User:Pikapi/Losing Hope story

A number of lone SPARTAN survivors are salvaged from the Battle of Reach and assembled into a ragtag team to fight the Covenant on another front, the minor colony world of Hope on the far side of the human territories, but all is not as it seems. Hope would only spell out a minor defeat for humanity, so what reason does the Office of Naval Intelligence have to direct the scattered remains of the Epsilon Eridani Fleet on a chase across the galaxy?