Battle of Rust

The Battle of Rust was a major battle between the UNSC and the Geralic Federation Defence Force, which was the largest and last engagement during the conflict. It ended with an major geralic victory. The major reason for their unexpected victory was the since then legendary "Skyfall" maneuver.

Skyfall
The Geralic Admiral Declos used Hadfords arrogance and an crucial weakness of the convential human ship design to his advantage. Hadford had gatherd his ships in very tight formation, to use the fleets massive firepower to quickly break through the geralic defense, while Captain Fuchs unit was supposed to land troops on the planets surface. The appearence of Declos 1st Battlegroup behind the UNSCs fleet caused chaos, as the humans tried to turn their ships around, which was hamperd by their tight formation. The second Battlegroup warped into the battle only a few minutes after the main battle had started. They used their warp engines advantage, performing very precise jumps, to directly appear above the human fleet. They then used their Bombard-laser cannone to fire on the UNSC ships from above. The human fleet fell into pure chaos as Hadfords flagship was destroyed, while Admiral Declos now encirceld the human ships and only Captain Fuchs quick reaction saved at least a part of the fleet. He turned his ships around and fired several holes into the encirclement, which allowed a large number of ships to escape. The remaining UNSC fleet then reformed their line of battle and retreated to human space, while the geralic fleet celebrated a massive victory.