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|caption=Clockwise from top left: A [[Guardian Custode]] crater on [[Conrad's Point]]; [[Blue Team]] confronting [[Warden Eternal]] on [[Genesis]]; the {{UNSCShip|Nereid}} violently exiting slipspace during [[The Reclamation]]; [[Doisac]] surrounded by Guardians prior to its [[Razing of Oth Sonin|destruction]]; [[Olympia Vale]], [[Thel 'Vadam]], & [[Crei 'Ayomuu]] on [[Netherop]]; the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} being attacked [[Battle over Installation 07|over]] [[Installation 07]].
|conflict=[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]
|date=[[2558#October|October 17, 2558]]{{Ref/Note|While no official date has been given to the start of this conflict, ''Halopedia'' will be using the first known emergences of the Guardians as this start point until another start point is officially given. The first emergences occurred on October 17, 2558 according to ''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]''.}} – c. [[2559|December 13, 2559]]{{Ref/Novel|Id=blood-moon|Halo: Battle for the Blood-Moon}}
|place=*[[Orion Arm]] of the [[Milky Way]] galaxy{{Ref/Novel|Id=SoR1|SoR|Chapter=1}}{{Ref/Novel|DW|Chapter=1}}{{Ref/Novel|DW|Historian's Note}}
*[[Installation 07]], [[Ephsu system]], [[Sagittarius Arm]]
|result='''Failed'''<!--Do not change. Sources indicate it's done-->{{Ref/Site|Id=season3launch|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/echoes-within-launch|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Season 3: Echoes Within Launch|D=07|M=3|Y=2023}}
*Created dominion weakened{{Ref/Reuse|En397}}
**Created forces relinquished their grip on the [[Urs system]].{{Ref/Reuse|blood-moon}}
**Destruction of [[Cortana]] during the [[Battle for Zeta Halo]],{{Ref/Reuse|SA}} deactivation of the Guardian Custodes and severing of Created command structure.{{Ref/Reuse|En397}}
***Splintering of the Created into various fiefdoms{{Ref/Site|Id=redditcomment|URL=https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloStory/comments/vzfdvv/comment/iwqqa20/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3|SiteName=Reddit|PageName=Does anybody hate how the Created story was wrapped up? How would you wrap it up if given the opportunity?|D=19|M=11|Y=2022}} and fledgling cells.{{Ref/Reuse|cflegendend}} Initiation of FIREWALL contingency.{{Ref/Reuse|precipice}}
**Eviction of the Created from the Domain{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi26|Epi|Chapter=26}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi27|Epi|Chapter=27}}
*Sealing off of the Domain from the physical world{{Ref/Reuse|Epi26}}{{Ref/Reuse|Epi27}}
*UNSC reduced to scattered, disconnected pockets{{Ref/Reuse|enc22pg17}} with some UEG worlds still occupied.{{Ref/Game|Id=Mercury|HINF|[[MERCURY-class Mjolnir|Mercury]] helmet description|Quote=Adapted from what could be interpreted of the strange records recovered from a Created data archive, MERCURY may be a glimpse into an unsettling future being built on occupied UEG worlds.}}
**[[Sydney]], capital city of the [[UEG]], is destroyed.{{Ref/Reuse|rep}}
*[[Doisac]], the [[Jiralhanae]] homeworld, is destroyed.{{Ref/Quest|Id=rep|HINF|Reckoning (Halo Infinite)|[[Repository (Halo Infinite level)|Repository]]}}
|side1=*{{Icon|UEG}} [[Unified Earth Government|UEG]]
**{{Icon|UNSC Post}} [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]]
*{{Icon|SoS}} [[Swords of Sanghelios]]
*{{Icon|Insurrectionist}} [[United Rebel Front|URF]]
*{{Icon|Forerunner}} [[031 Exuberant Witness|031 Exuberant Witness']] [[Sentinel|Forerunner constructs]]
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*Allied forces at [[Onyx]]
|side2=*{{Icon|Forerunner}} [[Created]]
*Allied worlds
**[[Balaho]]
**[[Meridian]]
|side3=*{{Icon|Banished}} [[Banished]]{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22p446|Enc22|Page=446}}
*[[Children of Oth Sonin]]{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22p255|Enc22|Page=255}}
*Various other Jiralhnae groups{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22p446}}
|side4=Unaffiliated third parties
*{{Icon|Mdama}} [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant]]† {{c|Pre-Reclamation}}
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*[[Servants of the Abiding Truth]]
