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|name    = Raid on the ''Truth and Reconciliation''
|name    = Raids on the ''Truth and Reconciliation''
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|image    =
|previous = [[Battle of Reach]]
|previous = [[Battle of Reach]]
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|next    = [[Battle of Alpha Base]]
|next    = [[Battle of Alpha Base]]
|conflict = [[Human-Covenant War]]
|conflict = [[Human-Covenant War]]
|date    = September 19th, 2552
|date    = 19 - 22 September 2552
|place    = [[Installation 04]]
|place    = [[Installation 04]]
|result  = Human Victory
|result  = Human victories
*Captain Keyes rescued
*Captain Keyes rescued
*Hundreds of Covenant dead
*Hundreds of Covenant dead
*Capture of the vessel
|side1=[[United Nations Space Command]]
|side1=[[United Nations Space Command]]
|side2=[[Covenant]]
|side2=[[Covenant]]
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|commanders2= [[Orna 'Fulsamee]]†
|commanders2= [[Orna 'Fulsamee]]†
|forces1 =
|forces1 =
*1 [[Pelican]] ([[Echo 419]])
*Numerous Pelicans
**[[Carol Rawley]] piloting
*UNSC Marines
*Two Fireteams
**ODSTs
*Several freed Marines
*Surviving Pillar of Autumn crewmen
*1 SPARTAN-II (John-117)
*One SPARTAN
*AI: [[Cortana]]
|forces2=
|forces2=
*[[Sangheili]]
*[[Unggoy]]
*[[Kig-yar]]
*4 [[Mgalekgolo]]
*[[Shade]]s
|casual1=
|casual1=
*36 Marines
|casual2=
|casual2=
*Orna 'Fulsamee
*120 Covenant soldiers
}}
}}


This skirmish on the [[CCS-class Battlecruiser]] ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]'' hovering over [[Installation 04]] in September 2552 that involved multiple [[UNSC Marine Corps|marines]] and [[Spartan 117]] and [[Cortana]], a [[UNSC]] [[AI]].
Numerous raids took place over [[Installation 05]] as the Marines of the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} boarded the damaged CCS-class Battlecruiser, the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.


==Raid==
==First Raid - Rescue the Captain==
After word got out of [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] Keyes' capture by Covenant forces and being held onboard the cruiser ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]'', a rescue plan was needed urgently.
Shortly after the evacuation from the ''Pillar of Autumn'', Captain Jacob Keyes was captured by Covenant forces and taken to the ''Truth and Reconciliation'', where is was promptly imprisoned in one of its detention centres.  


Major Antonio Silva planned out the mission and sent in over a dozen ODSTs in Pelican ''[[Echo 419]]'', along with [[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]], a SPARTAN-II.
After word got out of his capture when AI Cortana hacked into the Covenant BattleNet, a force of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers dressed in urban-warfare fatigue assisted Master Chief Petty Officer [[John-117]]; a SPARTAN-II, in the initial boarding of the ship via the gravity lift which was based below it. Entering the ship, the group was attacked by numerous waves of the ship's military complement.


The Master Chief and the ODSTs were dispatched in the area surrounding the Covenant [[CCS-Class Battlecruiser]]. Using both his [[S2 AM Sniper Rifle]] and [[MA5B Assault Rifle]], the Chief fought his way to the ship's [[Gravity Lift]] loading zone, where the ship discharged multiple waves of troops and a pair of [[Mgalekgolo]].  
Leaving the ODSTs in the ship's control centre, the master chief proceeded to hunt for Captain Keyes solo. Eventually finding him and several imprisoned marines, the group headed back to the control room. However, in the time it took John to find Keyes and head back, the ODSTs guarding the rally point had been slaughtered by Energy Sword-wielding zealots.


Once inside, the marines were ambushed by sword-wielding stealth Sangheili and other Covenant. This is odd as just a few seconds before this happened, Cortana had stated that she detected no Covenant forces within the ship, although she may have been using visual references and since the covenant were on the other sides of the doors she may have been decieved and it might be because the Elites that initially ambushed them were in Active Camoflauge further supporting the visual theory. This is wrong because there were many Covenant forces later found on board the ship. After fighting through a storage depot and a large hangar, the marines made it through to the ship's command center, where they killed the [[Ship Master]] and many other troops. While the Chief rescued Keyes and three marines, the marines (including either Seargent Johnson or Pete stacker), holding position in the control center, were attacked by two more Sangheili. They then fought their way back to the hangar, where Keyes hijacked a Covenant Dropship and flew it out of the hangar, killing two Hunters in the process.
After Covenant banshees located the Pelican ''Echo 419'', which was giving support for the mission, Keyes changed the objective. Rather than waiting for Echo 419 to return safely, the group went to one of the Truth and Reconciliation's hanger bays, where they stole a [[Type-25 Troop Carrier]].


