Alpha Aurigae Campaign

The Alpha Aurigae Campaign was a series of engagements between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant Empire, late in 2526. A major campaign of the Human-Covenant War, Alpha Aurigae proved to be a victory for humanity. 
===Battle of the Origami Asteroid Field===
On October 21, 2526, Cole's fleet met its Covenant opponent, with one hundred and seventeen UNSC warships facing a dozen Covenant ones. At the cost of thirty-seven UNSC ships, the entire Covenant fleet was destroyed. 
==Timeline==
; December 15, 2525 : Covenant missionary ship Ever Willing arrives on the boundary of the Alpha Aurigae system. 
; December 17 : Ever Willing detects human spacecraft and determines the presence of human settlements in system, then stealthily departs the system for Covenant space. 
; October 11, 2526 : Fourteen Covenant warships (three carriers, seven cruisers, and four destroyers) of the Fleet of Unceasing Prayer arrive in-system and begin moving towards the human colony world of Capella; they are intercepted by the seventeen human warships of the UNSC Battle Group Tango-3, which deploy against the Covenant fleet from the Origami Asteroid Field. Tango-3 successfully destroys the nearest covenant warship, a cruiser, before retreating into the asteroid belt; a single human corvette is lost in the attack. The Covenant, stung by the loss, break off from their approach and pursue Tango-3 into the Origami Asteroid Field.
:The first Covenant warship to enter the asteroid belt, the light cruiser Valorous Blade, encounters a nuclear proximity mine and loses both shielding and navigation and is subsequently destroyed. Covenant forces continue their pursuit more carefully, successfully destroying a pair of human frigates and a human corvette. Tango-3's remaining thirteen warships continue to evade the Covenant.
; October 21 : The reinforced UNSC Battle Group X-Ray, now at one hundred and seventeen warships, engages the twelve Covenant warships of Unceasing Prayer in the Origami Asteroid Field. All twelve Covenant warships are destroyed, while X-Ray loses thirty-seven ships.
==Order of battle==
===United Nations Space Command===
UNSC Battle Group Tango-3
*17 warships
UNSC Battle Group X-Ray
*117 warships
===Covenant===
Fleet of Unceasing Power
*3 assault carriers
*7 cruisers
*4 destroyers
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War