Battle of Geer

And knowing is half the battle
After 2 years before when UNSC cruiser Eagle arrived and many others from the lost military planet Orin to Geer they warned Geer of a following massive covenant force to attack. So for over 1 year Geer locked and loaded for glassing. Also protecting the highly expensive and important NOVA bomb program to hide within the planet underground labs.

SPARTAN
Spartan Gamma 2 squad was aboard the Eagle when it first arrived. After fleeing from Orin the team had lost 3 of it's members whilst defending the NOVA project. Tired and damaged they rested and during the wait We're sent to training marine camps. Given improvements to the Mark 5 armor as well including installation of more HUD data and design.

NOVA project
Even though it is a high secretive project, almost every unit knows of it's power. Rumors of destroying entire planets and anhilating all covenant forces. Very well known to the covenants but not refered in name. This is one theory they have that the humans will try to plant one on many covenant facility planets.

Arrival
Furen' Darmaee a veteran of covenant space battles and human planet glassing. Darmaee soon after 2 years of rehabilitating the covenant armada which had attacked Orin. Soon coming out of slipspace the covenat arrived with the welcoming party of the UNSC force. Totally caught off guard by the humans and glassing vessel severely low. Darmaee sent out all covenant ground forces in shotgun like patterns to the surface.

Glassing
Too small for fully glassing the planet the 5 glassers were sent to the location of where Darmaee thought where the bomb data placement was. Unfortunately it was close but Gamma 2 squad was right under the glassers as the ships let out some of the brutes and elites. The grav beam was a horrible idea as Gamma 2 reached the beam before it retracted.

Woops
Gamma 2 Squad