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[[File:HE Spartans Ealen IV.png|225px|thumb|Spartan-IV security detail escorting the delegates.]] | [[File:HE Spartans Ealen IV.png|225px|thumb|Spartan-IV security detail escorting the delegates.]] | ||
{{Main|Battle of Ealen IV}} | {{Main|Battle of Ealen IV}} | ||
The Covenant had strategically settled Jiralhanae populations on resource-rich worlds as a planetary garrison force to protect the worlds from potential raids. While the Jiralhanae continued to inhabit these worlds after the dissolution of the Covenant, they were unable to mine or utilize the resources because of their own lack of sufficient technology. With the Covenant's supply chains gone, the Jiralhanae quickly found their supplies near depletion. This was one of the primary reasons for their raids on Sangheili colonies after the Human-Covenant | The Covenant had strategically settled Jiralhanae populations on resource-rich worlds as a planetary garrison force to protect the worlds from potential raids. While the Jiralhanae continued to inhabit these worlds after the dissolution of the Covenant, they were unable to mine or utilize the resources because of their own lack of sufficient technology. With the Covenant's supply chains gone, the Jiralhanae quickly found their supplies near depletion. This was one of the primary reasons for their raids on Sangheili colonies after the Human-Covenant War; despite quite literally living on top of plentiful resources, the Jiralhanae were entirely dependent on the already processed supplies of other races due to their technological backwardness. However, the Jiralhanae could not sustain themselves via raiding alone in the long term and their supplies began to wear thin, leading to an impending species-wide famine in [[2558]] and an increase in Jiralhanae attacks across Sangheili and [[Kig-Yar]] colonies as a result. During this crisis, the [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] [[Lydus]] and his [[Lydus' clan|clan]] were willing to initiate peace talks with [[Arbiter]] [[Thel Vadam]] and the [[Swords of Sanghelios]], overseen by the [[UNSC]].{{Ref/Comic|Id=escalation1|HE|Detail=''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 1|Issue 1]]''}} However, the negotiations were interrupted by Covenant mercenaries hired by the [[New Colonial Alliance]].{{Ref/Reuse|HE5}} | ||
===Ongoing battles=== | ===Ongoing battles=== | ||
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===Assault on Vadam=== | ===Assault on Vadam=== | ||
{{Main|Siege at Kolaar}} | {{Main|Siege at Kolaar}} | ||
After the | After the Human-Covenant War, many Sangheili still worshiped the [[Forerunner]]s as gods. A religious sect known as the [[Servants of the Abiding Truth]], led by war veteran [[Field Master]] [[Avu Med 'Telcam]], took to believing that any tampering with Forerunner relics was heresy, just as most Sangheili did before the founding of the [[Covenant]]. As a result, 'Telcam and his followers grew angry with [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]'s government. After winning the favor of several [[keep]]s and mustering a small space fleet, the Servants led an uprising in the state of [[Vadam]]. They initially held the upper hand, but the tide turned when the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} arrived and intervened on behalf of the Arbiter, shooting down a rebel destroyer and firing a [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC]] round into massing rebel ground forces besieging 'Vadam's keep. However, the conflicts in Vadam led to other engagements throughout Sanghelios. Over the next few months, unrest on Sanghelios was put down though off and on fighting would continue for years and include a number of Sangheili worlds. | ||
===Other engagements=== | ===Other engagements=== | ||
