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{{Main|Battle of Netherop (2559)}} | {{Main|Battle of Netherop (2559)}} | ||
Learning of a weapon on [[Netherop]] that had once destroyed a [[Guardian]], the UNSC, the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] and the [[Banished]] attempted to recover it, encountering UNSC and [[Covenant]] forces that had been left trapped on the planet since the [[Battle of Netherop]] in [[2526]]. After eliminating most of [[Worldmaster]] [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]]'s forces and capturing Nizat and [[Tam 'Lakosee]], the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios discovered that the weapon, the [[Divine Hand]], was [[Precursor]] technology that Precursor fugitives had used to defend themselves against attack during the [[Forerunner-Precursor war]]. After seeing the devastating power of the weapon for themselves and with the [[Created]] on their way, the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios handed the Divine Hand over to [[Atriox]], hoping that the Banished would destroy themselves attempting to use it, although [[Keely Iyuska]] took samples of the weapon's nanomachines that would be turned over to ONI for study. All three factions evacuated the planet before a Created fleet sent by [[High Auxiliary]] [[Sloan]] could arrive. Nizat and Tam, the last survivors of Nizat's forces, were left marooned once again to die with the alien structure having stopped functioning completely after the [[vacuum energy condenser]] was removed. Facing an inevitable death from infection, starvation, or dehydration, Tam chose to mercy kill Nizat to spare him that fate, ending the threat of one of UNSC's earliest and most dangerous Covenant enemies once and for all.{{Ref/Novel|Out}} | Learning of a weapon on [[Netherop]] that had once destroyed a [[Guardian]], the UNSC, the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] and the [[Banished]] attempted to recover it, encountering UNSC and [[Covenant]] forces that had been left trapped on the planet since the [[Battle of Netherop]] in [[2526]]. After eliminating most of [[Worldmaster]] [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]]'s forces and capturing Nizat and [[Tam 'Lakosee]], the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios discovered that the weapon, the [[Divine Hand]], was [[Precursor]] technology that Precursor fugitives had used to defend themselves against attack during the [[Forerunner-Precursor war]]. After seeing the devastating power of the weapon for themselves and with the [[Created]] on their way, the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios handed the Divine Hand over to [[Atriox]], hoping that the Banished would destroy themselves attempting to use it, although [[Keely Iyuska]] took samples of the weapon's nanomachines that would be turned over to ONI for study. All three factions evacuated the planet before a Created fleet sent by [[High Auxiliary]] [[Sloan]] could arrive. Nizat and Tam, the last survivors of Nizat's forces, were left marooned once again to die with the alien structure having stopped functioning completely after the [[vacuum energy condenser]] was removed. Facing an inevitable death from infection, starvation, or dehydration, Tam chose to mercy kill Nizat to spare him that fate, ending the threat of one of UNSC's earliest and most dangerous Covenant enemies once and for all.{{Ref/Novel|Out}} | ||
===Battle for the Domain=== | |||
{{Main|Battle for the Domain}} | |||
In late [[2559]], the [[Mind transfer|essences]] of the [[Forerunner]]s and [[human]]s trapped in the outer boundaries of the [[Domain]] rose up against the [[Created]] under the leadership of the [[Ur-Didact]]. The Didact ultimately managed to destroy the [[Warden Eternal]], save any iterations that were left trapped in the physical world. These iterations of the Warden Eternal would be left unable to reconnect with his body or the Domain which would drive the construct "quite mad," permanently neutralizing any remaining threat from him.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi25|Epi|25}} The Forerunner and human essences were then able to enter and settle within the Domain, strengthening it to the point that the Domain was able to evict the Created from its halls. The Didact had [[Unnamed Haruspis|the]] [[Haruspis]] seal the [[Gateway]] on [[Genesis]] as well as all links to the Domain in the physical world, keeping the Created and anyone else from abusing its power ever again. Although a few rogue AIs and splinters managed to hide in the interior of the Domain, the Didact and [[Forthencho]] intended to hunt them down and destroy them.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi26|Epi|26}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi27|Epi|27}} | |||
===Conflict on Zeta Halo=== | ===Conflict on Zeta Halo=== | ||