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===Battle of Installation 00=== | ===Battle of Installation 00=== | ||
{{Quote|multi=yes|q1=I have told you who I am. Who are you?|343 Guilty Spark|q2=All our makers once held dear.<br>[Alexandria before the Fire].|000 Tragic Solitude|A dialog between 343 Guilty Spark and 000 Tragic Solitude<ref name="h3"/>}} | {{Quote|multi=yes|q1=I have told you who I am. Who are you?|343 Guilty Spark|q2=All our makers once held dear.<br>[Alexandria before the Fire].|000 Tragic Solitude|A dialog between 343 Guilty Spark and 000 Tragic Solitude<ref name="h3"/>}} | ||
After millennia of relative peace | After millennia of relative peace, the Halo installations became a battleground for the ongoing [[Human-Covenant War]] in [[2552]]. In the resulting conflict, [[Installation 04]] was destroyed by humanity and [[Installation 05]]'s surface was [[Glassing|glassed]] by the [[Sangheili]] to quell a Flood infestation. These acts greatly disturbed Tragic Solitude, but he nonetheless began creating [[Installation 08]] on the Ark to replace the destroyed Installation 04.<ref name="hitd270"/> On [[2552#December|December 11, 2552]], Installation 00 became a [[Battle of Installation 00|place of conflict]] for the last battle of the Human-Covenant War. Utilizing the [[Portal at Voi|slipspace portal]] at [[Voi]], [[Kenya]] on [[Earth]], the [[Covenant]] and a joint [[United Nations Space Command]] and Sangheili [[Fleet of Retribution|fleet]] traveled to Installation 00.<ref name="The Ark">''Halo 3'', campaign level, "[[The Ark]]"</ref> When [[343 Guilty Spark]], the monitor of Installation 04 that had allied himself with the UNSC and Sangheili, attempted to gain access to the Ark's systems during the battle, Tragic Solitude addressed the former's lack of authority on the Ark and informed Guilty Spark that the facility housed the [[Librarian]]'s archives of the Conservation Measure. When Guilty Spark persisted, Tragic Solitude threatened the monitor with the installation's complement of [[Sentinel]]s.<ref name="h3"/> However, Tragic Solitude was unable to intervene in the battle, as he watched Guilty Spark aid the humans and Sangheili in engagements across the installation.<ref name="mythos154">''[[Halo Mythos]]'', p. 154-155</ref> | ||
Later in the battle, Tragic Solitude watched in horror as Installation 00 was severely damaged after the incomplete Installation 08 was fired at the Ark in an effort to eradicate the Flood's presence on the installation.<ref name="mythos154"/><ref name="halo">''Halo 3'', campaign level, "[[Halo (Halo 3 level)|Halo]]"</ref> This action also damaged Tragic Solitude and inflicted a state of [[rampancy]] upon him.<ref name="hitd308"/> While horrified by the damaged done to the Ark, Tragic Solitude now had a great task to act upon after millennia of inaction—repairing his installation.<ref name="idle hands i"/> On [[2552#December|December 14, 2552]], the monitor marshalled his Sentinels to construct a [[containment shield]] around the remains of [[High Charity]], the former Covenant capital that the Flood had captured and crashed on the Ark. Fearing that the surviving Flood forms would escape High Charity and infect his installation, Tragic Solitude had the shield constructed, the perimeter razed by Sentinels, and the local [[refugia]] modified to ensure no nearby [[Sentience|sentient]] life survived, thus depriving the Flood of any host bodies in close proximity to their prison.<ref name="idle hands ii">''Halo Wars 2'', Phoenix Log – "Idle Hands II"</ref> High Charity was successfully quarantined and the Flood contained on [[2553#February|February 19, 2553]],<ref name="uncomfortable i">''Halo Wars 2'', Phoenix Log – "An Uncomfortable Truth I"</ref> with the monitor posting a [[battalion]] of Sentinels on patrol in the vicinity of the shield to prevent both the Flood from escaping and future "invaders" from releasing the Flood.<ref name="idle hands ii"/> Solitude began documenting the Flood and its forms, hoping to make new discoveries about the parasite.<ref name="uncomfortable i"/> | Later in the battle, Tragic Solitude watched in horror as Installation 00 was severely damaged after the incomplete Installation 08 was fired at the Ark in an effort to eradicate the Flood's presence on the installation.<ref name="mythos154"/><ref name="halo">''Halo 3'', campaign level, "[[Halo (Halo 3 level)|Halo]]"</ref> This action also damaged Tragic Solitude and inflicted a state of [[rampancy]] upon him.<ref name="hitd308"/> While horrified by the damaged done to the Ark, Tragic Solitude now had a great task to act upon after millennia of inaction—repairing his installation.<ref name="idle hands i"/> On [[2552#December|December 14, 2552]], the monitor marshalled his Sentinels to construct a [[containment shield]] around the remains of [[High Charity]], the former Covenant capital that the Flood had captured and crashed on the Ark. Fearing that the surviving Flood forms would escape High Charity and infect his installation, Tragic Solitude had the shield constructed, the perimeter razed by Sentinels, and the local [[refugia]] modified to ensure no nearby [[Sentience|sentient]] life survived, thus depriving the Flood of any host bodies in close proximity to their prison.<ref name="idle hands ii">''Halo Wars 2'', Phoenix Log – "Idle Hands II"</ref> High Charity was successfully quarantined and the Flood contained on [[2553#February|February 19, 2553]],<ref name="uncomfortable i">''Halo Wars 2'', Phoenix Log – "An Uncomfortable Truth I"</ref> with the monitor posting a [[battalion]] of Sentinels on patrol in the vicinity of the shield to prevent both the Flood from escaping and future "invaders" from releasing the Flood.<ref name="idle hands ii"/> Solitude began documenting the Flood and its forms, hoping to make new discoveries about the parasite.<ref name="uncomfortable i"/> | ||