Outbreak on Installation 00
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- "I'll look around. And if we find prizes to bring it back, how could that go wrong?"
- — Voridus[8]
The Outbreak on Installation 00 was a large-scale outbreak of the Flood on the Ark in 2559.
Prelude[edit]
At the end of the Human-Covenant War, Covenant and Human forces clashed at Installation 05, discovering the large-scale outbreak of the Flood there. The Flood would eventually take over the UNSC In Amber Clad and use it to transport the parasite aboard High Charity, the holy city of the Covenant. The Fall of High Charity followed in the onset of the Great Schism, resulting in the Flood taking control of the titanic space station and the billions of residents therein.[9]
In December of 2552, the UNSC and last remnants of the loyalist Covenant found their way to the extragalactic megastructure known as Installation 00. During the ensuing fighting, the Gravemind would use its knowledge to transport High Charity to the installation, with the hulk of the city crashing on the surface and peppering the surrounding landscape with debris and Flood forms.[10] Spartan John-117 and Arbiter Thel 'Vadam would travel to the city to extract the AI Cortana from the Gravemind's clutches, in the process destroying some of the still-operational power reactors in the city. The three would escape the city as it exploded beneath them, believing the Flood threat to be finished.[11]
Following the faulty firing and destruction of Installation 08 and the damage it dealt to the Ark, the vast majority of the Flood were destroyed. Because Installation 08 was incomplete and falling apart, a few Flood survived the faulty firing.[12] The installation's monitor, 000 Tragic Solitude, began to construct a sterilized Quarantine Zone around the wreckage of High Charity, ensuring that no life could survive around the site that the Flood may potentially use for sustenance.[13] For seven years, the few surviving Flood inside the rubble of High Charity festered, until the arrival of the UNSC Spirit of Fire and the Second Ark Conflict in 2559 provided them with a food source.
Flood outbreak[edit]
UNSC scouting[edit]
High Charity's remains would remain largely untouched in the conflict, though by June 1, the vessel had sent out recon teams to investigate the site. One such team led by G. Peterson reported a 300-meter boundary by which all flora and fauna stopped growing and an unparalleled swarm of Sentinels patrolling this perimeter. Peterson and their squad were ordered by Captain James Cutter to keep watch of the site for Banished activity, following a close shave with a Forerunner Despair-class fighter months prior.[14][15]
Banished scavenging[edit]
On June 4, 2559, Atriox summoned warlords Pavium and Voridus, leaders of the Clan of the Long Shields, for a new mission. As Captain Cutter had predicted, he was interested in scouting out the ruins of High Charity, and tasked the Long Shields with investigating the region surrounding the quarantine site. The goal of the mission was to simply investigate the region surrou