User:Impurest Cheese/Raid on C2196

First Blood

 * For more information see the Eye of Fire Chapters Blood in the Snow and Hidden Questions and Revelations


 * The Brutes in a desperate search for the relic found in the Relicary in the 3rd Battle of Harvest sent the experimental Brute Immortals to scout UNSC planets for evidence of the relic. An unknown Brute Immortal was able to smuggle a Covenant AI into the base on C2196. The Brute was defeated by Spartan Red Team and due to the request of Captain Alex Cage the corpse and effects were brought into the base.


 * Assigned to sort through the Brute’s effects, WLW 0291-6 would find a UNSC AI storage card. Activating it she triggered the Covenant AI which was able to do a quick sweep of the UNSC inventory and alert Lepidus to the location of the Harvest Relic. Lepidus would send in Doctor Catherine Jerald to retrieve the Mysterious Brute Corpse while he would lead a group of Brute Stalkers to collect the Harvest Artifact.

Full Battle

 * After detecting several seismic anomalies the scanners would eventually pick up the signatures of a Scarab and at least a dozen Shadows  that would deploy troops to overrun the UNSC base. Both Captain Alex Cage and Kerst’ Ledane would command their forces well although the Brute Stalkers that were already inside would cause havoc hotwiring systems and turning off the bases defense system.


 * Once inside the base the Brutes and Jackals would follow the path that the Grunts, who had been kept in cold conditions making them more egger to reach the base, had carved for them and would methodically destroy the Marines and Elites in the base. The Spartans would eventually be ordered to retreat along with the rest of the personnel. The only exceptions were a squad of ODSTs from the 330th Drop Jet Platoon who would stay behind to allow the FERNIS Warhead to detonate without the Brutes disarming it like they did with the Crow’s Nest Bomb.

Retreat

 * The UNSC would fall back to the Rally Point Bravo Site that also housed the buried UNSC Frigate Summer Mist. Only a few of the defenders would arrive by various vehicles. It would take two hours for the Summer Mist to warm and it was assaulted by a pair of Seraph Fighters which caused minor damage to the ship’s superstructure. Upon liftoff the Summer Mist would encounter the pair of Destroyers Swift Retaliation and Divine Intervention as well as the stolen UNSC Frigate Silver Wind. Only through a timely Slipspace jump did the Summer Mist escape resulting in the destruction of the Swift Retaliation. This ship would hang in orbit and would be revisited by the Minister of Fortitude who would test the experimental X-77 Virus on UNSC prisoners.