- Script
- Fred Van Lente
- Pencils
- Francis Portela
- Inks
- Francis Portela
- Colors
- Ulises Arreola
- Letters
- Nate Piekos; Blambot
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Long Time Coming human prospect explorer
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Iona; Team Black [Margaret-053; Roma-143; Otto-031; Victor-101]; Grunts; Elites [Reff; Thon]
- Synopsis
- A UNSC ship crashes on a planet; only the four Spartans aboard survive and with the ship's AI Iona attempt to understand where they are, but the survivors of a crashed Covenant ship attack them. Suddenly, the fight is interrupted by a Forerunner machine.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Clarity of Faith; Forerunner; Long Time Coming; MJOLNIR armor; ONI; Reach; Shaw-Fujikawa Engine; Slipspace; UNSC; Warthog; Wraith
Fred Van Lente created Team Black for a prose short story called "Blunt Instruments," found in the anthology Halo Evolutions Volume 2.