After the wreckage of the Worthy Silence crashed to the quarry floor and the rest of the Bloodstar flotilla was pushed back, some of the Spartans combed through the corvette's shattered bridge.

However, the Sacred Whisper and another Bloodstar corvette survived due to Lieutenant Commander Hector Nyeto purposefully holding off his attack in an attempt to get the Spartans killed by the Covenant. Thirty seconds later, the nuke detonated, destroying both the prowler and the Worthy Silence. The team inside the prowler armed its nuclear self-destruct and fled in an escape pod, while the other Spartans sprinted out of the nuke's blast radius. Two more Spartans arrived to assist, but the Worthy Silence began lifting the Starry Night into its cargo hold. Before he could recover from the encounter, the two Kig-Yar atop the prowler began firing at him from behind their shields, with one landing a hit that compromised his armor's seal. The Spartan killed one of them with his M6D magnum and folded the other onto his own energy sword. Most of them died in an explosion, but the two Sangheili escaped to be confronted by John-117. Shortly after boarding, the eight Bloodstars were attacked by Frederic-104's team. Meanwhile, Task Force Yama shot down two of the flotilla's corvettes in a strafing run. Two Kig-Yar entered first to scout it out, then the two Sangheili and four Jiralhanae entered, leaving the last two Kig-Yar on top of the fuselage to act as a rear guard. While most of the supersoldiers were occupied fending off the ground vehicles or freeing themselves from the ice flow, a Bloodstar strike team of two Sangheili, four Jiralhanae, and four Kig-Yar approached the vessel.

However, a small team of Spartans managed to board the prowler before the Bloodstars could make a second attempt. By the time some of the Spartans had recovered, at least three more corvettes had arrived to support their infantry, as well as to deploy more armored vehicles. They were set upon by Bloodstar-operated Ghosts and the looming corvette began firing on them, forcing the supersoldiers to cause an avalanche that would sweep away the Starry Night and delay the Bloodstars.

Before they could gain access, a team of twelve Spartan-IIs arrived in search of survivors. The intrusion corvette Worthy Silence reached the crash site before the others, deploying a team of EVA-equipped Bloodstars onto the downed prowler via gravity lift. It crashed into the quarry, leading 'Szatulai to order the flotilla to converge on and secure the vessel. One of the plasma blasts happened to strike the UNSC Starry Night, the flagship of Captain Halima Ascot. Disturbed that the humans had stealth systems that were seemingly more advanced than the Covenant's own cloaking technology, he ordered the flotilla to fire on the quarry, hoping to take down one of the vessels so that it could be studied.

Unbeknownst to him, these were Razor-class prowlers of the UNSC's Task Force Yama, which had recently captured both the quarry and the rebel leaders that 'Szatulai was on his way to meet. When the flotilla arrived near Seoba on March 19, 2526, 'Szatulai witnessed human stealth craft rising into space to meet them, despite the corvette's instruments being unable to see these vessels. The First Blade gathered the Bloodstar Flotilla and left for the Kolaqoa system aboard the Sacred Whisper. Taking this message to Fleetmaster Nizat 'Kvarosee of the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience, 'Szatulai was ordered to meet with the insurgents on Seoba, but to only appease them until their immediate usefulness ran out. His hope was that they could strike a deal for the survival of insurrectionist-controlled worlds in exchange for information on the United Nations Space Command. He wished to meet with representatives of the Covenant in an ice quarry of Biko's moon of Seoba. While First Blade Tel 'Szatulai and his squad were scouting the human colony of Amasa in early 2526, they were given a device by a human insurrectionist containing a message from General Harper Garvin of the United Rebel Front. History Meeting with traitors Main articles: Battle of Seoba, Battle of Biko Gathering of information and hunting down high-value targets.

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