The mission to the Pirnah Badlands was an event which occurred two months after the Lightmass Offensive, spanning several weeks, several Gear's squads where ambushed by Locust forces until High Command sent in Delta-One with new recruits. Delta was only able to find Michael Barrick as a lone survivor of Echo-6. The Squad was going to relocate to Jacinto until they picked up a distress beacon which turnout to be a Locust ambush, leaving a member of Delta - Gil Gonzalez - killed.