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The [[Battle at Szurdok Ridge]] was completely disrupted by the appearance of a cloaked [[Covenant supercarrier]] in low orbit above [[Reach]]. The UNSC had no available nuclear weapons or large orbital assets to strike down the supercarrier, prompting the SPARTANs of [[Noble Team]] to improvise. Recalling a slipspace drive accident near [[Cygnus]], [[SPARTAN-III]] [[Catherine-B320|LTCDR Catherine-B320]] conceived an unorthodox plan to use a [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]] as a makeshift bomb.<ref name="lnos"/> To reach orbit, they decided to appropriate the top-secret [[YSS-1000 Sabre|YSS-1000 Sabre]] planetary defense fighters stored at the [[Sabre Program Launch/Research Range]] at [[Farkas Lake]]. [[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]] reluctantly approved the operation, with [[Noble Six]], a qualified Sabre pilot, leading the space portion of the attack.