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''Bary-7707'' was a D77C-NMPD Pelican in service with the New Mombasa Police Department around the time of the Battle of Mombasa.', campaign level, ONI Alpha Site (location)|ONI Alpha Site', campaign level, NMPD HQ
Service history During the Battle of Mombasa, Bary-7707 was used to pick up UNSC Marine Corps|UNSC Marines from the rooftop of ONI Alpha Site (location)|ONI Alpha Site prior to its destruction, including ODSTs Michael Crespo and Taylor Miles.
Bary-7707 on its way to NMPD headquarters to pick up ODSTs Edward Buck and Kojo Agu would be shot down by and crash into a construction site near the police headdquarters.
Gallery
File:H3R - NMPD Pelican.jpg|Bary-7707 taking off from the roof of ONI Alpha Site. File:Nmpd pelican crash 2.jpg|Bary-7707 crashed near NMPD headquarters.
List of appearances
''Halo 3: ODST''
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The Basalt Maze was a location on X50, the moon of Draetheus V. It consisted of a collection of thousands of spiked rock formations protruding from X50's thick ice, south of a Forerunner structure. Merg Vol's Covenant's supply lines ran straight through the Maze to set up more defenses around the Forerunner structure during the Battle of Draetheus V. Spartan Operations|Spartan Edward Davis distracted Covenant forces, while UNSC engineers attempted to render the Forerunner structure inert.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 13: Assault on the Supply Lines|Assault on the Supply Lines''
List of appearances
''Halo: Spartan Assault''
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Base Capture Initiated is a medal in ''Halo 4''. It is earned by starting a base capture in Dominion.
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Base Captured is a medal in ''Halo 4''. It is earned by completing a successful base capture in Dominion.
Category:Halo 4 multiplayer medals |
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Base Conqueror is a medal in ''Halo 4''. It is earned by completing 5 successful base captures in Dominion.
Category:Halo 4 multiplayer medals |
Base Defense is a medal in ''Halo 5: Guardians'' Warzone. It is earned when the player kills an opponent within their own base.
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Base Defense is a multiplayer medal in ''Halo 4''. It is rewarded when the player kills an opponent within their own base.
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Base Offense is a medal in ''Halo 4''. It is earned by killing an opponent in an enemy-controlled base in Dominion.
Category:Halo 4 multiplayer medals |
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Base Saved is a medal in ''Halo 4''. It is earned by reclaiming a contested base in Dominion.
Category:Halo 4 multiplayer medals |
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Base Segundo Terra is a United Nations Space Command|UNSC military base in the United Republic of North America on Earth,''Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)'', Earth, p. 284-285, (2009); p. 296-297 (2011 edition) specifically located near Mexico City.
History During the Battle of Earth, the Spartan Blue Team used the base as a staging point to attack the Covenant Battle of Havana|incursions in Havana and the Yucatan Peninsula.
Trivia
"Segundo Terra" roughly translates from Spanish, with some grammatical caveats, as "second earth" in English.
List of appearances
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
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Category:UNSC military bases |
File:Base5.jpg|thumb|250px|A base in Ice Fields. A base is a generic stronghold in campaign and multiplayer. A base may be a building or a certain area, and its importance may vary depending on a mission or game.
Usage in multiplayer Usage of bases usually varies depending on a mission or multiplayer gametype. Usually, a base is used to provide protection, or contain stronger weapons or equipment.
Throughout the ''Halo'' series, these bases may contain:
Power ups and/or Active camouflage|Active Camouflages. Spawn points to keep away from enemy fire. Ammunition. Sniper rifles. Protection. The Flag#Multiplayer|Flag and flag capture points in Capture the Flag|CTF. The skull in Oddball. The Type 14 Magnetic/Anti-Tank Mine|Bomb spawn and arming points in Assault. Vehicles (on and/or around). Teleporters to get to various locations in the map. Health|Health Packs in Halo: Combat Evolved. Turret(s) either inside, around, outside, and on top Scenery depicting whether the base is a Red Base or a Blue Base like the team color's Flags surrounding the building and/or Red/Blue lighting. Camping spots for snipers and/or ambushes. Grenades. Barricades for the Infection gametype in Halo 3. Hiding Spot for the VIP in the VIP gametype. Defensive positions during an attack. Man Cannons for quick transportation. Equipment Territories in the gametype Territories Gravity lift|Grav Lift(s) to go into to go around a base's different levels Use for cover in King of the Hill.
"Turtle" into which means to make a whole team go on defensive. Use control panel(s) to open obstructions like gates or blockades Supplied to be used as fortresses
Although bases are mostly used for CTF, they can be particularly useful in Oddball (to hide in, if nav points are disabled) and King of the Hill. Bases range from small rooms all the way to a huge tower with mini buildings. For example, in the map Infinity (Halo: Combat Evolved map)|Infinity, one team also has a sub-base, quarter way to their destination.
Trivia The only map in which both bases are literally symmetrical -- including the whole map and the level geometry -- is Rat's Nest. If exact geometric symmetry isn't required for bases to be considered "symmetrical", however, then many other maps have symmetrical bases.
Gallery
File:Base4.jpg|The Sidewinder red base. File:Base2.jpg|The Battle Creek red base. File:Canyon1.jpg|The Danger Canyon red base. File:Infinity1.jpg|The Infinity (Halo: Combat Evolved map)|Infinity red base. File:H3_Avalanche_RedBaseInterior.jpg|Inside of the base on Avalanche (Level)|Avalanche blue base.
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File:BTHonRib.jpg|thumb|Basic Training Honor Graduate Ribbons The Basic Training Honor Graduate Ribbon is a military decoration of the United Nations Space Command. Originally a United States|United States Air Force and Coast Guard decoration, the design of the Air Force variant was adopted by the UNSC. The award recognizes exceptional recruits who graduate at the top of their class upon completion of basic training.
History The Basic Military Training Honor Graduate Ribbon was established in April 1976 as a decoration of the U.S. Air Force by order of the Air Force Chief of Staff, General David Charles Jones. The decoration was awarded to graduates of Air Force basic training who obtained an honor graduate designation, and demonstrated excellence in all areas of academic and military training.
After the foundation of the UNSC Defense Force, the UNSC Navy adopted the Basic Military Training Honor Graduate Ribbon as one of its own decorations. Jacob Keyes earned this decoration some time prior to 2552.:File:Keyes_Patches.png|An artist's rendition of Captain Keyes's medal ribbons from ''Halo: Combat Evolved.''
Known recipients Captain (Navy)|Captain Jacob Keyes:File:Keyes_Patches.png|An artist's rendition of Captain Keyes's medal ribbons from ''Halo: Combat Evolved.''
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The Basic tutorial is a mission in ''Halo Wars 2''. It is the first of three tutorial missions offered by the game to allow new players to learn the basics of ''Halo Wars 2'' gameplay.
Transcript
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File:HW2_BasicTraining_Concept_1.jpg|A series of early sketches of the level. File:HW2_BasicTraining_Concept_2.jpg|An early concept for the level artwork. File:HW2 Concept TutroialTerrain.jpg|Concept art of the terrain featured in the level. |
Basically Naive is an Achievement in ''Halo Wars'' that is unlocked when the player is promoted to the Rank (Halo Wars Multiplayer)|Recruit rank on Xbox LIVE.
It is worth 10 Gamerscore. Tips All you need to do is finish a match over Xbox Live. You don't need to win and you could even just watch until it finishes.
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A Basilisk is a forward command-and-control craft in service with the Gao Ministry of War's Gao Space Navy|Space Navy. The crafts are capable of holding high altitudes of at least five hundred meters. ''Independence'' is a Basilisk craft commanded by Minister of War Gaspar Baez.
The crafts are likely named after the Wikipedia:Basilisk|legendary reptile of the same name, reputed to be king of serpents.
List of appearances
''Halo: Last Light''
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Basin is a ''Halo 5: Guardians'' multiplayer map that was released on 2015|November 18, 2015 as part of the Battle of Shadow and Light update. The map is a spiritual successor to Blood Gulch and Valhalla, and was created from the Forge map Alpine. It is set in a rocky canyon with two UNSC bases at either end.
The simulation itself is loosely based on the ONI Research Facilities that were set up by the UNSC on Installation 03 after the ring's discovery in 2553. It has been noted that Spartan-IVs trained on Basin in 2558, in preparation for the coming war against the Created and their Guardians.
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Basis is the largest natural satellite of the gas giant Threshold in the Soell system.Halo Story Bible: Halo, ''Halo: Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets'', ''Chapter 5'', page 63
Description File:H2_BurialMounds.jpg|thumb|200px|The surface of Basis. Basis is the largest of the twelve satellites orbiting the gas giant Threshold in the Soell system of the Milky Way galaxy. Basis is Silvery-gray in color. Halo Installation 04 was positioned in the L1 Lagrange point between Basis and Threshold. Debris left over in the wake of Installation 04's Battle of Installation 04|destruction often rained down on Basis, creating small craters on the moon's surface.Halo: First Strike, ''page 72''
History
Circa 97,445 BCE, the L1 Lagrange point of Basis and its parent body, Threshold, was used by the remnants of the Forerunner ecumene as the location of Installation 04, or Alpha Halo, one of the seven ring-shaped superweapons that made up the Halo Array.
After Installation 04's destruction, a group of Covenant Sesa 'Refumee's heretic faction|defectors built a Burial Mounds|makeshift camp on Basis, amid the wreckage of the ring.Halo 2, in-game flavor text for ''Burial Mounds'' During a skirmish over Threshold following the Battle of Installation 04, Cortana maneuvered John-117's GA-TL1 Longsword into the Gravity well (physics)|gravity well of the moon to slingshot the fighter around Basis to avoid Covenant attacks.Halo: First Strike, ''page 61''
After Human-Covenant War|the war, Spartan-IVs were sent on reconnaissance to Basis in order to survey the debris of Alpha Halo scattered across the moon's surface. The mission marked the first use of the VECTOR-class Mjolnir|VECTOR-class Mjolnir armor.Halo 5: Guardians, ''VECTOR-class Mjolnir armor description''
Trivia Originally, the level ''The Arbiter'' was supposed to take place on the moon Basis, instead of the Threshold gas mine|gas mine over Threshold.Halo 3 Legendary Edition - ''''
Basis's texture in ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' appears to be a color-graded image of Mars's surface. The blue coloring of Basis when seen from space is puzzling, considering that from the surface it has a hazy orange or rust-colored atmosphere and terrain. The ruddy atmospheric coloration from the ground may result from the ash and smoke thrown up by the flaming wreckage of Installation 04.
Gallery
File:HCE-BasisMoon.png|Basis. File:HCE-Basis.jpg|Closeup of Basis. File:H2A-BasisFromThreshold.png|Basis, as seen from Threshold's atmosphere. File:Basis_Mars_Comparison.png|Side by side comparison of the texture of Basis used in Combat Evolved and Mars. File:Basis dusk.png|Basis in the level Halo and the multiplayer map Timberland. File:HCE-BasisDusk2.png|thumb|Another dusk Basis.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Fall of Reach''
''Halo: Combat Evolved''
''Halo: The Flood''
*''Halo: The Flood#2010 bonus content|Adjunct''
''Halo: First Strike''
''Halo 2''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''The Mona Lisa''
''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
*''Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminals''
''Halo: Escalation''
''Halo 5: Guardians''
''Halo: Fireteam Raven''
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Bassus was an old high-ranking Jiralhanae Jiralhanae Chieftain|Chieftain in the service of the Banished.
Biography
Bassus had long since been renowned for his brawn on the battlefield and his usage of cruelty over strategic wisdom. During the Siege of Dwarka|Siege of Dwarka, he ransacked several residential sectors, making crude displays of the deceased to demoralize the human forces that he viewed as wildly inferior to the Jiralhanae. His battlefield record would lead to his sudden rise to the rank of Chieftain, where he led multiple assaults on human colony worlds. The most notable of these was on Kroedis II where he had killed a Minor Prophet after having grown tired of his self-righteous manipulation and blamed it on the UNSC forces there, resulting in the planet being Glassing|glassed by the Fleet of Particular Justice led by Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee.
On 2560#May|May 28, 2560, Bassus, now a member of the Banished, was in charge of security at Site Novem, the excavation site for the Conservatory (location)|Conservatory, when it was attacked by Spartan-II|Spartan John-117. After the Master Chief disabled the cooling pipes on the Banished's mining drill, Bassus was ordered to defend the site personally. When the Master Chief and the Weapon were about to destroy the drill completely, Bassus ambushed them, grabbing the Master Chief by the throat and tossing him across the room. Bassus admitted he was unimpressed with Spartans, describing them as "not so tough" and believing they break open easy. Aiming to prove the Master Chief Petty Officer is "soft inside", Bassus raised his hammer to execute him, but the Master Chief dodged the blow and engaged Bassus. After a brutal fight, the Master Chief managed to kill Bassus, allowing the Weapon to overload the mining drill and destroy it.
Personality and traits Bassus appears to be a typical Jiralhanae who enjoys battle, chuckling in the heat of it, and demonstrated relatively low intellect in his speech. Like most Jiralhanae, Bassus appears to dislike the Sangheili as shown by his disdain for Chak 'Lok and delight upon learning of his death. He saw the battle with the John-117 as an opportunity to become a Hand of Atriox|Spartan Killer if he was victorious, and considered himself to be a superior warrior than Tremonius. Bassus has a tendency to refer to himself in the third person. Bassus was also considerably agile, being able to leap great distances across the rooms during his battle with John-117.
Equipment Bassus wore a resilient Jiralhanae Chieftain|Chieftain Jiralhanae power armor|power armor and was equipped with Energy shielding#Personal shielding|personal energy shields, albeit colored in gold and crimson, opposing typical black/grey and red (or sometimes blue) power armor used by regular Jiralhanae Chieftains, and similar to armors issued to Jiralhanae Warlord|Warlord Tremonius and Sangheili Sangheili Warlord|Warlord Chak 'Lok. Like many Chieftains, Bassus was equipped with a massive Gravity hammer (fiction)|gravity hammer when confronting John-117. He also carried s.
Quotes
Trivia Bassus was portrayed by Christopher Swindle (credited as "Chris Swindle") in ''Halo Infinite''. Unlike other Jiralhanae in the game, Bassus throws Anskum-pattern plasma grenade|plasma grenades instead of Jovokada Workshop spike grenade|spike grenades.
Gallery
File:HINF BassusCloseUp.png|Bassus in ''Halo Infinite''. File:HINF grappleshot Bassus.png|John-117 uses his grappleshot to swing a container at Bassus. File:HINF Bassus.png|Bassus armed with his gravity hammer. File:HINF BassusHammer.jpg|Bassus during his brawl with John-117. File:HINF Bassus throws plasma grenade.png|Bassus throws a plasma grenade. File:HINF Bassus vs Rocket Launcher.png|Bassus takes a hit from a rocket launcher. File:HINF Bassus shields.png|Bassus' shields flare during the fight. File:HINF Bassus Dynamo Grenade stun.png|Bassus stunned by a pair of dynamo grenades. File:HINF Bassus defeated.png|Bassus defeated by John-117.
List of appearances
''Halo Infinite''
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Excavation Site
"Spartans not so tough, I think. Break open easy. Soft inside!" ''(confronting the Master Chief)''
''"SPARTAAAAN!"''
[Panicked roar] ''(getting stuck with a grenade)''
[Short roar]
[War cry]
"Afraid, human?" ''(when the player hides)''
"Aha! So there you are!" ''(spotting the player)''
"All eventually fall to Bassus. It is their destiny." ''(if he kills the player)''
"Another dead Spartan." ''(if he kills the player)''
"Bassus will tear you apart!"
"Broken like little twigs. Pathetic." ''(if he kills the player)''
"Choke on this!" ''(throwing a plasma grenade)''
"Come closer, frail creature!"
"Crush him to dust!"
"Cry for help, human!"
"Damn you! Fight!"
"Foolish Spartan. Wastes my time."
"Fragile little human!"
"Great honor for Bassus!" ''(if he kills the player)''
"Have you now!"
"Humans are such easy prey!"
"I cut you down!"
"I do not need armor to kill you, human!" ''(at low health)''
"I end this now!"
"I expected better, Spartan." ''(taking damage)''
"I have done what Chak 'Lok could not!" ''(if he kills the player)''
"I thank you for killing Chak 'Lok! I never liked him anyway!"
"I'll crush your skull!"
"I'll make you pay for that!" ''(taking damage)''
"I'll pick my teeth with your bones!"
"I will not lose! Not now!" ''(electrocuted)''
"Is that all you got?!" ''(taking damage)''
"It will take much more than that!" ''(taking damage)''
"Kill!"
"NO!" ''(getting stuck with a grenade)''
"No more games, Spartan!"
"Pah! Tremonious fell to a weakling!"
"Prove your legend!"
"Quench my Gravity hammer (fiction)|hammer!"
"Show me your strength!"
"Tear you apart!"
"Today, we feast!" ''(if he kills the player)''
"Weakling!"
"What is this?! FIGHT!" ''(when grappled)''
"Will you scream? Will you beg? Like your friends?"
"With your death, I will earn the title of Spartan Killer!"
"Where Tremonius failed, Bassus will succeed!"
"YES. Just like the others. They will ALL perish." ''(if he kills the player)''
"You are doing well!" [laughter]
"You die now!" ''(attacking)''
"You will earn me a place in the Hand of Atriox!"
"You will go no further!"
"You're mine!"
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The Bastion of the BrutesHalo 2: The Official Strategy Guide|The Official Halo 2 Strategy Guide was a major Covenant Empire|Covenant base during the Battle of Installation 05, located in a Forerunner complex near the Installation 05|Installation's Control Room. The Jiralhanae encampment|Jiralhanae Encampment was located nearby, in another set of Forerunner structures.Halo 2, campaign level ''The Great Journey''
Layout The Bastion of the Brutes consisted of six sections; an entrance tunnel, a two-leveled room, a massive indoor and outdoor bridge, a prison facility, and a landing pad.
History
During the Battle of Installation 05, the Jiralhanae had taken control of a network of Forerunner tunnels and structures in the region near the Control Room. After being teleportation grid|teleported into the area by the Gravemind, the Arbiter, Thel 'Vadam, discovered the Great Schism|civil war that had broken out between Sangheili|his own kind and the Jiralhanae. Assisted by his fellow Sangheili and several other Covenant loyal to them, he made his way through a series of Jiralhanae-occupied caverns and Forerunner structures towards the Control Room.Halo 2, campaign level ''Uprising''
File:H2A-ImprisonedMgalekgolo.png|thumb|Two Mgalekgolo imprisoned by the Jiralhanae.|150px After regrouping with the Special Operations Commander|SpecOps Commander Rtas 'Vadum, they assaulted the Bastion of the Brutes in order to take control of the Protos-pattern Scarab|Scarab, which they intended to use to gain access to the Control Room, locked by the Jiralhanae who were intending to activate the installation.
The Arbiter entered through a series of tunnels leading to the complex. Here, the Arbiter joined with a Special Operations Sangheili and a pair of Mgalekgolo that would aid his attack on the Bastion of the Brutes. The Arbiter and his allies stormed the turret room from the entrance tunnels, emerging on the first floor from the tunnels, charging up the ramp and seizing the second floor by force. A Jiralhanae-operated Rizsheda-pattern Shade|Shielded Plasma Cannon was on the second floor, as well with Jiralhanae armed with Type-25 Grenade Launcher|Brute Shots and Type-51 Carbine|Covenant carbines. After the Arbiter and his allies wrested control from the small Jiralhanae force stationed there, two further waves of Jiralhanae came to contest their control over the Turret Room from the Indoor Bridge.
The Indoor Bridge consisted of two wide platforms on opposite sides of a cave, a yawning maw before them. On the far right side, there was a bridge strewn with gas containers and a Jiralhanae-controlled Shielded Plasma Cannon. The Arbiter came from the Turret Room onto one of the platforms of this cavern, where there were several Jiralhanae stationed and a Plasma battery|Battery Crate. He then took the bridge, and assailed the far side. On the far platform, there were Jiralhanae armed with Brute Shots and carbines, and Kig-Yar armed with Type-50 particle beam rifle|particle beam rifles and Type-25 Directed Energy Pistol|plasma pistols. There were also extensive numbers of Battery Crates on the far platform.
The outdoor bridge was guarded by many Kig-yar, one with a particle beam rifle and a swarm of Yanme'e. A Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantom appeared as the Arbiter went across. Upon entering the prison room, the Arbiter discovered a Mgalekgolo pair in one prison cell and two Sangheili Councilors in separate cells. The prison was guarded by a pack of Jiralhanae and several Kig-Yar. After freeing the prisoners, another group of Jiralhanae came out of the door at the end of the prison.
From the exit of the Prison room, the landing pad was next. A Scarab was stationed there, as well as many weapon crates. The pad had room to hold several Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees. It also might have served as an execution area, as several UNSC Marine Corps|Marine prisoners were going to be killed there. After defeating the Jiralhanae in the pad, the Arbiter made an uneasy alliance with Avery Junior Johnson|Sergeant Avery Johnson who had gained control of the Scarab, in order to stop Tartarus from activating the installation.
Trivia The thirteenth Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminal in ''Halo 2: Anniversary'' can be found in the prison.
Gallery
File:HTMCC-H2 Bastion of the Brutes Bridge.jpg|The outdoor bridge overlooking the control room in ''Halo 2''. File:HTMCC-H2 Bastion of the Brutes Prison.jpg|The prison with Jiralhanae guards in ''Halo 2''. File:HTMCC-H2A Bastion of the Brutes Entrance.jpg|The ground floor entrance of the structure in ''Halo 2: Anniversary''. File:HTMCC-H2A SpecOps Sangheili and Mgalekgolo.jpg|A Sangheili and Mgalekgolo in the structure. File:HTMCC-H2A Bastion of the Brutes Bridge.jpg|The outdoor bridge overlooking the control room in ''Halo 2: Anniversary''. File:HTMCC-H2A Bastion of the Brutes Prison.jpg|The prison with Jiralhanae guards in ''Halo 2: Anniversary''. File:HTMCC-H2A Bastion of the Brutes Cavern.jpg|The indoor bridge in the cavern in ''Halo 2: Anniversary''. File:HTMCC-H2A Sangheili Councillor Breakout.jpg|A Sangheili Councilor breaking free another Councilor in ''Halo 2: Anniversary''. File:HTMCC-H2A Marines Execution.jpg|Jiralhanae about to execute UNSC prisoners at the landing pad before Sangheili forces intervene in ''Halo 2: Anniversary''.
List of appearances
''Halo 2''
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
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Bastion, also known as Shield World 0983, is a shield world built to resemble Earth that acted as the Librarian's secret laboratory.
History Driven by her own ''geas'' from the Precursors to fix the path and set right what the Forerunners did wrong, the Librarian located the specimens left behind by two deceased Precursors while in Path Kethona searching out the origins of the Flood. Returning home with the specimens, the Librarian kept her discovery out of her report to the Ecumene Council and enlisted the help of the crew of the ''Audacity'' to transform a small shield world in its construction phase into Bastion and make it what it needed to be to nurture this eventual new species. The Librarian had the starship ''Eden (spaceship)|Eden'' built to carry the Precursor seeds and blooms to a world outside of the Milky Way galaxy that is ideal for planting and growth and where they can't be reached by the Flood. There, in some distant future, life on the planet will emerge and grow sentient, following the complete genetic code of the Precursors and rebirthing the race. However, they will be utterly free of genetic memory and will be able to build a new civilization with a clean slate. Bastion became the Librarian's secret laboratory away from the Ecumene Council and their rules and regulations containing the Librarian's most dangerous research and experiments. This included studies and experimentation on ancient humanity, the Forerunners and the Precursors, ingenious observation and trials, studies with Living Time, working Composers, Cryptums and other endless mysteries.
In the final days of the Forerunner-Flood war, Keeper-of-Tools, Birth-to-Light, Dawn-over-Fields and Clearance-of-Old-Forests were sent to be the caretakers of Bastion, but the Flood's advancement through Forerunner space changed things and caused the Forerunners' arrival to be delayed. Knowing that their work on Bastion was too dangerous to fall into Flood hands, the four uploaded their essences into the Domain until the war was over and the way to Bastion could be achieved in secrecy and safety.
However, the firing of the Halo Array nearly destroyed the Domain, trapping and separating the four and possibly destroying the imprints of Birth, Dawn and Clearance.
On 2557#September|September 1, 2557, 343 Guilty Spark|Spark met with a personality imprint of the Librarian in Kilimanjaro Forerunner complex|a Forerunner complex beneath Mount Kilimanjaro. In the complex, 343 Guilty Spark suggested that after humanity is given the tools to achieve the Mantle of Responsibility, there will be "Bastion". He could tell that the Librarian did not believe that she would ever make it there or to anywhere else where she would find rest and peace at last. With Spark choosing to remain with his friends aboard the ''Ace of Spades'', the Librarian offered him a small etched box that she called coordinate key|a key with which he was to "''find what's missing. Fix the path. Right what my kind has turned wrong''".
Following Cortana's accessing of the Domain on Genesis, Keeper emerged from the Domain on the planet and left audio logs scattered across Genesis as he attempted to find his way to Bastion. Keeper determined that Bastion had been moved from its original location at some point even after slipspace had been destabilized by the deployment of the Halo Array, though Keeper believed such an act would require a nearly impossible act of Slipspace#Reconciliation|causal reconciliation. Bastion was important enough that Keeper was willing to lose corporeal existence and resort to existing within a durance and connecting to the Domain to reach it, but was unable to find it due to it being moved, and instead became trapped on Genesis. In 2558|late 2558, the Builder accessed the Domain while Cortana and the Warden Eternal were distracted, and managed to finally confirm Bastion still existed. Keeper subsequently surmised that Bastion's safety measure had been activated at some point in the past, leading to it being moved.
At the same time, Spark and Rion Forge managed to locate Bastion in the Orion complex after passing a test given by the Precept. Their arrival momentarily opened Bastion's shields and transmitted a signal that Keeper was able to lock onto and use to transport himself into a monitor body on Bastion which was taken care of by monitors made out of indirect imprints of Birth, Dawn and Clearance.
With the danger of the Guardian Custode|Guardians chasing him to Bastion, Keeper decided to send the shield world into a slipspace portal to an unknown location, but he first enlisted Rion and Spark's help to launch ''Eden'' to complete the Librarian's mission of ensuring the rebirth of the Precursors. Spark decided to remain behind on Bastion to act as its caretaker while Rion departs in the ''Ace of Spades''. Bastion made it through the portal without being followed and Spark initiated another jump to ensure that the shield world would be far from any Guardian's reach while he began going through the data left behind by the Librarian.
Trivia In a line of dialogue cut from ''Halo 5: Guardians'', Bastion is identified as "Shield world|Shield World 0983".https://files.catbox.moe/g4qgs6.mp3 This designation was later carried over in the novel ''Halo: Point of Light''.
List of appearances
''Halo 5: Guardians''
''Halo: Renegades''
''Halo: Point of Light''
Sources
Category:Shield worlds |
File:E2-BAG 1 7.png|300px|thumb|Marines of First Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment in Mombasa. A battalion is a UNSC Military Organization|military unit of the UNSC Army and UNSC Marine Corps|Marine Corps.
Composition A battalion consists of four company|companies, plus a group of personnel assigned as "Battalion Headquarters Section", for 800 men in total.''Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)'', p. 55 (2009 and 2011) Under the UNICOM UNSC rank structure|rank structure, a battalion is commanded by an O-5 Lieutenant Colonel, with an O-4 Major serving as a battalion's Executive Officer (XO).''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual'', PART 8: UNSC ORGANISATION, UNICOM Ranks (p. 142-143) The battalion will also have a "first sergeant", usually a Gunnery Sergeant, First Sergeant or above. Three battalions comprise a Regiment.
Within a regiment, the battalions are named numerically, beginning with First battalion and ending with Third battalion. The battalion's subordinate companies are named phonetically, "A" (Alpha) through "M" (Mike), skipping "J". First battalion's companies comprise A through D, Second battalion's companies E through H and Third Battalion companies I through M.
In the UNSC Army, Battalions allocate Fire Support Teams as part of the battalion's offensive/ defensive plans. Their loadout is usually tailored to their mission, terrain, and expected enemy composition. In defensive operations they provide overwatching support-by-fire, while on the offense they engage enemy vehicles and heavy infantry.
Known Battalions
2nd Shock Troops Battalion
7th Shock Troops Battalion
9th Shock Troops Battalion
10th Shock Troops Battalion
11th Shock Troops Battalion
15th Shock Troops Battalion
15th Combat Engineer BattalionHalo: Spartan Assault ''(Halo: Spartan Assault/Quotes|Quotes)''
19th Shock Troops Battalion
21st Space Assault Battalion
22nd Shock Troops Battalion
103rd Shock Troops Battalion
1st Battalion 12th Marines
3rd Battalion 12th Marines
4th Battalion 12th Marines
5th Battalion 12th Marines
3rd Battalion Reserves
3rd Battalion, 8th Armored Brigade
3rd Battalion 67th Marines''Halo: Warfleet An Illustrated Guide to the Spacecraft of Halo'' - Early revision of the ''Pillar of Autumn'' page (:File:WF EarlyAutumn Page.jpg|file link)
13th Battalion
79th Infantry Battalion
554th Battalion, 34th Infantry Brigade
717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion M-EDF 9/21/1Halo: Contact Harvest, ''page 111''
E2-BAG/1/7
List of appearances
''Halo 2''
''Halo 3: ODST''
''Halo: Reach''
''Halo: The Flood''
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
''Halo: Contact Harvest''
''Halo: Landfall''
*''Halo: Last One Standing''
''Halo: New Blood''
''Halo 5: Guardians''
*''Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition dossiers|Limited Edition dossiers''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual''
Sources
Category:UNSC organizational military units |
Battened Down The Hatches is an Achievement in ''Halo Wars'' that is unlocked when the player prevents all of the airlocks on Cleansing from being destroyed.
It is worth 5 Gamerscore.
Tips Play on Easy difficulty and activate the Sugar Cookies, Bountiful Harvest, Pain Train and Emperor Skulls.
Try to make as many turrets as possible and place Cyclops|Cyclops Units beside the airlocks.
Sources |
A Battery is a power supply used to power human and Covenant technology.
Human batteries
BA-53635/PLMD: Integrated as a non-replaceable battery in one version of the M6 Grindell/Galilean Nonlinear Rifle|Spartan Laser. It can be recharged by a PP-16979/AM-Sh. BA-55901/PLMD: This battery was used to power the Semi-Powered Infiltration armor. Series 6971 battery cell: This battery was used as a power supply of one version of the M6 Grindell/Galilean Nonlinear Rifle.
Covenant
Plasma battery
*Vantus-Pattern Eolipile
Sources
Category:Power generation |
UNSC UNSC Army UNSC Navy UNSC Air Force
|side2= Covenant
|commanders1=*Admiral|ADM Roland Freemont Colonel|COL Urban Holland Commander|CMDR Carter-A259
Captain (NAVCOM)|CAPT Francis Mallarde
|commanders2=*Supreme Commander Rho 'Barutamee Unidentified Sangheili Zealot|Zealot
|forces1=
Noble Team UH-144 Falcons Hundreds of M808C Scorpions Hundreds of M12 Chaingun Warthogs Epsilon Eridani Fleet
*
*
AMX-4
|forces2=
''Long Night of Solace''
Army
*s
*Type-26 Banshees
*At least 3 s
*s
*s
*Mgalekgolo
*Jiralhanae
*Sangheili
*Huragok
*Yanme'e
*Kig-Yar
**Skirmishers
*Unggoy
|casual1=Heavy casualties
|casual2=Heavy casualties Unidentified Sangheili Zealot|Zealot Three s Two s Spire One
}}
The Battle at Szurdok Ridge, also known as the Szurdok Ridge offensive, was a major engagement between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant during the Fall of Reach in 2552#August|August 2552.
Background
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On the night prior to the battle, SPARTAN program|Spartan Noble Team, split into two splinter groups, Recon Team Alpha and Recon Team Bravo|Bravo, conducted Mission to Szurdok Ridge|a reconnaissance mission at Szurdok Ridge to determine the Covenant force deployments in the area. They discovered a massive ground army amassing in the plain, with four s hovering overhead.
The UNSC responded with a massive ground and air based counterattack the following morning. The overall goal of the UNSC was to blitz the Covenant strike force before the rest of the Covenant fleet arrived, preventing any solid Covenant foothold on Reach. The main target for the UNSC counterattack was to take out the Deployment spires located along the valley ridge. Upon attacking, UNSC did not yet know what the main purpose of the spires.
The battle File:NobleSix BansheeStun.jpg|thumb|left|Noble Six disables a Banshee with EMP while Kat moves up. A massive UNSC strike force stormed the Utkozet plains towards the Covenant-occupied site, attempting to reclaim the land and eliminate all Covenant presence from Reach. The entire assault force was mechanized, as the lack of available cover on the plains prohibited an infantry assault. The UNSC thus resolved to close the distance with the Covenant and engage in an armored battle at close quarters. An advance wave of M12 Chaingun Warthog|Warthogs, backed up by M808 Scorpion|Scorpion tanks, as well as M274R Mongoose|Mongooses, formed the ground component of the attack. Air support was provided by a mixture of UH-144 Falcon|Falcons and D77-TC Pelican|Pelicans. SPARTAN-B312|Six and Catherine-B320 led the ground attack, while Jorge-052 and Carter-A259 coordinated air support.
As the UNSC force closed on the Covenant landing zone, the Covenant detected the incoming attack and opened fire, hammering the advancing UNSC force with long range plasma mortar fire, supplemented by Type-26 Banshees, which performed strafing runs. Although the Covenant bombardment inflicted casualties, the UNSC was undeterred and continued the advance. During the charge, Kat detonated the Unidentified UNSC explosive|charge set on the stealth pylon by Jun-A266. Covenant heavy units, including three s, moved to counterattack the UNSC force. A small group of Warthogs, including Noble Six and Kat, and supported by Falcons, split off from the main assault wave onto a ridge overlooking the main battleground; however, a Wraith mortar shot destroyed a bridge over a large ravine that the group needed to cross to gain access to the ridgeline. Kat successfully managed to jump the gap, but the following Warthog was not so lucky, falling into the ravine below, and the Spartan's Warthog was destroyed by the crash. All of the preceding Warthogs were either destroyed by the destruction of the bridge, or by two s, which also forced the Falcons to withdraw.
File:Reach TotS Tyrant Overlook.jpg|thumb|A ''Tyrant'' anti-aircraft gun overlooking the field of battle.
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The two Spartans took out the two nearby Covenant Shade emplacements, and cleared the way for a Pelican to deliver a M12R Rocket Warthog|Rocket Warthog. Covenant heavy anti-aircraft artillery, meanwhile, was preventing the UNSC from bringing heavy air support into play. A Covenant with a commanding view of the battlefield was inflicting casualties on the UNSC's airpower, so the two Spartans were assigned to destroy it. The two succeeded, clearing the skies for three GA-TL1 Longsword|Longswords that made a bombing run on the main Covenant force, destroying the three Scarabs serving as the linchpin of the Covenant defense. The strike punched a hole in the Covenant's lines, allowing UNSC Scorpions and Warthogs on the plains to advance upon the rest of the Covenant force. The s and also moved in on the battlefield, supporting ground units with their M910 point defense network|point defense guns. A Pelican placed a deployable bridge to replace a destroyed one near the AA gun, allowing Six and Kat to progress further towards the Covenant lines. File:HR BXRBridgeAssault.jpg|left|thumb|UNSC forces attacking a BXR Mining facility.
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Six and Kat joined a group of Troopers assaulting a Covenant outpost located in a BXR Industries|BXR Mining Szurdok Ridge BXR facility|facility. Here, they were forced to abandon their warthog, and press through the facility on foot. They cleared the outpost and killed the Sangheili Zealot|Zealot in command of it. Upon passing through the facility, the two Spartans advanced further, destroying a second AA gun. As a result, the UNSC gained air superiority over the battlefield and let the frigates advance closer to the Spire One|first Spire. After an LZ was cleared, a Pelican dropped off a squad to secure the area and Kat began to set up a forward observation post. ONI required up-close recon on the spires, and it was necessary to fly Noble Six the rest of the way. Jorge therefore picked up Six in a Falcon to fly him to the Spire through a Covenant-fortified canyon. The main UNSC ground force continued their advance, and Six supported them by using the Falcon's M460 automatic grenade launcher|grenade launcher turret. The Falcon passed through the electromagnetic shields emitted by the Spire structure to drop off Jorge and Noble Six, but the shield disabled the Falcon, causing it to crash, and killing the crew; however, Jorge and Noble Six were able to make it out in one piece. The pair continued fighting their way into the structure, with Six managing to deactivate the structure's shielding system. Cleared of defenses, the UNSC called in a MAC strike executed by the ''Grafton'' to destroy the Spire.
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ONI determined that the spires served as teleportation terminals, though what they were linked to was yet unrealized. With Nobles Five and Six evacuated by Carter's Falcon, ''Grafton'' moved in and destroyed the Spire with its Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC. The disruption of the cloaking field revealed a new danger: a , the ''Long Night of Solace'', which had been holding position about a kilometer above the battlefield. The supercarrier dropped its active camouflage and opened fire, instantly destroying the ''Grafton'' with its ventral energy projector. Unable to compete with the sheer firepower of the Covenant warship, the UNSC retreated. The supercarrier then withdrew into Covenant-held space in orbit above Reach.
Aftermath With the appearance of the supercarrier, the UNSC forces disengaged and fell back. The UNSC were unable to destroy the carrier as all their nuclear weapons were either destroyed or unavailable. Covenant forces deployed from the supercarrier continued to harry UNSC forces on Reach until the launch of Operation: UPPER CUT, which, utilizing a makeshift Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine#Atypical uses|slipspace bomb, succeeded in destroying the ship at the cost of the and its Savannah Actual|crew, Jorge-052|one SPARTAN-II, and a squad of FSS-1000 Sabre|Sabre pilots.
Gallery
File:HaloReach - Frigates.png|UNSC frigates attack the Covenant. File:HReach - Charge Det.png|Kat detonating the charge in the stealth pylon. File:Reach 5016777 Full.jpg|UNSC armored forces engage Covenant Deutoros-pattern Scarab|Scarabs in the valley. File:HR WarthogAttacksTyrant.jpg|NOBLE Team attacking Covenant troops at a Tyrant. File:HR-TotS-Tyrant-03.jpg|The first Tyrant AA is destroyed. File:Reach Grafton's Advance.jpg|The advances after the destruction of the AA cannon. File:Reach_5016743_Full.jpg|A Longsword supporting ground troops. File:Reach Bombing Run.jpg|The Scarabs are bombed by Longswords. File:Pelican carrying bridge.jpg|A Pelican deploying a bridge so Six and Kat can proceed. File:Frigates 1.jpg|The and the ''Grafton'' holding position above Szurdok Ridge. File:Reach 5016770 Full.jpg|The ''Grafton'' and ''Saratoga'' participate in the battle. File:Tipofthespear2.JPG|UNSC infantry fighting a Sangheili Ultra. File:Spire afar.jpg|The objective of the assault: the Covenant Spires. File:HR SpireAssault2.jpg|NOBLE Five and Six fighting at Spire One. File:Spire_MAC%27d.jpg|The ''Grafton'' destroys Spire One. File:ToTS Ending.jpg|The ''Long Night of Solace'' de-cloaked above the ridge. File:Grafton Destroyed.jpg|The ''Grafton'' is destroyed by the Covenant supercarrier, forcing the UNSC to retreat.
List of appearances
''Halo: Reach''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual''
Sources |
|place="The Refuge (Requiem location)|The Refuge", Requiem, Epoloch system
|result=*UNSC victory
*Promethean and Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant attack repelled
*''Panom's Canticle'' destroyed
*Translocation grid|Portal device destroyed preventing Covenant use of portals in "the Refuge" area
|side1=* United Earth Government|UEG
* United Nations Space Command|UNSC
|side2=* Jul 'Mdama's Covenant Prometheans
|commanders1=*Spartan Jared Miller
|commanders2=*Shipmaster Ryn 'Alun
|forces1=*Expeditionary Strike Group 1
*Spartan Operations
**SPARTAN-IV Program|SPARTAN-IVs
***Fireteam Crimson
***Fireteam Shadow
****Horatio Fry
****Nina Kovan
****Bonita Stone
*UNSC Marines
**Warbird Company
***Private|PVT Aasif Olsen
***PVT Tucker Corleone
***PVT Gordon Smith
*''Infinity'' Science
|forces2=*Numerous Promethean Crawlers Several Promethean Watchers Several Promethean Knights Numerous Sangheili
*The Silent Blade Numerous Kig-Yar Numerous Unggoy
4 Mgalekgolo Several Ru'swum-pattern Phantom|Phantoms
1
*''Panom's Canticle''
|casual1=*Light
|casual2=*Almost total
*''Panom's Canticle''
}}
During the Requiem Campaign, a battle between the UNSC and Jul 'Mdama's Covenant and its Promethean allies at the location known as "the Refuge (Requiem location)|the Refuge."
Prelude Following some power fluctuations related to the slipspace teleportation grid to "the Gate," the ''Infinity'' Science Team there fled while Spartan-IV|Spartan Jared Miller, filling in for the busy Sarah Palmer, dispatched Fireteam Crimson to investigate. As Crimson reactivated science equipment so that the translocation system could be studied, they had to fight off a massive Promethean attack on "the Gate," eventually stopping their ability to translocate into the area by activating a piece of equipment held at "the Gate." After the Promethean attack was repelled, Doctor Leslie Boyd at "the Refuge (Requiem location)|the Refuge" opened a portal for Crimson using the data that had been gathered thanks to Crimson's efforts.''Spartan Ops'', Memento Mori/Spartan Miller|S105 Spartan Miller
Battle
Shortly after Fireteam Crimson arrived at "the Refuge (Requiem location)|the Refuge," Promethean Crawlers, Promethean Knight|Knights and Promethean Watcher|Watchers began translocating in and attacking. With Sarah Palmer still out of contact, Spartan-IV|Spartan Jared Miller once again took charge of the situation. To Miller's relief, Doctor Leslie Boyd revealed that he had managed to escape into "the Refuge's" safe room when the attack started and so was alright. With three other scientists at the mercy of the Prometheans, Crimson fought to protect them from attack.
As Crimson continued to fight off the Prometheans, Boyd reported that Doctor Ruiz had identified the device that allowed portals to open and was going to shut it down but was interrupted by the attack beginning. Boyd was able to direct Crimson to the device which they accessed, but it failed to stop the Prometheans from translocating in. With Boyd unsure of how Ruiz planned to deactivate it, Miller ordered it destroyed instead. Despite heavy Promethean resistance, Crimson succeeded in destroying the device and shutting down all portals in the area. With the Prometheans unable to translocate in anymore, Crimson cleared out the stragglers and secured "the Refuge." Pleased, Miller dispatched reinforcements ordered Crimson to remain on station until they were sure everything was secure.''Spartan Ops'', Memento Mori/Nothing Can Go Wrong|S105 Nothing Can Go Wrong
As UNSC Marines from Warbird Company arrived, Jul 'Mdama's Covenant launched a retaliatory attack, angry at the loss of their ability to use portals in the area. As the attack began, Robert Dalton warned that the Covenant were sending in a , ''Panom's Canticle'', along with the ground forces and Ru'swum-pattern Phantom|Phantoms. Due to the cruiser, Dalton couldn't do much for backup against the invading force. Fighting off the Covenant, Crimson discovered the survivors from Warbird trapped behind a Covenant energy shield which boxed the Marines in.
With Palmer still out of contact, Miller contacted Fireteam Shadow, going over the head of their handler Spartan Carmichael and deployed them to Operation: VERTICAL UMBRAGE|board the cruiser and destroy it by overloading the cruiser's power core. Horatio Fry|Shadow Leader agreed and told Miller to give then a few minutes to get over to the coordinates. Crimson managed to kill all of the Covenant in the area while Roland hacked the shield trapping Warbird, allowing Crimson to bring it down with gunfire. Roland then warned Crimson and the Marines about the Covenant special ops team known as the Silent Blade operating in the area. Despite the danger from the Silent Blade, Crimson and the Marines managed to wipe out the team while Shadow Leader informed Miller that they were ten minutes away from attacking the cruiser.
After the Silent Blade was defeated, Doctor Boyd contacted the ''Infinity'' and informed Miller that he was stuck in the safe room because the door wouldn't open. Miller dispatched Crimson to open the door for Boyd, but moments later Covenant reinforcements began arriving. As Crimson fought off the Covenant, Shadow Leader contacted Miller to explain that they were experiencing a lot of resistance aboard the cruiser and needed more time before they could destroy it. Crimson and the Marines of Warbird fought off wave after wave of Covenant deployed from Phantoms and heavy orbital insertion pods, including two pairs of Mgalekgolo|Hunters. Finally, as Crimson finished off the Covenant forces in "the Refuge," Fireteam Shadow succeeded in overloading the cruiser's power core, destroying the ship.
Aftermath With the attack repelled, Miller was pleased to learn that Fireteam Shadow was able to get off the cruiser in time to avoid being killed. As Miller congratulated the Spartans, Roland brought word that Magma Base in "the Cauldron" was Assault on Magma Base|under attack and needed backup. As Crimson was closest, Miller redeployed them to help at "the Cauldron."
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
*''Spartan Ops''
''Vertical Umbrage''
Notes
Sources
Category:UNSC victories |
''Battle Born: A Halo Young Adult Novel Series'' is a series of novels written by Cassandra Rose Clarke and published by Scholastic. The series follows a group of adolescents surviving the Battle of Meridian alongside Spartan Owen-B096.
The series currently consists of two novels, with a third novel planned but cancelled by the publisher.
Novels
{| class"width:100%; border:1px solid #999999; background: #FFFF;"
! style="width:100px;" | Title
! style="width:50px;" | Cover
! style="width:100px;" | Author
! style="width:100px;" | Audio book narrators
! style="width:100px;" | Publication
! Summary
| | ''Halo: Battle Born''
| File:Halo Battle Born cover.jpg|50px
| Cassandra Rose Clarke
| Therese Plummer
| 2019
| Sees a group of four teens and a Spartan supersoldier surviving during the Battle of Meridian.
| | ''Halo: Meridian Divide''
| File:Halo Meridian Divide cover.jpg|50px
| Cassandra Rose Clarke
| Therese Plummer
| 2019
| Sequel to ''Halo: Battle Born'', follows Saskia, Dorian, Evie, and Victor in their return to Meridian and monitor the Covenant's efforts to retrieve an ancient Forerunner artifact.
| |}
Sources
Category:Novels Category:Projects |
Battle Canyon is a multiplayer map included in ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary'' and the Anniversary Map Pack for ''Halo Reach''. It is a remake of ''Halo: Combat Evolveds ''Battle Creek'' and ''Halo 2s ''Beaver Creek''.
Universe and lore The map is set on a Halo Array|Halo ring, within a rocky canyon housing two Forerunner telemetry spire structures which serve as the bases. The spires are key components of the ring's Teleportation grid|translocation grid. The rocky warrens of this part of Halo provide the ideal environment for an array of impressive telemetry clusters. These spires' synchronization conduits ensure that the ring's translocation grid is always fully operational, part of a remarkably powerful system which allows near-instant transportation across the full ten thousand kilometers that span the installation. ()
Overview
File:HMCC_HR_Battle_Canyon_Map.png|Battle Canyon Map. File:HA - Battle Canyon Overview.jpeg|An overhead view of the map.
Callouts The following are locations on the map that are so named on the player's heads-up display during gameplay:
East Terrain Blue Roof Blue Base Blue Teleporter South Perch South Cave North Cave North Perch West Terrain Red Roof Red Base Red Teleporter Creek Rock Arch
Variants File:Beaver creek.jpg|thumb|200px|Forge remake of Beaver Creek.
A forge variant with Beaver Creek|similar title to the ''Halo 2'' version is also available for those who prefer the classic multiplayer map.
Trivia The celestial object seen in the sky is actually Reach's moon, Csodaszarvas. This is likely due to asset reuse of existing ''Halo: Reach'' textures. Above the Blue Base's teleport, there is a GRD dolls Easter egg|GRD doll. It cannot be picked up in Forge, but explosives and projectiles will dislodge it. A Original map screenshot Easter egg|screenshot of ''Beaver Creek'' can be found on the bottom of the structure protruding from the top of Red Base (labelled "Red Roof"), at the end of the long red light.
Gallery
File:HR_BattleCanyon_Concept.jpg|Concept art of the map. File:HR BattleCanyon Base Concept.jpg|Concept art of bases on the map. File:Beaver creek 02.jpg File:HA - Beavercreek.jpg
Sources
Category:Halo: Reach multiplayer maps |
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''Battle Creek'' is a multiplayer map in ''Halo: Combat Evolved''. It is an outdoors map set in a tiny canyon featuring two symmetrical bases that are separated by a small creek. Being one of the smallest multiplayer maps in the game, Battle Creek is well suited for small, usually team-based, games between two and eight players.
''Battle Creek'' was remade as ''Beaver Creek'' for ''Halo 2'' and ''Battle Canyon'' in ''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''.
Universe and lore Similar canyons on other Halo Array|Halo installations serve their functions as rocky canyons housing two Forerunner telemetry spire structures which serve as the bases. The spires are key components of their ring's translocation grid. The rocky warrens of these parts of Halo installations provide the ideal environment for an array of impressive telemetry clusters. These spires' synchronization conduits ensure that the ring's translocation grid is always fully operational, part of a remarkably powerful system, which allows near-instant transportation across the full ten thousand kilometers that span the installation.
While not confirmed as such, it is likely that Battle Creek serves a similar purpose for Installation 04, as these other almost identical canyons on other installations.
Overview
Battle Creek's basic layout is very simplistic; it consists of two identical bases separated by a small creek. Outside, there are plenty of rock formations that can be used for cover, an arch spanning the river, and two raised outcroppings on the canyon walls. In addition, there are two-way teleporters located behind each base; each transports players to the teleporter at the opposite base.
The interior of the bases consists of a main room which houses the flag in CTF, a pair of hallways that lead outdoors, and a series of tunnels connected to the hallways by a ramp that leads to the other entrances. The entryways consist of the main door in the front, a side door leading to the tunnels underneath, stairs leading to a tunnel located in front of each base, and a hole in the roof above the flag room.
File:Battlecreek Map1.jpg|An annotated overview of the map. File:Battlecreek Map2.jpg|An interior view of the bases.
To access the roofs of either base, a player can jump onto small ledges located at the right of each base, a boulder at red base, and a wedge of concrete debris at blue base. Once there, a player will have a commanding view of the map, but is exposed to enemy fire. Camping in the little M41 SPNKR|rocket launcher alcove is not a good idea on this map because of the multitude of Type-33 Needler|needlers and M6D magnum|pistols. Grab the rocket launcher then jump down. If you pick up the Active Camouflage by the river, go to the other side, crouch, and walk in. You will be in a small cave under the water. Players will barely be able to see you, so you can throw grenades and give them a nasty surprise. When it wears off, they can see you only a little bit, but they have to be looking straight down into the cave. If you are being chased, run into one of the base's entrances and lob a grenade at the walls. The enemy will lose their shields and give you a chance to finish them off or run away. On the farther back sides of the bases high up, there are little holes (one on each side) that go to the main flag room. If shields are not in the game, simply throwing grenades through these holes can lead to several kills, especially if friendly fire is off and a teammate is getting the flag in Capture the Flag|CTF. In CTF, if one manages to take possession of the enemy flag, that player can then run to the back of the enemy base and use the teleporter to quickly access the friendly base. Do not walk through a teleporter and then back up. You will not go through the teleporter you backed into and possibly be Telefragging|telefragged if someone else enters the teleporter and you do not move in time before your screen turns completely white. However, if someone else is trying to enter the teleporter, you can maneuver into the corner of the teleporter, and by jumping, the enemy will go through. At this time, you can take them by surprise, throw a grenade or melee them. During CTF, with teams of four or more, beware of opponents throwing grenades through the small windows at the sides of the base. They can make short work of defenders, and give their teammates an easier chance of stealing the flag. Try to stay away from the natural bridge formation in the middle because you are an easy target from all angles once you're up there.
Trivia In the game data, this map is called "Beaver Creek" indicating that this was the map's name during development. The remake in ''Halo 2'' later used this name.
Gallery
File:Battle_creek_loading_screen.png|Loading screen in the Master Chief Collection. File:HCE BattleCreek Skybox.png|Battle Creek's skybox. File:HCE BattleCreek Skybox 2.png|Battle Creek's skybox. File:HCE_BattleCreek_RedBase.png|Red base. File:HCE_BattleCreek_BlueBase.png|Blue base. File:HCE_BattleCreek_Sniper.png|The sniper spawn overlooking red base. File:HCE-BattleCreekBattle.jpg|A Slayer match in Battle Creek.
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|place=Alluvion, Bhaakto system
|result=Covenant victory Alluvion Glassing|glassed
|side1=United Nations Space Command
|side2=Covenant
|commanders1=Unknown
|commanders2=Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee
|forces1=*UNSC Army UNSC Marine Corps
|forces2=*Fleet of Particular Justice At least one At least four s Sangheili Kig-Yar Mgalekgolo Unggoy
|casual1=Heavy
|casual2=Unknown
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The Battle for Alluvion was an engagement of the Human-Covenant War between the United Nations Space Command and Covenant on the planet Alluvion in the Bhaakto system in 2542 that resulted in the glassing of the planet.
Battle Alluvion was first discovered by the Covenant in 2541 by scouting patrols. One year later, in 2542, the colony was attacked by the Covenant. The United Nations Space Command managed to defend the planet with a substantial military force, keeping the Covenant at bay for weeks. However, a Covenant support fleet arrived and severed Alluvion's critical support lines, and the colony soon fell to the Covenant shortly after. The Covenant glassed major population centers and spaceports on the planet, leaving few survivors in its wake. Alluvion would continue to be glassed into 2543.
The Covenant were in some part after the Forerunner Alluvion Research Center|complex under the Sundark Sea.
Spartan Gabriel Thorne's Thorne family|parents were UNSC Army officers stationed on the planet at the time. They, along with Alluvion's human population, died when the Covenant glassed the planet. Edward Buck participated in the battle.
Aftermath By 2544, no human presence remained on Alluvion.
Gallery
File:Alluvion glassed.jpg|The Covenant glassing the planet. File:Gabriel Thorne's parents.jpg|Gabriel Thorne's parents fighting in the battle.
List of appearances
''Halo: Escalation''
''Halo: The Rubicon Protocol''
Sources
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D77-TC Pelicans AV-14 Hornets M808B Scorpions SP42 Cobras M-145D Rhinos M9 Wolverines M12 Warthogs UNSC Marine Corps
*Hellbringers
*Orbital Drop Shock Troopers Arcadian Patrol Numerous captured Covenant vehicles
|forces2= *Fleet of Glorious Interdiction
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**''CCS-U624''
**''CCS-U321''
*5 sHalo: Escalation, ''Issue #5''
**''Radiant Perception''
s s Type-26 Banshees
1 Type-29 Scarab s s s
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*Mgalekgolo
*Sangheili
*Huragok
*Kig-Yar
*Unggoy
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The Battle for ArcadiaHalo Channel, ''Halo 101 - Battle for Arcadia'' was a military engagement fought between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant on the human colony world of Arcadia during the Human-Covenant War in 2531.Halo Wars, campaign level, ''Arcadia City''
Prelude Shortly after one of the last battles of the Harvest campaign, Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee and his ships quickly left the system after learning the location of Arcadia from a Forerunner Relic (location)|artifact buried under Harvest's north pole. Professor Ellen Anders briefly examined the artifact and learned that it pointed in the direction of another planetary system. At her suggestion, and with permission from Preston Cole|Admiral Preston Cole, the followed the Covenant fleet in hot pursuit.Halo Wars ''cutscene ''
The battle
Upon reaching Arcadia, two Covenant s exited slipspace. The arrived soon after. The , , , and engaged the two battlecruisers immediately, catching one of them, designated ''CCS-U321'', with its shields down and destroying it. However, the UNSC force suffered for its part in the battle. The ''Texas'' and ''Belfast'' were both destroyed, the ''Armstrong'' was venting atmosphere due to damage, and the ''Autumn'' suffered severe damage. After disabling the remaining UNSC vessels, the second battlecruiser, designated ''CCS-U624'', moved towards Arcadia. Meanwhile, the ''Autumn'' and the ''Armstrong'' were assisted by the ''Spirit of Fire''.
At some point in the battle, Preston Cole|Admiral Preston Cole and his fleet arrived at Arcadia and engaged the Covenant forces.Halo: Reach, ''Dr. Halsey's personal journal'' Before the ''Spirit of Fire'' left the Procyon system, it dropped a log buoy which Terrence Hood, captain of the , was assigned to recover. However, as the colony was already deemed lost by UNSC command, ''Roman Blue'' was also ordered to withhold from engaging the enemy in combat. Hood, enraged by the massive losses the Covenant had already inflicted on humanity, ordered his crew to attack the ''Radiant Perception''. Overwhelmed, Hood was forced to retreat. Consequently, the ''Spirit of Fire's'' log buoy was not recovered and Hood would view himself as responsible for the ''Spirit of Fire's'' disappearance.Halo: Escalation, ''Issue #5'' The log buoy was recovered by the ''Radiant Perception'', but the ship was shot down on Laconia during the battle.Halo: Smoke and Shadow The space engagement ended with the destruction of most Covenant vessels, with the remaining ones fleeing from the system.
Shortly after the first space engagement, the second Covenant vessel, ''CCS-U624'', was engaged in "surface activity" on Arcadia, attacking civilian targets and Pirth City, Arcadia's capital. The Arcadian Patrol, the primary police force of Arcadia, was deployed to counter the Covenant invaders but, being a civilian force, was easily overwhelmed. As the Arcadian Patrol was evacuating civilians in Pirth City's spaceports, Covenant forces began to move in on them in an attempt to deny the civilians' escape. Red Team|SPARTAN Red Team and forces under the command of Sergeant John Forge assisted in rescuing civilians, evacuating hundreds to several Banta-class colony ship|civilian transports abandoning the city. The Covenant, unfortunately, were successful in destroying several of these transports, resulting in massive civilian casualties.
However, despite several repeated assaults, the UNSC was successful in saving at least a portion of the population before being forced to retreat to the city's outskirts, where they were reinforced by Team Omega|SPARTAN Team Omega. Forge's team fortified the outskirts and linked up with several groups of stragglers. These forces, led by the Spartans, teamed up to destroy a Covenant field base, from which the UNSC survivors suffered several assault attempts by the Covenant. After a majority of the Covenant forces were eliminated around Pirth City, Team Omega departed and Forge was ordered to return to the bridge of the ''Spirit of Fire''.Halo Wars, campaign level, ''Arcadia Outskirts'' During the Covenant's assault on Pirth City, all other major population centers on the planet were discovered and destroyed by Covenant forces.
Following this, the UNSC forces established a base of operations at a Arcadia ONI facility|deserted ONI base in a jungle on the far side of Arcadia. Anders aboard the ''Spirit of Fire'' discovered a massive dome-shaped Covenant Energy shielding#Covenant energy shielding|energy barrier on the planet. Determined to find out what the Covenant were after, the ''Spirit of Fire'' attacked the shield dome with M145D Rhinos supplied by the ''Pillar of Autumn''. The UNSC forces became constantly harassed by Covenant air patrols, but were successful in repelling them. After the shield dome was partially disabled by the Rhinos, the ''Spirit of Fire'' barraged the area with several MAC round blasts to take out the shield's generators.Halo Wars, Dome of Light
Under the shield dome, the UNSC forces found a series of Arcadia Forerunner ruins|Forerunner ruins guarded by an incomplete Type-29 Scarab|Type-29 "Super" Scarab the Covenant were upgrading with technology from the ruins.Halo Waypoint, ''Battle for Arcadia'' The ''Spirit of Fire's'' forces then advanced on the Scarab's construction site, taking cover behind the Forerunner ruins as the Scarab fired on them. However, the Scarab was only partially operational and only its "head" was active. After a considerable effort on the part of the UNSC, they destroyed the Scarab and proceeded to investigate the site.Halo Wars, campaign level, ''Scarab (level)|Scarab''
Under orders from the Prophet of Regret, Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee traveled back to Arcadia and captured Ellen Anders|Professor Ellen Anders while she was investigating the ruins of the Scarab the next day.Halo Wars Timeline Events After a brief fight with Forge, 'Moramee captured Anders and fled the system.Halo Wars, campaign level, ''Anders' Signal''
Aftermath Despite the victory, the UNSC suffered a major setback as it investigated the Forerunner ruins on Arcadia. With Anders captured by Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee, he delivered her to the Prophet of Regret with the intention of using her to unlock the Sojourner-class dreadnought|Forerunner dreadnoughts held at the Apex Site. The ''Spirit of Fire'' was able to follow his ship to Trove, beginning the Battle of Trove.
