Red Team
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Red Team is a name given to a number of mission-specific formations of Spartan-II commandos subordinate to the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command. The size of Red Team was fluid, ranging from as few as six members to almost two dozen depending on the needs of a given mission. They actively participated in several battles, including the Battle of Arcadia, the Battle of Jericho VII, the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV, and the Fall of Reach.
Known members
Although Red Team generally operated at a size of around six members, more Spartans could be selected for missions that called for a larger force.
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Fall of Reach splinter arrangement
After their D77-TC Pelican, Bravo 001, was shot down during the Fall of Reach and four team members were killed, the surviving members of Red Team were split into four groups: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.[note 1]
- Beta Red Actual
- Red-Fifteen
- Four unknown Spartans
Operational history
Training
- Main article: SPARTAN-II training
During their trainig Red Team often competed with other Spartan teams, such as Black Team led by Margaret-053. At some point when Red Team discovered that Margaret was in a secret relationship with Otto-031, they tracked Margaret down as team leader and attacked her, claiming they were not taking their training seriously enough. She lost her left eye resisting them. Soon, Black Team gave Red Team a beating in return and were given a ten-day stint in the brig as a result.[1][2][3]
Early Human-Covenant War
In February 2531, Red Team was under the leadership of Jerome-092. It was a nine-person unit, with the core of the team comprised of Jerome, Douglas-042, and Alice-130, and the other six members organized into Team Omega;[4] these Spartans' MJOLNIR Mark IV armor was equipped with a prototypical energy shield system which would not become standard until the release of the Mark V twenty years later.[5]
Arcadia
- Main article: Battle of Arcadia
On February 9, 2531, Red Team participated in the Battle of Arcadia. Red Team were tasked with stopping the Covenant long enough to evacuate the civilians of the planet.[6] Afterward, Red Team linked up with forces from UNSC Spirit of Fire and assisted in a counterattack on a Covenant outpost.[7] Once the plan to infiltrate a large Covenant shield dome was passed down from Captain James Cutter, Red Team remained with the crew to assist with the assignment. Spartans helped prevent the destruction of several prototypical M145D Rhinos while the tanks ensured that the shield was destroyed.[8] After Sergeant John Forge's forces triumphed over a Scarab, Jerome, Douglas, and Alice searched for Covenant survivors in the jungles on a M12 Warthog.[9] Upon hearing that Professor Ellen Anders had been abducted by Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee, Forge and Red Team boarded Spirit of Fire, which jumped into slipspace in pursuit of the Covenant destroyer carrying Anders.[10][5]
Shield world 0459
- Main article: Battle of Shield World 0459
Upon arriving at a Forerunner Shield World on February 23rd, Red Team assisted the Spirit of Fire's crew in neutralizing Covenant and Flood forces.[10] Once Spartans assisted in destroying a proto-Gravemind,[11] Red Team became stranded on the planet. With the Spirit of Fire being dragged inside the megastructure, Red Team was assisted by Sergeant Forge and his forces and successfully withdrew to the ship.[12] Red Team then assisted the crew in scouring the Flood forces from the hull of the Spirit of Fire.[13] Soon, the crew repelled Covenant boarders and successfully repaired the ship's power core when after it was damaged by Covenant forces.[14]
Once Anders was rescued, Red Team were tasked with ensuring that the Spirit of Fire's slipspace drive arrived at the teleporter that would take it to the Apex Site in an attempt to destroy the Shield World's sun, denying the Covenant access to a fleet of Forerunner warships.[15] Atop the Apex Site, Jerome, Alice and Douglas engaged a large force of Sangheili while Forge engaged 'Moramee. Once the area was clear, Jerome volunteered to take the damaged drive in and ensure its detonation. Forge, believing that the SPARTANs would play a bigger part in the war than he ever could, took his place. Jerome, Douglas, Alice, and the Spirit of Fire's crew were then charged with opening the gate which allowed the Spirit of Fire to exit the Shield World.[16][5] After that they have been evacuated back to the Spirit of Fire before slipspace drive detonated.
