Truth's fleet: Difference between revisions

|type=[[Fleet]] {{c|Combined during the Operation: FIRST STRIKE}}

**One enormous excavation fleet{{Ref/Reuse|Oct20}}

***Unknown large numbers of ships

**[[High Charity defense fleet]] remnants{{Ref/Reuse|H2TA}}{{Ref/Reuse|H3CN}}

[[File:H2A - Earth and Dreadnought.jpg|270px|left|thumb|Truth's forces and the [[UNSC Home Fleet]] engaging each other as the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]] exited [[slipspace]].]]

In [[2552#November|November 2552]] after the [[Flood]] overwhelmed [[High Charity]], the surviving ships and fleets of the [[High Charity defense fleet]], including the [[Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity]], that are loyal to the Prophets managed to follow the Prophet of Truth and his [[Forerunner Dreadnought|Dreadnought]] to Earth, where they joined the fleet that had arrived earlier. While the Dreadnought, along with a Covenant escorting fleet,{{Ref/Comic|Id=HUI1|Comic=Halo: Uprising|Issue=[[Halo: Uprising Issue 1|1]]}}{{Ref/Comic|Id=HUI2|Comic=Halo: Uprising|Issue=[[Halo: Uprising Issue 2|2]]}} traveled through the system for a period of nine days as it was [[Scramble onboard Forerunner Dreadnought|delayed]] by the presence of the [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II]] [[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]] before eventually jumping to Earth on November 17,{{Ref/Site|Id=bungie|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=16989|Site=bungie.net|Page=Bungie Weekly Update 01/23/09}}{{Ref/Site|Id=lrh|URL=https://youtu.be/8K3hG76Ctmo?t=164|Site=YouTube|Page=Halo 101: Long Road Home|D=14|M=06|Y=2021}} the Covenant loyalist armada led by the Prophet of Truth arrived and breached [[Luna]]r perimeter and then battled the horribly-outnumbered and outgunned UNSC Home Fleet that was already weakened by waves of Covenant fleets over Earth. Shortly after, the Dreadnought jumped to Earth where it was later surrounded by the massive space battle between the opposing fleets.{{Ref/Level|Id=TGJ|Game=Halo 2|Level=[[The Great Journey (level)|The Great Journey]]}}{{Ref/Comic|Id=HUI3|Comic=Halo: Uprising|Issue=[[Halo: Uprising Issue 3|3]]}}{{Ref/Reuse|HUI4}} Ultimately, the UNSC defending orbital forces was unsuccessful as too much of the [[UNSC fleet]], including many [[Dead fleet|smaller remaining fleets]], and defense forces despite having strong defense was completely obliterated by the overwhelming Covenant fleet but it is likely that countless Covenant vessels, especially the [[capital ship]]s, was in return destroyed, mainly because of the planet's unusually strong defense, including hundreds of [[orbital defense platform]]s equipped with [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon#Mark V|"Super" MAC]] guns.{{Ref/Level|Id=H2TA|Game=Halo 2|Level=The Armory|Quote=The ''[[Cairo Station (station)|Cairo]]'' is just one of ''three hundred'' geosync platforms. That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant capital ship. With coordinated fire from the ''[[Athens Station|Athens]]'' and the ''[[Malta Station|Malta]]'', nothing's getting past this battle cluster in one piece.}} Soon after the remnants of the Covenant fleet move in and began to massively [[orbital bombardment|bombard]] Earth, destroying an extreme number of Earth population, including the most of scattered and remaining UNSC resistance forces.{{Ref/Level|Id=H3CN|Game=Halo 3|Level=Crow's Nest}} However, act of self-sacrifice of [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson]], who was present during the Covenant [[Battle of Mare Erythraeum|assault]] on [[Mars]],{{Ref/Reuse|HUI1}} that of his civilian brother, [[Ruwan Ackerson|Ruwan]], managed to halt most of Covenant occupation of Earth after the destruction of the ''[[Harbinger of Piety]]'', hence the death of one of Covenant [[Minister of Inquisition|Ministers]], and the fact that a supposed Forerunner artifact, known as the [[Key of Osanalan]], was not real at the end of the [[Battle of Cleveland|Battle of]] [[Cleveland]] in [[North America]].{{Ref/Comic|Id=HUI4|Comic=Halo: Uprising|Issue=[[Halo: Uprising Issue 4|4]]}} As a result, the Martian valiant defense forces despite being defeated by the Jiralhanae-led [[Fleet of Furious Redemption]], which sympathized Truth's forces, were credited for delaying the Covenant from pressing their siege on Earth.{{Ref/Site|Id=mars|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/mars|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Mars|Y=2021|D=14|M=06}}

