Battle of Radiant Dawn

The Battle of Radiant Dawn was a major engagement of the early Human-Covenant War. The initial Covenant attack on the colony was interrupted by the arrival of UNSC Battle Group Sierra. UNSC forces engaged the Covenant fleet above the colony and deployed ground forces that facilitated the evacuation of the planet's colonial population simultaneously. Following the successful evacuation, Battle Group Sierra disengaged and retreated from Radiant Dawn; Covenant forces did not pursue and instead focused on glassing the colony's surface. The UNSC lost fifty-six ships including the supercarrier UNSC Cape Ecnomus. Covenant losses were similarly heavy with fourteen ships destroyed and thirty-five damaged. 
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War