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===Temporary alliance with the Banished=== | ===Temporary alliance with the Banished=== | ||
{{Main|Operation: WOLFE}} | {{Main|Operation: WOLFE}} | ||
At some point near April 2558, 6 months before the rise of the [[Created]], the Keepers entered into a temporary alliance with [[Atriox|Atriox's]] [[Banished]], serving as one of its [[legion]]s. Shortly after, Atriox and [[Decimus]] departed for the Ark, leaving [[Escharum]] in command.<ref>''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]'', Chapter 3</ref> At some point in July 2559, they received a transmission from Escharum ordering them and two other Banished legions, the [[Legion of the Corpse-Moon]] and the [[Ravaged Tusks]], to look for the hidden [[Ark]] slipspace portal in the [[Menachite portal complex]] beneath [[CASTLE Base]].<ref>''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]'', Chapter 3</ref> | At some point near April 2558, 6 months before the rise of the [[Created]], the Keepers entered into a temporary alliance with [[Atriox|Atriox's]] [[Banished]], serving as one of its [[legion]]s. Shortly after, Atriox and [[Decimus]] departed for the Ark, leaving [[Escharum]] in command.<ref>''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]'', Chapter 3</ref> At some point in July 2559, they received a transmission from Escharum ordering them and two other Banished legions, the [[Legion of the Corpse-Moon]] and the [[Ravaged Tusks]], to look for the hidden [[Ark]] slipspace portal in the [[Menachite portal complex]] beneath [[CASTLE Base]].<ref>''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]'', Chapter 3</ref> By the time the Keepers went to Reach, Castor had become in the last Dokab leading the faction. They succeeded in locating it by observing [[Blue Team]]'s path towards [[Menachite Mountain]].<ref>''Halo: Shadows of Reach'', Chapter 17</ref> Soon after excavating it, Atriox activated the other end of the portal with the three shards of the [[Menachite Forerunner crystal|Forerunner Crystal]] and came through in a [[Lich]]. Castor along with forty of his Keepers and [[Inslaan 'Gadogai]] went rogue, leaving the Banished, and took the portal back to the Ark with the intent of activating the [[Halo Array]].<ref>''Halo: Shadows of Reach'', Chapter 21</ref> | ||
===Attempting to Start the Great Journey=== | ===Attempting to Start the Great Journey=== |