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==Prelude== | ==Prelude== | ||
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{{Quote|Twenty-eight years Professor... Let's see what kind of galaxy we woke up to.|James Cutter to Ellen Anders.<ref name="The Signal" />}} | {{Quote|Twenty-eight years Professor... Let's see what kind of galaxy we woke up to.|James Cutter to Ellen Anders.<ref name="The Signal" />}} | ||
On [[2558#October|October 28, 2558]],<ref>'''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''', campaign level, ''[[Guardians (level)|Guardians]]''</ref> during the [[Created]]'s [[Subjugation of Earth|subjugation]] of [[Earth]], the [[Portal at Voi|portal to the]] immense, extra-[[Milky Way|galactic]] [[Forerunner]] [[Astroengineering|installation]] known as [[Installation 00]], or "the Ark," shut down.<ref>'''[[Halo Mythos]]''', ''page 202''</ref> One month later,<ref name="The Signal" /> on November 25,<ref>'''Halo Wars 2''', ''Phoenix Logs'' – "The Graveyard"</ref> a powerful [[Covenant]] splinter group, known as the [[Banished]], [[Attack on Installation 00|arrived and raided]] the [[United Nations Space Command]] research outposts on the surface.<ref name="The Signal" /> While there, the Banished set up bases and salvage operations across the Ark.<ref name="A New Enemy" /> | On [[2558#October|October 28, 2558]],<ref>'''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''', campaign level, ''[[Guardians (level)|Guardians]]''</ref> during the [[Created]]'s [[Subjugation of Earth|subjugation]] of [[Earth]], the [[Portal at Voi|portal to the]] immense, extra-[[Milky Way|galactic]] [[Forerunner]] [[Astroengineering|installation]] known as [[Installation 00]], or "the Ark," shut down.<ref>'''[[Halo Mythos]]''', ''page 202''</ref> One month later,<ref name="The Signal" /> on November 25,<ref>'''Halo Wars 2''', ''Phoenix Logs'' – "The Graveyard"</ref> a powerful [[Covenant]] splinter group, known as the [[Banished]], [[Attack on Installation 00|arrived and raided]] the [[United Nations Space Command]] research outposts on the surface.<ref name="The Signal" /> While there, the Banished set up bases and salvage operations across the Ark.<ref name="A New Enemy" /> | ||
Meanwhile, the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} spent almost twenty-eight years drifting through space<ref name="The Signal" />after their [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|slipsace drive]] was destroyed in the [[Battle of the Etran Harborage]].<ref name="Escape">'''[[Halo Wars]]''', campaign level, ''[[Escape]]''</ref>. A surviving [[Flood Infection Form]] on board the ship started an [[Outbreak on the UNSC Spirit of Fire|outbreak]], which was quickly quelled by [[Jerome-092]] and [[Serina]]. In the aftermath of the outbreak, 7 year old Serina prepared herself for final dispensation, as per protocol. Many years later, the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} arrived mysteriously via [[slipspace]] [[Slipspace portal|portal]] at Installation 00 on [[2559#March|March 28, 2559]].<ref name="The Signal" /> | |||
[[File:HW2-Anders&CutteraboveArk.png|thumb|left|250px|Captain James Cutter and Professor Ellen Anders examine the Ark.]] | [[File:HW2-Anders&CutteraboveArk.png|thumb|left|250px|Captain James Cutter and Professor Ellen Anders examine the Ark.]] | ||
Less than an hour after the ship's arrival, the crew was automatically awoken from [[Cryonics|cryosleep]] by the vessel's long-deceased [[smart AI]], | Less than an hour after the ship's arrival, the crew was automatically awoken from [[Cryonics|cryosleep]] by the vessel's long-deceased [[smart AI]], Serina, who had left a message for the ship's [[UNSC rank structure|captain]], [[James Cutter]], informing him of the status of the ship, the crew, and herself. After arriving at the ''Spirit of Fire''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s observation deck, Cutter was briefed on the situation by Professor [[Ellen Anders]], who told him that the [[astronavigation]] system placed them outside the Milky Way. When Cutter discovered they had arrived via slipspace portal, Anders revealed to him that something on the surface of the Ark had opened the portal and pulled them in. Not a second later, Cutter was informed over [[COM|comms]] that a message was being transmitted from the surface through a [[UNSC]] frequency, however its encryption was too advanced for the crew's outdated decryption techniques. Instead of spending time decoding it, Cutter asked Anders for the source of the transmission and ordered [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan]] [[Red Team]] to prepare a recon squad and find the source of the signal.<ref name="The Signal" /> | ||
With recon [[UNSC Armed Forces|forces]] having been sent in ahead, Red Team was dropped off in a [[Warthog]] on the Ark's south spire.<ref name="A New Enemy" /> Arriving at a hastily-created barrier, one of the soldiers of [[Recon One]] informed them that they had set charges and so [[Alice-130]] fired on it with the Warthog's [[M46 Vulcan|machine gun]], detonating the charges and destroying the barrier. After destroying another barrier, Red Team eventually encountered a recon team who had been attacked. Pressing on, the [[Spartan]]s arrived at a [[portal]] that had been discovered by the recon soldiers. While the [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]] stayed behind to guard the portal, Red Team ventured through and were teleported nearby. After passing a couple more portals, the Spartans found themselves at the [[Henry Lamb research outpost]].<ref name="The Signal" /> | With recon [[UNSC Armed Forces|forces]] having been sent in ahead, Red Team was dropped off in a [[Warthog]] on the Ark's south spire.<ref name="A New Enemy" /> Arriving at a hastily-created barrier, one of the soldiers of [[Recon One]] informed them that they had set charges and so [[Alice-130]] fired on it with the Warthog's [[M46 Vulcan|machine gun]], detonating the charges and destroying the barrier. After destroying another barrier, Red Team eventually encountered a recon team who had been attacked. Pressing on, the [[Spartan]]s arrived at a [[portal]] that had been discovered by the recon soldiers. While the [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]] stayed behind to guard the portal, Red Team ventured through and were teleported nearby. After passing a couple more portals, the Spartans found themselves at the [[Henry Lamb research outpost]].<ref name="The Signal" /> | ||