Team Beta

Team Beta was a splinter team of the Spartan-II Red Team of the United Nations Space Command.

Introduction
Team Beta was the largest splinter team of Red Team and consisted of the majority of the Spartans. They were tasked with the defence of the Orbtial Defence Platform generators against Covenant attack.

First Battle of Reach
The majority of the wounded Spartans as well as healthy Spartans were formed into Team Beta. Their job was simple: defend the Generators at all costs. To compromise this mission, simply stated, meant the fall of Reach. Not much is known about what Team Beta did during the battle, but they ultimately failed. Most of the generators were destroyed, but not due to the Spartans incompetance, but rather from overwhelming forces. These Covenant attacks in mass easily overran the few Spartan defenders allowing the Covenant to destroy the generators the Spartans were protecting. This dismal failure and complete waiste of lives was likely due to inadaquate time to set up defensive emplacements, and/or inadaquate time to develope an ideal strategy.

Destruction
Team Beta fell quickly, meaning that most of the Spartans were killed in the battle, losing their aura of invinciblity. They managed to get a transmission to Fredric-104 and the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, telling them to stay away and that the generators had been destroyed, but they might be able to protect some of them.