Once contact with the Argo was lost, the CMA went on full alert. When Battle Group 4 arrived at Harvest, they found a planet burnt to a crisp by plasma. ApCE: CMA Argo investigates lost contact with Harvest The Rapid Conversion then began to partially glass the planet. A trap set by the small contingent of human forces there ended up disabling the ship temporarily to allow most of the planet to escape death via freighters, but the ship's crew managed to repair it shortly after. Though the Covenant ground force was weak, the firepower of the Rapid Conversion brought the majority of the planet to heel.
The Rapid Conversion began to attack the colonial population of Harvest.
Worrying that the Covenant's great empire would turn against the Prophets if they learned this special connection between humanity and the Forerunners, they ordered the species to be exterminated, citing the will of the gods as reasoning. The San'Shyuum Prophets were shocked by this revelation, and falsely concluded that the humans were descendants of the Forerunners themselves. Humans were in fact called Reclaimers, or those who were deemed worthy to inherit the Mantle of Responsibility. The Prophets, the Covenant's religious leaders, realized that the relics the Rapid Conversion was detecting on the planet were in fact the humans themselves when a long-dormant fragment of Mendicant Bias that had been aboard the Forerunner Dreadnought awakened and pointed out their misinterpretations to them. This immediately caused all negotiation to cease, and the Rapid Conversion's crew withdrew to their ship and returned to orbit. Unfortunately, a small firefight between the two sides occurred when a nervous Grunt opened fire on a CMA soldier named Osmo. The crew of the Rapid Conversion (10 Brutes, 60 Grunts and 100 Drones) opened talks with the humans, but made it clear that their only interest was finding the Forerunner relics that they had detected were there. Hoping to achieve peace and prevent further hostilities, the UNSC attempted to communicate with the Covenant forces via pictogram. The Rapid Conversion arrived at Harvest in response to the loss of the Minor Transgression.Īt some point later in February, the Covenant cruiser Rapid Conversion arrived at Harvest in order to investigate what happened to the Minor Transgression.
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