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'''''Ascendant Justice''''' was a [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] [[Covenant supercarrier|supercarrier]], one of the seven ships sent to [[Installation 04]] shortly after its destruction. It was part of the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]].<ref name="Rerelease" /> It was captured by [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN]] [[John-117]] and the other human survivors of the [[Battle of Installation 04]]. | |||
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The ship received assistance from remaining [[Eridanus Rebels|rebels]] in a small asteroid colony at Eridanus Secundus, who provided personnel and repairs for the ship's weaponry, before being discovered by the Covenant. Though the ''Ascendant Justice'' engaged the initial Covenant forces in ship-to-ship combat, reinforcements arrived en masse, forcing it to abandon the colony to the Covenant. | The ship received assistance from remaining [[Eridanus Rebels|rebels]] in a small asteroid colony at Eridanus Secundus, who provided personnel and repairs for the ship's weaponry, before being discovered by the Covenant. Though the ''Ascendant Justice'' engaged the initial Covenant forces in ship-to-ship combat, reinforcements arrived en masse, forcing it to abandon the colony to the Covenant. | ||
[[File:Fight_on_Ascendant_Justice.png|thumb|250px|John-117, Corporal Locklear, and Lieutenant Haverson fighting aboard | [[File:Fight_on_Ascendant_Justice.png|thumb|250px|John-117, Corporal Locklear, and Lieutenant Haverson fighting aboard ''Ascendant Justice'']] | ||
After fleeing from Eridanus Secondus, the crew of the ''Ascendant Justice'' discovered the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'', a Covenant refit-and-repair station, which was being used to service a Covenant [[Truth's Fleet|invasion force]] that was poised to invade [[Earth]]. Vice Admiral Whitcomb then initiated [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]], in which the UNSC-commandeered ''Ascendant Justice'' the remaining SPARTANs near the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' in a heavily modified [[Type-25 Troop Carrier|Spirit dropship]], and started a self-destruct sequence in one of the station's reactor rooms. The SPARTANs managed to escape from the station and travel to the far side of a nearby moon where the ''[[Gettysburg]]'' was waiting for them. Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson had detached the ''Ascendant Justice'' from the ''Gettysburg'' and taken it in a slingshot orbit around the moon. Vice Admiral Whitcomb pretended to have the [[Forerunner]] crystal by using a hologram and challenged the Covenant to come and claim it. The Covenant did not want to fire on the ''Ascendant Justice'' because the crystal was supposedly on it. The two used the momentum from their slingshot orbit to crash into the station even after the Covenant had cut the ship's engines off with laser fire. Whitcomb then ordered John-117 to see what was left of the Covenant and then "''...hightail the intel back to Earth.''" The last few seconds of visual and audio record from the Ascendant Justice showed the door crashing to the ground and the Admiral opening fire with an [[M7/Caseless Submachine Gun|SMG]]. The reactors on the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' then overloaded and exploded, destroying the ''Ascendant Justice'' and over four hundred enemy vessels. Only a few Covenant ships survived the catastrophe, which delayed the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s plan to invade Earth. Both Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson were killed. The ''Ascendant Justice'''s Slipspace drive allowed the ''Gettysburg'' to reach Earth and warn the UNSC leadership of the Covenant's plans to invade Earth. | After fleeing from Eridanus Secondus, the crew of the ''Ascendant Justice'' discovered the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'', a Covenant refit-and-repair station, which was being used to service a Covenant [[Truth's Fleet|invasion force]] that was poised to invade [[Earth]]. Vice Admiral Whitcomb then initiated [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]], in which the UNSC-commandeered ''Ascendant Justice'' the remaining SPARTANs near the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' in a heavily modified [[Type-25 Troop Carrier|Spirit dropship]], and started a self-destruct sequence in one of the station's reactor rooms. The SPARTANs managed to escape from the station and travel to the far side of a nearby moon where the ''[[Gettysburg]]'' was waiting for them. Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson had detached the ''Ascendant Justice'' from the ''Gettysburg'' and taken it in a slingshot orbit around the moon. Vice Admiral Whitcomb pretended to have the [[Forerunner]] crystal by using a hologram and challenged the Covenant to come and claim it. The Covenant did not want to fire on the ''Ascendant Justice'' because the crystal was supposedly on it. The two used the momentum from their slingshot orbit to crash into the station even after the Covenant had cut the ship's engines off with laser fire. Whitcomb then ordered John-117 to see what was left of the Covenant and then "''...hightail the intel back to Earth.''" The last few seconds of visual and audio record from the Ascendant Justice showed the door crashing to the ground and the Admiral opening fire with an [[M7/Caseless Submachine Gun|SMG]]. The reactors on the ''Unyielding Hierophant'' then overloaded and exploded, destroying the ''Ascendant Justice'' and over four hundred enemy vessels. Only a few Covenant ships survived the catastrophe, which delayed the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s plan to invade Earth. Both Vice Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson were killed. The ''Ascendant Justice'''s Slipspace drive allowed the ''Gettysburg'' to reach Earth and warn the UNSC leadership of the Covenant's plans to invade Earth. | ||
