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The Far Tower was a tower in the Covenant holy city of High Charity. Its Covenant name is unknown; "Far Tower" is a UNSC colloquialism used in order to

and removing the threat of the Halo Array. Following the Great Schism and the death of the Prophet of Truth, the Covenant—and the organisation of their religion—effectively

their place in the rigid caste system. The Spine of the Gods was the long boom that trailed behind the holy city, where the Lances of the Faithful were

alive, and join the rest of the attacking force on the coast. ‘Telcam then informs the survivors that other keeps are rallying up against the Arbiter for allowing

Spartans were the ones responsible for the destruction of one of the Holy Rings. The Imperial Admiral made 'Mantakree Fleet Master of the Second Fleet of

will be vivisected in order to investigate immunity to the Flood. After Two follows the rest of the Spartans into the facility, the Monitor hacks into Four's

resurgence following the end of the Human-Covenant War and the outbreak of the Blooding Years. The Abiding Truth, now a militant cult under the leadership of

explicit order. The Incorruptible then identified their target: a vast Forerunner city on the surface of the planet. The fleet descended into the atmosphere

capable of cleansing the enemies of the Covenant with holy fire. V - meaning currently unknown. Main article: Silver Timeline UNSC ships in the Silver Timeline

Sarcophagus. The majority of the forces brought by the Servants soon followed, with those few that remained only doing so in order to hide the Song of Wrath

Ecumene In the millennia preceding the outbreak of the Flood War, during the High Ecumene period, the Skirr-class battlecruisers and the Second-order fast frigates

Harvest. We must learn the secrets inside the holy relic before the Great Journey can continue. The humans must not be allowed to enter the artifact; we will

fleet, the Incorruptible followed the holy city to Installation 05, and safeguarded it while the battle raged on the megastructure below. During the Fall

once existed, the majority of the vessels were destroyed by the Librarian to prevent the Flood from reaching the Ark. The most notable of the surviving vessels

After any initial order dice have been rolled during the order dice phase, the Minister may change a single friendly Covenant order dice to be any result

become the foundation of High Charity, the future holy city of the Covenant. With the help of the Forerunner technology from the Dreadnought, the Reformists

were split over the usage of the ship, as the Stoics refused to enter the vessel, while the radical Reformists wished to explore it. The division in San'Shyuum

obliterate the Sangheili at the behest of their leader, Pervading Stone, who was also the head of the Keepers of the Dawn. His father had fallen to the Sangheili

as a warrior in the Zealot order during the Ninth Age of Reclamation. By August 2552, he had been elevated from the Zealot order by the High Prophet of

compete with the disgraced warlord for leadership. During the Battle of Epsilon Clarion, the Ferrets alerted the loyalists and the Keepers to the clan's presence

on Delta Halo from reaching the Index. In order to gain access to the Library and retrieve the Index, the Hierarchs of the Covenant dispatched Arbiter

led by the Prophet of Inner Conviction traveled to the planet and managed to obtain the Luminary and the Purifying Vision of the Holy Path in the grotto

surface of the ring. UNSC forces under the command of Douglas-042 led an assault on the repair team, seeking to commandeer the Scarab in order to destroy

forces of the Covenant, and the Flood. The battle resulted in the death of the Prophet of Truth, the final Hierarch, and the dissolution of the Covenant

one of the Hierarch residences. For the other Hierarch residence, see Palace of the Hierarchs. The Sanctum of the Hierarchs is the name given to the private

significance". During the Battle of Kholo, the Prophet of Conviction represented the High Council and gave the order to the Shipmaster of the Fleet of Righteous

God, being very God of one with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, in one essence as the Holy Trinity. He is the savior of humanity who suffered, died

organisations. After the Covenant's defeat at the end of the Human-Covenant War, most of these scattered assets fell under the control of the various Covenant

Truth in the Report on the Atrocity at Halo. The loss of the holy Forerunner relic was an unforgivable failure in the eyes of the High Prophets and Sangheili

would personally gut his carcass. The two brothers donned Ranger armor in order to survey the airless moon. Scouting the landscape in a Wraith, they encountered

Dreadnought to the rest of the city. The conduit was located between the Forerunner Dreadnoughtin the center of the city and one of the towers on the city's edge

between the two species through the Sangheili leader, Pelahsar the Strident, and the San'Shyuum Breaking Shadow. The two agreed to forgive the past crimes

