![]() ![]() ĭespite the huge amount of resources required to maintain the war effort against the UNSC, the Covenant had a huge obsession with locating and examining ancient Forerunner artefacts, and as such refused to divert any materials from the program. Despite the serious loss to the UNSC, without the Fall of Reach happening as it did, the UNSC would have likely lost the war and been completely destroyed. It was also the catalyst for the crucial Battle of Installation 04, and the UNSC's Operation: FIRST STRIKE. The Fall of Reach set the stage for the Battle of Earth, as there were no other human stronghold worlds remaining between the Sol System and the genocidal Covenant. Several holdouts would remain, as the Covenant investigated Forerunner ruins underneath the surface, however they would either be evacuated or killed in the weeks to follow. Barely any ships escaped Reach, with most being intercepted and destroyed by the Covenant as they hunted down any last trace of the UNSC. As the Covenant began to systematically glass the surface, the few remaining defenders were killed by Covenant hunting parties, or the plasma beams radiating from the Covenant's warships. Despite the deployment of several SPARTAN teams to the planet, they simply weren't enough to turn the tide, as UNSC evacuation efforts reached their climax. Whilst Reach's formidable defensive fortifications took a heavy toll on the Covenant warships, they nevertheless battered their way through the UNSC's forces to the planet's surface, where they reinforced the Covenant forces already on the planet.īy this point, the battle was as good as lost for the UNSC. Whilst successful, almost immediately afterwards a Covenant fleet would jump in-system, and would engage all UNSC forces. In response, the UNSC would launch Operation: UPPERCUT, which utilised SPARTAN super-soldiers and several experimental YSS-100 Sabre fighters to capture a Covenant SDV-class heavy corvette and use a slipspace engine to destroy the supercarrier. These skirmishes would be continued for several weeks, until the Covenant CSO-class supercarrier Long Night of Solace made its presence known. In July the Covenant fleet would grow bold enough to begin mounting operations on the surface of Reach, which would be discovered and countered with significant United Nations Space Command forces, mostly drawn from the UNSC Army. Found via Covenant luminaries in mid-2552, a small fleet would be dispatched to find Forerunner artefacts, and in doing so uncover the UNSC's presence in the star system. Fought mere days after the decisive UNSC victory at Sigma Octanus IV, the battle, and later glassing of Reach, would be a catastrophic blow to the military capability of humanity, in their desperate defence against the ever-encroaching Covenant offence. The Fall of Reach was a significant military engagement that marked the beginning of the end of the Human Covenant War. CSO-class supercarrier Long Night of Solace. ![]()
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