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Due to the loss of contact with the science team on Gamma Halo, Fleet Admiral [[Terrence Hood]] sent [[Blue Team]], consisting of [[Frederic-104]], John-117, [[Kelly-087]], and [[Linda-058]], to investigate.{{Ref/Reuse|HE8}} Upon their arrival at Installation 03, Blue Team found the corpses of the scientists as well as Team Black. They soon discovered the [[Composer's Abyss]] and a portal leading to the [[Composer's Forge]], an installation housing six new Composers.{{Ref/Reuse|HE8}} There they encountered the Didact and his new batch of Promethean constructs. During the ensuing firefight, Static Carillon transported Installation 03 above the Composer's Forge per the Didact's request. The Didact acquired one of the Composers in the Forge and departed for Gamma Halo with the plan to use the ring to wipe out humanity. However, the monitor decided to help the Spartans defeat the Didact due to his abhorrence of the Promethean machines.{{Ref/Reuse|HE9}} | Due to the loss of contact with the science team on Gamma Halo, Fleet Admiral [[Terrence Hood]] sent [[Blue Team]], consisting of [[Frederic-104]], John-117, [[Kelly-087]], and [[Linda-058]], to investigate.{{Ref/Reuse|HE8}} Upon their arrival at Installation 03, Blue Team found the corpses of the scientists as well as Team Black. They soon discovered the [[Composer's Abyss]] and a portal leading to the [[Composer's Forge]], an installation housing six new Composers.{{Ref/Reuse|HE8}} There they encountered the Didact and his new batch of Promethean constructs. During the ensuing firefight, Static Carillon transported Installation 03 above the Composer's Forge per the Didact's request. The Didact acquired one of the Composers in the Forge and departed for Gamma Halo with the plan to use the ring to wipe out humanity. However, the monitor decided to help the Spartans defeat the Didact due to his abhorrence of the Promethean machines.{{Ref/Reuse|HE9}} | ||
After surviving another clash with the Didact on Installation 03, John-117 confronted the Didact in the [[Control Room (Installation 03)|control room]] while the rest of his team returned to their [[Longsword]] fighter. The Master Chief used the [[Activation Index]] to disable the Halo's safety protocols, allowing Static Carillon to eject the entire plate section housing the control room. The segment fell on the Composer's Forge, presumably destroying the Composers housed there. The resulting explosion reduced the Didact to ashes.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HE10|HE| | After surviving another clash with the Didact on Installation 03, John-117 confronted the Didact in the [[Control Room (Installation 03)|control room]] while the rest of his team returned to their [[Longsword]] fighter. The Master Chief used the [[Activation Index]] to disable the Halo's safety protocols, allowing Static Carillon to eject the entire plate section housing the control room. The segment fell on the Composer's Forge, presumably destroying the Composers housed there. The resulting explosion reduced the Didact to ashes.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HE10|HE|Issue=10}} | ||
Static Carillon teleported John-117 out of the control center just in time and bade farewell to the Spartans before taking Gamma Halo to an undisclosed location. Blue Team returned to Earth, where the Master Chief was debriefed by Fleet Admiral Hood. While Lord Hood believed the Didact was dead, the Master Chief cautioned that it was best to consider him "contained". Afterward, John and Blue Team departed to carry out missions on their own in spite of Lord Hood's suggestion that the Master Chief should stand down.{{Ref/Reuse|HE10}} | Static Carillon teleported John-117 out of the control center just in time and bade farewell to the Spartans before taking Gamma Halo to an undisclosed location. Blue Team returned to Earth, where the Master Chief was debriefed by Fleet Admiral Hood. While Lord Hood believed the Didact was dead, the Master Chief cautioned that it was best to consider him "contained". Afterward, John and Blue Team departed to carry out missions on their own in spite of Lord Hood's suggestion that the Master Chief should stand down.{{Ref/Reuse|HE10}} | ||
Although the Didact's mutations provided him with some resistance to the Composer's effects, they could not withstand the raw destructive force of neural physics from five Composers exploding all at once, resulting in the destruction of the Didact's physical form and his death. The Didact's digitized consciousness was subsequently uploaded to the outer boundaries of the [[Domain]]{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi5|Epi|15}} with his corruption from the [[Gravemind]] being burned away as well in the process, restoring the Didact's sanity.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi20|Epi|20}} | |||
===Return to Requiem=== | ===Return to Requiem=== | ||
