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|image=[[File:H4-ComposerFiringOnPhoenix.jpg|300px]] | |image=[[File:H4-ComposerFiringOnPhoenix.jpg|300px]] | ||
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|date=[[2557#July|July 25, 2557]]<ref name="catalog">[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2969311_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2969311 ''Halo Waypoint'': ''Catalog Interaction - page 14'']</ref> approx. 1240 UTC{{Ref/Note|Id=time|Once Earth comes into view, it can be seen that the Eastern and Central Time Zones of the United States are in sunlight, while the Pacific is in darkness. The sunlight is just cresting at New Phoenix, indicating that it is sunrise in the Mountain Time Zone region. This would occur around 5:40 AM in late July, which corresponds to 12:40 PM UTC.}} | |date=[[2557#July|July 25, 2557]]<ref name="catalog">[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2969311_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2969311 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Catalog Interaction - page 14'']</ref> approx. 1240 UTC{{Ref/Note|Id=time|Once Earth comes into view, it can be seen that the Eastern and Central Time Zones of the United States are in sunlight, while the Pacific is in darkness. The sunlight is just cresting at New Phoenix, indicating that it is sunrise in the Mountain Time Zone region. This would occur around 5:40 AM in late July, which corresponds to 12:40 PM UTC.}} | ||
|place=[[Earth]], [[Sol system]] | |place=[[Earth]], [[Sol system]] | ||
|result='''UNSC victory''' | |result='''UNSC victory''' | ||
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*''Mantle's Approach'' and Composer destroyed}} | *''Mantle's Approach'' and Composer destroyed}} | ||
{{Quote|And yet, still you fail.|The Ur-Didact to John-117 on his failure in attempting to prevent him from activating the Composer}} | {{Quote|And yet, still you fail.|The Ur-Didact to John-117 on his failure in attempting to prevent him from activating the Composer}} | ||
The '''New Phoenix Incident''', | The '''New Phoenix Incident''',<ref name="departure">'''Halo 4''', ''[[Spartan Ops]]'', ''[[Departure]]''</ref> or the '''Fall of New Phoenix''',{{Ref/Comic|Id=HE7|[[Halo: Escalation]]|Issue=[[Halo: Escalation Issue 7|#7]]}} was a brief engagement fought between the [[United Nations Space Command|United Nations Space Command (UNSC)]] and the [[Ur-Didact]] and his [[Promethean]] forces in close proximity to [[Earth]] on [[2557|July 25, 2557]].{{Ref/Reuse|HE7}}{{Ref/Level|Id=midnight|Halo 4|[[Midnight]]}} | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Having retrieved the [[Composer]] from [[Ivanoff Station]], the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] set out to attack Earth in his ship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]''. The Didact was unaware, however, that [[John-117]] and [[Cortana]], in a [[F-41 Broadsword|Broadsword]] fighter, had managed to breach the ship's shields and make the [[Slipstream space|slipspace]] journey along with it.{{Ref/Level| | Having retrieved the [[Composer]] from [[Ivanoff Station]], the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] set out to attack Earth in his ship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]''. The Didact was unaware, however, that [[John-117]] and [[Cortana]], in a [[F-41 Broadsword|Broadsword]] fighter, had managed to breach the ship's shields and make the [[Slipstream space|slipspace]] journey along with it.{{Ref/Level|Halo 4|Level=[[Composer (level)|Composer]]}} | ||
==The battle== | ==The battle== | ||
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==Aftermath== | ==Aftermath== | ||
Due to uncertainty over the finality of the Didact's defeat, the [[UNSC Security Council]] decided to hide the details of the attack from the public, concealing it as an attack by the [[Covenant remnants]] stopped by the return of humanity's greatest hero, the Master Chief.{{Ref/Comic|Halo: Escalation|Issue=8}} Additionally, the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] quarantined [[New Phoenix]] for a year. Six months later, however, ONI public relations officer [[John Sullivan]] released a statement to the press confirming the Covenant were not responsible for the attack.{{Ref/Reuse|departure}} | Due to uncertainty over the finality of the Didact's defeat, the [[UNSC Security Council]] decided to hide the details of the attack from the public, concealing it as an attack by the [[Covenant remnants]] stopped by the return of humanity's greatest hero, the Master Chief.{{Ref/Comic|Halo: Escalation|Issue=[[Halo: Escalation Issue 8|#8]]}} Additionally, the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] quarantined [[New Phoenix]] for a year. Six months later, however, ONI public relations officer [[John Sullivan]] released a statement to the press confirming the Covenant were not responsible for the attack.{{Ref/Reuse|departure}} | ||
The UNSC leadership's doubts about the Didact's "death" were not unfounded; the Promethean general had actually survived his fall into the Composer's slipspace rupture. The portal took him to the vicinity of the [[Composer's Abyss]] on [[Installation 03]], where he slaughtered Spartan [[Black Team]]. Allying himself with [[monitor]] [[859 Static Carillon]], the Didact then traveled to the [[Composer's Forge]] through a portal in the Composer's Abyss, intending to acquire new Composers and other instruments for his crusade against humankind. John-117 and [[Blue Team]] were [[Mission to Installation 03|deployed to Gamma Halo]] immediately after the massacre and confronted the Didact in the Composer's Forge.{{Ref/Comic|Halo: Escalation|Issue=9}} Although their confrontation with the Didact proved perilous and nearly fatal, the Spartans eventually managed, with the aid of Static Carillon (who turned on the Didact after the latter broke an agreement between them), to "contain" the Didact as a threat by using five Composers on the Didact himself.{{Ref/Comic|Halo: Escalation|Issue=10}} Despite the Didact's mutations giving him a resistance to the Composer's power, they were unable to stand up to the raw destructive neural physics of five Composers exploding at once, resulting in the Didact being composed himself and his physical death.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi5|Epi|5}} | The UNSC leadership's doubts about the Didact's "death" were not unfounded; the Promethean general had actually survived his fall into the Composer's slipspace rupture. The portal took him to the vicinity of the [[Composer's Abyss]] on [[Installation 03]], where he slaughtered Spartan [[Black Team]]. Allying himself with [[monitor]] [[859 Static Carillon]], the Didact then traveled to the [[Composer's Forge]] through a portal in the Composer's Abyss, intending to acquire new Composers and other instruments for his crusade against humankind. John-117 and [[Blue Team]] were [[Mission to Installation 03|deployed to Gamma Halo]] immediately after the massacre and confronted the Didact in the Composer's Forge.{{Ref/Comic|Halo: Escalation|Issue=9}} Although their confrontation with the Didact proved perilous and nearly fatal, the Spartans eventually managed, with the aid of Static Carillon (who turned on the Didact after the latter broke an agreement between them), to "contain" the Didact as a threat by using five Composers on the Didact himself.{{Ref/Comic|Halo: Escalation|Issue=10}} Despite the Didact's mutations giving him a resistance to the Composer's power, they were unable to stand up to the raw destructive neural physics of five Composers exploding at once, resulting in the Didact being composed himself and his physical death.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi5|Epi|5}} | ||