After the battle, out of guilt, Terrence Hood|Captain Hood provided financial support for both Cutter's legitimate family (his apparent widow Mary Cutter|Mary and Cutter's daughter|their daughter) and his secret one, supporting Daniel Clayton's mother for years.
The UNSC regained control of the planet, but now that its location was known to the Covenant, most of its inhabitants abandoned the colony. A small number of colonists remained, establishing the settlement of Abaskun on the Mu continent, which supplied the UNSC with much-needed foodstuffs until the Covenant Fall of Arcadia|returned to the colony in 2549, glassing it.Halo Wars Timeline Events, ''2549''
Gallery
File:HW-Arcadia-Procyon.png|The ''Spirit of Fire'' arrives at Arcadia. File:HW CargoDefense.png|Red Team defends a civilian transport from Covenant forces. File:HW ArcadiaSubwayExit.png|Covenant forces attacking civilians at the subway exit. File:Cargo ship.png|Civilians approaching Cargo 3. File:HW_ArcadiaOutskirtsRetreat.jpg|UNSC forces retreat from the city. File:SCN05 MegaTurret-screenshot.jpg|UNSC launches an assault on a Covenant Antlion. File:Dome o' Light.png|The crew of the ''Spirit'' review the plan of disabling the Covenant shield dome. File:Super Scarab.png|The Super Scarab at the Forerunner ruins. File:Anderssignal2.png|Forge and Anders at the ruin site after the destruction of the Scarab. File:Arcadia Escalation.png|The ''Spirit of Fire'' joining the battle at Arcadia. File:Roman Blue attacking a CPV destroyer.jpg|The ''UNSC Roman Blue'' attacks a ''CPV''-class heavy destroyer. File:HE Hood ordering retreat.jpg|Captain Terrence Hood orders a retreat after sparring with a ''CPV''-class heavy destroyer above Arcadia.
List of appearances
''Halo Wars''
''Halo: Reach''
*''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''
''Halo: Escalation''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Fractures''
*''Into the Fire''
''Halo: Smoke and Shadow''
''Halo Wars 2''
Sources
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Arcadia Category:UNSC victories|Arcadia Category:Covenant victories|Arcadia |
over Cleveland; a Phantom reinforcing the Covenant in Sector Six; John-117 and Thel 'Vadam watch as ''Indulgence of Conviction'' crash lands into Voi.
|prev = *Fall of Reach Operation: FIRST STRIKE Battle of October 10
|conc = *Battle of Installation 05
*Fall of High Charity Onyx Conflict Battle of Mare Erythraeum Skirmish on Mona Lisa Battle of Luna
|next = *Battle of Installation 00
Operation: SUNSPEAR
|conflict = *Human-Covenant War
*Siege of the Inner Colonies Great Schism
|date = 2552#October|October 20, 2552 c. 2552#December|December 3, 2552
|place = Earth, Sol system
|result = UEG/Fleet of Retribution victory Covenant invasion successfully repelled; most surviving forces flee to Installation 00
Earth brutally orbital bombardment|bombarded but full glassing averted; parts of Africa are, including in the excavation of the Portal at Voi Catastrophic reduction of Earth's population and majority of cities destroyed Local Flood infestation contained
|side1 = * Unified Earth Government|UEG
* United Nations Space Command|UNSC
** UNSC Army
** UNSC Navy
**UNSC Marine Corps
**UNSC Air Force
* New Mombasa Police Department|NMPD
*Civilian militias
**Spartan 1.1 faction
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Covenant separatists
*Fleet of Retribution
|side2 = * Covenant
*Covenant military
**Covenant fleet
|side3 = *Flood
|commanders1 =
Secretary of Defense|SOD Paul Huphy Russel Fleet Admiral|FADM Terrence Hood Fleet Admiral|FADM Joseph Harper Major General|MAJ GEN Nicolas Strauss Admiral|ADM I. Zhou Admiral|ADM Say My Name Actual Colonel|COL James Ackerson
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Arbiter Thel 'Vadam Fleetmaster Rtas 'Vadum
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Pre-Mombasa:
Hierarchs|High Prophet of Regret Shipmaster Rhul 'Salmutee Post-Mombasa:
Hierarchs|High Prophet of Truth Minister of Inquisition Shipmaster Lepidus Kaidon Thav 'Sebarim
|commanders3 = Gravemind
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See Participants in the Battle for Earth|here for details on participating forces
300 orbital defense platform|ODPs UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet
*Virtually all the remaining fleets
**Battle Group Omicron
**Second Fleet
**Third Fleet
**Fifth Fleet
**Seventh Fleet
***Battle Group Victory
**Sixth Battle Group
**Sixteenth Fleet
**Sol Defense Group 3/A-5
**Epsilon Eridani Fleet remnants
***Battle Group Leviathan remnants Numerous military land and air ground forces Numerous civilian assets
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Fleet of Retribution
*1+ battle group Several ground forces
*Sangheili
|forces2 =
See Participants in the Battle for Earth|here for details on participating forces Fleet of Sacred Consecration
*15 ships Covenant fleet|Multiple Covenant fleets
*Truth's fleet|Truth's forces
**One Truth's fleet#Battle of Mombasa|excavation fleet
**Over 320 ships
***High Charity defense fleet remnants
*Fleet of Furious Redemption Numerous ground forces
*Jiralhanae
*Sangheili
*Mgalekgolo
*Kig-Yar
*Unggoy
*Yanme'e
*Huragok
|forces3 =*1 captured Several infection forms Several combat forms Several carrier forms Several pure forms
|casual1 = Extreme Majority of the UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet Moncton-class orbital weapon platform|2+ ODPs Majority of ground forces
*Unknown number among the Fleet of Retribution
|casual2 =Very heavy Massive terrestrial and exoatmospheric losses
*Majority of the Fleet of Sacred Consecration
|casual3 = Completely sterilized
|civilian1=Civilian losses in the billions
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The Battle for Earth, also referred to as the Earth Sustained Defense Campaign, was one of the largest, bloodiest and latest engagements fought between the Covenant and the forces of the Unified Earth Government (primarily those of the United Nations Space Command), at the end of the approximately twenty-seven year-long Human-Covenant War, which took place on and above the planet Earth from 2552#October|October 20 to at least 2552#December|December 3, 2552. It was one of the most important battles of the war, as the fate of humanity depended on the survival of its homeworld and seat of its UEG|government.
Though the invasion took place on a global scale, the most significant conflicts occurred in the East African Protectorate in the form of three battles fought within and between the cities of Mombasa and Voi, collectively referred to as the First Battle of Mombasa|first, Second Battle of Mombasa|second, and Battle of Voi|third battles of Mombasa. The conflict began when the Fleet of Sacred Consecration, under the command of the Prophet of Regret, arrived on October 20 with intentions of traveling through the Portal at Voi|portal that a luminary in its possession pointed to. This move was made without the consent of the other two Hierarchs and in ignorance regarding the status of this planet as humanity's homeworld. Faced with the full might of the UNSC Home Fleet, it was not long before Regret's Solemn Penance|flagship fled to Installation 05. Soon after this, the Prophet of Truth initiated his plans to Changing of the Guard|replace Sangheili with Jiralhanae and assume control over the entirety of the hierarchal triumvirate. The Jiralhanae occupation forces left behind by Regret assumed control of all remaining local Covenant forces on and over New Mombasa by secretly killing all abandoned Sangheili in the city to secure Truth's later arrival following the beginning of the Great Schism. Later on the next day, a large Truth's fleet|Jiralhanae support and excavation fleet sent by Truth was then dispatched to Mombasa and begin to Glassing|glass most of Republic of Kenya|Kenya, alongside the remnants of Regret's fleet while additional Covenant reinforcements continued to appear in the system and began a resurgent and larger assault on the planet.
At this point, the fight for Earth began in earnest. Smaller battles were waged all across the world, from the UEG capital of Sydney, Australia, to Cleveland, URNA, to Havana, Cuba, and to Mount Erebus, Antarctica and multiple other locations even when the Sangheili and now Jiralhanae-led Covenant forces turned on each other following the beginning of the Great Schism. By November 17 after very hard fighting, most of the Home Fleet had been obliterated by substantial Covenant naval forces loyal to the San'Shyuum|Prophets, including the Prophet of Truth, and the majority of cities were destroyed as well throughout the battle. After defenders and the orbital defense grid were overwhelmed, the Earth had been massively devastated by a large Covenant orbital bombardment|bombardment, resulting in catastrophic human casualties. It was on this date that the Prophet of Truth himself, aboard the Forerunner Dreadnought and with John-117|Spartan-117 in tow, arrived and headed straight for the Portal at Voi|Excession, by then fully excavated. Upon interfacing with the keyship, the portal was activated and a large contingent of the remaining Covenant fleet under the Prophet's command departed through the Portal at Voi|Portal with the intention of activating the Halo Array from Installation 00|the Ark.
Almost immediately after this, the Flood arrived aboard a Indulgence of Conviction|captured , which crashed down in the town of Voi. A battle group assigned to the Fleet of Retribution, a Covenant separatists|Covenant separatist fleet allied with the UNSC against Truth and his loyalists, was permitted to glass a large portion of Kenya to prevent the parasite's spread. With the threat from the Flood dealt with and the bulk of Covenant forces gone, several UNSC forces accompanied the Fleet of Retribution in pursuit of Truth. The remainder of UNSC forces remained behind to defend Earth from an expected full-scale Flood invasion and also began a major counteroffensive to eliminate all Covenant that remained.
Official accounts report that, faced with the potential of human extinction at the hands of an alien hegemony, a significant number of civilians joined the UNSC forces to repel the Covenant throughout the campaign on Earth with many becoming an instrumental part of the war effort.
Background The Human-Covenant War was a decades-long conflict wherein the Covenant hegemony was determined to exterminate all of humanity at the behest of its three Hierarchs, who falsely considered humans as representing the living embodiment, and thus discreditation, of their Covenant religion|religion's Forerunners|gods at the time of 2525|their discovery. Also a goal of the empire, from long before first contact with humanity, was the location and activation of the Halo rings.
In 2550, preparing for a possible battle at Earth, the UNSC reactivated the museum ship .
In the aftermath of the Fall of Reach, the UNSC began to pull the majority of its forces back to Earth, with most units assigned to defend Earth's six Space elevator|tether cities.
Formation of the Home Fleet From 2552#May|May 1419, 2552, UNSC forces in the Earth Defense Coordination Zone were placed at maximum readiness levels and all warships with MAC|magnetic accelerator cannons self-deployed or towed to rally points. Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station was established as flag headquarters. Following 2552#September 5|September 5, 2552, all remaining UNSC Navy|naval forces were consolidated into a single command grouping: the UNSC Home Fleet. Fleet Admiral Joseph Harper was appointed senior flag officer and given primary administrative and tasking authority over all assets in the Sol system under emergency directives authorized by UNSC High Command and approved by the UEG Security Council. Remaining expeditionary and defense fleets retained administrative control over their battle groups, though all type commands were dissolved.
File:EarthLuminary.png|thumb|left|150px|Erde-Tyrene, as represented by the luminary discovered on Meridian.
The Prophet of Truth discovered the location of Earth after the Fall of Reach, but withheld knowledge of this discovery from the rest of the Covenant leadership. To attack the human homeworld, he ordered an Truth's fleet|assault fleet to secretly assemble at ''Unyielding Hierophant'' station in the Tau Ceti system. The fleet would overwhelm Earth's defenses in a single decisive strike. The fleet was discovered by the UNSC Artificial intelligence|AI Cortana and a preemptive strike was led by Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and a SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II, strike team, which successfully destroyed ''Unyielding Hierophant'' and almost the entirety of the assembled fleet, some five hundred ships. Earth was granted a small reprieve.
The Prophet of Regret also independently learned of the location of Earth that was known as Erde-Tyrene as the location of a Forerunner artifact, Portal at Voi|the Portal leading to Installation 00|the Ark. This revelation came after long study by stewards of a Forerunner luminary taken from the moon, Meridian, in 2551. Not being privy to Truth's information, Regret set off to uncover the artifact without any knowledge that Erde-Tyrenne was the humans' homeworld. Regret unknowingly led his Fleet of Sacred Consecration|small fleet, a mere two CAS-class assault carrier|assault carriers and thirteen Ket-pattern battlecruiser|battlecruisers, straight into Earth's formidable defenses. Truth belatedly learned of Regret's expedition to Earth, and dispatched a large Jiralhanae-led support and excavation fleet to reinforce the remaining forces of the initial fleet. They arrived almost one day after Regret had fled.
Battle
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The High Prophet of Regret's Fleet of Sacred Consecration|fleet was detected near Jupiter's moon Io, as a series of Slipstream space|slipspace "whispers". Slipstream space probe|Probes were sent to investigate, but shortly afterwards the Covenant fleet exited slipspace near Earth, just outside the killzone of the planet's orbital defense platforms. UNSC forces went to Tactical Condition|TACCON Alpha 2. Fleet Admiral Harper ordered his battle group of the Fifth Fleet to attack, but quickly received new orders from Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood to fall back and defend the ODPs. Having expected an overwhelming enemy offensive in the style of the Fall of Reach|Battle of Reach, the relative weakness of the attack puzzled the defenders.
Orbital Defense
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File:H2A-pavel-belov-cairo-external.jpg|300px|thumb|left|The battle in space takes place despite Regret's fleet being outnumbered by the UNSC Home Fleet. The assault carriers converged on the battle cluster including ''Athens Station'', ''Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station'' and ''Malta Station''. The ODPs opened fire as the enemy entered range. Covenant troops R'sisho-pattern Tick|boarded the stations, intending to demolish them with a antimatter charge each. As each bomb was planted the Covenant withdrew. ''Athens'' and ''Malta'' were demolished in quick succession. Cortana, aboard ''Cairo'', deduced the nature of the threat and John-117 was dispatched to prevent the same fate from befalling ''Cairo''.
Cortana directed the SPARTAN-II to the bomb's location in ''Cairo''s fire control center. En route to the bomb, John-117 rescued Commander Miranda Keyes and allowed her to board . The frigate departed ''Cairo'' to join the fray.
Meanwhile, Harper's Fifth Fleet continued to engage the Covenant task force in Earth orbit, sustaining huge losses in the wake of the Covenant's superior firepower but still prevailing through sheer numbers against the unusually small Covenant force. However, even as their escorts were effectively routed by the UNSC, the two assault carriers pushed onward, bypassing much of the already battered human fleet even as they too came under fire.
The two assault carriers began to break through toward ''Cairo''. Cortana directed ''Cairo''s MAC against the ''Solemn Penance'', but the ship did not stop to engage and instead made directly for New Mombasa on the surface. Admiral Harper led the attack on the Day of Jubilation|second carrier and depleted its shields. Keyes volunteered to attack the carrier immediately, but Hood was unwilling to pit a single frigate against so large a target.
The solution to the second carrier came from an unexpected angle. John-117 and Cortana managed to defuse and capture the Covenant antimatter bomb aboard ''Cairo'', and the Spartan volunteered to go Extra-vehicular activity|EVA and personally plant the bomb on the last carrier. With Lord Hood's approval, John-117 leapt out of an airlock with the bomb using only the initial explosive decompression for impulse. GA-TL1 Longsword|Longsword interceptors opened a breach in the carrier's hull and allowed the Spartan to infiltrate and plant the bomb internally. The detonation destroyed the ship. John-117 escaped using the same means he had arrived and free fell to the UNSC ''In Amber Clad''.
Earthside
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File:H2A-daniil-kuksov-metropolis-scarab.png|300px|thumb|left|A Scarab attacks the city at the start of the invasion on New Mombasa. Regret's carrier came to arrive over New Mombasa in the East African Protectorate via slipspace and deployed troops into the city and the surrounding area in an attempt to clear and secure it. While the Mombasa Tether had been shut down, the city's population were trying to leave the city. While the UNSC, militias and armed citizens was fighting against the Covenant forces, UNSC high command wished to discover why the Covenant were landing only in Mombasa, and John-117 was ordered to capture Regret for interrogation. The Spartan deployed with marines and Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODST in a trio of D77-TC Pelican|Pelicans from the near the city. The dropships were shot down by a Covenant Protos-pattern Scarab|Scarab in Old Mombasa. John-117 and the survivors regrouped and pursued the walker to New Mombasa 105 East|NM 105E, and across the bridge to New Mombasa New Mombasa Sector B|Sector B. At the time, the Alpha-Five was tasked to Operation: WINDOW PANE|recover the Conduit that was brought by the Covenant on the city while another ODST Unidentified ODST squad|squad were ordered to retrieve information the Covenant were interested in. The Scarab was eventually trapped and destroyed by John-117 at the end of a canal. Covenant forces started to withdraw to the carrier for Slipstream space|slipspace departure to the Halo Array|Halo Installation 05.
In orbit the Home Fleet Operation: BUMRUSH|began deploying ODSTs to Mombasa in Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle|SOEIVs, intending to board the carrier and capture the Prophet of Regret. One Squad, Alpha-Nine, deploying from the and led by Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, was diverted by Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI to secure the city's Superintendent|infrastructure AI.
Regret's means of escape took the UNSC by surprise. The carrier initiated a slipspace jump while still over the city. By this time, Lord Hood originally attempted to intercept the Covenant carrier by dispatching two s at New Mombasa. The UNSC ''In Amber Clad'' quickly recovered John-117 and the light frigate along with , , were fast enough to follow the carrier into slipspace while only followed in the fleeing ship's slipstream space#Slipspace wake|wake. The slipspace rupture severely damaged the city and generated an Electromagnetic pulse|EMP. Many ODSTs had not yet landed when the carrier escaped and were caught in the EMP and blast. Drop pods were disabled in flight and plunged into uncontrolled freefall. Those who survived the blast were scattered across the city.
Around this time, Covenant forces also attacked Cairo, Egypt and Berkeley, URNA. At Berkeley, a Covenant starship, possibly a ''Ket''-pattern battlecruiser from the Fleet of Sacred Consecration, began deploying its Seraph fighters on the city.
Fall of Mombasa
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File:Portal odst.png|thumb|250px|After fully securing the East Africa, the Jiralhanae excavation fleet begin to uncover the Portal at New Mombasa. Immediately following the slipspace event, Jiralhanae forces loyal to the High Prophet of Truth, who had embedded said troops into his political rival Regret's fleet, enacted their leader's orders. The Jiralhanae violently displaced their Sangheili commanders left in the initial fleet both ground-side, and in orbit, and then seized the full control of Covenant forces at Mombasa in order to secure Truth's arrival on the Portal by his loyalists, the beginning of Truth's plan to place the Jiralhanae as the Covenant's primary warrior race. While ''High Charity'' and the rest of its High Charity defense fleet|fleet were following the ''Solemn Penance'' on their way to the newly discovered Halo Installation 05, the murder of Regret's Sangheili forces remained secret from the rest of the Covenant.
Surviving UNSC forces in the city, aided by the New Mombasa Police Department, continued to resist, but were eventually overwhelmed. The next day on October 21, a Truth's fleet|Jiralhanae-led support fleet sent by Truth arrived at the African continent, joining the remains of Regret's fleet as the combined fleet began glassing Mombasa and the surrounding area together, uncovering the Portal to the Installation 00|Ark. Captain Dare and her Alpha-Nine|ODST squad managed to secure the city's Superintendent|infrastructure AI and escape before the city fell to the enemy. These forces of the new fleet was both archaeological and military.halo3.com - About Halo, Characters, Humans () While a handful of ships of the second fleet engaged Earth's forces, the majority of the fleet was preoccupied for the excavation of the massive slipspace portal.
Covenant occupation
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File:HLC battle for earth.png|thumb|left|250px|UNSC and Covenant forces fight each other for supremacy of Earth. The battle spread all over the globe in the following days and weeks with more and more Covenant fleets of multitude of warships continuing to arrive and attacked targeting cities and areas globally after the full compromise of Earth, led by Jiralhanae and Sangheili commanders. At the same time as these events, other colonies and parts of the Sol system such as Battle of Luna|Luna and Battle of Mars|Mars came under assault by the Covenant.
While maintaining a significant presence in orbit, the Covenant ships deployed ground forces to multiple targets around the globe. However, due to many Covenant forces, notably those under the command of the Prophet of Truth and his Jiralhanae loyalists, that were concentrating their forces at Kenya for the excavation of the Portal at Voi, some of their forces were sometimes disorganized, hence less effectual. A Second Battle of New Mombasa between the UNSC and Jiralhanae-led Covenant ground forces takes place shortly after the Battle of Mombasa|first battle over seven days''Xbox.com'': Jake Courage (defunct, ) before the end of October. The SPARTAN-II program|Spartan Blue Team, consisting of Frederic-104, Linda-058, and William-043, were constantly engaged for the first two weeks. They repelled enemy ships in orbit in numerous zero-gee operations whilst on the surface they neutralized Covenant excavations, first on Ross Island in Antarctica, and then underwater off the Yucatan Peninsula.
File:HINF London Skyline.png|thumb|250px|London, one of many major cities to fall under Covenant occupation. Sydney, Australia was one of the cities invaded by the Covenant during the engagement due to its importance in UNSC's war effort. Though the city suffered heavy damage by Covenant bombardment, the UNSC's HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6 remained undamaged. Diego Garcia, following its effective attacks against the initial Covenant forces during the Battle of Mombasa, was attacked by a Covenant capital ship to destroy the base around November, but the base managed to survive the attack. Aranuka, a vast city-platform built, was aggressively invaded by the Covenant, killing thousands of Aranukan inslanders, and much of the city was destroyed in their research for a supposed hidden Forerunner artifact. Despite heavy casualties, the UNSC was able to drift the alien invaders away and the Aranuka Space Tether survived the siege of the city.
Elsewhere, Jiralhanae forces landed in London, Britain and soon established an occupation of the city. UNSC forces were deployed into the city to evacuate civilians, including future SPARTAN-IV program|SPARTAN-IV commander Laurette Agryna.
On 2552#November|November 3, the Great Schism finally erupted among the Covenant with all Covenant separatists|now-casted out Sangheili and Covenant forces, now led by the Jiralhanae as the new dominant military backbone of the hegemony, turning and fighting each other which resulted many Sangheili being allied with the UNSC following the death of the Chieftain of the Jiralhanae Tartarus during the Battle of Installation 05. During that time, the Spartan Blue Team were Battle of Havana|deployed to Havana, Cuba, where they stole the enemy Jiralhanae Sinaris-pattern heavy destroyer|destroyer ''Bloodied Spirit'', and destroyed another destroyer and the Centennial Orbital Elevator. They subsequently redeployed aboard the stolen ship to the Forerunner shield world Onyx to aid Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey, the creator of the SPARTAN-II program. During the same day, 3 UNSC expeditionary fleets of the UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet: the Second Fleet|Second, Seventh Fleet|Seventh, and Sixteenth Fleets were contesting Earth orbit against numerous Covenant vessels during major orbital skirmishes as the fighting in orbit is scattering the orbital defense, but the Covenant continued to raid the surface in search of Forerunner artifacts, with many under the Prophet of Truth's command mostly concentrating in East Africa.
On 2552#November|November 10, Covenant forces began to excavate and occupy built-up positions centered around Free-fire Area OZONE in Arizona, URNA. As of mid-November, the majority of cities were destroyed over the course of the Battle for Earth, and the population of Earth was already reduced to 5 billion earlier this month.
File:HU-John-06.jpg|thumb|250px|John-117 attempting to assassinate the Prophet of Truth before the Prophet's death being foiled by a Kig-Yar Sniper. Near the conclusion of the Battle of Installation 05, the Prophet of Truth departed ''High Charity'', near Halo Installation 05, in the Forerunner keyship ''Anodyne Spirit'' on November 3, arriving at the Sol system on the November 8 and proceeding on course towards Earth at near-relativistic speeds. The prophet sought to activate the Ark, fire the Halo Array, and begin what he thought would be the "Great Journey". After the Fall of High Charity|loss of High Charity to the Flood, the Covenant reorganized to make a final push offensive on Earth, as the Prophet of Truth took many remaining Covenant fleets at his disposal following his departure. However, upon his arrival, the Prophet quickly learned that John-117 had stowed away aboard the ship and its crew then became Scramble onboard Forerunner Dreadnought|preoccupied with finding and eliminating the Spartan.
By this time, the Prophet of Truth led the largest Covenant invasion force recorded by the UNSC at that point in the war to Earth: a very massive Covenant combined armada, presumably both larger than the Fleet of Particular Justice|one used during the Fall of Reach and containing at least over three hundreds ships including the remaining loyalist starships and fleets of the High Charity defense fleet as the final contingent of his forces. The fleet would later breach the Lunar perimeter, and then engage the UNSC Home Fleet, which was already weakened by the previous invasion fleets over Earth, at some point prior to the Forerunner Dreadnought's arrival on Earth as the November 17 dawned.
Whilst on Installation 05, Commander Miranda Keyes, Sergeant Major Avery Johnson, and Arbiter Thel 'Vadam learned of the Prophet of Truth's intentions and departed the installation after the ''Anodyne Spirit'' while Rtas 'Vadum and most of Fleet of Retribution|Sangheili vessels under his command, comprising hundreds of ships, stayed behind on Installation 05 in order to quarantine and glass the Halo ring as well as quarantine High Charity in order to stop the escape of the Flood and the Gravemind from both the Halo and the city. Upon arrival at Earth on or just before November 15 aboard one of the Sangheili vessels, they took up station in an old military base, Crow's Nest, near Voi, and waited for John-117 to arrive. On November 15, Sergeant Major Johnson and the Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI interrogated Quick to Adjust, a rebel Huragok since the Regret's attack on New Mombasa, to share information he had and relating to the Portal at Voi.
Turning the tide
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File:H2A - Earth and Dreadnought.jpg|left|300px|thumb|The Forerunner Dreadnought ferrying Truth jumps into Earth high orbit, where the final space battle continues to rage between opposing fleets over the planet.
At some point between November 15 and 16, while John-117 was still hunting the Prophet of Truth, the UNSC already lost their garrison on Mars at the hands of the Fleet of Furious Redemption following the Battle of Mare Erythraeum, which led to a dramatic increase in Covenant force deployments on Earth as the Covenant began to concentrate more of their forces on the planet, worsening the siege. Despite the dramatic increase in Covenant deployments, the works of Colonel James Ackerson in the Battle of Mare Erythraeum helped buy UNSC ground forces on Earth precious time. By this point, the UNSC would be hardly faced with impossible odds with no hope in sight against the full might of Covenant forces on Earth.
Shortly after the loss of Mars, Covenant forces also Battle of Cleveland|invaded the city of Cleveland on Earth without intending to destroy it or kill civilians, unlike other cities, looking for a supposed Forerunner artifact known as the "Key of Osanalan" as told by a wounded and Covenant-tortured Colonel James Ackerson, who was captured aboard Lepidus's vessel, the ''Triumphant Declaration'', and that was a necessary component for the firing sequence of the Halo Array. Additionally, his plan would help the population to escape the city and stall the Covenant assault on Earth and prevent the planet's Glassing|fall to the Covenant like Reach. During the battle, many civilians were Prisoner of war|captured and interrogated at Old Cleveland stadium for the Key of Osanalan, but later evacuated following a surprise attack from a Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|ODST team that suddenly killed most of the Covenant forces.
Arriving in a large chamber aboard the keyship ''Anodyne Spirit'' with the Prophet of Truth and a pack of Jiralhanae soldiers and Jiralhanae Honor Guardsman|honor guardmens being present, John-117 attempted to kill the Prophet remotely via a , as soon as the Spartan was then attacked by a Kig-Yar Sniper and the Prophet escaped, forcing John-117 to confront and engage a number of Jiralhanae warriors. While the Spartan was believed to be Missing in action|dead, the Prophet of Truth orders the crew of the Forerunner Dreadnought to jump further in-system and finally arrived at Earth in high orbit on November 17, spearheading the final contingent of Truth's forces as the final space battle is still raging and the ship was then surrounded by the massive space engagement. During which, John-117, emerged once again, broadcast to the UNSC, confirming his presence and his information regarding his situation.
At the outcome of space engagements, almost the entire UNSC Home Fleet, hence many entire smaller fleets, had been utterly overrun by the outnumbering and outgunning Covenant naval forces, though it was likely that most of the overwhelming Covenant fleet, mostly the capital ships, was in return destroyed by the UNSC defenders, mainly due to Earth's formidable and fierce defense and Hood's brilliant leadership, especially thanks to multiple defending Magnetic Accelerator Cannon#Mark V|"Super" MAC-equipped orbital defense platforms, throughout the Battle for Earth. After demolishing most of Earth defenses, the recently-victorious Covenant fleet then lead a colossal orbital bombardment|bombardment on Earth, causing extreme terrestrial casualties and damaging much of the surface of the planet. The ''Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station'' survived the final space battle relatively intact, albeit left damaged.
File:S117returnstoEarth2552.jpg|300px|thumb|John-117 and the Dreadnought entering Earth's atmosphere before crashing on East Africa. James' civilian brother, Ruwan Ackerson who was aware of what the Covenant are looking for during the Covenant interrogation at Cleveland, along with Myras Tyla, were both brought to a secret UNSC forces to meet Sergeant Twyker in attempt to repel the Covenant forces in Cleveland. Ruwan was injected with Tykos 30, an organic tracking device, as Tyla and the remaining civilians were evacuated. He was then taken to Chagrin Falls, where a Jiralhanae Chieftain demanded that Ackerson relinquish the Key of Osanalan and an army of Jiralhanae surrounded him. However, Ruwan told them ''he'' was the Key, which confused the Covenant and brought him aboard an orbiting , the ''Harbinger of Piety'', before the Minister of Inquisition. There, the Minister vows to spare Earth from the Covenant occupation in exchange for knowledge of the apparent "key". Aboard the Forerunner Dreadnought, John-117, unable to assassinate the Prophet of Truth and take control of the Forerunner Dreadnought's trajectory, was informed that the ''Harbinger of Piety'' that was holding the "key" is to be destroyed. Since the ship was near the keyship, the Spartan was ordered by Twyker to find a way off the Forerunner Dreadnought to avoid being caught in the impending destruction of the cruiser. The Master Chief was then ordered to find a way to return to Earth quickly as the Forerunner Dreadnought began to enter Earth's atmosphere. While the Minister was still interrogating Ruwan, the ''Nassau Station'' proceeded to remotely shoot at the ''Harbinger of Piety'' with a single shot from its Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC gun, destroying instantly the cruiser and killing everyone aboard, including the Minister of Inquisition and Ruwan Ackerson. Though, Twyker's worries was proven ill-founded due to Forerunner Dreadnought remaining unharmed following the ''Harbinger of Piety''s destruction.
After that a furious Lepidus was aware of the loss of ''Harbinger of Piety'' and the Key of Osalanan was in fact turned out to be a hoax perpetrated by Colonel James Ackerson while openly mocking the Covenant for their arrogance, the Jiralhanae shipmaster decapitated the colonel aboard the ''Triumphant Declaration'' over Mars. Ultimately, the attack on Cleveland was repelled due to James's act of self-sacrifice, and that of Ruwan. Though the Martian valiant defense forces were crushed during the Battle of Mare Erythraeum|Battle of Mars, they are credited for delaying Covenant forces from pressing their siege on Earth. Shortly after the Covenant worldwide bombardment, the Earth human population was swiftly reduced to only 200 million individuals, initially around 10 billion prior the Covenant assault with heavy casualties and a major evacuation effort and the sudden change after Truth's arrival. The refugees of Cleveland, including Tyla, were evacuated to a relief camp in Akron.
File:UNSCHitsDreadnought-large.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Immediately after the Type-27 Mantis deployments has been cleaned, the UNSC frigates initiates an attack on the Forerunner Dreadnought. Battle for the Portal
As the Dreadnought entered Earth's atmosphere, John-117 left the ship by leaping off during re-entry and crashing into the East African Protectorate|East-African jungle. By this time most of Truth's remaining forces arrived to the now-uncovered Ark portal at Voi and had set up heavy Skar'wa-pattern Mantis|AA batteries and other defenses near Voi and in the surrounding area to protect their work at the Portal. During Spartan-117's re-entry, a pair of ODSTs used a laser designator during Battle of Sector Six|an operation in Sector Six (near the Pakistan-wikipedia:Afghanistan|Afghanistan border) to track the Spartan's fall. The data made it easier for Sergeant Johnson and Thel 'Vadam to locate the Spartan. After Recovery of John-117|making their way through the jungle, they were extracted by a D77H-TCI Pelican|dropship, despite Covenant resistance, and taken to Crow's Nest (location)|Crow's Nest. The Covenant tracked them back to the base, however, and Attack on Crow's Nest|launched an attack.
Commander Keyes proposed to destroy the Covenant anti-air defenses at Voi, allowing low flying Charon-class light frigate|frigates to strike the Forerunner Dreadnought now landed on the Portal. Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood had only a few frigates left, but was willing to commit to the risky plan with John-117's recovery.
Just before the UNSC offensive began, the Prophet of Truth hijacked Crow's Nest operations center monitors, broadcasting a message to the base, promising the reduction of Earth to glassing|glass by the Covenant, and then the Covenant attacked Crow's Nest. Miranda Keyes evacuated and destroyed the base with a Improvised UNSC bomb|bomb before it could be occupied. John-117 barely managed to escape the destruction of the facility but met up with Gunnery Sergeant Reynolds and set out in M12 Force Application Vehicle|Warthogs on Tsavo highway (location)|Tsavo Highway to head for Voi, as did scattered UNSC forces, Assault on the Tsavo Highway|engaging Covenant heavy vehicles along the way.
At Voi, the UNSC broke through Covenant defenses, as John-117 and Thel 'Vadam disabled the last Covenant AA battery. With the path to the Portal cleared, Fleet Admiral Hood ordered Battle Group Victory|at least seven frigates and multiple GA-TL1 Longsword|Longswords to attack the Forerunner Dreadnought. Despite Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC fire, the enemy ship remained intact and was able to activate the Portal. The Dreadnought and the surrounding Covenant ships departed Earth through the resulting Slipspace portal. Covenant battlenet cohesion broke following Truth's departure, allowing UNSC forces in the southwest URNA to begin a major counteroffensive as part of their URNA Southwest Campaign|ongoing campaign.
File:Voi 7.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Master Chief and the Arbiter witness the arrival of a battlecruiser, but infested by the Flood.
While the battle for Earth raged, the Fleet of Retribution had been attempting to maintain a quarantine of the Flood-infested ''High Charity'' and Installation 05. The Flood-controlled ''Indulgence of Conviction'' escaped and arrived at Earth as the Prophet of Truth departed through the Portal. The ship crashed in Voi and began infesting the area. John-117 and Thel 'Vadam quickly made for the crash site intending to overload the ship's reactor. The explosion would destroy the city but would hopefully stop the spreading infestation as well.
File:H3 Floodgate ODST Concept.jpg|thumb|250px|To prevent the sudden loss of Earth to the alien infestation, UNSC forces engage the Flood before being reinforced by the Sangheili forces. A battle group of Fleet of Retribution|Sangheili ships, led by Fleet Master Rtas 'Vadum aboard the CAS-class assault carrier|assault carrier ''Shadow of Intent'', arrived in pursuit of the Flood. The Sangheili believed Cortana was aboard the Flood ship; Rtas 'Vadum could give his own troops and the UNSC only a little time to recover the AI before Voi and the surrounding area were cleansed by glassing. John-117 found the small storage device containing the AI; he entrusted to 343 Guilty Spark for repairs and they were extracted by Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantom to ''Shadow of Intent''.
Thel 'Vadam convinced Rtas 'Vadum to exercise restraint when glassing. Thus, only an area of Africa was glassed instead of a much wider area.
Shortly after the initial skirmishes with the Flood, the Flood-infested ''High Charity'' jumped out of slipspace further out in the Sol system. Shortly after discovering the presence of the Portal at Voi, the Gravemind conducted an arcane bridging maneuver allowing it to transport the former holy city to the Ark from the vicinity of Mars rather than physically accessing the portal on Earth; the human homeworld thus escaped further Flood contamination. File:H3 - Chasing Truth.png|thumb|left|250px|The Fleet of Retribution leaves through the Portal while Fleet Admiral Hood stays on Earth via Pelican.
Admiral Hood and Commander Keyes joined John-117, Thel 'Vadam, and Rtas 'Vadum aboard ''Shadow of Intent'' where 343 Guilty Spark repaired Cortana's damaged storage device. The device contained only a message from the AI; it warned them that the Flood-infested ''High Charity'' was en route to Earth, but that beyond the Portal there was a Installation 08|solution to the Flood without firing the Halo Array.
Admiral Hood was determined to make his stand against the Flood on Earth. The Sangheili believed this to be foolish; there was little hope Earth could withstand a Flood spore, never mind a full Flood invasion, and they decided to place faith in Cortana and journey beyond the Portal. John-117 and Keyes convinced a weary Hood to allow them, and a UNSC task force to accompany the Sangheili.
The final stand Hood expected never came; the next day, ''High Charity'' and the Flood arrived in the Sol system, but instead performed a Slipspace jump from Mars orbit to Installation 00, an action that spared Earth from a second contamination. It was at the massive installation that the Flood and the remnants of the Covenant were ultimately Battle of Installation 00|defeated by the UNSC and Sangheili three weeks later, bringing an end to the Human-Covenant War|war that nearly extinguished the human race.
On November 18, Jiralhanae forces spotted the and its escorts at sea and engaged it using a mixture of dropships and Qavardu Workshop Prowler|war-sleds. While initially successful, the boarding stalled due to the ship's hallways being smaller than their bodies. Lacking any progress, the Jiralhanae destroyed the flight tower and left, leaving the carrier afloat.
With the majority of Truth's forces now bound for the Ark, some of the remaining Covenant forces on Earth fortified themselves in Arizona, URNA. On December 3, Admiral Harper of the Fifth Fleet initiated Operation: MARSH FLASH, which eradicated clusters of Jiralhanae leadership attempting to activate an artifact here. The UNSC was then finally able to repel or wipe out the remaining Covanant invader forces on the planet and the system, effectively bringing an end to the invasion. Despite suffering enormous military and civilian losses, the UNSC retained control of Earth. Marines involved in mopping up Jiralhanae holdouts employed the "Rex" Visual Intelligence System, Reconnaissance|VISR system.
Aftermath
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File:Attend2.PNG|thumb|250px|The aftermath of the Battle for Earth.
On 2553#March|March 3, 2553, a special ceremony on a hill over looking the Portal at Voi was held to honor the end of the war and those who had fallen.
The rebuilding of Earth's infrastructure had begun in earnest as early as 2553#January|January 2553 in Sydney. Project Rebirth, an organized effort to rebuild also took place in Aranuka and Mombasa took place at some point, with works in Aranuka being done by 2558.
Engagements The battle of Earth had numerous engagements across the planet. Kenya, Cleveland, Havana, and the Southewestern URNA were battlefields. Fighting also took place at Sydney, Cairo, Diego Garcia, Aranuka, the Yucatan Peninsula, Mount Erebus, and Berkeley.
Luna, Earth's moon was also Battle of Luna|attacked.
Timeline
Participants
Due to the prominence of Earth, and what had transpired prior to the battle, Earth possessed numerous UNSC assets. They clashed with several waves of Covenant forces.
Production notes Many fans, as well as ''Halopedia'', used to regard the Battle of Earth as two separate battles. Namely, the "First" was believed to comprise the events of ''Halo 2'' and the "Second" was thought to cover the events of John-117's return at the beginning of ''Halo 3''. Later sources have established that Truth's reinforcements arrived just one day after Regret fled, indicating that the "two" battles were one and the same. However, the ''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe'' (even the 2011 revised edition) lists them as two separate battles; this is one of several elements of the ''Encyclopedia'' that is seemingly lifted from this wiki.
Gallery
File:H2A Terminals - Fleet at Io.jpg|The Fleet of Sacred Consecration arrives in the Sol System near ''Io Station''. File:H2A-fleet readout.jpg|Lord Hood views a readout of the opposing fleets as they prepare to engage. File:HomeFleetH2A.png|The UNSC Home Fleet prior to the arrival of the Covenant. File:H2A - Battle of Earth from Cairo.jpg|The space battle as viewed from ''Cairo Station'' as the Home Fleet holds its ground against the Covenant assault. File:UNSC Fleet.jpg|The Home Fleet engages the Covenant fleet above Earth in full force. File:H2A-Battlecruisers Battle of Earth.png|s engaging the UNSC Home Fleet above Earth. File:H2AMinors.jpg|The Master Chief battles Covenant boarding parties on ''Cairo Station''. File:Athensstation.jpg|Several ODPs were destroyed through the course of the battle in space. File:Master Chief Collection - Chief with bomb.png|The Master Chief prepares to descend into Earth orbit with the Covenant bomb in hand as the space battle rages. File:Master Chief Collection - Cruiser destroyed.png|A is destroyed in Earth orbit by plasma fire from a Covenant CAS-class assault carrier|assault carrier. File:H2A - Marathon dies.jpg|The Chief glides past the UNSC cruiser as it explodes. File:H2A - Carrier destroyed.jpg|The second assault carrier explodes as the Master Chief escapes in free fall. File:H2A - InAmberCladEarth.png|The ''UNSC In Amber Clad'' descends towards Africa to aid in the ground battle unfolding. File:H2A Metropolis Loadscreen.png|The Prophet of Regret's flagship holds position over New Mombasa as the battle for the city rages. File:H2A - Pelicans.jpg|UNSC forces of the ''UNSC In Amber Clad'' approaching New Mombasa during the early stages of the Battle of Earth. File:H2A - Warthogs.jpg|A convoy of Warthogs race through the streets of Mombasa to reinforce the UNSC forces moving against the Covenant occupational forces. File:H2A-ScarabIncoming.jpg|The UNSC reinforcements are engaged by the Covenant Scarab as it lays waste to the cityscape of Old Mombasa. File:Pelican and warthog.jpg|UNSC forces approaching New Mombasa during the early stages of the Battle of Earth in ''Halo 2''. File:H2A - Scarab destroyed.jpg|The Scarab is destroyed by the Master Chief, stalling the Covenant assault. File:H2A - Solemn Penance jumping.jpg|''Solemn Penance'' prepares to jump into slipspace above New Mombasa. File:H2SSRupture.jpg|Regret's jump into slipspace initiates a massive shockwave of energy that consumes New Mombasa, causing widespread damage. File:H2A - Mombasa consumed.jpg|The slipspace rupture consumes all of Mombasa. File:H3ODST_MombasaBattle_Concept.jpg|''Halo 3: ODST'' concept art depicting UNSC and Covenant forces engaged in a firefight. File:Fleetwatch.jpg|Covenant warships swarm into New Mombasa to resume excavation of the Forerunner artifact. File:Excessionsatellite.png|Surveillance footage captures the Covenant glassing of New Mombasa, revealing the Portal and laying waste to the African landmass. File:ODST Fast roping.png|ODSTs deploy into Cleveland to rescue the city's enslaved population. File:Battle_of_Earth_Main.jpg|The UNSC Home Fleet engages newly-arrived Covenant forces led by the Prophet of Truth. File:H3 Sierra 117 Reynolds captured.jpg|Reynolds being interrogated by a Jiralhanae Captain. File:UNSC_screens.jpg|Screens showing force deployments late in the battle. File:Halo-3-The-Storm-15-AV-14-VTOL-HORNET.jpg|Hornet and Banshee aircraft battling in the skies above Voi. File:Mac.jpg|UNSC frigates fire their MACs on the Forerunner Dreadnought. File:Voi assault 4.png|The Portal begins to activate after the UNSC's failed assault on the Dreadnought. File:Halo3 E3 TRAILER 2007 720p30 ST 6300Kbps 002 0001.jpg|The Fleet of Retribution ships glass Voi and its surroundings to contain the Flood threat. File:Final meeting 7.png|UNSC and Sangheili leaders hold their meeting aboard the ''Shadow of Intent''. File:Cleveland in 2552.PNG|Covenant forces invade Cleveland.
List of appearances
''Halo: First Strike''
*''Halo: First Strike#2010 bonus content|Adjunct''
''Halo 2''
''Halo Graphic Novel''
*''Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa''
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
''Halo: Landfall''
*''Halo: Combat''
*''Halo: Last One Standing''
''Halo: Uprising''
''Halo 3''
''Halo 3: ODST''
*''Sadie's Story''
''Halo Legends''
*''Origins''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''Palace Hotel''
''Halo: Glasslands''
''Halo 4''
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
''Halo: New Blood''
''Hunt the Truth''
''Halo: Spartan Strike''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Envoy''
''Halo: Legacy of Onyx''
''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual''
''Halo Infinite: Memory Agent''
''Halo Infinite''
''Halo: Outcasts''
Notes
Sources
Category:Engagements in the Battle for Earth|
Category:UNSC victories|Earth Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Earth |
over Cleveland; a Phantom reinforcing the Covenant in Sector Six; John-117 and Thel 'Vadam watch as ''Indulgence of Conviction'' crash lands into Voi.
|prev = *Fall of Reach Operation: FIRST STRIKE Battle of October 10
|conc = *Battle of Installation 05
*Fall of High Charity Onyx Conflict Battle of Mare Erythraeum Skirmish on Mona Lisa Battle of Luna
|next = *Battle of Installation 00
Operation: SUNSPEAR
|conflict = *Human-Covenant War
*Siege of the Inner Colonies Great Schism
|date = 2552#October|October 20, 2552 c. 2552#December|December 3, 2552
|place = Earth, Sol system
|result = UEG/Fleet of Retribution victory Covenant invasion successfully repelled; most surviving forces flee to Installation 00
Earth brutally orbital bombardment|bombarded but full glassing averted; parts of Africa are, including in the excavation of the Portal at Voi Catastrophic reduction of Earth's population and majority of cities destroyed Local Flood infestation contained
|side1 = * Unified Earth Government|UEG
* United Nations Space Command|UNSC
** UNSC Army
** UNSC Navy
**UNSC Marine Corps
**UNSC Air Force
* New Mombasa Police Department|NMPD
*Civilian militias
**Spartan 1.1 faction
--- Post-Great Schism:
Covenant separatists
*Fleet of Retribution
|side2 = * Covenant
*Covenant military
**Covenant fleet
|side3 = *Flood
|commanders1 =
Secretary of Defense|SOD Paul Huphy Russel Fleet Admiral|FADM Terrence Hood Fleet Admiral|FADM Joseph Harper Major General|MAJ GEN Nicolas Strauss Admiral|ADM I. Zhou Admiral|ADM Say My Name Actual Colonel|COL James Ackerson
--- Post-Great Schism:
Arbiter Thel 'Vadam Fleetmaster Rtas 'Vadum
|commanders2 =
Pre-Mombasa:
Hierarchs|High Prophet of Regret Shipmaster Rhul 'Salmutee Post-Mombasa:
Hierarchs|High Prophet of Truth Minister of Inquisition Shipmaster Lepidus Kaidon Thav 'Sebarim
|commanders3 = Gravemind
|forces1 =
See Participants in the Battle for Earth|here for details on participating forces
300 orbital defense platform|ODPs UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet
*Virtually all the remaining fleets
**Battle Group Omicron
**Second Fleet
**Third Fleet
**Fifth Fleet
**Seventh Fleet
***Battle Group Victory
**Sixth Battle Group
**Sixteenth Fleet
**Sol Defense Group 3/A-5
**Epsilon Eridani Fleet remnants
***Battle Group Leviathan remnants Numerous military land and air ground forces Numerous civilian assets
--- Post-Great Schism:
Fleet of Retribution
*1+ battle group Several ground forces
*Sangheili
|forces2 =
See Participants in the Battle for Earth|here for details on participating forces Fleet of Sacred Consecration
*15 ships Covenant fleet|Multiple Covenant fleets
*Truth's fleet|Truth's forces
**One Truth's fleet#Battle of Mombasa|excavation fleet
**Over 320 ships
***High Charity defense fleet remnants
*Fleet of Furious Redemption Numerous ground forces
*Jiralhanae
*Sangheili
*Mgalekgolo
*Kig-Yar
*Unggoy
*Yanme'e
*Huragok
|forces3 =*1 captured Several infection forms Several combat forms Several carrier forms Several pure forms
|casual1 = Extreme Majority of the UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet Moncton-class orbital weapon platform|2+ ODPs Majority of ground forces
*Unknown number among the Fleet of Retribution
|casual2 =Very heavy Massive terrestrial and exoatmospheric losses
*Majority of the Fleet of Sacred Consecration
|casual3 = Completely sterilized
|civilian1=Civilian losses in the billions
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The Battle for Earth, also referred to as the Earth Sustained Defense Campaign, was one of the largest, bloodiest and latest engagements fought between the Covenant and the forces of the Unified Earth Government (primarily those of the United Nations Space Command), at the end of the approximately twenty-seven year-long Human-Covenant War, which took place on and above the planet Earth from 2552#October|October 20 to at least 2552#December|December 3, 2552. It was one of the most important battles of the war, as the fate of humanity depended on the survival of its homeworld and seat of its UEG|government.
Though the invasion took place on a global scale, the most significant conflicts occurred in the East African Protectorate in the form of three battles fought within and between the cities of Mombasa and Voi, collectively referred to as the First Battle of Mombasa|first, Second Battle of Mombasa|second, and Battle of Voi|third battles of Mombasa. The conflict began when the Fleet of Sacred Consecration, under the command of the Prophet of Regret, arrived on October 20 with intentions of traveling through the Portal at Voi|portal that a luminary in its possession pointed to. This move was made without the consent of the other two Hierarchs and in ignorance regarding the status of this planet as humanity's homeworld. Faced with the full might of the UNSC Home Fleet, it was not long before Regret's Solemn Penance|flagship fled to Installation 05. Soon after this, the Prophet of Truth initiated his plans to Changing of the Guard|replace Sangheili with Jiralhanae and assume control over the entirety of the hierarchal triumvirate. The Jiralhanae occupation forces left behind by Regret assumed control of all remaining local Covenant forces on and over New Mombasa by secretly killing all abandoned Sangheili in the city to secure Truth's later arrival following the beginning of the Great Schism. Later on the next day, a large Truth's fleet|Jiralhanae support and excavation fleet sent by Truth was then dispatched to Mombasa and begin to Glassing|glass most of Republic of Kenya|Kenya, alongside the remnants of Regret's fleet while additional Covenant reinforcements continued to appear in the system and began a resurgent and larger assault on the planet.
At this point, the fight for Earth began in earnest. Smaller battles were waged all across the world, from the UEG capital of Sydney, Australia, to Cleveland, URNA, to Havana, Cuba, and to Mount Erebus, Antarctica and multiple other locations even when the Sangheili and now Jiralhanae-led Covenant forces turned on each other following the beginning of the Great Schism. By November 17 after very hard fighting, most of the Home Fleet had been obliterated by substantial Covenant naval forces loyal to the San'Shyuum|Prophets, including the Prophet of Truth, and the majority of cities were destroyed as well throughout the battle. After defenders and the orbital defense grid were overwhelmed, the Earth had been massively devastated by a large Covenant orbital bombardment|bombardment, resulting in catastrophic human casualties. It was on this date that the Prophet of Truth himself, aboard the Forerunner Dreadnought and with John-117|Spartan-117 in tow, arrived and headed straight for the Portal at Voi|Excession, by then fully excavated. Upon interfacing with the keyship, the portal was activated and a large contingent of the remaining Covenant fleet under the Prophet's command departed through the Portal at Voi|Portal with the intention of activating the Halo Array from Installation 00|the Ark.
Almost immediately after this, the Flood arrived aboard a Indulgence of Conviction|captured , which crashed down in the town of Voi. A battle group assigned to the Fleet of Retribution, a Covenant separatists|Covenant separatist fleet allied with the UNSC against Truth and his loyalists, was permitted to glass a large portion of Kenya to prevent the parasite's spread. With the threat from the Flood dealt with and the bulk of Covenant forces gone, several UNSC forces accompanied the Fleet of Retribution in pursuit of Truth. The remainder of UNSC forces remained behind to defend Earth from an expected full-scale Flood invasion and also began a major counteroffensive to eliminate all Covenant that remained.
Official accounts report that, faced with the potential of human extinction at the hands of an alien hegemony, a significant number of civilians joined the UNSC forces to repel the Covenant throughout the campaign on Earth with many becoming an instrumental part of the war effort.
Background The Human-Covenant War was a decades-long conflict wherein the Covenant hegemony was determined to exterminate all of humanity at the behest of its three Hierarchs, who falsely considered humans as representing the living embodiment, and thus discreditation, of their Covenant religion|religion's Forerunners|gods at the time of 2525|their discovery. Also a goal of the empire, from long before first contact with humanity, was the location and activation of the Halo rings.
In 2550, preparing for a possible battle at Earth, the UNSC reactivated the museum ship .
In the aftermath of the Fall of Reach, the UNSC began to pull the majority of its forces back to Earth, with most units assigned to defend Earth's six Space elevator|tether cities.
Formation of the Home Fleet From 2552#May|May 1419, 2552, UNSC forces in the Earth Defense Coordination Zone were placed at maximum readiness levels and all warships with MAC|magnetic accelerator cannons self-deployed or towed to rally points. Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station was established as flag headquarters. Following 2552#September 5|September 5, 2552, all remaining UNSC Navy|naval forces were consolidated into a single command grouping: the UNSC Home Fleet. Fleet Admiral Joseph Harper was appointed senior flag officer and given primary administrative and tasking authority over all assets in the Sol system under emergency directives authorized by UNSC High Command and approved by the UEG Security Council. Remaining expeditionary and defense fleets retained administrative control over their battle groups, though all type commands were dissolved.
File:EarthLuminary.png|thumb|left|150px|Erde-Tyrene, as represented by the luminary discovered on Meridian.
The Prophet of Truth discovered the location of Earth after the Fall of Reach, but withheld knowledge of this discovery from the rest of the Covenant leadership. To attack the human homeworld, he ordered an Truth's fleet|assault fleet to secretly assemble at ''Unyielding Hierophant'' station in the Tau Ceti system. The fleet would overwhelm Earth's defenses in a single decisive strike. The fleet was discovered by the UNSC Artificial intelligence|AI Cortana and a preemptive strike was led by Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and a SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II, strike team, which successfully destroyed ''Unyielding Hierophant'' and almost the entirety of the assembled fleet, some five hundred ships. Earth was granted a small reprieve.
The Prophet of Regret also independently learned of the location of Earth that was known as Erde-Tyrene as the location of a Forerunner artifact, Portal at Voi|the Portal leading to Installation 00|the Ark. This revelation came after long study by stewards of a Forerunner luminary taken from the moon, Meridian, in 2551. Not being privy to Truth's information, Regret set off to uncover the artifact without any knowledge that Erde-Tyrenne was the humans' homeworld. Regret unknowingly led his Fleet of Sacred Consecration|small fleet, a mere two CAS-class assault carrier|assault carriers and thirteen Ket-pattern battlecruiser|battlecruisers, straight into Earth's formidable defenses. Truth belatedly learned of Regret's expedition to Earth, and dispatched a large Jiralhanae-led support and excavation fleet to reinforce the remaining forces of the initial fleet. They arrived almost one day after Regret had fled.
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The High Prophet of Regret's Fleet of Sacred Consecration|fleet was detected near Jupiter's moon Io, as a series of Slipstream space|slipspace "whispers". Slipstream space probe|Probes were sent to investigate, but shortly afterwards the Covenant fleet exited slipspace near Earth, just outside the killzone of the planet's orbital defense platforms. UNSC forces went to Tactical Condition|TACCON Alpha 2. Fleet Admiral Harper ordered his battle group of the Fifth Fleet to attack, but quickly received new orders from Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood to fall back and defend the ODPs. Having expected an overwhelming enemy offensive in the style of the Fall of Reach|Battle of Reach, the relative weakness of the attack puzzled the defenders.
Orbital Defense
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File:H2A-pavel-belov-cairo-external.jpg|300px|thumb|left|The battle in space takes place despite Regret's fleet being outnumbered by the UNSC Home Fleet. The assault carriers converged on the battle cluster including ''Athens Station'', ''Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station'' and ''Malta Station''. The ODPs opened fire as the enemy entered range. Covenant troops R'sisho-pattern Tick|boarded the stations, intending to demolish them with a antimatter charge each. As each bomb was planted the Covenant withdrew. ''Athens'' and ''Malta'' were demolished in quick succession. Cortana, aboard ''Cairo'', deduced the nature of the threat and John-117 was dispatched to prevent the same fate from befalling ''Cairo''.
Cortana directed the SPARTAN-II to the bomb's location in ''Cairo''s fire control center. En route to the bomb, John-117 rescued Commander Miranda Keyes and allowed her to board . The frigate departed ''Cairo'' to join the fray.
Meanwhile, Harper's Fifth Fleet continued to engage the Covenant task force in Earth orbit, sustaining huge losses in the wake of the Covenant's superior firepower but still prevailing through sheer numbers against the unusually small Covenant force. However, even as their escorts were effectively routed by the UNSC, the two assault carriers pushed onward, bypassing much of the already battered human fleet even as they too came under fire.
The two assault carriers began to break through toward ''Cairo''. Cortana directed ''Cairo''s MAC against the ''Solemn Penance'', but the ship did not stop to engage and instead made directly for New Mombasa on the surface. Admiral Harper led the attack on the Day of Jubilation|second carrier and depleted its shields. Keyes volunteered to attack the carrier immediately, but Hood was unwilling to pit a single frigate against so large a target.
The solution to the second carrier came from an unexpected angle. John-117 and Cortana managed to defuse and capture the Covenant antimatter bomb aboard ''Cairo'', and the Spartan volunteered to go Extra-vehicular activity|EVA and personally plant the bomb on the last carrier. With Lord Hood's approval, John-117 leapt out of an airlock with the bomb using only the initial explosive decompression for impulse. GA-TL1 Longsword|Longsword interceptors opened a breach in the carrier's hull and allowed the Spartan to infiltrate and plant the bomb internally. The detonation destroyed the ship. John-117 escaped using the same means he had arrived and free fell to the UNSC ''In Amber Clad''.
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File:H2A-daniil-kuksov-metropolis-scarab.png|300px|thumb|left|A Scarab attacks the city at the start of the invasion on New Mombasa. Regret's carrier came to arrive over New Mombasa in the East African Protectorate via slipspace and deployed troops into the city and the surrounding area in an attempt to clear and secure it. While the Mombasa Tether had been shut down, the city's population were trying to leave the city. While the UNSC, militias and armed citizens was fighting against the Covenant forces, UNSC high command wished to discover why the Covenant were landing only in Mombasa, and John-117 was ordered to capture Regret for interrogation. The Spartan deployed with marines and Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODST in a trio of D77-TC Pelican|Pelicans from the near the city. The dropships were shot down by a Covenant Protos-pattern Scarab|Scarab in Old Mombasa. John-117 and the survivors regrouped and pursued the walker to New Mombasa 105 East|NM 105E, and across the bridge to New Mombasa New Mombasa Sector B|Sector B. At the time, the Alpha-Five was tasked to Operation: WINDOW PANE|recover the Conduit that was brought by the Covenant on the city while another ODST Unidentified ODST squad|squad were ordered to retrieve information the Covenant were interested in. The Scarab was eventually trapped and destroyed by John-117 at the end of a canal. Covenant forces started to withdraw to the carrier for Slipstream space|slipspace departure to the Halo Array|Halo Installation 05.
In orbit the Home Fleet Operation: BUMRUSH|began deploying ODSTs to Mombasa in Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle|SOEIVs, intending to board the carrier and capture the Prophet of Regret. One Squad, Alpha-Nine, deploying from the and led by Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, was diverted by Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI to secure the city's Superintendent|infrastructure AI.
