Operation:WHIPLASH

was an operation planned by the UNSC to attack a Saulosian armada amassed at the colony of Eternal Sonata. The goal was to build a battlegroup at the UNSC colony of Kotov, then to strike at the unprepared Saulosians. However, the Saulosians attacked the fleet at Kotov before it was fully organized, which culminated in the disastrous Battle of Kotov.