Quarantine zone (location): Difference between revisions

Several months into the protracted Second Ark Conflict, High Charity's quarantine zone would become the target of reconnaissance and - in the case of the latter group - salvage operations by UNSC forces of the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} and [[Banished]]. Due to a [[Operation: SPEARBREAKER|close encounter]] with a [[Despair-class fighter|Forerunner ship]], [[James Cutter]] deployed teams to watch over several potential hotspots of activity throughout the Ark including the wreck of High Charity<ref name="PandorasBoxI"/> while Jiralhanae brothers [[Pavium]] and [[Voridus]] were tasked by [[Atriox]] to salvage the area around the quarantine zone for potentially salvageable formerly-Covenant equipment. These orders were followed with an explicit instruction to, under no circumstances, enter or breach the quarantine zone. However, many soldiers of the Banished, including Voridus, believed the tales of High Charity's fall and the end of the war to be mere Covenant propaganda, and thus ignored these instructions. Voridus was able to use his [[Infusion gel|Infused]] [[Banished Scarab|Scarab]] to burn a hole through the quarantine shield. A small squad of Jiralhanae were sent into High Charity to scout out the entrance way, but re-emerged as infected combat forms. These combat forms were soon followed by a swarm of Pod infectors, [[Abomination]]s, [[Flood spawner form|Spawner forms]] and many other new Flood forms to quickly spread across the Ark. However, this threat was ultimately contained thanks to Pavium and Voridus' timely reactivation of the Ark's defense grid, with Sentinels proceeding to swarm the area and presumably completely sterilize it.