User:Wr1ghty/Operation: PURITY

Operation: PURITY was an UNSC operation to destroy a Covenant Supercarrier half a lightyear from Mineral on December 8th, 2551.

Overview
The UNSC Eurymedon-class Corvette Illawarra originally picked up the slipspace rupture from the Supercarrier while on patrol. Fearing that the ship would invade the mining planet called Mineral, UNSC forces in the system planned on destroying the carrier before before it could fufil its unknown plans.

To do this, SPARTAN-II Jade Team was called upon to lead several squads of ODSTs to infiltrate the ship, corrupt its AI and send it on a collision course with a nearby star.

To enable an easy passage onto the ship, the Illawarra would use its Pulse Lasers and HORNET mines to disable a part of the shielding before retreating. In the process a Pelican containing Jade Team would land in the hangar while the ODSTS would crash through the ship's hull where the shielding was down by HEVs.

The Operation
In the early hours of December 8, 2551, the Illawarra positioned itself several kilometres above the Supercarrier, in then open fire on the carrier in a concentrated position. After the shielding was temprarily down, dozens of HEVs descending onto the cruiser, while Jade Team entered the hangar in a Pelican. Before the carrier could return fire, the Illawarra was already gone.

Forty ODSTs in four squads all successfully landed in a form of Covenant dining hall, though being met with heavy resistance. On the other hand, Jade Team managed to land inside the hangar unnoticed, as all Covenant forces had been summoned to the opposite side of the ship.

In no time the ODSTs had secured the dining hall, losing only three men, while Jade Team began to their position. Upon meeting up, several Hunter pairs entred the room, forcing all UNSC forces to evacuate the hall. When they lost the Hunters, Trevor-112 decided to split everyone up into three main groups, Deshka-065 would lead one squad of ODSTs to the carrier's bridge, while Jesse-035 and Trevor's groups would follow down two adjacent hallways.

Deshka's group pushed through unusually light resistance, before coming upon a heavily guarded bridge, despite losing seven of the eleven ODSTs with her, the group held their ground until the other two groups entred the bridge from different entrances, causing Covenant forces to panic and retreat. While mopping up the remaning forces consisting mainly of Grunts, Jesse-035 was hit by a Needler shard, while not doing any damage to him, it disabled his suits auto-targeting system.

Trevor tasked Jesse with corrupting the ship's AI while everyone else would defend the position. To enable an easy escape route if things got out of hand, Trevor had a dozen ODSTs secure a nearby hallway. The second Jesse began to hack into the AI, the carrier was put on high alert, deafening alarms started to ring as Covenant forces assaulted their position. Though outnumbered, UNSC forces successfully kept the Covenant at a distance while Jesse finished corrupting the AI. It was then that a large contingent of Elites and Drones attacked, now being attacked from all directions and above them, many ODSTs perished during the escape down the hallway.