Operation: GOOSE CHASE

Operation: GOOSE CHASE was a UNSC naval order established to project a UNSC "shadow fleet" along its border regions, creating a non-existence naval force and transmitting falsified fleet movements to trick and deter hostile and possibly hostile entities originating from former Covenant space. In the wake of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC Navy's ability to project power was severely crippled, leaving many human worlds at the mercy of the reality that was to come with the fall of the Covenant. While the Navy refocused its efforts on rebuilding its numbers and capabilities as fast as realistically possible, a majority portion of the UNSC's Prowler fleet were deployed to the Frontier, forming a web that would become this invisible shadow fleet and broadcasting it into Covenant territories. GOOSE CHASE would become an effective strategy in preventing most incursions into UNSC space, creating a mythical fleet of highly advanced human warships that even sent some of humanity's newfound Covenant allies into a frenzy of caution.