Skirmish on Ghost of Soirapt

The Skirmish on Ghost of Soirapt was a minor conflict between the forces of the United Nations Space Command and the Banished aboard the Banished dreadnought Ghost of Soirapt over Installation 07 during the Battle for Zeta Halo in 2560.
== Prelude ==
Following the successful Banished attack on the UNSC supercarrier Infinity, Banished forces began scouring Infinity's debris field for survivors or anything else valuable. During this search, they discovered Spartan-IV James Anderes, leader of Fireteam Riptide, sent adrift after a dreadnought rammed the Infinity, sucking him out into space. Discovering he was alive, the Banished took him prisoner.
Following James's capture by the Banished, he was stripped out of his armor and held prisoner aboard the Ghost of Soirapt while he was brutally interrogated by Banished commanders, though he refused to speak. He would remain on the dreadnought, tortured for the next seven months as the battle rapidly began to turn in UNSC favor, with the legendary Spartan John-117 quickly prying Zeta Halo out of the grip of the Banished.
== The battle ==
On July 17th of 2560, Allan Richards, another member of Fireteam Riptide, having taken inspiration from John-117's previous destruction of the Banished dreadnought Ghost of Gbraakon weeks prior, Allan devised a plan to sneak aboard the Ghost of Soirapt and overload its engines before escaping right as the ship detonated. Hijacking a Banished Eklon'Dal Workshop Phantom, he quickly boarded the vessel, fighting his way through Banished forces aboard the ship on the way to the vessel's engines. However, on the way, he was startled upon his discovery that James Anderes was alive and being held prisoner aboard the ship, having presumed him dead after the dreadnought had rammed Infinity.
After freeing James, Allan instead decided to help James find his Spartan armor. Eventually finding it in a storage room aboard the ship, being studied by Banished warriors, James reequipped his damaged but functional armor and the two, now properly reunited, fought their way to the engine room, rigging it to explode and escaping the ship in a pair of stolen Kaelum Workshop Banshees. The two would eventually arrive at Outpost Tremonius, the primary UNSC base on Zeta Halo, and would continue working against the Banished on the ring. The Ghost of Soirapt was destroyed when its engines detonated.
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