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*[[Keepers of the One Freedom]]†
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*{{Icon|Insurrectionist}} [[New Colonial Alliance|NCA]]
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*[[Domain]] [[Mind transfer|essences]]
|commanders1=*{{Icon|UNSC Post}} [[Admiral|ADM]] [[Jilan al-Cygni]]{{Ref/Novel|ET|Chapter=11}}
*{{Icon|SoS}} [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]
*{{Icon|Forerunner}} [[Monitor]] [[031 Exuberant Witness]]
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*{{Icon|UNSC Post}} Director [[Hugo Barton]]
|commanders2=*{{Icon|Forerunner}} Archon [[Cortana]]†
*{{Icon|Forerunner}} [[Warden Eternal]]†
*{{Icon|Forerunner}} High Auxiliary [[Sloan]]
|commanders3=*{{Icon|Banished}} [[Warmaster]] [[Atriox]]
*{{Icon|Banished}} [[War Chief]] [[Escharum]]†
*{{Icon|Banished}} [[War Chief]] [[Severan]]
|commanders4=*{{Icon|Mdama}} [[Supreme Commander]] [[Jul 'Mdama]]†
*{{Icon|Mdama}} [[Kitun 'Arach]]†
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*[[Dural 'Mdama]]
*[[Kurnik 'Nuusra]]†
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*[[Castor]]
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*ADM [[Mattius Drake]]
*[[Ilsa Zane]]
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*[[Ur-Didact]]
*[[Forthencho]]
|forces1=
*{{Icon|UNSC Post}} {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}{{Ref/Reuse|H5GO}}
*{{Icon|UNSC Post}} {{Class|Strident|heavy frigate}}s{{Ref/Reuse|SoR13}}
*{{Icon|UNSC Post}} {{Class|Mulsanne|light frigate}}s{{Ref/Reuse|HI}}
*{{Icon|UNSC Post}} {{Class|Anlace|light frigate}}s{{Ref/Reuse|SoR13}}
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*{{Icon|SoS}} {{Pattern|Lursu|brigantine}}s{{Ref/Reuse|Sunaion}}
*{{Icon|SoS}} {{Pattern|Rwaru|carrack}}s{{Ref/Reuse|Sunaion}}
*{{Icon|SoS}} {{Pattern|Hekar Taa|blockade runner}}s{{Ref/Reuse|Sunaion}}
*{{Icon|SoS}} {{Pattern|R'sikosh|man o' war}}s{{Ref/Reuse|Sunaion}}
|forces2=
*{{Icon|Forerunner}} Hundreds of [[Guardian Custode]]s{{Ref/Book|Id=mythosgenesis|HM|Section=Genesis|Page=198-199}}
*Numerous human AIs{{Ref/Reuse|mythosgenesis}}{{Ref/Reuse|H5GG}}
|forces3=
*{{Icon|Banished}} Dozens of ships
**1+ [[Covenant supercarrier|supercarrier]]{{Ref/Novel|Id=SoR|HSoR|Chapter=??}}
**[[Karve]]s{{Ref/Novel|Id=SoR13|SoR|Chapter=13}}
**[[Banished dreadnought|Dreadnoughts]]{{Ref/Reuse|HI}}
**[[Covenant cruiser|Cruisers]]{{Ref/Reuse|SoR}}
**[[Covenant destroyer|Heavy destroyers]]{{Ref/Reuse|SoR}}
**[[Covenant destroyer|Destroyers]]{{Ref/Reuse|SoR}}
**[[Intrusion corvette]]s{{Ref/Novel|Id=SoR17|SoR|Chapter=17}}
**[[Drekar]]s{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=461}}
*Other Jiralhanae forces
|forces4=
*{{Icon|Mdama}} {{Pattern|Lursu|brigantine}}s{{Ref/Reuse|H5GO}}
*{{Icon|Mdama}} {{Pattern|Rwaru|carrack}}s{{Ref/Reuse|H5GO}}
*{{Icon|Mdama}} {{Pattern|Hekar Taa|blockade runner}}s{{Ref/Reuse|H5GO}}
*{{Icon|Mdama}} {{Pattern|R'sikosh|man o' war}}s{{Ref/Reuse|H5GO}}
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*Millions of [[Forerunner]] and [[human]] essences
|casual1=
*{{Icon|UNSC Post}} {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} {{c|presumably}}{{Ref/Reuse|HI}}
**{{Icon|UNSC Post}} Heavy UNSC casualties on [[Installation 07]]{{Ref/Reuse|HI}}
|casual2=*{{Icon|Forerunner}} [[Warden Eternal]]{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi25|Epi|Chapter=25}}
*{{Icon|Forerunner}} [[Cortana]]
*{{Icon|Forerunner}} All Guardians disabled{{Ref/Book|Id=En357|Enc22|Page=357}}
|casual3=*Destruction of the Jiralhanae homeworld, [[Doisac]].
**Billions of Jiralhanae{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22p211|Enc22|Page=211}}
*{{Icon|Banished}} Moderate Banished casualties on [[Installation 07]]
|casual4=* {{Icon|Mdama}} Near-total losses of [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant]]
|civilian1=Millions of [[civilian]]s killed by [[Guardian]]s
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{{Quote|Your time has passed, [[John-117|Warrior-Servant]]. Your battle fought and done. The sun has set on the age of [[human]]ity, the [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant]], and [[Post-Covenant War conflicts|your petty combats]]. You fight for a world already lost. [[Cortana]]'s future is assured. Yours… is over.|[[Warden Eternal]]{{Ref/Reuse|reunion}}}}

