Operation: LEFT JAB

Following the Battle of Viery and the discovery of the flagship of the Fleet of Valiant Prudence, the CSO-class supercarrier Long Night of Solace, Noble Team created a plan to destroy the flagship using a Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine as a 'slipspace bomb'. Under the direction of Colonel Urban Holland, Operation: UPPER CUT was launched in an effort to destroy the carrier.Halo: Reach level The Long Night of Solace
==Operation: LEFT JAB==
In order for Operation: UPPERCUT to be successful, the remainder of the Fleet of Valiant Prudence had to be distracted to ensure the Long Night of Solace was as isolated as possible.
Following the Farkas Lake Offensive and the launching of Operation: UPPERCUT, UNSC forces under the command of Vice Admiral Hieronymus Stanforth launched Operation: LEFT JAB. The UNSC fleet comprised of 2 Epoch-class heavy carriers, 4 Marathon-class heavy cruisers and 12 Paris-class heavy frigates.
The fleet engaged the Fleet of Valiant Prudence in the orbit above Reach, effectively cutting off the fleet from the Long Night of Solace. Allowing the capture of the Ardent Prayer to go on un-challenged.
After the destruction of the Long Night of Solace, a second fleet of Covenant ships exited slipspace below Reach's orbital defence grid, nullifying the UNSC's progress against the fleet of Valiant Prudence.
==Aftermath==
After the arrival of the second Covenant fleet, Supreme Commander Rho 'Barutamee's second in command, Kantar 'Utaralee took command of the surviving ships from the Fleet of Valiant Prudence. He regrouped the devastated fleet, comprising of 8 SDV-class Corvettes, 2 CCS-class battlecruisers and 2 Varric-pattern heavey cruisers and launched a final attack on the moon of Turul, in a last ditch attempt to gain a Forerunner artefact Rho 'Barutamme had sought since the beginning of the invasion.
==Gallery==
File:Reach AssaultCarriers.jpg|A Covenant fleet entering the system just after the destruction of Long Night of Solace and Ardent Prayer.
File:HFB UNSCCovenant-Pieces1.jpg|As appears in Halo: Fleet Battles
Category:Operations
Category:Engagements in the Fall of Reach