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The ODSTs in possession of the Conduit were escaping the city as the nearby ''Solemn Penance'' entered slipstream space over Mombasa.{{Ref/Level|Id=ss6|SS|Mission 6: Last Exit}} When the resulting slipspace rupture engulfed the city, the ODSTs were killed and the Conduit was believed to have been destroyed as well.{{Ref/Level|Id=opb|SS|Operation B: Steadfast Pursuit}} However, the Conduit entered slipspace to save itself from destruction and arrived at [[Installation 03]].{{Ref/Level|Id=opc|SS|Operation C: Valiant Hammer}} | The ODSTs in possession of the Conduit were escaping the city as the nearby ''Solemn Penance'' entered slipstream space over Mombasa.{{Ref/Level|Id=ss6|SS|Mission 6: Last Exit}} When the resulting slipspace rupture engulfed the city, the ODSTs were killed and the Conduit was believed to have been destroyed as well.{{Ref/Level|Id=opb|SS|Operation B: Steadfast Pursuit}} However, the Conduit entered slipspace to save itself from destruction and arrived at [[Installation 03]].{{Ref/Level|Id=opc|SS|Operation C: Valiant Hammer}} | ||
=== | ===After the Slipspace Event=== | ||
[[File:Main phantom.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A [[Type-52 Phantom|Phantom]] deploying troops in New Mombasa just after the Slipspace Event.]] | [[File:Main phantom.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A [[Type-52 Phantom|Phantom]] deploying troops in New Mombasa just after the Slipspace Event.]] | ||
{{Quote|We need to get above this crap, link up with the [[UNSC battle network|bee-net]]. One of our drones must have seen where they hit.|[[Edward Buck]] to [[Kojo Agu]] after meeting in Tayari Plaza.}} | {{Quote|We need to get above this crap, link up with the [[UNSC battle network|bee-net]]. One of our drones must have seen where they hit.|[[Edward Buck]] to [[Kojo Agu]] after meeting in Tayari Plaza.}} | ||
Large numbers of Covenant troops remained in the city even after Regret's withdrawal. While most of Regret's troops evacuated into the carrier, there was still a significant Covenant presence both on the ground and in orbit. Moments after Regret jumped | Large numbers of Covenant troops remained in the city even after Regret's withdrawal. While most of Regret's troops evacuated into the carrier, there was still a significant Covenant presence both on the ground and in orbit. Moments after Regret jumped, the [[Prophet of Truth]] seized the control of the battle and assumed the command of what remained within Regret's [[Fleet of Sacred Consecration|initial fleet]] while a large [[Truth's fleet|support and excavation fleet]] of [[Jiralhanae]]-led Covenant reinforcements was en route to Earth. The remaining Jiralhanae from Regret's forces were simultaneously given orders to execute the [[Sangheili]] forces on the ground and in orbit. This was a part of the Prophet of Truth's personal scheme for the Covenant, which would come to its conclusion two weeks later when the Sangheili were officially removed from their positions as the main warrior caste of the Covenant.{{Ref/Reuse|bnet}}{{Ref/Reuse|waypoint}} | ||
The Covenant forces were met by a sizeable number of UNSC Marines and [[New Mombasa Police Department|NMPD]] forces that remained in the city. The human forces organized an effective resistance, and fought for control of the city throughout the remainder of the day. The city's [[Artificial intelligence|Urban Infrastructure AI]] [[Superintendent]] also had a vital role in the defense of the city.{{Ref/Reuse|ONIalphasite}} | The Covenant forces were met by a sizeable number of UNSC Marines and [[New Mombasa Police Department|NMPD]] forces that remained in the city. The human forces organized an effective resistance, and fought for control of the city throughout the remainder of the day. The city's [[Artificial intelligence|Urban Infrastructure AI]] [[Superintendent]] also had a vital role in the defense of the city.{{Ref/Reuse|ONIalphasite}} | ||
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[[File:H3ODST NewMombasa.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The rainy streets of New Mombasa, reduced to a ghost town.]] | [[File:H3ODST NewMombasa.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The rainy streets of New Mombasa, reduced to a ghost town.]] | ||
{{Quote|no=two|Michael Crespo|Edward Buck|q1=What do you see, Gunny?|q2=A whole lot of Covenant, gathering around that Slipspace crater. I wonder what they're looking for.|Buck and Crespo from Alpha-Nine observing the skyline from Kikowani.}} | {{Quote|no=two|Michael Crespo|Edward Buck|q1=What do you see, Gunny?|q2=A whole lot of Covenant, gathering around that Slipspace crater. I wonder what they're looking for.|Buck and Crespo from Alpha-Nine observing the skyline from Kikowani.}} | ||
