User:Phalanx Actual/Iridescent Team

"Sometimes survival calls for you to leave behind your humanity. Sometimes innocent people need to die. So that others may live"

- Jack-247 to Sasha-250

Iridescent, a collection of Class-2 Soldiers is a Black Operations Unit within the United Nations Space Command Army. Trained under SPARTAN-2 Class 2, Iridescent is an isolated SPARTAN unit that has never been meant to be in contact with another SPARTAN Team. As the black hand of the UNSC, Iridescent is a covert unit with a classified status of higher priority than the SPARTAN-III Program itself. Iridescence's main niche is to eliminate any rebel supporters, leaks, moles and possible insurgents, even if said targets are innocent.

Iridescence's targets are those who posses knowledge that cannot be allowed to spread, much of the time, its targets are not confirmed to posses critical information. Thus, Iridescence is responsible for the murder of many innocent people. Many of Iridescent's operations included literally eliminating possible moles, and rebel supporters from existence. Though much of the electronic work is done by the Office of Naval Intelligence, Iridescent is responsible for the removal of any living associates, friends or family of said moles, or those who have accessed critical information regarding the UNSC's Black Operations.

=Iridescent Team=

Important Operations Summary
"It's not an easy job we have, it's hard to stomach what we had to do. Our job was clear, eliminate those who weren't useful to the UNSC, eliminate those who did more harm than good. It's something one in a billion people could handle, and that's why we do this"

The Black Operations team, graduates of the class of 2529 are trained in the art of tracking, eliminating, and subsequently removing targets from existence. Proficient in short, medium, long and vehicular based combat, Iridescent is both an extremely deadly in both direct combat, and in the art of stealth. First deployed on Everest IX during a Covenant attack to eliminate NAV Data and potentially compromised UNSC POW's, Iridescent Team performed well, and without casualties due to avoiding most of the fighting.

During the attacks on the outer Colonies, Iridescent, along with several other Class-II Black Operations Teams, were sent in to Eliminate civilians on a politically unstable backwater, Nirvana II. Armed with the knowledge of a possible uprising, Class-II Teams were sent in to systematically eradicate the civilian populace on the economically poor backwater colony, to eliminate un-needed populations to feed (due to the glassing of breadbasket worlds), the chance of a possible uprising, and due to the poor (almost 0%) enlistment rate on the Colony.

Nirvana II was eventually deprived of communications systems, and a civilian populace, Iridescent had eliminated over 25,000 civilians using the small stockpile of nuclear weapons (approximately 2-4 low yield Nuclear Warheads) to destroy the capitol city, and engaged in mass-killings with conventional weapons on the planet in place of valuable exo-atmospheric munitions and assets. By November 29th, 2531, Nirvanah II was drained of all points of escape, and had been drained of civilians capable of constructing a way off planet.

Nirvana's stockpile of weapons, meant for wars long past, had been used to eliminate its populace. By the end of the month, Nirvanah had been tagged as 'Eliminated by Covenant Forces', and all SPARTAN units were evacuated by UNSC Pelicans. Nirvanah was a lone, habitable planet in the Pegasai Gamma system, that survived as a patrol outpost for Colonies already glassed by the Covenant, and was a resource poor planet. Due to having a high population, and a drain on UNSC resources, the large population on the small Colony had been eliminated.

Iridescent Team was frequently deployed to Reach, to silence any attempts at revealing war crimes, or any other politically inconvenient leaks for the UNSC. During the Rebel Movement of '32, Iridescence was deployed on New Jerusalem, to take the relatives of insurgent leaders hostage, to draw them in, and subsequently eliminate both the insurgents, and hostages. Iridescent was evacuated from New Jerusalem after disposing the bodies.

Team Roster
Eli-213 Sol-239 Filip-241 Roma-244 Jack-247 Sasha-250 Antonina-255

UNSC Spirit of Fire
"There was a story of a man who hadn't slept for weeks, writing letters to his family onboard that ship. I found that man hiding when the parasites attacked, he was the one man I wish I hadn't killed. We weren't so different, him and I, we were both Exiled from our homes, alone in the world. But he knew about something that could tear our civilization apart. I didn't have a choice. That man never got to see his family."

During a leak of classified information during 2532, containing the possible location of the UNSC "Spirit of Fire" and an incredible biological threat aboard. Iridescent Team was sent in to rescue possible survivors, unfortunately, when the threat of infection was discovered, everyone onboard the Spirit of Fire was classified as a threat. During this Operation, Iridescent Team became the first SPARTANs to end the life of another.

Iridescent Team was ordered to eliminate the Red Team splinter due to prolonged exposure to the parasite. During a prolonged firefight onboard the Spirit of Fire, Iridescent Team managed to blow a hole in the hull of the aging Colony Ship and managed to suffocate the remaining two Red Team SPARTANs at the cost of Filip-241. Two hours into the mission, Iridescent Team managed to remove the UNSC Military AI 'Serena' from the vessel, and evacuated using on-board T-Packs to the UNSC Stealth Frigate, Darkest of Days.

The UNSC Spirit of Fire was destroyed in a brilliant display of nuclear reactions when the core of the starship went critical.

After the Spirit of Fire Operation, Iridescent Team delivered the UNSC AI to the ONI Alpha Site where the AI was downloaded, and subsequently wiped, and placed in a state of suspended animation until further notice.

Battle of Reach
Iridescent Team's UNSC Frigate was shot out of the skies when Reach had come under attack. Communications have been lost since then. Communications were restored briefly, when Iridescent Team was ordered to eliminate Kat-B320 due to having accessed an extremely high amount of classified information, and her threat had overshadowed her usefulness. When she attempted to access ONI Records on New Alexandria relating to Iridescent Team, ONI had ordered Iridescent to assassinate Catherine-B320.

During the raid, Iridescent had managed to capture a Covenant Phantom onboard the CCS Battlecruiser Sin and Redemption and assassinated Kat-B320 with a needle rifle and hologram unit.