User:XW3 AR3 L3GION/Operation: ARCHIVE

"Listen up boys and girls, we have a few books out-of-date from the aliens Library! Time to return them, Marine-style! Oorah!"

- Major Julia McCrane

Operation: ARCHIVE was a military operation conducted by the remaining two hundred and sixty one Gamma SPARTAN-III's with the assistance from UNSC and Sangheili military personnel to retrieve key remaining Forerunner technology and data from the Ark also known as Installation 00. The Gamma Spartans were to use the Master Chief Petty Officer John-117's assault as a distraction whilst they infiltrated Loyalist encampments to reach, what was known as the Library, the centre of Forerunner knowledge on the Ark. The Gamma's and Sangheili weathered several assault's from Loyalist forces to ouse the Spartan-UNSC-Sangheili Coalition force while several squads and lances entered the Library to begin downloading Forerunner information. The Coalition force took a heavy beating but managed to retrieve a huge amount of information and technology from the Ark before exfiltrating to the Sangheili Cruiser, the Bloodied Believer, and returning to Earth.

The Operation was considered a success by HIGHCOM and the Sangheili Commanders but due to the secretive nature of the Gamma's, the SPARTAN-III's were listed as soldiers from the Navy Special Warfare Division. The information took decades to decode and translate but with pure un-corrupted Forerunner information, the UNSC managed to progress with springs and bounds.