User:RelentlessRecusant/Battle of Strawberry Fields

"There is a difference between spending lives and wasting them. I’m not sure that Commander Wakes has managed to understand the difference."

- Lt. Colonel Courtney Archer West to Lt. Commander Orion

The Battle of Strawberry Fields was a battle between UNSC forces and the Galactic Resistance in the year of 2605 that occurred at Strawberry Fields, a UNSC military installation on the colony world of Atreus, Nu Centauri System.

It was a notable defeat for the UNSC Special Operations Command and the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence, with the rebels managing to retrieve Apollo-2994, a UNSC hostage, as well with severe casualties incurred amongst the UNSC special forces units that participated in the battle.