Phoenix Logs/The Ark/High Charity


 * City of the dead.


 * Once the capital of the Covenant and the jewel of their star-spanning empire,
 * High Charity is now a shattered collection of wreckage sealed off and buried on
 * the Ark's surface. Only a small fraction of its grandeur remains, and even that is
 * distorted and tarnished by the Flood trapped within its halls after the
 * Gravemind was defeated by the Master Chief.


 * Decimated-but not eradicated-the parasite has marshalled what remains of
 * its strength in the years since. This diseased cluster could have been cleansed if
 * the installation's monitor was still active, but the Ark's fallback defense
 * protocols can only contain the Flood inside High Charity with armored walls and
 * patrolling Sentinels, a half-measure that allows the parasite to fester and plan
 * within the ruins.