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The seven Halos then remained relatively dormant for one hundred thousand years (Though at least one of them experienced a major Flood outbreak; and reference given to brief visits by other species by 343 Guilty Spark) until one of them, Installation 04 (known amongst fans as Alpha Halo), was discovered by the theocratic alien superpower, the Covenant. The Covenant, who revered the Forerunner as gods, believed that the Halo's main weapon was actually a "divine wind" meant to propel them on a path they called the "[[Great Journey]]". During their investigations on Installation 04, the Covenant encountered the Flood, however they quickly contained the outbreak. After the arrival of the [[Human]] vessel ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn]]'', [[Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes]] accidentally breaks the containment, thinking to find a large Covenant weapons cache. A massive four way melee ensued between the Covenant, the 343 Guilty Spark-led Sentinels, the Flood, and the Humans. This finally culminated when the Human Supersoldier known as the [[Master Chief]] detonated the fusion engines of the ''Pillar of Autumn'' on the surface of the Installation, completely destroying a section of the ring, and, due to the gravitational momentum and inertia still perpetuating the ring in orbit around [[Threshold]], tore the ring apart into pieces. The remains of installation 04 are scattered as debris in space, both large and small. The explosion sent massive chunks of the ring careening into the moon [[Basis]], as seen in the [[Halo 2]] Multi-Player Level "[[Burial Mounds (Level)|Burial Mounds]]," due to the constant bombardment of small objects from the ring as seen in the sky on that map. Other large sections of the ring are seen in the opening scene of Halo 2, drifting in space around Threshold. It is also highly likely that large portions of Alpha Halo debris were drawn into Threshold, never to be seen again. <ref>[[Halo: Combat Evolved]], level [[The Maw]]</ref>.

The Humans return to [[Earth]] and resume their fight against the Covenant, who have uncovered a large structure on Earth, which they assume to be the Ark. The Covenant set the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]] down in the center of the structure, activating it. To everyone's surprise, the structure is not the Ark, but a portal to the Ark, a massive artificial world located outside the galaxy. Human and [[Elite]] forces go to the Ark to try and stop the Covenant from activating the Ark, thus activating the remaining Halo rings. It is then that the [[Flood]] Gravemind appears, having turned the Covenant planetoid city ''[[High Charity]]'' into a Flood hive. The Hive crashes on the Ark, releasing the Flood.