Battle of the Maginot Sphere: Difference between revisions

However, the entire battle up to this point had been a feint — [[Offensive Bias]] had merely been playing time and destroying Mendicants core vessels. As the battle intensified, the [[Halo array]] fired, instantaneously killing all Forerunner and Flood in its area of effect and leaving the majority of the ships lifeless, drifting, un-piloted. The odds were suddenly rebalanced; whereas the Flood had outnumbered the Forerunners initially by hundreds and hundreds, now, it was the Forerunners that had more vessels than Mendicant. Captured Forerunner vessels began self-destruction or opening uncontained [[Slipspace]] rifts that damaged many Flood vessels, and the sheer number of drifting derelict ships began to hinder Mendicant's core fleet — they began to collide into the ruptured fuel cells of the drifting vessels, destroying fifty-two of Mendicant's warships in only a few seconds. Over the next few minutes, over five hundred more of Mendicant's warships were destroyed by collision, the exposed Slipspace rifts, and so on. The battle turned even further — the Forerunner battleships, all controlled by [[Offensive Bias]], now outnumbered Mendicant's fleet six-to-one.