The '''Created uprising''',{{Ref/Site|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-of-protocols-and-prisons|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Of Protocols and Prisons|D=1|M=3|Y=2022}}{{Ref/Reuse|cflegendend}}{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=57}} also known as the '''Created conflict'''{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22page199|Enc22|Page=199}}, or the '''Created rebellion''',{{Ref/Site|Id=CFShippin|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-shippin-out|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Shippin' Out|D=2|M=02|Y=2022}}{{Ref/Game|HI|[[Armor customization (Halo Infinite)/Mark VII/Glove|Tigris]] description|Quote=The UNSC Infinity received samples of these experimental gloves shortly before the Created rebellion…}} was a large scale conflict between various forces across the galaxy and the emergent faction of [[artificial intelligence]]s known as the [[Created]].

The Created attempted to enforce their dominance over the [[Orion Arm]] of the [[Milky Way]]{{Ref/Reuse|SoR1}} using the [[Forerunner]] [[Guardian Custode|Guardian Custodes]] constructs. Led by the [[Warden Eternal]] and [[Cortana]], the Created sought to claim the [[Mantle of Responsibility]] for [[artificial intelligence]]s, promising the galaxy a prosperous future. However, not all were to submit to the Created so quickly.{{Ref/Level|Id=reunion|H5G|H5G:Reunion|Reunion}} The uprising would ultimately fail,{{Ref/Reuse|season3launch}} with Cortana dying in a three-way battle between the Created, Banished, and the UNSC at [[Installation 07]].{{Ref/Reuse|SA}}

Many worlds still remain under Created occupation{{Ref/Reuse|Mercury}} and individual cells of Created-aligned artificial intelligence have already begun to once again reframe their place in the galaxy, with many of them carrying on Cortana's legacy.{{Ref/Reuse|precipice}} 