Angered at the interference and the high casualties the change in plans would produce, the shipmaster nevertheless canceled his prior order and gave different

Charity. The cruiser's own geometry was also used for High Charity as the holy city's own geometry was cut. The battlecruiser is the first setting in the Halo

They are the Flood, one of the many tests and obstacles we must pass to activate the holy rings and begin the Great Journey." — Rtas 'Vadumee and the Minister

found should the Flood ever return. The ongoing space battle of the Forerunners and the Flood, the Battle of the Maginot Sphere, had its order completely

station in the galaxy; the distribution of the final Halo Array would follow several years later. During the battle at the Capital and the years that followed

up over the bodies of their brothers, through the smoke of their burning city, they will look to the horizon as their holy idol rises from the sea and

During the course of the conversation, which ran for 43 years, the being explained the truth about the Mantle and the fullness of the Precursors' plan

declared that the humans destroyed the holy reliquary on Harvest, and ordered the entire race to be eradicated. The first battle of the war was the extended

that the Mona Lisa had been overcome by the Flood. The mission saw the deaths of all but one marine, as well as an ONI operative responsible for the outbreak;

theorizes that the tower's location could be the source of the signal Mountain was looking for or the signal's destination. She tells one of the Spartans to

the ship. The issue's solicitation claims that the story shows Petra Janecek infiltrating a Sangheili holy land in search of the UNSC traitor. In the issue

frontal assaults, the Shifter can transform into a hulking tank configuration, balancing the mobility of the stalker with the aggression of the ranged form.

by allowing the Sangheili to gain the treasures, Fortitude ensured that the Jiralhanae were the ones leading the search. In order to push the three current

in the war, the Reformists formed a stronghold in the fortress of Granduin in the Zelfiss region. However, it was undermined by the Stoics and the fortress

in the Pillar of Autumn's hangar. Gunning the engines, the Chief and Cortana escape the ring just as the Autumn explodes, ending the threat of the Flood

Installation 04 as either the First Holy Ring or the First Sacred Ring. After its destruction at the end of the Battle of Installation 04, the Ark started to construct

bomb around Installation 05, to stop the outbreak of the Flood, and High Charity, in order to destroy the Covenant holy capital. However, it is apparent that

version of the level from the E3 2008 build of the game. Note the presence of the Halo Wars 2 design of the Mark III (S) Cyclops/ Another look at the early

Silva and the rest. Raven instead fought against boarders on the ship to repel the invasion, under the guidance of the AI Wellsley. During the fighting

to have lab equipment brought to the Forerunner site along with the UNSC's half of the Janus Key in order to analyze the artifact; Palmer reluctantly agrees

picks up the helmet with the recorder and dons it. The Marines begin to run towards the exit of the room, unarmed. Suddenly, a door explodes and the Marine

camps and drive the San'Shyuum off the planet. By the time of the skirmish, the artifact at Site One, the Holy Dome, had been under excavation for some time

him. The Prelate, wounded by the Yanme'e, flees the battle while the Minister retreats into his bunker and the Sangheili engage the insectoids. The Minister

into the holy city, spreading the parasite. Around this time, the High Prophet of Truth left the High Prophet of Mercy to die at the hands of the Flood

launchers. The Sentinels were revered by the Covenant as "holy warriors of the Sacred Rings", despite engaging them in combat on various occasions. The Sentinels

of the Jiralhanae to the positions formerly held by the Sangheili, UNSC PoWs were routinely captured and butchered for food for the Jiralhanae. The Prisoner

as the Hierarchs order the Brutes to betray the Elites. The Arbiter manages to defeat Tartarus, Chieftain of the Jiralhanae, by forming an alliance with

directive on the authority of the remains of the New Council (namely the Librarian and the IsoDidact) during the events surrounding the firing of the Halo Array

of the many sentinels in the immediate vicinity and figured that the Ark would not deploy them so without good reason. Were some evil to befall the operation

about the campaign level. For other uses, see Heretic (disambiguation). The Heretic is the first campaign level of Halo 2, consisting entirely of the cinematics

changes to the Covenant which caused the Great Schism, the civil war that led to the dissolution of the Covenant empire. In the final weeks of the Human-Covenant

managed to explore the Covenant holy city High Charity to a limited degree, likely the first human to set foot there. Learning of the Jiralhanae invasion

hours of the war, the Gravemind revealed to the Librarian that it effectively allowed the Forerunners to activate the Halos in order to destroy the Domain

