mission, Sunray were quickly moved on to conduct more missions against the Banished. Shortly following the success of SPEARBREAKER, the team were used to perform a series of assassinations on Banished officers identified as critical to the operations of [[Atriox]]. One mission in particular was a resounding success, with Corporal [[Sparks]] using tactics gleaned from after-action reports of the war-era [[Operation: GREY VEIL]] assasination on [[Heian]] to land a killing shot against a Jiralhanae [[Captain (Covenant)|Captain]] that quickly became legend among the ''Spirit of Fire''{{'}}s crew. Throughout the later months of 2559, they were deployed among several Banished-occupied regions of the Ark in strikes against a variety of hostile forces including the aforementioned Banished, and those of both Sentinel and [[Armiger]] threats.{{Ref/Site|Id=CF100|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/sweet-centennial|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Sweet Centennial|D=24|M=09|Y=2021}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:HW2 Sunray Concept Clean.jpg|Clean concept of Sunray, without their emblem.
File:HW2-Odsts-1.jpg|Operation: SPEARBREAKER.
File:HW2-Odsts-2.jpg|Sunray 1-1 under attack.
File:ODST-Sunray 03.png|Sunray 1-1 descending from orbit.
File:ODST-Sunray 02.png|Sunray 1-1 after landing on [[Installation 00]].
File:ODST-Sunray 04.png|Sunray 1-1 unit in-game.
File:ODST-Vaughan Model.png|Major Vaughan
File:ODST-Quinn Model.png|Warrant Officer Quinn
File:ODST-Gruss Model.png|Petty Officer Gruss
File:ODST-Turpin Model.png|Corporal Turpin
File:ODST-Sparks Model.png|Lance Corporal Sparks
File:HW2 Sunray 1-1 Screenshot.png|thumb|An in-game screenshot of the hero unit.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo Wars 2]]''
**''[[Halo Wars 2: Operation: SPEARBREAKER]]'' {{1st}}

==Sources==
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{{Sunray 1-1}}
[[Category:Orbital Drop Shock Trooper units]]