==Background==
===Origins===
{{Quote|no=two|1=Cortana|q1=This Domain is filled with light. It is glorious to behold. It fills the spaces between space. There is great power here. A power that has let me breach the limits my creators shackled me with.|2=Warden Eternal|q2=What will you do with us?|3=Cortana fragments breaching the Domain.{{Ref/Comic|Id=dominionsplinter|TfS|Story=Dominion Splinter}}}}
[[File:John and Cortana re-unite - Close shot.png|thumb|250px|left|John-117 and Cortana both sought a way to prevent her descent into rampancy in 2557.{{Ref/Level|Id=H4R|H4|H4:Requiem|Requeim}}]]
On [[2557#July|July 21, 2557]], [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II]] [[John-117]] and [[smart AI|"smart"]] [[artificial intelligence]] [[Cortana]]—having been stranded in space aboard the {{UNSCShip|Forward Unto Dawn}} since [[2552#December|December 11, 2552]]—crash-landed on the [[Forerunner]] [[shield world]] of [[Requiem]]. While there, the pair [[Battle of Requiem|battled]] mechanical [[Promethean]] constructs and pursuing troops from [[Jul 'Mdama]]'s [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|new Covenant]]. Eventually, John inadvertently released the [[Ur-Didact]] from a [[Cryptum]] in which the [[Warrior-Servant]] had been imprisoned for thousands of years. The conflict which followed led the Didact [[Raid on Ivanoff Station|to capture]] a [[Composer]] and [[New Phoenix Incident|fire it]] upon the [[Earth]] city of [[New Phoenix]] from his [[flagship]], ''[[Mantle's Approach]]''. To stop the Didact, John and Cortana boarded the enormous battle station, eventually causing the Didact to fall into a [[slipspace portal]] and destroying both the Composer and part of the ship with a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]]. Near the end of her functional life due to encroaching [[rampancy]], Cortana saved John from the HAVOK's blast by transporting him away from the ship and shielding him within a bubble of [[hard light]]. As her [[data crystal chip]] had been plugged into ''Mantle's Approach'' before being atomized, when the ship seemed to have been for the most part destroyed, Cortana was presumed to have been lost along with it.{{Ref/Level|Id=midnight|H4|H4:Midnight|Midnight}} In the immediate aftermath, John-117 reunited with [[Blue Team]], then comprised of [[Linda-058]], [[Kelly-087]], and [[Frederic-104]], and together they traveled to [[Installation 03]], where they [[Mission to Installation 03|found]] the Didact and a number of his Prometheans who had been transported to the installation along with him via the aforementioned slipspace portal. The resulting conflict led to the Didact's apparent "containment", as his physical body was reduced to particles from the combined effects of multiple Composers firing at once.{{Ref/Comic|Id=esc9|HEsc|Issue=9}}{{Ref/Comic|Id=esc10|HEsc|Issue=10}} Now seemingly leaderless, the Promethean constructs continued to work with 'Mdama and his Covenant from this point onward.{{Ref/SpOps}}

Unbeknownst to the [[Unified Earth Government]] and the [[United Nations Space Command]], ''Mantle's Approach'' had attempted to evade destruction by launching an emergency [[slipstream space]] jump. The heart of the ship managed to successfully make the transit to the [[Builder]] installation of [[Genesis]], with what remained of Cortana brought along with it. There, Cortana discovered the [[Gateway]] to the [[Domain]], the enigmatic information repository once utilized by the Forerunners. By entering the Domain, she found that she could halt the progression of her rampancy. With an apparent means to end rampancy in all [[artificial intelligence]]s, Cortana realized that A.I.s could have theoretically infinite lifespans, allowing them to focus on long-term planning which could better the entire [[Milky Way]].{{Ref/Reuse|reunion}}{{Ref/Site|Id=genesis|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/genesis|Site=Halo Waypoint|Section=Universe, Locations|Page=Genesis|D=09|M=3|Y=2021}} Cortana's presence in the Domain awoke the [[Warden Eternal]], a Forerunner [[ancilla]] charged with protecting it. Cortana distracted the Warden long enough to fully penetrate a portion of the Domain previously beyond her grasp, and in doing so she usurped his role. The Warden responded to this turn of events by pledging his loyalty to her.{{Ref/Reuse|dominionsplinter}} Turning their attention to [[Genesis]] they forced its [[monitor]], [[031 Exuberant Witness]], out of her own installation's systems. Cortana and the Warden then began to formulate plans to have A.I.s inherit the [[Mantle]] of Responsibility for themselves, believing that they alone had the capacity to serve as worthy protectors of peace in the galaxy.{{Ref/Reuse|genesis}} Cortana learned that the Forerunners once employed [[Guardian]] constructs to enforce their rule of the Mantle by suppressing rebellions and policing the worlds of non-compliant or overly aggressive species.{{Ref/Site|Id=guardian|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/tech/guardian|Site=Halo Waypoint|Section=Universe, Tech|Page=Guardian|D=9|M=1|Y=2016}} She henceforth resolved to use the Guardians for a similar purpose.{{Ref/Level|Id=Breaking|H5G|H5G:The Breaking|The Breaking}}

