Platinum Team

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Platinum Team is a small special forces unit composed entirely of.

History
Following the augmentation procedures, four SPARTANs were pulled out of the and  to be placed into the newly-formed Platinum Team, with Annie-003 as its leader.

Battle of Liber
The Platinum Team was deployed on Liber, an outer colony, to defend the latter from a relatively small Covenant force. By the time the SPARTANs reached the planet, nearly a quarter of the colony had already been massacred. The SPARTANs first searched through the destroyed towns for potential survivors and managed to gather a few. Once the civilian was safely escorted to, the SPARTANs swept into the larger cities, effectively driving back the Covenant with their teamwork, changing the tides of the ground battle. In orbit, the UNSC fleet of Liber narrowly destroyed the entire Covenant invasion. After the battle, the individual members of the Platinum Team were sent on separate missions, occasionally seeing each other for several decades.

Battle of Miridem
The Platinum Team was reorganized in order to escort the civilians of. There, Dom-094 discovered three chidren who were orphaned by and hiding from Covenant forces. Dom-094 took the children to the rest of the Platinum Team, and the SPARTANs escorted them to the nearest transport, successfully keeping the children from enemy fire.

Battle of Flora
The Platinum Team, along with Ryan-A022, were called to defend the colony of Flora against the Covenant. Sam-015 arrived at the system before the other SPARTANs, and immediately began fighting on the surface. When the other four SPARTANs arrived, they were placed in pairs on two that were being boarded by Covenant infantry. Eventually, the SPARTANs left their respective stations, with Rick-077 piloting an, Dom-094 piloting a YSS-774 Spatha, and Ryan-A022 and Annie-003 flying a. Rick-077 and Dom-094 landed on one side of the colonty to defend the colony on the ground, while Annie-003 and Ryan-A022 landed on the other side to do the same.

During the battle, had intercepted a Covenant transmission regarding an artifact called the Contumacy. A map on the location of the artifact was hidden within an underground structure on Flora. Rick-077, Dom-094, and Sam-015, who were closer to the structure were sent to retrieve the map and subsequently fought through. Although the SPARTANs could not reach the map before the Covenant forces did, ONI managed to track the map to the Unwavering Conviction, which by chance, was hovering a few hundred meters over Covenant-occupied land to refit. The Pelican deployed Rick-077, Dom-094, and Sam-015, and a squad just outside the Covenant territory. The SPARTANs boarded the battlecruiser by using its, and immediately faced an attack on all sides. Through teamwork, they cleared the room and move on, although the majority of the ODSTs were killed in the ambush. Meanwhile, ONI continued to track the Unwavering Conviction. Gerald de Gaulle of the UNSC Alexandra picked up Annie-003 and Ryan-A022 from Faunus, and gathered a few other to prepare to surround the Unwavering Conviction. Once the Covenant battlecruiser completed its refit and left the atmosphere, the Alexandra fired one of its at the vessel, depleting its shields. Multiple Longswords closed in on the Unwavering Conviction, battling her fighter complement. Ryan-A022 and Annie-003 once again piloted a Longsword of their own, this time having a squad of ODSTs in the fighter, and boarded the weakened battlecruiser by flying into its hangar bay. The SPARTANs of both sides were able to join forces aboard the ship and then kill the shipmaster and take the map. On their way off the Unwavering Conviction, however, the SPARTANs discovered that their Longsword was destroyed by Covenant. Fortunately, a Pelican was able to pick up the SPARTANs at the nearest hangar bay, allowing them to make their escape.