UNSC Arcadia's Revenge

"Avenge Arcadia's fallen."
-Ship's motto
The UNSC Arcadia's Revenge is a Paris-class heavy frigate constructed after the Battle of Arcadia in 2531, as is its namesake. It veers away from the Paris-class's usual naval duties and instead serves to support UNSC ground operations, carrying troops to locations, delivering support from atmosphere, and operating as a mobile base and headquarters for extensive military campaigns, though still serving in the UNSC Navy and capable of operating in fleet combat. The ship served as the mobile headquarters of the mixed unit, Ignis Corps, seeing them ferried to many battles across the galaxy.
After it was launched, the ship went on the fight in numerous battles against both Insurrectionist and Covenant forces, such as the Eridanus IX Campaign in 2535 and the Fall of Reach and Battle for Earth in 2552.
== History ==
=== Commission and construction ===
Following a costly victory for the UNSC at the Battle of Arcadia in 2531, the UNSC Arcadia's Revenge was commissioned to honor the lives of the many who died during the battle, being commissioned only two days after the event on February 12th, beginning construction on March 3rd, and finally launching on July 2nd to join the UNSC Navy's numbers.
The ship was equipped with a wide variety of troops, vehicles, and on extremely rare occasions, several Spartan-IIs and Spartan-IIIs from time to time, depending on the decisions of ONI and the particular mission requirements. Thus, the idea of Ignis Corps was proposed by an Arcadian ONI operative looking for vengeance, and the idea went through, with a multitude of assets incorporated into the ship to create the Ignis Corps.
=== Human-Covenant War ===
==== Eridanus IX Campaign ====
On July 6th, 2535, an insurrection began on the jungle world of Eridanus IX in the Eridanus system. The Arcadia was equipped with a full complement and deployed to quell the rebellion.
Following the ship's arrival in Eridanus IX's, she deployed heavy ground forces of Ignis to take down the well-entrenched insurrectionists. Eventually, despite numerous casualties, the Insurrectionist forces were driven off the planet or wiped out, resulting in the planet falling back under UNSC control. However, the victory was short-lived as the Covenant arrived merely hours later and glassed Eridanus IX, forcing the UNSC to retreat.
==== Battle of Provins ====
Throughout the opening years of the Human-Covenant War, the United Rebel Front suffered heavy losses as many of the planets they were operation on were glassed by the Covenant. The planet of Provins, which had been under URF control for some time, was spared from much of the early fighting, and the URF's remaining commanders decided to rally the majority of their military resources there, establishing heavy fortifications and bases on the various islands they rallied on.
Word of the URF's efforts inevitably reached the Office of Naval Intelligence. After spies confirmed the reports and rumors, Ignis Corps, an elite multi-branch unit, was equipped for battle and dispatched on the UNSC Arcadia's Revenge to attack and eliminate the last of the URF in a massive multi-island assault aided by local Colonial Police Force units.
Following a two-day campaign with heavy losses on both sides, particularly in the town of Provins and "Murder Valley," the UNSC took control of the planet. As a result of the battle, the United Rebel Front's military was considered defunct in the aftermath, and as such, the URF was unable to engage in any insurrection attempts for the remainder of the Human-Covenant War.
==== Fall of Reach ====
By 2552, the Arcadia, stationed at Reach in the Epsilon Eridani system, was busy being repaired and rearmed from a previous operation when the planet came under attack from the Covenant. During the battle, Ignis Corps was repeatedly deployed to assist in the evacuations of UNSC military bases and civilian population centers, suffering heavy casualties in the process.
Following the success of the decisive Operation: UPPER CUT, on August 14th, carried out by the Spartan NOBLE Team, which saw the successful destruction of the Covenant supercarrier, Long Night of Solace, the crew of the Arcadia broke out in cheers, but those cheers quickly became horrified screams as the Covenant fleet arrived in unstoppable force over Reach, nullifying the point of the operation.
As the UNSC fleet broke into shambles under the overwhelming force of hundreds of Covenant warships bearing down on them, any remaining ships retreated, and the defense of Reach quickly fell into chaos on the ground as Covenant ships laid waste to the planet. Extracting whoever they could from the battlefield before fleeing, the Arcadia retreated from the battle, suffering immense damage and barely escaping with anyone they could evacuate.
==== Battle for Earth ====
Having retreated from Reach, the Arcadia and whatever ships escaped along with them, minus the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, fled to Earth. At Earth, the UNSC Navy pooled almost all of their remaining ships, fearing the Covenant fleet was coming for Earth. Sure enough, only a few months after the Fall of Reach, the Covenant came for Earth.
John-117's actions during the battle were critical in turning the initial phases of the battle in the UNSC's favor. After one Covenant supercarrier was destroyed and the second departed the system to Installation 05, the battle remained relatively under UNSC control until the arrival of the rest of the Covenant fleets at Earth. The battle quickly turned into a horrific nightmare as Earth burned and Covenant ships endlessly streamed into the Sol system. 
The Arcadia was deployed across the globe as millions of distress signals were sent up calling for help. During the battle, the majority of Ignis Corps were killed in engagements on Earth's surface by either the Covenant or the Flood, such as the horrific Operation: MORNINGSTAR. The Arcadia itself suffered a direct collision with a Covenant ship, tearing entire chunks from its hull and killing a significant portion of its crew. Fortunately, the battle ended with an albeit pyrrhic UNSC victory and an end to the Human-Covenant War.
=== Post-War Era ===
At the battle's end after two months of bloody struggle, the Arcadia was one of the few surviving ships of the battle, being hauled to repair yards for restoration. It would be called to service quickly after repairs as the UNSC was in dire need of ships to maintain an unstable peace and buy time to rebuild the UNSC fleets and finish construction of the UNSC Infinity.
==== Operation: NULL FROST ====
After the end of the Human-Covenant War, the Covenant split into multiple remnant factions, either hoping to rebuild the Covenant, eliminate humanity, or just gain whatever power they could. When one of the remnant factions encountered the Novanskoye insurrectionists, the insurrectionists bought several Is'belox-pattern Banshees from them. Once word of the insurrectionists possessing Covenant craft reached the UNSC, they deemed the retaking of the planet a priority and deployed the Ignis Corps, fresh from the Human-Covenant War, aboard the frigate UNSC Arcadia's Revenge, to retake the planet.
During the operation, the Arcadia deployed its compliment of ODSTs into the mountains to safely advance on the insurrectionist-controlled airbase and surrounding town, as well as deploying its full compliment of air support and vehicles to assist. Following a prolonged battle between UNSC forces and the insurrectionists, the battle ended in a UNSC victory with all insurrectionists either killed or captured, and many of their vehicles seized or destroyed. Novanskoye's settlement was moderately damaged during the battle, with vehicle wrecks dotting the town after UNSC troops departed and several buildings damaged or even completely destroyed, leveled to their foundations. Ignis Corps would eventually return to the Arcadia and return to Earth for debrief.
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