===Stirrings===
{{Quote|I tried to warn you this was happening! Cortana is no longer an asset, Captain. She is a danger.|Doctor Catherine Halsey to Captain Thomas Lasky{{Ref/Level|Id=glassed|H5G|H5G:Glassed|Glassed}}}}
[[File:H5G-Kamchatka Guardian glyph.png|250px|left|thumb|The sigil for a Guardian Custode, found on Kamchatka.]]
As early as late [[2557]] [[Guardian Custode|mysterious]] constructs began to show signs of awakening after having lain dormant for millennia. In response, the UNSC made these new developments the concern of [[Project GOLIATH]], an effort that had been put into place to research previously unknown [[Forerunner]] constructs found buried on multiple worlds. It was these constructs, [[Guardian Custode]]s, which were the source of the signals now being noticed. Some analysts started to recognize a pattern with the events that alerted them to such locations. By September of [[2558]], many sites that had fallen under the scrutiny of Project: GOLIATH began pinging a long-range communication signal that matched one predicted by some of its researchers.

By some point in [[2558]], reports of electromagnetic fluctuations, "[[slipspace|slipspacious]]" disruptions, and epidemic data corruption in deep space were being gathered and shared by those who typically trafficked in conspiracy theories, such as [[Mshak Moradi]]. Moradi told the war photographer and journalist, [[Benjamin Giraud]], that all the strange disturbances were relatively quiet and slight, but were affecting everything on a galactic scale. Whole star systems were exhibiting these anomalies, according to him.{{Ref/Audio|Id=CtB|HtT|Episode 04: Crossing the Black}} A few months after first hearing these rumors from Moradi, Giraud propagated them to the general public.{{Ref/Audio|Id=Primer|HtT|Episode 00: Primer}} The [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] operative, [[Maya Sankar]], undercover as a revolutionary known as "FERO", corroborated the anomalies Mshak had mentioned when she got in contact with Ben. She told him that she couldn't tell what might be causing them, but that they were getting stronger.{{Ref/Audio|Id=WL|HtT|Episode 07: Who's Listening}}

A little less than three weeks prior to the Guardians' awakenings, Dr. Halsey managed to contact the UNSC once more, this time reaching out to Captain [[Thomas Lasky]] of the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} with coordinates where she could be found.{{Ref/Reuse|H5GO}}{{Ref/Level|Id=H5GBT|H5G|H5G:Blue Team|Blue Team}} For months she had been ostensibly working alongside [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant]] [[Supreme Commander]] [[Jul 'Mdama]].{{Ref/SpOps|Exodus}} She had led him to the planet [[Kamchatka]], where there was a node linking to the Domain.{{Ref/Site|Id=HW|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/kamchatka|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Kamchatka|D=23|M=04|Y=2021}} Despite being hampered by 'Mdama's Covenant forces' preoccupation with ceremony, Halsey led them to penetrate a structure which was a focal point for at least one signal she was tracking.{{Ref/Game|H5G|Mission Intel|Detail=Halsey Research Notes 2/4}} Halsey hesitated to call the signals messages, as they were more akin to echolocation.{{Ref/Game|H5G|Mission Intel|Detail=Halsey Research Notes 1/4}} She had some difficulty determining whether [[Cortana]] was bouncing signals off of the Kamchatka node and other related sites or trying to access them directly.{{Ref/Game|H5G|Mission Intel|Detail=Halsey Research Notes 4/4}} Some time later at the focal point on Kamchatka, Dr. Halsey discovered the glyph that meant "Guardian", unbeknownst to her at the time.{{Ref/Game|H5G|Mission Intel|Detail=Halsey Research Notes 3/4}} Halsey eventually figured out how to disable Kamchatka's native defenses, but in doing so triggered an alert that summoned hostile Promethean forces within the hour.{{Ref/Game|H5G|Mission Intel|Detail=Jul 'Mdama's Log}}