Regret's means of escape took the UNSC by surprise. The carrier initiated a slipspace jump while still over the city. By this time, Lord Hood originally attempted to intercept the Covenant carrier by dispatching two s at New Mombasa. The UNSC ''In Amber Clad'' quickly recovered John-117 and the light frigate along with , , were fast enough to follow the carrier into slipspace while only followed in the fleeing ship's slipstream space#Slipspace wake|wake. The slipspace rupture severely damaged the city and generated an Electromagnetic pulse|EMP. Many ODSTs had not yet landed when the carrier escaped and were caught in the EMP and blast. Drop pods were disabled in flight and plunged into uncontrolled freefall. Those who survived the blast were scattered across the city.
Around this time, Covenant forces also attacked Cairo, Egypt and Berkeley, URNA. At Berkeley, a Covenant starship, possibly a ''Ket''-pattern battlecruiser from the Fleet of Sacred Consecration, began deploying its Seraph fighters on the city.
Fall of Mombasa
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File:Portal odst.png|thumb|250px|After fully securing the East Africa, the Jiralhanae excavation fleet begin to uncover the Portal at New Mombasa. Immediately following the slipspace event, Jiralhanae forces loyal to the High Prophet of Truth, who had embedded said troops into his political rival Regret's fleet, enacted their leader's orders. The Jiralhanae violently displaced their Sangheili commanders left in the initial fleet both ground-side, and in orbit, and then seized the full control of Covenant forces at Mombasa in order to secure Truth's arrival on the Portal by his loyalists, the beginning of Truth's plan to place the Jiralhanae as the Covenant's primary warrior race. While ''High Charity'' and the rest of its High Charity defense fleet|fleet were following the ''Solemn Penance'' on their way to the newly discovered Halo Installation 05, the murder of Regret's Sangheili forces remained secret from the rest of the Covenant.
Surviving UNSC forces in the city, aided by the New Mombasa Police Department, continued to resist, but were eventually overwhelmed. The next day on October 21, a Truth's fleet|Jiralhanae-led support fleet sent by Truth arrived at the African continent, joining the remains of Regret's fleet as the combined fleet began glassing Mombasa and the surrounding area together, uncovering the Portal to the Installation 00|Ark. Captain Dare and her Alpha-Nine|ODST squad managed to secure the city's Superintendent|infrastructure AI and escape before the city fell to the enemy. These forces of the new fleet was both archaeological and military.halo3.com - About Halo, Characters, Humans () While a handful of ships of the second fleet engaged Earth's forces, the majority of the fleet was preoccupied for the excavation of the massive slipspace portal.
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File:HLC battle for earth.png|thumb|left|250px|UNSC and Covenant forces fight each other for supremacy of Earth. The battle spread all over the globe in the following days and weeks with more and more Covenant fleets of multitude of warships continuing to arrive and attacked targeting cities and areas globally after the full compromise of Earth, led by Jiralhanae and Sangheili commanders. At the same time as these events, other colonies and parts of the Sol system such as Battle of Luna|Luna and Battle of Mars|Mars came under assault by the Covenant.
While maintaining a significant presence in orbit, the Covenant ships deployed ground forces to multiple targets around the globe. However, due to many Covenant forces, notably those under the command of the Prophet of Truth and his Jiralhanae loyalists, that were concentrating their forces at Kenya for the excavation of the Portal at Voi, some of their forces were sometimes disorganized, hence less effectual. A Second Battle of New Mombasa between the UNSC and Jiralhanae-led Covenant ground forces takes place shortly after the Battle of Mombasa|first battle over seven days''Xbox.com'': Jake Courage (defunct, ) before the end of October. The SPARTAN-II program|Spartan Blue Team, consisting of Frederic-104, Linda-058, and William-043, were constantly engaged for the first two weeks. They repelled enemy ships in orbit in numerous zero-gee operations whilst on the surface they neutralized Covenant excavations, first on Ross Island in Antarctica, and then underwater off the Yucatan Peninsula.
File:HINF London Skyline.png|thumb|250px|London, one of many major cities to fall under Covenant occupation. Sydney, Australia was one of the cities invaded by the Covenant during the engagement due to its importance in UNSC's war effort. Though the city suffered heavy damage by Covenant bombardment, the UNSC's HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6 remained undamaged. Diego Garcia, following its effective attacks against the initial Covenant forces during the Battle of Mombasa, was attacked by a Covenant capital ship to destroy the base around November, but the base managed to survive the attack. Aranuka, a vast city-platform built, was aggressively invaded by the Covenant, killing thousands of Aranukan inslanders, and much of the city was destroyed in their research for a supposed hidden Forerunner artifact. Despite heavy casualties, the UNSC was able to drift the alien invaders away and the Aranuka Space Tether survived the siege of the city.
Elsewhere, Jiralhanae forces landed in London, Britain and soon established an occupation of the city. UNSC forces were deployed into the city to evacuate civilians, including future SPARTAN-IV program|SPARTAN-IV commander Laurette Agryna.
On 2552#November|November 3, the Great Schism finally erupted among the Covenant with all Covenant separatists|now-casted out Sangheili and Covenant forces, now led by the Jiralhanae as the new dominant military backbone of the hegemony, turning and fighting each other which resulted many Sangheili being allied with the UNSC following the death of the Chieftain of the Jiralhanae Tartarus during the Battle of Installation 05. During that time, the Spartan Blue Team were Battle of Havana|deployed to Havana, Cuba, where they stole the enemy Jiralhanae Sinaris-pattern heavy destroyer|destroyer ''Bloodied Spirit'', and destroyed another destroyer and the Centennial Orbital Elevator. They subsequently redeployed aboard the stolen ship to the Forerunner shield world Onyx to aid Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey, the creator of the SPARTAN-II program. During the same day, 3 UNSC expeditionary fleets of the UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet: the Second Fleet|Second, Seventh Fleet|Seventh, and Sixteenth Fleets were contesting Earth orbit against numerous Covenant vessels during major orbital skirmishes as the fighting in orbit is scattering the orbital defense, but the Covenant continued to raid the surface in search of Forerunner artifacts, with many under the Prophet of Truth's command mostly concentrating in East Africa.
On 2552#November|November 10, Covenant forces began to excavate and occupy built-up positions centered around Free-fire Area OZONE in Arizona, URNA. As of mid-November, the majority of cities were destroyed over the course of the Battle for Earth, and the population of Earth was already reduced to 5 billion earlier this month.
File:HU-John-06.jpg|thumb|250px|John-117 attempting to assassinate the Prophet of Truth before the Prophet's death being foiled by a Kig-Yar Sniper. Near the conclusion of the Battle of Installation 05, the Prophet of Truth departed ''High Charity'', near Halo Installation 05, in the Forerunner keyship ''Anodyne Spirit'' on November 3, arriving at the Sol system on the November 8 and proceeding on course towards Earth at near-relativistic speeds. The prophet sought to activate the Ark, fire the Halo Array, and begin what he thought would be the "Great Journey". After the Fall of High Charity|loss of High Charity to the Flood, the Covenant reorganized to make a final push offensive on Earth, as the Prophet of Truth took many remaining Covenant fleets at his disposal following his departure. However, upon his arrival, the Prophet quickly learned that John-117 had stowed away aboard the ship and its crew then became Scramble onboard Forerunner Dreadnought|preoccupied with finding and eliminating the Spartan.
By this time, the Prophet of Truth led the largest Covenant invasion force recorded by the UNSC at that point in the war to Earth: a very massive Covenant combined armada, presumably both larger than the Fleet of Particular Justice|one used during the Fall of Reach and containing at least over three hundreds ships including the remaining loyalist starships and fleets of the High Charity defense fleet as the final contingent of his forces. The fleet would later breach the Lunar perimeter, and then engage the UNSC Home Fleet, which was already weakened by the previous invasion fleets over Earth, at some point prior to the Forerunner Dreadnought's arrival on Earth as the November 17 dawned.
Whilst on Installation 05, Commander Miranda Keyes, Sergeant Major Avery Johnson, and Arbiter Thel 'Vadam learned of the Prophet of Truth's intentions and departed the installation after the ''Anodyne Spirit'' while Rtas 'Vadum and most of Fleet of Retribution|Sangheili vessels under his command, comprising hundreds of ships, stayed behind on Installation 05 in order to quarantine and glass the Halo ring as well as quarantine High Charity in order to stop the escape of the Flood and the Gravemind from both the Halo and the city. Upon arrival at Earth on or just before November 15 aboard one of the Sangheili vessels, they took up station in an old military base, Crow's Nest, near Voi, and waited for John-117 to arrive. On November 15, Sergeant Major Johnson and the Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI interrogated Quick to Adjust, a rebel Huragok since the Regret's attack on New Mombasa, to share information he had and relating to the Portal at Voi.
Turning the tide
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File:H2A - Earth and Dreadnought.jpg|left|300px|thumb|The Forerunner Dreadnought ferrying Truth jumps into Earth high orbit, where the final space battle continues to rage between opposing fleets over the planet.
At some point between November 15 and 16, while John-117 was still hunting the Prophet of Truth, the UNSC already lost their garrison on Mars at the hands of the Fleet of Furious Redemption following the Battle of Mare Erythraeum, which led to a dramatic increase in Covenant force deployments on Earth as the Covenant began to concentrate more of their forces on the planet, worsening the siege. Despite the dramatic increase in Covenant deployments, the works of Colonel James Ackerson in the Battle of Mare Erythraeum helped buy UNSC ground forces on Earth precious time. By this point, the UNSC would be hardly faced with impossible odds with no hope in sight against the full might of Covenant forces on Earth.
Shortly after the loss of Mars, Covenant forces also Battle of Cleveland|invaded the city of Cleveland on Earth without intending to destroy it or kill civilians, unlike other cities, looking for a supposed Forerunner artifact known as the "Key of Osanalan" as told by a wounded and Covenant-tortured Colonel James Ackerson, who was captured aboard Lepidus's vessel, the ''Triumphant Declaration'', and that was a necessary component for the firing sequence of the Halo Array. Additionally, his plan would help the population to escape the city and stall the Covenant assault on Earth and prevent the planet's Glassing|fall to the Covenant like Reach. During the battle, many civilians were Prisoner of war|captured and interrogated at Old Cleveland stadium for the Key of Osanalan, but later evacuated following a surprise attack from a Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|ODST team that suddenly killed most of the Covenant forces.
Arriving in a large chamber aboard the keyship ''Anodyne Spirit'' with the Prophet of Truth and a pack of Jiralhanae soldiers and Jiralhanae Honor Guardsman|honor guardmens being present, John-117 attempted to kill the Prophet remotely via a , as soon as the Spartan was then attacked by a Kig-Yar Sniper and the Prophet escaped, forcing John-117 to confront and engage a number of Jiralhanae warriors. While the Spartan was believed to be Missing in action|dead, the Prophet of Truth orders the crew of the Forerunner Dreadnought to jump further in-system and finally arrived at Earth in high orbit on November 17, spearheading the final contingent of Truth's forces as the final space battle is still raging and the ship was then surrounded by the massive space engagement. During which, John-117, emerged once again, broadcast to the UNSC, confirming his presence and his information regarding his situation.
At the outcome of space engagements, almost the entire UNSC Home Fleet, hence many entire smaller fleets, had been utterly overrun by the outnumbering and outgunning Covenant naval forces, though it was likely that most of the overwhelming Covenant fleet, mostly the capital ships, was in return destroyed by the UNSC defenders, mainly due to Earth's formidable and fierce defense and Hood's brilliant leadership, especially thanks to multiple defending Magnetic Accelerator Cannon#Mark V|"Super" MAC-equipped orbital defense platforms, throughout the Battle for Earth. After demolishing most of Earth defenses, the recently-victorious Covenant fleet then lead a colossal orbital bombardment|bombardment on Earth, causing extreme terrestrial casualties and damaging much of the surface of the planet. The ''Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station'' survived the final space battle relatively intact, albeit left damaged.
File:S117returnstoEarth2552.jpg|300px|thumb|John-117 and the Dreadnought entering Earth's atmosphere before crashing on East Africa. James' civilian brother, Ruwan Ackerson who was aware of what the Covenant are looking for during the Covenant interrogation at Cleveland, along with Myras Tyla, were both brought to a secret UNSC forces to meet Sergeant Twyker in attempt to repel the Covenant forces in Cleveland. Ruwan was injected with Tykos 30, an organic tracking device, as Tyla and the remaining civilians were evacuated. He was then taken to Chagrin Falls, where a Jiralhanae Chieftain demanded that Ackerson relinquish the Key of Osanalan and an army of Jiralhanae surrounded him. However, Ruwan told them ''he'' was the Key, which confused the Covenant and brought him aboard an orbiting , the ''Harbinger of Piety'', before the Minister of Inquisition. There, the Minister vows to spare Earth from the Covenant occupation in exchange for knowledge of the apparent "key". Aboard the Forerunner Dreadnought, John-117, unable to assassinate the Prophet of Truth and take control of the Forerunner Dreadnought's trajectory, was informed that the ''Harbinger of Piety'' that was holding the "key" is to be destroyed. Since the ship was near the keyship, the Spartan was ordered by Twyker to find a way off the Forerunner Dreadnought to avoid being caught in the impending destruction of the cruiser. The Master Chief was then ordered to find a way to return to Earth quickly as the Forerunner Dreadnought began to enter Earth's atmosphere. While the Minister was still interrogating Ruwan, the ''Nassau Station'' proceeded to remotely shoot at the ''Harbinger of Piety'' with a single shot from its Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC gun, destroying instantly the cruiser and killing everyone aboard, including the Minister of Inquisition and Ruwan Ackerson. Though, Twyker's worries was proven ill-founded due to Forerunner Dreadnought remaining unharmed following the ''Harbinger of Piety''s destruction.
After that a furious Lepidus was aware of the loss of ''Harbinger of Piety'' and the Key of Osalanan was in fact turned out to be a hoax perpetrated by Colonel James Ackerson while openly mocking the Covenant for their arrogance, the Jiralhanae shipmaster decapitated the colonel aboard the ''Triumphant Declaration'' over Mars. Ultimately, the attack on Cleveland was repelled due to James's act of self-sacrifice, and that of Ruwan. Though the Martian valiant defense forces were crushed during the Battle of Mare Erythraeum|Battle of Mars, they are credited for delaying Covenant forces from pressing their siege on Earth. Shortly after the Covenant worldwide bombardment, the Earth human population was swiftly reduced to only 200 million individuals, initially around 10 billion prior the Covenant assault with heavy casualties and a major evacuation effort and the sudden change after Truth's arrival. The refugees of Cleveland, including Tyla, were evacuated to a relief camp in Akron.
File:UNSCHitsDreadnought-large.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Immediately after the Type-27 Mantis deployments has been cleaned, the UNSC frigates initiates an attack on the Forerunner Dreadnought. Battle for the Portal
As the Dreadnought entered Earth's atmosphere, John-117 left the ship by leaping off during re-entry and crashing into the East African Protectorate|East-African jungle. By this time most of Truth's remaining forces arrived to the now-uncovered Ark portal at Voi and had set up heavy Skar'wa-pattern Mantis|AA batteries and other defenses near Voi and in the surrounding area to protect their work at the Portal. During Spartan-117's re-entry, a pair of ODSTs used a laser designator during Battle of Sector Six|an operation in Sector Six (near the Pakistan-wikipedia:Afghanistan|Afghanistan border) to track the Spartan's fall. The data made it easier for Sergeant Johnson and Thel 'Vadam to locate the Spartan. After Recovery of John-117|making their way through the jungle, they were extracted by a D77H-TCI Pelican|dropship, despite Covenant resistance, and taken to Crow's Nest (location)|Crow's Nest. The Covenant tracked them back to the base, however, and Attack on Crow's Nest|launched an attack.
Commander Keyes proposed to destroy the Covenant anti-air defenses at Voi, allowing low flying Charon-class light frigate|frigates to strike the Forerunner Dreadnought now landed on the Portal. Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood had only a few frigates left, but was willing to commit to the risky plan with John-117's recovery.
Just before the UNSC offensive began, the Prophet of Truth hijacked Crow's Nest operations center monitors, broadcasting a message to the base, promising the reduction of Earth to glassing|glass by the Covenant, and then the Covenant attacked Crow's Nest. Miranda Keyes evacuated and destroyed the base with a Improvised UNSC bomb|bomb before it could be occupied. John-117 barely managed to escape the destruction of the facility but met up with Gunnery Sergeant Reynolds and set out in M12 Force Application Vehicle|Warthogs on Tsavo highway (location)|Tsavo Highway to head for Voi, as did scattered UNSC forces, Assault on the Tsavo Highway|engaging Covenant heavy vehicles along the way.
At Voi, the UNSC broke through Covenant defenses, as John-117 and Thel 'Vadam disabled the last Covenant AA battery. With the path to the Portal cleared, Fleet Admiral Hood ordered Battle Group Victory|at least seven frigates and multiple GA-TL1 Longsword|Longswords to attack the Forerunner Dreadnought. Despite Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC fire, the enemy ship remained intact and was able to activate the Portal. The Dreadnought and the surrounding Covenant ships departed Earth through the resulting Slipspace portal. Covenant battlenet cohesion broke following Truth's departure, allowing UNSC forces in the southwest URNA to begin a major counteroffensive as part of their URNA Southwest Campaign|ongoing campaign.
File:Voi 7.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Master Chief and the Arbiter witness the arrival of a battlecruiser, but infested by the Flood.
While the battle for Earth raged, the Fleet of Retribution had been attempting to maintain a quarantine of the Flood-infested ''High Charity'' and Installation 05. The Flood-controlled ''Indulgence of Conviction'' escaped and arrived at Earth as the Prophet of Truth departed through the Portal. The ship crashed in Voi and began infesting the area. John-117 and Thel 'Vadam quickly made for the crash site intending to overload the ship's reactor. The explosion would destroy the city but would hopefully stop the spreading infestation as well.
File:H3 Floodgate ODST Concept.jpg|thumb|250px|To prevent the sudden loss of Earth to the alien infestation, UNSC forces engage the Flood before being reinforced by the Sangheili forces. A battle group of Fleet of Retribution|Sangheili ships, led by Fleet Master Rtas 'Vadum aboard the CAS-class assault carrier|assault carrier ''Shadow of Intent'', arrived in pursuit of the Flood. The Sangheili believed Cortana was aboard the Flood ship; Rtas 'Vadum could give his own troops and the UNSC only a little time to recover the AI before Voi and the surrounding area were cleansed by glassing. John-117 found the small storage device containing the AI; he entrusted to 343 Guilty Spark for repairs and they were extracted by Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantom to ''Shadow of Intent''.
Thel 'Vadam convinced Rtas 'Vadum to exercise restraint when glassing. Thus, only an area of Africa was glassed instead of a much wider area.
Shortly after the initial skirmishes with the Flood, the Flood-infested ''High Charity'' jumped out of slipspace further out in the Sol system. Shortly after discovering the presence of the Portal at Voi, the Gravemind conducted an arcane bridging maneuver allowing it to transport the former holy city to the Ark from the vicinity of Mars rather than physically accessing the portal on Earth; the human homeworld thus escaped further Flood contamination. File:H3 - Chasing Truth.png|thumb|left|250px|The Fleet of Retribution leaves through the Portal while Fleet Admiral Hood stays on Earth via Pelican.
Admiral Hood and Commander Keyes joined John-117, Thel 'Vadam, and Rtas 'Vadum aboard ''Shadow of Intent'' where 343 Guilty Spark repaired Cortana's damaged storage device. The device contained only a message from the AI; it warned them that the Flood-infested ''High Charity'' was en route to Earth, but that beyond the Portal there was a Installation 08|solution to the Flood without firing the Halo Array.
Admiral Hood was determined to make his stand against the Flood on Earth. The Sangheili believed this to be foolish; there was little hope Earth could withstand a Flood spore, never mind a full Flood invasion, and they decided to place faith in Cortana and journey beyond the Portal. John-117 and Keyes convinced a weary Hood to allow them, and a UNSC task force to accompany the Sangheili.
The final stand Hood expected never came; the next day, ''High Charity'' and the Flood arrived in the Sol system, but instead performed a Slipspace jump from Mars orbit to Installation 00, an action that spared Earth from a second contamination. It was at the massive installation that the Flood and the remnants of the Covenant were ultimately Battle of Installation 00|defeated by the UNSC and Sangheili three weeks later, bringing an end to the Human-Covenant War|war that nearly extinguished the human race.
On November 18, Jiralhanae forces spotted the and its escorts at sea and engaged it using a mixture of dropships and Qavardu Workshop Prowler|war-sleds. While initially successful, the boarding stalled due to the ship's hallways being smaller than their bodies. Lacking any progress, the Jiralhanae destroyed the flight tower and left, leaving the carrier afloat.
With the majority of Truth's forces now bound for the Ark, some of the remaining Covenant forces on Earth fortified themselves in Arizona, URNA. On December 3, Admiral Harper of the Fifth Fleet initiated Operation: MARSH FLASH, which eradicated clusters of Jiralhanae leadership attempting to activate an artifact here. The UNSC was then finally able to repel or wipe out the remaining Covanant invader forces on the planet and the system, effectively bringing an end to the invasion. Despite suffering enormous military and civilian losses, the UNSC retained control of Earth. Marines involved in mopping up Jiralhanae holdouts employed the "Rex" Visual Intelligence System, Reconnaissance|VISR system.
Aftermath
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File:Attend2.PNG|thumb|250px|The aftermath of the Battle for Earth.
On 2553#March|March 3, 2553, a special ceremony on a hill over looking the Portal at Voi was held to honor the end of the war and those who had fallen.
The rebuilding of Earth's infrastructure had begun in earnest as early as 2553#January|January 2553 in Sydney. Project Rebirth, an organized effort to rebuild also took place in Aranuka and Mombasa took place at some point, with works in Aranuka being done by 2558.
Engagements The battle of Earth had numerous engagements across the planet. Kenya, Cleveland, Havana, and the Southewestern URNA were battlefields. Fighting also took place at Sydney, Cairo, Diego Garcia, Aranuka, the Yucatan Peninsula, Mount Erebus, and Berkeley.
Luna, Earth's moon was also Battle of Luna|attacked.
Timeline
Participants
Due to the prominence of Earth, and what had transpired prior to the battle, Earth possessed numerous UNSC assets. They clashed with several waves of Covenant forces.
Production notes Many fans, as well as ''Halopedia'', used to regard the Battle of Earth as two separate battles. Namely, the "First" was believed to comprise the events of ''Halo 2'' and the "Second" was thought to cover the events of John-117's return at the beginning of ''Halo 3''. Later sources have established that Truth's reinforcements arrived just one day after Regret fled, indicating that the "two" battles were one and the same. However, the ''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe'' (even the 2011 revised edition) lists them as two separate battles; this is one of several elements of the ''Encyclopedia'' that is seemingly lifted from this wiki.
Gallery
File:H2A Terminals - Fleet at Io.jpg|The Fleet of Sacred Consecration arrives in the Sol System near ''Io Station''. File:H2A-fleet readout.jpg|Lord Hood views a readout of the opposing fleets as they prepare to engage. File:HomeFleetH2A.png|The UNSC Home Fleet prior to the arrival of the Covenant. File:H2A - Battle of Earth from Cairo.jpg|The space battle as viewed from ''Cairo Station'' as the Home Fleet holds its ground against the Covenant assault. File:UNSC Fleet.jpg|The Home Fleet engages the Covenant fleet above Earth in full force. File:H2A-Battlecruisers Battle of Earth.png|s engaging the UNSC Home Fleet above Earth. File:H2AMinors.jpg|The Master Chief battles Covenant boarding parties on ''Cairo Station''. File:Athensstation.jpg|Several ODPs were destroyed through the course of the battle in space. File:Master Chief Collection - Chief with bomb.png|The Master Chief prepares to descend into Earth orbit with the Covenant bomb in hand as the space battle rages. File:Master Chief Collection - Cruiser destroyed.png|A is destroyed in Earth orbit by plasma fire from a Covenant CAS-class assault carrier|assault carrier. File:H2A - Marathon dies.jpg|The Chief glides past the UNSC cruiser as it explodes. File:H2A - Carrier destroyed.jpg|The second assault carrier explodes as the Master Chief escapes in free fall. File:H2A - InAmberCladEarth.png|The ''UNSC In Amber Clad'' descends towards Africa to aid in the ground battle unfolding. File:H2A Metropolis Loadscreen.png|The Prophet of Regret's flagship holds position over New Mombasa as the battle for the city rages. File:H2A - Pelicans.jpg|UNSC forces of the ''UNSC In Amber Clad'' approaching New Mombasa during the early stages of the Battle of Earth. File:H2A - Warthogs.jpg|A convoy of Warthogs race through the streets of Mombasa to reinforce the UNSC forces moving against the Covenant occupational forces. File:H2A-ScarabIncoming.jpg|The UNSC reinforcements are engaged by the Covenant Scarab as it lays waste to the cityscape of Old Mombasa. File:Pelican and warthog.jpg|UNSC forces approaching New Mombasa during the early stages of the Battle of Earth in ''Halo 2''. File:H2A - Scarab destroyed.jpg|The Scarab is destroyed by the Master Chief, stalling the Covenant assault. File:H2A - Solemn Penance jumping.jpg|''Solemn Penance'' prepares to jump into slipspace above New Mombasa. File:H2SSRupture.jpg|Regret's jump into slipspace initiates a massive shockwave of energy that consumes New Mombasa, causing widespread damage. File:H2A - Mombasa consumed.jpg|The slipspace rupture consumes all of Mombasa. File:H3ODST_MombasaBattle_Concept.jpg|''Halo 3: ODST'' concept art depicting UNSC and Covenant forces engaged in a firefight. File:Fleetwatch.jpg|Covenant warships swarm into New Mombasa to resume excavation of the Forerunner artifact. File:Excessionsatellite.png|Surveillance footage captures the Covenant glassing of New Mombasa, revealing the Portal and laying waste to the African landmass. File:ODST Fast roping.png|ODSTs deploy into Cleveland to rescue the city's enslaved population. File:Battle_of_Earth_Main.jpg|The UNSC Home Fleet engages newly-arrived Covenant forces led by the Prophet of Truth. File:H3 Sierra 117 Reynolds captured.jpg|Reynolds being interrogated by a Jiralhanae Captain. File:UNSC_screens.jpg|Screens showing force deployments late in the battle. File:Halo-3-The-Storm-15-AV-14-VTOL-HORNET.jpg|Hornet and Banshee aircraft battling in the skies above Voi. File:Mac.jpg|UNSC frigates fire their MACs on the Forerunner Dreadnought. File:Voi assault 4.png|The Portal begins to activate after the UNSC's failed assault on the Dreadnought. File:Halo3 E3 TRAILER 2007 720p30 ST 6300Kbps 002 0001.jpg|The Fleet of Retribution ships glass Voi and its surroundings to contain the Flood threat. File:Final meeting 7.png|UNSC and Sangheili leaders hold their meeting aboard the ''Shadow of Intent''. File:Cleveland in 2552.PNG|Covenant forces invade Cleveland.
List of appearances
''Halo: First Strike''
*''Halo: First Strike#2010 bonus content|Adjunct''
''Halo 2''
''Halo Graphic Novel''
*''Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa''
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
''Halo: Landfall''
*''Halo: Combat''
*''Halo: Last One Standing''
''Halo: Uprising''
''Halo 3''
''Halo 3: ODST''
*''Sadie's Story''
''Halo Legends''
*''Origins''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''Palace Hotel''
''Halo: Glasslands''
''Halo 4''
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
''Halo: New Blood''
''Hunt the Truth''
''Halo: Spartan Strike''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Envoy''
''Halo: Legacy of Onyx''
''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual''
''Halo Infinite: Memory Agent''
''Halo Infinite''
''Halo: Outcasts''
Notes
Sources
Category:Engagements in the Battle for Earth|
Category:UNSC victories|Earth Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Earth |
File:BattleForTheBloodMoon.jpg|300px|thumb|Keyart for the short story.
''Battle for the Blood-Moon'' is the fifth entry in the Halo Waypoint Chronicle series of short stories published by 343 Industries, due to release on 2023#November|November 27, 2023. It was initially announced at the Canon Fodder Live event at the Halo World Championships 2023 as one of four then-upcoming Waypoint Chronicle stories, teased only with the keyart for the Combined Arms in-game event in ''Halo Infinite''.
The story is set during the Banished battle for control of the ''kemuksuru'' mines of Suban, as depicted in the ''Halo Infinite'' Season 05: Reckoning|Season 05 map Prism. The Halo Infinite Story & Intel#Season 5|second intel drop of Season 05 was released as a tie-in to ''Battle for the Blood-Moon''.
Official synopsis
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Appearances
Jaarov Jameson Locke Trell Zhin
Jiralhanae Atriox Ipso
Kig-Yar Dahks
Sangheili Arkad Nar 'Kulul Fahl 'Nto Koal 'Mal Let 'Volir Mahkee 'Chava Oebrin 'Chava Orim 'Kasaan Orna 'Fulsam Silset 'Chava Thel 'Vadam Xelq 'Tylk
San'Shyuum Prophet of Truth
Unggoy Dibdib
|title-2=Species|
Human Jiralhanae Kig-Yar San'Shyuum Sangheili
|title-3=Organizations|
Covenant
*Evocati
*Covenant Special Operations
*Jha'kaar Covenant remnants
*Banished
*Jul 'Mdama's Covenant
*Swords of Sanghelios
**Siqtar Wing
**Zeshk Wing Created Kolaar Manufactorum Unified Earth Government
*United Nations Space Command
**UNSC Navy
***Office of Naval Intelligence
**Spartan Operations
***SPARTAN-IV program
****Fireteam Osiris
****Fireteam Jorogumo
|title-4=Locations|
Milky Way
*Ephyra system
**Netherop
*Oth Sonin system
*Reach
*Urs system
**Sanghelios
***Suban
****Mines of Shua'ree
|title-5=Events|
Human-Covenant War
*Fall of Reach
*Battle of Installation 04
*Great Schism Post-Covenant War conflicts
*Battle of Netherop (2559)
*Battle of Suban
*Blooding Years
**Battle of Sunaion
**Siege at Kolaar
*Created uprising
**Razing of Oth Sonin
|title-6=Weapons|
Banished Gravity hammer (fiction)|Gravity hammer Veporokk Workshop Ravager
Covenant Energy dagger Energy sword (fiction)|Energy sword
Fuel rod cannon Plasma cannon
Human SRS99 series sniper rifles
*SRS99-S7 AM sniper rifle
|title-7=Vehicles|
Banished Banished dreadnought
*''Ghost of Barolon''
Barukaza Workshop siege-hauler
Human Mongoose
*M290 Mongoose
Covenant Banshee
*''Scorrin's Blade''
Phantom
*''Bad Gas''
|title-8=Technology and equipment|
Hyperscanner Stealth shroud Subanese crystal MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor
*MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN3)
**RAKSHASA-class Mjolnir
**SCORN-class Mjolnir Summit (building)|Summit
|title-9=Miscellaneous|
Shipmaster
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Gallery
File:HINF CombinedArms KeyArtClean.png|Combined Arms keyart used to tease the short story. File:WC Blood-MoonMines.jpg|Artwork of the Mines of Shua'ree created for this story.
External links
- The official Waypoint post in which the short story was released for free.
- The PDF of the short story released on Halo Waypoint (:File:Battle for the Blood-Moon.pdf|Archived copy).
- The audiobook narrated by Alex Wakeford.
Sources
Category:Short stories Category:Canon |
The Battle for the Cartographer was a large battle|engagement during the initial stages of the Battle of Installation 00|Ark Conflict and the penultimate battle of the Human-Covenant war|war. The UNSC ground forces led by SPARTAN-II program|Spartan John-117 neutralized Covenant anti-aircraft defenses on the surface of the Ark, allowing the to deploy armor in order to assault a Covenant-held Cartographer facility to locate the Installation 00 Citadel|whereabouts of the Hierarch|High Prophet of Prophet of Truth|Truth.''Halo 3'', campaign level, The Ark (level)|The Ark
Background Following his discovery of the location of the Portal at Voi|portal that led to Installation 00 in 2552#October|October, 2552, the Covenant Hierarch|High Prophet of Prophet of Regret|Regret hastily assembled a Fleet of Sacred Consecration|fleet of fifteen warships and, without consulting his fellow Hierarchs, took the task force to the planet on which the portal was located.''Halo 2: Anniversary'', Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminal - "Beholden" This was, unbeknownst to the Prophet, the Earth|homeworld of humanity. During the Battle of Earth|battle that followed, the heavily-outnumbered Fleet of Sacred Consecration was decimated by Earth's UNSC Home Fleet|defensive fleet and Regret was forced to flee, Solemn Penance|his performing a Slipstream space|slipspace jump in atmosphere over the city of New Mombasa.''Halo 2'', campaign level Metropolis Immediately afterwards, a larger Jiralhanae-controlled Truth's fleet|fleet sent by the Prophet of Truth arrived to take control of the battle, driving out remaining UNSC forces while beginning to excavate the long-buried portal beneath Mombasa.''Halo 3: ODST'', campaign level, Coastal Highway File:Portal odst.png|thumb|left|250px|The portal to Installation 00 is excavated by the Prophet of Truth's fleet. Over the course of the next month, the fleet would successfully uncover the artifact, and the Prophet of Truth himself would arrive on 2552#November|November 17, 2552 on board the Forerunner keyship ''Anodyne Spirit''. SPARTAN-II program|Spartan John-117, who had stowed away on board the vessel during it's departure from High Charity amidst the chaos of the Great Schism and the city's fall to the Flood, bailed out as the keyship entered Earth's atmosphere, landing in the jungles of Tanzania.''Halo 3'', campaign level, Arrival The Spartan was successfully Recovery of John-117|recovered by UNSC forces.''Halo 3'', campaign level, Sierra 117 During the ensuing Battle of Kenya|battle, the UNSC would Attack on Crow's Nest|destroy their local command center, Crow's Nest (location)|Crow's Nest, to prevent its fall to the Covenant, before mobilizing for an assault on Covenant anti-aircraft defences in the city of Voi.''Halo 3'', campaign level, Crow's Nest After Assault on the Tsavo Highway|clearing the Covenant-held Tsavo highway (location)|Tsavo Highway, a UNSC assault force spearheaded by John-117 Battle of Voi|pushed into Voi.''Halo 3'', campaign level, Tsavo Highway While they managed to successfully destroy a number of Ogab'd-pattern anti-aircraft Wraith|Anti-Aircraft Wraiths as well as a Skar'wa-pattern Mantis|Mantis Anti-Aircraft Cannon, the subsequent strike by Battle Group Victory failed to destroy the keyship and Truth successfully activated the portal.''Halo 3'', campaign level, The Storm The Prophet fled through the portal along with his fleet while the UNSC were forced to deal with the arrival of the Flood-controlled ''Indulgence of Conviction''. With the assistance of the newly-arrived Sangheili Fleet of Retribution, the Flood outbreak was contained before it could spread across the planet. After a short meeting on board the ''Shadow of Intent'', Terrence Hood|Admiral Terrence Hood allowed the to accompany the Sangheili through the portal in pursuit of the Prophet of Truth while he remained behind to coordinate the remaining UNSC defences at Earth.''Halo 3'', campaign level, Floodgate
Upon their arrival at the Ark, the Prophet of Truth's fleet remained in orbit above the installation to face the human and Sangheili forces they knew would follow, while the Hierarch fortified himself within Installation 00 Citadel|one of the Ark's superluminal communication arrays. The Prophet activated a defensive barrier around the citadel and the Ark's Foundry (location)|Foundry, while deploying large numbers of ground forces around the barrier towers maintaining the shield as well as sending a contingent of Covenant troops led by the ambitious Jiralhanae Jiralhanae Chieftain|Chieftain Cethegus to a nearby Cartographer facility, in order to keep his location hidden while he prepared to activate the Halo Array and commence the Covenant's Covenant religion#The Great Journey|"Great Journey".''Halo 3'', campaign level, The Covenant (level)|The Covenant File:H3 - Retribution Victory vs Truths Fleet.png|thumb|left|250px|Truth's Jiralhanae Fleet confronting the Fleet of Retribution above Installation 00. On 2552#December|December 11, 2552, the Fleet of Retribution exited slipspace near Installation 00. Upon discovering the Prophet of Truth's numerically-superior fleet waiting for them, Fleetmaster Rtas 'Vadum confidently stated that it would be an even fight. As the opposing fleets Battle of Installation 00|clashed over the Ark, the deployed a force of six D77H-TCI Pelicans, Kilo 023|one of them co-piloted by Avery Johnson|Sergeant Avery Johnson and carrying SPARTAN-II program|Spartan John-117 and a strike force of ODSTs from the 7th Shock Troops Battalion. Realising that Truth's Anodyne Spirit|ship wasn't taking part in the orbital battle, Miranda Keyes|Commander Miranda Keyes surmised that he had brought the vessel down to the surface of the installation, to which Johnson replied that they would find the Prophet. As the flight of Pelicans navigated through the battling warships over the Ark, one of them was lost to strafing Kai-pattern Seraph|Seraph fighters but the other dropships succeeded in entering the installation's atmosphere.
The battle
File:H3 ArkStrikeTeam.png|thumb|left|250px|John-117 and his strike team deploying onto the Ark's surface. As ''Kilo 023'', containing John-117 and his strike team flew in low over Installation 00's vast desert, Sergeant Johnson told the strike team that their immediate priority was to secure a landing zone suitable for the ''Forward Unto Dawn'' to deploy UNSC armor onto the Ark's surface. Johnson also told them to be on the lookout for any sources of information that could help them learn more about the installation as they went. The Pelicans arrived at a cliff edge, and John-117, armed with a SRS99D-S2 AM sniper rifle|sniper rifle and the ODSTs deployed to the surface while another Pelican dropped off several more ODSTs. As the team moved forward, one of the ODSTs spotted the Milky Way galaxy in the sky and expressed his amazement before their squad leader told him to focus on their current task. The team came upon a Covenant encampment, where a group of Unggoy, Kig-Yar and Jiralhanae were listening to a holography|holographic projection of the Prophet of Truth, who was explaining that his Anodyne Spirit|ship was unable to participate in the orbital battle, while urging his loyal troops to destroy the Sangheili fleet. As the team took up positions on a ledge overlooking the encampment, the squad leader told John to take the first shot with his sniper. John quickly set his sights on one of the gathered Covenant soldiers and fired, with the ODSTs following suit. Catching the Covenant off guard, the strike team were able to effectively whittle down their numbers. Additional infantry arrived from a nearby cave while several Unggoy Unggoy Heavy|Heavies attempted to use Pek-pattern plasma cannon|plasma cannons mounted on a deployable lookout tower to suppress the UNSC forces but eventually all of the Covenant soldiers fell. With the area secure, the ODST squad leader reported that there was more enemy contacts on the other side of the cave. File:H3 ArkAmbush.png|thumb|250px|John-117 ambushing Covenant forces constructing an anti-aircraft battery. The team arrived at the next encampment where the Covenant were in the process of constructing a Skar'wa-pattern Mantis|Mantis Anti-Aircraft Cannon. Recognising the grave threat that the emplacement would pose to the ''Forward Unto Dawn'' were it to be completed, the strike team opted to prevent this. The squad leader again told John to take the first shot. As the battle began, the Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantom that was assembling the emplacement dropped it's component pieces and fled. As the battle turned against the Covenant's favor, a second Phantom arrived, deploying a Mgalekgolo pair, who charged forward while the surviving Covenant forces retreated from the encampment. After a struggle, the strike team were able to eliminate the Covenant gestalts, before finishing off the remaining infantry in the nearby rocks. The team ascended up a nearby ridge, where a final group of Unggoy led by a Jiralhanae Captain attempted to stop them but failed. Commander Keyes reported that the ''Forward Unto Dawn'' was heavily outmatched by the Covenant vessels over the Ark and told John that finding a landing zone for the frigate was their priority. As the team moved through a small corridor in the cliff wall, John took a small detour, where he accessed the Forerunner Terminal (Halo 3)|terminal network for the first time. On the other side of the cliff, the team discovered several UNSC Marine Corps|Marine survivors from a nearby downed Pelican. A flaming GA-TL1 Longsword|Longsword roared through the ravine, crashing ahead of the team's position. One of the Marines from the Pelican reported that Covenant anti-aircraft fire had brought down their dropship, but they had managed to spot an area suitable for the ''Forward Unto Dawn'' to land before they had crashed. The group moved forward to a small ledge overlooking the Marine's downed Pelican which was currently being searched by a Covenant lance. While the Marine's M12 Chaingun Warthog|Warthog had been destroyed, a pair of nearby M274 Mongoose|Mongooses were still intact and able to be used. The team ambushed the Covenant forces at the Pelican and quickly took them out. Their reprieve was short-lived, as two Jiralhanae Qavardu Workshop Prowler|Prowlers arrived, one of them disgorging its occupants while the other circled the area, using its plasma cannon to pin the humans down. Despite this, the UNSC forces were able to neutralize the Prowlers and moved down to the Pelican wreckage, where they were able to scavenge ammunition while overhearing snippets from the ongoing space battle above them. File:H3 ArkLongswordCrashSite.png|thumb|left|250px|Covenant forces patrolling a crashed Longsword. The team mounted up on the available vehicles and rolled into the next valley where the Longsword had gone down. The crash site was patrolled by Covenant infantry and vehicles including several Barukaza Workshop Chopper|Choppers and Karo'etba-pattern Ghost|Ghosts. The now mobilized UNSC forces were able to crush the Covenant opposition and move past the crash site as well as an overturned Warthog and several vacant M8823 drop pod|M8823 SOEIVs whose occupants had been killed shortly after landing. The team wiped out a small group of Unggoy near a crashed Phantom in the next area and overheard more reports from the orbital battle, this time from a Jiralhanae fleet commander. In the larger area beyond the downed Phantom the team discovered a large Forerunner wall where the Covenant were under attack by the Ark's Aggressor Sentinel|Sentinel defenders. John-117 and his strike force fought past several Choppers and a Covenant position reinforced by Covenant defense barrier|defense barriers and onto the upper level of the wall where they assisted the Sentinels in finishing off the remaining Covenant forces. While the strike team were anxious about the Sentinel's presence, the Forerunner constructs didn't fire on the humans. ''Kilo 023'' arrived, with Sergeant Johnson reporting that they had spotted a Cartographer|structure beyond the wall that matched Cortana's reports of the Cartographer facility on Installation 04. Commander Keyes told them that they would push through the wall once they had secured a landing zone for the ''Forward Unto Dawn'', and Johnson opted to lead the strike team to the landing zone, telling them to follow ''Kilo 023''. File:H3 Ark SentinelsVsCovenant.png|thumb|250px|Covenant forces battling Aggressor Sentinels. As the team made their way towards the landing zone, they were attacked by several Unggoy-piloted Ghosts under a large overhang before arriving at the cave entrance leading to the LZ, where several Marines were pinned down near their destroyed vehicles by encroaching Covenant forces. After the area was secure, the Marines reported that the landing zone was heavily occupied by Covenant armor. With this, the strike team moved through the cave, emerging into the open area which was occupied by a , a brace of Ghosts, numerous plasma cannons and a pair of deployable lookout towers. Further back was a pair of Ogab'd-pattern anti-aircraft Wraith|Anti-Aircraft Wraiths that would need to be destroyed to allow the ''Forward Unto Dawn'' to land safely. Despite the heavy Covenant presence, John-117 and the ODSTs successfully destroyed the Covenant armor protecting the Anti-Aircraft Wraiths, before wiping out a final Jiralhanae pack and the Wraiths. With the area now secure, Commander Keyes brought the ''Forward Unto Dawn'' into the landing zone. The team were forced to take cover as the frigate's arrival sent debris from the battle scattering across the area. Having arrived safely, The ''Dawn'' lowered it's hangar, deploying a trio of M808C Scorpion|Scorpion tanks and a Warthog along with 343 Guilty Spark while Marine reinforcements arrived on ''Kilo 023''. The surviving ODSTs from the Master Chief's strike team proceeded to board the Pelican.
File:H3 Ark FUD-LZ.png|thumb|left|250px|Forward Unto Dawn deploying armor for the push to the Cartographer. As the UNSC armor fanned out from the ''Forward Unto Dawn's'' hangar bay and a unit of Marines led by Marcus Stacker|Gunnery Sergeant Marcus Stacker assembled to mount the vehicles, Sergeant Johnson reported that the Sangheili had located the Cartographer. The facility lay on the other side of the wall that John and his strike team had cleared, but the building was protected by a battalion-sized unit of Covenant heavy armor. Commander Keyes replied that they would use their own armor to push through the wall and confront the Covenant head on. 343 Guilty Spark told them that he would do his best to unlock any doors that obstructed the convoy, despite his unfamiliarity with Installation 00 and its security systems. John commandeered one of the vehicles just as a unit of Ghosts and a Prowler entered from the nearby cave, killing the Marines guarding it. The Covenant had re-deployed forces on the path leading to the wall, hoping to stop the UNSC from reaching the Cartographer. The convoy moved forward, destroying the Covenant vehicles that had arrived in the area. A Mgalekgolo pair then emerged from the cave, but were easily taken down by the Scorpion tanks. As the Marines expressed glee at their heavy firepower, the convoy rolled through the cave. On the other side, they managed to destroy a Phantom that was in the process of deploying infantry and Shade turrets. Under the next overhang, a larger unit of Ghosts and a single Wraith blocked the UNSC's path while another deployable lookout tower carrying infantry was stationed at the top of the rise. Ultimately, the humans were successful in defeating the Covenant forces and made it into the area where the wall was located. The Covenant had deployed large numbers of forces to protect the wall, including several Wraiths, Choppers and numerous Shades. A Phantom delivered another Wraith in front of the locked door on the upper level of the wall when the Covenant presence began to wane. Stacker had the convoy form up at the lower level while John proceeded along the upper floor with 343 Guilty Spark. After the area was clear, 343 Guilty Spark opened up the door on the upper level, imploring the humans to avoid collateral damage to the installation. With the way now open, John proceeded inside while the rest of the convoy entered the wall through the lower door. File:H3 Ark ArmorBattle.png|thumb|250px|UNSC and Covenant armor clash in front of the Cartographer. After opening up another door inside the wall, Spark led John to a panel overlooking a deep chasm. Spark informed John that the panel would activate a light bridge that would allow the convoy to cross the chasm below. After activating the bridge, John discovered another terminal console. As the Spartan made his way through the wall, passing by several destroyed Sentinels, he felt the building shake as a Covenant made its way over the wall. As John emerged from the wall, the assault platform made its way past him out into the desert. He observed several Warthogs leaving the wall's lower level only to get destroyed by the numerous Wraiths in the immediate vicinity. A M12G1 Gauss Warthog|Gauss Warthog made its way up to his location, strafed by several Ghosts which killed the gunner. The driver dismounted next to John, offering the Spartan the controls. The Spartan made his way down towards the lower level while the gunner destroyed a number of Ghosts as well as a position consisting of Unggoy and Kig-Yar infantry. As they arrived at the wall, the Scorpion tanks emerged and began to trade fire with the Wraiths and Choppers in the area. Gunnery Sergeant Stacker, operating one of the tanks, led the UNSC forces as they clashed with several lines of Wraiths and Ghosts. At the second line, a Phantom deployed a team of fuel rod gun-wielding Jiralhanae troops in an effort to destroy the Scorpions but the Brutes were soon taken out. The Scarab eventually returned, clambering down from the Cartographer building into the battlefield. With the help of Stacker and his armoured column, John-117 was able to destroy the Scarab, igniting an explosion that was noticed by Rtas 'Vadum in orbit. 'Vadum reported that his fleet had triumphed over the Jiralhanae, leaving the Covenant ground forces on the Ark stranded and without reinforcements. As the ''Shadow of Intent'' entered the atmosphere, 'Vadum expressed his desire for revenge on the Prophet once his location was discovered. A number of Marines dismounted from their vehicles, assisting John as he pushed his way up the ramps of the Cartographer building, engaging several groups of Covenant infantry as they went. On the top of the spire, ''Kilo 023'' arrived, carrying Arbiter Thel 'Vadam and a pair of Marines. Spark arrived, unsealing the entrance to the facility, allowing John, Thel and the Marines to enter. File:H3 Ark CartographerEntrance.png|thumb|left|250px|343 Guilty Spark unlocking a door in the Cartographer facility.
In the foyer of the facility, Spark attempted to open a sealed door ran into trouble unlocking it. One of the Marines with the group offered to assist, but when he moved up to the door, Spark shocked him with his small energy beam, causing the Marine to yelp in pain. While the rest of the team reacted with shock and readied their weaponry, Spark explained that he didn't want the Marine to come to harm. Eventually the monitor succeeded in opening the door, revealing a room full of sleeping Unggoy and a Jiralhanae Urinating Brute|urinating in the corner. Thel expressed disdain at the slumbering Covenant troops and told John to take them out silently. The Spartan made quick work of the Covenant in the room, killing them all before they could raise an alarm. Following Spark's lead, the group made their way through the facility, making their way down to the level where the Carotgrapher terminal was located. The group managed to take out another group of unwary Covenant in the next large room while John accessed another Forerunner terminal console in the small room nearby. The team's cover was blown as they reached the level where the console was located, as a Jiralhanae soldier opened the door as the group approached. John, Thel and the Marines managed to eliminate the Jiralhanae pack and their Kig-Yar support guarding the Cartographer. The two Marines remained in the room to guard it while the Spartan and Sangheili moved on to the Cartographer. John accessed the console, expressing surprise regarding the installation's location beyond the rim of the Milky Way galaxy. 343 Guilty Spark confirmed to the Master Chief that the installation was indeed the Ark. Spark was surprised to learn that the Ark was not a shield world as he had expected, explaining that Forerunner|his creators had compartmentalized his knowledge of other installations besides his Installation 04|own Halo ring, in case he was captured by the Flood. The monitor pinpointed the Prophet of Truth's location: a Installation 00 Citadel|facility near the Ark's Foundry (location)|Foundry, before informing them of the energy barrier he had erected around the core. Spark then realized that a Installation 08|replacement Halo for the destroyed Installation 04 was being created inside the Foundry but before the monitor could say anything, a Covenant Phantom arrived near the console. As Thel engaged the dropship's gunner from the ground, John managed to get Spark to move out of the line of fire. With newfound urgency, Spark told John that they needed to get past the barrier around the Ark's core, before Truth wiped everything out, including the newly-created replacement for his lost Halo ring. File:H3 Ark CethegusWaiting.png|thumb|250px|Jiralhanae Chieftain Cethegus preparing to challenge John-117 while his pack observes. Sergeant Johnson radioed John, warning him of a large group of Covenant aircraft approaching his position, telling him to get back into the facility while the UNSC air forces took them out. At this time, the ambitious Jiralhanae Chieftain Cethegus became aware of the Spartan's intrusion and was charged with halting his progress by the Prophet of Truth. Seeking to claim the title of Chieftain of the Jiralhanae after it's Tartarus|previous holder was slain in battle by the Arbiter, Cethegus knew that he would surely be granted this honor should he kill the "Demon". Meanwhile, John made his way back into the facility while Thel boarded a nearby Type-26 Banshee|Banshee, killing it's Jiralhanae pilot and taking the aircraft to help Johnson deal with the Covenant reinforcements. As one of the Marines told John that ''Kilo 023'' would land to extract them on the level below their current position, the other Marine was killed by Type-1 Antipersonnel Grenade|plasma grenades thrown by Unggoy soldiers. John and the remaining Marine made their way into the room, quickly avenging the fallen UNSC soldier before engaging more Jiralhanae forces led by a Jiralhanae War Chieftain|War Chieftain while 343 Guilty Spark pondered the creation of a possible replacement for Installation 04 but refusing to jump to conclusions. John reached the lower level, where the room was empty save for Cethegus on the lower level. The Chieftain taunted the Spartan before retreating out of the room. John was then attacked by a number of Jiralhanae Stalker|Stalkers left to deal with him while Cethegus regrouped with his Jiralhanae Jumper|flight-fighters on an exterior platform. John managed to defeat the Cloaking|camouflaged Jiralhanae and their Kig-Yar backup before making his way outside to where Cethegus and his pack waited. A holography|holographic projection of the Prophet of Truth instructed Cethegus to best John in combat by himself, or he would be left behind on the Covenant's "Great Journey". With the Prophet's words ringing in his ear and inspired by his pack's frenzied roars, Cethegus activated his Gravity hammer (fiction)|gravity hammer and challenged the Spartan. The two then begun battle while the Jiralhanae Jumpers waited on the edge of the platform. John successfully managed to kill the Chieftain, resulting in his pack-mates and a pair of Kig-Yar marksmen attempting to avenge their fallen commander but they too were defeated by John. With the platform now secure and the Covenant presence in the air neutralized, ''Kilo 023'' arrived to pick up the Spartan. Before the Chief could board the dropship, they were caught by surprise by a massive flock of Sentinels rising up from below. As Sergeant Johnson spun the Pelican's bay-mounted AIE-486H machine gun|heavy machine gun in anticipation of a fight, Spark cautioned him not to fire, explaining that the constructs were instead leaving to fulfill a separate task elsewhere on the installation but he was unable to explain the nature of the task. Although Spark wanted to find a terminal closer to the Ark's core to learn more about Cortana's purported "solution" to the Flood threat, Commander Keyes and Thel 'Vadam told him that their priority was stopping the Prophet of Truth from activating the Halo Array, and that until this was completed, they could not concern themselves with anything else. With his objective completed, John boarded ''Kilo 023'' and the Pelican left the Cartographer.
Aftermath File:TruthDeath-large.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Thel 'Vadam kills the Prophet of Truth, bringing an end to the Covenant. After successfully discerning the Prophet of Truth's location and aware of the heavy array of defenses the Hierarch had placed around the Citadel, the UNSC and Sangheili launched a joint Battle of the Citadel|assault on a trio of barrier towers; having learned from 343 Guilty Spark that this would be enough to drop a section of the shield and allow the ''Shadow of Intent'' to destroy the Citadel. While they were successful in deactivating the towers, Sergeant Johnson was captured by the Covenant and brought to the Citadel to be used by Truth to activate the Array due to his status as a Reclaimer|"Reclaimer" and the ''Shadow of Intent'' was damaged by debris from the Flood-infested High Charity, which arrived during the battle, forcing the UNSC/Sangheili alliance to begin a ground assault on the Citadel. Ultimately, they would destroy all Covenant opposition in front of the Citadel and a team consisting of John-117, Thel 'Vadam and N'tho 'Sraom|several Usze 'Taham|Sangheili would storm the Citadel's interior, forming a brief alliance of the Flood to destroy the last vestiges of Covenant resistance and make their way to Truth, but were too late to stop Commander Keyes' death at the Prophet's hand and the beginning of the activation process. Eventually, the Prophet of Truth would meet his death at the hand of Thel 'Vadam and John-117 would halt the activation of the Array, resulting in the fragmentation of the Covenant.
