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| | #REDIRECT [[Second Battle of New Mombasa]] |
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| {{Not Canon}}
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| |name= Second Battle of Mombasa
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| |image= [[File:Time to Believe.jpg|300px]]
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| |conflict=[[Human-Covenant war]]
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| |date=November [[2552]] (during [[List of "seven" references in Halo|7]] days)
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| |place=[[Mombasa]], [[Kenya]], [[Earth]]
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| |result= [[UNSC]] victory
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| |side1= [[United Nations Space Command]]
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| |side2= [[Covenant Empire]]
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| |commanders1=*Unknown Marine Officer
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| *Lord Hood
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| |commanders2=Unknown Chieftain
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| |forces1= *[[UNSC Marine Corps]]
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| **[[77th Marine Regiment|77<sup>th</sup> Marine Regiment]]
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| **[[506th Tank Regiment|506<sup>th</sup> Tank Regiment]]
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| |forces2= *[[Covenant Army|Covenant Loyalist Army]]
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| **[[Jiralhanae]]
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| **[[Mgalekgolo]]
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| **[[Unggoy]]
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| **[[Kig-yar]]
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| |casual1=Unknown, probably heavy
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| |casual2=Unknown, probably heavy
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| }}
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| The '''Second Battle of Mombasa''' was a bloody engagement between [[United Nations Space Command]] and [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] forces that is depicted in the [[John-117 Monument]]. The battle itself, or at least some of the events depicted, never actually occurred, but it serves as a summary of the final days of the [[Human-Covenant War]] and [[John-117]]'s ultimate sacrifice.<ref>http://halo3.com/believe/test/shell.html</ref><ref group="note">This battle was portrayed in the ''[[Believe]]'' advertising campaign prior to ''Halo 3''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s release. The fashion in which it is portrayed is considered to be non-canon. Microsoft was not aware of ''Halo 3''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s story during the development of the ''Believe'' campaign, and the battle is not depicted in ''Halo 3'' or concurrent media, such as ''[[Halo: Uprising]]''. The fate of New Mombasa as depicted in the diorama was later contradicted: ''Halo 3: ODST'' reveals that the city sustained relatively minor damage during Regret's escape and was glassed hours later, and that a protracted battle never occurred in the city's ruins.</ref>
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| ==Background==
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| On October 20, 2552, the [[Prophet of Regret]], having suffered heavy casualties on the ground at the hands of the Master Chief, entered Slipspace from within [[New Mombasa]], unleashing a powerful explosion that caused great damage to the city - heavy enough to sever the city's [[New Mombasa Orbital Elevator|space tether]], causing its catastrophic collapse onto the Kenyan Savanna. The severed Covenant ground forces and the UNSC defense forces surged forward into the city to secure whatever prize or tactical advantage the ruins might have held.
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| Later, human and Covenant forces clashed again in the ruins, both forces surging forward to capture it. The battle took place in the weeks immediately after the [[Prophet of Regret]]'s retreat to [[Installation 05]], lasting until John 117's return to Earth aboard the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s [[Forerunner Dreadnought]].
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| Elements from both the [[506th Tank Regiment]] and the [[77th Marine Regiment]] battled furiously for it, with snipers from both sides taking a heavy toll upon the enemy. Ultimately, the battle lasted [[seven]] days, with the UNSC forces in a desperate situation. With ammo becoming scarce and all hope seeming lost, that is when [[John-117]] stepped into the battle.
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| ==Timeline==
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| ===Battle for the landing zone===
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| The battle began on the outskirts of New Mombasa, where UNSC and Covenant forces engaged each other in a bitter fight for control of a Landing Zone. The UNSC never gained full control of it, always being pushed back by the Covenant whenever they seemed to secure it and vice versa.
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| ===The northern bridge falls===
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| Despite a valiant defense by the Marines, there was no way they could hold the bridge for much longer. With Brute forces surging over it and hitting the Marines' vulnerable flanks, there was only one option remaining. At 14:00, the order came through to destroy the bridge, to force the enemy down into the Valley where UNSC trenches lay to slaughter the enemy with fire from elevated positions. However, this was not the case as the [[Covenant]] forces had already begun to surge down the trenches with the destruction of the Bridge.
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| ===The hill===
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| The most ferocious and bloody bottleneck in the battle, the UNSC forces sent to defend it took 2/3rds casualties. After the second bridge was destroyed, the trenches at the foot of here, a last ditch defensive measure, came under heavy attack, garnering heavy Marine casualties.
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| ===Snipers===
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| Snipers from both sides battled for control, with UNSC Snipers fighting on one end of the destroyed southern bridge and Covenant [[Jackal sniper]]s halting Marines outside the Landing Zone before being routed by UNSC infantry and tanks.
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| ===The 506th arrive===
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| Tasked with securing a road to the southern bridge span, the [[506th Tank Regiment]] plowed forward, taking heavy casualties. Though outnumbered, they took their objective, leaving a path for the second wave of [[Marines|UNSC infantry]] to follow.
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| === John's gambit ===
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| It was at the top of the "Hill" bottleneck that [[John-117]], launched a gambit to retake the hill for the UNSC forces, by allowing himself to be captured by [[Brute]] forces there.
