Operation: WHITE GLOVE: Difference between revisions

By August 30, Halsey had arrived at CASTLE Base.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', Chapter 12</ref> By this time, Jun had left her for reasons unknown. Although the rest of the facility's personnel had evacuated, she began to enact Operation: WHITE GLOVE.<ref name="firststrike14">''Halo: First Strike'', Chapter 14</ref> She was accompanied by the AI [[Kalmiya]], a predecessor of [[Cortana]], and was harried by [[Araqiel]], the personal AI of her nemesis, [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson]]. The operation called for the destruction of every [[artificial intelligence]] in the facility using the fail-safe in its [[Riemann matrix]] before the base was destroyed, thus ensuring that the Covenant did not capture such technology.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', p. 127-128</ref> After erasing Araqiel with a fail-safe command, Halsey did the same to Kalmiya. When the surviving [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-IIs]] of [[Red Team]] arrived at the base, Halsey destroyed the facility via the self-destruct charges installed throughout the complex.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', p. 135</ref> She, [[Frederic-104]], [[William-043]], [[Vinh-030]], [[Isaac-039]], and [[Kelly-087]] were able to hide in the caves beneath the base. They were able to stop the Covenant from accessing the slipspace-distorting [[Forerunner crystal|crystal]] in the [[Menachite Forerunner complex|Forerunner complex]] beneath the base, though they became trapped for several days.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', p. 132-139</ref>