On the planet, they found the wreckage of the UNSC Rubicon and 343 Guilty Spark, now inhabiting an armiger body. Using information hacked from the prowler, the crew decided to investigate a distress call from Geranos-a in order to force ONI to negotiate and return their salvage. ONI forced Rion Forge to order the Fragmented Forerunner AI to cooperate with them before dumping the ship and crew with basically nothing. The ship was thoroughly searched, which resulted in Little Bit, all of the crew's personal belongings, and salvage stripped from it. Search for the Librarian Īfter attempting to steal a Forerunner Luminary from a Sangheili General Gek 'Lhar, the Ace of Spades and her crew were captured by the ONI prowler UNSC Taurokado. Īt some point, the Ace fell into the gravitational pull of the planet Jeren X, though was able to survive the ordeal in some capacity. Despite the initial hesitation the rest of the crew agreed and made their way to the ship, promptly taking off and remaining hidden from the aggressors. Being the furthest away, Rion told the others to take off without her and that she would send a signal when she was clear. While the crew was on the Roman Blue, it was suddenly fired upon. The ship turned out to be the remains of the UNSC Roman Blue, a Halcyon-class light cruiser. There, they received intel on a crashed ship on a moon in the Ectanus 45 system known as Eiro, which they left for straightaway. The ship was docked on E-level of a hangar bay of the New Tyne Airfield while Rion, Lessa, and the newest hire, Kip Silas, journeyed into the city.

In January of the new year, the crew returned to Venezia after having been gone for six weeks. Rion personally participated in a four-way bidding war for a small piece of a Forerunner navigational databoard at a small bazaar on Komoya. In July of 2556, the crew vacationed on Sundown, and by December of that same year, it fell into one of its largest paydays ever. The crew of the Ace made a name for themselves as salvagers operating out of New Tyne, Venezia and scoring finds all along the Via Casilina Trade Route. Ever since she took it over, she made her own modifications to it so that by January of 2557, she considered it to have been 'seven years in the making'. Rion Forge acquired the Ace of Spades sometime soon after she became the captain of another cargo ship, the Hakon, in 2551.

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