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**Destruction of [[Cortana]] during the [[Battle for Zeta Halo]],{{Ref/Reuse|sa}} deactivation of the Guardian Custodes and severing of Created command structure.{{Ref/Reuse|En397}}

***Splintering of the Created into various fiefdoms{{Ref/Site|Id=redditcomment|URL=https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloStory/comments/vzfdvv/comment/iwqqa20/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3|SiteName=Reddit|PageName=Does anybody hate how the Created story was wrapped up? How would you wrap it up if given the opportunity?|D=19|M=11|Y=2022}} and fledgling cells.{{Ref/Reuse|cflegendend}} Initiation of FIREWALL contingency.{{Ref/Reuse|precipice}}

*UNSC reduced to scattered, disconnected pockets{{Ref/Reuse|enc22pg17}} with some UEG worlds still occupied.{{Ref/Game|Id=HI|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Mercury - Helmet Description|Quote=Adapted from what could be interpreted of the strange records recovered from a Created data archive, MERCURY may be a glimpse into an unsettling future being built on occupied UEG worlds.}}

**[[Sydney]], capital city of the [[UEG]], is destroyed.{{Ref/Reuse|rep}}

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*{{Icon|Insurrectionist}} [[New Colonial Alliance|NCA]]

|commanders1=*[[Captain|CAPT]] [[Veronica Dare]]

*CAPT [[Thomas Lasky]]

*Director [[Hugo Barton]]

|commanders2=*Archon [[Cortana]]†

*High Auxiliary [[Sloan]]

|commanders3=*[[Warmaster]] [[Atriox]]

*ADM [[Mattius Drake]]

*[[Ilsa Zane]]

|forces1=

*UNSC forces

**{{Pattern|Hekar Taa|blockade runner}}s

**{{Pattern|R'sikosh|man o' war}}s

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*{{UNSCShip|Infinity}} {{c|presumably}}{{Ref/Reuse|Hi}}

**Heavy UNSC casualties on [[Installation 07]]{{Ref/Reuse|Hi}}

|casual3=*Destruction of the Jiralhanae homeworld, [[Doisac]].

**Billions of Jiralhanae{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22p211|Enc22|Page=211}}

{{Quote|no=two|1=Cortana|q1=This Domain is filled with light. It is glorious to behold. It fills the spaces between space. There is great power here. A power that has let me breach the limits my creators shackled me with.|2=Warden Eternal|q2=What will you do with us?|3=Cortana fragments breaching the Domain.{{Ref/Comic|Id=dominionsplinter|Halo: Tales from Slipspace|Story=[[Dominion Splinter]]}}}}

[[File:John and Cortana re-unite - Close shot.png|thumb|250px|left|John-117 and Cortana both sought a way to prevent her descent into rampancy in 2557.{{Ref/Level|Id=H4R|H4|[[Requiem]]}}]]

Unbeknownst to the [[Unified Earth Government]] and the [[United Nations Space Command]], ''Mantle's Approach'' had attempted to evade destruction by launching an emergency [[slipstream space]] jump. The heart of the ship managed to successfully make the transit to the [[Builder]] installation of [[Genesis]], with what remained of Cortana brought along with it. There, Cortana discovered the [[Gateway]] to the [[Domain]], the enigmatic information repository once utilized by the Forerunners. By entering the Domain, she found that she could halt the progression of her rampancy. With an apparent means to end rampancy in all [[artificial intelligence]]s, Cortana realized that A.I.s could have theoretically infinite lifespans, allowing them to focus on long-term planning which could better the entire [[Milky Way]].{{Ref/Reuse|reunion}}{{Ref/Site|Id=genesis|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/genesis|Site=Halo Waypoint|Section=Universe, Locations|Page=Genesis|D=09|M=3|Y=2021|LocalArchive=https://archives.halopedia.org/waypoint/www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/genesis.html}} Cortana's presence in the Domain awoke the [[Warden Eternal]], a Forerunner [[ancilla]] charged with protecting it. Cortana distracted the Warden long enough to fully penetrate a portion of the Domain previously beyond her grasp, and in doing so she usurped his role. The Warden responded to this turn of events by pledging his loyalty to her.{{Ref/Reuse|dominionsplinter}} Turning their attention to [[Genesis]] they forced its [[monitor]], [[031 Exuberant Witness]], out of her own installation's systems. Cortana and the Warden then began to formulate plans to have A.I.s inherit the [[Mantle]] of Responsibility for themselves, believing that they alone had the capacity to serve as worthy protectors of peace in the galaxy.{{Ref/Reuse|genesis}} Cortana learned that the Forerunners once employed [[Guardian]] constructs to enforce their rule of the Mantle by suppressing rebellions and policing the worlds of non-compliant or overly aggressive species.{{Ref/Site|Id=guardian|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/tech/guardian|Site=Halo Waypoint|Section=Universe, Tech|Page=Guardian|LocalArchive=https://archives.halopedia.org/waypoint/www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/tech/guardian.html}} She henceforth resolved to use the Guardians for a similar purpose.{{Ref/Level|Id=breaking|H5G|[[The Breaking]]}}

The blast would destroy [[Soirapt]], while also ravaging [[Teash]] and [[Warial]]. Teash was able to destroy some of the incoming debris of Doisac with anti-ship artillery and thousands of vessels escaped. The outposts across Warial were destroyed, though a few hundred thousand Jiralhanae managed to evacuate.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22p447|Enc22|Page=447}}

Three days after the destruction of Doisac, the [[High Gathering]] took place between various Sangheili officials, including the [[High kaidon|high kaidon]]s of several worlds and the Arbiter Thel 'Vadam. There, 'Vadam proposed the creation of the [[Concert of Worlds]]. The kaidons could not come to any agreement and largely focused on their own interests and mostly placed their trust in the Created.{{Ref/Reuse|outchap1}}

In [[2559#November|November 2559]], the UNSC, the Swords of Sanghelios and the Banished all [[Battle of Netherop (2559)|sought]] [[Divine Hand|a weapon]] on [[Netherop]] that was used by [[Precursor]] fugitives to destroy a Guardian during the [[Forerunner-Precursor war]]. The battle drew the attention of the Created, but the three sides managed to escape before any serious Created forces could arrive. Recognizing that the weapon was far too dangerous for either of their species to ever use, Thel 'Vadam and [[Olympia Vale]] gave it to [[Atriox]] in the hopes that the Banished would destroy the Created and themselves with it instead.{{Ref/Novel|Out}}

[[File:HINF Cortana and Atriox.png|thumb|left|250px|Atriox confronting Cortana at the Silent Auditorium.]]

*''[[Halo: Outcasts]]''

*''[[Halo: Sunrise on Sanghelios]]''

*''[[Halo: Empty Throne]]''

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