After learning of the existence of Installation 08 and recognizing it as the "solution" to the Flood Cortana had mentioned in the message he had retrieved from the ''Indulgence of Conviction'' on Earth, John Raid on High Charity|ventured alone into the remains of High Charity to retrieve his missing Artificial intelligence|AI companion while the UNSC and Sangheili command coordinated the departure of their forces from the Ark. John eventually retrieved Cortana from deep within the Flood Flood hive|hive and escaped on a Pelican with the help of Thel 'Vadam.''Halo 3'', campaign level, ''Cortana (level)|Cortana'' While the ''Shadow of Intent'' left Installation 00 with surviving UNSC and Sangheili personnel on board, John, Thel, Cortana and Sergeant Johnson made their way to the Control Room (Installation 04)#Installation 08|control room of Installation 08 with the objective of firing the incomplete Halo ring to destroy the Flood presence on the Ark using the Activation Index#Installation 04|Activation Index that she had kept from Installation 04. While 343 Guilty Spark ultimately succumbed to Rampancy and mortally wounded Sergeant Johnson, John successfully started the Halo's activation sequence and he and Thel fled for the nearby ''Forward Unto Dawn'' on Johnson's M12 Chaingun Warthog|Warthog. They would successfully escape into slipspace while the installation fired, wiping out the Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare|majority of the remaining Flood on both the Halo ring and the nearby Ark. Unfortunately, the ''Forward Unto Dawn'' was sheared in half during it's escape, as the slipspace portal collapsed as the ring fired. The forward half, containing Thel 'Vadam successfully arrived at Earth while the rear section containing John-117 and Cortana fell out of slipspace in an unknown part of space, eventually arriving at the Forerunner shield world Requiem 2557|four years later.''Halo 3'', campaign level, Halo (Halo 3 level)|Halo
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|name= Battle for the Control Room
|image=File:H2A - ScarabConcept.png|300px
|conflict= *Human-Covenant War
*Battle of Installation 05
Great Schism
|date= 2552#November|November 3, 2552
|place= Installation 05, around the Control Room (Installation 05)|Control Room
|result=
Strategic UNSC/Covenant separatist victory Activation of Installation 05 prevented. Halo Array placed on standby mode Chieftain Tartarus killed
|side1= *United Nations Space Command Covenant separatists
|side2= Covenant
|commanders1=
Miranda Keyes|CDR Miranda Keyes Avery Johnson|SgtMaj Avery Johnson Arbiter Thel 'Vadamee Special Operations Commander Rtas 'Vadumee
|commanders2=
Chieftain of the Jiralhanae|Chieftain Tartarus
|forces1=
UNSC Marine Corps
*3 Marines
1 Protos-pattern Scarab|Scarab Covenant High Council
*Surviving Sangheili High Councilors Covenant Special Operations
*Special Operations Sangheili Sangheili Unggoy Mgalekgolo Karo'etba-pattern Ghost|Ghosts
1 Wuzum-pattern Spectre|Spectre
1 Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraith Type-26 Banshee|Banshees
|forces2=*Covenant military Covenant Honor Guard
*Jiralhanae Honor Guardsman|Jiralhanae Honor Guardsmen Jiralhanae Kig-Yar Yanme'e Karo'etba-pattern Ghost|Ghosts Wuzum-pattern Spectre|Spectres Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraiths Type-26 Banshee|Banshees Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantoms
|casual1=
Moderate-heavy
|casual2=
Chieftain Tartarus Majority of ground forces
}}
The Battle for the Control Room was an engagement during the latter stages of the larger Battle of Installation 05 in which Sangheili forces led by Arbiter Thel 'Vadamee fought to reach the Jiralhanae-held Control Room (Installation 05)|Control Room to prevent the Halo Array#Firing method|activation of the installation, ultimately forging an uneasy alliance with the surviving crew of the United Nations Space Command|UNSC ''UNSC In Amber Clad|In Amber Clad''.Halo 2, campaign level ''The Great Journey (level)|The Great Journey''
Background Following his brash and unprepared arrival at Earth, the Hierarch|High Prophet of Prophet of Regret|Regret was forced to withdraw as his Fleet of Sacred Consecration|small excavation fleet was overwhelmed by the planets defenses and his ground forces in the city of Mombasa were pushed back by UNSC ground forces.Halo 2, campaign level ''Outskirts''Halo 2, campaign level ''Metropolis'' The Prophet had his flagship, the ''Solemn Penance'' perform a Slipstream space|slipspace jump directly over New Mombasa, having discovered the location of Installation 05 using information he had gleaned from the Luminary recovered on Meridian.Halo 2: Anniversary - ''Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminal'' ''Beholden'' Unbeknownst to the Prophet, his ship was followed through slipspace by the UNSC . The two warships arrived in the Coelest system on 2552#November|November 2, 2552. As the ''Solemn Penance'' deployed ground forces to the surface, the human vessel deployed a strike force of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|ODSTs led by SPARTAN-II program|Spartan John-117 to Assassination of the Prophet of Regret|assassinate the Covenant Hierarch.Halo 2, campaign level ''Delta Halo'' Despite the arrival of the Covenant holy city High Charity and it's vast High Charity defense fleet|defense fleet, the Covenant were unable to prevent Regret's death at the hands of the Master Chief. Truth instead recalled the flotilla of Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantoms the fleet had dispatched and allowed his fellow Hierarch to die, having the fleet Glassing|glass the Temple (Installation 05)|temple instead.Halo 2, campaign level ''Regret (Halo 2 level)|Regret''
The following day, the Prophet of Truth had the Sangheili of the Covenant Honor Guard Changing of the Guard|replaced by the Jiralhanae, using the assassination of Regret to discredit the Sangheili and further his own agenda to ultimately take sole control of the Covenant.Halo 2, campaign level, ''Sacred Icon'' The Prophet of Truth sent the Arbiter of the Covenant, disgraced former Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice Thel 'Vadamee to the Sentinel wall encircling the Library in order to deactivate the Containment shield|shielding and allowing the Covenant to secure the Activation index that would allow them to ultimately activate the ring. While Thel was successful in this task, he inadvertently allowed the Flood within the Quarantine zone (location)|quarantine zone to spread and infest both Covenant troops and UNSC personnel of the ''In Amber Clad'' and gain access to weapons, vehicles and ultimately, control of the human frigate which they would later use to infest High Charity. After fighting through hordes of Flood and Sentinel defenses, Thel and a team of Special Operations Sangheili made it to a Anti-gravity gondola|gondola that would take them into the Library, following in close pursuit of remaining UNSC forces led by Miranda Keyes|Commander Keyes and Avery Johnson|Sergeant Johnson. Thel engaged Keyes and Johnson immediately after the former had retrieved the Index, incapacitating Johnson before Tartarus arrived, seizing both Keyes and the Index. As Tartarus' Jiralhanae surrounded Thel, the Chieftain of the Jiralhanae|chieftain revealed his intent to initiate the Great Schism on Truth's orders, before knocking the Arbiter into a deep pit below the Library.Halo 2, campaign level, ''Quarantine Zone''
File:H2A Terminals - Murder of the Councilors.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Sangheili High Councilors murdered by the Jiralhanae. A short time later, Tartarus' second-in-command, Jiralhanae Captain|Captain Melchus, led a contingent of heavily-armed Jiralhanae into the Control Room (Installation 05)|control room, where the Sangheili Sangheili High Councilor|High Councilors and many of their former Honor Guards were gathered to witness the activation of the ring and the culmination of the "Great Journey". The Jiralhanae proceeded to massacre the Sangheili, catching the unprepared Councilors off-guard. While they fought back, all of the Sangheili were eventually killed, with only G'torik 'Klemmee|one surviving due to his fall from the platform being broken by the dead bodies of his compatriots.Halo: Broken Circle, ''Chapter 16''
The Arbiter's own fall was broken by the Flood Gravemind, who resided deep below the Library. Here, Thel was confronted with not only John-117, who had similarly been captured by the Gravemind, but also the Monitor of Installation 05, 2401 Penitent Tangent and the reanimated corpse of the Prophet of Regret. While both the Gravemind and the Master Chief attempted to tell Thel of the Halo Array#Firing method|true purpose of the Halo rings, the Sangheili refused to listen. The Gravemind promised to show the defiant Arbiter the truth, using the installation's teleportation grid to send Thel to the cliffs near the control room.Halo 2, campaign level ''Gravemind (level)|Gravemind''
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File:H2A SpecOps Sangheili.png|thumb|left|250px|A Special Operations Sangheili assisting the Arbiter against the Jiralhanae. Thel 'Vadamee arrived on a cliff overlooking Installation 05's control room. He immediately located a Okarda'phaa-pattern plasma rifle|plasma rifle lying on ground smeared with Sangheili blood. As he moved towards a downed Sangheili Sangheili Minor|Minor, he heard and saw distant plasma fire as Jiralhanae troops killed off the last remaining Sangheili on the cliffs. In his final breath, the Minor warned Thel of the massacre of the Sangheili Councilors by the Jiralhanae. Taking the fallen warrior's Type-1 energy sword|energy sword, the Arbiter slew a trio of Jiralhanae that were pondering what to do with the Sangheili corpses. The captain in command of the Jiralhanae pack on the cliff ordered his men to find the Brutes that had failed to report in. Thel promptly engaged the pack in combat, and was assisted by a Active camouflage|camouflaged Special Operations Sangheili who emerged from the nearby structure. Once the area was clear, the Special Operations Sangheili confirmed the death of the Councilors and vowed to avenge them. A trio of Covenant drop pods arrived in the canyon; Sangheili reinforcements including a Sangheili Zealot|Zealot who was eager to go to war against the Brutes. The group of Sangheili formed up and moved through the structure into a cave with several Forerunner platforms where Jiralhanae and Kig-Yar patrolling. The group of Sangheili fought their way through the cave, killing groups of Jiralhanae, Kig-Yar and Yanme'e while unpinning a pair of Unggoy who supported the Covenant separatists|separatist cause.Halo 2, campaign level ''Uprising''
File:H2AJiralhanaeEncampment.png|250px|thumb|The Jiralhanae encampment. Thel and his allies fought their way through several more rooms containing Jiralhanae and Kig-Yar occupying positions fortified by Eeo'Pimu-pattern Shade|Shade turrets and encountering scattered Sangheili and Unggoy who assisted the separatists in their push. Eventually, the group made it outside the structure, where they eliminated a large pack of Jiralhanae before commandeering their parked Karo'etba-pattern Ghost|Ghosts. Now mobilized, Thel and his allies attacked a larger Covenant camp, overcoming several waves of Jiralhanae and Kig-Yar reinforcements. In the next camp, they assisted a cowering Unggoy by killing it's Kig-Yar overseer. The Unggoy mounted a nearby Shade and assisted the team in destroying the rest of the Covenant forces in the camp, including a Jiralhanae-operated Wuzum-pattern Spectre|Spectre which arrived from the camp's exit. The separatist movement pressed onward, wiping out a small camp of Kig-Yar before reaching a shallow river where Jiralhanae forces attempted to detonate a number of Plasma battery|plasma batteries with their Type-25 Brute Shot|Brute Shots. This attempt failed and all of the Covenant troops were wiped out. Thel and his allies arrived at a heavily-fortified Jiralhanae encampment|encampment where the Jiralhanae had stockpiled an assortment of UNSC and Covenant weaponry. The team were forced to destroy a pair of Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraiths, as well as a number of Kig-Yar Kig-Yar Sniper|snipers before they could enter the structure. Over the course of the battle, several more Sangheili arrived in drop pods to reinforce the group. As they made their way through the structure, the Sangheili accompanying Thel expressed their disgust at the weaponry the Brutes had stockpiled. A final group of Covenant including a pair of Ghosts guarding a nearby cave attempted to halt the separatists but were destroyed. Thel proceeded through the cave alone.
File:H2A - Rtas and Thel.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Arbiter informs 'Vadumee of the massacre of the Councilors at the hands of the Jiralhanae outside Halo's control room. On the other side of the cave, Thel was slowly approached by a Wraith. Unsure of the vehicle's allegiance, Thel raised his Vostu-pattern carbine|carbine but was relieved when Special Operations Commander|Commander Rtas 'Vadumee revealed himself to be the pilot. The Arbiter informed 'Vadumee of the slaughter of the Sangheili Councilors, to which 'Vadumee retorted that the Prophets had been foolish to trust the Jiralhanae. As the pair conversed, a pair of Phantoms flew overhead, towards the control room. One of the dropships deposited Tartarus and the captive Miranda Keyes and 343 Guilty Spark. The two entered the control room, and the door was sealed behind them.
File:H2ABastionOfTheBrutes.png|250px|thumb|The Bastion of the Brutes with a Protos-pattern Scarab|Scarab adjacent to it.
'Vadumee, remembering the words spoken by the Gravemind, stated his intention to get inside, to which 'Vadumee revealed he knew Protos-pattern Scarab|a way to break the doors. A Spectre piloted by a Special Operations Sangheili arrived, allowing the Arbiter to mount up. With the Spectre and 'Vadumee's Wraith, the group made their way through the canyon, engaging a unit of Jiralhanae-operated Ghosts and a Wraith. As another set of Forerunner structures came into view, re-purposed as the Bastion of the Brutes, 'Vadumee suggested they use the adjacent Protos Scarab to blast through the reinforced doors of the control room. A Phantom attempted to strafe the separatist vehicles while a pair of Wraiths and another pack of Jiralhanae guarding the entrance to the structures fought to keep the Sangheili out. Eventually 'Vadumee and his allies managed to defeat the Brutes. 'Vadumee declared his intent to retake a nearby from the Jiralhanae, after waiting to ensure no Covenant reinforcements followed the group into the structure. Proceeding inward, 'Vadumee encountered another Special Operations Sangheili and a Mgalekgolo pair. After assuring the Arbiter that the gestalts were on the separatist side, the group made their way through a series of corridors and rooms and across an indoor cave, clearing out Jiralhanae positions as they went. On an outdoor bridge, a unit of Kig-Yar, Yanme'e and a Phantom engaged the Sangheili and Mgalekgolo. As the Covenant ground troops, the Phantom retreated allowing the Arbiter and his group to proceed into a holding area where several surviving Councilors and another Mgalekgolo pair were contained behind shield doors. Thel and his allies attacked, releasing the captives. Between them, they quickly wiped out the Jiralhanae presence in the room. On the exterior platform, the Jiralhanae were preparing to execute three captured UNSC Marine Corps|Marine Sergeants Johnson, Stacker and Banks. Just as Tartarus radioed the Brutes to kill the captives, 'Vadamee and his forces attacked the Jiralhanae, catching them off guard. Johnson took advantage of the confusion, signalling for Stacker and Banks to open fire with concealed Type-25 Plasma Pistols while he boarded and took control of the nearby Scarab.
File:H2A-Arbiter&Johnson.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Sergeant Johnson and the Arbiter confront Tartarus in the control room. A tense standoff ensued, with the human-controlled Scarab aiming it's focus cannon at Thel. Instead of firing, Sergeant Johnson proposed an alliance, suggesting that they work together to stop Tartarus from activating the ring, something they both knew would mean the deaths of all of them. With a shared goal and no alternatives, Thel agreed. A number of Sangheili landed their Type-26 Banshee|Banshees on the platform, allowing Thel to take control of one of them. Using the Banshee, Thel assisted Johnson in destroying a number of Jiralhanae-piloted Wraiths, Spectres, Banshees and Shade turrets while the Scarab made its way toward the control room. After arriving on the beach in front of the control room, Johnson used his Scarab's focus cannon to melt through the door. Thel proceeded into the control room alone, passing through a heavily-scorched corridor before arriving in the first room, where a number of Jiralhanae including several Jiralhanae Honor Guardsman|Honor Guardsmen arrived to stop him. Despite putting up a furious resistance, the Brutes soon fell and the Arbiter made his way inward. As Tartarus attempted to threaten Miranda Keyes to insert the Activation Index into the control room's The Core|Core, Thel arrived, ordering Tartarus to stop. As the surprised Jiralhanae chieftain turned to face the Arbiter, Thel announced that even the Hierarchs did not know everything about Halo. As Tartarus' bodyguards stepped forward menacingly, Tartarus halted them, angrily retorting that the Arbiter was speaking List of known Covenant heretics|heresy. Thel asked 343 Guilty Spark to explain the purpose of the Halo Array, but Tartarus furiously seized the monitor, warning him to not say anything more. Sergeant Johnson stepped in, aiming a Sulok-pattern beam rifle|particle beam rifle at the chieftain's head. As Tartarus' bodyguards snarled in fury, Johnson calmly threatened Tartarus to order them to stand down or he would fire on the chieftain. Sensing his life in danger, Tartarus brought his Jiralhanae into check. Now free to continue, 343 Guilty Spark proceeded to explain to the gathered forces the truth behind the purpose of the Halo Array. Rather than being a means of transcendence as the Hierarch's had promised, the rings were revealed to have been built by the Forerunners as a weapon of last resort against the Flood, used to eliminate all potential Flood hosts throughout the Milky Way|galaxy, adding that the Forerunners themselves had been wiped out by the superweapons. Stunned by the monitor's words, Thel told Tartarus that the Prophets had betrayed them all. Despite being confronted with the truth, Tartarus remained blinded by his loyalty to the Hierarchs and his hatred of the Sangheili. The Chieftain hurled Spark at Sergeant Johnson, knocking the Marine down and using the opportunity to force Commander Keyes to insert the Index into the Core, beginning the activation sequence. As the Halo charged up, Tartarus activated his invincibility shielding and hefted his Fist of Rukt|war hammer in preparation for battle.
File:HLC The Great Schism.jpg|thumb|250px|Arbiter Thel 'Vadam duels Chieftain of the Jiralhanae Tartarus.
A group of Sangheili charged into battle alongside Thel and Johnson, easily wiping out Tartarus' Jiralhanae bodyguards. The chieftain leapt to the central platform, followed closely by Thel and his Sangheili while Johnson remained on the catwalk to provide covering fire. Despite being heavily outnumbered and faced with multiple high-ranking Sangheili, Tartarus was able to use the Fist of Rukt along with his incredibly-durable energy shield to inflict heavy losses on his attackers. Using the gravity hammer to easily dispatch of any Sangheili who attempted to attack with Type-1 energy sword|energy swords and able to shrug off barrages of Okarda'phaa-pattern plasma rifle|plasma rifle and Type-33 needler|needler fire, it seemed as though Tartarus was invulnerable to attack. Only several consecutive shots from Johnson's particle beam rifle was able to bring the chieftain's shield down temporarily. Using this to his advantage, Thel managed to wear Tartarus down as his fellow Sangheili engaged Jiralhanae reinforcements. As they battled around the control room, Commander Keyes conversed with 343 Guilty Spark, eventually forcing the monitor to reveal that she could only stop the activation if she physically removed the Index, something she couldn't do while Tartarus was alive. Eventually Tartarus succumbed to the heavy damage inflicted upon him and fell before the Arbiter allowing Commander Keyes to run for the platform and remove the Index from the Core moments before the ring could fire. This prompted the installation to send out a pulse that set the remaining Halo rings to standby mode, ready to be activated from Installation 00.
Aftermath File:H2A - Battle of Delta Halo.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Installation 05's firing sequence is aborted. Despite the death of Tartarus, the Prophet of Truth was already heading for Earth, where Truth's fleet|his personal fleet had been excavating the buried Portal at Voi|portal that would lead to the Ark for the last two weeks, it's presence having been partially revealed following the Prophet of Regret's slipspace jump on October 20. Commandeering the Forerunner Anodyne Spirit|Dreadnought at the heart of High Charity, the sole remaining Hierarch left the holy city as it fell rapidly to the Flood, with SPARTAN-II program|Spartan John-117 stowed away onboard. Commander Keyes and Johnson, having learned the location of the portal from Spark, realized the necessity of getting to Earth before Truth, and they, along with Thel 'Vadam would depart from the Coelest system while Sangheili ships led by Rtas 'Vadumee remained to quarantine the installation, glassing the surface of the ring and destroying any Flood-controlled ships that attempted to escape.''Eleventh Hour reports'', Part 5 Despite this, Indulgence of Conviction|a single battlecruiser managed to escape the quarantine and make a slipspace jump to Earth, with ships of the Fleet of Retribution in pursuit.Halo 3, campaign level ''Floodgate''
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File:H2A BruteBetrayal.png|Jiralhanae shooting dead Sangheili on the cliffs near the installation's control room. File:H2A EliteInCover.png|A Sangheili Minor taking cover from Jiralhanae and Kig-Yar fire. File:H2A GhostVsSpectre.png|Sangheili-piloted Ghosts in combat with a Jiralhanae-controlled Spectre. File:H2A EncampmentBattle.png|A Wraith firing a plasma mortar at a Sangheili Minor. File:HTMCC-H2A SpecOps Sangheili and Mgalekgolo.jpg|A SpecOps Sangheili leading a pair of Mgalekgolo. File:HTMCC-H2A Sangheili Councillor Breakout.jpg|A Sangheili Councilor breaking free another Councilor. File:HTMCC-H2A Marines Resistance.jpg|Sergeants Stacker and Banks fighting their Jiralhanae captors. File:HTMCC-H2A Councillor with Carbine.jpg|A Sangheili Councilor firing Carbine at Tartarus and his Jiralhanae. File:H2A - GuiltyJohnsonMiranda.png|343 Guilty Spark helps Keyes and Johnson read the failsafe protocol.
List of appearances
''Halo 2''
''Halo: Broken Circle''
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual''
Sources
Category:UNSC victories |
|place = ''Truth and Reconciliation'' landing zone, Installation 04
|result =
Initial UNSC victory Total destruction of ''Truth and Reconciliation'' and all forces involved
|side1= United Nations Space Command
|side2= Covenant
|side3=Flood
|commanders1=
Major|Maj. Antonio Silva
|commanders2= Minor Prophet of Stewardship
|commanders3= Proto-Gravemind
|forces1 =
John-117
Three D77-TC Pelicans
312 humans
*235 UNSC Marine Corps|Marines and Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|ODSTs
*76 UNSC Navy|Naval personnel
|forces2=
Sangheili Unggoy Kig-Yar Mgalekgolo Covenant Special Operations strike team
*Special Operations Sangheili
*Special Operations Unggoy
|forces3=
Pod infectors Flood combat form|Combat forms Flood carrier form|Carrier forms
|casual1=
All UNSC forces destroyed
|casual2=
All remaining forces destroyed
*''Truth and Reconciliation''
|casual3=
All remaining forms killed
}}
During the Battle of Installation 04|ongoing campaign on Installation 04, the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' became the focus of an ongoing battle between the forces of the Covenant defenders, the Flood and the United Nations Space Command. The majority of the battle focused on a protracted struggle between the Flood and the Covenant for control of the ship, though the arrival of an ODST force late in the battle ultimately saw the vessel's capture and destruction.
Prelude On September 19, 2552, the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' was one of the several s to take part in a Battle over Installation 04|space engagement over Installation 04. During the fighting, the ''Reconciliation'' was heavily damaged by and forced to land to conduct maintenance and repairs, leading to the vessel being employed as a base of operations for Covenant ground forces on the ring. That evening, the ship was the subject of a Raid on the Truth and Reconciliation|raid conducted by a team led by John-117, using the simultaneous Raid on the Pillar of Autumn|raid on the downed ''Autumn'' as a distraction.
The raid was very damaging to the Covenant on the ring, with the ship's shipmaster|commanding officer Lat 'Ravamee killed and the fact proven that humans could trick the Covenant's detection systems. In response, the perimeter surrounding the ship's gravity lift was fortified and teams began a compartment-by-compartment sweep of the ship to ensure no humans remained in hiding.
Later on in the Battle of Installation 04|conflict, a series of Battle of Installation 04#Covenant fleet unrest|squabbles between the Fleet of Particular Justice's fleetmaster, Thel 'Vadamee and the assigned Minor Prophet, the Prophet of Stewardship, saw the former attempt to board the carrier ''Ascendant Justice'' - resulting in the Minor Prophet retreating groundside and establishing the still-grounded ''Truth and Reconciliation'' as his base of operations.
The battle
As the conflict on Alpha Halo bore on into its later stages, the fleet's command element issued a general order to evacuate the ring due to the ever-increasing growth of the Flood parasite. However, the parasite ultimately was able to attack the cruiser, ultimately managing to disable it before it could comply with the order. As a consequence, the Covenant deployed a strike team to begin the process of eradicating the infestation and readying the ship for lift-off. What followed was a long and bloody engagement, as Covenant forces fought to clear the ship's many compartments while the Flood continued to pour into the canyons surrounding the landing site.
Having successfully escaped the clutches of 343 Guilty Spark and temporarily disabled the ring's Phase pulse generator|firing mechanisms, Cortana was able to use the internal fusion reactor in the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|armour of John-117 to Slipspace translocation|teleport the Spartan to the ''Truth and Reconciliation''. Having established the need to destroy the ring, the duo determined that the best outcome was to use Captain Jacob Keyes' Command neural interface|CNI transponder to detonate the ''Pillar of Autumn''s fusion drives; hopefully blowing up the ring in the process. However, the Captain had been regarded as MIA since his disappearance in the Outbreak at the Containment Facility|Flood facility outbreak - with the only clue to his location being his CNI interface's transmission being located at the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.
The SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN was ultimately able to fight through the ship's seemingly-endless waves of Flood and Covenant attackers to the bridge - where he discovered that he was too late to save Keyes. Instead, the Flood had begun amassing biomatter in the bridge to construct a Proto-Gravemind, with Keyes at its centre. With no other options left, John punched through Keyes' skull to recover his neural interface, before escaping to the hangars to steal a Type-26 Banshee|Banshee and escape to the crash site of the ''Pillar of Autumn''.
While they attempted to rescue Keyes, Cortana was also able to link back up with the UNSC forces at Alpha Base (Installation 04)|Alpha Base and inform them of the current situation; the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' was spaceworthy and the ring was soon to be imminently destroyed. Consequently, Major Antonio Silva began to plan an operation to let his Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|ODST battalion escape the ring, by capturing the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' for themselves. If all went well, either Cortana or Wellsley would be able to fly the cruiser, at which point they would return to Earth with an intact Covenant vessel full of data on the Covenant and the ringworld, Flood and Covenant prisoners and a myriad of technology samples to reverse engineer.
On September 22, seventy-six hours after the initial Landing on Installation 04|landing on the Installation, the operation commenced, despite warnings by Wellsley that the Flood's continued presence aboard the ship could well endanger all life on Earth. However, Silva rejected the AI's suggestion, due to the officer's own ego and hubris.
In total, the human force consisted of fifteen scavenged Banshees, 236 UNSC Marine Corps|marines armed with close-quarters weaponry (the total surviving infantry complement under Alpha Base's command), 76 UNSC Navy|Naval personnel armed with scavenged Covenant Type-25 plasma pistol|plasma pistols and Okarda'phaa-pattern plasma rifle|rifles and three D77-TC Pelican with which to transport them. The Naval personnel were lightly armed as to allow them to carry supplies, and a group of sixteen individuals were deemed to have critical skills essential enough to warrant two Marine bodyguards each.
By this time, the Covenant force had been depleted enough by their fight against the Flood that only around fifteen Banshees remained in the air to conduct combat air patrol operations for the ''Reconciliation'', resulting in the craft being taken by surprise by the surprise attack launched from sunward by the fifteen human-piloted Banshees. Within a minute of fighting beginning, half of the Covenant Banshees were taken out of action, and the rest split off into individual dogfights. The attack was followed up by a rapid insertion via Pelican, with Lieutenant Peterson and his fellow pilots deploying a force of forty-five ODSTs led by Silva into the cruiser's shuttle bay to assault the ship's control room.
Simultaneously, a ground attack was launched by Melissa McKay on the gravity lift site, utilising an advantage of knowledge gathered from the previous raid on September 19. However, the ODSTs faced stubborn resistance, with the Covenant having thrice-fortified the ship compared to the defenses encountered two days prior. Rocket-equipped teams fired their rockets at the defending Sangheili|Elites and Mgalekgolo|Hunters before throwing M9 fragmentation grenade|grenades into the mix - clearing the defending party in thirty-six seconds. This team was designated to assault the ship's engineering bay, allowing UNSC forces effective control of the ship for flight. Thanks to the lightning attack conducted by the ODSTs, the humans were able to take control of more than 80% of the ship and capture the Prophet of Stewardship in short order, sealing off the compartments with known enemy activity for dealing with later. Instead, Silva prioritised getting the ship online and operational, vowing the make sure the cruiser was off the ground before the ring was detonated. In response to his capture, the Prophet of Stewardship sent out an emergency rescue request to the Fleet of Particular Justice, though the request was ignored as the fleet began to move to safe cover behind the gas giant Threshold.
As pre-flight preparations were conducted and personnel loaded onto the ship, the occupying humans continued to be periodically attacked by Flood hidden in the ship's access pathways. This circumstance caused McKay and Wellsley to urge Silva again to keep the ship grounded until all Flood presence could be cleared, though the request was once again refused. Ultimately, this answer came in the form of a fiber-optic cable linking the bridge to engineering, required to keep the ship operating. Initially, the now-infected Wallace Jenkins had attempted to lunge for the cable to prevent the Flood outbreak from spreading further though failed due to his restraints, ultimately inspiring McKay to do the same. The officer proceeded to detonate a grenade on the cable, causing the control links from the bridge to the engines to be severed, resulting in the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' crashing onto the surface of Installation 04.
List of appearances
''Halo: Combat Evolved''
''Halo: The Flood''
''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''
''Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo''
Sources
Category:Engagements in the Battle of Installation 04 |
|place=Tribute, Epsilon Eridani system
|result=Pyrrhic Covenant victory Tribute partially Glassing|glassed
|side1=* United Nations Space Command
|side2=* Covenant
|commanders1=Unknown
|commanders2=Unknown
|forces1=*UNSC Navy
*Epsilon Eridani Fleet UNSC Marine Corps
*Orbital Drop Shock Troopers UNSC Army SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II fireteam''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide'', p. 222
SPARTAN-III fireteam
9 S-930 Pegasus'
|forces2=*At least one ''Halo 4'', multiplayer map, Landfall - evacuation alert messages At least two s''Halo: Outpost Discovery'' - Covenant Escape At least four s''Halo 4'', multiplayer map, Landfall (level)|Landfall Jiralhanae packs
|casual1=*90% of evacuation fleet lost Unknown Army and Marine/ODST losses Half of Tribute's population Unidentified SPARTAN fireteam
|casual2=*Heavy ground losses Most ships
*''Supplication of Purity''
}}
The Battle for Tribute was an battle|engagement of the Human-Covenant War that took place on and around the planet Tribute in the Epsilon Eridani system in 2552#August|August 2552, between the Covenant and the United Nations Space Command.''Halo: Outpost Discovery'' - Hall of History - MA5D assault rifle exhibit The battle proved to be long-lasting, and only ended with the beginning of the Great Schism in 2552#November|November of 2552, when the Sangheili and Jiralhanae forces around Tribute turned on each other.
Battle After the Covenant began their Fall of Reach|invasion of Reach on 2552#July|July 24, 2552, they also attacked the other colonies in the Epsilon Eridani system, including Tribute. Despite the brave efforts of the United Nations Space Command forces protecting the planet, the Covenant soon gained the upper hand in the battle. Eventually, the Covenant began to target population and industrial centers for Orbital bombardment|orbital plasma bombardment. Orbital Drop Shock Trooper Corporal Taylor Miles was present during the evacuation of the colony, and witnessed the near total destruction of the UNSC Navy escort fleet in orbit as they protected civilian refugees where the fleet suffered ninety percent losses.''Halo 3: ODST'', Dutch's biography UNSC Army|Army forces also participated in the battle.''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide'', p. 20
The battle apparently lasted for some time, as the Covenant continued to blockade the planet. SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II Team Black was sent to Verge to destroy a beacon supplying the Covenant ships with helium used as fuel in their reactors. Team Black succeeded in their mission, presumably hindering the Covenant assault.''Halo: Evolutions'', Blunt Instruments As the battle continued, Jiralhanae forces began to land in force. Although, much to their surprise, stiff UNSC and civilian resistance left the packs bloodier than their Jiralhanae Chieftain|chieftains had anticipated. However, with the Covenant having uncontested control of most of the skies and space at Tribute, the UNSC could do little to save the colony.
The city of Jaeraub came under attack during the battle. The western front would take the brunt of the Covenant assault. A platoon of the 105th Shock Troops Division were deployed to counter the force. In the end, they delayed the Covenant long enough to evacuate the city's civilians.
The Battle of Casbah saw numerous conflicts between Covenant and UNSC forces in Casbah City, the capital of Tribute. During one of the final engagements in the city, a SPARTAN-III program|Spartan III fireteam engaged the massive Covenant assault force in the capital, as did a team of SPARTAN-II program|Spartan IIs. One of these Spartan teams stayed behind, holding off a large Covenant force so a small number of remaining civilians could escape the colony; they were ultimately killed, though their mission was successful.
Ironically, Tribute's survival is credited to the interference from the Covenant's Prophet of Truth|High Prophets of Truth and Prophet of Regret|Regret, who both began to consolidate their loyal forces once Installation 04 was discovered on 2552|September 19, 2552. The remaining Covenant ships in Tribute's orbit targeted human forces when they could, but they did so with little interest. Otherwise, most Covenant forces on the planet simply waited for new orders and began moving orbital ship wreckage in preparation for a renewed campaign of glassing the defenseless Tribute.
While the Covenant fleet in orbit managed to somewhat glass the planet, the battle became interrupted when the Great Schism began on 2552#November|November 2, 2552. The Sangheili and Jiralhanae forces on the planet turned on each other and ignored Tribute's humans. As the Covenant civil war resulted in the destruction of most Covenant ships over the planet, human survivors could only look on in confusion. At some point during the battle, the ''Supplication of Purity'' would be destroyed, crash-landing on Tribute mostly intact.
Aftermath Tribute's fall was considered one of the defining tragedies of the Human-Covenant War, as it had huge economic ramifications on Earth and the surviving colonies in the post-war period. Tribute was glassing|partially glassed in the conclusion of the battle,''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide'', p. 177 although it would be restored to a habitable state in the postwar years as the survivors rallied to the planet's eventual reclamation and rebuilding.''Halo: First Strike'', Tug o' War (2010) Many of Tribute's major cities were heavily damaged and few industrial sites were left unscathed. Over half of Tribute's population was killed during the battle, but Earth was unable to provide any immediate assistance with the colonies of the Sol system in ruins after the Covenant's invasion. However, enough infrastructure remained intact on the planet to allow Tribute's survivors to begin rebuilding the planet's ecology and once powerful economy. Though the UEG and UNSC still had to deal with Covenant remnants that remained in the system following the war. Following the battle, prototypes of the Visor color|Rex VISR were tested by UNSC Marine Corps units to track down Jiralhanae holdouts on the planet. At some point between 2555 and 2558, UNSC Central Command Region One entered Operation: SENTRY|negotiations with Covenant fleet remnants, with Olympia Vale serving as an advisor.''Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition'', Spartan Locke's Classified Orders
During the battle, the freighter ''Floral Express'' fled the planet while carrying colonial refugees. Presumably following a random slipspace trajectory per the Cole Protocol, the ship arrived near Installation 03 in the Khaphrae system on 2552#October|October 8, 2552.''Eleventh Hour reports - #5'' This would lead the Office of Naval Intelligence to uncover the Composer after the war, which would be secured on nearby Ivanoff Station.
Following the Covenant war, the MA5D assault rifle used by Vanus Hamaad at Jaeraub was displayed at Outpost Discovery. The wreckage of the ''Supplication of Purity'' would also be recovered from Tribute and later used as part of an exhibit at Outpost Discovery.
In 2558, 's SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan-IV complement used a simulation of the Casbah theater for their War Games training to honor the sacrifice of the SPARTAN-IIIs who died there.
Gallery
File:H4 Landfall Corvette.jpg|Covenant forces lay siege on Casbah City. File:H4 Landfall Corvette 2.jpg|A Covenant light cruiser and corvette over Casbah.
List of appearances
''Halo 3: ODST Pre-mission Evaluation''
''Halo 3: ODST''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''Blunt Instruments''
''Halo: Reach''
''Halo 4''
''Halo: Outpost Discovery''
*''Covenant Escape''
*''Hall of History''
Notes
Sources
Category:Covenant victories |
|place=Tribute, Epsilon Eridani system
|result=Pyrrhic Covenant victory Tribute partially Glassing|glassed
|side1=* United Nations Space Command
|side2=* Covenant
|commanders1=Unknown
|commanders2=Unknown
|forces1=*UNSC Navy
*Epsilon Eridani Fleet UNSC Marine Corps
*Orbital Drop Shock Troopers UNSC Army SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II fireteam''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide'', p. 222
SPARTAN-III fireteam
9 S-930 Pegasus'
|forces2=*At least one ''Halo 4'', multiplayer map, Landfall - evacuation alert messages At least two s''Halo: Outpost Discovery'' - Covenant Escape At least four s''Halo 4'', multiplayer map, Landfall (level)|Landfall Jiralhanae packs
|casual1=*90% of evacuation fleet lost Unknown Army and Marine/ODST losses Half of Tribute's population Unidentified SPARTAN fireteam
|casual2=*Heavy ground losses Most ships
*''Supplication of Purity''
}}
The Battle for Tribute was an battle|engagement of the Human-Covenant War that took place on and around the planet Tribute in the Epsilon Eridani system in 2552#August|August 2552, between the Covenant and the United Nations Space Command.''Halo: Outpost Discovery'' - Hall of History - MA5D assault rifle exhibit The battle proved to be long-lasting, and only ended with the beginning of the Great Schism in 2552#November|November of 2552, when the Sangheili and Jiralhanae forces around Tribute turned on each other.
Battle After the Covenant began their Fall of Reach|invasion of Reach on 2552#July|July 24, 2552, they also attacked the other colonies in the Epsilon Eridani system, including Tribute. Despite the brave efforts of the United Nations Space Command forces protecting the planet, the Covenant soon gained the upper hand in the battle. Eventually, the Covenant began to target population and industrial centers for Orbital bombardment|orbital plasma bombardment. Orbital Drop Shock Trooper Corporal Taylor Miles was present during the evacuation of the colony, and witnessed the near total destruction of the UNSC Navy escort fleet in orbit as they protected civilian refugees where the fleet suffered ninety percent losses.''Halo 3: ODST'', Dutch's biography UNSC Army|Army forces also participated in the battle.''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide'', p. 20
The battle apparently lasted for some time, as the Covenant continued to blockade the planet. SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II Team Black was sent to Verge to destroy a beacon supplying the Covenant ships with helium used as fuel in their reactors. Team Black succeeded in their mission, presumably hindering the Covenant assault.''Halo: Evolutions'', Blunt Instruments As the battle continued, Jiralhanae forces began to land in force. Although, much to their surprise, stiff UNSC and civilian resistance left the packs bloodier than their Jiralhanae Chieftain|chieftains had anticipated. However, with the Covenant having uncontested control of most of the skies and space at Tribute, the UNSC could do little to save the colony.
The city of Jaeraub came under attack during the battle. The western front would take the brunt of the Covenant assault. A platoon of the 105th Shock Troops Division were deployed to counter the force. In the end, they delayed the Covenant long enough to evacuate the city's civilians.
The Battle of Casbah saw numerous conflicts between Covenant and UNSC forces in Casbah City, the capital of Tribute. During one of the final engagements in the city, a SPARTAN-III program|Spartan III fireteam engaged the massive Covenant assault force in the capital, as did a team of SPARTAN-II program|Spartan IIs. One of these Spartan teams stayed behind, holding off a large Covenant force so a small number of remaining civilians could escape the colony; they were ultimately killed, though their mission was successful.
Ironically, Tribute's survival is credited to the interference from the Covenant's Prophet of Truth|High Prophets of Truth and Prophet of Regret|Regret, who both began to consolidate their loyal forces once Installation 04 was discovered on 2552|September 19, 2552. The remaining Covenant ships in Tribute's orbit targeted human forces when they could, but they did so with little interest. Otherwise, most Covenant forces on the planet simply waited for new orders and began moving orbital ship wreckage in preparation for a renewed campaign of glassing the defenseless Tribute.
While the Covenant fleet in orbit managed to somewhat glass the planet, the battle became interrupted when the Great Schism began on 2552#November|November 2, 2552. The Sangheili and Jiralhanae forces on the planet turned on each other and ignored Tribute's humans. As the Covenant civil war resulted in the destruction of most Covenant ships over the planet, human survivors could only look on in confusion. At some point during the battle, the ''Supplication of Purity'' would be destroyed, crash-landing on Tribute mostly intact.
Aftermath Tribute's fall was considered one of the defining tragedies of the Human-Covenant War, as it had huge economic ramifications on Earth and the surviving colonies in the post-war period. Tribute was glassing|partially glassed in the conclusion of the battle,''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide'', p. 177 although it would be restored to a habitable state in the postwar years as the survivors rallied to the planet's eventual reclamation and rebuilding.''Halo: First Strike'', Tug o' War (2010) Many of Tribute's major cities were heavily damaged and few industrial sites were left unscathed. Over half of Tribute's population was killed during the battle, but Earth was unable to provide any immediate assistance with the colonies of the Sol system in ruins after the Covenant's invasion. However, enough infrastructure remained intact on the planet to allow Tribute's survivors to begin rebuilding the planet's ecology and once powerful economy. Though the UEG and UNSC still had to deal with Covenant remnants that remained in the system following the war. Following the battle, prototypes of the Visor color|Rex VISR were tested by UNSC Marine Corps units to track down Jiralhanae holdouts on the planet. At some point between 2555 and 2558, UNSC Central Command Region One entered Operation: SENTRY|negotiations with Covenant fleet remnants, with Olympia Vale serving as an advisor.''Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition'', Spartan Locke's Classified Orders
During the battle, the freighter ''Floral Express'' fled the planet while carrying colonial refugees. Presumably following a random slipspace trajectory per the Cole Protocol, the ship arrived near Installation 03 in the Khaphrae system on 2552#October|October 8, 2552.''Eleventh Hour reports - #5'' This would lead the Office of Naval Intelligence to uncover the Composer after the war, which would be secured on nearby Ivanoff Station.
Following the Covenant war, the MA5D assault rifle used by Vanus Hamaad at Jaeraub was displayed at Outpost Discovery. The wreckage of the ''Supplication of Purity'' would also be recovered from Tribute and later used as part of an exhibit at Outpost Discovery.
In 2558, 's SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan-IV complement used a simulation of the Casbah theater for their War Games training to honor the sacrifice of the SPARTAN-IIIs who died there.
Gallery
File:H4 Landfall Corvette.jpg|Covenant forces lay siege on Casbah City. File:H4 Landfall Corvette 2.jpg|A Covenant light cruiser and corvette over Casbah.
List of appearances
''Halo 3: ODST Pre-mission Evaluation''
''Halo 3: ODST''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''Blunt Instruments''
''Halo: Reach''
''Halo 4''
''Halo: Outpost Discovery''
*''Covenant Escape''
*''Hall of History''
Notes
Sources
Category:Covenant victories |
|date= c. 2559#December|December 12, 2559
|place=*Installation 07, Ephsu I, Ephsu system Installation 07, unknown star system
|result=Ongoing as of 2560
lost to Banished forces.
*UNSC forces severely depleted and scattered across Installation 07. Destruction of Cortana and consequent deactivation of the Guardians. Installation 07 sustains severe structural damage and 117649 Despondent Pyre is destroyed. Installation 07's new location broadcast to UNSC space by Nina Kovan's group of survivors. Recovery of John-117 by Echo 216.
*Deaths of Escharum, the Harbinger and several other high-ranking members of the Banished. Discovery of the Xalanyn|Endless by Atriox.
|side1 = * United Nations Space Command|UNSC
* UNSC Navy|Navy
* UNSC Marine Corps|Marine Corps
|side2 = * Banished
*Hand of Atriox
*Banished Bloodstars|Bloodstars
*Legion of the Corpse-Moon
*Clan of the Ravaged Tusks|Ravaged Tusks
--- Harbinger|Harbinger's Skimmers Sentinel|Forerunner constructs
|side3 = * Adjutant Resolution|Adjutant Resolution's Sentinel|Forerunner constructs
|side4 =* Created
|commanders1 =*Captain (NAVCOM)|CAPT Thomas Lasky Commander|CDR Sarah Palmer Master Chief Petty Officer|MCPO John-117
|commanders2 =
Warmaster Atriox War Chief Escharum
--- Harbinger
|commanders3 =Adjutant Resolution
|commanders4 = *Cortana
|forces1 = *
*7,150 personnel
1+ escort fleet
*6+ s Many air vehicles
*3+ D80 Condors
*Multiple Pelicans
*AV-49 Wasps Many ground vehicles
*M808 Scorpions
*M12B Warthogs
**M12R Rocket Warthogs
**M12 Chaingun Warthogs
*M15 Razorbacks
*M290 Mongooses Multiple Spartans
*4 SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-IIs
*Multiple SPARTAN-IV Program|Spartan-IVs Hundreds of ground troops
*Numerous ODSTs
*Numerous marines
|forces2 =Banished fleet Multiple Banished dreadnought|dreadnoughts Many air vehicles
*Barukaza Workshop siege-haulers
*Banished drop base|Drop bases
*Gydrozka Workshop Breaching Pod|Drop pods
*Eklon'Dal Workshop Phantom|Phantoms
*'Ahtulai Workshop Banshee|Banshees
**Kaelum Workshop Banshees Multiple Kywasky Workshop Gorespike cannons Many ground vehicles
*Eklon'Dal Workshop Wraith|Wraiths
*Qavardu Workshop war-skiff|War-skiffs
*Bolroci Workshop Chopper|Choppers
*Riuctda Workshop Ghost|Ghosts Several Legion#Banished|legions
*Jiralhanae
*Sangheili
*Mgalekgolo
*Humans
*Kig-Yar
*Unggoy
--- Multiple Gasgira|Skimmers Mutliple Aggressor Sentinels
|forces3 =*Installation 07 Aggressor Sentinel|Sentinels
|forces4 = *1+ Guardian Custode
|casual1 = Heavy UNSC fleet decimated
*UNSC ''Infinity''
**1,986+ crewmembers of the UNSC ''Infinity''
***Many ODSTs
**12+ Spartan-IVs
3+ D80 Condors
|casual2 = Heavy At least 2 Banished dreadnoughts
*''Ghost of Gbraakon''
Heavy air and ground casualties
|casual3 = Minimal
|casual4 = *1+ Guardian Cortana
}}
}}
The Battle for Zeta Halo was a large multi-faction battle that took place starting on 2559#December|December 12, 2559, prominently between the United Nations Space Command and the Banished on the Forerunner Halo Array|Halo Installation 07, otherwise known as "Zeta Halo", and continues as of around 2560#May|mid-2560. The earlier stages of battle ultimately led to the death of Cortana, the deactivations of her Guardian Custode|Guardians and the splintering of the Created in various fiefdoms and fledgling cells while simultaneously severely damaging Installation 07, making it a turning point of the Created uprising, although the conflict itself continued as of 2560. Background
File:HINF Silent Auditorium building.png|250px|thumb|left|The Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium was where the Xalanyn were sentenced by the Forerunners to imprisonment on Installation 07.
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Following the Great Purification|firing of the Halo Array at the end of the Forerunner-Flood war, a mysterious advanced sentient species known as the Xalanyn, which was not indexed by the Forerunner ecumene prior to the firing of the Halo Array, inexplicably survived the Great Purification. The Xalanyn were discovered alive by the Forerunners, much to the latter's confusion, and the matter was brought before the Forerunner Council.
The Council arranged a parley between delegates from the two species, with Installation 07 taken into range of the Xalanyn planet|homeworld. In 97,368 BCE, the Forerunners passed judgment of the Xalanyn at the Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium on the ring, and decided to imprison the Xalanyn on Installation 07, with some members subjugated for study at the Auditorium. The Grand Edict charged Installation 07's monitor, 117649 Despondent Pyre, with guarding the Xalanyn's prison with the Auditorium, and assigned Offensive Bias to the ring to aid in this.
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In 2558#October|October 2558, when the Created conflict began with the rogue AI Cortana The Reclamation|subjugating major planets and governments across the galaxy with her Guardians, the United Nations Space Command armed forces were broken with the forced into hiding. Cortana ushered in a new era with her Created as rulers, enforcing martial law across their territory. The ''Infinity'' conducted operations against the Created in limited capacity. Cortana made a general broadcast, inviting numerous species and factions to submit themselves to the guardianship of the Created, but threatened those who would resist her leadership with violence.
File:H5G-Infinity&Guardian.jpg|250px|thumb|left|The entirety of the United Nations Space Command armed forces were fractured by the Guardian Custode|Guardians as part of the Created's The Reclamation|rise. In 2559, the Jiralhanae Atriox, Warmaster|leader of a group of mercenary raiders known as the Banished, discovered information on Installation 00 regarding the existence of the Xalanyn. Seeking to uncover this secret hidden by the Forerunners, Atriox prepared his Banished forces to travel to Installation 07. During his preparations for the journey to Installation 07, Atriox was personally confronted by Cortana. The Jiralhanae declared his independence from Cortana, and thus, opposition against the Created. In a show of force for Atriox's defiance, Cortana commanded her Guardians to Razing of Oth Sonin|destroy the Jiralhanae homeworld Doisac while communicating with Atriox. Seeking to access the ring's secrets and exact revenge against Cortana, Atriox led his Banished forces comprised of Jiralhanae, humans, Sangheili, Unggoy, Mgalekgolo, and Kig-Yar to Installation 07 in order to defeat her.
Doctor Catherine Halsey devised a plan to stop Cortana. She created an artificial intelligence known as "The Weapon", created from a cloned brain of herself. The copy would lock Cortana down, preventing her from controlling her vast Guardian and Promethean forces and isolating her in her current location, Installation 07. A plan was formed, with the initial intent to send Blue Team to the surface to retrieve Cortana, though this was later revised to be just John-117 and The Weapon, accompanied by the ship's SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan and Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|ODST complement. Halsey had plans for Frederic-104, Kelly-087, and Linda-058, but they were reassigned by Captain (NAVCOM)|Captain Thomas Lasky to another mission unknown to Halsey, much to her chagrin. John-117 was to travel to the surface of the ring and deploy the Weapon to lock down Cortana, then return her to the ''Infinity'' for deletion.
Battle
File:HINF AtrioxVsMasterChief.png|thumb|left|250px|John-117 had been assumed dead at the hands of Atriox after being tossed into space when the ''Infinity'' was overrun.
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On 2559#December|December 12, 2559, and her escort fleet, which included six s, arrived at Installation 07 operating at limited capacity following the Created uprising. Upon arrival, the weakened UNSC fleet was ambushed by four Banished dreadnoughts. The Banished had arrived at the ring earlier, and begun fortifying the ring's surface to neutralize Cortana.
Warmaster Atriox personally led Banished raiding parties aboard the ''Infinity'' in search of the Weapon, all the while sending occupation forces to the Ring's surface by the hundreds. Despite the UNSC repelling the boarders, the ''Infinity''s main engine were taken offline within minutes after the initial attack, and Captain Lasky ordered the deployment of the Weapon to proceed with the mission to lock down Cortana. Under the overwhelming assault, Lasky ordered all hands aboard the ''Infinity'' to abandon ship.
John-117 ordered Fireteam Taurus to escort Lasky to a dropship while he held off the boarders at the hangar bay. However, despite his efforts, the hangar bay would eventually be lost to the Banished. As one dreadnought rammed the dorsal hull of the ''Infinity'', causing massive structural damage, Atriox fought John-117 in the hangar bay and defeated the Spartan. The limp Spartan was thrown from the the hangar bay and into space.
After Lasky's lifeboat was away, Spartan Hudson Griffin of Fireteam Taurus ordered the evacuation of the remaining SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan-IVs. Spartan-IVs, marines, and crew fled onboard drop pods, Pelicans, and lifeboats to the surface of Installation 07, many being shot down seconds after exiting the vessel. Some were escorted by members of Fireteam Windfall onboard fighters.
In the region south of Silent Auditorium, the Banished set up three anti-air Kywasky Workshop Gorespike cannons, which fired at numerous UNSC aircrafts landing at the area. This region became the most active battleground in the first 48 hours of the conflict. Recognizing the threat posed by the cannons, Spartan Hudson led Fireteam Taurus and made landfall in this region, where they fought through Banished patrols, with sniper support from Spartan Nina Kovan, to disable the three cannons. They succeed in disabling two cannons before a cataclysmic event on the ring - an explosion at the Silent Auditorium - disabled the third cannon.
In the end, the outcome of the space battle saw at least two ''Mulsanne''-class frigates, including the , crashing on the fragmented section of the ring. The second frigate crashed between the three Gorespike cannons. Although the status of the UNSC ''Infinity'' is unknown aside from having suffered heavy damage from Banished vessels, she may have broke apart and crash landed on the ring.
File:HINF Zeta Halo Destroyed.png|thumb|250px|The fragmented Installation 07 following Cortana's sacrifice to temporarily break the ring, rendering the ring inoperable for the Banished.
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As UNSC forces scattered over the ring and fought against the Banished forces, Atriox confronted Cortana at the Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium, claiming he had killed John-117 and Cortana's Created empire was over, leaving the latter devastated by the news of John-117's apparent death. Having consolidated her presence and core processes at the Silent Auditorium and seemingly locked down by the Weapon deployed from , Cortana realized her mistakes but could not retaliate. Atriox presented her with the terms of her surrender, intending to take control of the ring and access the secrets locked within the Silent Auditorium. In an attempt to prevent Atriox from accessing Silent Auditorium or activate the ring, Cortana initiated a local self-destruction sequence at the Auditorium, killing herself, fracturing the ring's surface, and leaving the installation inoperable for the Banished. Her efforts were proven to be temporary, as the ring soon begun its self-repair process, though it would take months to complete. Although he survived the explosion, Atriox was left severely scarred, and was also presumed dead by both the UNSC and the Banished. Cortana, in hopes of John-117's survival, predicted he would stop the Banished from accessing the Silent Auditorium and prevented the Weapon's deletion protocol so she could assist him, leaving the Weapon in the ring's subterranean structure for retrieval. At some point during the Installation 07 conflict, at least one Guardian Custode was present over Installation 07 and subsequently deactivated, crashing on the ring by 2560.
During the destruction event, Cortana also initiated an emergency translocation protocol, intending to disorient the Banished and stall their efforts. Installation 07, along with the debris from the space battle, was transported away from the the Ephsu system to an unknown location. The explosion also affected the ground battle between the UNSC and the Banished. The ring's fragmentation scattered UNSC ground forces, but disabled the third Gorespike cannon, allowing more UNSC aircrafts to land on the ring.
File:HTRP CoverArt.png|thumb|left|250px|Bonita Stone, Nina Kovan, and Tomas Horvarth on the shattered and occupied Zeta Halo.
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Despite the explosion, the Banished occupied the ring, with some UNSC forces gathering on one of the fragments. The Banished committed a large force at the eastern fragmented sections of the ring. On one of the fragments to the west, a large group of survivors led by Spartan Hudson Griffin established a base of operations in the wreckage of the ''Mulsanne''-class frigate , discovered by Spartan Vedrana Makovich. Under the leadership of Spartan Griffin, the UNSC forces at the ''Reverie'' conducted guerilla ops against the Banished forces. First Lieutenant Floyd (Installation 07)|Floyd conducted multiple field surveys and reconnaissance missions on nearby Banished outposts, reporting his findings to Spartans Griffin, Bertold Vettel, and Bonita Stone, while also attempting to contact other UNSC forces. The UNSC also set up multiple Forward Operating Bases in the regions on the fragmented section of the ring.
On 2560#January|January 20, 2560, Kovan conducted a recon sweep deep inside Banished-occupied territory. She observed that Banished forces were only unified under Escharum, with internal competition among its members. She reported her findings to Griffin, and suggested that an attempt on Banished War Chief Escharum's life may fragment the Banished leadership. Griffin decided their best course of action was to assassinate the War Chief. A four-Spartan team, the members of which were decided by drawing straws, was to infiltrate Banished territory and assassinate Escharum, while other Spartans remained at the ''Reverie'' to defend the base. In the end, on January 23, 2560, Spartan Griffin led Spartans Panago, Henri Malik|Malik, and Sarkar on an assassination mission on Escharum. Griffin left Bertold Vettel in charge of the UNSC forces at the ''Reverie''. However, Escharum anticipated Griffin's actions. His forces ambushed the Spartan team, killing the other three and leaving Griffin badly wounded. Escharum taunted Griffin, letting him know that he'd sent most of his forces to assault the ''Reverie''. Griffin managed to send an encrypted message to warn ''Reverie'' before Escharum captured and handed him over to Chak 'Lok for torture. Under the combined leadership of Vettel and the counsel of Makovich, the UNSC forces at the ''Reverie'' braced for the Banished's attack.
On January 31, 2560, Jiralhanae Chieftain|Chieftain Tremonius and Jiralhanae Captain|Captain Arthoc led a massive Banished force from Riven Gate (location)|Riven Gate in Assault on the Mortal Reverie|an assault against the ''Reverie''. Under an overwhelming assault, the UNSC forces retreated from the crash site on 2560#February|February 2. Following the battle, the crash site surrounding the ship was converted into Outpost Tremonius (location)|a Banished outpost. As a reward for Tremonius' victory, Escharum had the outpost named after Tremonius, who would be promoted to the rank of Jiralhanae Warlord|Warlord.
At some point after the ring's fragmentation, the 511th Infantry Division established a base of operations in a Fragmentation|canyon and are surveying that fragment. While fighting off Sentinel patrols and Banished talons, they were attempting to make contact with UNSC forces in comms range.
File:HINF MarineAmbushConcept.jpg|thumb|250px|Hunted down by the Banished, UNSC remnants were unable to take any major offensives and forced to conduct mostly defensive tactics.
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The surviving UNSC personnel were forced to conduct mostly defensive tactics over the next few months, losing their last Forward Operating Base by 2560#March|March 3. Meanwhile, the Banished began setting up more infrastructure on the ring. They built sensory arrays at the Horn of Abolition (location)|Horn of Abolition and hijacked a Forerunner resonance amplifier to boost their relays, thus always staying one step ahead of the UNSC forces. They also established Annex Ridge (location)|Annex Ridge, where they conducted research on the ring's artifacts. Escharum ordered his Banished forces to capture UNSC survivors, who would be processed at Redoubt of Sundering (location)|Redoubt of Sundering before being taken to Chak 'Lok's Tower for interrogation under torture and duress, and then finally to Escharum's base, House of Reckoning (location)|House of Reckoning. The UNSC forces were unable to stage any major offensives due to the loss of an organized leadership, but what Spartans remained enacted the Rubicon Protocol: doing all they could to prevent the Banished from taking control of the ring and protect Earth. In one particular incident, Spartans M. Jaide and Rosado managed to hijack a Barukaza Workshop siege-hauler carrying artifacts from Annex Ridge.
With little UNSC resistance, the Banished shifted their attention to excavations, salvaging UNSC hardware to aid their excavation efforts, while meeting resistance from the ring's self-repair process. By 2560#April|April 23, the Banished has found numerous cylixes buried in the ring. Tremonius found one such cylix, which contained the Xalanyn known as "The Harbinger". Under the supervision of Escharum, the Banished forced a human prisoner of war|prisoner, Lucas Browning, to interface with the Harbinger's cylix, releasing her from stasis.
After her release, the Harbinger told Escharum of the Reformation, which would expedite the ring's self-repair process by creating materials for repairs. The process would return the ring to an operational status for Escharum, who hopes to achieve Atriox's goal of controlling the ring and claim the ring as their new home. However, unbeknownst to Escharum, the Harbinger seeks to rebuild the Silent Auditorium, which was destroyed when Cortana detonated the ring, and locate her fellow Xalanyn. Despite Escharum being distrustful towards the Harbinger, the two formed an uneasy alliance, bolstering the Banished forces with the Harbinger's Skimmers.
The Harbinger aided in the excavation efforts, personally inspecting excavation sites and modifying the Banished's mining equipment to cut through Forerunner alloys. Furthermore, upon the discovery of the Conservatory (location)|Conservatory, where the monitor of the installation, 117649 Despondent Pyre, resided, they prioritized on excavating the facility. The Harbinger aimed to acquire the monitor's encephalon, which would allow her to initiate the Reformation. Having observed the excavation site, Spartans Makovich and Theodore Sorel correctly deduced that Escharum was searching for the Monitor. Over the next three weeks , the two stalled the Banished's excavation efforts by sabotaging the excavation machinery and disrupting supply lines. On May 14, with the help of Submonitor Adjutant Veridity, UNSC survivors led by Nina Kovan successfully managed to broadcast the ring's location into space using a beacon tower, hoping to draw UNSC reinforcements to Zeta Halo. Despite Makovich and Sorel's sabotage efforts, the Banished completed the excavation by May 15. Makovich and Sorel followed the Banished into the underground facility, but they were ambushed and killed by members of the Hand of Atriox. However, the Harbinger and the Banished would not find 117649 Despondent Pyre inside the Conservatory until the Master Chief's return.
File:HINF FoundHope.png|thumb|left|250px|After being lost for over six months, John-117 was eventually found by a Fernando Esparza|civilian engineer, turning the tide of the war on Installation 07.
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On circa May 28, civilian engineer Fernando Esparza, onboard the Pelican ''Echo 216'' he had stolen from ''Infinity'' six months prior, found John-117 drifting in space around Installation 07. The Spartan's armor had activated survival mode to keep the Spartan alive. After bringing him aboard and reactivating the armor via a power transfer, John-117 was awakened. ''Echo 216'' was quickly discovered by the Banished dreadnought ''Ghost of Gbraakon'', which activated its stasis beam to pull the Pelican onboard. John-117 left the Pelican and boarded the ''Gbraakon'', destroying the ship to prevent the Pelican from being captured. Escharum was made aware of the Spartan's survival, and reacted with excitement.
After the destruction of the ''Gbraakon'', John-117 was contacted by the Weapon, who had been stranded in the ring for the last six months. Esparza, piloting ''Echo 216'', took the Spartan to a subterranean structure at the fragmented section of the ring, where the Spartan retrieved the Weapon. While returning to Outpost Tremonius at the surface, John-117 encountered and defeated Warlord Tremonius, thus returning the wreckage of ''Reverie'' to UNSC control.
Escharum ordered Chak 'Lok to lure the Master Chief to the Tower using Griffin's distress signal. At the Weapon's advice, John-117 pursued the signal to the Tower, where he confronted and killed 'Lok. Despite being freed from the torture device, Griffin succumbed to his wounds, but told John-117 of the Conservatory. John-117 and the Weapon then traveled to the excavation site, where the Spartan defeated Bassus, and entered the Conservatory. Inside the Conservatory, they watched 117649 Despondent Pyre being captured by Skimmers. Pyre was tortured and interrogated by the Harbinger, who retrieved the monitor's encephalon. With Pyre seemingly destroyed, submonitor Adjutant Resolution was activated. The Harbinger left for the surface, with John-117 in pursuit. At the entrance of the Conservatory, John-117 confronted the Harbinger, but was unable to prevent her from activating the Reformation using Pyre's encephalon. 43 Reformation Spires, including one Command Spire, began appearing at various locations on the ring, awaiting an initiation sequence. The Harbinger escaped, with the Spartan heading to the Reformation Spire that materialized outside the Conservatory.
John-117 fought through Banished defenses, including a pair of Mgalekgolo, at the base of the Reformation Spire, and entered the structure. Inside, the Spartan and the Weapon met Adjutant Resolution, who told them of the Spire's purpose: to rebuild the ring. John-117 ordered the Weapon to shut down the Reformation Spire to prevent the ring from being made operable. Adjutant Resolution attempted to intervene, leading to a short battle at Spire's observation platform, with John-117 defeating the submonitor in its armored chassis. The Weapon took the Spire offline, and they escaped the collapsing tower onboard ''Echo 216'', with the Command Spire as their next objective.
However, while en route to the Command Spire, ''Echo 216'' crash landed at the region south of the Silent Auditorium, having sustained damage from anti-air fire from the three Gorespike cannons, which had been reactivated. John-117 proceeded to the three cannons, eliminating the Banished defenses and destroying each cannon with the help of the Weapon. Escharum ordered the deployment of Hand of Atriox, with Tovarus and Hyperius attempting an intercept on John-117. They failed to deter the Spartan's progress, being killed by John-117. The Harbinger, anticipating the Chief's intent to shut down the Reformation, had Escharum set up defenses at the Command Spire, while she modified the data sequence for accessing the Spire. Intending to challenge the Master Chief in a duel, Escharum ordered Jega 'Rdomnai to capture the Spartan.
With the Harbinger modifying the sequence, John-117 and the Weapon arrived at the Command Spire to find its entrance under lockdown. They fought through Banished defenses to access four Forerunner beacons nearby, where the Weapon reconstructed a pure version of the sequence to access the Spire. The Harbinger, having realized that there is something guiding the Master Chief, scanned the Weapon and confirmed her existence while the Weapon was accessing the data strands beneath the Forerunner beacons. John-117 and the Weapon returned to the Command Spire, first passing through the Nexus located at the base of the Spire. The Banished troops inside, despite being reinforced by Sentinel Aggressors that were in support of initiating the Reformation, failed to fend off the Spartan, and John-117 uploaded the Weapon into the Nexus to activate the gravity lift to access the Spire. While the Weapon was in the system, the Harbinger hijacked the Weapon's routines, which, when paired with Despondent Pyre's encephalon, would correctly initialize the Reformation. However, the Weapon infiltrated the systems and retrieved Pyre's encephalon, that would allow her to halt the Reformation. John-117 and the Weapon entered the Command Spire, where they defeated the Banished and Sentinel defenses, including Adjutant Resolution, then shut down the Reformation. However, the Silent Auditorium was already partially rebuilt, and Escharum asked the Harbinger if that would be sufficient to carry out her plans, but she was unsure.
