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 {{Quote|no=two|Veronica Dare|Edward Buck|q1=When did ''this'' happen?|q2=They started showing up right before I went underground.|[[Captain]] [[Veronica Dare]] and [[Gunnery Sergeant]] [[Edward Buck]] viewing a second and larger [[Truth's fleet|fleet]] of Covenant starships circling Mombasa.{{Ref/Reuse|H3RCoast}}}}
 [[File:Portal odst.png|thumb|right|250px|After fully securing the East Africa, the Jiralhanae excavation fleet begin to uncover the Portal at [[New Mombasa]].]]
-Immediately following the slipspace event, [[Jiralhanae]] forces loyal to the [[High Prophet of Truth]], who had embedded said troops into his political rival Regret's fleet,{{Ref/Novel|Id=hnbc8|[[Halo: New Blood]]|Chapter=8}} enacted their leader's orders. The Jiralhanae violently displaced their Sangheili commanders left in the initial fleet both ground-side,{{Ref/Level|Id=H3RTayari|Game=Halo 3: ODST|Level=Tayari Plaza}} and in orbit, and then seized the full control of Covenant forces at Mombasa in order to secure Truth's arrival on the Portal by his loyalists,{{Ref/Reuse|Id=bungie}} the beginning of Truth's plan to place the Jiralhanae as the Covenant's primary warrior race.{{Ref/Reuse|waypoint}} While ''[[High Charity]]'' and the rest of its [[High Charity defense fleet|fleet]] were following the ''Solemn Penance'' on their way to the newly discovered Halo Installation 05, the murder of Prophet of Regret's Sangheili ground forces remained secret from the rest of the Covenant.
+Immediately following the slipspace event, [[Jiralhanae]] forces loyal to the [[High Prophet of Truth]], who had embedded said troops into his political rival Regret's fleet,{{Ref/Novel|Id=hnbc8|[[Halo: New Blood]]|Chapter=8}} enacted their leader's orders. The Jiralhanae violently displaced their Sangheili commanders left in the initial fleet both ground-side,{{Ref/Level|Id=H3RTayari|Game=Halo 3: ODST|Level=Tayari Plaza}} and in orbit, and then seized the full control of Covenant forces at Mombasa in order to secure Truth's arrival on the Portal by his loyalists,{{Ref/Reuse|Id=bungie}} the beginning of Truth's plan to place the Jiralhanae as the Covenant's primary warrior race.{{Ref/Reuse|waypoint}} While ''[[High Charity]]'' and the rest of its [[High Charity defense fleet|fleet]] were following the ''Solemn Penance'' on their way to the newly discovered Halo Installation 05, the murder of the Regret's Sangheili ground forces remained secret from the rest of the Covenant.
 Surviving UNSC forces in the city, aided by the [[New Mombasa Police Department]], continued to resist, but were eventually overwhelmed. The next day on October 21, a [[Truth's fleet|Jiralhanae-led support fleet]] sent by Truth arrived at the African continent, joining the remains of Regret's fleet as the combined fleet began glassing [[Mombasa]] and the surrounding area together, uncovering [[the Portal]] to the [[Installation 00|Ark]].{{Ref/Site|Id=waypointvergil|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-vergil-reality|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Vergil Reality|D=15|M=06|Y=2021}}{{Ref/Reuse|waypoint}}<!--Halo Waypoint confirms that Truth's fleet arrived on October 21st--> Captain Dare and her [[Alpha-Nine|ODST squad]] managed to secure the city's [[Superintendent|infrastructure AI]] and escape before the city fell to the enemy.{{Ref/Level|Id=H3RCoast|Game=Halo 3: ODST|Level=Coastal Highway}} These forces of the new fleet was both archaeological and military.<ref>halo3.com - About Halo, Characters, Humans ([https://archives.halopedia.org/halo3/ Archive])</ref> While a handful of ships of the second fleet engaged Earth's forces, the majority of the fleet was preoccupied for the excavation of the massive slipspace portal.{{Ref/Reuse|mythos}}