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| - Royal Team was formed 2 months after the success of Noble Team's first major combat missions at request of then Lieutenant Colonel Urban Holland. Royal was formed from a mixture of special Alpha operatives and recent recruited Beta operatives. Royal team was formed under the experienced hand of Gerald-A028, who had been cultivated by Holland for leadership roles in his own special forces units and took a number of experienced operators into the team, along with inexperienced Beta operators. The team engaged in a number of clandestine and direct action operations under ARSOC command until 2549 when, during Operation AUTUMN, they took casualties, losing both their number two to Covenant Special Forces. The previous month, Noble team had taken serious casualties Operation PIT VIPER and was given priority to be brought back to operational status. Having lost both a sniper, point man and two more members, Raven team had Emile and Jun transferred out. They received new blood from Beta Headhunter Atticus-B018 and recon specialist Helen-B170, along with SPARTAN II class 2 Andrezej. The team was operational within four months and went back in combat operation. In 2551, during operations with ARSOC in the inner colonies, Raven Team's presence was discovered by Ackerson, who was running his own ONI sponsored black operations in the same theatre. Immediately, he pressured Admiral Parangosky into transferring them to his command. Both Kurt and Holland sacrificed Raven to protect the secrecy of Noble team and other Special Warfare Group 3 operators. In 2552, Ackerson pulled enough strings for Raven to ship back to earth in October to receive MJOLNIR Mark VI. However, before they could be equipped, the Prophet of Truth arrived and Raven were forced to hold their ground at a number of army outposts spread out in Mare Erythraem. Raven team was trapped with Ackerson's special forces group was steadily overrun and destroyed. Already suffering a casualty, Gerald elected to pull the unit out in secret and exfiltrate to the nearby town of Ninesville. Raven team ran hit and run battles through the rubble choked streets as Army forces fell back, block by block. They lost Andrezej, reducing them to four members and eventually were forced back to the final Army outpost, at the city hall. The rag tag collection of Army, Militia and SPARTANS held out for almost a day until the Brute forces resorted to just bombarding the City Hall into dust. In the ashes, only Atticus and Brittany survived, buried under rubble. They dug themselves out and exited into the night. They were eventually picked up by a marine patrol and were taken to New Legaspi for medical treatment. They were out of action until late December. The final incarnation of Raven Team was formed under the command of Atticus with Brittany as his executive officer. They reformed using a number of battle hardened Gamma recruits and went on one final mission, Operation PEGASUS. During the operation, half the team was killed, but their objectives were achieved. After returning to human space, they found that the war had ended and the Sangheili had begun mopping up. Raven team was officially disassembled and deployed to different Gamma combat cells, preforming deep space missions against Remnant forces until the 90s when they were reunited for the IV program.
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