When Fernando Esparza flew ''Echo 216'' towards the crumbling Command Spire to pick up John-117, Jega 'Rdomnai revealed himself in the cockpit, having boarded the Pelican at some point. The Sangheili took Esparza hostage, using the pilot as a bait to lure John-117 into a confrontation with Escharum. To escape the crumbling Spire, John-117 entered a portal activated by the Weapon. They were transported to the Repository, where they fought through Banished troops and Sentinels to the surface, and, from there, they stormed the House of Reckoning, destroying the Banished defenses along the way. Inside, Escharum had John-117 fight through multiple waves of Banished troops in two arenas constructed from UNSC ordnance and buildings. John-117 fought Jega 'Rdomnai in a duel, emerging victorious and finally confronting Escharum at the chamber where Esparza was held. Escharum protected himself with a shielding system which redirected gunfire to the gravity wells holding Esparza. The Weapon helped John-117 locate and destroy the relay transmitters supporting the shielding system, allowing the Spartan to breach the shields and take down Escharum. In his final moments, Escharum assured John-117 that his death will only inspire further conflict. However, after Escharum's death, Atriox would make his survival known, giving the Banished a newfound resolve and confidence to fight for the control of the ring. With Esparza rescued, the trio recovered ''Echo 216'' and Esparza flew John-117 to the Silent Auditorium to stop the Harbinger.
Although the Banished set up defenses at the Silent Auditorium to protect the Harbinger, John-117 breached the main chamber with the help of Adjutant Resolution. The Spartan fought through the Banished forces defending the Harbinger, and the Harbinger herself as she interfaced with the transmitters in the main chamber to locate members of her species, the Endless. Despite the Weapon's attempt to intervene with the transmission, and John-117 defeating the Harbinger in battle, the Harbinger claimed her people have been found, and that they would be unleashed. The Auditorium began to collapse, but a portal suddenly appeared, allowing the two to escape. On the other side of the portal, they found themselves having traveled three days into the future. They were extracted by ''Echo 216'', and taken to Outpost Tremonius with the intention of finishing the fight.
In the following days John-117, with the assistance of both Esparza and the Weapon, carried out anti-Banished operations and UNSC rescue missions. He managed to destroy eight Banished outposts, recapture eleven more FOBs, rescue twenty-five Marine squads and kill fourteen high-ranking members of the Banished plus the leader of a Gasgira patrol group known as Skimmer Alpha. Meanwhile Atriox, having survived the destruction of the Auditorium, discovered the whereabouts of the Endless and, after one hundred thousand years of imprisonment, finally released them. Atriox's sudden return gave to the Banished a newfound resolve and confidence.
Engagments
Timeline
A Banished fleet led by Atriox arrived at Installation 07 and began building fortifications on the ring. A fleet of UNSC vessels led by the is ambushed by Banished forces over Installation 07. Captain Lasky orders all hands to abandon ship. John-117 engages Atriox in a hangar onboard the ''Infinity'' and is thrown into space. The ship is presumed destroyed. The surviving ''Infinity'' crew make landfall on the Ring. Fireteam Taurus and Spartan Nina Kovan disable two Banished Kywasky Workshop Gorespike cannons in an area south of the Silent Auditorium.
In an effort to stop the Banished from taking control of the ring, Cortana detonates an explosion from the Silent Auditorium, fragmenting Installation 07 and killing herself and apparently Atriox in the process. Various UNSC survivors on the Ring's surface attempt to escape the destruction. Cortana's explosion unwittingly levelled the playing field in the fragmented section of the ring by taking out one of the Banished Gorespike cannons. During the destruction event, Cortana initiated an emergency translocation protocol. Installation 07, along with the debris from the space battle, were transported away from the Ephsu system to an unknown location.
Spartan Makovich discovers the crash site of the and determines it to be a viable location for the UNSC's base of operations.
Spartan Nina Kovan scouts the Banished deep within the red zone, discovering a potential vulnerability of the enemy in that infighting is encouraged. Only Escharum's leadership keeps them in check.
Spartan Griffin organizes a mission to assassinate Escharum via a four-man team led by himself. He leaves Spartan Vettel in charge of the forces at the ''Reverie''.
Spartan Griffin's team is ambushed by Escharum and all are killed except for him. Escharum informs him of his team's demise and of the Banished's impending Assault on the Mortal Reverie|assault on the ''Mortal Reverie''. Griffin is able to send out an encoded message, warning the other UNSC survivors and telling them to abandon the vessel before being sent to Chak 'Lok's Tower for interrogation and torture. The survivors at the ''Reverie'' are only able to receive part of Griffin's transmission and, having not heard his order to flee, dig in for an assault by the Banished.
Banished Jiralhanae Chieftain Tremonius and Captain Arthoc gathers a massive Banished assault force at Riven Gate. Spartan Stone and Boulder Squad conduct a recon sweep at Riven Gate. Stone reports her findings to ''Mortal Reverie'', and warns the ''Reverie'' that the Banished would arrive by nightfall. The UNSC survivors at the ''Mortal Reverie'' prepare for the Banished assault. Spartans Makovich and Vettel discuss the UNSC's inability to win the upcoming battle and their dwindling options for the future.
Spartan Vettel orders the UNSC survivors to retreat from the ''Reverie'' under the Banished assault. The Banished converts the crash site into Outpost Tremonius (location)|Outpost Tremonius.
Unofficial squads such as the Gravediggers and Hatetriox have been taking out Banished supply runners, raiding parties, towers, bridges and other Banished structures. The UNSC loses all of its remaining Forward Operating Bases on the fragmented section of the ring. Spartans Makovich, Stone, Vettel, and Sorel regroup with some UNSC survivors.
Using Lucas Browning as a Reclaimer, the Banished release The Harbinger from her cylix.
Spartan Stone recons Outpost Tremonius and sends a transmission to Makovich and Sorel that the Banished are sending forces to another excavation site.
Spartans Makovich and Sorel observe Banished activity around the Conservatory (location)|Conservatory and realize the Banished are looking for Installation 07's monitor.
Spartan Stone, having made it into the Ring's subsurface infrastructure, finds the Cylixes holding the Xalanyn. She picks up a UNSC signal deeper inside the Ring and follows it. She is discovered by Banished forces and subsequently killed by Blademaster Jega 'Rdomnai.
Spartan Vettel sends out a signal to any remaining UNSC transmitters that he intends to assault Chak Lok's fortress and rescue Spartan Griffin.
Monitor 117649 Despondent Pyre is freed from her cradle by Spartan Tomas Horvath after having been locked away by Cortana prior to her destruction. After learning of The Harbinger's release, Despondent Pyre provides Horvath, Nina Kovan, TJ Murphy, Isaiah Cameron, Erik Bender and Robin Dimik with a data key that will allow them to broadcast a superluminal message into human-occupied space with Zeta Halo's current galactic coordinates and the site's pertinent information.
UNSC survivors led by Spartan Nina Kovan Battle of the Beacon Tower|take control of one of the ring's beacon towers and use it to broadcast Zeta Halo's new coordinates to UNSC space in the hopes of summoning reinforcements. TJ Murphy, Isaiah Cameron and Gorian are all killed in the battle while Spartan Tomas Horvath is teleported to a far away location on the ring by a translocation pad just before it is destroyed by Banished fire. The surviving UNSC forces are rescued by Submonitor 091 Adjutant Veridity and regroup.
Spartans Makovich and Sorel follow the Banished into the Conservatory with the intent to stop them from finding the monitor. Inside the Conservatory, the two Spartans encounter Jega 'Rdomnai. Makovich stays behind to face off against the Sangheili and tells Sorel to go on without her. She is killed by 'Rdomnai. The wounded Sorel encounters a Banished force led by Hyperius and Tovarus. He manages to take out many Banished before being slain.
Far from any surviving UNSC personnel, Spartan Horvath makes a final transmission on UNSC channels that he is heading up-spin beyond the reach of the Banished to look for survivors and Fireteam Intrepid. Having had no contact with any UNSC personnel, he makes an open plea to the Master Chief that they need him now more than ever.
Around 6 months after the Battle over Installation 07 on December 1213, 2559
John-117 is recovered from the remnants of the battle between the ''UNSC Infinity'' and the Banished by ''Echo 216'' and its pilot, Fernando Esparza. The ''Ghost of Gbraakon'' discovers ''Echo 216'' and uses its stasis beam to pull the Pelican aboard. John-117 leaves the Pelican and boards the ''Gbraakon'', overloading its engines, destroying the ship. Escharum is made aware of John-117's survival. John-117 recovers the Weapon underneath the surface of Installation 07 and defeats Tremonius. Outpost Tremonius returns to UNSC control. Under the command of Escharum, Chak 'Lok activates Spartan Griffin's distress signal to lure John-117 to his Tower. John-117 defeats Chak 'Lok inside his Tower and learns of a Banished mining operation into the Conservatory thanks to Spartan Griffin, who dies of his torture. The Weapon helps John-117 defeat Bassus at the Excavation Site and shut down the drill preventing entry into the Conservatory. The Weapon learns of a mysterious entity worse than the Flood recovered from a past exchange between Cortana and 117649 Despondent Pyre prior to the arrival of the ''UNSC Infinity''. John-117 meets the Harbinger, whose plans are to free the Xalanyn|Endless from the Cylixes. John-117 and the Weapon learn that the Harbinger and the Banished are planning to repair Installation 07 through Reformation Spires. Echo 216 gets shot down by 3 Kywasky Workshop Gorespike cannon|Banished AA cannons en route to the Command Spire. John-117 disables the AA cannons and defeats both Hyperius and Tovarus. The Harbinger springs a trap on the Weapon while extracting the data needed to enter the Command Spire. While exploring the Command Spire, more of Cortana's past actions are revealed, including her role in the destruction of Laconia Station at the hands of the AI Leonidas. John-117 shuts downs all of the Spires, but Esparza is captured by Jega 'Rdomnai. En route to the Pilot's rescue, the Weapon discovers that Cortana destroyed Doisac because Atriox refused to join the Created. John-117 survives the House of Reckoning (location)|House of Reckoning, kills Jega 'Rdomnai and Escharum and rescues the Pilot. John-117 and the Weapon discover the true purpose of the Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium, the site of Cortana's sacrifice, and defeats the Harbinger. However, the Harbinger succeeds in discovering the location of her people and transmitting it to an unknown recipient. Around 3 days after the Harbinger's demise and the subsquent collapse of the Silent Auditorium Echo 216 picks up John-117 and the Weapon from another location within Installation 07. Atriox discovers the Endless in their Cylixes.
Participants
Starships
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Military personnel
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|Master Chief Petty Officer
|John-117
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|Thomas Lasky
|Unknown
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|Frederic-104
|Unknown
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|Kelly-087
|Unknown
| |Linda-058
|Unknown
| |Commander
|Etana Hensler
|Unknown
| |Petty Officer Third Class Mortuary Specialist
|Gavin Jo
|KIA
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|Isaiah Cameron
|KIA
| |Unknown
|Kate Stalling
|KIA
| | rowspan="21" |Spartan Operations
|Spartan Commander
|Sarah Palmer
|Unknown
| | rowspan="20" |Spartan
|Bertold Vettel
|Unknown
| |Bonita Stone
|KIA
| |Dimka
|Unknown
| |Henri Malik
|KIA
| |Horatio Fry
|Unknown
| |Hudson Griffin
|KIA
| |Si Wheeler
|Unknown
| |Jameson Locke
|Unknown
| |Nina Kovan
|Unknown
| |Oshiro
|Unknown
| |Panago
|KIA
| |Sarkar
|KIA
| |Jason Kidman
|Unknown
| |Terry Hedge
|KIA
| |Theodore Sorel
|KIA
| |Tomas Horvath
|Survived
| |Vedrana Makovich
|KIA
| |M. Jaide
|Unknown
| |Rosado
|Unknown
| |Unknown Spartan
|Unknown
| | rowspan="16" |UNSC Marine Corps
| rowspan="2" |First Lieutenant
|Floyd (Installation 07)|Floyd
|Unknown
| |TJ Murphy
|KIA
| |Gunnery Sergeant
|Elena Bobrov
|KIA
| |Staff Sergeant
|Park
|Unknown
| |Sergeant
|Kevin Mahoney
|KIA
| |Corporal
|Leah Rodriguez
|Unknown
| |Lance Corporal
|Singh (Installation 07)|Singh
|KIA
| | rowspan="3" |Private First Class
|Miyazaki
|Unknown
| |Theodore Higgins
|Unknown
| |Owens
|KIA
| | rowspan="4" |Private
|Chamberlain
|Unknown
| |Eleanor Cline
|KIA
| |Michael Buck
|Unknown
| |Kinney
|KIA
| | rowspan="2" |Unknown
|Giuseppe M.
|Unknown
| |D. Svarro
|Unknown
| | rowspan="2" |Unknown
| rowspan="2" |Unknown
|Codename: POINTER
|Unknown
| |47382-28392-GH
|Unknown
|}
Units UNSC Navy
*Blue Team Spartan Operations
*Fireteam Intrepid
*Fireteam Shadow
*Fireteam Taurus
*Fireteam Windfall
*Fireteam Lancer UNSC Marine Corps
*Barracuda Squad
*Bengal Squad
*Bluebell Squad
*Boulder Squad
*Boxer Squad
*Carrera Squad
*Cayman Squad
*Cobra Squad
*Courier Squad
*Fortune Squad
*Foxhound Squad
*Harpoon Squad
*Helix Squad
*Indiana Squad
*Jester Squad
*Lancer Squad
*Merchant Squad
*Paladin Squad
*Pronto Squad
*Pyramid Squad
*Riddle Squad
*Starlight Squad
*Thunder Squad
*Titan Squad
*Vantage Squad Unknown
*Boat crew
*Gravediggers
*Hatetriox
*511th Infantry Division
Vehicles
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Type
! Name
! Status
| |Pelican
|''Echo 216''
|Active
|}
Artificial intelligences
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Name
! Status
| |Ouco
|Unknown
| |The Weapon|"The Weapon"
|Survived
|}
Civilians
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Name
! Job
! Status
| |Erik Bender
|Barber
|Unknown
| |Fernando Esparza
|Civilian Engineer
|Survived
| |Robin Dimka
|Safety Specialist
|Unknown
|}
Starships
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Fleet
! Class
! Name
! Status
| | rowspan="5" |Unknown
| rowspan="3" |Banished dreadnought
|''Ghost of Gbraakon''
|Destroyed
| |''Ghost of Lodon''
|Unknown
| |''Ghost of Tiacoro''
|Unknown
| | rowspan="2" |Unknown
|''Despoiler''
|Unknown
| |''Voidfaith''
|Unknown
|}
Military personnel
{| class"width: 50%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Branch
! Rank
! Name
! Status
| | rowspan="2" |Command
|Warmaster
|Atriox
|Survived
| |War Chief
|Escharum
|KIA
| | rowspan="3" |Hand of Atriox
|Spartan Killer
|Jega 'Rdomnai
|Unknown
| | rowspan="2" |Spartan Killer
|Tovarus
|KIA
| |Hyperius
|KIA
| |Beholders of the One Vapor
|High Sumpter
|Briglard
|KIA
| |Bloodbrave Guardians of Suban|Bloodbrave
|Blademaster
|Okro 'Vagaduun
|KIA
| | rowspan="2" |Banished Bloodstars|Bloodstars
|Arch Khordat
|Barroth
|KIA
| |Sangheili General|General
|Inka 'Saham
|KIA
| |Brothers of Unending Ire
|Jiralhanae Captain|Captain
|Arthoc
|KIA
| |Bulwark of Bone
|Jiralhanae Chieftain|Chieftain
|En'Geddon
|KIA
| |Exodus Guard
|Jiralhanae Captain|Captain
|Balkarus
|KIA
| |Heart of Tala
|Unknown
|Bipbap
|KIA
| |Hordeworms of Svir
|Unknown
|Myriad
|KIA
| |Kaepra's Grief
|Wraithmaster
|Ordo 'Mal
|KIA
| |Lance of the Writhing Star
|Jiralhanae Battle Officier|Battle Officer
|Zeretus
|KIA
| |Legion of the Corpse-Moon
|Legionmaster
|Deukalion
|Survived
| |Ravaged Tusks
|Legionmaster
|Ballas
|Survived
| |Thieves of the Claw
|Kig-Yar Skirmisher|Skirmisher
|Writh Kul
|KIA
| |Warial's Wrath
|Chieftain
|Ik'novus
|KIA
| |Warriors of Malaston
|Kaidon
|Thav 'Sebarim
|KIA
| |Witch's Eye
|Unknown
|Gorian
|KIA
| |Exodus Guard
|Warlord (rank)|Warlord
|Horatius
|KIA
| | rowspan="6" |Unknown
| rowspan="2" |Jiralhanae Chieftain|Chieftain
|Bassus
|KIA
| |Tremonius
|KIA
| |Sangheili Warlord|Warlord
|Chak 'Lok
|KIA
| |Communications Officer
|Glibnub
|Survived
| |Jiralhanae Captain|Captain
|Hectarius
|KIA
| |Unknown
|Itacus
|Survived
|}
Units Legions
*Legion of the Corpse-Moon
*Clan of the Ravaged Tusks Clans and crews
*Lance of the Writhing Star
*Exodus Guard
*Bulwark of Bone
*Warial's Wrath
*Brother's of Undending Ire
*Heart of Tala
*Beholders of the One Vapor
*Sclera of Chu'ot
*Thieves of the Claw
*Hordeworms of Svir
*Warriors of Malaston
*Valorguards of the Chosen
*Bloodbrave Guardians of Suban
*Kaepra's Grief
*Witch's Eye Other units
*Banished Bloodstars|Bloodstars
Gallery
File:HINF Concept EarlyZetaBattle.png|Early concept art exploration of what a battle on Installation 07 could look like. File:HINF Concept BanishedBase3.jpg|Concept art of a Banished base on Installation 07. File:HINF Concept Dead Marine with Escape Pod.jpg|Concept art of a dead Marine and a crashed escape pod on Installation 07. File:HINF Concept Marines with Escape pod in Forest.jpg|Concept art of Marines setting up camp around an escape pod. File:HINF Concept Abandoned Escape Pod.jpg|Concept art of an abandoned escape pod. File:HINF Concept Scrapped escapepod.jpg|Concept art of Marines discovering the remnants of an escape pod. File:HINF Concept UnderCoverOfNight.jpg|Concept art of UNSC personnel on the move under the cover of night. File:HINF Concept Convoy with Razorback.jpg|Concept art of UNSC Marines patrolling on Installation 07. File:HINF Concept Marines tracking Brutes.jpg|Concept art of UNSC Marines preparing to ambush a Banished patrol. File:HINF Concept Marine in Watchtower.jpg|Concept art of a Marine in a watchtower.
File:HINF- Infinity rammed.png| being rammed by a Banished dreadnought during the space battle over Zeta Halo. File:HInf-UNSC defeat.png|Master Chief reviewing the results of the conflict with the Banished. File:HINF RingHologram.png|A Holography|holographic representation of the ring, broken after the battle. File:HINF Installation 07 Surface and Tower.jpg|The partially rebuilt surface of Installation 07 under Banished occupation. File:Xbox Series X Halo Infinite.jpg|John-117 watches a battle raging on the surface of the ring. File:HINF XGS2020 Shade 3.png|An Unggoy firing a shade turret. File:HINF XGS2020 Jiralhanae Spike Grenade.png|John-117 throwing a Spike grenade at a Jiralhanae. File:HINF XGS2020 Stun.png|Various Banished forces fighting John-117. File:Halo Infinite E319 Hologram Explosion.jpg|John-117 in the subterranean structure of the ring. File:HINF-RansomKeepdeadM808s.png|John-117 fighting Banished forces at Ransom Keep. File:HINF Harbinger attacking John.png|Harbinger and John-117 fighting one another. File:HINF GuardianHoloStructure.jpg|John-117 inside the Silent Auditorium on the ring.
List of appearances
''Become''
*''Carry On''
*''Forever We Fight''
''Halo Infinite''
''Halo: The Rubicon Protocol''
''Halo: Outcasts''
Notes
Sources
Category:Installation 07 conflict|
Category:Engagements in the Installation 07 conflict| |
Halo: Evolutions, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 459''
|type=Battle group
|role=Investigation of Harvest
|size=Three warshipsHalo: The Fall of Reach, ''pages 118-119'' (2010)
|nicknames=
|battles=First Battle of Harvest
|commanders=Captain Maribeau Veredi}}
Battle Group 4 was a Battle group|formation of the Colonial Military Authority's fleet, under the command of Captain (Navy)|Captain Maribeau Veredi. The battle group was assembled and dispatched to investigate the loss of communications with the human Outer Colony of Harvest. Upon arriving at the planet on 2525#October|October 7, 2525, Battle Group 4 encountered a , leading to one of the First Battle of Harvest|first naval engagements of the Human-Covenant War.''Halo Wars: Genesis''Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition), ''page 36'' (2011)
History
}}
After communications were lost with the Unified Earth Government Outer Colony of Harvest, the Colonial Military Authority deployed the unarmed scout ship to investigate. ''Argo'' arrived over Harvest in the Epsilon Indi system on 2525#April|April 20, 2525, but contact was lost with the scout ship shortly after. In response, fearing that insurrectionist forces had taken control of Harvest and unaware of the true nature of the enemy,Halo Mythos, ''page 63'' the CMA and UNSC Fleet Command assembled Battle Group 4consisting of the Hillsborough-class heavy destroyer|destroyer and the Charon-class light frigate|frigates ''CMA Arabia|Arabia'' and ''CMA Vostok|Vostok''to investigate Harvest, led by Captain Maribeau Veredi.
File:HWG BattleGroupDestroyed.png|thumb|300px|Battle Group 4 is attacked by the ''Rasus''-pattern interdictor. When the battle group arrived over Harvest on 2525#October|October 7, 2525, they discovered that the planet's surface was partially Glassing|glassed and detected the Covenant responsible for the massacre of Harvest and destruction of ''Argo''. Veredi followed first-contact protocols by attempting to initiate communications with the ship, but the Covenant "super-destroyer" suddenly opened fire upon the battle group with its pulse laser turrets. The battle group returned fire, but their Archer missiles had no apparent effect. In fourteen seconds, ''Arabia'' and ''Vostok'' were destroyedlost with all handsand ''Heracles'' was severely damaged.
Before fleeing back into slipstream space, ''Heracles'' picked up a transmission in English from the Covenant ship: "''Your destruction is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument.''" When the ship returned to UEG space over Reach in the Epsilon Eridani system, Veredi told the UNSC of what had taken place and Battle Group X-Ray|a larger battle group was assembled by Vice Admiral Preston Cole to Battle of Harvest|retake Harvest.
Composition One
*
Two s
*
*
Gallery
File:UNSC Heracles.png|''Heracles'' arriving at Harvest. File:ArabiaVostok.png|''Arabia'' and ''Vostok'' hit by Covenant Plasma turret|plasma torpedoes. File:Captain Veredi.png|Captain Maribeau Veredi, the commander of Battle Group 4. File:FoR Battlegroup 4.png|Battle Group 4 arrives at Harvest. File:FoR_Battle_group_4.png|Battle Group 4 over Harvest. File:TFoR AS - Heracles damaged.jpg|The damaged ''Heracles'' returns to Reach.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Fall of Reach''
''Halo Wars: Genesis''
''Halo Wars''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole''
''Halo: Fall of Reach''
*''Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp|Boot Camp''
''Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series''
''Halo: Ground Command''
''Halo Mythos''
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups|4 |
Battle Group D was a Battle group|formation of the United Nations Space Command|UNSC UNSC Navy|Navy's Third Fleet in 2531 under the command of Admiral Preston Cole. was attached to this battle group.Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, ''page 188''
List of appearances
''Halo Wars''
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups|D |
|role=*Defending Earth
|size=
|command_structure=
|garrison=Earth
|garrison_label=
|nickname=
|patron=
|motto=
|colors=
|colors_label=
|march=
|mascot=
|anniversaries=
|equipment=
|equipment_label=
|battles=New Phoenix Incident
|decorations=
|battle_honors=
|commanders=Commander Thomas Lasky
}}
Battle Group Dakota was a Battle group|formation of the UNSC Navy's Home Fleet. In the summer of 2557, it took part in the defense of Earth during the New Phoenix Incident. Thomas Lasky was the commander of the battle group as acting-captain of the flagship .
History In the summer of 2557, the Ur-Didact|Didact's ship, ''Mantle's Approach'', exited slipspace near Earth intending to wipe Earth's population out with the Composer. However, the had arrived at Earth to warn UNSC forces of the attack. Soon after ''Mantle's Approach'' exited slipspace Battle Group Dakota was ordered to New Phoenix Incident|engage the ship. The battle group was unable to seriously damage the ship, but after learning that the John-117|Master Chief was trying to board the ship in an F-41 Broadsword armed with a HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon, they aided him in entering the ship, with ''Infinity'' blasting a hole into the Composer once the Chief took down ''Mantle's Approach's'' point-defense guns. The fleet lost several vessels in the engagement, but maintained their station while the Master Chief carried out his objective.
Composition Battle Group Dakota in one instance was composed of the , multiple s, multiple s, and multiple s.
Gallery
File:H4 MidnightSpaceBattle Concept.jpg|Concept art for the battlegroup's attack on ''Mantle's Approach''. File:H4 - MidnightShips1.png|Multiple vessels of Battle Group Dakota. File:H4 - MidnightShips3.jpg|A Dakota and two s. File:H4 - MidnightShips2.jpg|Multiple vessels of Battle Group Dakota.
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
''Halo: Escalation''
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups|Dakota |
162 warships
*23 UNSC carrier|carriers
*13 cruisers
**UNSC Io|UNSC ''Io''
**1 Valiant-class super-heavy cruiser|super-heavy cruiser
***UNSC Everest|UNSC ''Everest''
*79 UNSC destroyer|destroyers
**UNSC Agincourt (destroyer)|UNSC ''Agincourt''
*42 UNSC frigate|frigates
*5 UNSC prowler|prowlers
**
50 supply, repair, and rescue vessels
|battles=Battle of Psi Serpentis
|commanders=Vice Admiral Preston Jeremiah Cole|Preston J. Cole
}}
UNSC Battle Group India was the fleet gathered by Preston Jeremiah Cole|Admiral Cole to attack the Covenant Empire|Covenant at the Battle of Psi Serpentis in late-March through mid-April, 2543. It was the largest UNSC fleet ever assembled at the time.
History
Psi Serpentis was the only known combat action that Battle Group India engaged in. At the battle the fleet jumped into the Psi Serpentis system releasing a large radiation wave. This wave was received by Covenant forces also in-system and proceeded to engage Battle Group India; while the prowler ''Wink of an Eye'' broadcasted its location to India and then jumped to slipspace to lay slipspace guidance beacon|guidance beacons. India jumped again into high orbit over the gas giant Viperidae, with a few stragglers due to inefficient human Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|FTL technology.
Battle Group India split into two wings rushing around the gas giant prompting the Covenant fleet to do the same. However, one wing made an emergency orbital burn to catch the other half of Battle Group India to blind-side the now split Covenant fleet. The battle group decimated one-half of the Covenant fleet while only losing a third of their number, statistically significant comparatively to the rest of Human-Covenant War.
As India was making another pass, the Covenant fleet reorganized and caused considerable losses to Battle Group India. Shortly after an independent/Insurrectionist fleet lead by the ''Bellicose'' attacked the Covenant preventing the complete destruction of India. The ''Bellicose''-led fleet jumped away as another Covenant fleet of over 200 ships-of-the-line jumped in around Viperidae. It was at this point Admiral Cole ordered the retreat of Battle Group India.
However, ''Everest'' stayed behind, trapping herself in Viperidae's gravity well. Cole broadcasted several taunts towards the Covenant. Both Covenant fleets moved to engage ''Everest'' as the super-heavy cruiser launched all its nukes. A few of the nukes destroyed the lead Covenant ship, but the majority, over one hundred, went into Viperidae's core and detonated. The massive super-giant temporarily began fusion of the hydrogen in its atmosphere. The resulting firestorm destroyed both Covenant fleets in their entirety and Historical/Psychological Analysis of Cole, Preston J.|supposedly along with UNSC ''Everest'' and Admiral Cole.
List of appearances
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole''
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups|India |
Battle Group Leviathan was a United Nations Space Command|UNSC UNSC Navy|Naval battle group under the command of Vice Admiral Michael Stanforth and was part of Epsilon Eridani Fleet.Dr. Halsey's personal journal, ''August 12, 2552''
History It participated in the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV in 2552#July|July 2552. More than twenty ships of the battle group were lost in the battle, with many more suffering heavy damage.Halo: The Fall Of Reach, ''page 212'' After the battle, half of the battle group jumped to Reach while the rest stayed behind to maintain a level of readiness in the case the Covenant returned. The first group arrived at Reach on August 1, with the rest following on August 12.
The battle group engaged the Covenant Fleet, with most of the ships destroyed except for UNSC ''Gettysburg'', which lost its entire crew while it was docked intact at one of Reach's refit stations. After the Fall of Reach and the Battle of Installation 04, ''Gettysburg'' was salvaged and used in Operation: FIRST STRIKE.
Afterwards, any survivors from the fleet were recalled to Earth and consolidated under the UNSC Home Fleet to make a final stand against the impending Covenant invasion.
Composition
1
*
2 UNSC carrier|carriersHalo: The Fall Of Reach, ''page 155''
*1 Epoch-class heavy carrier
15 UNSC destroyer|destroyersThe ships fired a salvo of 63 MAC rounds (''Halo: The Fall Of Reach'', page 193), thus 15 ships must've had 2 MAC guns.
*
*
30 UNSC frigate|frigates48 -15 -2 -1 = 30
*
*
*
1 refit station
*
Gallery
File:UNSC Battlegroup Leviathan.jpg|An alternate incarnation of Battlegroup Leviathan in Spartan Games' ''Halo'' tabletop miniature game.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Fall of Reach''
''Halo: Reach''
*''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''
''Halo: Fall of Reach''
*''Halo: Fall of Reach - Covenant|Covenant''
''Halo: Fleet Battles''
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups|Leviathan |
Battle Group OmicronHalo Mythos, ''page 113'' was a formation of the UNSC Navy commanded by Admiral Carl Patterson. The battle group comprised nine ships, with the UNSC carrier|carrier serving as Patterson's flagship. On 2552#November|November 3, 2552, the battle group was redirected from the Battle for Earth|embattled planet Earth to Onyx. Their mission was to retrieve Dr. Catherine Halsey and a joint unit of Spartan-IIs and Spartan-IIIs, along with examples of Forerunner technologies that had allegedly been discovered on Onyx.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 294''
History
Battle Group Omicron rendezvoused with the prowler soon after entering the Zeta Doradus system. The UNSC ships engaged the Joyous Exultation Covenant|Covenant fleet under Fleet Master Voro Nar 'Mantakree and took losses, including , which was sacrificed to save ''Stalingrad'' from Covenant plasma torpedoes. Following this engagement, Admiral Patterson ordered a withdrawal. The battle group temporarily went into hiding behind Onyx's moon.
Meanwhile, ''Dusk'' prepared a nuclear minefield as a trap for the unsuspecting Covenant fleet. The UNSC lured the Covenant into the minefield, destroying the entire Covenant fleet save for two badly damaged destroyers. The four remaining ships of Battle Group Omicron moved in for the kill with the six Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC rounds that remained among them. Before this could happen, however, 30 Sangheili warships arrived and swiftly destroyed the remaining human vessels, save ''Dusk'', which ultimately became the only ship to survive the battle.
Composition One Unidentified UNSC carrier class|Unidentified carrier class
*
One Six UNSC destroyer|destroyers
*
*
*
One
*
List of appearances
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
''Halo Mythos''
Notes
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups |
BATTLE GROUP PHI DEBRIEF-0820039 was a debrief to Captain (NAVCOM)|Captain James Cutter from Captain (UNICOM)|Captain Jenkins (captain)|Jenkins around 2531#February|February 4, 2531 regarding the performance of Battle Group Phi during an engagement in the Harvest Campaign.
Transcript Cutter The enemy advance is completely contained. We're just mopping up the remnants now. To be honest, it was more rout than fight, which is unusual for the Covenant. Why are they suddenly committing forces out here without any logistical support? No baces, no depots. It's suicide. I can't see the strategic value. They're using a different playbook than us and I don't like that.
Captain Jenkins.
Sources
Category:Files |
File:HWLS UNSCCovie Battle1.png|thumb|Battle Group Phi against the Covenant.
Battle Group Phi was a formation of the UNSC UNSC Marine Corps|Marines that served during the Harvest campaign in 2531.
Overview
Captain (UNICOM)|Captain Jenkins (captain)|Jenkins
Battle Group Phi consisted of several M808B Scorpion, and also trialed the use of the HRUNTING Mark III (B) Cyclops HRUNTING Mark III (B) Cyclops|B variant.
History
On 2531#February|February 4, 2531, Battle Group Phi was part of the initial trial of the HRUNTING Mark III [B] Cyclops, where Captain (NAVCOM)|Captain James Cutter debriefed an Admiral on how it performed in TAC-EVAL UPDATE IV.
During an engagement with a Covenant armored force near Harvest's northern pole, where several M808B Scorpions and the trialed HRUNTING Mark III [B] Cyclops were used. The Battle group was also assisted by SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II supersoldier Keiichi-047 who charged the Covenant's position, killing several Sangheili and Unggoy with his AIE-486H machine gun, who upon reaching the Covenant's main line he hijacked a Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraith and used it against the remaining Covenant forces.
Captain Jenkins later in the day in BATTLE GROUP PHI DEBRIEF-0820039 debriefed to Captain James Cutter on the earlier engagement saying that they were wiping up the remnants of that group of Covenant in the area, and noting it was unusual that the Covenant were committing forces without any logistical support.
Sources
Category:UNSC Marine Corps units |
Battle Group Rhino was a Battle group|formation of the UNSC Navy's Third Fleet. It was led by Captain W. Murray at the close of the Human-Covenant War. On 2552#October|October 10, 2552, Battle Group Rhino detected twelve unidentified Covenant Fleet|large vessels in the Sol system broadcasting outdated civilian IFF codes. Upon approach, eleven of the vessels made unauthorized slipspace transits from the Sol system. Pursuant to standing orders to engage vessels not positively identified as friendly, Battle Group Rhino moved to engage the remaining ship. The was subsequently lost with all hands after reportedly suffering multiple hull breaches and boarding parties. The battle group then disengaged and regrouped at Phase Line Alpha above Enceladus. Vice Admiral Williams, in charge of the entire Third Fleet, requested permission from Fleet Admiral Harper to attack the ship, but permission was denied. The brief spout of violence in which the ''Totem Lake'' was lost came to be known simply as the Battle of October 10.Halo Legendary Crate, ''Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop #2''
Composition
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups|Rhino |
1 Cruiser
*
2 UNSC destroyer|Destroyers
*
*
|nicknames=
|battles=Battle of 18 Scorpii
|commanders=Unidentified UNSC captain
}}
UNSC Battle Group Sierra-3 was a battle group that fought in the Battle of 18 Scorpii that spurred Preston Jeremiah Cole|Vice Admiral Preston Cole to seek out the Covenant Empire|Covenant at Psi Serpentis system|Psi Seprentis leading up to the Admiral Cole's Last Stand|Admiral's last stand. At 18 Scorpii the battle group engaged a Covenant destroyer, nearly themselves destroyed, when a hitherto unknown group of independents lead by the ''Bellicose'' helped to destroy the Covenant ship and proceeded to quickly jump back into slipstream space. The captain of the battle group noted he did not believe in "ghost ships," but thanked the rescue all the same.Halo: Evolutions, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''pages 476-482''
List of appearances
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole''
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups|Sierra-3 |
|nicknames=
|battles=Battle of Theta Ursae Majoris
|commanders=
}}
Battle Group Tango was a battle group in the United Nations Space Command|UNSC UNSC Navy|Navy. The battle group engaged in at least battle of Theta Ursae Majoris|one battle of the Insurrection at Theta Ursae Majoris system|Theta Ursae Majoris. Battle Group Tango engaged the ''Bellicose'' in which two of the destroyers were heavily damaged and the ''Bellicose'' was presumed lost in battle after falling into the atmosphere of a gas giant. It appeared later, however, that the ''Bellicose'' survived.Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 473''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''pages 479-480''
List of appearances
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole''
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups|Tango |
|branch=UNSC Navy
|type=Battle group
|role=
|size=At least seven sHalo Mythos, ''page 117''
Halo 3, campaign level ''The Storm''
|battles=Battle of Voi
|commanders=Fleet Admiral|FADM Terrence HoodVice Admiral|VADM K. Lanba
}}
Battle Group Victory was a small battle group of the UNSC Navy's Seventh Fleet present during the Battle of Voi on 2552#November|November 17, 2552.
History
Under the command of Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood, Battle Group Victory arrived to support UNSC Air Force and UNSC Marine Corps|Marine Corps forces clearing emplacements surrounding the Portal at Voi, allowing for Fleet Admiral Joseph Harper to authorize an in-atmosphere MAC strike against the Covenant|Covenant's flagship, the Forerunner Dreadnought. The battle group was accompanied by dozens of GA-TL1 Longswords who conducted a massive bombing strike on the enemy vessel as the frigates came into firing range. However, the MACs had no effect against the keyship and the portal was activated, resulting in spatial distortions that damaged the artificial gravity systems of the nearby ships.
At least one frigate, the ''Forward Unto Dawn'', accompanied the Sangheili Fleet of Retribution in its pursuit of Truth's fleet through the portal to Installation 00, where it was ultimately destroyed. The fate of the other frigates is unknown.
List of appearances
''Halo 3''
''Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo''
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups|Victory |
* ''Halo: Silent Storm'', Chapter 4
Task Force Yama Three squadrons of Prowlers
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Battle Group X-Ray was a battle group fleet given to Preston Cole|Admiral Cole to command in 2526.
History
On March 1, 2526, Battle Group X-Ray engaged the Covenant over Harvest. The engagement resulted in the destruction of 13 UNSC vessels and a single .''Halo: Silent Storm'', Historian's Note
Seven days after the battle at Harvest, Admiral Cole as well as several others formulated Operation: SILENT STORM. The group predicted that the Covenant would likely attack Biko. With this, Task Force Yama would secretly waiting to counter-attack the Covenant when they got there. At the same time, Battle Group X-Ray would start harassing Covenant forces independently of Yama.''Halo: Silent Storm'', Chapter 5
The battle group was disbanded or transferred to another flag-officer sometime prior to the Battle of Psi Serpentis, as Admiral Cole then commanded Battle Group India|UNSC Battle Group India.''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe'', "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", p. 476-482
Composition
Battle Group X-Ray was comprised of 40 Warships.
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Image:Cole.jpg|Admiral Preston Cole, commanding officer of Battle Group X-Ray. File:HWG_UNSCEverest_Bridge.png|The bridge of ''Everest'', Battle Group X-Ray's flagship. X-Ray is shown on the left side of the tac-map with the Covenant ship on the right. File:Space Battle.png|Battle Group X-Ray during the initial assault on the . File:Coles Inspiration at Harvest.png|Admiral Cole reaches a eureka moment in the Second Battle of Harvest with X-Ray on his tac-map. File:Outcome of Second Battle of Harvest.png|Battle Group X-Ray destroys the Covenant ship at Harvest.
List of appearances
''Halo Wars: Genesis''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole''
''Halo: Ground Command''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Silent Storm''
''Halo: Oblivion''
Sources
Category:UNSC Navy battle groups|X-Ray |
A battle group, sometimes rendered as battlegroup, is an organization of ships that is generally smaller than a fleet. The term applies to both United Nations Space Command|UNSC and Covenant naval groups.Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, ''Library (feature)|Library'': '
UNSC Battlegroups are subdivisions of a UNSC fleet, flexible fighting formations that can be formed on an as-needed basis in several different UNSC Navy tactical formations|tactical formations, which themselves can be "plugged together" into ad-hoc task forces.Halo: Fleet Battles, ''Cole Rulebook - page 9'' Battle groups are usually created on a temporary basis, with a specific mission or to accomplish a specific task.Halo: Ghosts of OnyxHalo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe|Halo: Evolutions, "The Impossible Life and Possible Death of Preston J. Cole" Battle groups can range in size from as little as three ships to larger carrier groups with smaller "tactical" UNSC carrier|carriers at their core.Halo: Warfleet, ''p.40-41'' These battle groups are referred to as carrier groups.
Under the NAVCOM UNSC rank structure|rank structure, battle groups are usually commanded by a Rear Admiral|rear admiral,''Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual'', PART 8: UNSC ORGANISATION, NAVCOM Ranks (p. 140-141) though there have been instances of smaller battle groups being led by Captain (Navy)|captains.Halo Wars: Genesis Each battle group is assigned a number or a code name.Halo Graphic Novel, ''page 86''
By 2552, all UNSC battle groups had a UNSC prowler|prowler assigned to their ranks, to provide electronic intelligence and to gain an advantage over the enemy by laying HORNET mine|minefields.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 329''
The concept of a flight may be related to the concept of battle groups.
Battle Group 4|4
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Covenant Although the Covenant organize smaller Covenant fleet|fleet units on a temporary basis similar to UNSC battle groups, their naval doctrine identifies such units as fleets rather than battle groups; for example, the Fleet of Sacred Consecration was still identified as a fleet despite only consisting of 15 ships.Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, ''page 180'' Instead, the term "battle group" is applied to certain Covenant fleet tactical formations|tactical formations of Covenant ships that are part of a larger fleet;Halo: Fleet Battles, ''Core Rulebook - pages 120-121'' for example, the Fleet of Particular Justice had several "CCS-class battle groups", each consisting of three s.Halo: Combat Evolved campaign level, ''The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|The Pillar of Autumn'' (''"I've isolated approach signatures from multiple ''Ket''-pattern battle groups, make it three capital ships per group."'') Similar to the naming of their ships and fleets, the Covenant themselves often derived the naming of their battle groups from their Covenant religion|religious nomenclature.
Trivia The funding of the SPARTAN-II program, including their MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor|MJOLNIR armor and training, cost about as much as a battle group.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 45''
Sources
Category:UNSC organizational military units |
Battle Hardened is an achievement in ''Halo: Spartan Strike''. It is unlocked by earning all Gold stars in all missions of Operations A through E. The achievement is worth 20 Gamerscore. It is represented by a circle with a star ringed by five dots.
Tips Unlike its predecessor, ''Halo: Spartan Assault'', campaign scoring does not feature a time multiplier; it is therefore not advisable to rush through a level. Players can maximize their score by focussing on kills and List of Halo: Spartan Strike medals|medals. |
Battle Hardened is an achievement in ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection''. It is awarded for winning 250 multiplayer games. The achievement is worth 10 gamerscore. It also unlocks the Griffball Nameplate. |
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The Battle of 18 Scorpii was an Battle|engagement during the Human-Covenant War.
The battle Upon arrival the lone Covenant ship inflicted heavy damage on the Battle Group Sierra-3|Battle Group which was unable to penetrate the Covenant ship's Energy shielding|shields. The and sustained only moderate damage, however the was heavily damaged and its Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine was rendered inoperable. This gave the commanding Captain the choice of whether to fall back and save the two destroyers, or fight and possibly lose all three of his ships. Luckily, unknown friendly reinforcements jumped in system and destroyed the Covenant ship, saving the UNSC forces. The lead ship's profile matched a 30-year-old frigate design with major modifications, which a passive transponder identified as the Bellicose|UNSC ''Bellerophon''.Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''pages 472-473''
List of appearances
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole''
Sources
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|18 Scorpii Category:UNSC victories|18 Scorpii |
|date = 2545|May 2545
|place = Actium, Erem system
|result = *Covenant victory
*Heavy Covenant casualties
*Actium glassed
|side1 = United Nations Space Command|UNSC
|side2 = Covenant
|commanders1 = Colonel|COL Akono Menteith†
|commanders2 = Unknown fleetmaster
|forces1 = UNSC Army
34th Armored Division
53rd Armored Division
|forces2 = Unknown
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*12,000+ soldiers
|casual2 = *Heavy casualties
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The Battle of Actium was a key military engagement during the Human-Covenant War, occurring between United Nations Space Command and Covenant forces during 2545|May 2545 on the human Inner Colony planet of Actium in the Erem system.
The battle In May 2545, a Covenant fleet invaded Actium. By May 10, Colonel Akono Menteith, whom had assumed command of the UNSC Army's 53rd Armored Division, gave a rousing speech to the roughly twelve-thousand surviving UNSC soldiers. Later that month, the 53rd Armored Division carried out targeted strikes on the Covenant's leadership cadres and then marched deep into Covenant-held territory in order to destroy three of the largest Covenant staging areas on record; the 53rd did so with the aid of a pair of HAVOK tactical nuclear weapons, though they suffered heavy attrition. Within the month, the 53rd Armored Division was annihilated.
The Covenant later returned en force and Glassing|glassed much of Actium's surface. The Marshal of Varo|marshal of the Sangheili state of Varo was involved in this battle, and ultimately killed in the conflict.
Aftermath Colonel Menteith's speech to the 53rd Armored Division became legendary throughout the colonies as a symbol of human resistance against the Covenant. The tactics used by the 53rd Armored Division during the Battle of Actium later informed the United Nations Space Command's other late-war military strategies, including Operation: RED FLAG in 2552.
During the battle, the 34th Armored Division recovered a from the Covenant that was later displayed at Outpost Discovery, an exploratory initiative launched by the United Nations Space Command.
Production notes The battle shares its name with a Wikipedia:Battle of Actium|real-world engagement that occurred in 31 BC. The historical Battle of Actium is often considered a crucial step in the transition of the Roman Republic into the Empire.
List of appearances
''Halo: Divine Wind''
Sources
Category:Covenant victories|Actium Category:UNSC victories|Actium |
United Nations Space Command
|side2=*Didact|Didact's Prometheans#Mechanical Prometheans|Prometheans Jul 'Mdama's Covenant
|side3=Sali 'Nyon's Covenant
|commanders1=Captain (Navy)|CAPT Thomas Lasky Commander|CDR Sarah Palmer
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|commanders3= Sali 'Nyon
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The Battle of Aktis IV was an engagement fought on the previously uncharted planet Aktis IV on 2558#July|July 1920, 2558.
Prelude File:HE13 Halsey Key Half.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Halsey with her half of the Janus Key. Determined to combine the halves of the Janus Key and take them to the Absolute Record to fulfill the Librarian's plan, Dr. Catherine Halsey concocted a plan to recover the other half of the key from the UNSC without having to board the . Following the Battle of Oban ''Infinity'' made a slipspace jump towards Galileo II base so that Dr. Henry Glassman could further study their half of the key. However, the ''Infinity'' suddenly reappeared in an asteroid belt, colliding with an asteroid and causing some damage inside the ship. The ''Infinity'' jumped to slipspace again, just to reappear a quarter of a kilometer of her last position. Unbeknownst to the crew of ''Infinity'', they were being stranded in the system by a Forerunner Requiem communication artifact|artifact, recovered by 'Mdama before Requiem exploded. The artifact allowed Halsey to contact the ''Infinity''s Forerunner components, including her slipspace drive, and stuck them in the system. The failed attack on Oban was actually a bold move to attract the ''Infinity'' near the artifact and be able to connect the artifact and ''Infinity''s drive. After checking the ''Infinity''s engine room, Roland found an unusual energy reading coming from the equator of an Aktis IV|uncharted planet near their position. Glassman and Captain Thomas Lasky supposed that the location was the source of the problem and Sarah Palmer prepared to send a team to the planet.''Halo: Escalation'', Halo: Escalation Issue 13|Issue #13
The battle
File:HE14 Forerunner Base 1.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Palmer discovers the Forerunner structure. Lasky deployed a reconnaissance team to investigate a potential source of interference emanating from the surface of the planet, provisionally designated Aktis IV. The mysterious signal originated from an island in a large ocean of an opaque, foamy substance impenetrable to ''Infinity''s sensors. Upon landing, SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan Fireteam Majestic and Sarah Palmer|Commander Palmer engaged and defeated a detachment of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant forces and subsequently discovered a recently-excavated Forerunner structure. Afterwards Dr. Glassman arrived and examined the Forerunner structure, with the Spartans providing cover. Glassman theorized the structure to be part of a teleportation grid|translocation grid and soon discovered a Forerunner artifact with indentations in the shape of the halves of the Janus Key, seemingly suggesting this was where the Key was meant to be placed. However, Halsey and 'Mdama were monitoring the events and the artifact was in fact a decoy created to deceive the UNSC into taking their half of the Janus Key to the surface. Halsey believed that the UNSC would never suspect a trap as no one but Glassman would realize the Key's true value.
On the planet, Glassman requested to have lab equipment brought to the Forerunner site along with the UNSC's half of the Janus Key in order to analyze the artifact; Palmer reluctantly agreed and contacted Lasky. Although 'Mdama had troops standing at the ready, waiting for the signal to ambush the UNSC forces and take the Key, Halsey reminded Jul to exercise extreme care to avoid damaging the Key until it was safely in their possession. While the Janus Key was being prepared for transport, Roland questioned the decision to move the artifact to the surface as it may distract Glassman from his task of ascertain the origin of the interference keeping ''Infinity'' stranded. However, Lasky was confident Palmer would be able to keep Glassman focused and believed taking the Key to the surface would not cost them anything either way.
File:HE14 Destruction.jpg|thumb|250px|left|The Pelican and Broadsword are shot out the sky. As the Pelican carrying the Key approached the Forerunner site accompanied by a F-41 Broadsword|Broadsword escort, Commander Palmer charged Gabriel Thorne with moving the materials to the Forerunner structure. However, the incoming UNSC craft were suddenly struck by Covenant anti-air artillery operated by Sali 'Nyon's Covenant|forces under the command of Sali 'Nyon, a Sangheili rebel who sought to overthrow Jul 'Mdama. Mdama and Halsey were caught off guard by this turn of events as 'Mdama had given no order to fire, nor did he have forces deployed in the area. Meanwhile, the shipmaster of ''Breath of Annihilation'', one of 'Mdama's s, received word on the unauthorized attack. Assuming he would be blamed for the incident since the unit responsible would likely be one under his direct command, the shipmaster chose not to wait for 'Mdama's signal and ordered his fleet to proceed with their planned attack against the UNSC forces. The ''Breath of Annihilation'' and the rest of 'Mdama's fleet then emerged from the foam ocean, having remained concealed underneath.''Halo: Escalation'', Halo: Escalation Issue 15|Issue #15 As 'Mdama's Covenant began their onslaught, the Spartans on the island were quickly forced to pull back into the Forerunner structure while ''Infinity'' prepared to deploy reinforcements.
On the ''Song of Retribution'', Halsey and 'Mdama argued about their next course of action. Halsey urged 'Mdama to reposition his fleet to draw the UNSC's attention away from the Pelican's crash site, but Jul was confident they would be able to take the Janus Key via a full-on assault despite the unexpected complication. Halsey then requested 'Mdama to scour the Pelican's crash site herself, but Jul had her remain on the ship while he intended to personally land on the surface, acquire the artifact, and punish those responsible for compromising the plan. On Aktis IV, Sali 'Nyon and several of his followers searched the Pelican's crash site. After discovering the half of the Janus Key, 'Nyon proclaimed his goal to expose 'Mdama as a fraud and assume leadership of the new Covenant, declaring himself "the one true prophet".
File:HE15 Barricaded.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Jul's forces attempt to breach the barricade. Having revealed itself from the foam ocean, Jul 'Mdama's fleet surrounded ''Infinity'' and blocked the UNSC flagship off in low orbit over Aktis IV for over seven hours. Commander Palmer, Fireteam Majestic and Glassman remained under attack by Covenant forces inside the Forerunner structure and were unable to establish contact with ''Infinity''. While they retreated inside the facility, Spartan Carlo Hoya was left behind outside. Palmer ordered Glassman to get the structure's teleportation grid online before Jul 'Mdama's Covenant breached their defenses. Glassman informed her that the grid was online but he needed to decode the coordinates to the exit portal and there was no chance to successfully escape to a safer location.''Halo: Escalation'', Halo: Escalation Issue 15|Issue #15
Within Jul 'Mdama's Covenant fleet, Sali 'Nyon broadcast a transmission to incite Jul's forces to join him in his rebellion against 'Mdama. Meanwhile, Jul 'Mdama and his forces continued to personally track down and eliminate Sali 'Nyon's followers on the planet. A Sangheili Zealot advised him to return to the ''Song of Retribution'' for his safety, but 'Mdama declined. When informed that his forces were about to breach the structure where the UNSC forces remained barricaded, 'Mdama ordered his forces to kill all the humans when they entered the site, except Glassman as he had a special punishment for him. Jul entered a Phantom where he was contacted by Dr. Halsey, who stressed the importance of recovering the Janus Key over 'Nyon's rebellion. Because of the ongoing crisis, 'Mdama fulfilled Halsey's request to personally land on the planet to acquire the Janus Key. Halsey subsequently departed for the planet aboard a Phantom, escorted by Jul's forces.
File:HE15 In Sight.jpg|thumb|250px|Halsey is spotted by Hoya. In the jungle Hoya was facing what were, unknown to him, 'Nyon's forces. A Zealot was about to kill him when a Promethean Knight loyal to 'Mdama kicked the Zealot, inadvertently saving Hoya in the process. Hoya fell off a cliff and spotted Dr. Halsey aboard a Phantom. Meanwhile, 'Mdama's Covenant breached the Forerunner structure where the Spartans had taken shelter and attacked them. Ray informed Palmer that Hoya had spotted Dr. Halsey.
In Sali 'Nyon's hideout on the planet, some of his followers began to question the feasibility of his rebellion. 'Nyon continued to reassure his followers that the Forerunners had blessed them, citing his acquisition of the half of the Janus Key as proof. However, Unidentified Sangheili Minor|one Sangheili Minor, believing that the Promethean constructs' allegiance to Jul 'Mdama was evidence to the contrary, decided to leave 'Nyon's rebel faction and stole the Janus Key half in 'Nyon's position, intending to offer it to 'Mdama as a gesture of penance.
Inside the Forerunner structure, Glassman opened the teleportation grid. At Palmer's request, Glassman opened portals to both the jungle and the other end of the island. She ordered Tedra Grant, Glassman and three other Spartans to take the latter portal while Palmer, Ray and Thorne took the former. On the other end of the island, ''Infinity'' had managed to deploy two Mark IX Mantis ADS|Mantises as reinforcements. As they were fighting Jul 'Mdama's Covenant forces, Grant's team arrived through the portal and were almost killed by friendly fire from the Mantises.
Upon traveling through the portal, Palmer, Ray and Thorne scouted the jungle when they spotted the Sangheili Minor who had defected from 'Nyon's forces in a Karo'etba-pattern Ghost|Ghost. The Minor contacted a Zealot of Jul's Covenant and told him he wanted to rejoin 'Mdama, having reached the conclusion that Jul was the true Didact's Hand because the Prometheans would never obey an impostor. He then revealed he had the half of the Janus Key stolen by 'Nyon, and he would lead them to 'Nyon's hideout. The Zealot ordered him to conceal himself until they arrived and established a rendezvous point. Thorne and Ray intended to ambush the Minor in order to take the Janus Key before Dr. Halsey arrived with a greater force. However, Palmer instead ordered them to hold off and wait until Halsey arrived so they could catch the doctor by surprise.
File:HE16 Infinity Fleet.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The ''Infinity''s sub-vessels attack Jul's fleet. After waiting for an opportune moment to ambush Dr. Halsey, Commander Palmer and Spartans Thorne and Ray observed a group of Jul 'Mdama's Ru'swum-pattern Phantom|Phantoms arrive to claim the Janus Key half from the Sangheili defector. Elsewhere on Aktis IV, Jul 'Mdama continued to eliminate 'Nyon's followers. Jul was informed that his forces had Za'zayara-pattern Harvester|excavators in position and were ready to be used against 'Nyon's rebels. With the rebellion in its death throes, Jul was confident that Halsey and her escort would not be ambushed and diverted most of the Phantoms to deal with the UNSC forces elsewhere on the island. While ''Infinity'' and its sub-vessels continued to engage 'Mdama's fleet, Lasky queried Roland about Palmer's whereabouts. The Smart AI|AI informed him that he could only contact Spartan Grant's team, while Palmer had gone off on a mission of her own and taken two of the Spartans with her.''Halo: Escalation'', Halo: Escalation Issue 16|Issue #16
Dr. Halsey and her Zealot escort met with the Sangheili defector. The Minor was forced to turn over the artifact and was then promptly executed by one of the Zealots as he had outlived his usefulness; 'Mdama's faction already knew the location of Sali 'Nyon's hideout. Before they could return to the ''Song of Retribution'', the group was ambushed by Palmer, Thorne and Ray. With their Phantom surrounded by the Spartans, Halsey and a Zealot fled to the forest. Palmer gave chase while leaving Thorne and Ray to deal with 'Mdama's Covenant forces. In the jungle, Palmer killed the Zealot guarding Halsey and captured the doctor.
File:HE16 Put in place.jpg|thumb|250px|Halsey clouds Palmer's judgment. Meanwhile, Jul's forces destroyed the last of Sali 'Nyon's outposts. A wounded and Physical restraints|restrained 'Nyon was brought before 'Mdama, who intended to keep the Treason|traitor alive for his punishment.
As Palmer was leading Halsey through the jungle the doctor began to Catherine Halsey/Quotes#Issue 16|argue with Palmer. Revealing that ONI was using her as a convenient scapegoat, Halsey managed to cloud Palmer's judgment momentarily and ran off. Palmer gave chase, only to come face to face with a Harvester. Halsey got away while the ground below Palmer was blasted by the Harvester's Plasma drill|main beam. Palmer fell off a cliff and attempted to propel herself back up using her Spartan abilities#Thruster pack|armor's thrusters, but she was hit in the back of the head by a falling rock and fell into a crevice. Halsey contacted Jul 'Mdama and was picked up by a Phantom.
Aftermath File:HE16 - Lasky and Palmer.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Lasky confronts Palmer. Three days later, after the UNSC forces had returned to ''Infinity'', Lasky met with Palmer in an interrogation room. Lasky informed her that two ONI agents were demanding to speak with her and that Ray and Thorne were furious about her behavior on the planet. While Roland stalled the ONI agents Lasky asked Palmer to tell him what happened. Palmer explained that she could not bring herself to kill Halsey and that the doctor was able to distract her and get away with the Janus Key, thus giving Jul 'Mdama access to both halves of the artifact. Meanwhile, Jul and Halsey used the combined Janus Key to project a Holography|holographic map pinpointing the location of the Absolute Record.
