Operation: PROMETHEUS

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Previous: Battle of New Harmony Concurrent: Battle of New Constantinople, Siege of the Atlas Moons Next: Battle of Miridem Battle of K7-49 Conflict: Human-Covenant War Date: July 27, 2537 - August 2, 2537 Place: K7-49 Outcome: UNSC Victory Belligerents United Nations Space Command Covenant Commanders STARS Unknown Strength Alpha Company (300 SPARTAN-IIIs) Multiple Calypso-class Exfiltration Craft Thousands of covenant and UNSC soldiers Grunts Jackals Elites Hunters Engineers Multiple Banshees Casualties Alpha Company (300 SPARTAN-IIIs) Calypso-class Exfiltration Craft Unknown,

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Military Forces 3 Timeline 3.1 July 27, 2537: 3.2 July 28, 2537: 3.3 July 31, 2537: 3.4 August 2, 2537: 4 Losses 5 Historical Significance 6 Trivia 7 Links 8 References

[edit] Summary

DATE: July 27, 2537 - August 2, 2537

LOCATION: Unknown system, above the asteroid K7-49.

Involved: UNSC, Spartan-III's, and Covenant forces.

Synopsis: This battle was a suicide mission ordered by the ONI Brass, however, it was not in vain, because it was necessary for the survival of the UNSC. It took place on K7-49, a volcanic asteroid which also served as a Covenant shipyard. The mission was to destroy its plasma reactors to disable the shipyard, halting Covenant assaults. The success of the mission would save countless lives.

Outcome: Alpha Company succeeds, but at a great cost. All of the Spartan-III's died in the battle.

[edit] Military Forces

UNSC

300 Spartans-III from Alpha Company

Covenant

Force strength unknown. Number above 1000 ground troops and 10 cruisers.

[edit] Timeline

[edit] July 27, 2537:

• 300 Spartan-IIIs of Alpha Company landed on K7-49 at 0700.

[edit] July 28, 2537:

• The Spartan-III's manage to disable seven of the reactors on the surface.

• The Covenant responds with the first heavy wave of troops. The first wave contains legions of Jackals.

[edit] July 31, 2537:

• The Spartan-III's have disabled 20 of the 30 reactors.

• The Covenant responds with a second heavy wave of troops. This time, groups of Elites and Banshees.

[edit] August 2, 2537:

• 27 of the 30 reactors are disabled. The Spartan-IIIs have fulfilled their mission.

• A third heavy wave of Covenant troops arrive.

• The Spartan-III's are cut off from their Calypso-class Exfiltration Craft. The remaining Spartans are eventually overrun and killed.

[edit] Losses

All Spartan-III's from Alpha Company are killed. An unknown number of Covenant troops and vessels are destroyed. ^[1]

[edit] Historical Significance

This is most likely an allusion to the Battle of Thermopylae. There were 300 Spartans at both battles, both were a suicide mission, both were fought in order to slow the enemy down enough for their sides to prepare and survive longer, and in both all the Spartans died.

[edit] Trivia

• Hunters were initially seen by Humans in this operation and mission by the SPARTAN-IIIs that died in the final onslaught.

[edit] Links

• Spartan-Shane
• Spartan-Robert
• Spartan-Jane

[edit] References

1. ↑ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, pages 81-88