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===Operation: FIRST STRIKE=== | ===Operation: FIRST STRIKE=== | ||
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Eventually, the vessel was unlinked from the ''Ascendant Justice'' so that [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]] and [[First Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]] could use the ''Ascendant Justice'' to lure a Covenant battle fleet to the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'', which was about to explode. <ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', page 332</ref> | Eventually, the vessel was unlinked from the ''Ascendant Justice'' so that [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]] and [[First Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]] could use the ''Ascendant Justice'' to lure a Covenant battle fleet to the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'', which was about to explode.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', page 332</ref> The ''Gettysburg'' was refitted with the slipspace drive from the ''Ascendant Justice'' prior to unlinking. <ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', page 329</ref> | ||
===Return to Sol=== | ===Return to Sol=== | ||
After [[Operation: First Strike]], the ''Gettysburg'' and its skeleton crew headed back to the [[Sol System]], [[Earth]]'s home system. Its fate afterwards remains unknown. | After [[Operation: First Strike]], the ''Gettysburg'' and its skeleton crew headed back to the [[Sol System]], [[Earth]]'s home system. Its fate afterwards remains unknown. | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*It is named after the [[wikipedia:Battle of Gettysburg|Battle of Gettysburg]]. The American Civil War battle took place on July 1-3 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on [[Earth]]. This is interesting, in that it was fused with a Covenant vessel, just as the two factions of the American Civil War eventually rejoined into one country. | *It is named after the [[wikipedia:Battle of Gettysburg|Battle of Gettysburg]]. The American Civil War battle took place on July 1-3 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on [[Earth]]. This is interesting, in that it was fused with a Covenant vessel, just as the two factions of the American Civil War eventually rejoined into one country. | ||
*The Gettysburg has an onboard [[ | *The Gettysburg has an onboard [[Officers' Club]], housing a massive table of oak, scored with numerous gouges and scorches from a hundred cigars set upon its surface. There was a bar stocked with bottles containing a rainbow collection of liquors. It also housed the UNSC gold-fringed blue flag, photographs of past officers and captains of the Gettysburg, and a tin Civil War daguerreotype that displayed battlefields of charging men, cavalry and cannons. | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]] {{1st}} | *''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}} | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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[[Category:UNSC|Gettysburg, UNSC]] | [[Category:UNSC|Gettysburg, UNSC]] | ||
[[Category:Human Starships|Gettysburg, UNSC]] | [[Category:Human Starships|Gettysburg, UNSC]] | ||