Gallery
File:HE14 Taskforce.jpg|A UNSC taskforce is sent to the planet. File:HE14 Attack.jpg|Palmer and Majestic attack Jul's forces. File:HE14 Ray Sticky.jpg|Ray fires a sticky detonator. File:HE14 Palmer Ray.jpg|Palmer and Ray converse after the Wraith's destruction. File:HE14 Plan.jpg|Jul and Halsey reveal their plan. File:HE14 Unload.jpg|Equipment is unloaded for Glassman. File:HE14 Pelican Escort.jpg|The Janus Key carrying Pelican with a Broadsword escort arrive. File:HE14 Foiled.jpg|Jul 'Mdama's Covenant shoot down the Pelican. File:HE14 Foam Rise.jpg|Covenant ships rise from under the foam. File:HE14 Pinned.jpg|Palmer and Thorne are pinned down by gunfire. File:HE14 Sali Faction.jpg|Sali's forces retrieve the other half of the Janus Key. File:HE15 Fleet Revealed.jpg|Jul's fleet converge on ''Infinity''. File:HE15 Found.jpg|More of Sali's followers are caught. File:HE15 Jul Prometheans.jpg|Jul converses with a Zealot. File:HE15 Hoya Dodge.jpg|Hoya dodges a Zealot's energy sword. File:HE15 Hoya Saved.jpg|A Promethean Knight kicking one of Sali 'Nyon's Zealots, inadvertently saving Hoya. File:HE15 Breached.jpg|Determined Covenant forces breach the barricade. File:HE15 Sali Hideout.jpg|Sali and his followers retreat in a hideout. File:HE15 Mantis Battle.jpg|Mantises battle Jul's forces. File:HE15 Misfire.jpg|The second Spartan group is nearly hit by friendly fire. File:HE16 Await.jpg|Palmer awaits Halsey's arrival. File:HE16 Halsey Battlegroup.jpg|Halsey's battle group arrives. File:HE16 Forerunner Land.jpg|Jul locates more of Sali's followers. File:HE16 Switchup giveup.jpg|The traitor surrenders. File:HE16 - Dead Minor.jpg|The zealot executes the traitor. File:HE16 Diversion.jpg|The battle group is caught off guard. File:HE16 Palmer attack.jpg|Palmer attacks a zealot. File:HE16 Spartan Backup.jpg|Thorne and Ray flank the phantom crew. File:HE16 Carried to escape.jpg|Halsey is carried away to safety. File:HE16 Suprise.jpg|Palmer executes a zealot protecting Halsey. File:HE16 Sali 'Nyon Imprisoned.jpg|Sali 'Nyon is captured. File:HE16 Captured.jpg|Palmer captures Halsey. File:HE16 Harvest charge.jpg|The Harvester prepares to fire its drill. File:HE16 Halsey gets away.jpg|Halsey's ride arrives. File:HM-CRS.png|The UNSC ''Infinity'' and ''CRS''-class light cruisers sparring
List of appearances
''Halo: Escalation''
''Halo Mythos''
Sources
Category:Jul 'Mdama's Covenant victories |
The Battle of Alpha Aurigae was a major battle in the early years of the Human-Covenant War. The human fleet, consisting of 117 ships under the command of Admiral Preston Jeremiah Cole|Preston Cole, engaged twelve Covenant warships, destroying the enemy force but losing a total of thirty-seven ships in the process.Halo Wars: Genesis It was one of the rare naval victories for the United Nations Space Command|UNSC.
Trivia The short story ''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole'' clearly states that Cole had one hundred seventeen ships under his command, though ''Halo Wars: Genesis'' states he had 107. The number provided in the short story is an obvious reference to John-117.
List of appearances
''Halo Wars: Genesis''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole''
Sources
Category:UNSC victories |
|place = Installation 04, Alpha Base
|result = UNSC victory
|side1 = United Nations Space Command
|side2 = Covenant
|commanders1 = *Major Antonio Silva Lieutenant Melissa McKay
|commanders2 = *Field Master Noga 'Putumee Special Operations Officer Zuka 'Zamamee
1 unnamed Sangheili Zealot
|forces1 = *M808B Scorpions (2) [immobile]
2 M910 Rampart point defense network|M910 Rampart point-defence guns Captured and s D77-TC Pelicans UH-144 Falcons M12B Warthogs UNSC Marine Corps|UNSC Marines Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODSTs
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*Mary Murphy
*Rick Hale
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1 Pelican Several Phantoms Noga 'Putumee
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The Battle of Alpha Base was a military engagement between the UNSC Marine Corps and the Covenant during the Battle of Installation 04.
Prelude File:HFR Alpha Base 2.png|thumb|left|An M910 Rampart gun at Alpha Base. On September 19, 2552, human forces of the Landing on Installation 04|landed on Installation 04 and proceeded to First Battle of Alpha Base|take over the Forerunner structures on a butte, later referred to by the humans as Alpha Base. The humans began to repeatedly raid Covenant deployments across the ring, with Lieutenant Melissa McKay leading a Raid on the Pillar of Autumn|raid on the downed ''Autumn'' to retrieve vehicles, munitions and supplies for the UNSC base. The raid was a success, arming Alpha Base with a fleet of M12 Warthog|M12 and M12B Warthog|M12B Warthogs, four M808B Scorpion tanks and even two M910 Rampart point defense network|M910 Rampart 50mm autocannons. Additionally, a Raid on the Truth and Reconciliation|UNSC attack on the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' allowed Lieutenant Dalu to salvage several Mamua'uda-pattern Shade|Type-29 and Rizsheda-pattern Shade|Type-26 Covenant Shade turrets to bolster the defenses of the operating base.
During the attack on the ''Pillar of Autumn'', Sangheili Field Master Noga 'Putumee led a Covenant force in attempting to halt the UNSC armored column, but ultimately failed in this task. The series of repeated blows to the Covenant prompted the Council of Masters to grant Zuka 'Zamamee permission to lead an attack on Alpha Base.
His Unggoy assistant Yayap was left to be found by the UNSC forces, and transported to Alpha Base. The Unggoy was to activate a signaling device once he spotted John-117, alerting the Covenant to his presence so he could be eliminated. However, by the time the battle had started, the Master Chief had departed the base.
Battle By 0236 hours on September 21, the final mission arrived back at Alpha Base for the night, with no more flights scheduled. The Battle for Alpha Base began with a distress relay call from the D77-TC Pelican|Pelican dropship Charlie 217. This Pelican had been listed as MIA, and so was allowed to land on one of the pads at Alpha Base (Installation 04)|Alpha Base, although a Marine reaction force was put on standby. The Pelican was piloted by Lieutenant Rick Hale, a Covenant prisoner. As soon as the Pelican was given permission to land, the lieutenant was strangled to death by Zuka 'Zamamee using an energy garrote. Wellsley, the Alpha Base AI, detected six additional heat signatures behind the Pelican which he recognized as Dextro Xur-pattern Spirit|Spirit dropships inbound at 350 kph. Though he was unable to prevent Charlie 217 from landing, he was able to warn his superiors to mount a response.
File:HFR AlphaBase Fighting.png|thumb|left|250px|Fireteam Raven battling Covenant forces inside the base. Thirty heavily armed Stealth Sangheili disembarked from the dropship and attacked every Marine in sight. Despite being caught mostly unaware, the UNSC forces rallied and fought back, flooding the landing pad with fuel and setting it aflame with a grenade, killing a number of the Sangheili|attackers and destroying the Covenant-captured Pelican. An explosion around this time shook the entire base, and alerted the remaining troops to the battle. The base's UH-144 Falcon complement began to fend off the inbound Covenant dropships and Banshees, while Fireteam Raven began to defend the base from encroaching forces. Several Spirits began to deploy their forces of Sangheili, Unggoy and Yanme'e inside the base, led by an Sangheili Ultra|Ultra. Banshee air strikes eliminated several Marines and a Pelican dropship, and Raven were ordered to get to the Shade turrets to help fend off aircraft. On the way they encountered more resistance, eventually using M41 SPNKRs to take down a and several s. A Spirit dropship would proceed to deploy two Mgalekgolo, though Raven would also take the Hunters down before finally mounting the Shades.
The ODST squad proceeded to take down several waves of Phantoms and Banshees before a new threat appeared - the ''Upright Chalice''. The large shuttle would hover near the base, allowing its infantry to fire down onto the mesa, though the majority of the onboard complement would be killed by return fire thanks to Fireteam Raven, including a Sangheili Zealot. The fireteam dismounted and were ordered to get to the base's landing pad, as they were needed elsewhere on the ring. They engaged more Type-1 energy sword|energy sword wielding ultras, Hunters and Suicide Unggoy before finally reaching their Falcon and extracting off the Mesa as the battle continued.
Wellsley utilized a point-defense gun|50mm autocannon and shot down one of the Spirits before they could get out of range. The 5 remaining Covenant ships touched down on the mesa and unloaded the main attack force, as well as Field Master Noga 'Putumee. Meanwhile, Zuka 'Zamamee and five of the remaining Stealth Sangheili descended into the underground level of the base, slaughtering all the humans that they came across. Finally, they entered the Control Room and massacred technicians Cho (Navy technician)|Cho, Pauley, and Mary Murphy|Murphy. However, they were seen by Wellsley, who promptly warned Silva. Soon, six teams of three Marines were sent out to halt the Stealth Sangheili; to counter the active camouflage, the Marines had special equipment which allowed them to read the thermal heat given off by the active camo. The Sangheili questioned everyone they came across in an attempt to learn the Master Chief's whereabouts. Eventually they came across Yayap and three other Unggoy in a prison cell. The Unggoy convinced Zuka that the Spartan was guarding a group of captured Banshee flyers on the other side of the base, and led the group toward there. A three-man Marine fireteam surprised them, killing the five Stealth Sangheili and the three Unggoy before being taken out by a Anskum-pattern plasma grenade|plasma grenade from Yayap. Upon reaching the Banshees, Yayap pointed a Type-25 plasma pistol|plasma pistol at 'Zamamee's head to get Zuka to fly them both to safety.
Meanwhile, McKay was tasked with halting the Covenant forces on the plateau. The primary Covenant attack force had been thoroughly destroyed. First, the snipers attempted to kill the majority of the enemy ground forces. 'Putumee, unable to land on the pads as originally planned, alternatively landed on the area up-spin of the Forerunner complex. Despite having the remaining Spirit dropships strafing the Marine defenders, they were caught unaware by the pair of entrenched M808B Scorpions and prepared defenses on the plateau. Not only did the Scorpions obliterate the majority of the Covenant forces, but also deprived the Covenant forces of their leadership when 'Putumee was killed. However, the assault moved onward, albeit slowly, as the lower-ranked Sangheili assumed command and attempted to rally the troops without much success. Soon, the strafing Spirits picked up the few surviving Covenant troops and retreated.
Aftermath
Gallery
File:HFR Hunters 2.jpg|Fireteam Raven battling Hunters. File:HFR Hunters.jpg|Fireteam Raven battling Hunters.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Flood''
''Halo: Fireteam Raven''
Sources
Category:UNSC victories|Alpha Base Category:Engagements in the Battle of Installation 04 |
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|next=Battle of Bliss
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|conflict=*Human-Covenant War
*Massacre of the Outer Colonies
|date=2525#December|December 3, 2525
|place=Alpha Corvi II, Alpha Corvi system
|result=Covenant victory Alpha Corvi II presumably glassing|glassed. All United Rebel Front|URF forces eliminated.
|side1=* United Nations Space Command
* UNSC Navy
*UNSC Marine Corps
*UNSC Air Force
--- United Rebel Front
|side2=* Covenant
*Covenant military
*Covenant fleet
|commanders1=*Lieutenant Commander|LCDR Yao Petty Officer, First Class|PO1 John-117
--- Captain|CAPT Whitaker
|commanders2=Sangheili Sangheili Field Marshal|Field Marshal
|forces1=*20+ warships
*1
*3+ s
*5+ s
*7+ s Multiple C712 Longswords Multiple D77-TC Pelicans
1 X-24 FAV
4 Spartan-IIs Numerous Marines
--- Militias Seaborne warships
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*5+ s
*3+ s Reinforcement fleet
*8+ s
*5+ s s s s Several s Multiple s Numerous ground forces
*Sangheili
*Jiralhanae
*Kig-Yar
*Unggoy
|casual1=*Heavy space losses
*3+ ''Marathon''-class cruisers
*1+ ''Halcyon''-class cruiser
*2+ ''Halberds''-class destroyers
*Many Longswords Many Marines All URF forces
|casual2=*Heavy ground losses Moderate space losses
|civilian1=
|civilian2=
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The Battle of Alpha Corvi II was one of the earliest battle|conflicts of the decades-long Human-Covenant War, fought between the Covenant and the combined forces of the United Nations Space Command and local insurrectionists on Alpha Corvi II.
Background In the short time that the UNSC and the Covenant had been aware of one another, the Covenant had begun to probe various Outer Colony worlds.
Battle
File:HCD-BRattack.png|thumb|left|300px|The Covenant forces that attacked Black Reef killed everyone in sight indiscriminately. On 2525#December|December 3, 2525, a substantial Covenant force emerged from slipspace near Alpha Corvi system|Alpha Corvi and proceeded to move toward the system's Alpha Corvi II|second planet. UNSC ships in orbit mounted a defense but a number of Covenant dropships managed to land troops on the surface. At just three hours after first arriving in the system, Alpha Corvi II's largest city, Jamshid, was under assault by the main contingent of ground-based hostiles. Marines were holding their own there but enemy reinforcements were anticipated.
It was at this point that the four young Spartan-II warriors picked to comprise Blue Team were briefed on the attack. They were ''en route'' to the system aboard the , . Lieutenant Commander Yao informed the Spartans that they would be dropping on the outskirts of Jamshid and engaging the Covenant from the rear. Their objective was to lessen the pressure on the main UNSC garrison within the city so that a proper counterattack could be prepared. It was also imperative, they were told, that they operate independently of Unified Ground Command|Ground Command and refrain from having any contact with anyone from the UNSC Marine Corps|Marine Corps whatsoever. The ''Persian Gate'' arrived at the besieged planet around thirty minutes following the Spartans' briefing and was met with urgent messages from officers on the ground. A separate group had detached itself from the main Covenant force and had landed troops near the island mining settlement, Black Reef. There was no UNSC presence there, but the town was being defended by local insurrectionist militias affiliated with the United Rebel Front. In light of this new information, Blue Team was redirected to Black Reef and ordered to neutralize the invaders there and discover why it was being targeted. During their insertion via a D77-TC Pelican, Nora, an A.I. on the ''Persian Gate'', introduced the Spartans to various scouting and reconnaissance enhancements their armor was outfitted with for this mission, including prototype active camouflage technology.
File:HCD-BTfighting.png|thumb|300px|left|By working with the URF, Blue Team was able to steer the Covenant troops right into its line of fire. Blue Team was set down in a Unidentified APC|ground vehicle on the beach and immediately began taking fire from rebels encamped a short distance away. Kelly-087 and Frederic-104 recommended taking them out quickly so they could move on to deal with the Covenant, but John-117 opted for a different option. He activated his active camouflage and crept up on the small band, only revealing himself when he could reach out and touch their apparent leader. John identified his team as being responsible for Operation: TALON|capturing Colonel Robert Watts and argued there was no way they could hope to beat them. He told them what had First Battle of Harvest|happened to Harvest and through appealing to their immediate common enemy, was able to get the leader, Whitaker, to agree to work together for the time being. At John's insistence, he ordered his squad to circle around and rendezvous with the rest of their forces at the edge of a lagoon. From there, they would hit the Covenant from one side and drive them toward where Blue Team lay in wait. In order to keep an eye on their uneasy allies, John sent along a surveillance drone to keep a visual on them. The insurrectionists took up position as planned and opened fire, catching the small contingent of aliens by surprise and sending them running. Blue Team too unloaded on them with BR55 battle rifles when the distance between them closed. During the fighting, John's drone was destroyed by a shot from a Kig-Yar's Type-25 plasma pistol. The Sangheili and Kig-Yar that remained escaped into the mouth of a tunnel that led deep into the mines beneath the reef's bedrock. John was determined to pursue them, not least of which because he was curious about Kindler|a strange device a Sangheili took in with him. Whitaker informed him that though the mine was an expansive mess of tunnels, it only had the one entry and exit, meaning the enemy was trapped within it. File:HCD - AlphaCorviSpaceBattle.jpg|thumb|300px|The UNSC fleet quickly lost its initiative in the battle above Alpha Corvi II as the Covenant's superior firepower ripped through their defensive lines.
The sudden new arrival of Covenant reinforcements in orbit prompted LDCR Yao to have Nora contact Blue Team. Yao let them know that a host of new dropships were inbound. Most of them were heading for Jamshid, but three Spirits would reach Black Reef in just three minutes. The naval battle over the planet looked to now be going very badly for the UNSC. Without any hesitation, Whitaker volunteered to hold the mine entrance with his people so the Spartans could pursue the others that had vanished within. Some militia started to question their leader's willingness to help the titanium-clad warriors, but Whitaker had only to remind them what John had said about Harvest. Soon, the Spirits were unloading Sangheili on the island who were met with a hail of bullets from the URF rebels. At some point after this, a plan enacted by the rebels triggered a cave-in that trapped Blue Team and its prey in the mine. Despite this, the alliance with the URF held and both groups continued to fight the Covenant together, now with the goal of also keeping a Forerunner artifact buried deep underground out of its hands.
File:HCD - JamshidAssault.jpg|thumb|left|300px|With their planetary defense failing, the UNSC was forced to abandon Jamshid and deployed dropships to evacuate the surviving Marines, leaving URF forces behind. While the UNSC evacuation of its personnel from the planet commenced, the URF continued to fight off fresh waves of Covenant reinforcements on Black Reef. Outnumbered, Whitaker ordered several soldiers to relocate to Bondi Beach to acquire a "tactical necessity". While the URF retreated from its position at the mining facility above, Blue Team fought through the flooding corridors of the mine shaft, separated from Linda-058. Linda, engaged by an estimated hundred hostiles equipped her Jetpack to dodge enemy fire while continuing to kill infantry as she sought a path back to her team. Her teammates were confronted by a Sangheili Zealot armed with an Type-1 Energy Sword|Energy Sword, who after several near misses was finally killed once his shields had been brought down by the Spartans' concentrated fire. Utilizing a surveillance drone, Kelly-087 gained visual on Linda on the other side of a rock wall three meters thick. Combining a pack of MX-8 plastic explosives and a Anskum-pattern plasma grenade|plasma grenade, John blasted a path through to Linda and the four Spartans resumed their attack on the remaining Covenant. During the firefight, the team's drone was destroyed by enemy fire, costing them the intel gathered on the Covenant's primary target. Frederic-104's armor had also been critically damaged in the battle. After wiping out the remaining infantry, the Spartans found the cavern to be rapidly filling with water and held their position until it was deep enough to swim upwards towards the surface. Despite Fred's armor having been pierced with his suit rapidly filling with water, he and his fellow Spartans were able to reach open waters and swim back to the surface.
With the majority of their forces in the process of being evacuated, Commander Yao deployed Pelican dropship ''Tango 807'' to rescue the Spartans. The Pelican arrived at Bondi Beach to find it swarming with Covenant. Yao ordered the Pelican to abort its landing until the Spartans' status could be verified. Minutes later, Blue Team resurfaced and linked up with Whitaker, who had commandeered an Unidentified APC|APC and proceeded to mow down the Covenant forces waiting to intercept the Spartans. Together, the two sides launched an assault on the extraction zone, allowing ''Tango 807'' to land. Whitaker and his men followed for evac, but were denied entry by the Pelican's lieutenant who had been ordered by Yao not to accept any non-UNSC personnel. Whitaker argued against this, but was flatly denied and told that he would have to find his own means off the planet, and that no human ship rebel or otherwise would be shot down should they succeed. ''Tango 807'' then departed into space, and the lieutenant was interrogated by John who was furious at the abandonment of their allies on the ground. Whitaker radioed for evac but was far out of range of any help that could've come, and was forced to face the Covenant alone. The rebels were wiped out and Whitaker was himself slain by an Elite, signaling the fall of Black Reef and the rebel garrison there.
The Blue Team returned to ''Persian Gate'' for a debriefing on their discovery in the cave system. The ''Persian Gate'' then fled into slipspace as the battle above Alpha Corvi II continued to rage. In the hours that followed, all remaining human resistance on the surface was routed, and the few UNSC ships that remained in orbit continued to attack the Covenant fleet even as their fighter screen had been completely decimated. All remaining human vessels were either destroyed or forced to retreat, and Alpha Corvi II was declared lost shortly thereafter.
Aftermath The colony was lost and presumably glassed by the Covenant after the UNSC's defeat. The humans sustained huge losses on both fronts despite having inflicted enormous casualties against the Covenant on the planet's surface, losses that at the time were merely considered "collateral damage" and acceptable in the face of the larger threat posed by the alien hegemony. The battle came at the cost of most, if not all the rebel forces who had aligned themselves with the Spartans in their mission to stop the Covenant, a decision that greatly angered John who had honored his alliance with the rebels. Alpha Corvi II was just one of countless of worlds in the Outer Colonies that would fall to the Covenant onslaught, and as their defeats mounted the UNSC would be forced to reconsider the acceptability of freely expending its own people, both military and civilian in the face of the worsening crisis.
Blue Team succeeded in their mission to prevent the Forerunner artifact from falling into enemy hands, but with the intelligence they gathered destroyed in the battle within the mine, its purpose and power remained unclear to the UNSC.
Participants
Starships
{| class="wikitable sortable"
| ! Fleet
! Class
! Name
! Status
| |Unknown
|
|
|Survived
|}
Military personnel
{| class="wikitable sortable"
| ! Branch
! Rank
! Name
! Status
| | rowspan="5" | UNSC Navy
|Lieutenant Commander
|Yao
|Survived
| |Petty Officer, First Class
|John-117
|Survived
| | rowspan="3" |Petty Officer
|Kelly-087
|Survived
| |Linda-058
|Survived
| |Frederic-104
|Survived
| |}
Ground forces UNSC Navy
*UNSC Special Forces
**Naval Special Warfare Command
***Blue Team UNSC Marine Corps
Artificial intelligences
{| class="wikitable sortable"
| ! Name
! Status
| |Nora
|Survived
|}
Civilians
{| class="wikitable sortable"
| ! Name
! Status
| |Catherine Halsey
|Survived
|}
Military personnel
{| class="wikitable sortable"
| ! Branch
! Rank
! Name
! Status
| | rowspan="3" | Unknown
|Captain
|Whitaker
|KIA
| | rowspan="2" | Unknown
|Miguel
|KIA
| |Fran
|KIA
|}
Production notes s can be seen at the Battle of Alpha Corvi II in a hologram in Halo: Collateral Damage Issue 1|Issue #1 of ''Halo: Collateral Damage''. While this was initially implied to suggest the ''Vindication'' had an extensive service history in the Human-Covenant War, the 2022 ''Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)|Halo Encyclopedia'' established the ''Vindication'' as having been first launched in 2554 - retconning this panel as just an example of unreliable comic artwork and also contradicting ''Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo''s page 74, which states that ''Vindication''-class light battleship was in service during the Human-Covenant War.
Gallery
File:HCD Blue Team.png File:Halo collateral damage2.png File:HCD Issue 3 cover.jpg
List of appearances
''Halo: Collateral Damage''
''Halo: Oblivion''
Sources |
|place=Asmara
|result=Covenant Victory Asmara glassing|glassed
|side1=United Nations Space Command
|side2=Covenant
|commanders1=Unknown
|commanders2=Unknown
|forces1=UNSC Marine Corps Orbital Drop Shock Troopers
|forces2=
Sangheili
|casual1=Heavy infantry losses
|casual2=Light to moderate
}}
The Battle of Asmara was an engagement on the human Human colonies|colony of Asmara early in the Human-Covenant War. It ended in a Covenant victory and the glassing of the planet.
The Battle The fighting on Asmara is noted to have been particularly brutal, with Gage Yevgenny's fireteam of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers seeing some of the worst of the conflict. At one point in the battle, Mason and ten other ODSTs were killed by a Type-1 energy sword|energy sword-wielding Elite before Yevgenny stopped its rampage with a near point-blank shot from a M41 SPNKR|rocket launcher.Halo: Evolutions, ''Dirt'', Page 168
Ultimately, the United Nations Space Command's efforts to defend Asmara proved futile, and the planet was glassing|glassed. The Assembly reported that Asmara had been lost prior to the beginning of 2530.
List of appearances
''Halo: Evolutions''
*''Dirt''
''Halo: Reach''
*''Data pads''
Notes
Sources
Category:Covenant victories|Asmara |
**
*23rd Naval Air Squadron UNSC Army
*UH-144 Falcons
*Hundreds of M808C Scorpions
*Hundreds of M12 Chaingun Warthogs
*Noble Team
**3 SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-IIIs
*Army troopers UNSC Marine Corps
*D77-TC Pelicans
*Marines
|forces2 = *Navy
*1
Army
*s
*Type-26 Banshees
*7 s
*s
*Devoted Sentries
*Mgalekgolo
*Jiralhanae
*Sangheili
*Huragok
*Yanme'e
*Kig-Yar
**Skirmishers
*Unggoy
|casual1 = Heavy Carter-A259
Emile-A239
SPARTAN-B312
Thirteen dead Spartans|Thirteen unknown SPARTANs
2 Pelican dropships Medium-Heavy Army losses Light Marine losses, most fall back to PoA
|casual2 = Heavy
1
1 Scarab
1 Unidentified Sangheili Field Marshal|Field Marshal
3+ Zealot-class Sangheili commanders
3+ Jiralhanae Chieftains Multiple Phantoms Multiple Banshees
}}
The Battle of Aszod was the last major engagement fought on the planet Reach during Fall of Reach|the planet's fall between 2552#August|August 29 and 30, 2552.
Background File:Covenant Fleet Aszod.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A Covenant fleet gathers at Aszod. By this point in the battle for Reach, a Covenant victory was all but inevitable. The UNSC's Epsilon Eridani Fleet had been routed by the combined Covenant fleets, and the Covenant ground invasion was now reinforced by large scale naval forces in low orbit. Surviving UNSC ground forces maintained a tenuous hold on the Aszod ship breaking yards|ship-breaking yards at Aszod, the only off-planet extraction point left on the Eposz continent. UNSC convoys on the way to the shipyard in the hopes of escaping the planet were destroyed by Covenant air attacks and several Covenant cruisers were on their way to the ship-breaking yards.
By this point, NOBLE Team had been reduced to four members, with Jorge-052 and Catherine-B320 having been killed in action during Operation: UPPER CUT and the Siege of New Alexandria, respectively. Jun-A266 had been ordered to defend Dr. Catherine Halsey and to escort her away from the Forerunner Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|complex near SWORD Base to another Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI facility, CASTLE Base. Thus, by August 30, Noble Team was effectively reduced to three operational members, including its field leader, Carter-A259, as well as Emile-A239, Noble Four, and SPARTAN-B312, Noble Six. The three had escaped SWORD Base following Operation: WHITE GLOVE, bearing a fragment of the AI Cortana, which contained data from the Forerunner ruins beneath the Babd Catha Ice Shelf. The ''Pillar of Autumn'', docked at the Aszod facility and awaited the team's arrival with this high value package. The ''Pillar of Autumn''s commanding officer, Captain (Navy)|Captain Jacob Keyes, deployed a number of UNSC Marine Corps|Marines to other parts of the ship-breaking facility to stall the Covenant advance and to allow Noble Team to break through and deliver the package.
After a successful mission to ''Gamma Station'', the touched down in the shipyards for the transaction of an important armored matrix|package, which contained a fragment of the AI Cortana, from NOBLE Team. Near the ''Pillar of Autumn's'' landing site, surviving UNSC forces engaged innumerable Covenant ground forces that were advancing toward the ''Pillar of Autumn''. The battle raged with unabated ferocity, but the UNSC forces were enclosed in a steadily constricting pocket despite their best efforts.
Battle
As the UNSC forces began to retreat, their land and air defenses moved to Aszod to regroup. Near the ''Pillar of Autumn''s landing site, numerous M808 Scorpions and M12 Chaingun Warthogs assaulted a pair of s and made their way to the ''Pillar of Autumn''. While encircling the Scarabs, the UNSC forces had to avoid mortar fire from several s that were also moving into Aszod from other parts of Reach. Meanwhile, a large number of UH-144 Falcons engaged Covenant Type-26 Banshees overhead.
En route to the facility, the Covenant's air superiority made itself apparent to the survivors of Noble Team. Their D77-TC Pelican|Pelican was attacked by Covenant aircraft, and Carter, the team leader, was seriously injured by plasma fire. Realizing that the Pelican would be shot down before reaching the ''Pillar of Autumn'', Carter ordered Emile and SPARTAN-B312 to jump from the crippled dropship while he attempted to lure the Covenant away. Emile and SPARTAN-B312 landed in Covenant-occupied territory on the main road to the shipyard.
Fighting their way to two M274R Mongooses, Emile and B312 raced to the ship-breaking yards as fast as the ATVs could travel. Covenant opposition in the area was heavy, with Scarab walkers and numerous infantry preventing the two from shooting their way through. Using speed to their advantage, they two SPARTANs streaked past the heavy opposition, jumping a collapsed highway bridge in the process and fighting their way through a Covenant outpost on foot. Progressing through a cave, the two found their progress blocked. A Scarab had detected the presence of the two SPARTANs and had stationed itself over their route. Aware that Nobles Four and Six could not proceed without outside help, and also aware that his Pelican's primary weapon could not damage the Scarab, Carter sacrificed himself, ramming the Scarab with the dropship and destroying it.
After their path was cleared, Emile and B312 were attacked by a large swarm of Yanme'e that were hunting down troopers who had wandered through the caves seeking safety. Escaping the caves, the two SPARTANs finally reached the shipbreaking yard. The area devoted to the scrapping of the aged UNSC frigate ''UNSC Commonwealth|Commonwealth'', one of the first UNSC vessels to be destroyed during the war, had become a battleground. Covenant forces had cut off straggling UNSC Army|Army troopers and Marines from the ''Pillar of Autumn'' and infantry firefights had broken out across the facility. With the assistance of Emile and Noble Six, the UNSC forces cut their way through to the drydocks.
After the SPARTANs reached the rendezvous point for the transfer, a furious battle broke out between the advancing Covenant soldiers and the surviving UNSC forces. The Covenant, sensing their victory and wishing to stop the escape of the humans, deployed waves of Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantom dropships and Banshees to overwhelm the human defenses. While SPARTAN-B312 led the surviving Marines against the Covenant ground forces, Emile manned a mark 2488 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|"Onager" mass driver that had been mounted on top of the facility, using it as a makeshift anti-aircraft battery. The sheer power of the mass driver, aided by the ''Pillar of Autumn''s point defense guns, devastated the Covenant assault waves, but the Covenant fought relentlessly, sacrificing dropships willingly to get their troops on the ground. Despite Emile's best efforts, a number of Jiralhanae-led forces fought furiously against the remaining UNSC forces. The Covenant had the advantage of numbers, but the UNSC held the high ground and the Covenant infantry assault was repulsed. With the landing zone clear, Captain Keyes personally took a Pelican to the rendezvous point, where he was met by SPARTAN-B312.
File:Keyes n' Six.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Keyes taking possession of Cortana's fragment. Keyes promptly took possession of the package, but the Covenant, realizing that their ground attack had failed, deployed a to destroy the facility and to block the ''Pillar of Autumn''s escape. Keyes ordered Emile to cover the ship's escape and the SPARTAN prepared to oblige. However, as Keyes boarded his Pelican and prepared to return to the ''Pillar of Autumn'', with Noble Six in tow, the landing zone was attacked by a Phantom dropship that managed to slip through the UNSC defensive barrage. The Pelican escorting Keyes was destroyed by a barrage of plasma from the Covenant dropship, which took up position by the mass driver and dropped off a team of Sangheili Zealots to eliminate Emile and the threat of the mass driver. Emile, although caught by surprise, reacted swiftly and killed the first Zealot at point-blank range with his shotgun. Emile's victory was short-lived, as a second Zealot impaled him from behind with an Type-1 Energy Weapon/Sword|energy sword. However, Emile valiantly challenged his attacker, stabbing it in the neck before they both fell to their deaths.
However, Emile's death left the mass driver unmanned, and the ''Pillar of Autumn'' was rendered vulnerable to the advancing Covenant battlecruiser. Noble Six decided to commandeer the mass driver, thus forsaking transport off-planet, to ensure the ''Autumn''s safe passage into space. The Covenant, aware of the threat posed by the mass driver, had deployed a team of Sangheili Zealots, led by a Sangheili Field Marshal|Field Marshal, to prevent the gun from being manned; however, after a hard fight, Noble Six killed them and manned the mass driver. The battlecruiser, undeterred, or perhaps unaware of the danger of the mass driver, continued to advance on the shipyard. The Covenant warship charged its ventral energy projector, preparing to destroy the ''Pillar of Autumn''; however, in order to fire, the ship needed to drop the Energy shielding|shield around the weapon. Turning the cannon on the battlecruiser, SPARTAN-B312 fired a round straight into the ship's unshielded energy projector port. The slug's impact disrupted the finely tuned magnetic field controlling the energy projector and the plasma gutted the ship, sending it plummeting to the surface of Reach. The ''Pillar of Autumn''s path was clear, and the cruiser immediately launched.
Aftermath File:HM-PoA-escape.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The ''Pillar of Autumn'' escapes Reach. After the ''Pillar of Autumn''s successful escape, SPARTAN-B312 was left as the last remaining human survivor in the area, which was now occupied by Covenant air and ground forces. The SPARTAN managed to hold off the Covenant forces for some time, but was ultimately overwhelmed by the invading swarms of Sangheili warriors. The , one of the few ships to survive the Fall of Reach, would arrive at Installation 04 on 2552#September|September 19, pursued by a portion of the ''Fleet of Particular Justice'', igniting the Battle of Installation 04, which would ultimately become the turning point for the UNSC to end of the war.
Gallery
File:HR ScarabPelicanMongoose.jpg|Carter's Pelican covering NOBLE Team and firing its weapon at a Scarab. File:HR Six&EmileAgainstDrones.jpg|Emile and Six encounter Yanme'e in the cave. File:HR BoneyardBattle1.jpg|NOBLE Team fighting Covenant troops at the ship-breaking yards. File:HR BoneyardBattle2.jpg|Noble Six firing a Spartan Laser at a Ghost. File:HR MarinesTrio.jpg|UNSC Marines fighting Covenant troops in the ship-breaking facility. File:HR Brute Pack.png|A large pack of Jiralhanae deployed at Platform Delta. File:HR DryDockBattle.jpg|Noble Six clearing a landing zone at Platform Delta. File:NobleSix Keyes.jpg|Captain Keyes receives the Package from Noble Six. File:Reach 947096 Medium.jpg|Emile killed by the Devoted Sentries. File:HaloReach - MACrusher.jpg|Noble Six disables the Covenant battlecruiser with the Onager. File:HaloReach - PoA.png|The ''Pillar of Autumn'' taking off. File:LoneWolf.jpg|Noble Six cornered by Sangheili warriors.
List of appearances
''Halo: Reach''
''Halo Mythos''
Sources |
UNSC
|side2=Created Unggoy allies
|commanders1=*Captain (NAVCOM)|CAPT Veronica Dare
|commanders2=
|forces1=*SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan Edward Buck Spartan Kojo Agu
|forces2=Unggoy
|casual1=
|casual2=
}}
In late 2558, after the Cortana Event, a battle ensued on the Unggoy planet|homeworld of Balaho.
Background
After escaping Genesis to Sanghelios, Edward Buck and other survivors managed to board the . While on there, Veronica Dare approached Buck with orders to reform Alpha-Nine in order to and ally with the United Rebel Front. Their first step was retrieving former member Kojo Agu.
Battle A group of Created allied Unggoy stormed the UNSC embassy in the city of Gedgow. These Unggoy captured the staff and forced Romeo to retreat from the situation.
After a few hours of travel, ''Foxtrot 111'' emerged from Slipstream space a bit away from Balaho. Their first action was to try and raise comms with Romeo to find where he was on the planet. They eventually did find Romeo, who informed them of the embassy staff.
The staff were being moved from the embassy to the Kabakera, the former seat of the Unggoy government.
Aftermath
After getting Kojo Agu, the trio escaped into slipspace and plotted how they were going to accomplish their next goal: freeing Vergil from a facility on Luna.
List of appearances
''Halo: Bad Blood''
Sources |
The Battle of Ballast was a battle that took place on the United Nations Space Command|UNSC colony of Ballast during the Human-Covenant War. It is unclear if the UNSC or Covenant forces on the planet won the battle, but propaganda produced by Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI stated that the battle was a UNSC victory.Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition) Signs on the Quito Space Tether hint that the colony still existed during the Battle for Earth.Halo 3, multiplayer map, ''Orbital''
The marine battalion E2-BAG/1/7 was involved in the battle and afterwards provided feedback on munitions used as part of a study entitled ''Machines, Materiel and Munitions from the Human-Covenant Conflict, 2525 - Present''.
Sources |
|image=
|conflict=Human-Covenant War
|date=Before 2552#July|July 23, 2552
|place=Beta Eridani system
|result=Covenant victory Remaining humans flee system. Covenant later unknowingly locate Epsilon Eridani system, including Reach.
|side1=* United Nations Space Command
* UNSC Navy
|side2=* Covenant
* Covenant military
**Covenant fleet
|commanders1=*Lieutenant|LT Robinson Vice Admiral|VADM Michael Stanforth
|commanders2=Supreme Commander Rho 'Barutamee
|forces1=*Robinson's forces
*1+
*4+ s Stanforth's fleet
*1+
*7+ s
|forces2=*Fleet of Valiant Prudence
*10+ ships
**1
**2+ s
**7+ s
|casual1=Unknown
|casual2=Unknown, likely light to none
}}
The Battle of Beta Eridani was an battle|engagement in the Human-Covenant War between the Covenant and the United Nations Space Command in the Beta Eridani system, shortly before the 2552#July|summer of 2552.
Background Rho 'Barutamee, Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Valiant Prudence, was charged with locating Forerunner artifacts for the Covenant Ministry of Fervent Intercession. To assist in his duties, Covenant leadership granted 'Barutamee the use of a powerful Luminary to aid in his searches. Shortly before the 2552#July|summer of 2552, the fleet's Luminary detected Forerunner relics located in the human-occupied Beta Eridani system. To collect the Forerunner artifacts, the Fleet of Valiant Prudence set course for the Beta Eridani system.
Meanwhile, the humans within the system were unaware of the existence of the Forerunner artifacts in the Beta Eridani system. The system was home to the Beta Eridani Naval Training Range, a training facility used by the UNSC Navy to test the capabilities of cadets on warships within the system.
Battle When the Fleet of Valiant Prudence arrived in Beta Eridani system|the system, their presence was quickly discovered by Lieutenant Robinson as ten Covenant starship|Covenant ships of the fleet were approaching quickly. Although the ensuing battle would likely have been an even fight on most occasions, all UNSC starship|warships of the UNSC Navy in the Beta Eridani system, including a group of one and , and another group of trio of s, were crewed with cadets. With no other viable option, Robinson ordered all forces in the system to flee.
During the battle, several Forerunner artifacts were recovered and brought to Supreme Commander Rho 'Barutamee aboard his flagship, ''Long Night of Solace''. 'Barutamee had the artifacts "processed" through the Luminary and discovered that the relics pointed to Epsilon Eridani system|another system. To prevent the UNSC forces in the system from following him to his next destination, 'Barutamee ordered the destruction of all remaining human forces in Beta Eridani. By this time, Vice Admiral Michael Stanforth took part of the battle of Beta Eridani and had led at least two battle groups against at least one portion of the Covenant fleet, with one comprised of a and trio of s, and the other comprised of 4 ''Paris''-class frigates.
Aftermath Sometime after the battle, the Fleet of Valiant Prudence traveled to the system pinpointed by the Luminary: the Epsilon Eridani system. Unbeknownst to Supreme Commander Rho 'Barutamee, the system was home to major strongholds of the United Nations Space Command, including Reach. 'Barutamee initiated the Fall of Reach|invasion of Reach, which ultimately led to the planet's fall on 2552#August|August 30, 2552, though 'Barutamee was presumably killed and most of his fleet was destroyed on 2552#August|August 14, 2552.
Participants
Military personnel
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Branch
! Rank
! Name
! Status
| | rowspan="2" |UNSC Navy
|Lieutenant
|Robinson
|Unknown
| |Vice Admiral
|Michael Stanforth
|Survived
|}
Starships
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Fleet
! Class
! Name
! Status
| |Fleet of Valiant Prudence
|
|''Long Night of Solace''
|Survived
|}
Military personnel
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Branch
! Rank
! Name
! Status
| |Ministry of Fervent Intercession
|Supreme Commander
|Rho 'Barutamee
|Survived
|}
List of appearances
''Halo: Fleet Battles''
Sources
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Beta Eridani Category:Covenant victories|Beta Eridani |
United Nations Space Command
|side2 =* Covenant Empire
|commanders1 = Connor Brien
|commanders2 = *Chieftain Parabum Ceretus
|forces1 = *1 Calypso-class exfiltration craft|Calypso-class Exfiltration Craft Orbital Drop Shock TroopersHalo 3: ODST Pre-mission Evaluation
1 Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI agent
*Connor Brien Armed civilians
|forces2 = *''Valorous Salvation''
Jiralhanae Unggoy
|casual1 = *All civilians except Dasc Gevadim Connor Brien No marine losses
|casual2 = Total
}}
The Battle of Beta Gabriel was a land battle that took place on the human Human colonies|colony of Beta Gabriel between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant in 2552, shortly after the Fall of Reach.Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, ''Stomping on the Heels of a Fuss''
The battle When the Covenant fleet arrived at Reach, Chieftain Parabum, upon seeing the size and strength of the defending human forces, deserted. He ordered his ship, the ''Valorous Salvation'', to retreat to Beta Gabriel, a small world with a population of about five hundred civilians. The deserters immediately set down and attacked the planet's only town, and communications with the planet's port Artificial intelligence|AI were lost. A few civilians were armed but they were quickly killed by the invaders, who took many humans captive. After human resistance ended, Parabum decided it was best to stay on the planet and the Jiralhanae ate the Unggoy troops they brought with them and then turned to eating human captives. One Jiralhanae, Maladus, challenged Parabum's rule but was quickly killed. This created high tensions in the Jiralhanae ranks, as they were made up of two rival clans: one, led by Parabum, and another, led by Maladus and his brother Ceretus. Ceretus swore revenge on Parabum for killing his brother.
The UNSC, lacking any sort of knowledge of what was taking place on Beta Gabriel (aside from the fact that a force of Jiralhanae attacked it), sent Connor Brien to investigate. Brien was one of the Office of Naval Intelligence's top experts on the Covenant, Jiralhanae in particular, and was sent to find how many human survivors remained and watch the Jiralhanae to see if there was any way to exploit them and weaken the Covenant, and then leave on a Calypso-class exfiltration craft|Calypso-class Exfiltration Craft as Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODSTs attacked the Covenant troops. Unfortunately, after his arrival, he was captured by the Jiralhanae Hammadus. He then met a number of human prisoners, including the reclusive mystic Dasc Gevadim, and learned of the situation there. Through observation of the Jiralhanae it dawned on Brien that there was a distinct division in the group, one that would soon lead to an all-out fight. Brien and the other prisoners planned an escape, which would go into action when the Jiralhanae finally confronted one another - as the Jiralhanae fought one another, the prisoners would have a better chance of surviving an escape attempt, and then they would run to the exfiltration point.
When Ceretus finally confronted Parabum, the prisoners attempted to escape. However, the only two prisoners to escape were Brien and Geradvim. From what he'd witnessed, Brien was convinced that there was no way the UNSC could ever use the Jiralhanae and instead thought ONI would be more interested in learning how the Covenant kept them under control. Upon arriving at Brien's camp, Gevadim shot Brien with his own M6 Series|M6 pistol. Shortly afterward, the Calypso arrived, and with it a recon team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, including Kojo Agu. They killed the remaining Jiralhanae, and upon discovering there were apparently no human survivors, left. Gevadim stayed alone in seclusion on Beta Gabriel.
Despite the loss of the colony and one of ONI's best agents, the battle was a tactical victory for the UNSC - although the colony was destroyed and no intelligence on the Jiralhanae was gained, the ODST reinforcements drove off the attacking Covenant.
Involved personnel
Connor Brien Kojo Agu Dasc Gevadim Nixaliz Vern Hague
Parabum Ceretus Maladus Facius Hammadus Golubus Brunus Jupentus
List of appearances
''Halo 3: ODST Pre-mission Evaluation''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''Stomping on the Heels of a Fuss''
Sources
Category:UNSC victories |
|place = Biko
|result = Covenant victory Glassing of Biko
|side1 = *United Nations Space Command
*UNSC Navy Chancellor's Guards
|side2 = *Covenant
*Covenant fleet
|commanders1 = Unknown
|commanders2 = Fleetmaster Nizat 'Kvarosee
|forces1 = *Biko defense fleet (approximately 50 ships)
*Patrol frigates s
*
Task Force Yama
*21st Space Assault Battalion|Black Daggers
*Ghost Flight
*
|forces2 = Fleet of Inexorable Obedience (100+ ships)
Multiple Covenant cruisers Multiple s
*''Pious Rampage''
''Purifying Flame''
|casual1 = Heavy Heavy 21st Space Assault Battalion|Black Dagger losses Five prowlers Heavy if not total Biko defense fleet losses
|casual2 = Five cruisers
}}
The Battle of Biko was a short engagement between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant Fleet of Inexorable Obedience in 2526 during the Human-Covenant War at the human Outer Colony of Biko. It occurred concurrently with Operation: SILENT STORM.
Background As the Outer Colonies began to Massacre of the Outer Colonies|fall one by one, the UNSC decided to launch Operation: SILENT STORM to counterattack the Covenant and buy humanity some time to develop countermeasures against Covenant technology. At the same time, Insurrectionists desired to forge an alliance with the Covenant and to protect Biko. To this end, they plotted to overthrow Biko's government while making a deal with the Covenant for the Covenant to help them take control of the planet. Their planned meeting on Seoba happened to take place at the same time as Task Force Yama was performing training exercises, leading to Operation: ICE DANCE which ended the Insurrectionist plot on Seoba, though the Insurrectionists managed to escape with the help of Lieutenant Commander Hector Nyeto during the Battle of Seoba|skirmish. As part of his original message to the Covenant, General Harper Garvin warned that the Spartans were responsible for the destruction of the ''Unrelenting'' and the ''Radiant Arrow'', causing the Covenant to realize that the most likely explanation was a boarding action, and with Garvin's warning that the Spartans planned to do the same to the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience, they planned to prevent against such a thing from happening again.
Battle On 2526#March|March 20, 2526, the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience arrived at Biko. Directly before their assault on Biko, the Covenant transmitted a message to the human colonists on its surface that stated "Your world will burn until its surface is but glass".Halo: Reach, ''Data pads|Data pad #10''
Taking heed of the warning given by General Harper Garvin, the Covenant fleet kept their fighter screen in close to prevent the Spartans from boarding their ships and destroying them from the inside. Biko's small space navy, mostly about fifty patrol frigates designed to disable smuggling ships, gathered on the dark side of the planet and attacked the Covenant force. Watching the battle from the , Frederic-104, Kelly-087, Linda-058 and John-117 were confused by the choice in tactics as the Covenant fleet accelerated towards the human fleet rather than trying to send their fighters to break up the human formation before it could swarm the capital ships. The Covenant fighters kept a tight but brittle defensive shell around the capital ships that even a couple of frigates could break. While the move could blow through the human defense, they would lose more than a few ships doing it despite mainly having Covenant cruisers and s that could take a half-dozen salvos without their shields even flickering.
As the Spartans realized that the Covenant likely knew about the planned boarding action and were protecting against it, the two sides began exchanging fire with the capital ships continuing to cocoon themselves in a screen of their fighters. As the two fleets tore into each other, evacuation ships began to launch from Biko and the Covenant fleet made no move to intercept, possibly because they could only evacuate a small percentage of Biko's population. Even as the two fleets engaged in close combat, the Covenant struggled to keep their fighter screen in place, continuing to worry about potential boarders.Halo: Silent Storm, ''chapter 17''
As the battle continued to rage, First Blade Tel 'Szatulai met with the Insurrectionists on the ''Emmeline'' where Commandant Erland Booth attempted to threaten him into calling off the attack with a HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon. 'Szatulai killed Booth instead and the Insurrectionists attempted to negotiate with him for the Covenant's help in taking Biko, offering the HAVOK and the plans to the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV|Spartans' armor. 'Szatulai decided to pretend to agree, in reality using the rebels to gain more intelligence upon the Spartans in order to be able to destroy them. During the battle, Task Force Yama also lost five prowlers and the 21st Space Assault Battalion|Black Daggers suffered heavy losses as well.Halo: Silent Storm, ''pages 301-302'' and were lost at Seoba in terms of ships and one hundred and twenty seven Black Daggers were lost at Seoba, but an exact figure for the losses at Biko is not given, just that cumulatively it was over four hundred Black Daggers.}} The ODSTs attempted to board and destroy the ''Purifying Flame'', though the attempt was foiled. The ODSTs that survived the boarding action were captured and later Tossers|tortured by Castor and Orsun, two Jiralhanae Bloodstars.
After five days of battle, the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience defeated Biko's defenders, but lost five cruisers in the process. In addition, Biko's defenders destroyed the planet's orbital shipbuilding stations that Fleetmaster Nizat 'Kvarosee had hoped to take control of for his own fleet's usage. With Biko's defenses gone, the Covenant turned to glassing the planet. After 'Kvarosee ordered mass plasma strikes on Biko's capital city, the planet's atmosphere combusted, resulting in a blanket of flame that spread across the entire world.
Aftermath During the battle, part of Task Force Yama split off a detached that was sent to destroy the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience's logistics fleet at Etalan. As a result of the successful destruction of most of the logistics fleet, the Covenant fleet was left low on carrier gas for their plasma without the ability to resupply, leaving the fleet vulnerable. To counter this, Fleetmaster Nizat 'Kvarosee called forth a new logistics fleet from the planet Zhoist while continuing the glassing to keep up the appearance that the fleet was unhindered. However, Nizat summoning the second logistics fleet along with the ''kelguid'' recovered from the wreckage of the intrusion corvette ''Worthy Silence'' allowed Doctor Catherine Halsey to determine the location of Zhoist for Task Force Yama to attack.Halo: Silent Storm, ''chapter 22'' Realizing this, First Blade Tel 'Szatulai urged Nizat to take the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience to Zhoist to help defend the planet.
After the battle over Biko, the debris field of human vessels was pushed over Biko's northern pole by the Covenant to allow their fleet to proceed glassing the planet unobstructed. Following the Human-Covenant War, a Fetching|fetcher, Oliver Birch visited the debris field over Biko, to retrieve a saddle box|"saddle box" slipspace engine from the , one of the s that had participated in the engagement years prior.Halo: First Strike|Halo First Strike (2010), ''Tug o' War''
Sometime later, the AI collective known as the The Assembly|Assembly conducted an analysis of the Covenant's capability to glass a planet. While they concluded that the aliens could not possess firepower to literally melt the entirety of a planet's surface based on the firepower their warships demonstrated in Space warfare|space engagements, they believed that introducing the term "glassing" to common parlance would more effectively stress the severity of the Covenant threat. The planet was later Terraforming|reterraformed by the Unified Earth Government and was habitable by 2558.Hunt the Truth, ''Episode 08''
List of appearances
''Halo: First Strike''
*''Tug o' War''
''i love bees''
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
''Halo: Reach''
*''Data pads''
''Hunt the Truth''
''Halo: Silent Storm''
''Halo: Outpost Discovery''
Notes
Sources
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Biko Category:Covenant victories|Biko |
1 UNSC frigate|frigate
2 heavy cruisers
|forces2 = 45 vessels
5 CAS-class assault carrier|assault carriers
17 Covenant destroyer|destroyers
23 Ket-pattern battlecruiser|battlecruisers
|casual1 =*Up to 500 million civilians UNSC ''Weeping Willows''
UNSC ''Matador''
UNSC ''Purpose''
UNSC ''Accra''
|casual2 = Unknown
}}
The Battle of Bliss was a battle fought in orbit above the human colony of Bliss during the Human-Covenant War.
Battle On 2526|February 13, 2526, Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI UNSC prowler|prowler UNSC Accra|''Accra'' was conducting a survey above the planet's surface, when it detected 45 Covenant ships entering the system 18,537 miles away from the planet. The United Nations Space Command|UNSC vessels UNSC Weeping Willows|''Weeping Willows'', UNSC Matador|''Matador'', and UNSC Purpose|''Purpose'' engaged the Covenant ships as they got to Bliss' moon, Aires, while Bliss began a planet-wide evacuation. In just one short minute, the UNSC picketing ships were destroyed.Halo: Reach, ''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''
While the ''Accra'' moved to a safer distance for observation, the Covenant ships quickly moved into position. While the carriers remained in high orbit above the planet, the battleships all moved in a unique geometric pattern above the planet's surface. The ships fired their plasma weapons and began glassing the planet.
Unfortunately, the ''Accra'' was discovered by Covenant probes and the carriers released fighter craft to engage the prowler. Although it attempted to speed up and activate its Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|Slipspace drive, the fighter ships outstripped the prowler and began firing. Desperately, the ''Accra'' fired twenty escape pods, but the ship was destroyed.
Aftermath It was assumed that all citizens on Bliss died before they could evacuate. The Covenant ships finished glassing the planet and left just as quickly as they came. The arrived after the battle and recovered the data logs of the ''Accra'' in its last moments, which revealed the entire battle.
Before news of the planet's destruction was presented to the Outer Colony leaders, they laughed at the UNSC's warnings of the Covenant threat, thinking that it was just ONI propaganda and an attempt to fool them to submit to UNSC rule. However, when the ''Accra'' log became publicized, the Outer Colonies realized the UNSC wasn't lying and began negotiating with them. Arguably, if the battle had never happened, the Outer Colonies would probably have joined the UNSC much later, which would have lost them precious time for preparations.
Participants
UNSC
Covenant
5 CAS-class assault carrier|assault carriers
17 Covenant destroyer|destroyers
23 Ket-pattern battlecruiser|battlecruisersDr. Halsey's personal journal "''The Accra Incident''": "''Unknown ships positively identified as alien warships comprising what appear to be five assault carriers, twenty-three battlecruisers, and seventeen destroyers.''"
List of appearances
''Halo: Reach''
*''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''
Notes
Sources
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Bliss Category:Covenant victories|Bliss |
|date=2548
|place=Bounty, Mayer system
|result=Covenant victory Bounty glassing|glassed
|side1= United Nations Space Command
|side2= Covenant
|commanders1=Unknown
|commanders2=Fleetmaster Thel 'Vadamee
|forces1=*UNSC Marine Corps
*Edward Buck
|forces2=*Fleet of Particular Justice
|casual1=About 199 million casualties
|casual2=
|civilian=
}}
In 2548, a battle took place at Bounty, a human human colonies|colony in the Mayer system.
Battle The colony was attacked by the Fleet of Particular Justice and ultimately glassed.
Aftermath Jameson Locke compiled information on Thel 'Vadamee's actions at Bounty, as well as at Battle of Camber|Camber, Battle of Estuary|Estuary, Battle of Kroedis II|Kroedis II, Battle for Alluvion|Alluvion, Battle of Mesa|Mesa, and Greydowns into a Target profile.
List of appearances
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
*''Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminals''
Sources |
|place=Camber, Farwatch system
|result=;Covenant victory Camber Glassing|glassed
|side1= United Nations Space Command
|side2= Covenant
|commanders1=Unknown
|commanders2=Thel 'Vadamee
|forces1=*3+ s
4+ s
17+ s
2+ s
3rd Battalion Reserves
|forces2=*Fleet of Particular Justice
*17+ ships
**5+ s
*Sangheili infantry
|casual1=Heavy
5,518,687 casualties Entire 3rd Battalion Reserves
2+ ''Halcyon''-class light cruisers Several frigates
|casual2=Unknown, presumably light
}}
The Battle of Camber was a conflict between United Nations Space Command|UNSC and Covenant forces on and around the colony of Camber.
Background By 2542, Camber's location had been discovered by the Covenant, who attacked the natural satellite|moon in that year, targeting various points of strategic value. At least one UNSC fleet depot was destroyed during these initial strikes.
The battle These early attacks set the stage for the Covenant to return to Camber in 2546. Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee and his Fleet of Particular Justice managed to penetrate the colony's early warning perimeter without alerting UNSC forces. He began his ground and orbital assault before most of the colony was aware of the attack. Seventeen of 'Vadamee's ships bombarded key defensive positions, while 'Vadamee personally led an attack on the UNSC system headquarters. He first engaged the 3rd Battalion Reserves, who were caught completely unprepared. In a show of honor, 'Vadamee ordered his troops to wait for the soldiers to prepare to defend themselves before wiping out the entire battalion.
Aftermath The battle quickly resulted in a Covenant victory and the glassing of Camber. The entire 3rd Battalion Reserves was wiped out along with the majority of Camber's population, leaving only 81,313 known survivors. 'Vadamee's conduct with the 3rd Battalion Reserves later became the first documented proof of Sangheili showing honor towards their human enemies. Camber's glassing left large swaths of its surface desolate. Despite this, its atmosphere remained intact, with the moon suffering volatile changes to its climate and frequent storms.
In the years following Camber's destruction, the Banished took possession of several UNSC assets abandoned on the moon. They began to refit and repurpose these ruins into tools to serve their needs. By 2560, the Banished had established an expansive shipbreaking facility at the site of the destroyed UNSC fleet depot. Here, they melted down titanium with a powerful plasma drill, reforging the material into weapons of war. During a mission to these shipbreaking yards, SPARTAN-IV program|Spartans Hieu Dinh and Sigrid Eklund encountered a Banished artificial intelligence known as Iratus. Seeing an opportunity to capture valuable enemy technology, Dinh let the hostile AI enter his armor, putting him at risk of great bodily harm.
Gallery
File:H2A Terminals - Camber holograph.jpg|A UNSC fleet over Camber. File:H2A Terminals - Camber ODP.jpg|One of Camber's orbital defense platforms is destroyed. File:H2A Terminals - Camber bombardment.jpg|'Vadamee's ships bombard key defensive positions on the colony. File:H2A Terminals - UNSC base.jpg|Camber's UNSC system HQ is attacked. File:H2A terminals - Marine POV.jpg|Thel 'Vadamee confronts the 3rd Battalion. File:H2A Terminals - 3rd Battalion slaughter.jpg|'Vadamee and his elites slaughter the 3rd Battalion.
List of appearances
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
*''Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminals''
''Halo Infinite''
*''Season 02: Lone Wolves''
Sources
Category:Covenant victories |
|result=Created victory
|side1=* UNSC URF
|side2=Created
|commanders1=*Captain (NAVCOM)|CAPT Veronica Dare Mayor Juanita Wells
|commanders2=
|forces1=*Spartan Edward Buck Spartan Kojo Agu Spartan Taylor Miles Alpha Team (URF)|Alpha Team Beta Team Gamma Team
|forces2=*Guardian Custode Armigers
|casual1=
|casual2=
}}
In late 2558, a battle took place on the United Rebel Front planet Cassidy III.
Background
Alpha-Nine arrived at Cassidy III and were allowed to land and enter discussions with Mayor Juanita Wells on a possible UNSC-URF alliance against the Created. After landing, Captain Dare and Mayor Wells argued extensively with one another over the situation, though with the help of Mickael Crespo, tensions subsided. Dare and Wells struck a deal where Vergil would stay to further study the unique Forerunner properties of Cassidy III for the URF. However, fragments of Leonidas had attached themselves to Taylor Miles and Gretchen Ketola's armors. Leonidas alerted the Created of Cassidy III.
Battle Moments later, a Guardian Custode arrived over the planet and portals opened, allowing Armigers to start assaulting the planet. Alpha-Nine were in a park at the time along with Mayor Wells' armed escorts. Although they beat the Armigers in the local area, more had arrived in the rest of Hole in the Wall. Wells and Alpha-Nine retreated to the First Precinct while Sadie Endesha and Vergil would stay with their parked Condor in order to leave the planet. Upon reaching the First Precinct, Michael Crespo was armed and ammunition was given to Alpha-Nine.
Aftermath Ultimately, Alpha-Nine would have to retreat from the planet. They did assist in evacuating URF leadership and scientists to an unknown location. Due to the circumstances of the battle, Sadie and Vergil did not end up going with the URF. Alpha-Nine, Sadie and Vergil would return to the after a number of random jumps. Alpha-Nine would officially be reinstated and would soon after deploy on another mission.
List of appearances
''Halo: Bad Blood''
Sources
Category:UNSC victories |
The Battle of CE 10-2165 d was a space and ground engagement during the Forerunner-Flood war on CE-10-2165-d.
Overview The Flood assailed the Forerunner planetside by jumping seven large freight carriers and 12,423 smaller recreational vessels into CE 10-2165 d's orbital perimeter. The recreational vessels were used as ablative armor, forming a disposable "heat shield" around the carriers upon atmospheric entry, thus ensuring the carriers made landfall. While the recreational vessels would largely disintegrated on entry, the sheer number of them overwhelmed the planet's orbital garrison despite the defense fleet having foreknowledge of the Flood's tactics. The carriers were able to successfully land and marshal their forces to attack and infect the planet's major population centers. Two hours later following the initial landing, the infected population centers destroyed themselves with high-power weapons, incinerating themselves and preventing the reach of the Flood.
