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 * After 28 years of drifting in space the finds it's way to the orbit of the Forerunner Installation 00, known as the Ark. Awakened from the cryo-sleep, the crew eventually travels down to the Ark to find out how to establish a contact with the galaxy. However on the surface of the Ark they encountered a hostile, violent mercenary faction known as The Banished, led by the cunning Jiralhanae warlord Atriox.
 * A Sangheili shipmaster returns to the glassed human colony of Kholo . The species wide war between the Sangheili and the Jiralhanae is still ongoing.