By nightfall, nearly all human forces in the city had either been evacuated or destroyed. With Covenant forces controlling the city, | By nightfall, nearly all human forces in the city had either been evacuated or destroyed. With Covenant forces controlling the city, remaining Covenant cruisers left by the Prophet of Regret began excavating the area around the crater created by the slipspace rupture.{{Ref/Reuse|lootcrate2}} Among the few human survivors were the members of Alpha-Nine, who arrived at [[Kikowani Station (location)|Kikowani Station]] near the city's northeastern seawall, only to realize that the station, as well as [[Kikowani|its surroundings]] had been flooded by [[water]], making escape through train tunnels impossible. The squad decided to hijack a Phantom dropship, in which they succeeded. Buck escorted the rest of the squad through the flooded sections of the city in a [[Type-26C Banshee|Banshee]]. The area was filled with Covenant forces, including a [[Type-47B Scarab|Scarab]]. After destroying the Scarab, they managed to fly out of the city, when Buck suddenly realized he knew where Captain Dare was and decided to go back to find her, inside the Superintendent's [[New Mombasa Data Center|data center]].{{Ref/Level|Id=kikowani|ODST|Kikowani Station}} | ||
Around the same time, a lone ODST from Alpha-Nine, Lance Corporal [[Rookie|J.D. "Rookie"]], thought dead by the rest of the squad, woke up in his pod, on the edge of a rooftop in [[Mbaraki]]. The city was already occupied by the Covenant, with no UNSC resistance left. The Superintendent aided the Rookie to survive in the city and look for clues for what happened to his squad. After wandering around the city for a while, the Rookie received a distress message from Dare, who was inside the Superintendent's data facility deep under the city. He made his way to a subway entrance, and descended down an elevator shaft, to Sublevel 7 of the data center.{{Ref/Level|Id=mombasastreets|ODST|Mombasa Streets}} At this point, the underground tunnels had become infested with [[Yanme'e]], who had built massive hives in the area.{{Ref/Reuse|data}} | Around the same time, a lone ODST from Alpha-Nine, Lance Corporal [[Rookie|J.D. "Rookie"]], thought dead by the rest of the squad, woke up in his pod, on the edge of a rooftop in [[Mbaraki]]. The city was already occupied by the Covenant, with no UNSC resistance left. The Superintendent aided the Rookie to survive in the city and look for clues for what happened to his squad. After wandering around the city for a while, the Rookie received a distress message from Dare, who was inside the Superintendent's data facility deep under the city. He made his way to a subway entrance, and descended down an elevator shaft, to Sublevel 7 of the data center.{{Ref/Level|Id=mombasastreets|ODST|Mombasa Streets}} At this point, the underground tunnels had become infested with [[Yanme'e]], who had built massive hives in the area.{{Ref/Reuse|data}} | ||
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Eventually, the Rookie managed to meet up with Dare inside the [[New Mombasa Data Center|Superintendent's Data Center]]. The two fought through the Yanme'e hive in sublevel 10, causing the Yanme'e to alert the Jiralhanae, who sent more reinforcements to the Data Center. Inside, Dare and Rookie discovered the Huragok [[Quick to Adjust]],{{Ref/Reuse|Catalog}} who had combined the Superintendent, namely its [[Vergil]] subroutine, with itself. As Quick disconnected from the core, the AI shut itself down, as all of its data had been transferred into the creature. At this point, Buck arrived into the complex and the ODSTs escaped back to the surface through the Covenant-occupiedtunnels, while protecting the critically important Huragok.{{Ref/Reuse|data}} | Eventually, the Rookie managed to meet up with Dare inside the [[New Mombasa Data Center|Superintendent's Data Center]]. The two fought through the Yanme'e hive in sublevel 10, causing the Yanme'e to alert the Jiralhanae, who sent more reinforcements to the Data Center. Inside, Dare and Rookie discovered the Huragok [[Quick to Adjust]],{{Ref/Reuse|Catalog}} who had combined the Superintendent, namely its [[Vergil]] subroutine, with itself. As Quick disconnected from the core, the AI shut itself down, as all of its data had been transferred into the creature. At this point, Buck arrived into the complex and the ODSTs escaped back to the surface through the Covenant-occupiedtunnels, while protecting the critically important Huragok.{{Ref/Reuse|data}} | ||
The next day on the morning of October 21, the Prophet of Truth's reinforcements began to exit slipspace above Mombasa.{{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}} During the final hours of the day, the area was now full of arriving Covenant capital ships. More Scarabs have been deployed to the city, and a massive air force of Banshees were deployed to the crater. Buck, Dare and the Rookie made their way to the surface, through a Covenant outpost in [[New Mombasa Sector 1|Sector 1]], and eventually took an elevator to the city's [[New Mombasa Waterfront Highway|Waterfront Highway]]. They then pushed through the highway and made a stand at the entrance to Uplift Reserve. The Phantom captured by the rest of the squad arrived and picked them up, and they made it out just as an assault carrier appeared from slipspace and glassed the area.{{Ref/Reuse|coastal}} | |||
==Aftermath== | ==Aftermath== | ||