On [[2552#December|December 11]], the fleet used this time to deploy ground forces to the Ark, while Truth and his [[Jiralhanae Bodyguard|bodyguard]] of Jiralhanae moved to [[the Citadel]] to activate the [[Halo Array|Halo rings]].

After the humans and Sangheili contained the Flood on Earth, a joint UNSC-Sangheili effort, consisting of the [[Battle Group Victory]], and a [[battle group]] of [[Covenant separatists|Seperatist]] [[Fleet of Retribution]], spearheaded by the [[CAS-class assault carrier|assault carrier]], ''[[Shadow of Intent]]'', managed to follow the Covenant ships a few hours after their initial retreat through the portal. Upon arriving above the Ark on December 11, the Jiralhanae fleet [[Battle of Installation 00|engaged]] the Fleet of Retribution, backed up by the UNSC frigates. While Truth's fleet outnumbered the UNSC-Sangheili fleet three to one, the Sangheili's tactics proved superior to that of the Jiralhanae, eventually obliterating the entirety of the loyalist fleet except at least [[Foebane|one]] [[ORS-class heavy cruiser|heavy cruiser]] that abandoned the other Covanant forces to their doom earlier.{{Ref/Level|Id=TheArk|Game=Halo 3|Level=The Ark}} Together with the utter defeat of the Jiralhanae-led forces on the Ark itself during the conflict on the installation and Truth's eventual death at the hands of the [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]], this signalled the final and pyrrhic UNSC-Sangheili victory over the [[Covenant]] and the end of the 27-years-long [[Human-Covenant War]].{{Ref/Level|Id=TheCovenant|Game=Halo 3|Level=[[The Covenant (level)|The Covenant]]}}{{Ref/Level|Id=Halo|Game=Halo 3|Level=[[Halo (Halo 3 level)|Halo]]}}

Although only few forces of the second and excavation fleet engaged the UNSC forces on Earth while most of Prophet of Truth's excavation fleet remained preoccupied with the Portal,{{Ref/Reuse|mythos}}{{Ref/Reuse|lootcrate2}} numerous other Covenant forces, [[Covenant fleet|fleets]] and [[Covenant starship|vessels]] were deployed during the Covenant [[Battle for Earth|assault]] on Earth and the rest of the Sol system, such as [[Mount Erebus]], the [[Yucatan Peninsula]] and [[Havana]], [[Wikipedia:Cuba|Cuba]], [[Luna]], and [[Mars]] with a number of Covenant warships engaged 3 UNSC fleets of the [[UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet]] over Earth on November 3.{{Ref/Novel|Id=goo204|Halo: Ghosts of Onyx|Page=204-205}} However, it is unknown if they were part of the forces led by the Prophet of Truth and his Jiralhanae loyalists as they were maybe led independently by other Covenant leaders but less organized than Truth's forces,{{Ref/Reuse|lootcrate2}} possibly even led by Sangheili commanders until their betrayal at the time of the [[Great Schism]] when the Jiralhanae then assumed the total command of Covenant forces on the Sol system, including the [[Fleet of Furious Redemption]], and sympathized the Prophet of Truth and his forces.{{Ref/Reuse|HUI1}}{{Ref/Reuse|lootcrate2}}

====''ORS''-class heavy cruiser====