sep 4, 2552 - Reach is Destroyed
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Due to the course of the battle on Reach, Operation: RED FLAG is postponed and the Spartan-IIs are prepared for imminent deployment.
The UNSC Pillar of Autumn deploys John-117, Linda-058, and James-005 to Reach Station Gamma to destroy the navigation database of the ONI Prowler, UNSC Circumference, docked in Bay 9, after complications arose for the local AI to implement the Cole Protocol.
The rest of the Spartan-IIs aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn are designated Red Team and deployed to the surface of Reach to defend the power generators for the Orbital Defense Platforms. Red Team's pelican sustains heavy damage from attacking Seraph fighters and the Spartans are forced to leap from the dropship as it explodes. Red Team smashes into the surface of Reach at terminal velocity resulting in the deaths of four Spartans.
First Lieutenant Jake Chapman, along with most of Charlie Company is killed during the Fall of Reach.
The Covenant, despite sustaining heavy losses, wins a crushing victory at the Fall of Reach. Many of the remaining Spartan-IIs are killed.
The surviving Spartan-IIs on Reach are separated into two groups. One recovers Vice Admiral Whitcomb and goes into hiding at Camp Independence. The others are admitted into CASTLE Base by Dr. Halsey and receive parts for the Mjolnir Mark V upgrade and new weapons.
Dr. Halsey learns of Colonel Ackerson's mysterious plans that seem to involve "her" Spartans.
The UNSC Pillar of Autumn engages a Covenant Supercruiser operating as a flagship in the space battle over Reach, and was able to successfully destroy it where much more powerful vessels had failed.
By this point, the UNSC Pillar of Autumn had recovered John-117 and a critically wounded Linda-058 from Reach Station Gamma, then proceeded to land at the ship-breaking yards in Aszod to retrieve a fragment of Cortana from the Spartans B312, Carter-A259 and Emile-A239.
The three surviving members of Noble Team arrive at Aszod; Carter's Pelican becomes too badly damaged to continue carrying them all, so Noble Six and Emile-A239 deploy to the ground.
Battle of Aszod: The Covenant forces throughout Aszod attempt to stop Noble Six and Emile from reaching the Pillar of Autumn, going so far as to deploy Scarab Walkers against them. Carter sacrificially collides his damaged Pelican into a Scarab engaging Emile and Six, destroying it. Emile and Six proceed to push towards the ship breaking yards (now almost totally controlled by the Covenant, who begin making preparations to destroy it) and rendezvous with the scant UNSC forces still attempting to defend the facility. After clearing most of the facility, Six, Emile, and several Trooper squads meet up with Captain Jacob Keyes, successfully delivering the fragment of Cortana. However, Emile is killed by a Sangheili Zealot's Energy Sword.
SPARTAN-B312 destroys a CCS-class battlecruiser with a mass driver to allow Pillar of Autumn to escape Reach. The Spartan makes a last stand against several Sangheili warriors soon after, during which he met his end. With Spartan-II Red Team currently unrecoverable, the Autumn jumps away from the system, with Cortana using Forerunner navigation data from the Sigma Octanus IV artifact as well as the Babd Catha Forerunner Complex.
SPARTAN-B312 is killed by the Covenant.
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