Editing UNSC Ghost Wind

{{Title|UNSC ''Ghost Wind''}}
{{Status|Canon}}
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*[[Shrieker missile|M28 Shrieker missile]]s{{Ref/Reuse|HSS8}}
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*[[Battle of Biko]]
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The '''UNSC ''Ghost Wind''''' was a {{Class|Razor|prowler}} assigned to [[Ghost Flight]] of [[Task Force Yama]]. It served during the [[United Nations Space Command]]'s [[Operation: SILENT STORM]] in early [[2526]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS8}} Its crew was composed of [[insurrectionist]] agents hand-picked by [[Hector Nyeto]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS16|HSS|Chapter=16}}

==Service history==
===Ghost Flight===
The UNSC ''Ghost Wind'' was comissioned as part of [[Ghost Flight]], a flight of four {{Class|Razor|prowler}}s within the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s [[UNSC Prowler Corps|Prowler Corps]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS8}} At some point during the [[Insurrection]], [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Hector Nyeto]] became the commander of Ghost Flight and slowly replaced the crew of each vessel with personnel sympathetic to the [[insurrectionist]] cause.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS25|HSS|Chapter=25}} When [[Vice Admiral]]s [[Preston Cole]] and [[Michael Stanforth]] initiated [[Operation: SILENT STORM]] in [[2526#March|March 2526]], the ''Ghost Wind'' and the other prowlers of Ghost Flight were selected to join [[Task Force Yama]] for the duration of the mission. This operation had the goal of slowing the [[Covenant]]'s [[Massacre of the Outer Colonies|advance]] through the [[Outer Colonies]] by means of [[Naval boarding|boarding]] enemy ships and stations, destroying them from the inside. The [[task force]] soon left for [[Seoba]], a [[Natural satellite|moon]] of [[Biko]], where they would wait for [[Fleet of Inexorable Obedience|the nearby]] Covenant [[Covenant fleet|fleet]] arrive.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS5|HSS|Chapter=5}}

===ICE DANCE===
{{Main|Operation: ICE DANCE}}
Upon arriving in the [[Kolaqoa system]] on [[2526#March|March 18]], [[Colonel]] [[Marmon Crowther]] of the [[21st Space Assault Battalion]] decided that his [[ODST]]s and the [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartans]] that would be assisting in the operation should practice a mass deployment into the [[Seoba Ice Quarry|ice quarry]] where Task Force Yama would be hiding. Ghost Flight was selected to deploy the Black Daggers and [[Blue Team]], with each prowler carrying forty ODSTs and one Spartan. However, as the flight approached the moon, insurrectionist forces were detected in the quarry, preparing to overthrow Biko's chancellor. Despite this, Crowther decided to go forward with Operation: ICE DANCE and clear out the insurgent forces and capture Seoba.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS7|HSS|Chapter=7}}

During the ensuing [[Battle of Seoba|battle]], Ghost Flight managed to cripple the insurgents' communications relay at the top of the quarry. The ''Ghost Wind'' and the three other prowlers continued dropping off their infantry complement while supporting those already on the ground with their 30mm autocannons and [[Shrieker missile|M28 Shrieker missile]]s. As it attempted to destroy a convoy of rebel [[Civet]]s climbing up the quarry to repair the relay, the {{UNSCShip|Ghost Star}} was shot down, forcing Nyeto to pull the rest of Ghost Flight out until the convoy was either destroyed or distracted.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS8}} However, the battle would ultimately be won by [[Lieutenant]] [[Nelly Hamm]] using the unwitting Blue Team as a distraction, allowing her to call in Ghost Flight to deliver more troops. These Black Daggers destroyed the insurgent weapon emplacements and Civets, even securing the comms relay. With that, the quarry fell under Task Force Yama's control.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS10|HSS|Chapter=10}}

===Battle with Bloodstars===
{{Main|Battle of Seoba}}
On [[2526#March|March 19]], a Covenant [[Bloodstar Flotilla|flotilla]] arrived in-system and set course for Seoba, seemingly with the intent to meet with the insurrectionists that had previously held the moon.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS11|HSS|Chapter=11}} The ''Ghost Wind'' and the rest of the task force were quickly scrambled to meet the approaching [[intrusion corvette]]s, with each of the prowlers holding a complement of Black Daggers eager to board the Covenant vessels.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS13|HSS|Chapter=13}} While none of corvettes were successfully boarded, the alien flotilla would still be driven back after losing three of its five ships.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS15|HSS|Chapter=15}} Still, the battle had cost the life of [[Captain (NAVCOM)|Captain]] [[Halima Ascot]]—the commander of the task force—and her ship, the {{UNSCShip|Starry Night}}. Some of the Spartans had also been injured, primarily due to Nyeto purposefully stalling Ghost Flight's support in an attempt to get them killed.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS16|HSS|Chapter=16}}

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===Betrayal at Zhoist===
{{Main|Attack on Zhoist}}
After Nyeto's treachery was revealed at [[Zhoist]], the ''Ghost Wind'' fled into [[slipspace]] along with the [[UNSC Ghost Song|two]] [[Ghost Flag|other]] surviving prowlers of Ghost Flight.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS|HSS}}

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==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'' {{1st}}

==Sources==
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