- CANNON 117
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Below are Spoilers. Please read no further if you have not read Halo: First Strike:
The Ascendent Justice (Whitcomb's ship) crashed into the Unyielding Hierophant to buy the Master Chief time to escape to Earth and warn the fleet. As you should remember, the Chief and his remaining handful of Spartans rigged the ship to explode, effectively destroying the majority of the Covenant ships prepared to jump to the Sol System, likely to attack Earth.
Whitcomb, and Lieutenant Haverson were both killed during the explosion, fighting to the bitter end with Elite boarding parties attempting to retrieve a crystal (a hologram meant to trick the Covenant) that was believed to be a Forerunner artifact.
-Cannon117
[Edited on 5/14/2006]