List of appearances
''Halo 3''
*''Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminals''
Notes
Sources
Category:Battles|CE-10-2165-d |
|place=Charum Hakkor system
|result= Forerunner victory Shattering of the human-San'Shyuum alliance and collapse of the ancient humanity|human empire End of the Human-Forerunner wars
|side1= Ecumene
|side2=*Human-San'Shyuum alliance
*Ancestors
|commanders1=Ur-Didact|Didact
|commanders2=*Forthencho Yprin Yprikushma
|forces1=
|forces2=
|casual1=Heavy Didact's children
|casual2=Near-Total Destruction of humanity's Technological Achievement Tiers#Tier 1: World Builders|Tier 1 empire
}}
The Battle of Charum HakkorHalo Mythos, ''page 13'' was a prolonged military conflict between the Forerunners and the prehistoric human civilization|prehistoric human empire, being the last major conflict in the millennium-long human-Forerunner wars. Lasting for a total of fifty-three years, it took place around and later on the planet Charum Hakkor, the heart of the humans' interstellar empire, around nine thousand years prior to the Forerunner-Flood war. It concluded in the Forerunners defeating the humans' empire.Halo: Cryptum, ''page 131''
The battle File:H4-Terminal-CharumHakkor-Battle.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Human forces making their last stand on Charum Hakkor's surface. After being pushed back to the core of their empire, the collective human species managed to hold off the Forerunner military for fifty years. Despite the humans using Precursor star roads to link their orbital defenses and the extensive amount of preparation and study gained from humanity's early conflicts with the Forerunners, humanity was pushed backwards and cut off from reinforcements as the Forerunner military disrupted humanity's slipstream tunnels, effectively preventing reinforcements and supplies as well as blockading Charum Hakkor's system from the rest of the human-San'Shyuum alliance.Halo: Primordium, ''page 239-240''
Forthencho|Lord of Admirals Forthencho, commander of the last fleets of Charum Hakkor, managed to successfully resist the Ur-Didact|Didact for a further three years of continuous attacks despite being overwhelmingly outnumbered and using inferior slipstream and AI technology. Human ships swept across the system for hundreds of times to counter the Didact's daring orbital incursions, to prevent them from establishing superior energy-efficient orbits. During the planet's siege, the Forerunners contacted the San'Shyuum and formulated a secret deal. Facing an inevitable defeat, the San'Shyuum were to betray their human allies by allowing Charum Hakkor's security to be breached by the Forerunners. In return, the San'Shyuum would be spared from extinction or de-evolution, but instead quarantined to their San'Shyuum home system|home system.Halo: Mythos, ''pages 13''
The final blow came as the Forerunners staged an assault through seven slipspace portals, opened at one-hour intervals to deliver a massive fleet commanded by the Didact and his most experienced commanders. The Forerunners sacrificed a significant number of ships, ranging from Fortress-class vessel|''Fortress''-class warships and Forerunner dreadnought|dreadnoughts to Forerunner picket cruiser|picket cruisers, in mass waves to create openings in the now weak, human orbital defenses and overwhelming the human defenders with sheer force. In the final moments before the fall, a debate was held at the highest levels of the human government to purposely draw out the Flood and use them against the Ecumene|Forerunner ecumene in order to buy time. Ultimately, the plan was rejected as being too dangerous for the rest of the galaxy and humanity surrendered despite knowing the inevitable outcome.Halo: Primordium, ''page 190'' Had it not been for the San'Shyuums' treachery, the deadlock might have lasted indefinitely due to the planet's unique defenses.Halo: Mythos, ''pages 15''
During the humans' last stand, a special force team of 7,000 warriors and 70 ships led by humanity's Political and Morale Commander Yprin Yprikushma was assigned to protect the timelock of the Primordial in the Charum Hakkor arena. In the face of inevitable defeat, the human warriors stripped their uniforms so the Forerunners could not identify their commanders. Despite this, the Didact could easily recognize his main adversary, the Lord of Admirals, among the survivors gathered in Citadel Charum.Halo: Primordium, ''page 233''
Aftermath File:H4_Concept_DidactAndLibrarianVictory2.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Ur-Didact and Librarian overlooking rows of defeated Ancestor warriors on Charum Hakkor. Knowing what was to happen to them if they lost, (forced relocation and the removal of technological privileges), the majority of the human population committed mass-suicide.Halo: Cryptum, ''page 118'' Those who surrendered had their minds and bodies thoroughly inspected in order to decipher their purported Flood immunity. When this failed to yield results, their patterns were Mind transfer|extracted into digital form by Composers,Halo: Silentium, ''page 41'' killing their physical selves; these essences would later be imprinted to future generations of humans through a geas imposed by the Librarian.Halo: Cryptum, ''page 111'' After the final battle, the Didact had several monuments constructed in Sothra Hakkor's ring system in the memory of his fallen warriors.Halo 4, multiplayer map, ''Monolith''
After Charum Hakkor had fallen, the remaining human fleets, consisting of forty prime cruisers and ten Tuned platform|first-rate tuned platforms, retreated to another human-occupied star system in the Greater Tiger constellation near the galactic rim, bombarding its planets to slag as a scorched-earth strategy, denying the Forerunners their resources.Halo: Primordium, ''page 156'' This system was later where Installation 07 was designated to self-destruct in the event it fell under enemy control, by placing the installation on a collision course with Wolf-faced planet|one of the system's planets.Halo: Primordium, ''page 339''
Gallery
File:HM-CharumHakkorBattle.jpg|Forerunner starship|Forerunner and Human starship|Ancestor ships staring each other down over the planet.
List of appearances
''Halo: Cryptum''
''Halo: Primordium''
''Halo 4''
''Halo: Silentium''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Point of Light''
Sources
Category:Battles|Charum Hakkor |
3 UNSC destroyer|Destroyers
*
1
*
UNSC Marine Corps
|forces2 =
Covenant fleets
*''Retribution's Thunder''
*''Infinite Sacrifice''
Boarding teams
*5 Sangheili zealots
*20 Unggoy
|forces3 = *Armed civilians Insurrectionists
|casual1 = Heavy naval and ground losses.
|casual2 = Light losses
|casual3 = All forces killed
}}
The Battle of Charybdis IX was a battle fought between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant in 2535.Halo: The Cole Protocol, ''page 136''
Background Before the battle, a group of Kig-Yar led by Reth began to trade modified weapons with Insurrectionist|human insurgents at the Rubble. Unknown to the Insurrectionists, the Kig-Yar were following orders from the Prophet of Truth|High Prophet of Truth.Halo: The Cole Protocol, ''page 222'' The Kig-Yar had placed hidden trackers on the weapons and the insurgents were then bringing the weapons to other human colonies. The Covenant had discovered Charybdis IX after following tracking information on the modified weapons.Halo: The Cole Protocol, ''page 93''
The battle The Covenant fleet arrived at Charybdis IX overwhelming the three UNSC destroyers in orbit. The , a , was nearby as well, but did not take part in the combat. Two of the destroyers were almost immediately eliminated, but the was disabled.
Thel 'Vadamee proceeded to board the ''Do You Feel Lucky?'', in search of the already wiped navigation data. The Covenant boarders consisted of a group of Unggoy and 'Vadamee's hand-picked team of Sangheili Zealot|Zealots, including Jora 'Konaree, Zhar (Sangheili)|Zhar, Saal, and Veer.Halo: The Cole Protocol, ''page 138'' The humans onboard were unable to hold the Covenant back, and the Covenant boarders sustained only light casualties (although 'Konaree was wounded).Halo: The Cole Protocol, ''page 140'' The Covenant proceeded to glass the planet as the Insurrectionists on the planet vainly attempted to resist.
Aftermath Charybdis IX was glassing|glassed, and its entire population killed. The ''Midsummer Night'' was able to retreat from the battle without arousing any Covenant suspicion.Halo: The Cole Protocol, ''page 148''
Following the battle, the Prophet of Regret|High Prophet of Regret dispatched Thel 'Vadamee to 23 Librae to find and eliminate the source of Covenant weaponry modified for human use. This led to the Battle of the Rubble in which the ''Midsummer Night'' and the rebels were able to defeat 'Vadamee and destroy the Kig-Yar and Unggoy forces, scoring a major human victory.Halo: The Cole Protocol, ''page 289''
Participants
Ships
1 ''Punic''-class supercarrier
2 unidentified destroyers
Personnel Commander Dmitri Zheng Unidentified Marine squad Edward Buck
Personnel Civilians Ground forces
Ships
''Retribution's Thunder''
''Infinite Sacrifice''
Personnel Thel 'Vadamee Jora 'Konaree Zhar (Sangheili)|Zhar Veer Saal
List of appearances
''Halo: The Cole Protocol''
''Halo: Fleet Battles''
Sources
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Charybdis IX Category:Covenant victories|Charybdis IX |
United Nations Space Command
|side2=* Covenant
|commanders1=
Captain (Navy)|Captain Wallace Petty Officer, First Class John-117
|commanders2=Unknown Covenant Shipmaster
|forces1=*Whole SPARTAN-II company
1 GA-TL1 Longsword|Longsword squadron
*Longsword Squadron Delta
1
*
|forces2=
1
*''Unrelenting''Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition), ''page 286''
**Kig-Yar
|casual1=*Longsword Squadron Delta
1 SPARTAN-II
*Samuel-034
Several Navy personnel
|casual2=''Unrelenting'' and its crew
}}
The Battle of Chi Ceti (later referred to as the Chi Ceti Incident)Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole" was fought between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant early in the Human-Covenant War. Though it was a small scale engagement, it marked the culmination of the SPARTAN-II program with the supersoldiers being united with the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV|MJOLNIR Mk. IV Powered Assault Armor and the combat debut of the potent combination.
Background
The Covenant attack on Harvest, and the beginning of the Human-Covenant War, instigated a UNSC-wide mobilization. The need to deploy Project MJOLNIR took on greater urgency. The SPARTAN-IIs were sent to the Damascus Testing Facility on Chi Ceti IV aboard the frigate to undergo final integration with the armor. Doctor Catherine Halsey accompanied the supersoldiers to oversee the process.
Battle
The ''Commonwealth'' entered the system at 1750 hours, November 27, 2525. The frigate detected the ''Unrelenting'' as an intermittent sensor ghost at 80 million kilometers. This was far beyond the frigate's weapons range and Captain (Navy)|Captain Wallace saw no need for concern. However, Doctor Halsey warned of a possible enemy tactical Slipstream jump and the captain brought the ship to general quarters. The Spartans readied a D77-TC Pelican|Pelican and prepared to disembark.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''pages 102-119''
Halsey's warning was prescient. ''Unrelenting'' suddenly appeared from ''Commonwealth'' and opened fire with pulse lasers. The frigate's communications dish was destroyed and its Artificial intelligence|AI disabled. ''Commonwealth'' returned fire with 180 Archer missiles; the vessel evaded half and the remainder failed to penetrate the shields. ''Unrelenting'' destroyed the frigate's navigation dish and caused further damage with lasers. In turn, a heavy Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC round penetrated the vessel's shields and struck its hull directly. The round crumpled the nose of the ship and caused some internal fires.
As ''Commonwealth'' prepared another heavy round, ''Unrelenting'' charged a Plasma turret|plasma torpedo. Both fired nearly at once, and struck their targets. The frigate vented atmosphere to prevent the torpedo from causing catastrophic damage but the MAC gun was destroyed. The Covenant ship likewise survived the second MAC round but had a hole punched right through it. File:Commonwealth launches Shiva.png|left|250px|thumb|Longsword interceptors distract the ''Unrelenting'' while a Shiva warhead is launched from the ''Commonwealth''.
''Commonwealths remaining option were three Shiva-class nuclear missiles, however the range was too short for those to be used safely. John-117 assessed the enemy's psychology and concluded the Covenant ship was likely to stop and engage any challenge. Wallace ordered Longsword Squadron Delta to occupy the vessel and launched a Shiva. In the meantime the frigate came about and executed a burn away toward Chi Ceti IV. The nuclear warhead destroyed the Longswords and further damaged ''Unrelenting''. The vessel subsequently disengaged.
''Commonwealth'' made a fly by of the planet. The Spartans and Dr. Halsey disembarked by Pelican and made for the Damascus Testing Facility. The frigate retreated to 20 million kilometers to effect repairs. Pursuant to his orders, Wallace was prepared to use his damaged ship to lure the enemy away from the facility.
Although ''UNSC Commonwealth|Commonwealth'' hoped to rendezvous in orbit with the SPARTAN-IIs no later than 1900 hours, the supersoldiers were just finishing the 15 minute elevator ride down to the Damascus Materials Testing Facility at 1845 hours. Nonetheless, the Spartans were familiarized with and issued the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV|MJOLNIR Mk. IV Powered Assault Armor without incident; they prepared to return to the surface with Dr. Halsey and the facilities few remaining personnel for extraction.
The Covenant were not yet out of the fight. The UNSC frigate detected ''Unrelenting'' moving on an intercept course through normal space. ''Commonwealths slipspace drive and Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC were offline. The Covenant vessel was also damaged but still capable of twice the speed of its opponent. File:Blue Team - Commonwealth 1.png|thumb|240px|Spartan-IIs depart to infiltrate the ''Unrelenting''. UNSC forces resolved to fight rather than run. The Spartans and company departed in the Pelican for the frigate. En route, John-117 learned the MJOLNIR armor was EVA-capable and proposed a boarding action. The Spartans would fly out from the Pelican with thruster packs and intercept ''Unrelenting'' as the ship moved to engage ''Commonwealth''. Once aboard they would demolish the enemy ship from within using warheads from the dropship's 32 ANVIL-II Air-to-Surface Missiles. Each Spartan received one warhead.
''Commonwealth'' fired another salvo of Archer missiles to draw attention and fire from the approaching Spartans. The firing of ''Unrelentings pulse lasers briefly lowered a part of the ships shield and allowed John-117 to grab hold. Ultimately only three Spartans, John-117, Kelly-087, and Samuel-034, made it to the hull breach caused by the frigate's MAC fire.
The Spartan trio passed through pressure doors into still-habitable sections of the ship. They fought two Kig-Yar as they homed in on a radiation source. Sam-034's armor was breached by plasma fire and was no longer EVA-capable. The radiation source was from a large chamber; a cylinder with a red pulsing light along its length ran the length of the chamber. The Spartans planted their warheads by the chamber with a three minute countdown. Unable to reenter vacuum, Sam-034 remained behind and guard the warheads; he was the first Spartan to die in combat. John-117 and Kelly-087's escape was delayed as they waited for a pulse laser to fire and create an opening in the shield; they barely escaped ''Unrelentings destruction.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''pages 127-130''
Aftermath Chi Ceti IV and its facilities were successfully defended, but with considerable losses to the UNSC. However, the success of the battle ensured the continued survival of Chi Ceti IV and the Damascus Testing Facility, both of which are still intact and remain in operation in the postwar era.
The rendezvoused with the ''Commonwealth'' following the battle, and on December 1, a funeral service for Sam was held aboard the ship. An empty casket was ejected in orbit around the planet to commemorate his sacrifice. Sam's death would have a profound effect on his Spartan teammates for the rest of the war, and his command passed on to other Spartans in the ranks.
Gallery
File:TFoR AS Concept BluePelican.jpg|Concept art of Blue Team's Pelican departing Chi Ceti IV in ''Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series''. File:TFoR-as-concept 4.jpg|Concept art of Blue Team using thrusters to board the ''Unrelenting''.
File:Halo Fall of Reach TPB cover.png|John-117 descends upon the ''Unrelenting''. File:FoR - Commonwealth.jpg|The ''Unrelenting'' arrives at Chi Ceti with the ''Commonwealth'' in its sights. File:FoR - Archer missiles.jpg|''Commonwealth'' fires upon ''Unrelenting''
File:Unrelenting engaged by Longswords.png|The Longswords lay down suppressive fire upon the Covenant vessel. File:Unrelenting and Commonwealth damaged.png|The damaged ''Unrelenting'' pursues the ''Commonwealth''. File:Blue Team - Commonwealth 2.png|Blue Team advances through to the enemy vessel's reactor. File:Sam nuke.jpg|Samuel-034 stays behind to detonate the nuke while his fellow Spartans flee the ''Unrelenting''. File:HCD-Sam.png|Samuel's last stand on the ''Unrelenting''.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Fall of Reach''
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
''Halo Wars: Genesis''
''Halo Wars''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole''
''Halo: Fall of Reach''
*''Halo: Fall of Reach - Covenant|Covenant''
''Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Collateral Damage''
''Halo: Silent Storm''
Notes
Sources
Category:UNSC victories|Chi Ceti |
s Mgalekgolo Sangheili Kig-Yar Unggoy
|casual1=*Near-total annihilation of Corbulo Academy's cadet corps and staff Entire Marine garrison and ODST response force Near-total annihilation of the population of Circinius IV
|casual2=*At least one Sangheili Several Kig-Yar At least two Mgalekgolo
}}
The Battle of Circinius IV was an engagement between United Nations Space Command|UNSC and Covenant forces on the colony of Circinius IV in mid-2526. It was not only one of the first battles of the Human-Covenant War, but also one of the first deployments of SPARTAN-II Program|Spartan-IIs.Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, ''Part 3''
Prelude After the First Battle of Harvest|first engagements on Harvest, Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI Section II kept the Covenant invasion secret from the general population. This encompassed the denizens of Circinius IV (including the staff and cadets of the Corbulo Academy of Military Science) in what was likely the first application of the recently introduced WINTER CONTINGENCY (protocol)|WINTER CONTINGENCY. However, the academy's superintendent, Daniel Black|General Black, was informed. As preparation for a possible attack, Black discreetly increased the readiness of the UNSC Marine Corps|UNSC Marine garrison posted in the academy and authorized limited communications blackouts under the guise of routine maintenance procedures. Unfortunately, these preparations would prove ineffective against the Covenant.
Battle On April 26, 2526, the Covenant launched a surprise attack on Circinius IV. Three s entered the atmosphere and attacked Corbulo Academy. Locally stationed Marines provided an initial defense of the academy and the evacuation of the cadets via the school's space elevator was begun immediately. Orbiting UNSC vessels soon deployed Orbital Drop Shock Troopers directly onto the campus. However, one of the Covenant corvettes fired on the elevator, causing it to collapse on the school and halt the evacuation. Since all the cadets and staff had converged near the elevator for evacuation, the collapse of the elevator killed many members of the academy. Moments later, the survivors came under attack by Sangheili and Kig-Yar troops.
Corbulo's officer cadets were caught off-guard by this attack. General Black was killed within minutes of the attack; Colonel K.L. Mehaffey attempted to organize the surviving cadets inside the tunnels, though she too was quickly killed. Covenant forces soon overwhelmed the ODSTs and Marines, and proceeded to annihilate the planet's entire population, with only four Cadets April Orenski, Thomas Lasky, Chyler Silva, and Michael Sullivan left alive. SPARTAN-II Blue Team were then subsequently deployed in response to the cadets' distress beacon. Spartan John-117 infiltrated the besieged school and arrived just in time to rescue the surviving cadets from a Unidentified Sangheili Zealot|Sangheili Zealot. After contacting Kelly-087 and arranging for a Pelican extraction, John-117 broke open the cadets' weapons lockers and allowed the cadets to arm themselves.Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, ''Part 4''
The Spartan led the survivors to the academy's exterior, where they were ambushed by Kig-Yar Snipers. Cadet Sullivan was wounded during the firefight, but survived. After dispatching the snipers, they retreated from the combat zone in General Black's personal M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle|Warthog. During the drive, however, they came under heavy fire from more Kig-Yar and were eventually forced to abandon their vehicle. Silva was killed by a Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher|needler round, and the rest of the group was attacked by a pair of Mgalekgolo. John-117 depleted all his ammunition killing one of the Mgalekgolo, leaving him with only a single grenade. He decided to take on the remaining Mgalekgolo alone, buying the surviving cadets time to escape. However, Cadet Lasky volunteered to distract the alien while John-117 got into position. Lasky successfully drew the Mgalekgolo's fire, allowing John to plant the grenade under its armor. The resulting detonation blew the Mgalekgolo to pieces.
As morning arrived, the survivors reached Blue Team's Pelican just as the Covenant began glassing the planet. Impressed by Lasky's actions, John-117 gave him keepsake|a fragment of the Mgalekgolo's armor.Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, ''Part 5''
Aftermath Presumably following the battle, Marines (including Edward Buck) conducted Operation: ABLE SENTRY, a force reconnaissance mission that paved the way for Operation: PHALANX.Halo 5: Guardians Limited Edition, ''Spartan Locke's Classified Orders'' The exact nature and chronology of these operations are unknown, but likely couldn't have occurred prior to the Covenant's surprise attack.
While the academy and virtually the entire planet's population were wiped out, the battle would have a lasting impact on Thomas Lasky, who, inspired by John-117, decided to stay in the UNSC, eventually rising to the rank of Commander within the Navy. Following the war's end, Lasky became the executive officer of the . In 2557, 31 years after Lasky first met John-117, he would be reunited with the SPARTAN on the Forerunner shield world known as Requiem. Once again, they would work together, this time to save Earth from the Ur-Didact|Didact during which time Lasky achieved the rank of Captain and was given command of the ''Infinity'' after Fleet Command was displeased with Andrew Del Rio's decision to abandon the Master Chief on Requiem as opposed to Lasky helping him.Halo 4, level ''Midnight''
Trivia A SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan-IV NPC at the beginning of the ''Halo 4'' campaign level ''Shutdown'' may occasionally refer to the Circinius IV conflict. He claims that the anniversary of the battle occurred "just last week", despite the level being set in late July. While this is likely to be a simple oversight, it is possible that the battle for the planet was prolonged due to a UNSC reprisal (much like the Harvest campaign|extended campaign to reclaim Harvest) and continued well into July.
Gallery
File:H4 FUD SDV-corvette.jpg|Three Covenant corvettes descending toward Corbulo. File:H4_FUD_Zealot.jpg|A Sangheili Zealot leads the ground assault on Corbulo. File:UNSC Forces on Corbulo.png|UNSC forces fighting the Covenant at Corbulo Academy. File:Corbulo attack.png|UNSC ground forces are slaughtered in the ensuing attack. File:FUD-Corbulo-Glassed.jpg|The Covenant glass Circinius IV, beginning with Corbulo Academy. File:FUD_John-117_Corbulo_5.jpg|John-117 surveys the wreckage of Corbulo. File:FUD_-_ChiefHastati_1.jpg|John-117 leads the surviving cadets away from the destroyed Academy. File:H4FUD-MasterChief-M41LAAG.jpg|John-117 fires the Warthog's turret at Covenant troops.
List of appearances
''Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn''
''Halo 4''
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
''Halo 5: Guardians''
''Halo: Oblivion''
Sources
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Corbulo Academy Category:Covenant victories|Circinius IV |
|conc = Scramble onboard Forerunner Dreadnought
|next = Battle of Sector Six
|name = Battle of Cleveland
|image = File:Cleveland in 2552.PNG|300px
|conflict = *Human-Covenant War
*Battle for Earth
|date = c. 2552#November|November 1617, 2552
|place = Cleveland, Ohio, United Republic of North America, Earth
|result = UNSC victory Covenant forces repelled Remaining civilians evacuated Much of Covenant occupation of Earth successfully delayed
|side1 = * United Nations Space Command|UNSC
*UNSC Marine Corps
*UNSC Air Force Civilians
|side2 = * Covenant
|commanders1 =
Sergeant|SGT Twyker Intel Operations Manager|IOM Wesley
|commanders2 = *Minister of Inquisition Shipmaster Lepidus
|forces1 =
1+ Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODST Fireteam M12 Chaingun Warthogs M12G1 Gauss Warthogs M831 Troop Transport Warthogs AV-14 Hornets D77H-TCI Pelicans
1
Armed civilians
|forces2 =
1+
Numerous Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|T-52 Phantoms Numerous Oghal-pattern Banshee|T-26A Banshees Numerous Irdnekt-pattern Banshee|T-26C Banshees Ruwaa-pattern Shadow|T-29 Shadows
1+ Deutoros-pattern Scarab|T-47B Scarab Many ground forces
*Jiralhanae
*Unggoy
*Kig-Yar
*Mgalekgolo
|casual1 = *Colonel|COL James Ackerson Ruwan Ackerson Heavy infantry casualties Many civilians Much of Cleveland destroyed
|casual2 = *Heavy ground casualties
''Harbinger of Piety''
*Minister of Inquisition
}}
}}
The Battle of Cleveland was an Battle|engagement between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant that took place in Cleveland, Ohio, on Earth during the Battle for Earth around between 2552#November|November 16 and 17, 2552. Civilians notably were a significant part of the war effort against the Covenant in this conflict. This battle was a turning point of the Battle for Earth and ultimately delayed the Covenant from pressing their overrunning onslaught of Earth but at cost of the UNSC's UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet over Earth and most of surviving UNSC planetside forces being already routed by the Prophet of Truth's Truth's fleet|final overwhelming invasion forces despite particularly hard fighting.
Background
}}
Following the loss of Mars at the hands of the Covenant Fleet of Furious Redemption, the Covenant, now under command of the Prophet of Truth and Jiralhanae as of the beginning of the Great Schism, began to concentrate more of their forces on Earth, resulting in a dramatic increase of ground and naval deployments on the planet. At some point before the assault on Cleveland, Australia, particularly Sydney, was assaulted by the Covenant and much of the country or the continent was brutally destroyed by the Covenant orbital bombardment|bombardment.
Aboard one of the ''Furious Redemption'' Covenant starship|vessels, ''Triumphant Declaration'', Colonel James Ackerson was captured aboard the Ket-pattern battlecruiser|battlecruiser after the Battle of Mare Erythraeum, where he was about to be executed by Lepidus, the Jiralhanae Shipmaster of the ship, in celebration of the defeat of Mars and Earth. However, after Colonel James Ackerson told them about the Key of Osanalan, a supposed Forerunner artifact that was apparently hidden in Cleveland, while under interrogation after his capture at the Battle of Mare Erythraeum. Ackerson said that the Covenant will not find the Key if they are continuing to destroy remaining Earth cities, and that the Key was a necessary component for the firing sequence of the Halo Array. However, Ackerson told the Covenant about the Key of Osanalan only in order to confuse the Covenant and to save his brother, Ruwan Ackerson|Ruwan; the Key was actually an imaginary object the brothers pretended to quest for when they were children. Confused and worried by the now unconscious Colonel, the Covenant assaulted Cleveland around morning of November 16 or evening of November 15 but would not Glassing|destroy the city before getting the Key, and Ruwan's knowledge of the Key would help him and others escape.
Battle
File:HU ClevelandBattle.png|thumb|left|250px|Covenant forces assaulting the UNSC in the middle of the city.
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The Covenant quickly assaulted Cleveland, taking light casualties as they battled UNSC Marine Corps|Marines and armed civilians. However, during the battle, the Covenant did not make any attempt to destroy the city or kill any civilians. At this time, Ruwan Ackerson who worked as a hotel concierge meet Myras Tyla, a famous styllight player, in an attacked hotel. After successfully securing most of the city, the Covenant Prisoner of war|captured many civilians and brought them to the Old Cleveland stadium in order to question them about the Key of Osanalan. Among the civilians, Ruwan Ackerson stated to Myras Tyla that he knew what the Covenant were looking.
Soon after the civilians were incarcerated, a fireteam of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers dropped off from AV-14 Hornets attacked the stadium and swiftly killed most of the Covenant forces, allowing everyone to flee, and Ruwan and Myras Tyla escaped as well and drove a M831 Troop Transport Warthog|M831 Warthog to safety after taking two fallen Type-25 plasma pistols. Tyla blamed her ex-boyfriend, Philip, for having left her behind in the city while thinking of spending a new life with Ruwan. They headed to a safe section of the city, where Myras killed off a trio of Unggoy Minors with an overcharged bolt strike from her plasma pistol. They helped themselves to some supplies on the Warthog, and set up a little camp for themselves. Furthermore, they chatted a while, and almost kissed just when the ground started to shake and chunking sounds were from a that appeared, forcing them to run to relative safety.
Then, after riding the Warthog again despite encountering several Jiralhanae resistances, Ruwan and Myra arrived at a D77H-TCI Pelican used as an evacuation transport for civilian to meet a team of Marines in attempt to find Ruwan's colonel brother, James Ackerson|James, just when a violently crashed on the area, causing a large explosion in the city. However, Ruwan and Tyla and other civilians survived the crash and were later saved by the team and escaped the city in the Pelican, where the two formers tell the Marines what the Key of Osanalan is.
Ruwan Ackerson, Myras Tyla, and the squad were brought in the Cleveland sewers. By the time, the Forerunner Dreadnought carrying the Prophet of Truth, still Scramble onboard Forerunner Dreadnought|scrambled by the SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, arrived over Earth on November 17 in early morning where the UNSC Home Fleet was now practically decimated by the fighting in high Earth orbit against Truth's Truth's fleet|final and massive Covenant armada, which let the fleet to finish it off by beginning to Orbital bombardment|bombard the rest of the planet, resulting massive human casualties. Ruwan, Tyla and the squad eventually end up in a secret underground UNSC base to meet with the leader of the remaining UNSC forces in the area, Sergeant Twyker. There, Ruwan explains to the marines how he and his brother made up the Key of Osanalan when they were boys.
Although they were initially hostile to Ruwan, Twyker and Intelligence Operations Manager Wesley soon realized the importance of the Key of Osanalan. They contacted the Covenant to inform them that they had the Key and requested a meeting to deliver it to the Covenant. Ruwan volunteered to partake in the meeting and was injected with Tykos 30, an organic tracking material. Meanwhile, Tyla and other civilians were evacuated.
He then was taken to Chagrin Falls, where a Jiralhanae Chieftain|Jiralhanae chieftain demanded that Ackerson relinquish the Key of Osanalan and surrounded him with an army of Jiralhanae. Ruwan told them that ''he'' was the Key. Confused, the Covenant brought him aboard an orbiting in mid-low Earth orbit and near the Forerunner Dreadnought, ''Harbinger of Piety'', before the San'Shyuum Minister of Inquisition, who questioned him about the Halo Array, but the civilian was confused. Then again, he vowed to spare Earth from the Covenant assault in exchange for knowledge of Ruwan. The Minister of Inquisition then revealed he knew about the tracking material inside Ackerson and presumed that it was a homing beacon for rescue. Ruwan corrected him, stating it was a targeting vector for the Moncton-class orbital weapon platform|orbital defense platform ''Nassau Station|Nassau'' to fire on the ship. ''Nassau Station'' then fired its Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, destroying the ship and killing everyone aboard.
After hearing of the destruction of ''Harbinger of Piety'', Ackerson began to openly mock the Covenant, saying that their pompous arrogance would cost them the war. He was then beheaded by Lepidus who claimed that the Covenant's blind fervor will lead to their victory.
Aftermath
The refugees were evacuated to a relief camp in Akron.
Because of their gullibility, the Covenant lost many soldiers and ships, as well as an important Minister (title)|minister, in the search for the nonexistent Key of Osanalan. However, this victory came at a cost: Cleveland was catastrophically damaged as a result of the furious urban combat that took place, and a large percentage of its civilian population were killed in the sudden invasion.
Participants
Space stations
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Gallery
File:HU Shadows.png|Covenant herding civilians in a stadium.
List of appearances
''Halo: Uprising''
Notes
Sources |
The Battle of Control was an engagement in the Requiem Campaign at the location known as "Control" when UNSC forces battled Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant and Promethean forces while trying to trace Doctor Catherine Halsey's signal. Prelude During the early stages of the Requiem Campaign, at the location known as "the Cauldron," Spartan-IV|Spartan Fireteam Crimson recovered Requiem slipspace artifacts|a mysterious artifact''Spartan Ops'', Departure/Core|S101 Core which sucked in Doctor Henry Glassman when he accessed it aboard the .''Spartan Ops'', Artifact (Spartan Ops)|S102 Artifact Subsequently, Doctor Catherine Halsey was brought aboard where she determined that the artifact was communicating information from the ship to Requiem.''Spartan Ops'', Catherine|S103 Catherine
As Halsey later attempted to understand the artifact, Jul 'Mdama utilized it to contact Halsey via her data pad to entice her into helping him, offering Halsey the truth about a great many things, including the Prometheans.''Spartan Ops'', Didact's Hand|S104 Didact's Hand As proof, Jul ensured that Fireteam Crimson retrieved "the Didact's Gift,"''Spartan Ops'', Didact's Hand/The Didact's Gift|S104 The Didact's Gift a Durance containing the "soul" of a Promethean Knight who was originally a human digitized by the Composer during the New Phoenix Incident. Having provided proof, Jul further enticed Halsey by mentioning the Librarian, but Commander Sarah Palmer noticed Halsey's suspicious behavior and Captain Thomas Lasky had her arrested.''Spartan Ops'', Memento Mori|S105 Memento Mori However, Halsey subsequently escaped using an override code on ''Infinity's'' AI Roland and made contact with Jul whose identity she quickly deduced. Halsey offered Jul her help with the Librarian, but the communication was cut off by Roland who regained control of himself and alerted the ship's crew to Halsey's actions. Jul subsequently launched Invasion of the UNSC Infinity|an invasion of the ship''Spartan Ops'', Invasion (Spartan Ops)|S107 Invasion that ended with a Promethean Knight abducting Halsey.''Spartan Ops'', Expendable|S108 Expendable
On Requiem, Halsey was brought to "Librarian's Rest" where she was able to deactivate the protective shield that Glassman had inadvertently activated and enter the shrine containing the Librarian's mind transfer|imprint. In the shrine, Halsey met with the Librarian herself who provided Halsey with the Janus Key, a Forerunner artifact that provided the real-time location of all Forerunner technology in the galaxy. The Librarian warned that Requiem's time was almost at an end and ordered Halsey to take the Janus Key to the Absolute Record before sending her back to "Librarian's Rest."''Spartan Ops'', Key|S109 Key
After being alerted of the situation, Rear Admiral Serin Osman ordered Lasky to eliminate Halsey. Despite Lasky's objections, Palmer deployed to Requiem to carry out the assassination while Lasky contacted Fireteam Majestic, who had just delivered a Escape from Librarian's Rest|rescued Glassman to a D79-TC Pelican|Pelican and asked them to rescue Halsey. However, in Skirmish at Librarian's Rest|the fight that followed, Jul escaped with Halsey who was shot in the arm by Palmer while trying to kill her. Jul also escaped with one half of the Janus Key while Halsey tossed the other half to Spartan Gabriel Thorne.
With Halsey missing, Lasky dispatched all Spartan fireteams from the ''Infinity'' and three s to search Requiem for her. At "Cyclone," Crimson was able to help Roland trace Halsey's signal as it bounced to "Control" where they were redeployed to.''Spartan Ops'', Key/The Search for Halsey|S109 The Search for Halsey
Battle
By the time Fireteam Crimson arrived at "Control," Boa Squad was already under heavy Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant attack, including from Mgalekgolo|Hunters. Crimson was ordered to clear the area of Covenant forces and find Roland a comm terminal to try to trace Doctor Catherine Halsey's signal. Boa Squad fell to the Covenant, but Crimson managed to clear out the Covenant. After Crimson activated the terminal, Roland determined that Halsey's comm traffic had definitely been routed through the area and directed Crimson to another terminal nearby that it had been routed to next as Halsey had bounced the signal around the area a few times.
Crimson activated a second terminal Roland determined that Halsey had bounced the signal through and he determined that Halsey had bounced the signal through a dozen terminals in the area. However, he found one in particular that Halsey had kept coming back to and directed Crimson to it. At Roland's request, Crimson accessed the terminal for him so that Roland attempt to untangle Halsey's signal and trace it.
As Crimson accessed the terminal, Covenant heavy orbital insertion pods and Ru'swum-pattern Phantom|Phantoms began deploying reinforcements to the area. Crimson managed to eliminate the Covenant, only to have Promethean forces translocate in. As the battle continued, Spartan-IV|Spartan Jared Miller demanded to know what was taking Roland so long only to be told that the terminal had a 64-zetabyte encryption and required time to crack. As Roland continued to work on the decryption, Crimson battled against multiple waves of Promethean forces, repelling each wave, only to have them be replaced by more Prometheans. Finally, Crimson cleared out the area as Roland finally finished the decryption.
However, Promethean Knights began to rapidly translocate in and Crimson came into danger of being overrun by sheer numbers. Miller quickly contacted Robert Dalton for an extraction and a bombardment to deal with the Promethean forces. Roland directed the Spartans to an area where they would be relatively safe from the coming bombardment which the Spartans managed to retreat to as the enemy chased them. Once Crimson was clear, Dalton commenced a massive aerial bombardment of "Control," destroying all of the Promethean forces present and ending the battle.
Aftermath With "Control" clear, Roland revealed that he had managed to track Doctor Catherine Halsey's transmission to "Lockup." Fireteam Crimson were extracted from the area, but were first Assault on Apex|redeployed to "Apex" to follow up on another of Halsey's comm signals which ended up being traced to "Lockup" as well.''Spartan Ops'', Key/Science Mountain|S109 Science Mountain
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
*''Spartan Ops''
Sources
Category:UNSC victories |
The Battle of Cyclone was an engagement in the Requiem Campaign at the location known as "Cyclone" between UNSC forces supported by Aggressor Sentinels under the command of the Librarian and Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant and Promethean forces. Prelude During the early stages of the Requiem Campaign, at the location known as "the Cauldron," Spartan-IV|Spartan Fireteam Crimson recovered Requiem slipspace artifacts|a mysterious artifact''Spartan Ops'', Departure/Core|S101 Core which sucked in Doctor Henry Glassman when he accessed it aboard the .''Spartan Ops'', Artifact (Spartan Ops)|S102 Artifact Subsequently, Doctor Catherine Halsey was brought aboard where she determined that the artifact was communicating information from the ship to Requiem.''Spartan Ops'', Catherine|S103 Catherine
As Halsey later attempted to understand the artifact, Jul 'Mdama utilized it to contact Halsey via her data pad to entice her into helping him, offering Halsey the truth about a great many things, including the Prometheans.''Spartan Ops'', Didact's Hand|S104 Didact's Hand As proof, Jul ensured that Fireteam Crimson retrieved "the Didact's Gift,"''Spartan Ops'', Didact's Hand/The Didact's Gift|S104 The Didact's Gift a Durance containing the "soul" of a Promethean Knight who was originally a human digitized by the Composer during the New Phoenix Incident. Having provided proof, Jul further enticed Halsey by mentioning the Librarian, but Commander Sarah Palmer noticed Halsey's suspicious behavior and Captain Thomas Lasky had her arrested.''Spartan Ops'', Memento Mori|S105 Memento Mori However, Halsey subsequently escaped using an override code on ''Infinity's'' AI Roland and made contact with Jul whose identity she quickly deduced. Halsey offered Jul her help with the Librarian, but the communication was cut off by Roland who regained control of himself and alerted the ship's crew to Halsey's actions. Jul subsequently launched Invasion of the UNSC Infinity|an invasion of the ship''Spartan Ops'', Invasion (Spartan Ops)|S107 Invasion that ended with a Promethean Knight abducting Halsey.''Spartan Ops'', Expendable|S108 Expendable
On Requiem, Halsey was brought to "Librarian's Rest" where she was able to deactivate the protective shield that Glassman had inadvertently activated and enter the shrine containing the Librarian's mind transfer|imprint. In the shrine, Halsey met with the Librarian herself who provided Halsey with the Janus Key, a Forerunner artifact that provided the real-time location of all Forerunner technology in the galaxy. The Librarian warned that Requiem's time was almost at an end and ordered Halsey to take the Janus Key to the Absolute Record before sending her back to "Librarian's Rest."''Spartan Ops'', Key|S109 Key
After being alerted of the situation, Rear Admiral Serin Osman ordered Lasky to eliminate Halsey. Despite Lasky's objections, Palmer deployed to Requiem to carry out the assassination while Lasky contacted Fireteam Majestic, who had just delivered a Escape from Librarian's Rest|rescued Glassman to a D79-TC Pelican|Pelican and asked them to rescue Halsey. However, in Skirmish at Librarian's Rest|the fight that followed, Jul escaped with Halsey who was shot in the arm by Palmer while trying to kill her. Jul also escaped with one half of the Janus Key while Halsey tossed the other half to Spartan Gabriel Thorne.
With Halsey missing, Lasky dispatched all Spartan fireteams from the ''Infinity'' and three s to search Requiem for her.
Battle
Fireteam Crimson was redeployed to "Cyclone" where Doctor Catherine Halsey was relaying transmissions through before she was snatched in order to help trace the call. As they landed, Spartan-IV|Spartan Jared Miller contacted Doctor Lani Truman of ''Infinity'' Science who provided them with the coordinates of the Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant comm relay Halsey's transmission had been relayed through. As Crimson approached the structure, they engaged Covenant forces guarding it and reinforcements dropped by Ru'swum-pattern Phantom|Phantom and cleared them out.
With the Covenant gone, Crimson moved to the structure, only to have the doors open on their approach as if it was responding to Crimson's presence. Inside of the structure were more Covenant forces, including a Mgalekgolo|Hunter pair. Once the Covenant were cleared out, Crimson accessed the comm relay Truman indicated causing them to pick up a transmission in Sangheili (language)|Sangheili which Roland translated to be a call to arms from Jul 'Mdama at "Librarian's Rest." However, the transmission didn't give coordinates for "Librarian's Rest." Roland requested to look at the comm logs in the hopes that he could track Halsey's transmissions through the system and Miller agreed. Roland quickly determined the next location Halsey's call was routed to and some Marines were currently near it. Truman suggested that she might be able to track down the transmission through the terminal and possibly even the location of "Librarian's Rest" which Miller gave her permission to try.
As Roland and Truman worked on the transmission, Miller detected a sudden power spike nearby and directed Crimson to check it out. As they headed for the location, Promethean forces translocated in and attacked. Crimson was able to defeat the Prometheans and followed the source of the power spike to a Forerunner terminal crackling with energy. Though Truman had no idea why it would suddenly activate, Roland was able to detect that it was modulating at a frequency matching the encryption key on the comm stream that they were trying to crack. Truman realized that Roland was right and decided to take a closer look at it.
As Truman worked at deciphering the signal, massive Promethean reinforcements translocated in, but the Librarian activated Forerunner Z-510 focus turret|beam turrets to help Crimson fight them off. Though confused by the turrets inexplicably activating, Crimson utilized their help in fighting off the Prometheans, reactivating turrets that got shut off from damage. As the battle continued, Truman noted that it seemed like someone was trying to help her decipher the comm stream. Roland admitted that it wasn't him, but that Truman was right and there was a secondary encryption cracker working from the inside out and helping Truman to decipher it. Eventually, Crimson managed to clear the area, but Truman warned that both the decryption and the frequency modulation that Roland identified were stuck at 99%. Before Crimson could do anything about it, a new wave of Promethean Crawlers and Promethean Watchers attacked, but the Librarian sent Aggressor Sentinels to aid Crimson and the turrets in clearing out the last of the Promethean forces.
With the area clear, Roland suggested having Crimson flip out the breaker on the terminal and open up the power source all the way. Crimson followed Roland's instructions, causing the Sentinels to turn their beams on a structure in the center of "Cyclone." As they wondered where the Sentinels were going, the Librarian responded over their comms that it was "to the Absolute Record." The Sentinels opened up the structure, allowing the Librarian's mind transfer|imprint to be transmitted to the Absolute Record in a massive horizontal data stream that was too fast for the ''Infinity'' to analyze. Roland reported that the trace on the Halsey comm was good to go and Boa Squad was ready and waiting for Crimson's help. Miller ordered the Marines that Crimson were inbound and the Spartans redeployed to see where the trace led them.
Aftermath The trace of Halsey's transmission from "Cyclone" led Fireteam Crimson to "Control" where it was discovered to have bounced to "Lockup" next.''Spartan Ops'', Key/Clean Up|S109 Clean Up
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
*''Spartan Ops''
Sources
Category:UNSC victories |
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The Battle of Delambre was a presumably small-scale conflict among the Frieden Fascism|fascist movement, between the conservative faction of the organization and the reformist Neo-Friedenism|Neo-Friedenists.
Battle At the conclusion of the Rainforest Wars, certain dissenting groups arose within the Frieden movement that promoted reformist ideals. The Neo-Friedenists were formed in 2162, challenging their original founders and expressing their wish to negotiate a peace treaty with the United Nations and end the hostilities between them in hopes of retaining some degree of power.
As forces of the newly-formed United Nations Space Command approached the Delambre crater, the Neo-Friedenists took up arms against the conservative side of the Frieden movement. It is presumed that the Neo-Friedenists won the brief engagement, as they later attempted to discuss a peace treaty with the UNSC.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Cole Protocol''
Notes
Sources
Category:Interplanetary War |
The Battle of DM-3-1123 b was a naval as well as planetary battle in the Forerunner-Flood war.
Overview The Flood attacked the planet designated DM-3-1123 b with 149 captured non-military (civilian, private, or commercial) Forerunner vessels, and while the Forerunner naval defenses were able to destroy all the Flood vessels with their advanced weaponry, the sole intent of the Flood was not to fight an orbital battle, but rather to land on the surface and disperse their forces to infect the local Forerunner population. In this they were partially successful. While disorganized and lacking unit cohesion, the sheer number of Flood overwhelmed the Forerunner ground forces, and within 32 hours, the Forerunner fleet in orbit evacuated all population centers that had not yet been engaged and infected by the Flood attack, and bombarded the planet from orbit, completely destroying the biosphere of DM-3-1123 b, hence destroying all Flood forces on the ground. The Forerunner evacuation was able to save 1,361,466 Forerunners, (1,318,797 civilian and 42,669 military/denizens), but this only amounted to about 0.0006% of the population, which originally totaled 226.911 billion.
List of appearances
''Halo 3''
*''Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminals''
Sources
Category:Battles|DM-3-1123 b |
Several s AV-14 Hornets AV-22 Sparrowhawks D77H-TCI Pelicans M312 Elephants M313 Elephants M808C Scorpions M850 Grizzly|M850 Grizzlies M9 Wolverines
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The Battle of Draetheus V was an isolated military engagement fought between the United Nations Space Command against a Merg Vol's Covenant|new Covenant faction on the UNSC research colony of Draetheus V and its moon X50, after the Human-Covenant War in 2554. This Covenant faction came to seize a dormant Forerunner artifact, igniting one of the first conflicts in the Post-Covenant War conflicts|post-war era with the UNSC.
The battle
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File:Assault on CF-32.png|thumb|left|250px|Merg Vol's Covenant forces invade X50. A Merg Vol's Covenant|Covenant fleet unexpectedly appeared in orbit over Draetheus V and deployed numerous dropships bound for its moon, X50. SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan Edward Davis was deployed to support the security force of a research project in a location designated CF-32 in the northern continent of X50. After thwarting the initial assault, Davis moved to secure the UNSC's Research Facility Alpha and the Forerunner artifact located therein, which appeared to be Merg Vol's Covenant's main target.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 1: Assault on CF-32|Assault on CF-32''
However, Vol's Covenant resumed their assault and the UNSC feared Research Facility Alpha would soon be crushed. Spartan Sarah Palmer, with a Marine detachment, infiltrated artillery positions Vol's Covenant had set up and destroyed them.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 2: The Mirror Mantle Counter-Assault|The Mirror Mantle Counter-Assault'' Spartan Davis later noticed Vol's Covenant's heavy reliance on dropship insertion. Davis realized they would be vulnerable to focused anti-aircraft fire, so, using M9 Wolverines, he began establishing air defenses west of the facility at a location designated Glacial Perch.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 3: Reinforcement of the Perch|Reinforcement of the Perch''
While Spartan Davis was successful in slowing the enemy advance, Merg Vol's Covenant forces were too overwhelming. Sarah Palmer began fighting her way upstream through the invasion in an attempt to reach one of the northern outposts. Her plan was to destroy Covenant air support and give the AV-14 Hornets a chance to land near the outposts. The ultimate goal was to get off X50 and warn Draetheus V of Vol's Covenant invasion. Within an hour of their arrival at X50, Vol's Covenant owned the moon. Despite the ferocity of the assault on X50, the UNSC forces on Draetheus V had no idea anything was going on because the planet's unique magnetic resonance frequently made off-world communication nearly impossible.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 4: Live to Fight|Live to Fight''
Spartan Davis fought to hold the line on X50, while Sarah Palmer executed a plan to depart for Draetheus V and warn them of the incoming Covenant invasion of the colony. Palmer ordered the UNSC Marine Corps|Marines in the area to fall back to the Hornet landing zones. Only six Marines made it there alive. They held out against an overwhelming Covenant force until Palmer managed to escape.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 5: The Last Stand|The Last Stand'' Spartan Palmer was successful in warning Draetheus V of the coming attack, which soon hit the colonies' defenses like a tidal wave. Draetheus V's main outpost, Faraday Base, was located on the border of an expanse of dense vegetation to the north and an enormous rock plateau to the south. File:Siege of Faraday.png|thumb|250px|left|Spartan Palmer defending Faraday Base. When Merg Vol's Covenant invasion force eventually arrived, the first defense lines surrounding Faraday were quickly breached before the base's sentry turrets were fully operational. Palmer took to the field and almost singlehandedly held off the waves of Unggoy Suicide attack|suicide units crashing down on the thick concrete wall behind the defense lines.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 6: Siege of Faraday|Siege of Faraday''
Draetheus V's western reactor field was one of the largest of the magnetic reactor stations and was of great interest to Merg Vol's Covenant. Luckily, the trench-like layout of the reactor field provided the Marines stationed there with a terrain advantage and Covenant infantry platoons had significant difficulty in seizing the station. After supporting the Marines at Faraday, Sarah Palmer moved to provide support in the western reactor field. Palmer's prime objectives were to protect several squads of M9 Wolverines and halt the Banshees providing air support to Vol's Covenant infantry.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 7: Reactor Field Relief|Reactor Field Relief''
After Faraday Base's defense were stabilized Spartan Palmer began trying to establish the location of Merg Vol's Covenant officers leading the invasion. After taking significant losses, Marines of the 21st Scout platoon had managed to uncover a set of promising coordinates. These commanders' locations were well hidden by Draetheus V's unique magnetic signatures. Without Palmer, the officers might have remained hidden for days. She found them within 30 minutes and eliminated them quickly.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 8: Hunt for the Sangheili Command|Hunt for the Sangheili Command''
Nine lofty bridges spanning an enormous gorge called the Epsilon Expanse allowed for access to the southern plateau where the majority of Covenant landing zones were located. Merg Vol's Covenant quickly secured these bridges and held UNSC forces at bay with heavy artillery. Spartan Palmer escorted the 23rd Armored Cavalry to the Epsilon Expanse, but the Scorpion tanks would not survive the guaranteed Emp'seam-pattern Antlion|heavy artillery fire. Taking a small team of Marines across one of the bridges, Palmer managed to infiltrate Vol's Covenant camps and destroy several artillery turrets, giving the Scorpions the chance to advance and launch a counter-offensive.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 9: Battle for Epsilon Expanse|Battle for Epsilon Expanse''
File:Battle at Red Slate.png|thumb|250px|A Scorpion engages a Wraith at the Red Slate Plateau. With Vol's Covenant's southern forces exposed, Spartan Palmer and the 23rd Armored Cavalry's massive column of M808 Scorpions and M850 Grizzly|M850 Grizzlies rushed across the Red Slate plateau on a collision course with several Covenant tank battalions. Only a UNSC counter-offensive would prevent Faraday from being crushed between the northern and southern front. The 23rd had brought eighty-six vehicles to Draetheus V. After the battle at Red Slate, there were only eight functioning vehicles left.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 10: Battle at Red Slate|Battle at Red Slate''
As Spartan Palmer led the charge on Draetheus V, Spartan Davis continued to face considerable enemy threat on the moon. Furthermore, it was revealed that X50 was not a natural moon after all, but a Forerunner orbital reformer capable of constructing and destroying planets. Upon finding his way into the control center, Merg Vol turned X50's main weapon on Draetheus V and began to dismantle the planet.
In a stroke of luck, the was able to outmaneuver Covenant forces in orbit over the moon and offer some support by deploying marines to the southern Mirror Flats. The 3rd Helljumper Platoon was the first to land on Draetheus V's moon. Their drop zone was less than a mile from Alpha facility but the landing scattered them across the razor sharp rock face of the mountain range called Glacial Perch. They were quickly surrounded by Covenant infantry and taking heavy losses. Spartan Davis, having held out against a constant stream of Unggoy and Sangheili for a full day, quickly set out to clear the landing zone for the second wave of drop pods.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 11: Descend from the Perch|Descend from the Perch''
Having secured a safe landing zone at the Glacial Perch, Davis moved to regroup with a second platoon of marines, whose pods were coming down among dozens of crashed Spirits. These Spirits were destroyed from orbit by the ''Eminent Domain'' just as the ship itself was destroyed. Davis and the Marines found Covenant infantry swarming from the wrecked Spirits, angry and looking for payback. They engaged and neutralized the enemy forces in the area.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 12: Spirit Graveyard Stand-Off|Spirit Graveyard Stand-Off''
South of the Forerunner structure, a collection of thousands of spiked rock formations known as the Basalt Maze protruded from the moon's thick ice. Covenant supply lines were running straight through the Maze to set up more defenses around the Forerunner structure. Spartan Davis connected with UNSC combat technicians who believed they could render the Forerunner structure inert; they just needed the chance to get inside the structure. Getting the combat engineers close to the Forerunner structure would be extremely difficult, so Davis created a diversion to provide them with the best chance. The Basalt Maze provided an ideal location for his plan.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 13: Assault on the Supply Lines|Assault on the Supply Lines''
Covenant forces established a mile wide defense perimeter around the Forerunner structure. To protect the technicians, UNSC command had deployed snipers among the Marine reinforcements. They would provide suppressing fire from the higher ground around the structure. However, the area they were deploying to was swarming with Stealth Sangheili. Spartan Davis escorted several sniper teams to their locations and cleared the area of any distractors in the process. Without his support, the sniper squads would not have had a chance to make it safely to their assignments.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 14: Infiltration of the Covenant Perimeter|Infiltration of the Covenant Perimeter''
Spartan Davis and the remaining Marines assisted the combat technicians securing the Forerunner structure while Vol's Covenant reinforcements did everything in their power to stop the technicians. With supporting sniper fire from higher grounds, Davis and his men were able to buy the technicians just enough time to do their work. However, even with their job complete, it was too late for Draetheus V. In the sky they could see that the planet had already begun to violently break apart.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 15: Superstructure Stand-off|Superstructure Stand-off''
File:Liberation of Faraday.png|thumb|250px|UNSC personnel fighting in the perimeter of Faraday Base. Across Draetheus V, the effects of the activation of the moon's Forerunner structure were being felt. Enormous slabs of rock were slowly floating away from the planet's surface and both UNSC and Covenant troops were scrambling to get to safety. Spartan Palmer needed to get every last survivor off Draetheus V as soon as possible. But as the planet started to disintegrate, a panic rippled through every infantry unit on the field. A coordinated retreat would be impossible. Fighting her way through hordes of fleeing Covenant in a rapidly disintegrating base, she managed to secure Series 12 Single Operator Lift Apparatus|jetpacks to get her to safer ground.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 16: Escape from the Southern Fields|Escape from the Southern Fields''
Despite the chaos, much of Merg Vol's Covenant force remained rooted in strategic locations within the area around Faraday Base. The few surviving Marines and base staff had set up defensive positions in the western sector of the facility, preparing for a last stand against the increasing influx of Covenant. Palmer arrived at the base's perimeter moments before the Marines would be overrun. Around the base, Palmer managed to secure several M312 Elephant|Elephants. She then needed to relieve the besieged Marines and get them out of their predicament. She was able to rescue several groups of Marines and escort them to the extraction zone.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 17: Liberation of Faraday|Liberation of Faraday''
File:Assault on the Covenant Landing Zones.png|thumb|left|250px|Grizzly tanks during the assault on the Covenant landing zones. Draetheus V was ill-prepared for a full evacuation. Many ships had been destroyed in the initial Covenant assault. UNSC command estimated that at best, 40 percent might reach safety while the rest would die. Spartan Palmer declared those odds unacceptable and hatched a plan to abuse the rapidly degrading Covenant morale to overrun their landing zones and confiscate Dextro Xur-pattern Spirit|their spacecraft. Merg Vol's Covenant forces stationed at the landing zones were completely surprised by the bold attack. Already displaying cracks in their morale due to earlier losses, Vol's Covenant forces quickly gave up the landing zones.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 18: Assault on the Covenant Landing Zones|Assault on the Covenant Landing Zones''
Strategic location at the Epsilon Expanse had been hard won, and a rear guard was established at each of the bridge's exit points to cover the convoy of Elephants taking the evacuees south. Spartan Palmer knew that taking a slow-moving pack of transport vehicles across a quickly degenerating warzone was not going to be easy. While earlier operations at the Epsilon Expanse had secured access to the Red Slate Plateau, hordes of Covenant were overrunning the area, also trying to get to their ships in the south. These forces quickly diverted their attention to the fleeing Elephants. Palmer with the help of several Marines was able to defend the Elephants.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 19: Escape from Faraday|Escape from Faraday''
File:Davis last stand.jpg|thumb|250px|Spartan Davis makes his last stand against Covenant forces. After getting her convoy of Elephants safely across the Plateau, Spartan Palmer organized the construction of a series of makeshift defensive structures in order to protect the ships as evacuees loaded. With a mix of outrage and desperation, Merg Vol's Covenant fought to reclaim their only means of escape. After succeeding in holding off Vol's Covenant infantry, Palmer managed to get 23 Covenant spaceships off the ground, saving hundreds of lives that would have otherwise been lost.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 20: Defense of the Enemies' Airbase|Defense of the Enemies' Airbase'' Meanwhile, on X50, Davis' position was overrun by Vol's Covenant and he was eventually killed.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Operation E: Frostbite''
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With transportation secured, one last hurdle remained in getting the colonists safely off of Draetheus V. The leader of the Covenant faction, Merg Vol, was still present on moon X50, providing the remaining Covenant forces with a rallying point and cry. If the colonists were to leave Draetheus V's orbit alive, Merg Vol would need to be terminated. Spartan Palmer would need a way to get to the moon unseen, but Vol's Covenant knew about her stolen Spirits and would likely open fire on any of these ships trying to land on the moon. Palmer suspected Merg Vol's Covenant's officer on Draetheus V, Parg Vol, had a R'shwupa-pattern Phantom|personal transport hidden away. After completing the evacuation operation, locating Parg Vol's ship became Palmer's highest priority. After fighting through heavy Covenant forces she was able to locate Vol's Phantom and secured it for hijacking.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 21: Hunt for the Phantom|Hunt for the Phantom''
Parg Vol's camp was easily defensible, but Spartan Palmer neutralized the perimeter guard and moved in. The real challenge would be in accessing Parg Vol's Phantom. While a combat technician was bypassing the Phantom's security protocols, Parg Vol made his return. When he realized Palmer's intent, he ordered a full frontal assault on her position. With heavy plasma artillery raining down from a platoon of Wraiths, Palmer held off the infantry just long enough for the technician to succeed.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 22: The Scorching of the Thicket|The Scorching of the Thicket''
Merg Vol's base on the moon was surrounded by Cheru-pattern Tyrant|Tyrants. Hearing of Spartan Palmer's theft of Parg Vol's ship, Merg Vol ordered every flying craft to be shot down, the only exception being commanding officers' Phantoms. Having successfully piloted the Phantom through Merg Vol's Covenant fleet orbiting Draetheus V's moon, Palmer was able to land south of Merg Vol's camp, out of range of his turrets. Her Trojan Horse tactic had worked. Although she was closing in on Merg Vol, she still had to fight her way through a heavily fortified camp of his most seasoned soldiers. To ease her work, she entertained possibility of a plan to persuade them to leave the safety of their positions.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 23: Infiltration of the Cult Leader's Base|Infiltration of the Cult Leader's Base''
File:Battle for the Moon.png|thumb|250px|Sarah Palmer facing down Merg Vol. In the hours since launching their attack, Vol's Covenant cultists had established themselves in a long ice-covered gorge between Merg Vol's camp and the Forerunner structure, setting up an almost-impregnable position. With Merg Vol's camp neutralized, Spartan Palmer made her way to the Forerunner structure. Vol's Covenant troops there were Merg Vol's most devout followers and threw themselves at her mercilessly. Palmer would have to battle her way through heavy opposition, and before she could confront Merg Vol himself, she first needed to deal with his lieutenants. After facing heavy resistance, Palmer was able to eliminate Merg Vol's lieutenants.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 24: Hunt for the Cult Leader|Hunt for the Cult Leader''
Merg Vol was convinced he had been chosen by his gods to wield the power contained within the Forerunner structure. Having spent considerable resources to unlock its secrets, Vol managed to activate the structure's emergency defenses. With the deadly defenses at his command, Vol had become extremely dangerous. Unable to contact Spartan Davis since landing on Draetheus V's moon, Palmer prepared to battle Vol on her own. Vol's exact location had not been difficult to find: the direct area at the foot of the Forerunner structure was littered with a trail of dead UNSC soldiers. After facing Merg Vol's final forces and Forerunner beam turrets, she engaged Merg Vol himself. Despite a difficult fight, Palmer was able to overtake Vol and executed him with her M6H Personal Defense Weapon System|M6H magnum.Halo: Spartan Assault, ''Mission 25: Battle for the Moon|Battle for the Moon''
With Merg Vol killed, his Covenant forces were defeated and the surviving colonists of Draetheus V were able to safely evacuate the system. After killing Vol, Palmer sabotaged the Forerunner device on X50 and fled the moon in Parg Vol's ship.
