Barstow Campaign

Background
After nearly twenty years without contact with UNSC the colony of Barstow which had been assumed lost during the war was investigated by a group of corvettes and freighters sent to re-establish the colony as a listening post and distance point measuring the end of the territory which the UNSC hopes to reclaim.

After the group of ships mysteriously vanished with no messages received back the UNSC side lined Barstow until a more convenient time. In April of 2558 the UNSC Deliverance was sent to determine what had happened and to implement a temporary presence on the planet until greater UNSC reinforcements could be sent.

In System
Arriving in system at APR 2 2558 04:12 the UNSC Deliverance was in emissions control mode running as electrostatically silent as possible on its approach deeper into the system. Arriving on the far side of the systems lone gas giant the team's radioactive marker should have been largely blocked out by the massive planets electromagnetic field. Running dark and listening for chatter from the planet for six hours before initiating a danger close jump into orbit around Barstow. Surprisingly the Deliverance picked up faint radio transmissions from Barstow using modified UNSC encryption codes from the pre-war era.

With little to nothing discernible from the transmissions the Deliverance concluded with due evidence the planet was inhabited whether by insurrectionists, aliens, or the crew of the small fleet of ships sent almost a year prior. Jumping to the planet's low orbit a station of conjoined ships and original craftsman ship began firing on the Deliverance. Avoiding the more devesatating missile fire the Deliverance did a quick scan of the planets surface. Evidently the Deliverance had arrived above the largest settlement on the planet Argdor the ship yard city build on the coast of the Iris Sea. Activating weapon systems the Deliverance disabled the stations port missile batteries hugging that side of the station while attempting to establish communications with the station to no avail. Two gunship pelicans were piled with marines for an incursion onto the station. The operation ended up costing the Deliverance eight marines and an unknown amount of data that was not ablet o be recovered when it self destructed. Luckily the captain of the station, Stanley Bosk had been apprehended and brought back aboard the Deliverance.