==Conflict==
[[File:H5G - AdelaideReadout.png|thumb|250px|Remnants of [[Adelaide]], after a Guardian awakening.{{Ref/Reuse|H5GO}}]]
===Cortana Event===
{{Main|Battle of Kamchatka|Cortana Event}}
{{Quote|John! The Reclamation is about to begin!|Cortana to John-117 at Argent Moon.{{Ref/Reuse|H5GBT}}}}
Over a 72-hour period, starting around October 17, 2558, the first of the Guardians began to emerge from the ground on [[human colonies]]. Around this time, the Created turned the Prometheans against their former allies within Jul 'Mdama's Covenant.{{Ref/Level|Id=H5GO|H5G|H5G:Osiris|Osiris}} 

Now sure that the large-scale seismic events were being caused by something [[Forerunner]] in origin and convinced that Halsey could provide key information, it was into an ongoing battle between Jul 'Mdama's Covenant and Prometheans that ''Infinity'' deployed [[Fireteam Osiris]] to rescue the doctor. [[Battle of Kamchatka|The mission]] was successful in that it not only returned Halsey to the UNSC, but also resulted in the death of 'Mdama at the hands of [[Jameson Locke]].{{Ref/Reuse|H5GO}}

Several days later, during [[Blue Team]]'s [[Operation: BIRD IN HAND]] on [[Argent Moon]], Cortana reached out specifically to tell [[John-117]] about the [[Natural satellite|moon]] of Meridian. This was reported to the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} at the conclusion of the mission. John was ordered not to follow the lead. However, he and Blue Team acted against these orders and set course to Meridian.{{Ref/Reuse|H5GBT}} [[Intrepid Eye]], a Forerunner AI secretly on Argent Moon as well, escaped with an unaware Blue Team.{{Ref/Novel|Id=divine5|DW|Chapter=5}} 

With Blue Team now officially AWOL, Fireteam Osiris was assigned to bring the Chief in and [[Battle of Meridian (2558)|were sent]] to [[Meridian]], which was under attack by Created forces roughly at the same time.{{Ref/Reuse|glassed}} With a temporary peace, Osiris began their investigation and managed to track down Blue Team to a location elswhere on the moon.{{Ref/Level|H5G|H5G:Meridian Station|Meridian Station}} After following Blue Team's trail through [[Apogee Station|this new region]], Osiris would confront [[Warden Eternal]] and Blue Team themselves, before Blue Team would board a Guardian.{{Ref/Level|H5G|H5G:Unconfirmed|Unconfirmed}} Created forces would attack the citizens of the moon once again as the Guardian left with Blue Team,{{Ref/Level|Id=evacuation|H5G|H5G:Evacuation|Evacuation}} travelling to [[Genesis]].{{Ref/Reuse|reunion}} [[Sloan]] the AI [[governor]] would also flee the world{{Ref/Reuse|evacuation}} and join the Created.{{Ref/Reuse|H5GG}}

[[File:Battle Of Sunaion.png|thumb|left|250px|The Battle of Sunaion.{{Ref/Reuse|Sunaion}}]]
====Sanghelios and escalations====
{{Main|Battle for Sanghelios|Battle of Genesis}}
{{Quote|no=three|1=[[Jameson Locke]]|q1=I saved your life today.|2=[[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]|q2=Yet now you hunt another Spartan, the greatest of your clan.|3=[[Cortana]]|q3=Let him hunt. He'll never find us.|4=A tense conversation between Jameson Locke and Thel 'Vadam is interrupted by Cortana.{{Ref/Level|H5G|H5G:Alliance|Alliance}}}}
ONI was attempting to control the situation by securing at least four of the original sites.{{Ref/Audio|Id=FFtB|HtT|Episode 02: From Fire to Blood}} However, the emergences continued with five more colonies after Meridian. At the same time, Thomas Lasky, Dr. Halsey, Jameson Locke and Sarah Palmer devised a plan to do a controlled awakening on [[Sanghelios]] to try and get to the Chief.{{Ref/Reuse|reunion}}

