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Battle of Gamma Aurigae

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The Battle of Gamma Aurigae was a minor engagement that took place in 2526 between the UNSC and Covenant Empire. On April 26th 2526 a lone Covenant destroyer entered the Gamma Aurigae system just near the asteroid belt. Reacting immediately to its arrival, a UNSC battle group, consisting of five light destroyers, engaged the lone warship.

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Heavy, four ships destroyed None

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The Battle of Gamma Aurigae was a minor engagement that took place in 2526 between the UNSC and Covenant Empire. On April 26th 2526 a lone Covenant destroyer entered the Gamma Aurigae system just near the asteroid belt. Reacting immediately to its arrival, a UNSC battle group, consisting of five light destroyers, engaged the lone warship. The battle group moved in and opened fire with a volley of Ares missiles, all fifteen missiles struck the Covenant ship but to no effect. The Covenant ship fired its energy projector and annihilated the UNSC Hanson with one shot. The remaining UNSC ships spread out to avoid being a easier target. They fired another volley of missiles but were completely unable to penetrate the Covenant's shields. The Covenant destroyer fired a volley of four plasma torpedoes, the UNSC ships effected emergency evasive maneuvers in an attempt to avoid the incoming projectiles. But the Saratoga and San Diego failed to avoid the torpedoes and were struck head on, the torpedoes boiled away centimeters of armor and vaporized whole decks in a instant, completely destroying both ships. The Porter and Sheffield managed to avoid the worst of the plasma by using their emergency thrusters to maneuver out of harms way. Still the torpedoes grazed them and took a whole layer of deck from each ship. Desperately the two ships continued to fire salvos of missiles at the Covenant ship but to no avail as they were completely unable to pierce the enemy's shields. However, though they had avoided the plasma torpedoes once, they were unaware of their tracking capabilities. The plasma torpedoes circled back around and caught the Sheffield off guard, destroying the vessel with all hands. Knowing that the situation was lost, the Porter made an emergency jump into slipspace and escaped the incoming torpedo. In seven minutes the Covenant had wiped out an entire battle group with total impunity. The UNSC Porter successfully escaped to warn the UNSC of the incursion and three days later FLEETCOM responded with a fleet of thirty ships. They returned to Gamma Aurigae and obliterated the Covenant destroyer as it was attacking the human colony, but at a cost of ten ships.