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| ==Notable UNSC combatants==
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| *'''[[Pawel Czernek]]'''- Major Pawel Czernek, who was active for 30 years in the UNSC from 2551 to 2581. He was one of the few surviving combatants who fought in The Battle of New Mombasa. Filmed in a documentary circa the turn of the 27th century at the [[Museum of Humanity]]. He related his role in the battle while examining a diorama of the battle - he manned an overturned [[Warthog|Warthog's]] turret - and described the morale Master Chief engendered during the battle ("We knew Master Chief was in the fight. He gave us hope.") The elderly Maj. Czernek wears a prosthetic metal right leg. It is unclear where or when he suffered that traumatic injury.<ref>[http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=2606 GameTrailers "The Museum" video]</ref>
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| *'''[[Ian Callahan]]'''- A soldier who was captured by two [[Kig-yar|Jackals]] during the Battle of New Mombasa, and saved by an unknown Marine.<ref name="mombasa">[http://halo3.com/believe "Believe" Halo 3 site]</ref>
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| *'''[[James Dessen]]'''- Corporal James Dessen was posthumously awarded a [[Red Legion of Honor]] medal for his extraordinary bravery during the Battle of New Mombasa.<ref name="mombasa"/>
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| *'''[[Thomas P. Porter]]'''- A [[Scorpion tank]] driver during the Battle of New Mombasa.<ref name="mombasa"/>
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| *'''[[Thomas Chang]]'''- Sergeant Chang was a veteran of numerous battles with the Covenant, and successfully completed the task of securing a forward HQ during the Battle of New Mombasa. He was killed during a Covenant air assault.<ref name="mombasa"/>
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| *'''[[Jackson Law]]'''- The sole survivor of a [[Warthog]] patrol during the Battle of New Mombasa. He sustained serious injuries when his warthog was destroyed by Covenant plasma bombardment.<ref name="mombasa"/>
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| *'''[[Sian Wong]]'''- A UNSC sniper during the Battle of New Mombasa. Sustained severe burn injuries from a retaliatory [[Banshee]] strike.<ref name="mombasa"/>
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| *'''[[Russel Tinnier]]'''- A UNSC marine during the Battle of New Mombasa assigned to destroy a strategic bridge.<ref name="mombasa"/>
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| *'''[[Thomas C. Meyer]]'''- A UNSC marine who used his rocket launcher to destroy the bridge alongside Tinnier.<ref name="mombasa"/>
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| *'''[[Emmanuel "Emmet" Lomax|Emmanuel Lomax]]'''- "Emmet" Lomax encountered [[John-117|Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, John-117]] during the Battle of New Mombasa, after receiving a precious 4 hours sleep in an abandoned building.<ref name="mombasa"/>
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| *'''[[Caio Zanato]]'''- Sole survivor of his squad during the Battle of New Mombasa, promoted to the rank of [[Private First Class]].<ref name="mombasa"/>
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| *'''[[Niraj Shah]]''' was a UNSC sniper during the battle on the Hill.<ref name="mombasa"/>
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| ==Theories==
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| {{Conjecturalization}}
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| As the diorama was supposedly made as part of a museum display many years after the war, it may in fact be an intentional distortion of what actually happened by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence#Section Two|Office of Naval Intelligence's Section Two]], in order to prevent knowledge of the [[Halo Array]], and [[Installation 00|the Ark]] from being gained by the general public, or to enforce John-117's status as a near-mythical heroic figure. This would fit with the fact that there has been no further mention of the battle.
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| As seen in ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'', the explosion caused by Regret's escape caused relatively superficial damage to the city, rather than razing it, which occurred according to the ''Believe'' campaign. On the morning of October 21st, 2552, the entire city and the surrounding area were [[Glassing|glassed]] by the Covenant in order to unearth the [[The Artifact|portal structure]]. When John-117 returned to Earth on November 17, he [[Battle of Tsavo|fought]] in the [[Tsavo]] region and the town of [[Voi]], though he never returned to Mombasa.
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| John-117's capture by a [[Jiralhanae]] [[Jiralhanae Chieftain|chieftain]] and his use of a grenade to escape might have been influenced by similar events inside the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]] before it arrived at Earth, where the SPARTAN was indeed captured by a Brute and interrogated, before sticking his captor with a plasma grenade and escaping.<ref>'''[[Halo: Uprising]]:''' ''[[Halo: Uprising Issue 2|Issue 2]]''</ref>
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| {{Conjecturalization End}}
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| ==Note==
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| <references group="note"/>
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| ==Gallery==
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| <gallery>
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| File:Halo3 panoramaA 001-1-.jpg|Marine fire teams defeat [[Brute]] forces outside of the LZ.
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| File:Halo3 diorama 1352-1-.jpg|The Covenant advance is halted by the destruction of the northern bridge.
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| File:Halo3 panoramaC 001-1-.jpg|Marines fall under the relentless advance of the Covenant War Machine.
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| File:Halo3 diorama 0749-2-.jpg|The snipers of the 77th Marines pick off Covenant soldiers from their elevated position.
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| File:Halo3 panoramaB 006-1-.jpg|The Scorpions of the 506th Tank Regiment arrive.
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| File:Halo3 panoramaD 001-1-.jpg|John incapacitated by the Jiralhanae Chieftain
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| File:Halo3 panoramaA 096.jpg|Marines of the 77th regiment engage some Brutes.
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| </gallery>
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Human-Covenant War]]
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| *[[Battle of Earth]]
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| **[[Battle of Mombasa]]
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| **[[Battle of Voi]]
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| ==Sources==
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| <references/>
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| {{Human-Covenant War}}
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| [[Category:Battle|Mombasa]]
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| [[Category:Human-Covenant War]]
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