Freyja Manor Assault

The Freyja Manor Assault was a confrontation between Echo Company of the UNSC Army's Parachute Regiment and soldiers of the Covenant Empire during the Second Battle of Harvest in March 2526.

Objective
After securing the space around Harvest, Vice Admiral Preston J. Cole's Task Force deployed large numbers of Marine and Army Orbital Drop Shock Troopers to secure or destroy priority targets and clear the way for the Expeditionary Force. Among them was Echo Company of 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. Dodging Covenant AA fire during the drop meant that the company was separated, leaving the O.C, Captain John Churchill, with only a platoon's worth of men from various units. Despite their numbers being slashed, Churchill reasoned that he had enough men to complete his objective, and left the stragglers to regroup at the Reassembly Zone.

Echo Company had been ordered to destroy a batter of four Covenant heavy plasma artillery pieces, which were covering the southern approach to the occupied planetary capital of Utgard, in order to clear the way for the Expeditionary Force's advance on the city. After a reconnaissance by Churchill at about 8:30 AM, he collected his platoon. Beyond knowledge of the general location of the emplacements south of Utgard, the team advanced on Freyja Manor. There he discovered a Covenant artillery battery consisting of four heavy plasma artillery pieces connected by trenches and defended by a platoon of soldiers.