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Alpha Aurigae Campaign

Conflict:

Human-Covenant War

Date:

October 2526

Location:

Alpha Aurigae

Belligerents

Flag of the United Nations Unified Earth Government

Halo1 - Covenant Symbol Covenant Empire

Commanders

Preston Cole


Strength

134 warships

3 carriers
7 cruisers
4 destroyers

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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

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