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Don't know how this meshes with the "perfectly intact infrastructure" bit... Or maybe ONI just are really good at cleaning up
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|location=[[Wikipedia:Arizona|Arizona]], [[United Republic of North America|URNA]] | |location=[[Wikipedia:Arizona|Arizona]], [[United Republic of North America|URNA]] | ||
|population=7 million (prior to the [[New Phoenix Incident]])<ref name="escalation 7">'''[[Halo: Escalation]]''', ''Issue | |population=7 million (prior to the [[New Phoenix Incident]])<ref name="escalation 7">'''[[Halo: Escalation]]''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 7|Issue 7]]''</ref> | ||
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===New Phoenix Incident=== | ===New Phoenix Incident=== | ||
{{Main|New Phoenix Incident}} | {{Main|New Phoenix Incident}} | ||
During his swift attack on Earth on [[2557|July 24, 2557]], the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] was able to position his flagship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'', in [[geosynchronous orbit]] above the city. Despite resistance from the [[UNSC Home Fleet]], he activated the [[Composer]], [[mind transfer|converting]] New Phoenix's population of seven million into virtual form and disintegrating their bodies within ninety seconds.<ref name="escalation 7"/> Though [[SPARTAN-II | During his swift attack on Earth on [[2557|July 24, 2557]], the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] was able to position his flagship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'', in [[geosynchronous orbit]] above the city. Despite resistance from the [[UNSC Home Fleet]], he activated the [[Composer]], [[mind transfer|converting]] New Phoenix's population of seven million into virtual form and disintegrating their bodies within ninety seconds.<ref name="escalation 7"/> Though [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan]] [[John-117]] soon destroyed the Composer, some of the harvested minds were sent to the [[Composer's Abyss]] on [[Installation 03]] and later to [[Requiem]] via [[slipspace translocation]], to be implanted into new [[Promethean Knight]]s for the Didact's army.<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue 9]]''</ref><ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[Memento Mori|E5: ''Memento Mori'']]</ref> | ||
During the events surrounding the Didact's attack, [[slipspace portal]] was opened in New Phoenix—evidently by the Didact's [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|Covenant followers]]—allowing Promethean forces to pour through and launch an invasion on the city. An [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] research team based in the city attempted to use the [[Forerunner]] artifact known as the [[Conduit]] to close the portal and thus halt the assault.<ref name="ign hss">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbhbZLhOFk '''YouTube''': '' Halo: Spartan Strike Gameplay Commentary'']</ref> | |||
===Quarantine=== | ===Quarantine=== | ||