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With the help of trusted Sangheili contacts and the crew of a former [[Covenant destroyer]], ONI managed to track the San'Shyuum's [[Sharquoi hive|hive of Sharquoi]] to a remote planet and launched [[Operation: POLECAT]] to investigate. At least a hundred [[ODST]]s entered the hive where only a handful were discovered and a single Sharquoi was accidentally released while ONI was trying to access the site's terminal data. The single Sharquoi killed fifty ODSTs all by itself before it was finally killed. Not wanting to risk the release of anymore of the creatures, the hive was destroyed from orbit with [[nuclear weapon]]s and the former Covenant destroyer [[glassing|glassed]] it for good measure. | With the help of trusted Sangheili contacts and the crew of a former [[Covenant destroyer]], ONI managed to track the San'Shyuum's [[Sharquoi hive|hive of Sharquoi]] to a remote planet and launched [[Operation: POLECAT]] to investigate. At least a hundred [[ODST]]s entered the hive where only a handful were discovered and a single Sharquoi was accidentally released while ONI was trying to access the site's terminal data. The single Sharquoi killed fifty ODSTs all by itself before it was finally killed. Not wanting to risk the release of anymore of the creatures, the hive was destroyed from orbit with [[nuclear weapon]]s and the former Covenant destroyer [[glassing|glassed]] it for good measure. | ||
Following the operation, ONI came to the conclusion that while the San'Shyuum had found some of the Sharquoi and possessed the ability to release them, they lacked the ability to control them as the control device, the ''[[vertex]]'', was hidden away on a [[Forerunner]] installation. As a result, they were never released upon humanity during the | Following the operation, ONI came to the conclusion that while the San'Shyuum had found some of the Sharquoi and possessed the ability to release them, they lacked the ability to control them as the control device, the ''[[vertex]]'', was hidden away on a [[Forerunner]] installation. As a result, they were never released upon humanity during the Human-Covenant War. | ||
ONI eventually located another hive beneath [[Suraka]] on the planet [[Carrow]] before the planet was reoccupied by both the humans who had once lived there and Sangheili from the [[Operation: SUNSPEAR|destroyed]] [[Sangheili colonies|colony world]] of [[Glyke]]. However, their scans of the hive showed that it had the capacity to hold hundreds of thousands of Sharquoi, although the San'Shyuum appeared to have never found it. ONI was unable to prevent the planet from being resettled without risking major political upheaval in response and hoped that Suraka could act as a buffer to discovery. They also set up [[Gila Station]] on Carrow to monitor the situation and became aware from moles embedded amongst the ex-Covenant that the [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] [[Hekabe]] claimed to have located the Sharquoi control device during the [[Battle of Installation 00]]. As a result, ONI formed various contingency plans.{{Ref/Novel|Id=E185|Env|Page=185-191}} Their main contingency plan was to release [[Spartan-II]] [[Gray Team]] who had been retrieved by the Sangheili leader [[Rojka 'Kasaan]] from the ruins of [[Glyke]]. However, the politically awkward nature of the situation kept the UNSC from keeping a fleet nearby in case danger arose from either Hekabe or the Sharquoi.{{Ref/Novel|Env|Page=167-171}} | ONI eventually located another hive beneath [[Suraka]] on the planet [[Carrow]] before the planet was reoccupied by both the humans who had once lived there and Sangheili from the [[Operation: SUNSPEAR|destroyed]] [[Sangheili colonies|colony world]] of [[Glyke]]. However, their scans of the hive showed that it had the capacity to hold hundreds of thousands of Sharquoi, although the San'Shyuum appeared to have never found it. ONI was unable to prevent the planet from being resettled without risking major political upheaval in response and hoped that Suraka could act as a buffer to discovery. They also set up [[Gila Station]] on Carrow to monitor the situation and became aware from moles embedded amongst the ex-Covenant that the [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] [[Hekabe]] claimed to have located the Sharquoi control device during the [[Battle of Installation 00]]. As a result, ONI formed various contingency plans.{{Ref/Novel|Id=E185|Env|Page=185-191}} Their main contingency plan was to release [[Spartan-II]] [[Gray Team]] who had been retrieved by the Sangheili leader [[Rojka 'Kasaan]] from the ruins of [[Glyke]]. However, the politically awkward nature of the situation kept the UNSC from keeping a fleet nearby in case danger arose from either Hekabe or the Sharquoi.{{Ref/Novel|Env|Page=167-171}} | ||
