Kilo Platoon

Kilo Platoon was a unit of the United Nations Space Command Marine Corps stationed on Arcadia.
== History ==
By 2549, the platoon was assigned to Arcadia's local marine garrison, serving in defense of the planet. On September 9th, 2549, the platoon would see action and its complete dissolution in the Second Fall of Arcadia. Shortly after exiting slipstream space, the attacking Covenant fleet began bombarding Arcadia's surface with plasma. The Covenant fleet took particular care in glassing every vital part of the planet, incinerating Abaskun and all major urban areas.
Elements of the UNSC's Ignis Corps had arrived on the planet in the opening hours of the battle tasked with evacuating crucial manpower and an Office of Naval Intelligence smart AI. A pair Spartan-IIIs on the planet, one being Spade-G543, were charged with handling and evacuating the AI, being hastily organized under the callsign "Green Team."
Once Ignis Corps met up with Green Team and Kilo Platoon, they moved to the ONI base where the AI was kept. Despite suffering from early rampancy, the AI was still functional and Spade-G543 was responsible for carrying the data chip the AI was stored on. To confuse the Covenant ground forces and avoid mass casualties, the combined force divided up their vehicle arsenal and split into two separate convoys each heading for the planned evacuation site of a nearby UNSC airbase, fighting through heavy Covenant ground force resistance on the way to the destination.
However, without the UNSC Navy in orbit trying to hold off the Covenant advance, more and more ships were slipping through into Arcadia's atmosphere, and a Ket-pattern battlecruiser arrived over the battlefield, glassing the airbase before the convoy arrived, forcing UNSC forces to divert to a hastily constructed forward operating base.
Continuing to suffer heavy losses as the convoys rushed to the FOB, a second Covenant battlecruiser arrived in orbit, glassing the nearest base, forcing the convoys to divert around to continue on to the base. Realizing the convoys were moving too fast, the fleet dropped a Deutoros-pattern Scarab directly on top of one of the convoys, which immediately destroyed the five nearest vehicles to it before continuing to move down the road attacking the convoy.
Amidst the chaos, Spade-G543 climbed onto the Scarab and destroyed its core from the inside, causing the walker to self-destruct and collapse. Largely unopposed, the remainder of the convoy drove the last of the length to the FOB. With all Covenant ground forces in the region closing in on their position, multiple D77-TC Pelicans landed at the FOB and began extracting. Green Team got onto the first Pelican and extracted immediately with the remainder of Kilo Platoon and the AI, while Ignis Corps boarded the next three Pelicans, though one was shot down fleeing the base as a third Ket battlecruiser appeared over the FOB. The last Pelican lifted off moments before the base was glassed. The survivors then extracted from the system and fled to Reach.
The artificial intelligence was successfully delivered to the Office of Naval Intelligence later that week by Green Team, though the two members dropped the name after the battle. Ignis Corps, despite the situation, suffered rather minimal losses compared to the rest of the Arcadian marine garrison. Kilo Platoon was dissolved after the battle, its few remaining members being transferred to other units.
== Composition ==
During the Second Fall of Arcadia, Kilo Platoon consisted of sixty UNSC marines, along with various vehicles. However, by the end of the battle, little remained of the platoon and it would be dissolved into other units.
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