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The Alpha Aurigae Campaign was a series of engagements between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant Empire, late in 2526. A major campaign of the Human-Covenant War, Alpha Aurigae proved to be a victory for humanity.
Battle of the Origami Asteroid Field[]
On October 21, 2526, Cole's fleet met its Covenant opponent, with one hundred and seventeen UNSC warships facing a dozen Covenant ones. At the cost of thirty-seven UNSC ships, the entire Covenant fleet was destroyed.
Timeline[]
- December 15, 2525
- Covenant missionary ship Ever Willing arrives on the boundary of the Alpha Aurigae system.
- December 17
- Ever Willing detects human spacecraft and determines the presence of human settlements in system, then stealthily departs the system for Covenant space.
- October 11, 2526
- Fourteen Covenant warships (three carriers, seven cruisers, and four destroyers) of the Fleet of Unceasing Prayer arrive in-system and begin moving towards the human colony world of Capella; they are intercepted by the seventeen human warships of the UNSC Battle Group Tango-3, which deploy against the Covenant fleet from the Origami Asteroid Field. Tango-3 successfully destroys the nearest covenant warship, a cruiser, before retreating into the asteroid belt; a single human corvette is lost in the attack. The Covenant, stung by the loss, break off from their approach and pursue Tango-3 into the Origami Asteroid Field.
- The first Covenant warship to enter the asteroid belt, the light cruiser Valorous Blade, encounters a nuclear proximity mine and loses both shielding and navigation and is subsequently destroyed. Covenant forces continue their pursuit more carefully, successfully destroying a pair of human frigates and a human corvette. Tango-3's remaining thirteen warships continue to evade the Covenant.
- October 21
- The reinforced UNSC Battle Group X-Ray, now at one hundred and seventeen warships, engages the twelve Covenant warships of Unceasing Prayer in the Origami Asteroid Field. All twelve Covenant warships are destroyed, while X-Ray loses thirty-seven ships.
Order of battle[]
United Nations Space Command[]
UNSC Battle Group Tango-3
- 17 warships
UNSC Battle Group X-Ray
- 117 warships
Covenant[]
Fleet of Unceasing Power
- 3 assault carriers
- 7 cruisers
- 4 destroyers