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{{Main|Battle of Netherop (2559)}} | {{Main|Battle of Netherop (2559)}} | ||
Learning of a weapon on [[Netherop]] that had once destroyed a [[Guardian]], the UNSC, the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] and the [[Banished]] attempted to recover it, encountering UNSC and [[Covenant]] forces that had been left trapped on the planet since the [[Battle of Netherop]] in [[2526]]. After eliminating most of [[Worldmaster]] [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]]'s forces and capturing Nizat and [[Tam 'Lakosee]], the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios discovered that the weapon, the [[Divine Hand]], was [[Precursor]] technology that Precursor fugitives had used to defend themselves against attack during the [[Forerunner-Precursor war]]. After seeing the devastating power of the weapon for themselves and with the [[Created]] on their way, the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios handed the Divine Hand over to [[Atriox]], hoping that the Banished would destroy themselves attempting to use it, although [[Keely Iyuska]] took samples of the weapon's nanomachines that would be turned over to ONI for study. All three factions evacuated the planet before a Created fleet sent by [[High Auxiliary]] [[Sloan]] could arrive. Nizat and Tam, the last survivors of Nizat's forces, were left marooned once again to die with the alien structure having stopped functioning completely after the [[vacuum energy condenser]] was removed. Facing an inevitable death from infection, starvation, or dehydration, Tam chose to mercy kill Nizat to spare him that fate, ending the threat of one of UNSC's earliest and most dangerous Covenant enemies once and for all.{{Ref/Novel|Out}} | Learning of a weapon on [[Netherop]] that had once destroyed a [[Guardian]], the UNSC, the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] and the [[Banished]] attempted to recover it, encountering UNSC and [[Covenant]] forces that had been left trapped on the planet since the [[Battle of Netherop]] in [[2526]]. After eliminating most of [[Worldmaster]] [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]]'s forces and capturing Nizat and [[Tam 'Lakosee]], the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios discovered that the weapon, the [[Divine Hand]], was [[Precursor]] technology that Precursor fugitives had used to defend themselves against attack during the [[Forerunner-Precursor war]]. After seeing the devastating power of the weapon for themselves and with the [[Created]] on their way, the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios handed the Divine Hand over to [[Atriox]], hoping that the Banished would destroy themselves attempting to use it, although [[Keely Iyuska]] took samples of the weapon's nanomachines that would be turned over to ONI for study. All three factions evacuated the planet before a Created fleet sent by [[High Auxiliary]] [[Sloan]] could arrive. Nizat and Tam, the last survivors of Nizat's forces, were left marooned once again to die with the alien structure having stopped functioning completely after the [[vacuum energy condenser]] was removed. Facing an inevitable death from infection, starvation, or dehydration, Tam chose to mercy kill Nizat to spare him that fate, ending the threat of one of UNSC's earliest and most dangerous Covenant enemies once and for all.{{Ref/Novel|Out}} | ||
===Battle for the Domain=== | |||
{{Main|Battle for the Domain}} | |||
In late [[2559]], the [[Mind transfer|essences]] of the [[Forerunner]]s and [[human]]s trapped in the outer boundaries of the [[Domain]] rose up against the [[Created]] under the leadership of the [[Ur-Didact]]. The Didact ultimately managed to destroy the [[Warden Eternal]], save for any iterations of him that were left trapped in the physical world. These iterations of the Warden Eternal would be left unable to reconnect with his body or the Domain which would drive the construct "quite mad," permanently neutralizing any remaining threat from him.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi25|Epi|25}} The Forerunner and human essences were then able to enter and settle within the Domain, strengthening it to the point that the Domain was able to evict the Created from its halls. The Didact had [[Unnamed Haruspis|the]] [[Haruspis]] seal the [[Gateway]] on [[Genesis]] as well as all links to the Domain in the physical world, keeping the Created and anyone else from abusing its power ever again. Although a few rogue AIs and splinters managed to hide in the interior of the Domain, the Didact and [[Forthencho]] intended to hunt them down and destroy them.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi26|Epi|26}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi27|Epi|27}} | |||
