On August 28th 3 Covenant ships came into the low atmosphere of Jericho III. The three ships immediately glassed a 14 mile radius of the planet killing thousands of civilians. The ships docked at the center of the scorched land and began deploying the thousands of troops onto the surface. After seeing this an unknown UNSC army Colonel ordered UNSC 2nd Army Division to mobilize. He sent a quarter of his units to the local population centers and begin evacuating the civilians. The rest of his division led by the colonel himself launched a ground attack on the covenant troops. Having 200 pieces of heavy armor and hundreds of Warthogs, trucks, Pelicans, and Falcons the armored vehicles deployed the other 11,250 troops just outside of the covenant deployment area. The division immediately came