Operation Morning Star

Operation Morning Star was a joint British-American operation, and it is this operation that takes place during Resistance: Fall of Man and ends with Sergeant Nathan Hale destroying the Hub tower in the Battle of London.

Origins
Operation Morning Star was planned after the British Army, whom were nearly defeated by the Chimera, told SRPA about a secret weapon that they had (an Angel) that they believed was the only way to defeat the Chimera and they wanted to exchange it with the United States for aid in the form of supplies and manpower to help in their battle. The United States agreed to this, particularly because the country and President Noah Grace could be seen as the heroic defeaters of the Chimera. The 1st Ranger Regiment and 3rd Ranger Regiment, together totaling 12,000 men, were sent to England to rendezvous with a British convoy carrying the Angel.

Unfortunately, Operation Morning Star didn't start well. The first battle (in York), Operation: Deliverance, saw the death (or infection) of all but one soldier (Nathan Hale) at the hands of the Chimera. This was due to Cloven meddling, which drew the Chimera's attention to York before the Americans even arrived. The British convoy was ambushed in Manchester while on its way to York, and many of its members were killed or captured.

Hale managed to escape from a conversion center and assisted the British forces in regaining control of the convoy. SRPA ordered the Army not to bring reinforcements because Sergeant Hale did not require any, but they did deploy a squad of Black Ops to follow Hale and defend him from the Cloven. Some intercepted radio transmissions suggested that SRPA, particularly Richard Blake, may have also wanted to extract Hale from London, the reasoning for which being that if he was not given inhibitors for his Chimera infection, he would become similar to Daedalus.

After Southern Command was destroyed by the Chimera, the British Army fled to Cardiff, Wales. While there they were contacted by Nathan Hale, who informed that destroying the main Hub Tower in London would somehow defeat the Chimera in Britain. Seeing no other choice, the British and radioed the U.S to give them 20,000 men which they immediately agreed. With the 20,000 men, tanks and air support, the combined American-British lead their final assault on London.

Battle of London
The joint Allied forces entered London almost unscathed, and all was seemingly well until they were under threat by Goliaths as not just were they technological superior in battle but they are armed with Spire missiles, containing Crawlers and the likelihood of infecting the human armies. These Goliaths situated near the inner defenses of the Hub Tower on the side of the Thames River opposite to the advancing human forces, and were on the move in destroying the Allied forces.

Several task forces were sent to prevent the Goliaths' advances by destroy some of the major bridges on the Thames. One last bridge, Tower Bridge, was set to explode by Task Force Five led by Lieutenant Steven Cartwright. However, communications with the task force were cut-off and feared to have all been killed. Fortunately, Nathan Hale managed to find the detonation device and blew up the bridge destroying all Goliaths that were on the bridge. One Goliath managed to survive, but was destroyed by Hale and Cartwright before it could inflict any damages.

After this Hale and Cartwright made it into the Hub Tower but Cartwright was injured by a Widowmaker guarding the entrance and decided to stay behind. Hale journeyed alone until an American team called Victor Force also managed to enter, and with the help of Hale destroyed the reactor rods in the center of the tower, resulting in a massive explosion that demolishes the main Tower. The reaction propagates along the Chimera conduit network, destroying all the Towers in Britain and killing all of the Angels inside. With the death of the Angels, every Chimeran forces cannot live without a telepathic link to the Angels and all simultaneous died en masses.

Aftermath
The defeat of the Chimera in Britain broaden a turning point for humanity in its resistance to the alien forces, as well in gathering valuable knowledge of the Chimera's weakness of their dependency on Angels, and the destruction of Chimeran hub towers would reinforce a quick decisive advantage over the Chimera.

The success of Operation Morning Star eventually spawned Operation Overstrike, the liberation of Europe.

The American soldiers that survived in the operation were sworn to secrecy about the 'Alien Race,' and completely withdrawn from Britain.