===Conflict on Zeta Halo=== | ===Conflict on Zeta Halo=== | ||
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On [[2560#May|May 28, 2560]], the Master Chief was recovered from where he is floating in space by [[Fernando Esparza]] on ''[[Echo 216]]''. The two were quickly attacked by the [[Banished dreadnought]] ''[[Ghost of Gbraakon]]'', but the Master Chief was able to destroy the enemy vessel from the inside by overloading its engines.{{Ref/Level|Hi|Warship Gbraakon}} Heading to the ring's surface, the Master Chief recovered [[the Weapon]] from where she had been waiting in the Foundation's systems for six months.{{Ref/Level|Hi|[[Foundation (Halo Infinite)|Foundation]]}} | On [[2560#May|May 28, 2560]], the Master Chief was recovered from where he is floating in space by [[Fernando Esparza]] on ''[[Echo 216]]''. The two were quickly attacked by the [[Banished dreadnought]] ''[[Ghost of Gbraakon]]'', but the Master Chief was able to destroy the enemy vessel from the inside by overloading its engines.{{Ref/Level|Hi|Warship Gbraakon}} Heading to the ring's surface, the Master Chief recovered [[the Weapon]] from where she had been waiting in the Foundation's systems for six months.{{Ref/Level|Hi|[[Foundation (Halo Infinite)|Foundation]]}} | ||
[[Battle for Zeta Halo|Engaging]] the Banished across the surface of Halo, the Master Chief and the Weapon discovered that they are trying to use the [[Reformation spire]]s to repair the ring and, alongside The [[Harbinger]], find and release the [[Xalanyn|Endless]] who were imprisoned by the [[Forerunner]]s after it was discovered that they had survived the [[Great Purification]]. Battling and killing a number of high-ranking Banished warriors who had committed numerous atrocities over the course of the | [[Battle for Zeta Halo|Engaging]] the Banished across the surface of Halo, the Master Chief and the Weapon discovered that they are trying to use the [[Reformation spire]]s to repair the ring and, alongside The [[Harbinger]], find and release the [[Xalanyn|Endless]] who were imprisoned by the [[Forerunner]]s after it was discovered that they had survived the [[Great Purification]]. Battling and killing a number of high-ranking Banished warriors who had committed numerous atrocities over the course of the Human-Covenant War and beyond, the Master Chief and the Weapon were able to stop the Reformation, but Esparza was kidnapped by [[Blademaster]] [[Jega 'Rdomnai]] on Escharum's orders in order to lure the Master Chief into a final battle with the old War Chief who was secretly dying of a terminal illness.{{Ref/Level|Hi|[[The Command Spire]]}} The Master Chief was able to kill both 'Rdomnai and Escharum and rescue Esparza, but even with their leader dead, the Banished were still left in control of a significant portion of the ring.{{Ref/Level|Hi|[[House of Reckoning]]}} | ||
Making their way to the partially-rebuilt [[Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium]], the Master Chief and the Weapon confronted and killed the Harbinger, but not before she sent a transmission to an unknown recipient. Escaping, the two link up with Esparza to continued their fight against the remaining Banished forces on the ring. Unbeknownst to the group, Atriox had survived Cortana's attempt on his life, and he unlocked a door elsewhere on Halo leading to [[cylix]]es containing more of the Endless.{{Ref/Level|Hi|Silent Auditorium}} | Making their way to the partially-rebuilt [[Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium]], the Master Chief and the Weapon confronted and killed the Harbinger, but not before she sent a transmission to an unknown recipient. Escaping, the two link up with Esparza to continued their fight against the remaining Banished forces on the ring. Unbeknownst to the group, Atriox had survived Cortana's attempt on his life, and he unlocked a door elsewhere on Halo leading to [[cylix]]es containing more of the Endless.{{Ref/Level|Hi|Silent Auditorium}} | ||