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File:Breach of the Bulwark.png|thumb|250px|Pelican dropships during Operation: HYDRA on X50. With Merg Vol's Covenant defeated and most UNSC forces evacuated from Draetheus V and X50, the battle appeared to be over. However, the UNSC soon detected a looping transmission of low-frequency static, identified by UNSC analysts as a string of Forerunner code, emanating from X50. Spartan Palmer returned to X50 to discern the origin of this signal, only to discover that Vol's Covenant had also returned.Halo: Spartan Assault - ''Mission 26: Battle at the Arid Sea|Battle at the Arid Sea'' Vol's Covenant believed that one of their gods was speaking to them and were intent on preventing the humans from intercepting the message. Once Spartan Palmer secured a landing zone, UNSC forces were re-deployed to X50's surface in a constant stream, as part of Operation: HYDRA.Halo: Spartan Assault - ''Mission 27: Breach of the Bulwark|Breach of the Bulwark''Halo Waypoint: Catalog/Archive|Catalog: "''Analysis of Human OPERATION HYDRA security forces combat data [ref: Spartan Assault] indicate application of unknown [sublimation] device.''"
While UNSC scientists struggled to pinpoint the Forerunner signal's origin, Covenant forces recaptured a series of turrets along a large gorge called the Arid Sea. The UNSC forces would require significant fire power to break through. Spartan Palmer took command of a battalion of Scorpions and Grizzlies in an effort to take down Merg Vol's Covenant turrets. Meanwhile, UNSC scientists began to crack the Forerunner code. They were beginning to suspect that instead of an ancient voice, it was something much more recent in origin, and was calling for help.
The disintegration of Draetheus V caused large chunks of the planet's crust to crash into X50's surface. The impact of the collisions revealed sections of a Forerunner structure that were previously hidden under the moon's ice. The structure was enormous in scale, stretching for miles in all directions. It was deduced that this structure was the origin of the Forerunner message. With the main line of Vol's Covenant defenses breached, Spartan Palmer moved to locate the source of the Forerunner transmission. The terrain of X50 was too challenging for the battalion to pass, so Palmer continued on foot towards the Forerunner signal.Halo: Spartan Assault - ''Mission 28: Superstructure Assault|Superstructure Assault''
File:HSA Davis remains.jpg|thumb|250px|Davis' remains being absorbed. After defeating Merg Vol's Covenant forces at the light bridge at the entrance to a series of caverns, Spartan Palmer entered a cave UNSC Command designated the Cistern. Palmer advanced forward, encountering and dispatching the large numbers of stealth Sangheili forces in the area. Deep within the Cistern she found the structure's entrance; large blast doors of Forerunner design, and from behind the doors, the origin of the signal. At this time, UNSC scientists decoded the first part of the Forerunner transmission, which was a single word: "Palmer." They warned the Spartan that the structure seemed to know her name.Halo: Spartan Assault - ''Mission 29: Infiltration of the Cistern|Infiltration of the Cistern''
Engineering equipment became increasingly unreliable while moving further into the Cistern. The Forerunner signal interfered with anything capable of picking it up. Engineering worked franticly to keep their equipment in running order, though Spartan Palmer's MJOLNIR armor was able to withstand the interference. Palmer followed the signal deeper into the caves, eventually to its very source. As she got closer, the Forerunner code rippled across her sensors, translating before her very eyes as "Palmer, help me." Palmer discovered that the message had originated from her Spartan compatriot Davis, moments before his death. The structure had absorbed Davis' remains into a Durance. Fighting off a massive Covenant assault, Palmer was able to attach the Durance to a Pelican and escape. She subsequently shut it down to allow her friend to pass on peacefully.Halo: Spartan Assault - ''Mission 30: The Source|The Source''
Aftermath
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With the Forerunner device sabotaged and Merg Vol dead, his Covenant were unable to achieve their goal. While numerous human lives were lost over the course of the battle, many more deaths were avoided thanks to the efforts of the Spartans.
Years later, the records of the Battle of Draetheus V became part of a UNSC Tactical Simulator|tactical simulator to enhance strategic skills of the SPARTAN-IVs.Halo: Spartan Assault - ''Introduction'' However, the events after Palmer killing Merg Vol and sabotaging X50 were not included in the official record. Despite this, Palmer revealed the truth to a small number of Spartans aboard .
Although Merg Vol's Covenant dissolved in the wake of the battle, some went on to join other Covenant remnants including Parg Vol who joined up with Jul 'Mdama's Covenant. However, Parg Vol was later Assassination of Parg Vol|assassinated by Fireteam Crimson in 2558#February|February 2558 during the Requiem Campaign.Spartan Ops, Catherine/Hunting Trip|S1E03 ''Hunting Trip''
Gallery
File:HSA Covenant remnant fleet in DraetheusV.jpg|Merg Vol's Covenant fleet closes in on Draetheus V. File:HSA-Cinematic-Horizon.jpg|Sarah Palmer|Spartan Palmer observes the Merg Vol's Covenant faction|Covenant invasion forces. File:Spartan Assault cinematic.jpg|X50 is activated. File:The Mirror Mantle Counter-Assault.png|A Phantom escorted by Banshees over X50. File:Reinforcement of the Perch.png|A Banshee over the Glacial Perch. File:Live to Fight.png|Wraiths advancing on Research Facility Alpha. File:Descend from the Perch.png|The Third Helljumper Platoon deploying on X50. File:Hunt for the Sangheli Command.png|An Unggoy-operated Shade turret on Draetheus V. File:Battle for Epsilon Expanse.png|A Sangheili and a on Draetheus V. File:Assault on the Supply Lines.png|An anti-air Wraith defending Vol's Covenant supply lines. File:Infiltration of the Covenant Perimeter.png|A UNSC sniper near the Forerunner artifact. File:Defense of the Enemies' Airbase.png|Spirits over Draetheus V. File:Hunt for the Phantom.png|UNSC Hornets taking off during the mission to capture Parg Vol's Phantom. File:Infiltration of the Cult Leader's Base.png|Tyrant AA guns defending Merg Vol's base. File:Battle at the Arid Sea.png|Palmer infiltrating a Covenant anti-air emplacement. File:Superstructure Assault.png|Kig-Yar defend the entrance to the Cistern. File:Infiltration of the Cistern.png|Yanme'e in the caverns within X50.
List of appearances
''Halo: Spartan Assault''
''Halo Infinite''
*Story Shard: ''Precipice''
Sources |
Battle of Earth may refer to:
Human-Covenant war
*Battle for Earth A massive battle, one of the final battles of the Human-Covenant War Post-war era
*Invasion of Earth A smaller skirmish, by several Sentinels led by 000 Tragic Solitude
*New Phoenix Incident A smaller skirmish, in space above Earth by the Didact and his Prometheans
*Battle of New Phoenix|Skirmish on New Phoenix - A smaller skirmish, on New Pheonix by the Didact and his Prometheans and Jul 'Mdama's Covenant.
*Subjugation of Earth A sudden subjugation, by the Created and their Guardians |
UNSC
|side2=*Keepers of the One Freedom Dhas Bhasvod's Covenant Sentinels|Forerunner constructs
|side3=* Banished
*Clan of the Long Shields
|commanders1=*Captain James Cutter Commander Barre Lieutenant Veta Lopis
|commanders2=*Dokab Castor Prelate Dhas Bhasvod Intrepid Eye Epsilon Clarion ancilla
|commanders3=*Warlord Pavium Voridus
|forces1=*
1 Reconnaissance Pelican
*''Romeo-008''
Ferrets
|forces2=*Prelate Dhas Bhasvod Dokab Castor Arcas Krelis Many Jiralhanae Intrepid Eye
2 Phantoms
3 Seraphs Thousands of Aggressor Sentinels
|forces3=*Clan of the Long Shields Many Eklon'Dal Workshop Wraiths At least 10 'Ahtulai Workshop Banshees
1 Seraph
|casual1=*Light
*Mark-G313
|casual2=*Near total
*Intrepid Eye
*Arcas
*Krelis
*1 Phantom
*3 Seraphs
|casual3=*Near total
*Most of the Clan of the Long Shields
*All Banished Wraiths
*All Banished Phantoms
*At least six Banshees
}}
The Battle of Epsilon Clarion was a battle between the forces of the Keepers of the One Freedom allied with Dhas Bhasvod's Dhas Bhasvod's Covenant, the Banished, and the UNSC on Installation 00|the Ark with the latter two attempting to keep the Keepers and Covenant forces from using Epsilon Clarion to activate the Halo Array. Although the UNSC and the Banished were not allied during the battle, they had the same goal and did not engage each other upon discovering the threat of the rings being fired.
Prelude
Battle
Aftermath
List of appearances
''Halo: Divine Wind''
Sources
Category:UNSC victories Category:Banished victories |
|place=Eridanus II, Eridanus system|Eridanus System
|result=Covenant victory Eridanus II glassed
|side1= United Nations Space Command
|side2= Covenant
|commanders1=
|commanders2=
|forces1=
|forces2=
|casual1=
|casual2=
}}
In 2530, during the Human-Covenant War, there was an battle|engagement between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant Empire at Eridanus II.
Battle During the fighting, Emile-A239's brother would sacrifice his life to save Emile.
The Covenant would glass Eridanus II, devastating the population centers.
Aftermath
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The planet would be abandoned for a time by the UNSC.
Despite the glassing, the planet was largely intact allowing post-war rehab pioneers and original inhabitants to return. By 2557 or 2558, Elysium City would be a destination to travel to from Cascade.
List of appearances
''Halo: First Strike''
''Hunt the Truth''
Sources |
Capture of Makee by the United Nations Space Command|UNSC
|side1 = United Nations Space Command
|side2 = Covenant/Silver|Covenant
|commanders1 = *Master Chief Petty Officer|MCPO John-117/Silver|John-117
Captain|CPT Jacob Keyes/Silver|Jacob Keyes
|commanders2 = *Makee
|forces1 = *4 SPARTAN-II program/Silver|Spartan-IIs
150+ marines At least 2 M12 Chaingun Warthog|Warthogs
1
*
1 D80 Condor|Condor
|forces2 = * At least 3 Covenant lances
*Unggoy
*Kig-Yar At least 1
At least 1
At least 1 Sangheili At least 1 Jiralhanae Multiple s
1
|casual1 = *Heavy
*Heavy ground casualties
*UNSC ''Pioneer''
Kai-125 injured
|casual2 = *Moderate
*Heavy ground casualties
*Light air casualties
}}
The Battle of Eridanus II was a battle between Covenant and UNSC forces on Eridanus II/Silver|Eridanus II.
Background After making contact with the Madrigal Keystone, John-117/Silver|John-117 had visions of his childhood and another artifact, which led the UNSC to the second artifact on Eridanus II/Silver|Eridanus II. After breaking the casing protecting the artifact, John made contact with it, which caused Makee to see where it was.
Battle File:HTV-Reckoning Pionner.png|thumb|left|250px|The ''Pioneer'' is destroyed. When the Covenant/Silver|Covenant arrived, they used Is'belox-pattern Banshee|Banshees to bomb UNSC forces on the ground and destroy the . John had Vannak-134 and Riz-028 move the artifact out of a cave and into the back of an M12 Chaingun Warthog. John ordered Kai-125 to stay back with the marines and keep them covered. They were ordered by Captain Jacob Keyes/Silver|Keyes to take the artifact to Miranda Keyes/Silver|Miranda Keyes' D80 Condor|Condor. On their way there, an orbiting dropped in three Covenant lances to secure the artifact. A Unggoy|Grunt was successfully able to supercombine the gunner of the Warthog and kick out the driver, but John killed the Grunt and took control, ordering Riz and Vannak to get in. A Banshee had successfully hit the Condor, forcing Miranda and the crew to head toward Catherine Halsey/Silver|Catherine Halsey's ship. The Covenant deployed a Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantom behind Kai, and the marines were quickly overwhelmed. Kai's heart rate elevated to critical levels when she witnessed the horror of the marines being slaughtered and was soon under fire from multiple Covenant troops. John noticed this and told Vannak to take the wheel and get him closer to the edge. Cortana/Silver|Cortana and Halsey protested and said to focus on the mission, but John said he couldn't let Kai die. He jumped and hijacked a Banshee and crashed it into the Phantom. Riz shot down a Banshee, but the Banshee crashed into their Warthog, causing the artifact and the Spartans to be thrown from the vehicle. John quickly dealt with Covenant forces and went to go help Kai, who was being punched by an Sangheili|Elite. The Master Chief attacked the Elite and punched it multiple times before stomping on its face. Kai warns him about the artifact, and Cortana warns of a Covenant Taaku Xur-pattern Spirit|Spirit inbound. John runs to the artifact, but the Spirit deploys Atriox/Silver|a Jiralhanae who send the Spartan flying back after hitting him with his gravity mace. John says that he needs a weapon, but Cortana says she is not sure if it will help. Chief fires a BR55 Battle Rifle|Battle Rifle at the Brute before it is lifted back into the Spirit with the artifact, and Chief fires his rifle at the Spirit as it leaves. One last pod was launched from the Covenant cruiser before it leaves, firing back at the pod. The pod opens and John heads over to it and finds out it is Makee who passes out after seeing him.
Aftermath The UNSC leave Eridanus II with the dead and wounded, and John stays with Kai while she is treated on their way back to Reach/Silver|Reach. Cortana suggests to John that he should be treated after his systems were overloaded from contact with the Eridanus artifact. The UNSC also bring Makee with them as she has offered them intel on the Covenant, claiming they kidnapped her as a child.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Television Series''
* ''Reckoning''
* ''Solace (TV Series)|Solace''
Sources |
|date=2549
|place=Estuary, Thompson system
|result=Covenant victory Estuary glassing|glassed
|side1= United Nations Space Command
|side2= Covenant
|commanders1=Unknown
|commanders2=Fleetmaster Thel 'Vadamee
|forces1=*
|forces2=*Fleet of Particular Justice
|casual1=About 89 million casualties
|casual2=
|civilian=
}}
In 2549, a battle took place at Estuary, a human human colonies|colony in the Thompson system.
Battle The colony was attacked by the Fleet of Particular Justice.
During the battle a was involved at the UNSC Navy's last stand against the Covenant.
Aftermath Jameson Locke compiled information on Thel 'Vadamee's actions at Estuary, as well as at Battle of Camber|Camber, Battle of Bounty|Bounty, Battle of Kroedis II|Kroedis II, Battle for Alluvion|Alluvion, Battle of Mesa|Mesa, and Greydowns into a Target profile.
List of appearances
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
*''Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminals''
Sources |
|place=Fumirole
|result=Covenant victory
|side1=United Nations Space Command
|side2=Covenant
|commanders1=
|commanders2=
|forces1=*UNSC Army
*UH-144 Falcons
*Noble Team
|forces2=*At least one
*''Sanctity of Purification''
s Sangheili Unggoy
|casual1=*Thom-A293
Several Army troopers
|casual2=*''Sanctity of Purification''
Several infantry
}}
The Battle of Fumirole was fought between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant in 2552#April|April 2552 on Fumirole.
Prelude As early as 2551#December|December 2551, UNSC intelligence was aware of Covenant activity near the Volanus system. As such, this led naval planners to believe that the hegemony was planning to attack the Human colonies|colony world of Fumirole relatively soon. With the conclusion of Operation: OFFSET EYE and the successful defense of Concord, NOBLE Team were recalled from Concord to Fumirole to assist in the planet's defence. However, only Carter-A259, Catherine-B320, Jun-A266, Thom-A293 and Jorge-052 were called upon, with Rosenda-A344 instead reassigned to other clandestine operations. Rosenda's slot on NOBLE team as Noble 4 was instead filled by Emile-A239.
The battle During the Covenant invasion of Fumirole, the ''Sanctity of Purification'' was holding position over the colony's capital city. Lieutenant Commander Catherine-B320 of Noble Team came up with an operation to assault and destroy the ship with a Fury tactical nuclear weapon|FURY model Medium Fusion Destructive Device. Supported by the rest of Noble Team, UNSC Army infantry and air support by UH-144 Falcons, she undertook the task of delivering the nuclear device into the ship herself. However, she was wounded by a 's Class-2 Projectile cannon|fuel rod cannon blast while on her way to the cruiser. The blast also severely damaged her right arm, which was later replaced by a Artificial limb|robotic prosthetic.
Thom-A293 was the first to arrive to her position. Seeing as there would be no time to wait for backup, he picked up the nuke and used a Series 8 jetpack|jetpack to fly into the cruiser through its gravity lift. Just before the nuke's countdown ran out, Thom managed to toss it into a hangar bay where numerous Unggoy were massing for deployment. Mere seconds later, the MFDD went off, destroying the cruiser and killing Thom.
Despite the successful destruction of the battlecruiser, the battle was ultimately a loss for humanity - ending with Fumirole being Glassing|glassed by the Covenant.
Aftermath Noble Team was successful in destroying its target. However, Catherine-B320 and Carter-A259 both carried extraordinary guilt over Thom-A293's death, blaming themselves for the incident, despite the SPARTAN's own decision of self-sacrifice. Thom would later be replaced by SPARTAN-B312.
The battle was discussed as part of ONI Section Two's File CHELAN 201903012|File: CHELAN 201903012.
Gallery
File:Concept-Deliver-Hope-1.jpg|Concept art of the battle. File:Concept-Deliver-Hope-2.jpg|Concept art of the battle. File:DeliverHope_Fumirole_Concept.jpg|Concept art of the battle visible from orbit. File:HR_DeliverHope_Storyboard_12.jpg|One of a Deliver Hope#Storyboards|number of storyboards for ''Deliver Hope'', showcasing a radically different battle.
File:DeliverHope - CCSBattlecruiser.png|The main objective. File:KatRun.jpg| Kat running with a Fury tactical nuclear weapon|MFDD. File:Deliverhopekatandarmy.jpg|Kat and the UNSC Army charge against the Covenant forces. File:DeliverHope - ThomJetpack.png|Thom-A293 flies into the battlecruiser. File:DeliverHope - CCSHangar.png|Covenant forces in the cruiser's hangar. File:DeliverHope - CCSHangar2.png|Another look inside the cruiser. File:CCS Shield Collapsing.jpg|The being destroyed by the Fury tactical nuclear weapon|MFDD. File:Fumirole-Deliver Hope.jpg|The battle rages across Fumirole's surface.
List of appearances
''Remember Reach''
*''Deliver Hope''
''Winter Contention''
Sources
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The Battle of G617 g1 was an engagement on the planet Seaward, formally designated as ''G617 g1'', in the G617 system. It marked the beginning of the three-century long Forerunner-Flood war.Halo 3, ''Terminal (Halo 3)#Terminal Six|Terminal Six''
The battle A Forerunner-based research team called the Primary Pioneer Group made active landfall on the bordering planet known as G617g and they initially reported some interesting findings. Despite previous assumptions and conjectures, the world could support sentient life despite the lack of fauna, which they intended to review more closely. The protocol allows them to dispatch a secondary batch of researchers called the Advance Survey Team-Alpha. After a week of no communication, the Forerunners who were remotely monitoring this new discovery became worried. It may be assumed that the research team became the first (known) victims of the Flood during the war, and either by their own transport, or by a relief force later sent, the Flood escaped the planet and began the largest genocide in all recorded history.
In their response to the initial testimony and report, those monitoring it advised that they would send a military detachment to the site shortly to uncover why their two exploratory teams had halted communication. That was the last time the Forerunners had any contact with G617g, and it was the beginning of a galactic-scale war lasting about three centuries.
List of appearances
''Halo 3''
*''Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminals''
''Halo: Last Light''
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Category:Battles|G617 g1 |
|side1=*United Earth Government
*United Nations Space Command
|side2=*Jul 'Mdama's Covenant Ur-Didact|Didact's Prometheans
|commanders1=*Spartan Commander Sarah Palmer Spartan Jared Miller
|commanders2=*Supreme Commander Jul 'Mdama
|forces1=*Expeditionary Strike Group 1
*1 D79-TC Pelican|Pelican
*Spartan Operations
**SPARTAN-IV Program|SPARTAN-IVs
***Fireteam Crimson
***Fireteam Majestic
1 captured Type-26 Banshee|Banshee
|forces2=*Numerous Sangheili Numerous Kig-Yar Numerous Unggoy
2 Mgalekgolo Several dozen Ru'swum-pattern Phantom|Phantoms Several Karo'etba-pattern Ghost|Ghosts
2 Type-26 Banshee|Banshees Numerous Promethean Crawlers Several Promethean Watchers Several Promethean Knights
|casual1=*None
|casual2=*Near total
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The Battle of Galileo Base was a battle during the Requiem Campaign. During the engagement, Jul 'Mdama's Covenant and the Prometheans' attacked the UNSC's Galileo Base for a second time, following a Assault on Galileo Base|failed assault earlier in the campaign.
Prelude In 2558#February|February 2558, as Doctor Catherine Halsey studied one of the Requiem slipspace artifacts aboard the , she was contacted by Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant Supreme Commander Jul 'Mdama in secret. 'Mdama suggested that they could help each other and questioned what Halsey knew of the Prometheans. After a failed attempt to get useful information out of Spartan-IV|Spartan Gabriel Thorne,''Spartan Ops'', Didact's Hand|S104 Didact's Hand 'Mdama promised to provide her with proof of the true nature of the Prometheans which Halsey had been kept unaware of.''Spartan Ops'', Memento Mori|S105 Memento Mori
During these events, following a successful tap into the Forerunner communication network utilized by Covenant forces,''Spartan Ops'', Didact's Hand/Hairy Call|S104 Hairy Call Fireteam Crimson was sent to chase 'Mdama through Requiem's teleportation grid|portal system.''Spartan Ops'', Didact's Hand/Rally Point|S104 Rally Point''Spartan Ops'', Didact's Hand/Random Transport|S104 Random Transport After Crimson chased him to "the Cauldron," 'Mdama purposefully dropped "the Didact's Gift," a Durance containing the "soul" of a Promethean Knight: a human digitized by the Composer during the New Phoenix Incident six months before. 'Mdama's intention was for Halsey to receive the Gift as the proof while making it appear that he had dropped it by accident while fleeing Crimson's pursuit. As planned, Crimson recovered "the Didact's Gift" and were ordered to transport it to Galileo Base for study before it would be transported to the ''Infinity''.''Spartan Ops'', Didact's Hand/The Chase|S104 The Chase
Battle
As scientists at Galileo Base studied "the Didact's Gift" to make sure it was safe for transport to the , Spartan-IV|Spartans Robert Dalton and Jared Miller detected Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant forces on their way, including several dozen Ru'swum-pattern Phantom|Phantoms. The Phantoms began dropping off massive numbers of Covenant troops into the base, including several Karo'etba-pattern Ghost|Ghosts. However, Fireteam Crimson managed to fend off the repeated waves as Miller and Spartan Commander Sarah Palmer realized that the base's defenses were offline and couldn't be activated remotely either.
As the battle continued, Palmer contacted Doctor Shannon Owen who realized that Doctor Cameron Alexander had gone against her orders not to divert power away from the base's defenses in order to power a mini-reactor. As a Mgalekgolo|Hunter pair was dropped into the base, Miller was able to determine where the turret power had been routed to and directed Crimson to the location. Fighting through the heavy Covenant forces, Crimson managed to reactivate the turret defenses which shot down the attacking Covenant Phantoms. With the Phantoms destroyed, Crimson was able to clear out the remaining Covenant forces.
With the Covenant forces eliminated, Miller reported that the Forerunner communications net utilized by the Covenant that Crimson had previously tapped into was paying off as he was able to detect that the entire Covenant net was talking about retrieving the Promethean soul. Dalton reported that Fireteam Majestic was closest to transport "the Didact's Gift" to the and Palmer ordered them deployed to Galileo Base to retrieve the package while Crimson stayed to protect the base.''Spartan Ops'', Didact's Hand/The Didact's Gift|S104 The Didact's Gift
As the UNSC forces made preparations to extract "the Didact's Gift," they were interrupted by Doctor Cameron Alexander who demanded to know if someone had turned off his mini-reactor. Though Palmer defended their actions as necessary to defend the base, Doctor Alexander warned that if the reactor wasn't turned back on, its shielding would fail and the explosion would destroy Galileo Base. With no other choice, Fireteam Crimson was dispatched to reactivate the mini-reactor. However, as they reached the reactor, several Promethean Crawlers and Promethean Knights translocated in to attack. Fighting off the Prometheans, Crimson reactivated the mini-reactor and averted disaster.
After the reactor was reactivated, numerous Promethean Crawlers supported by several Promethean Knights and Promethean Watchers assaulted the base. With Fireteam Majestic inbound, Crimson fought off the waves of Prometheans, eventually succeeding in repelling the Promethean attack before Majestic arrived in a D79-TC Pelican|Pelican to extract "the Didact's Gift."
As Fireteam Majestic extracted the package back to their D79-TC Pelican|Pelican, they came under attack by a Ru'swum-pattern Phantom|Phantom and two Type-26 Banshee|Banshees while Galileo Base's anti-air defenses were down. Recognizing that an attempt to flee by air would be fatal, Spartan-IV|Spartan Gabriel Thorne hijacked one of the Banshees and used it to shoot down the Phantom.
Watching the battle from a nearby cliff, Jul 'Mdama ordered the attack called off despite the protests of Gek 'Lhar, satisfied that they had made enough of a display trying to retake "the Didact's Gift." The remaining Covenant forces retreated, ending the battle.
Aftermath With Galileo Base secured, Fireteam Majestic transported "the Didact's Gift" to Doctor Catherine Halsey onboard the . Examining the Durance, Halsey discovered that it had a similar interior appearance to a human Riemann matrix|A.I. Matrix and contained the memories of a human digitized by the Composer during the New Phoenix Incident. Palmer and Captain Thomas Lasky were forced to reveal that the Prometheans were once humans while Halsey was satisfied with the proof Jul 'Mdama had provided her as he had promised. However, as 'Mdama questioned Halsey about her knowledge of the Librarian, her secret communications with the Covenant leader was discovered.
List of appearances
''Halo 4''
*''Spartan Ops''
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Category:UNSC victories Category:Jul 'Mdama's Covenant victories |
3 UNSC corvette|corvettes
|forces2 = *1 Covenant destroyer|destroyer
|casual1 = *UNSC ''Hilbert''
|casual2 = *Covenant destroyer
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The Battle of Gamma Pavonis VII was a battle that took place during the Human-Covenant War. It was centered around Gamma Pavonis VII.Dr. Halsey's personal journal
The battle Under the command of a young UNSC Navy|Naval officer Miranda Keyes, the unarmed remote sensing vessel engaged a Covenant Covenant destroyer|destroyer. Three UNSC corvettes answered the ''Hilberts resulting distress call and attempted to offer aid; the destroyer responded by turning away from the ''Hilbert'' and attacking the incoming reinforcements instead. Despite being outnumbered three-to-one, the Covenant ship's shields and superior weaponry gave it a tremendous advantage over the UNSC corvettes.
Having no weapons capable of breaching the destroyer's energy shielding|energy shield, Miranda ordered that the ''Hilbert'' overload her engines and ram into the enemy vessel. The resulting collision damaged the destroyer's shields and nudged it into Gamma Pavonis VII's Gravity well (physics)|gravity well. As the crew abandoned ship, which was now falling into the planet's gravity well along with the enemy ship, the fusion core of the ''Hilbert'' went critical and detonated immediately after colliding with the planet's surface, completely obliterating the Covenant destroyer and saving the crewmembers aboard the three corvettes from certain demise.
Only two crewmen from the ''Hilbert'' made it to the escape pods in timeMiranda being one of them. In the following years, Keyes was assigned to an advisory role in the front lines of the war, participating in the coordination of many crucial offensives against the Covenant. For her actions, Miranda was eventually awarded the Silver Star (presented personally to her by Terrence Hood|Lord Terrence Hood), promoted to Lieutenant Commander, and given command of the , in 2550.Halo: Reach''', ''Intersystem News'': ''"LCDR MIRANDA KEYES AWARDED SILVER STAR"''
List of appearances
''Halo: Reach''
*''Dr. Halsey's personal journal''
Sources
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Gamma Pavonis VII |
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The Battle of Gbraakon was an armed conflict which occurred in the Gbraakon territory on Doisac, the homeworld of the Jiralhanae. Taking place sometime before the species' introduction into the Covenant in 2492, this engagement followed the end of the First Immolation, a cataclysmic global war that resulted in the technological regression of the species. The Type-52 Mauler was first employed at Gbraakon prior to its service with the Covenant.
Sources
Category:Battles|Gbraakon |
|side1=* United Nations Space Command|UNSC Swords of Sanghelios Exuberant Witness|Exuberant Witness's Sentinels
|side2=* Created
|side3=* Jul 'Mdama's Covenant
|commanders1=*John-117|MCPO John-117
Jameson Locke|Spartan Jameson Locke
031 Exuberant Witness
|commanders2= *Cortana Warden Eternal
|forces1=*Some D79-TC Pelicans One M820 Scorpion Some HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark IX Mantis|Mantises Some M12 Warthogs Some M290 Mongoose|M290 Gungooses Spartan program|Spartans
*Blue Team
*Fireteam Osiris UNSC Marines Some Sangheili Storm Constructors
|forces2=*Several Guardians Several Phaetons Several Z-510 focus turrets Several Promethean Knights Several Armiger Soldiers Several Promethean Watchers Several Promethean Crawlers
|forces3=*Several s Several s Several s Several s Several s Several Mgalekgolo Several Sangheili Several Kig-Yar Several Unggoy
|casual1=*Some D79-TC Pelicans All Sangheili Storm All Marines
|casual2=*Some Z-1800 Phaetons Several focus turrets Several Prometheans
|casual3=Presumably all forces
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A battle was fought on Genesis between UNSC forces, Jul 'Mdama's Covenant and Created Promethean#Mechanical Prometheans|Promethean forces in 2558#October|October 2558.
Background
After seeing a vision from his thought-to-be-deceased AI companion Cortana, Spartan-II John-117 headed to the planet Meridian with the rest of Blue Team to find her. Declared Wikipedia:Desertion|AWOL by the UNSC, Spartan-IV Fireteam Osiris led by Jameson Locke was sent to retrieve them. Osiris tracked Blue Team into an underground Forerunner structure and caught up with them but they managed to escape into a nearby Guardian. Osiris retreated as the Guardian entered slipspace over the planet.
Battle
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File:H5G-Blue Team and Warden.png|thumb|left|250px|Blue Team encountering the Warden Eternal. After arriving on Genesis, a Forerunner Builder installation serving as a link to the Domain, Blue Team fought their way through Jul 'Mdama's Covenant forces who had crashed landed there. They eventually reached a structure where they encountered the Warden Eternal. The Warden introduced himself as Cortana's defender and questioned John-117's motivations while simultaneously deploying several waves of Prometheans to confront the Spartans. After an extended battle, Blue Team were able to defeat the Prometheans, destroying one of the Warden's bodies in the process. Immediately afterward, Blue Team were contacted by Cortana, who informed them of her intention to uphold the Mantle of Responsibility. John voiced concern over the fundamental nature of the Mantle, which were quickly dismissed by Cortana. Fighting their way through several more Promethean squadrons, Blue Team eventually reached the structure known as the Gateway, described as a link between Genesis and the Domain.
Fireteam Osiris arrived on Genesis roughly 48 hours later, having boarded a Guardian near the city of Sunaion on Sanghelios. Unlike Blue Team however, Fireteam Osiris was required to run down the front of their Guardian in order to reach the planet. Along the way, they combated its complement of Promethean Crawlers and Armiger Soldiers.
Upon finally landing, Osiris encountered its monitor, 031 Exuberant Witness, who offered to assist the Spartans in retrieving Blue Team and preventing Cortana from claiming the Mantle. After fighting through the battling forces of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant and Prometheans, Osiris finally reached Blue Team's location, where they encountered two Wardens. After dispatching the Wardens, Osiris headed inside and offered to help Blue Team stop Cortana. In an attempt to prevent John and Blue Team from returning to the UNSC, Cortana transported them to an unidentified location within the interior of the Gateway.
Blue Team made their way to Cortana's position after battling through numerous waves of Prometheans and several of the Warden Eternal's bodies. John attempted to persuade Cortana to end her rebellion and return to the UNSC, but Cortana refused and placed Blue Team inside a Cryptum.
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File:H5G-freed.PNG|thumb|250px|Jameson Locke meeting Blue Team outside of their Cryptum. Learning what had happened, Osiris moved to destroy the gravitational cores holding the Cryptum in place, while fighting Jul 'Mdama's Covenant and Promethean forces. Before Osiris could retrieve Blue Team, however, Cortana removed the Cryptum from its resting point and placed it within a Guardian. In a final effort to free Blue Team, Exuberant led Osiris to an elevator which led to a communications relay from which Cortana maintained control of the Genesis installation. After Osiris defeated several waves of Promethean forces, Exuberant was able to activate the elevator. Osiris made their way to the relay, significantly hampered by the concussive blasts of the Guardian which held the Cryptum. Locke finally reached the relay core and destroyed it, breaking Cortana's control over Genesis and freeing Exuberant to release a swarm of Constructors. The Constructors forced the Cryptum from the Guardian's grasp just before it entered slipspace. The Constructors opened the Cryptum and Blue Team was reunited with Osiris.
Following Cortana's departure, both Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris together fought their way through hordes of Promethean constructs to reach India 127|a Pelican that had previously arrived on the planet via a Guardian's Slipspace entry. Agreeing to return to Sanghelios, the joint team requested Exuberant's help, who opened a Slipspace portal for them.
Aftermath
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With the Guardians released, the Created had begun The Reclamation. This attack devastated the Unified Earth Government, destroying the electrical systems of many worlds.
Both teams successfully arrived at Sanghelios and reunited with the Swords of Sanghelios, Doctor Catherine Halsey and Commander Sarah Palmer. The next day, the surviving UNSC forces linked up with the . Genesis remained active, now the so-called base for Cortana's Created soldiers.
Participants
Military Personnel
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Branch
! Rank
! Name
! Status
| | rowspan="4" |UNSC Navy
|Master Chief Petty Officer
|John-117
|Survived
| | rowspan="2" |Petty Officer First Class
|Kelly-087
|Survived
| |Linda-058
|Survived
| |Lieutenant, Junior Grade
|Frederic-104
|Survived
| | rowspan="3" |UNSC Marine Corps
| rowspan="3" |Unknown
|Selena Rhodin
|KIA
| |Rene Dekas
|KIA
| |Kulas
|Unknown
| | rowspan="4" |Spartan Operations
| rowspan="4" |Spartan
|Jameson Locke
|Survived
| |Olympia Vale
|Survived
| |Edward Buck
|Survived
| |Holly Tanaka
|Survived
|}
Vehicles D79-TC Pelican
*''Boza''
*''India 127''
Military Personnel
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Rank
! Name
! Status
| | rowspan="4" |Unknown
|Muki 'Jahma
|KIA
| |Kit Pitlimp
|KIA
| |Jeem Ribfi
|KIA
| |Proon Glibwik
|KIA
|}
Gallery
File:H5G - Blue Team on Genesis.jpg|Blue Team fighting on Genesis. File:H5G - 117 fighting on Genesis.jpg|The Master Chief fighting Promethean constructs. File:Chief fighting Warden.png|John-117 firing at the Warden Eternal. File:Halo 5 - Spartans reunited.jpg|Osiris and Blue Team meeting the first time on Genesis. File:Halo 5 - Wardens vs Blue Team.jpg|Blue Team attempting to fight waves of Warden Eternal on the other side of the Gateway. File:H5G-Waypoint-Guardians.jpg|Cortana's Guardians and Cryptum. File:H5G Blue Team exploring.png|Blue Team walking through a field of dead Covenant.
List of appearances
''Halo 5: Guardians''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Bad Blood''
''Halo: Outcasts''
Sources
Category:Created conflict|Genesis |
United Nations Space Command
|side2 = Banished
|commanders1 = Unknown
|commanders2 = Kaidon Thav 'Sebarim
|forces1 = Residents of Harrow
|forces2 = Numerous Banished forces
|casual1 = 700,00+
|casual2 = Unknown
}}
The Battle of Harrow was an engagement between UNSC forces and the Banished on the colony of Harrow. Background The Banished raided a wide variety of targets indiscriminately for resources, including Covenant bases, Jiralhanae settlements on Doisac, and human colonies as well. One such siege was on a settlement on the Unified Earth Government world of Harrow.
Battle During the battle, Sangheili Kaidon Thav 'Sebarim laid siege to the city of Adruvon. 'Sebarim and his forces killed over 700,000 civilians in the attack.
Aftermath Following the battle, Kaidon Thav 'Sebarim became infamous for his killing of over 700,000 civilians at Adruvon.
List of appearances
''Halo Infinite''
Sources
Category:Banished victories |
The Battle of Harvest may refer to the following:
Skirmish on Minor Transgression|Skirmish on ''Minor Transgression'' - The disastrous first contact between humanity and the Covenant. First Battle of Harvest - The first major battle of the Human-Covenant War. Battle of Harvest - Where the United Nations Space Command|UNSC fleet mobilized and took back Harvest in 2526. Harvest campaign - The UNSC's five-year long military operation for control of Harvest, lasting from 2526 to 2531. |
|date=2526|March 1, 2526Halo: Evolutions, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''pages 463-467''
|place=Over Harvest, Epsilon Indi system
|result=*Pyrrhic UNSC victoryHalo: Evolutions, "Dirt", ''page 126''
*''Heaven's Brilliant Bier'' is destroyed
*Loss of thirteen UNSC warships
|side1=United Nations Space Command
|side2=Covenant
|commanders1=Vice Admiral Preston Cole
|commanders2=Unknown shipmaster
|forces1=*Battle Group X-Ray
*Forty warships
**UNSC Everest|One
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**At least seven UNSC destroyer|destroyers
**At least nine UNSC frigate|frigates
|forces2=One
|casual1=Thirteen UNSC ships
|casual2=One super-destroyer
|civilian=
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The Battle of Harvest,Halo Wars, ''Halo Wars Timeline Events|Timeline'' (defunct, Archive:Halowars.com/Timeline|Archived)Halo: The Cole Protocol, ''page 34'' also known as the Second Battle of Harvest,Halo: Fleet Battles, ''Core Rulebook - page 33'' was an engagement in the Human-Covenant War between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant, taking place in the Epsilon Indi system. Following the First Battle of Harvest|loss of the human Outer Colony of Harvest to the Covenant in 2525, the UNSC assembled a battle group to retake the planet on 2526|March 1, 2526. Led by Vice Admiral Preston Cole, UNSC Battle Group X-Ray was ultimately successful in destroying the Covenant forces due to superior numbers and a last-minute tactical maneuver, but suffered heavy casualties in the process.
Having lost a third of the battle group's strength against a single Covenant warship, the empire's strength was now clearly assessed to the UNSC.Halo Mythos, ''page 63'' Having been promoted to admiral, Cole would return to Epsilon Indi with the Third Fleet under his command, meeting the Covenant's Fleet of Glorious Interdiction at Harvest for an extended Harvest campaign|campaign over the planet.
Prelude
File:TFoR AS - Harvest glassed.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Battle Group 4 discovers the glassed Harvest In 2525#February|February of 2525, the Unified Earth Government Outer Colony of Harvest was discovered and First Battle of Harvest|attacked by the Covenant. The planet was partially Glassing|glassed by the Covenant cruiser ''Rapid Conversion'',Halo: Contact Harvest, ''page 382''Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''pages 117-126'' (2010) though many of Harvest's residents managed to escape their own destruction by fleeing the Epsilon Indi system aboard DCS light freighter|freighters.Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, ''page 72'' In response to the loss of contact with Harvest, the unarmed scout ship was sent to the planet to investigate. When transmissions from the scout ship suddenly ended, the Harvest situation was deemed highly important and a Colonial Military Authority battle groupBattle Group 4was dispatched to Harvest, fearing that insurrectionist forces had taken control of the agriculture world. Upon arriving at the system, Battle Group 4 was immediately attacked by a . Only was able to escape destruction and limp back to Reach in the Epsilon Eridani system several weeks later with word of the hostile alien threat.
On 2525#November|November 1, 2525, the UEG's United Nations Space Command was ordered to full alert. In response to the alien threat, the UNSC's Central Command moved to create a battle group of forty warships to retake Harvest. Retired Vice Admiral Preston Cole was selected by Central Command to lead this force; a "fallen hero" that lived a scandalous retirement, Cole served as an easy scapegoat if CENTCOM's counterattack on the Covenant failed. Additionally, Cole was considered to be a brilliant commander during the Insurrection that was willing to sacrifice himself and anyone under his command to complete his task.Halo: Evolutions, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''pages 458-460'' On 2525#November|November 2, 2525, Lieutenant Commander Jack Hopper and Lieutenant Demos visited Cole and convinced him to lead the battle group. Reinstated as a vice admiral of the UNSC Navy, Cole was given command of Battle Group X-Ray in 2525|December of 2525,''Xbox.com'': The Halo Timeline (defunct, Archive:Xbox.com/Halo/Timeline|Archived)Halo: Evolutions, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 461'' conceived as the largest assembled fleet at that point in human history.Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition), ''page 299'' (2011)Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, ''page 88'' By 2525#November|November 12, 2525, Cole begun preparing himself for the battle. He reviewed data and reports from previous encounters with the Covenant at Harvest and Chi Ceti IV, and realized that Covenant energy shielding would prove to be troublesome in battle. Cole was given the as his flagship. After ensuring that his crew was battle-tested and competent, he requested numerous modifications to ''Everest''. The artificial intelligence Sekmet was chosen as Cole's shipboard AI on ''Everest''.Halo: Evolutions, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 465''
The battle File:Outcome of Second Battle of Harvest.png|thumb|250px|The super-destroyer is destroyed
On 2526|March 1, 2526 at 0120 hours Military Standard Time|MST, the forty-warship strong UNSC Battle Group X-Ray arrived near Harvest in the Epsilon Indi system. Moving towards the planet, the battle group descended below Harvest's planetary plane and detected a single, stationary Covenant Rasus-pattern interdictor|super-destroyer near the planet. Increasing velocity, Vice Admiral Preston Cole plotted a parabolic course to allow the battle group to engage the Covenant warship through a slingshot maneuver around Harvest. Now accelerating towards the ship, Cole ordered the battle group to fire upon the hostile vessel at will. As the UNSC warships fired their Magnetic Accelerator Cannons and hundreds of Archer missiles at their target, the Covenant super-destroyer's powerful energy shielding prevented the ship's nanolaminate hull from taking any damage. Fully realizing the effectiveness of the Covenant warship's energy shielding, Cole assessed that an overwhelming attack from Battle Group X-Ray's entire armaments needed to be used against the super-destroyer to disable its shielding.
The super-destroyer responded to the attack by firing its pulse laser turrets to destroy two UNSC destroyers and ''UNSC Sacramento|Sacramento''. As the battle group fruitlessly attempted to destroy the Covenant ship by using nuclear weapons, the super-destroyer obliterated five more destroyers: ''UNSC Austerlitz|Austerlitz'', ''UNSC Campo Grande|Campo Grande'', ''UNSC Midway|Midway'', ''UNSC Tharsis (Harvest)|Tharsis'', and ''UNSC Virginia Capes|Virginia Capes''. Though a subordinate officer attempted to order a retreat, Cole belayed the order and the battle group continued on its slingshot course around Harvest. As Cole ordered Battle Group X-Ray into a new trajectory towards the Covenant ship, he ordered the battle group to fire their entire armaments upon the super-destroyer. When the UNSC ships approached the Covenant vessel, the super-destroyer began to fire upon the battle group. However, Battle Group X-Ray's warships fired a salvo of MACs upon the super-destroyer, followed by the battle group's entire complement of Archer and Shiva-class nuclear missiles. While the ''UNSC Constantinople|Constantinople'' and ''UNSC Troy|Troy'' were destroyed and the prow of ''UNSC Lowrentz|Lowrentz'' was damaged by the Covenant ship's plasma armaments, thousands of Archer and Shiva missiles impacted upon the super-destroyer. Another salvo of Covenant plasma destroyed ''UNSC Excellence|Excellence'', ''UNSC Maelstrom|Maelstrom'', and ''UNSC Waterloo|Waterloo'', but the remaining, undamaged twenty-seven warships of Battle Group X-Ray had recharged their MACs. As the second salvo of MACs disabled the Covenant super-destroyer's shielding, the battle group fired its remaining missiles upon the ship's hull, destroying the super-destroyer.
Aftermath
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File:HW Five Long Years.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Conflict on Harvest continued for five years, leading to heavy losses for both sides Directly after the destruction of the Covenant super-destroyer, Cole had Battle Group X-Ray veer away from the remains of the alien ship and begin searching for survivors of the thirteen UNSC warships lost in battle. With the loss of thirteen ships in contrast to the Covenant's one super-destroyer, Cole realized the disparity between UNSC and enemy losses "did not bode well". Regardless, the Office of Naval Intelligence|Office of Naval Intelligence's Section II propaganda exaggerated the victory to encourage enlistment with the United Nations Space Command armed forces; initially the foe was claimed to be an insurrectionist weapon platform that had captured Harvest's communications satellites, but this was later recanted. After the battle, Cole returned to Earth where he was promoted to admiral.Halo 3: ODST, multiplayer level, ''Alpha Site's ONI memorial'' The Covenant were undaunted by their defeat. The Prophet of Regret|High Prophet of Regret ordered for the "Victory of Epsilon Indi" to be celebrated through fasting and prayer; Kig-Yar and Unggoy food rations were eliminated for the following three work periods, while Sangheili and Jiralhanae were ordered to spend two rest periods in public prayer. Those who "failed their duty at the Victory" were publicly executed.
After the battle, UNSC leadership eventually decided to reveal the Covenant to the public. After Cole's success at Harvest, ONI's Strategic Response Unit decided to put Cole in charge of a large majority of the UNSC Navy with the intention of using him as a scapegoat if the Covenant proved to be unstoppable. Now hailed as the "Hero of Harvest",Halo: The Cole Protocol, ''page 351'' Cole was given command of the Third Fleet and proceeded to lead a series of naval engagements against the Covenant between 2526 and 2532, sometimes referred to as the "Cole Campaigns". As the Covenant continued to Massacre of the Outer Colonies|swarm the Outer Colonies, ''Rapid Conversion'' had finally returned to Covenant space. In response to the human threat, the High Prophet of Regret organized the Fleet of Glorious Interdiction to return to Harvest, led by Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee.Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, ''page 10'' With both sides still unaware of the true military strength and size of their opponent, the Harvest campaign begun as the UNSC attempted to permanently remove the Covenant from Harvest. Cole returned to lead UNSC forces at Harvest, but his fleet became entangled in a vicious siege as they continued to battle the Covenant in the five-year long campaign in the Epsilon Indi system.Halo Wars, campaign level, ''Alpha Base (Halo Wars level)|Alpha Base'' After many years of fighting, the UNSC was able to eventually defeat the Covenant at Harvest for a second time.Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 157'' (2010)Halo: The Fall of Reach, ''page 181'' (2010) By 2552, the Battle of Harvest was recognized as a Pyrrhic UNSC victory, a battle that grimly proved the strength of the UNSC's newfound foe.
Participants
Personnel Vice Admiral Preston Cole Sekmet
Warships
UNSC destroyer|Destroyers
, destroyed
, destroyed
, destroyed
, destroyed
, destroyed UNSC Tharsis (Harvest)|UNSC ''Tharsis'', destroyed
, destroyed
s''Halo Living Monument''
, destroyed
Unknown class
, destroyed
, heavily damaged
, destroyed
, destroyed
, destroyed
Production notes The Battle of Harvest is erroneously placed in 2531 rather than 2526 in several sources, including the ''Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)'' and ''Halo: The Cole Protocol''.
The presence of forty UNSC ships against one overwhelmingly powerful enemy vessel strikes a remarkable resemblance to the memory-alpha:Battle of Wolf 359|Battle of Wolf 359 from the ''Star Trek'' universe, in which a fleet of forty Wikipedia:United Federation of Planets|Federation starships engaged a single memory-alpha:Borg cube|Borg cube. However, the outcomes of these battles differ: the Federation lost all but one of its vessels yet caused no damage to the cube. This very well may be a List of pop culture references in the Halo series#Star Trek|deliberate ''Star Trek'' reference.
List of appearances
''Halo: The Cole Protocol''
''Halo Wars: Genesis''
''Halo Wars''
''Halo 3: ODST''
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
*''Dirt''
*''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole''
''Halo 2: Anniversary''
''Halo: Fleet Battles''
''Halo: Ground Command''
''Halo Mythos''
''Halo: Silent Storm''
''Halo: Oblivion''
Sources
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War|Harvest |
|place = Hat Yai
|result = Covenant Victory Hat Yai glassed
|side1 = United Nations Space Command
|side2 = Covenant
|commanders1 = Major SedavianHalo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, "Dirt", ''page 129''
|commanders2 = Unknown Covenant Fleet Master
|forces1 =
Unknown number of ships
*
100 Orbital Drop Shock Troopers
|forces2 =
Covenant cruisers Unknown number of Unggoy, Kig-Yar, and SkirmishersHalo 4: The Essential Visual Guide, ''page 139''
|casual1 =
Heavy naval losses
12 ODSTs Heavy civilian casualties
|casual2 =
Heavy ground casualties Moderate space casualties
}}
The Battle of Hat Yai was one of the first battles of the Human-Covenant War, and the first engagement that saw the large-scale deployment of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers against Covenant Covenant military|ground forces.
Battle The Covenant, after landing on the main continent of Hat Yai, killed most of the civilian population and established a base. The UNSC was quick to respond, and a hundred Orbital Drop Shock Troopers led by Major Sedavian were dropped near the base by the UNSC destroyer|Destroyer . Unfortunately, ten soldiers were picked off during insertion by Covenant cruiser|Covenant Cruisers in low orbit, and two more were killed in landing accidents.Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, "Dirt", ''page 127'' Sedavian landed far away from most of the ODSTs and until he arrived, a Marine Fireteam Leader named Rahud took command. Under Rahud's command, the ODSTs were able to regroup and take the Covenant base with no casualties.
However, by the time the base was taken and they arrived, the situation in space had changed: Covenant reinforcements had arrived and the UNSC became severely outgunned. The ground forces were evacuated, Shiva-class nuclear missiles were dropped on the rest of the Covenant troops, and the UNSC fleet retreated, leaving Hat Yai Glassing|glassed by the Covenant.
List of appearances
''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''
*''Dirt''
Notes
Sources
Category:Covenant victories|Hat Yai |
United Nations Space Command
* UNSC Navy
|side2= Covenant
|commanders1=*Fleet Admiral|FADM Terrence Hood Senior Chief Petty Officer|SCPO Frederic-104
|commanders2=Unknown
|forces1=
1 UNSC corvette|corvette D77-TC Pelican|Pelicans
3 SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II Numerous UNSC Navy and UNSC Marine Corps|Marine forces
|forces2=
5 warships
*2 s
*3 other capital ships Numerous ground and air forces
*Numerous Dextro Xur-pattern Spirit|Spirits
*Numerous Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees
*1 Scarab
*Numerous Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraiths
*Numerous ground troops
**Jiralhanae
**Kig-Yar
**Unggoy
|casual1=Unconfirmed number of casualties Station Wayward Rest
|casual2=All Covenant forces near the Centennial Orbital Elevator
1 Scarab
1 ''CPV''-class destroyer
''Bloodied Spirit'' captured
}}
The Battle of Havana was a major Battle|engagement during the Battle for Earth between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant in Wikipedia:Cuba|Cuba's capital, Havana. Numerous UNSC Marine Corps|Marine forces, and later three SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-IIs from Blue Team, were sent to retake Havana and its Centennial Orbital Elevator. They succeeded in reclaiming the elevator, though it was destroyed shortly afterward.
Background After the disappearance of John-117 and the Battle of Mombasa|Mombasa Slipspace event on 2552#October|October 20, numerous Covenant occupation Covenant fleet|fleets continued to arrive at Earth, attacking targets worldwide. The SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II Blue Team, now consisting of Frederic-104, William-043 and Linda-058, were deployed to repel the invaders and their Covenant starship|starships in numerous battles on and around the planet during the two weeks after the initial Covenant invasion. In orbit, the Covenant fleets constantly fought the UNSC Home Fleet during many major skirmishes, including the Second Fleet|Second, Seventh Fleet|Seventh, and Sixteenth Fleets.
Immediately before the Great Schism could began and following the Assassination of the Prophet of Regret|assasination of the Prophet of Regret during the Battle of Installation 05, the Jiralhanae would continue to replace many Sangheili masters on Earth in order to take the total command of Covenant forces and their fleets as it would be the Changing of the Guard|same case for the Sangheili Honor Guardsmans in preparation for the eventual Covenant genocidal conflict against them and the rest of Sangheili. This preparation was informed to the Chieftain of the Jiralhanae Tartarus by the Prophet of Truth shortly after Jiralhanae successfully took the control of Covenant forces on Earth.
The constant fighting had depleted the UNSC nuclear weapon stockpile, and all that was left were older, low-yield FENRIS nuclear warheads originally intended to be converted to peaceful purposes. These nukes had been transported to Havana, Cuba, where the Covenant had recently inserted forces.
Battle
There had been scattered reports that the Covenant had invaded the Centennial Orbital Elevator in Havana, before all contact with Centennial Orbital Elevator Control|COE Control had been lost. UNSC Marine Corps|Marines had been sent to Havana to retake the elevator, but they had not succeeded.
Operating from Base Segundo Terra, Blue Team was deployed to Havana on a D77H-TCI Pelican piloted by Sergeant Laura Tanner with Jim Higgins as its crew chief. Three Covenant capital ships hung in low orbit above Havana, and Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshee patrols circled around the orbital elevator. Spotting a hole in a Banshee patrol pattern, the Pelican dropped the team down into the jungle. They moved out northeast, towards the space elevator where the jungle ended at the warehouse complex of the COE.
Upon arriving at the edge of the jungle, the team discovered a Scarab walking through the warehouse complex nearby. Observing the area through her SRS99C-S2 AM sniper rifle|sniper rifle Oracle scope|scope, Linda spotted a group of dead Marines and a dozen Jiralhanae moving in groups of four towards the space elevator, carrying cargo pods containing the nukes. The Spartans made a plan; they would part ways, with Will and Fred moving to opposite directions while Linda would provide cover for the team with her sniper rifle. In one of the garages, there was a massive tank truck full of explosive fuel which Will would use to disable the Scarab, while Fred would move to the elevator's base and secure the ascent car.
As Fred advanced, Linda provided him cover, killing Jiralhanae patrols headed his way. As Fred sprinted closer to the elevator, he ran into a single Jiralhanae. After Fred had neutralized the alien, he took its Type-25 Grenade Launcher|weapon. Meanwhile, Will crashed the huge tanker out of a garage, through a gate, and straight to the Scarab. The explosion engulfed the walker, destroyed its core and completely obliterated it.
Fred moved towards the orbital elevator, where the Jiralhanae were already loading the nukes into the car and shutting its doors. Fred stormed into the car, engaged the Covenant there with his Brute Shot but was nearly overwhelmed before the rest of the team arrived. They secured the car and the twelve nuclear warheads inside. As soon as they got the car moving, Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraith tanks, Banshees and large amounts of ground forces began to converge on their position.
During their way up, Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood contacted the team from ''Cairo Station (station)|Cairo Station''. Hood told them they had a new mission, and a UNSC prowler|prowler was dispatched to extract them. Hood then relayed a message from Catherine Halsey|Dr. Halsey on Onyx, received by the Remote scanning outpost|Remote Scanning Outpost ''Democritus''. As they ascended, the team reviewed the message, which contained information about the Battle of Installation 05|recent events on Installation 05, the Flood and that John-117 was on his way to Earth aboard the Forerunner Dreadnought. Finally, Halsey requested Fleet Command to send Spartans to Onyx in order to retrieve valuable Forerunner technologies.
Hood had prepared one of UNSC's fastest ships, the Mako-class corvette|corvette, to transport the Spartans to Onyx. Fred, however, realized it would still take weeks to reach Zeta Doradus system|the system with a UNSC ship and that there had to be a faster way. Near the elevator, they noticed two Covenant s. Fred formulated a plan to hijack and use one of them to get to Onyx. The plan was approved, and the corvette was sent to distract the Covenant ships while the Covenant sent Dextro Xur-pattern Spirit|dropships to retrieve the nukes from the space elevator. However, the Spartans hid under the hull of one of the dropships and managed to infiltrate the Hangar bay|shuttle bay of one of the destroyers, the ''Bloodied Spirit'', undetected.
In the bay, there were ten Kig-Yar and several Unggoy. The Spartans killed all of them, and Fred sent Linda to defuse the nukes while he would hack a control terminal in the bay. Using an ONI data pad with new translation and infiltration software, he managed to get in the system. He then depressurized the entire ship, killing all Covenant aboard. Meanwhile, Linda and Will managed to defuse the nukes aboard ''Bloodied Spirit'', while the other Covenant dropship took the rest of the nukes to the other destroyer. Unbeknownst to the Covenant, the warheads were still armed.
The Blue Team then got to bridge, where Fred hacked the control system with his ONI datapad. He proceeded to enter the Slipstream space|Slipspace jump solution and coordinates to Onyx, when the crew of the other destroyer realized that ''Bloodied Spirit'' had been boarded and moved to intercept the human-captured ship. As the destroyer started to charge its weapons, the nukes transported aboard it went off, completely obliterating the ship and Station Wayward Rest on top of the Centennial Orbital Elevator. Simultaneously, the ''Bloodied Spirit'' made a successful jump into Slipspace.
Aftermath With no orbital anchor station, the Centennial Orbital Elevator crumbled down to Earth's surface. Blue Team would make it to Onyx in a few hours and join the Onyx Conflict. Lord Hood would remain uncertain if Blue Team managed to complete a Slipspace jump or if they were obliterated by the nuclear explosion.
Participants
Starships
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Fleet
! Class
! Name
! Status
| | rowspan="2" | UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet
| UNSC corvette
|
|Unknown
| |
|
|Unknown
|}
Military personnel
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Branch
! Rank
! Name
! Status
| | rowspan="4" |UNSC Navy
|Fleet Admiral
|Terrence Hood
|Survived
| |Senior Chief Petty Officer
|Frederic-104
|Survived
| | rowspan="2" | Petty Officer Second Class
|Linda-058
|Survived
| |William-043
|Survived
| | rowspan="3" |UNSC Marine Corps
|Sergeant
|Laura Tanner
|Unknown
| |Corporal
|Jim Higgins
|Unknown
|}
Ground forces UNSC Navy
*Blue Team Naval forces UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet
Starships
{| class"width: 75%;" cellspacing"1" border="0"
| ! Fleet
! Class
! Name
! Status
| | Unknown
|
| ''Bloodied Spirit''
| Survived
|}
List of appearances
''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''
Sources |
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