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The '''Battle of Requiem''' was a series of skirmishes on the [[Forerunner]] [[shield world]] [[Requiem]] beginning on [[2557|July 21, 2557]]. It was waged between the [[Promethean]]s occupying Requiem, [[Jul 'Mdama|Jul 'Mdama's]] [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant forces]] and the [[United Nations Space Command]].<ref name="Dawn">'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Dawn]]''</ref> Shortly after the beginning of the battle, the Prometheans and 'Mdama's Covenant would join forces against humanity.<ref name="Infinity">'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Infinity (Halo 4 level)|Infinity]]''</ref> These events marked the continuation of an [[Post-Covenant War conflicts|ongoing conflict]] with Jul 'Mdama's Covenant and the UNSC, and the days following would see the conflict spread to ''[[Ivanoff Station]]'' orbiting [[Installation 03]], and the [[human]] homeworld, [[Earth]].{{Ref/Level|Halo 4|[[Midnight]]}} Requiem would again become a battleground over six months after the initial battle in [[2558|February 2558]] when the UNSC launched [[Requiem Campaign|a lightning-strike]] expedition to the surface of Requiem.<ref name="SOE1">[[S1/Departure|'''Spartan Ops:''' ''S1E1 Departure'']]</ref>

{{Quote|Do you truly believe these theatrics can prevent my departure? Embrace your sad fate and retain your nobility - I am already beyond you.|The Didact to Master Chief}}

Following the destruction of the gravity well generator, the Master Chief and Cortana began to push for Captain Del Rio and ''Infinity'' to assault the Didact's Cryptum and destroy it to keep the Didact from leaving Requiem. However, Del Rio refused to believe the two, calling their encounter with the Librarian "the hallucinations of an aging Spartan and his malfunctioning AI." This was furthered when Cortana's [[rampancy]] caused her to have an angry outburst. While Del Rio ordered Commander Lasky to remove Cortana's data chip to be destroyed, the Master Chief took it instead, telling Del Rio that if he wouldn't stop the Didact, the Master Chief would do it himself. The Master Chief refused Del Rio's orders to stand down and ordered Lasky to warn Earth of the coming threat from the Didact. Lasky was then ordered to prevent the Master Chief's departure by any means necessary but recognized that it was too dangerous to risk the Chief being wrong about the Didact. Instead, Lasky had a [[D79-TC Pelican#Gunship variant|Pelican gunship]] prepared for full combat pursuit of the Master Chief but instead gave the dropship to the Spartan.

The Master Chief departed ''Infinity'' in the Pelican as ''Infinity'' and her crew made their escape from Requiem. Without ''Infinity's'' firepower to back them up, Cortana suggests instead disrupting the communications at two of the towers near the Didact's Cryptum which would allow her to forge an override code and lower the Didact's shields so they could reach him. Using the Pelican's cannons, the Master Chief was able to destroy the [[Phantom]] dropships guarding each tower and make his way within. Inside each tower, the Master Chief fought his way through 'Mdama's determined Covenant and Promethean defenders and used an EMP in one tower to destroy a carrier wave generator and destroyed the attenuators in another tower, giving Cortana the opportunity to lower the Didact's shields. All through this, the Didact telepathically taunted the Master Chief about the futility of his actions.

With the Didact's shields down, Cortana suggested another course of action: reach the tower that controlled the spires surrounding the Didact's Cryptum and use the controls to encase the Cryptum in the towers and keep it from leaving Requiem. The Master Chief returned to his Pelican gunship and used it to reach the third tower, encountering no further aerial resistance along the way. Inside the tower, the Master Chief came up against a massive force from 'Mdama's Covenant defending both levels of the tower including two [[Hunter]]s and several [[Shade]] turrets and [[Banshee]]s. The Master Chief was eventually able to reach the control panel where he inserted Cortana who took control of the tower system. Cortana initially moved the towers to imprison the Didact's Cryptum, but her rampancy got the best of her and instead she dropped the towers.

Unable to imprison the Didact any longer, the Master Chief decided to move across some nearby [[Lich]]es heading for the Cryptum to reach the Didact. However, after he landed on the first Lich, the Cryptum merged with the Forerunner ship ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'' and joined a fleet heading out into space. Unable to stop the Didact from leaving, the Master Chief hitched a ride on the Lich as it followed the Didact's ship into [[slipspace]].{{Ref/Reuse|rec}}

The Didact would arrive at Ivanoff Station and despite the efforts of the UNSC, he obtained the Composer and digitized everyone on the station excluding John-117, who was saved thanks to genetic augmentations provided by the Librarian. The Didact then set course for Earth, with the intent of digitizing its population, but was ultimately stopped and defeated by John-117. With the ''Infinity'' and the Master Chief gone, Requiem remained under Promethean and 'Mdama's Covenant control. The UNSCDF would not return to Requiem until six months later, when the ''Infinity'' was again deployed to the shield world to establish research bases and obtain useful Forerunner technologies.{{Ref/Reuse|SOE1}} Captain Del Rio was relieved of duty by the UNSC Security Council due to his decision to leave the Master Chief on Requiem, and Commander Lasky was promoted to captain of the ''Infinity''.

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