== Losses ==
==Second Raid - Return to the Captain==
=== Covenant ===
During the [[Battle of the Flood Containment Facility]], Captain Keyes was infected by the flood super cell via an Infection Form. Initially becoming a Combat form, his tactical knowledge was considered important to the parasitic organisms, and he was converted into a [[Proto-Gravemind]] along with a Sangheili officer after the Flood began to take over the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' on 21 September.
The covenant lost many soldiers from either their crew or the invasion force re-routed from reach, either way there were causalties in the high hundreds even the low thousands, this was noticed by Zuka' Zanamee when he returned to th Truth and Reconciliation and saw mountains of bodies beeing dropped down the grav lift.
=== UNSC ===
The UNSC lost surprisingly little amounts of soldiers , out of the ten that were dropped off from Echo 419 most make it to the gravity lift, then there are re-enforcements and then they all go up the grav lift, the master chief leaves them in the control room and when he comes back they've all been killed (its odd since in the game all the ODSTs that were dropped off are killed but in the book HALO: THE FLOOD Seargent Johnson and Chips Dubbo both make it off as well as several other ODSTs.). Master Chief as well as all the other marines/navy personel as well as the captain make it off unscathed.


== Trivia ==
In order to destroy the ''Pillar of Autumn'' and sterilise the Flood outbreak, John-117 and AI Cortana required Captain Keyes' [[Command Neural Interface]], which contained the code for the ''Autumn'''s auto-destruct system. Initially arriving just outside of the control room, John had to escape from a seemingly infinite number of Flood attackers in a locked-down part of the ship by jumping out of it; a pool of the ship's reactor coolant broke his otherwise fatal fall. Returning up the gravity lift, John searched for an open door for the control room. The Captain managed to hold onto his humanity long enough to communicate with John via a UNSC comm system, confirming his survival. However, his orders to leave him and escape were taken less seriously and thought of by Cortana as evidence of being mentally disturbed.  
* In this mission, which ever seargent you're accompanied by, be it Johnson or Stacker, will be killed once you reach the bridge of the Truth and Reconciliation. This will not affect their appearances in other games or missions.


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Finally reaching the centre, they found that they were too late: Keyes had fully merged with the calcium blob and became a part of the Proto-Gravemind. With no other option, John punched through the former Captain's head and took out the neural interface. The two commandeered a Banshee piloted by Covenant Special Operations personnel and headed straight for the ''Pillar of Autumn'''s crash site.

Revision as of 14:15, August 27, 2010

Concurrent:

Battle of Installation 04

Next:

Battle of Alpha Base

Raids on the Truth and Reconciliation

Conflict:

Human-Covenant War

Date:

19 - 22 September 2552

Location:

Installation 04

Outcome:

Human victories

  • Captain Keyes rescued
  • Hundreds of Covenant dead
  • Capture of the vessel
Details
Belligerents

United Nations Space Command

Covenant

Commanders

Orna 'Fulsamee

Strength
  • Numerous Pelicans
  • UNSC Marines
    • ODSTs
  • Surviving Pillar of Autumn crewmen
  • One SPARTAN


 

Numerous raids took place over Installation 05 as the Marines of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn boarded the damaged CCS-class Battlecruiser, the Truth and Reconciliation.

First Raid - Rescue the Captain

Shortly after the evacuation from the Pillar of Autumn, Captain Jacob Keyes was captured by Covenant forces and taken to the Truth and Reconciliation, where is was promptly imprisoned in one of its detention centres.

After word got out of his capture when AI Cortana hacked into the Covenant BattleNet, a force of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers dressed in urban-warfare fatigue assisted Master Chief Petty Officer John-117; a SPARTAN-II, in the initial boarding of the ship via the gravity lift which was based below it. Entering the ship, the group was attacked by numerous waves of the ship's military complement.

Leaving the ODSTs in the ship's control centre, the master chief proceeded to hunt for Captain Keyes solo. Eventually finding him and several imprisoned marines, the group headed back to the control room. However, in the time it took John to find Keyes and head back, the ODSTs guarding the rally point had been slaughtered by Energy Sword-wielding zealots.

After Covenant banshees located the Pelican Echo 419, which was giving support for the mission, Keyes changed the objective. Rather than waiting for Echo 419 to return safely, the group went to one of the Truth and Reconciliation's hanger bays, where they stole a Type-25 Troop Carrier.

Second Raid - Return to the Captain

During the Battle of the Flood Containment Facility, Captain Keyes was infected by the flood super cell via an Infection Form. Initially becoming a Combat form, his tactical knowledge was considered important to the parasitic organisms, and he was converted into a Proto-Gravemind along with a Sangheili officer after the Flood began to take over the Truth and Reconciliation on 21 September.

In order to destroy the Pillar of Autumn and sterilise the Flood outbreak, John-117 and AI Cortana required Captain Keyes' Command Neural Interface, which contained the code for the Autumn's auto-destruct system. Initially arriving just outside of the control room, John had to escape from a seemingly infinite number of Flood attackers in a locked-down part of the ship by jumping out of it; a pool of the ship's reactor coolant broke his otherwise fatal fall. Returning up the gravity lift, John searched for an open door for the control room. The Captain managed to hold onto his humanity long enough to communicate with John via a UNSC comm system, confirming his survival. However, his orders to leave him and escape were taken less seriously and thought of by Cortana as evidence of being mentally disturbed.

Finally reaching the centre, they found that they were too late: Keyes had fully merged with the calcium blob and became a part of the Proto-Gravemind. With no other option, John punched through the former Captain's head and took out the neural interface. The two commandeered a Banshee piloted by Covenant Special Operations personnel and headed straight for the Pillar of Autumn's crash site.