It is assumed that members of Red Team, as with the rest of the crew, entered cryo sleep after the Spirit of Fire escaped the destruction of the Shield World. However, sometime later they have been awakened and engaged in combat with unknown number of Covenant forces led by unidentified Jiralhanae.[17]
Further operations in various compositions
In 2535 Red Team participated in the Battle of Jericho VII. Team's mission was to slip behind Covenant lines and plant a HAVOK tactical nuke, hoping to destroy the next Covenant ship that landed and dropped its shields, while Blue Team were drawing out the Covenant rear guard. Meanwhile, Green Team was preventing a Covenant ground force advance on the planet. All of the Spartan teams accomplished their missions and returned safely to the remaining fleet in a Pelican dropship.[18]
During the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV in July 2552, Red Team was led by Joshua-029. They were tasked with scouting the city of Côte d'Azur's wharves while Blue Team planted a HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon in the sewers beneath the city. In the meantime, they rescued numerous civilians, the only ones the Covenant had not massacred.
Fall of Reach
- Main article: Fall of Reach
By August 30 Red Team had been assigned to the Template:UNSCship to participate in Operation: RED FLAG. However, before the Autumn could exit the system and initiate the mission, all UNSC ships were recalled to defend Reach. Red Team, consisting of twenty-two members under the command of Fred-104,[19][20][21][22][23][24] was deployed to the surface of Reach to defend the generators that powered the planet's twenty orbital defense platforms.
Though they inflicted heavy damage on the Covenant, including destroying a Covenant cruiser and a military base set up to secure the ground, many members of Red Team were killed during their insertion and in the engagements that followed.
Halo Wars gameplay
Red Team plays a significant role in Halo Wars' campaign. In gameplay the Spartans have prototypical energy shields[5] in addition to health. All three Spartans (as well as the six-member Team Omega in the level Arcadia Outskirts) count as hero units; if their health is depleted, instead of dying, they are "downed", at which point their health bar begins to regenerate. Once the health bar is at least half full the downed Spartan can be revived by touching them with any other unit under the player's or co-op ally's control. The Spartans are capable of hijacking enemy vehicles and commandeering friendly vehicles, similar to the FPS games, but at a much slower rate. Any vehicle driven by a Spartan receives a stat boost and the ability to earn more veterancy points. Spartans cannot be harmed by Flood infection forms while their shields are intact, and as hero units they are immune to being infected.
Gallery
Red Team competing with Black Team during a training exercise in Halo: Blood Line.
Concept art of Red Team for Halo Wars.
A member of the Omega splinter-team firing an MA5B assault rifle
Red Team arrives by a Warthog.
Cpt. Cutter, Sgt. Forge and Jerome-092 discuss how to proceed after Prof. Anders's abduction
Red Team at the Apex.
Red Team in combat.
List of appearances
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (First appearance)
- Halo: First Strike
- Adjunct (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
- Halo Wars
- Halo: Blood Line
- Halo: Reach (Radio Easter egg)
- Halo: Fall of Reach
- Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series (Mentioned only)
- Halo Wars 2
Note
- ^ Several sources, (see above), explicitly state that Red Team consisted of twenty-two members during the mission to secure the orbital defense generators. Four members, including Malcolm-059, were killed on impact after jumping from Bravo 001, which would leave eighteen survivors. According to Halo: First Strike, Alpha and Gamma teams each consisted of three members, Delta had six, and Beta had eleven, (the latter count being reiterated in Halo: Reach), paradoxically resulting in twenty-three survivors. However, the 2011 definitive edition of the novel states that Team Beta had six members, leaving eighteen survivors, which is consistent with twenty-two total Spartans, four of whom died upon impact.
Sources
- ^ Halo: Blood Line Issue 3
- ^ Halo: Blood Line Issue 4
- ^ Halo: Blood Line Issue 5
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign levels Arcadia City and Arcadia Outskirts
- ^ a b c d Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 119: "Energy shielding was a key feature of Mark V, although other Spartan squads had field-tested prototypes of this technology as early as 2531."
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level, Arcadia City
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level, Arcadia Outskirts
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level, Dome of Light
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level, Scarab
- ^ a b Halo Wars, campaign level, Anders' Signal
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level, The Flood
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level, Shield World
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level, Cleansing
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level, Repairs
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level, Reactor
- ^ Halo Wars, campaign level, Escape
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 20 (2010 edition)
- ^ Data Drops
- ^ Halo Wars timeline
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach Definitive Edition
- ^ Halo: First Strike (2010 edition)
- ^ Halo Waypoint: Defiant to the End
- ^ Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Library - Pelican
