User:Raven's wing/Cypher Team

Cypher Team is a SPARTAN Fireteam of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command that saw service during the Fall of Reach and the Battle of Earth.

Fall of Reach
At the start of the Fall of Reach, Cypher Team was posted to Camp Bastion in the south of the Viery region. Following Noble Team's discovery of the Covenant on Reach, and the subsequent declaration of WINTER CONTINGENCY by CENTCOM, the team was sent to disable a Covenant Command Post near their initial landing zone in Visegrad. In doing so they were able to obtain a list of potential targets for the Covenant invasion force, including ONI Sword Base.

However, as the Covenant swept across Viery, the UNSC were forced to abandon Camp Bastion and other facilities in the territory prior to the counter-attack on August 12th. As part of this operation, the team was tasked with the destruction of an enemy heavy anti-aircraft battery, in order to help clear the approach of the UNSC Grafton, which was subsequently destroyed after helping Noble neutralise Spire One.

With the destruction of the Spire and the discovery of the Long Night of Solace, Cypher Team was tasked with re-capturing a ground-based orbital monitoring facility from the Covenant, which they had seized in an effort to hide the arrival of the Fleet of Particular Justice. With the arrival of the fleet, the team pulled back to New Alexandria on the 18th to aid in the defence and evacuation of the city.