Platinum Team

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Platinum Team is a SPARTAN-II unit.

Battle of Lares
SPARTANs were selected from the to be designated as the Platinum Team. The new SPARTAN team was deployed on Lares, 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. However, the Platinum Team changed the tides of the ground battle, forcing the Covenant to retreat into space. In orbit, the UNSC fleet of Lares narrowly destroyed the entire Covenant invasion at the cost of twenty-three out of thirty-two ships.

Battle of Gliese 581 g
Gliese 581 g, the third largest human colony, came under attack in 2551 by a Covenant armada of 40 warships. Like on Lares, the Platinum Team was sent to the colony to defend it. The SPARTANs fought through  before landing on the planet's surface to drive away Covenant ground forces. During the battle, had intercepted a Covenant transmission regarding an artifact called The Contumacy. The Covenant themselves knew little of the relic, but it required three key pieces to unlock. Information of the locations of all three pieces along with the artifact itself were within each Covenant ship. The SPARTAN team hijacked a, which was then piloted by Andrew-067, and flew towards the Desolate Inquisition. The SPARTANs successfully obtained the data suffering no casualties, but were unable to safely escape, due to the number of pursuing enemies. Andrew-067 volunteered to stay behind to stall the approaching Covenant. As the other SPARTANs left in the phantom, the shipmaster approached Andrew-067 and challenged him in a sword duel. After the SPARTAN defeated and killed the Sangheili, he quickly grabbed a and safely flew away from the battleship, seconds before its destruction by several  shells.

Team Composition
It should be noted that those listed as MIA have all been confirmed KIA.