Battle of Beimeni

The Battle of Beimeni was an engagement fought between the and remnants of the .
==Background==
During the Battle of Paradiso, the Covenant remnants had captured several humans and brought them to Beimeni, where they were originally stationed. Most of the Paradiso fleet pursued the Covenant forces to Beimeni with the intention to rescue the prisoners and destroy the Covenant presence.
==Battle==
Upon arriving at the planet the Covenant escaped to, Surkov's fleet faced another battlecruiser, with the escaping battlecruiser nowhere to be found. Shortly after the UNSC's arrival, the missing battlecruiser emerged from the planet's atmosphere, indicating that it had likely deployed its prisoners at the planet's surface. Surkov ordered the SPARTANs and a division of infantry to search for and rescue the captured humans.
The Frigg's AI, Nótt, located the of the captured Marines, and the UNSC ground forces subsequently rushed to the location, which was a Forerunner tower. With the Spartans, led by Dom-094, spearheading the operation, the UNSC forces made their way to the prisoners, killing any enemy that stood in their way. Just before the SPARTANs could reach the prisoners, they arrived at the tower's control room, where Tisamenus, the leading the Covenant forces, waited for them. The chieftain mocked the Spartans by telling them he had already killed one of their kind, even pointing to her armor he had on display in the room.Dom-094, immediately recognizing the armor belonging to Annie-003, coldly ordered Henry-G066 and Jim-G067 to unload weapons on Tisamenus. Dom-094 and the two other male SPARTANs, equipped with weapons, obliterated the chieftain long before he could reach them with his . Among the chieftain's charred remains, Jim-G067 recovered his weapon, a . With their biggest threat eliminated, the Spartans proceeded to free the prisoners. Just before leaving the control room, Dom-094 activated the of Annie-003's armor, demolishing pursuing Covenant forces and honoring his deceased former leader.
The UNSC forces escorted the civilians to the nearest extraction with Jim-G067 in front, plowing through brutes and with his new weapon. Once all UNSC forces evacuated the planet, Surkov ordered the orbital bombardment of the Covenant bases on the surface.
==List of appearances==
*Halo: The Platinum Annals (First appearance)