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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
''Argent Moon'' was a research and development vessel for the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]. After | ''Argent Moon'' was a research and development vessel for the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]. After almost four years in service, the ship crew's was wiped out when containment of one of their biological weapons [[Asteroidea merozoite|experiments]] went wrong. Although shipboard [[smart AI]] [[Rooker]] attempted to enforce quarantine protocols, they failed "massively" and all personnel aboard ''Argent Moon'' were dead by [[2557#March|March 17, 2557]]. Rooker then took further measures to quarantine the ship, piloted it to a remote asteroid belt to keep it away from an inhabited systems. After six months, Rooker began suffering from [[rampancy]] and self-terminated, leaving the vessel empty. The abandoned starship was found more than a year later by [[Kig-Yar]] pirates, who sold it to [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant]]. As his soldiers started tearing up the vessel for supplies to use in their [[Blooding Years|war]] against the [[Swords of Sanghelios]], ONI was alerted to the ship's discovery and ordered Spartan Blue Team to storm and reclaim it. | ||
==Battle== | ==Battle== |
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