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[[Image:H2 IAC Crashed Closeup.jpg|thumb|right|The [[UNSC Frigate]] [[UNSC In Amber Clad|UNSC ''In Amber Clad'']] permanently lost, captured by the [[Flood]] and crashed into the surface of ''[[High Charity]]''.]] | [[Image:H2 IAC Crashed Closeup.jpg|thumb|right|The [[UNSC Frigate]] [[UNSC In Amber Clad|UNSC ''In Amber Clad'']] permanently lost, captured by the [[Flood]] and crashed into the surface of ''[[High Charity]]''.]] | ||
[[Image:H2 Cortana Betrays.jpg|thumb|right|[[Cortana]] believed to be making an unholy alliance with the [[Gravemind]] as she is captured.]] | [[Image:H2 Cortana Betrays.jpg|thumb|right|[[Cortana]] believed to be making an unholy alliance with the [[Gravemind]] as she is captured.]] | ||
[[Image:H2 Forerunner Ship Reverts.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Forerunner | [[Image:H2 Forerunner Ship Reverts.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Forerunner Dreadnought]] transitions from [[Slipspace]] over [[Earth]].]] | ||
[[Image:H2 Forerunner Ship Second Battle of Earth.jpg|thumb|right|The | [[Image:H2 Forerunner Ship Second Battle of Earth.jpg|thumb|right|The Forerunner Ship approaching a besieged Earth as the [[UNSC Home Fleet]] continues to fight against Covenant fleets.]] | ||
The Battle of Installation 05 was an extremely costly battle with significant political-military consequences for the Covenant and remarkable ramifications for all sentient life in the galaxy. Hundreds or thousands of Covenant forces were slain in SPARTAN-117's quest to kill the Prophet of Regret, the race to acquire the Index from the Control Room, and the remarkable ground and orbital battles that took place on Installation 05, ''High Charity'', and the Covenant fleets hovering above the planetoid because of the [[Covenant Civil War]]. The Covenant was fractured, with the Elites rallying the Covenant Separatists against the Prophet-supported Brutes, who controlled the Covenant Loyalists against the Elites and their allies. | The Battle of Installation 05 was an extremely costly battle with significant political-military consequences for the Covenant and remarkable ramifications for all sentient life in the galaxy. Hundreds or thousands of Covenant forces were slain in SPARTAN-117's quest to kill the Prophet of Regret, the race to acquire the Index from the Control Room, and the remarkable ground and orbital battles that took place on Installation 05, ''High Charity'', and the Covenant fleets hovering above the planetoid because of the [[Covenant Civil War]]. The Covenant was fractured, with the Elites rallying the Covenant Separatists against the Prophet-supported Brutes, who controlled the Covenant Loyalists against the Elites and their allies. | ||
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{{Quote|Sir. Finishing this fight.|SPARTAN-117}} | {{Quote|Sir. Finishing this fight.|SPARTAN-117}} | ||
In the end, the fates of the Covenant fleets over ''High Charity'' is unknown, although at least one Covenant vessel, the ''Incorruptible'', escaped. 'Matrankee was commended for his actions against the Flood on Installation 05, and was promoted to [[Fleet Master]]. The Flood continued to attempt to escape ''High Charity'' in Covenant starships, and a Covenant Separatist fleet led by [[Rtas 'Vadum]] on the ''[[Shadow of Intent]]'' held the line against the Flood. However, the Flood managed to infest at least one Elite-controlled ship, a [[CCS-class Battlecruiser|''CCS''-class Battlecruiser]], and made a [[Slipspace]] jump to [[Earth]] to attempt to infest the human homeworld. The Elite fleet in orbit over ''High Charity'' followed the Flood-controlled cruiser, and when the Flood ship crash-landed on Earth, Rtas 'Vadum and his forces aided the [[UNSC Home Fleet]] in destroying the Flood vessel and terminating the Flood spread across the planet. However, prior to this, ''[[High Charity]]'' had already left its orbit around Installation 05, and according to a scrambled distress signal from [[Cortana]], was already on its way to Earth to enter the [[Portal]].<ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', ''[[Floodgate (Level)]]''</ref> | In the end, the fates of the Covenant fleets over ''High Charity'' is unknown, although at least one Covenant vessel, the ''Incorruptible'', escaped. 'Matrankee was commended for his actions against the Flood on Installation 05, and was promoted to [[Fleet Master]]. The Flood continued to attempt to escape ''High Charity'' in Covenant starships, and a Covenant Separatist fleet led by [[Rtas 'Vadum]] on the ''[[Shadow of Intent]]'' held the line against the Flood. However, the Flood managed to infest at least one Elite-controlled ship, a [[CCS-class Battlecruiser|''CCS''-class Battlecruiser]], and made a [[Slipspace]] jump to [[Earth]] to attempt to infest the human homeworld. The Elite fleet in orbit over ''High Charity'' followed the Flood-controlled cruiser, and when the Flood ship crash-landed on Earth, Rtas 'Vadum and his forces aided the [[UNSC Home Fleet]] in destroying the Flood vessel and terminating the Flood spread across the planet. However, prior to this, ''[[High Charity]]'' had already left its orbit around Installation 05, and according to a scrambled distress signal from [[Cortana]], was already on its way to Earth to enter the [[Portal]].<ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', ''[[Floodgate (Level)]]''</ref> It was indicated though that all of the other Flood controlled ships were destroyed though: upon landing on Earth an Elite informed the Arbiter that the Elite's fleet had taken care of all of the Flood controlled ships, except for that one which had managed to break through and jump to Earth. It can be inferred that the Flood controlled ships were ultimately all destroyed except the one that jumped to Earth and High Charity which was later destroyed by the Master Chief in the [[Battle of Installation 00]]. [[Cortana]] was left to the clutches of the Gravemind. It was later shown that she answered a few questions to buy herself some time and used the opportunity to help find a way to destroy the Flood. She would later be rescued by the Master Chief who would then destroy High Charity during the [[Raid on High Charity]]. | ||
[[SPARTAN-117]] was aboard Truth's Forerunner Dreadnought, which managed to reach Earth unharmed and landed in Africa, near the Portal to the Ark, about two weeks after its departure from ''High Charity''.<ref>''[[Halo 3]]'', ''[[Tsavo Highway (Level)]]''</ref> The UNSC ''Dusk'' eventually withdrew to rendezvous with [[Battlegroup Stalingrad]] shortly outside of the Onyx System, and the UNSC ''In Amber Clad'' remained crashed into one of the towers of ''High Charity''. | |||
In many ways, the battle was the true turning point in the war and in the long term would break the back of the Covenant. The Elites eventually allied themselves with the humans bolstering their fleets and taking the military strategy mind away from the Covenant. | In many ways, the battle was the true turning point in the war and in the long term would break the back of the Covenant. The Elites eventually allied themselves with the humans bolstering their fleets and taking the military strategy mind away from the Covenant. | ||