Soell system: Difference between revisions

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| [[Threshold|Soell VII "Threshold"]] || [[File:H5G Threshold.png|300px]] || Gas Giant planet || 12 moons including [[Basis]]<br>[[Installation 04]]<br>[[Deep-Space Anomaly 0198]]<br>[[Threshold gas mine]]

[[File:H2A-AlphaHaloDiscovery.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Fleet of Particular Justice over Installation 04.]]

In [[2552]], the penultimate year of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the humans of the ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn]]'' made a supposedly blind [[slipspace]] jump into the Soell system, having narrowly fled the [[Covenant]] who had [[Fall of Reach|completely destroyed]] the colony world of [[Reach]]. As the ''Autumn'' approached the ring,{{Ref/Level|Id=poa|HCE|[[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|The Pillar of Autumn]]}} [[343 Guilty Spark]] sent a signal to the human vessel threatening to activate the ring's defensive countermeasures if they did not retreat from its vicinity. However, upon recognizing the humans, the apparent [[Reclaimer]]s of the Forerunner race, Guilty Spark disabled the ring's defenses and welcomed the humans to approach.{{Ref/Game|[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]|[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)/One|Terminal One]]}} During this, the Covenant [[Fleet of Particular Justice]] emerged, having beaten the humans to Soell and initiating an attack on the cruiser, thus triggering the climactic [[Battle of Installation 04]].{{Ref/Reuse|poa}}

In the days that followed, the humans and Covenant battled for control of the installation, both unaware of its true value as a weapon of mass destruction. During the prolonged engagement, the Covenant unknowingly unleashed the Flood, which had laid in stasis as the installation's vast army of [[Sentinels]] studied its nature. The parasite spread quickly and soon overtook both sides, threatening to use the Covenant's remaining ships to flee the Soell system and infect all life in the galaxy. 343 Guilty Spark sought the aid of [[Spartan-II program|Spartan-II supersoldier]] [[John-117]] in activating the ring's defenses and with it the entire Halo Array.{{Ref/Level|HCE|[[Two Betrayals]]}} Instead, with the aid of [[Cortana]] the Spartan evaded both Spark and the Covenant invaders and detonated the ''Pillar of Autumn''{{'}}s fusion reactors, causing a chain reaction that destroyed Installation 04 and prevented the Flood from escaping the system.{{Ref/Level|HCE|[[The Maw]]}}

The Covenant holy city of ''[[High Charity]]'' occupied the Soell system as the [[High Council]] publicly prosecuted [[Shipmaster]] [[Thel 'Vadamee]] for his failure to safeguard the ringworld.{{Ref/Level|H2|[[The Heretic]]}} However, the Council opted to promote 'Vadamee to [[Arbiter]], and tasked him with the elimination of a group of [[Heretics]] that had assembled on the [[Threshold gas mine]], unaware of the Flood specimens also alive on board.{{Ref/Level|H2|[[The Arbiter]]}} The [[Battle of the Threshold gas mine|engagement]] saw the destruction of this facility, the Heretics, and all Flood encased within, as well as the capture of 343 Guilty Spark.{{Ref/Level|H2|[[The Oracle]]}}  

After the conclusion of the Human-Covenant War that saw the final collapse of the Covenant, the Soell system fell into the newly-established [[Joint Occupation Zone]] and is under the strict supervision of the Sangheili-led [[Swords of Sanghelios]] and the [[United Nations Space Command]].