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 [[Image:UNSC Home Fleet.JPG|thumb|left|250px|The [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet]] prepares to engage the [[Covenant Navy]].]]
-Shortly after the defeat at Halo, the Covenant had amassed a large [[Fleet]] that appeared to be intended to assault [[Earth]]. It is revealed that the Covenant discovery of Earth was an accident after the ''[[Pious Flea]]'' had been intercepted by the UNSC stealth ship ''[[Apocalypso]]''. After retrieving a Forerunner artifact, the ''Apocalypso'' made a [[Slipspace]] jump directly to Earth. When the ship tumbled into real space and crashed on the moon, the ''Pious Flea'' sent a message to the heart of the Covenant military, containing reconnaissance data, photos, star maps, and the coordinates of the Forerunner Artifact, which is now on Earth. The events of ''[[Halo 2]]'' apparently contradict the novel in explicitly stating that the Covenant had not identified Earth as the Human homeworld. However, the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'s'' fleet was never expressly identified to be intending to assault Earth; this is merely a reasonable assumption made by the Human forces upon discovery of the fleet's destination of [[Sol]].
+Shortly after the defeat at Halo, the Covenant had amassed a large [[Fleet]] that appeared to be intended to assault [[Earth]]. It is explained in the audio drama, [[I Love Bees]], that the Covenant discovery of Earth was an accident after the ''[[Pious Flea]]'' had been intercepted by the UNSC stealth ship ''[[Apocalypso]]''. After retrieving a Forerunner artifact, the ''Apocalypso'' made a [[Slipspace]] jump directly to Earth. When the ship tumbled into real space and crashed on the moon, the ''Pious Flea'' sent a message to the heart of the Covenant military, containing reconnaissance data, photos, star maps, and the coordinates of the Forerunner Artifact, which is now on Earth. The events of ''[[Halo 2]]'' apparently contradict the novel in explicitly stating that the Covenant had not identified Earth as the Human homeworld. However, the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'s'' fleet was never expressly identified to be intending to assault Earth; this is merely a reasonable assumption made by the Human forces upon discovery of the fleet's destination of [[Sol]].
 This leaves the exact nature of the fleet's mission uncertain, as there is no definitive proof that the Covenant were intending to attack a Human homeworld. The surviving Humans, however, believed this fleet to be a direct threat to Earth, and, using a captured Covenant [[flagship]], lured the fleet into a trap and destroyed it.