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Operation: HOLDING HANDS was a military operation conducted by the United Nations Space Command Defence Force and the Sangheilian Armed Forces against the Neo-Covenant Empire during the opening stages of the Doisac War. It was the first joint military operation between the UNSC and Sovereign Territories against the Neo-Covenant Empire.

Background
While the Sangheili and Humans had officially signed a peace treaty, taskforces on either side raced towards each other - trying to gain as much potential 'ground' before the Sangheili-Human Border could be established. However this territory would be held by various forces; Jiralhanae Loyalists trapped on the planet during the chaos of the Great Schism, Kig-Yar Pirates that had set-up HQ's on asteroids and planets as well as rouge Sangheili Loyalists who still had been saved from the destruction of the Covenant Civil War by simple isolation from all outsiders such as The Sangheili Monastery of Pious Savagery who were brought back into the Sangheili's fold.

With the borders formed, formal relations and trade being in earnest and the UNSC's High Command and Command of the Sangheilian Armed Forces joined together and began planning a unified approach to the Neo-Covenant Empire. The Neo-Covenant was distracted from the sudden explosion of Human and Sangheili activity, their focus was on the Loyal Jiralhanae of Doisac - a small nation that had taken the fight to the Remnant super-power. With the UNSC Navy's Prowlers and Sangheili Stealth Corvettes active in the Remnant Expanse the intelligence agencies of both nations learned a great deal of knowledge about the Neo-Covenant's inner workings.

From this knowledge, they discovered several planets that were under the protection of one fleet, a modest sized fleet that was stretched too thin to be properly effective against an combined attack.