Operation: ARK ANGEL

Operation: ARK ANGEL was a UNSC operation to recover a Forerunner Artefact which was stolen by an Elite Strike Team, commanded by the Field Marshall Zhol' Wamikai, during the Battle of Shadow Base. Operation: ARK ANGEL took place during the Fall of Reach, from July 22 - July 29 2552 and was devised jointly by ONI Section III with support from the UNSC Army. Operation: ARK ANGEL's active personnel consisted of 4 SPARTAN-III Commando's taken from active SPARTAN Commando Teams ECHO and GAUNTLET and were supplemented by Covert Operations SPARTAN-III Headhunter Team HYDRA, creating a patchwork SPARTAN Team, codenamed REAPER, to undertake Operation: ARK ANGEL.

Overview
The purpose of Operation: ARK ANGEL was to retrieve a Tier One asset relating to ONI Section III's efforts in reverse engineering recovered Covenant and Forerunner technologies. The specific artefact in question was codenamed Pandora's Box, on which the research, experiments and reverse engineering efforts eventually became responsible for the multitude of Forerunner adapted and influenced weaponry onboard the UNSC Infinity. This artefact was captured by Zhol' Wamikai and his Zealot Commanders under orders from the Prophet Hierarch's during their infiltration of Shadow Base and was kept in the Covenant held areas of New Alexandria until it was transported to a heavily guarded vault on the Covenant SDV-Class Heavy Corvette Faithful Trepidation (part of the Fleet of Valiant Prudence) until its final retrieval at the hands of SPARTAN Team REAPER.

ONI Shadow Base (Weapons & Technology, Research & Development) was at the forefront of these reverse engineering efforts, as well as a host of other research and development weapons projects including the Stanchion Gauss Sniper Rifle, the NOVA Bomb and Special Prototype SPARTAN Assault Platforms (S.A.P's) to name a few. Shadow Base was the base of operations for (ONI Recon) Team 5, codename Team LOKI, who undertook object and equipment retrieval and testing for Shadow Base under the command of SSGT Jacobs. There was also 4 squads of veteran Army Rangers stationed at the base at any given time, who acted as the base's main security force and operated under the command of Captain Hammond. Being in an extremely secluded and isolated region north of the Cabd Ice Shelf, Shadow Base was considered to be in a relatively safe and unnoticed position where extensive and broad military strength would be unnecessary and counter productive given the Invasion of Reach.

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