Platinum Team

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Platinum Team is a unit.

History
Following the augmentation procedures, four SPARTANS were pulled out of the and  to be placed into the newly-formed Platinum Team.

Battle of Liber
The Platinum Team, led by Annie-003, was deployed on Liber, an outer colony, to defend it from a relatively small Covenant force. By the time the SPARTANs arrived, a quarter of the entire colony had already been decimated. The SPARTANs first searched the destroyed towns for any survivors, but only Dom-094 found one. Once the civilian was safely escorted to an arrived, 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 at the cost of twenty-three out of thirty-two ships. After the battle, the individual members of the Platinum Team were sent on separate missions, occasionally seeing each other for several decades.

Battle of Gliese 581
The Platinum Team, along with Ryan-A022, were called to defend the colonies of Zarmina and Faunus against the Covenant. Sam-015 arrived at the system before the other SPARTANs, and immediately began fighting on the surface of Zarmina. 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 Richard-077 piloting an, Dominic-094 piloting a YSS-774 Spatha, and Ryan-A022 and Anne-003 flying a. Richard-077 and Dominic-094 landed on Zarmina to defend the colony on the ground, while Anne-003 and Ryan-A022 landed on Faunus to do the same.

During the battle, had intercepted a Covenant transmission regarding an artifact called the Contumacy. The Covenant themselves knew little of the relic's functions, but it required three key pieces to unlock. A map on the locations of all three pieces along with the artifact itself were within an underground structure on Zarmina. Richard-077, Dominic-094, and Samantha-015 were sent to the structure and 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 the SPARTANs on Zarmina 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 Anne-003 and Ryan-A022 from Faunus, and gathered multiple and  to prepare to surround the Unwavering Conviction. Once the Covenant battlecruiser completed its refit and left the atmosphere, the Alexandra fired its at the vessel, depleting its shields. Multiple Longswords closed in on the Unwavering Conviction, battling her fighter complement. Ryan-A022 and Anne-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.