Although the UNSC had issued standing orders to recover all Covenant or alien technology available from the battlefield, and had spent considerable effort negotiating with the Sangheili for access (and bribing Kig-yar pirates), even after the War of Vengeance there were significant and severe gaps in UNSC understanding of Covenant and Forerunner technologies. Most of the advances that have made the UNSC Navy the most powerful space force since the collapse of the Covenant were already well under way during the Great War, and are mostly human derived, spurred by necessity and human ingenuity. A very small number of technologies have been entirely derived from Covenant systems - the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine 2553 upgrade uses Covenant calculations for slipspace navigation, shield techn
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| - Although the UNSC had issued standing orders to recover all Covenant or alien technology available from the battlefield, and had spent considerable effort negotiating with the Sangheili for access (and bribing Kig-yar pirates), even after the War of Vengeance there were significant and severe gaps in UNSC understanding of Covenant and Forerunner technologies. Most of the advances that have made the UNSC Navy the most powerful space force since the collapse of the Covenant were already well under way during the Great War, and are mostly human derived, spurred by necessity and human ingenuity. A very small number of technologies have been entirely derived from Covenant systems - the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine 2553 upgrade uses Covenant calculations for slipspace navigation, shield techn
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- Blood Covenant
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- * Six frigates
* four hundred ground troops
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| - Captain Kenneth Landers
- Unknown Jiralhanae commander
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| - *Spartan-II Indigo Team
*Spartan-III Baselard Team
*Four Marine platoons
*Codename: VECTOR
- * Six frigates
* Four mixed legions of Jiralhanae warriors, Kig-Yar mercenaries and Unggoy Conscripts
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| - Although the UNSC had issued standing orders to recover all Covenant or alien technology available from the battlefield, and had spent considerable effort negotiating with the Sangheili for access (and bribing Kig-yar pirates), even after the War of Vengeance there were significant and severe gaps in UNSC understanding of Covenant and Forerunner technologies. Most of the advances that have made the UNSC Navy the most powerful space force since the collapse of the Covenant were already well under way during the Great War, and are mostly human derived, spurred by necessity and human ingenuity. A very small number of technologies have been entirely derived from Covenant systems - the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine 2553 upgrade uses Covenant calculations for slipspace navigation, shield technology was developed thanks to access to Jackal shield gauntlets and recovered Elite persnal energy shields, and UNSC plasma beam weapons were provided by intelligence gathered from a captured enemy flagship - but these remain sparse in their original forms, and used as little as possible if they can be helped. The UNSC simply doesn't trust them. Capturing and studying enemy technology was made a priority of the Office of Naval Intelligence during and after the War of Vengeance, and Army, Navy and Marine special warfare teams were deployed in a number of key areas to capture strategic points of interest - starship and vehicle construction facilities, weapons armouries, plasma refineries, and other technologies that the UNSC deemed of vital importance to its advancement. While these missions are collectively known as the Ilium Initiative, working closely with Project TEMERITY and Project EXCALIBUR, Operation: SABERSAW was an oddity in that, while it targeted a Blood Covenant colony, it ended up recovering New Covenant assets, allowing the UNSC an advance glimpse of the equipment the Prophets and their loyal forces had been working on for a decade. After the war, warnings would be sent from ONI through all channels that the cutbacks Secretary General Jerome Smithson could prove disasterous, warnings that were dismissed as exageration by the paranoid leader as he faced growing hostility from the military and a loss of confidence among the civilian populace. Though these predictions would prove portentous, Operation: SABERSAW nevertheless improved the UNSC's understanding of the New Covenant's arsenal enough to recover quicker, and to improve on it enough to counterattack.
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