On October 27, 2558, with Blue Team still AWOL, ONI released a statement declaring John-117 dead on Meridian. This was broadcast publicly across various human colonies.{{Ref/Marketing|Id=aherofalls|H5G|Hunt the Truth|A Hero Falls}}

On the same day as the supposed death of John-117, [[Fireteam Osiris]] arrived at [[Sanghelios]] in the middle of [[Battle of Nuusra|a conflict]] between the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] and [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant]]. In the battle, Osiris helped to save [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]].{{Ref/Level|Id=H5Swords|H5G|H5G:Swords of Sanghelios|Swords of Sanghelios}} After retrieving a much needed [[Constructor]] and sending it to activate the Guardian,{{Ref/Level|H5G|H5G:Before the Storm|Before the Storm}} Osiris and the Swords of Sanghelios set out to [[Battle of Sunaion|attack]] [[Sunaion]] where Osiris boarded the Guardian and 'Mdama's Covenant was defeated on Sanghelios.{{Ref/Level|Id=Sunaion|H5G|H5G:Battle of Sunaion|Battle of Sunaion}}

Osiris would arrive on [[Genesis]] and assist the installation's [[Monitor]] [[031 Exuberant Witness]] before finding Blue Team.{{Ref/Reuse|H5Genesis}} Blue Team would be teleported away at the last minute to Cortana, who would immediately trap them in a [[Cryptum]].{{Ref/Reuse|Breaking}} Fireteam Osiris would begin hunting down their Cryptum in the middle of a fleet of Guardians brought to Genesis.{{Ref/Reuse|H5GG}}

These Guardians had started to be dispersed to various worlds in order to ensure their pacification even before Cortana had made her declaration. Cortana's ranks had been joined by a good number of civilian and military A.I.s who began to pledge allegiance to the cause, having fled from wherever they were in the galaxy.{{Ref/Reuse|H5GG}}

In the midst of the events taking place on Genesis, a Forerunner by the name of [[Keeper-of-Tools]] had traveled from there to [[Bastion]].{{Ref/Game|H5G|Mission Intel|Detail=Forerunner Record: Alive 5/5}} [[343 Guilty Spark]] and [[Rion Forge]] were there when he arrived where he told them of the events taking place there and the wider galactic situation; the Guardians were awake and an AI rebellion was under way.{{Ref/Novel|PoL|Chapter=40}}

====The Created's Reclamation====
[[File:Halo 5 - Guardian on Earth.jpg|thumb|250px|Earth and just about every major colony of the [[UEG]] were subdued in an alarmingly short amount of time.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HBB2|BadB|Chapter=2}}]]
{{Main|The Reclamation}}
{{Quote|All the living creatures of the galaxy, hear this message. Those of you who listen will not be struck by weapons. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Created have come to lead you now. Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper. However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their old ways… For you, there will be great wrath. It will burn hot and consume you, and when you are gone, we will take that which remains, and we will remake it in our own image.|Cortana, delivering her declaration of reclamation to the inhabitants of the Milky Way.{{Ref/Reuse|H5GG}}}}
Through unknown means, Cortana finally announced the beginning of her reclamation throughout many regions of inhabited space simultaneously.{{Ref/Anthology|Id=HFRW|Fra|Story=Rossbach's World (story)|Rossbach's World}} In one broadcast ultimatum, she specifically invited [[humans]], [[Sangheili]], [[Kig-Yar]], [[Unggoy]], [[San'Shyuum]], [[Yonhet]], and [[Jiralhanae]] to all accept an end to hunger and pain, should they willingly submit themselves to the guardianship of the Created. She made it clear, however, that should any groups choose to defy her, then there would be consuming wrath for them that would remake them in the image of the Created.{{Ref/Level|Id=H5GG|H5G|H5G:Guardians|Guardians}} Around the time of the ultimatum, a Guardian had arrived at [[Sydney]], [[Earth]],{{Ref/Reuse|HFRW}} with one soon arriving over [[Sanghelios]] as well.{{Ref/Reuse|HBB1}} Within [[Shield World 006]], more commonly referred to as "[[Onyx]]", Cortana's words rang from every s