Sentinels, by standing on the furthest possible point from the front of the Aggressor. This is easiest on The Ark, at the point where the light bridge must be

internal mission codes. Following the end of the war with the Covenant, cooperation with the Swords of Sanghelios revealed the true complex extent of Covenant

attempt to get the Spartans killed by the Covenant. After the wreckage of the Worthy Silence crashed to the quarry floor and the rest of the Bloodstar flotilla

pertaining to the Halo Array, including the activation index from Installation 04. "When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box." —

is also the source of the name "the Ark". Knowing that the Array would defeat the Flood through sterilizing the galaxy of any neurologically complex life

breached the ruins of High Charity and inadvertently unleashed the Flood on the Ark once more. The Banished and the Ark's defenses managed to stop the outbreak

descended from the gravity lift the Chief used to enter the prison. The UNSC force was successful in repelling the attack, and left the prison. "The Elites have

beings known as the Precursors thrived in the cosmos. Having assumed the Mantle - the responsibility for the guardianship of all life in the galaxy - they

into the office. With the Spartan's assistance, the UNSC were able to retake the office and destroy many of the Covenant vehicles in the area. The Covenant

jump inside the central dome of the Covenant's holy city, the Flood-controlled In Amber Clad soon crashed into one of the towers lining the city's edge

message from the storage device. The recording reveals the existence of a solution to the Flood on the other side of the Portal without firing the remaining

since the war due to the rumored presence of many Mgalekgolo still aboard it. Gek's crew arrived at the scene just before the human salvagers of the Ace

escaped with Halsey and the second half of the Janus Key. In order to invade the Infinity, Jul locked the ship into place using the Requiem slipspace artifacts

prefacing the first Eleventh Hour report Although the death of the Prophet of Truth at the Ark during the endgame of the Covenant War saw the ultimate defeat

High Charity during the fall of the Holy City amidst the chaos of the Great Schism. However, Spartan John-117 managed to infiltrate the ship via a conduit

second was that the child was not the offspring of any of the cadets and thus the admiral's grandchild would have been fatherless. The third was that Cole

power up the Dreadnought to take the humans to the Ark, an act which will destroy the Covenant holy city. However, the ancilla is stopped when the Dreadnought

enemy-controlled world. The specifics of the glassing process vary depending on the strategic significance of the planet or the orders of the Fleet Master. A Minor

went missing after the war's final battle in December 2552, having stymied the threat of the Covenant, the Flood, and the Halos. In the interbellum, John

seized the Ops Center and disarmed the bomb. Keyes orders the Chief to retake the Ops Centers while the others evacuate. The Chief clears out the Covenant

Prophets. The holy sears who led our great Covenant believers along the path to transcendence; the path to the Great Journey." — The Shipmaster The Shipmaster

of the Great Schism and the defeat of the Covenant. After the Hierarchs replaced the Sangheili with the Jiralhanae and ordered the genocide of the former

aid the convoy but, as the two neared the vineyards, one of the Spirits lowered and began to fire at the convoy. Johnson discovered the remains of several

colonies. By the 26th century, the English language served as the primary language of the Unified Earth Government and, by extension, the United Nations

Harvest. We must learn the secrets inside the holy relic before the Great Journey can continue. The humans must not be allowed to enter the artifact; we will

problem in the early 22nd century. In the wake of the Interplanetary War in the 2160s, the UNSC became the military and space exploratory arm of the newly-established

within the enormous production corridors of the Ingens Assembler Vats. During the Forerunner-Flood war, the Supernal Spiral-class keyship became the most

hundred candidates. In order to honor the sacrifices made by the men and women of the original ORION effort, she opted to call the project "SPARTAN-II",

Keyes crash-landed the ship on the installation where the surviving crew continued the battle against the Covenant, and later, the Flood. The ship's sole remaining

own. The Precursors did not approve of this and made the decision to strip the Forerunners of the Mantle, wipe out the Forerunners, and pass down the Mantle

came the small methane-breathing Unggoy—the Grunts of the Covenant." — The Prophet of Clarity Balaho, also known as Tala IV, is the homeworld of the Unggoy

installation. The Gravemind itself resided in the chamber directly below the index chamber in the center of the Library. The use of the Quarantine Zone was

Set the Charges and destroy this place." - To the Arbiter, ordering him to destroy the Forerunner relic. "The Journey requires sacrifice! Set the charges

prevent the Covenant from finding the location of Earth or any other human population center. Essentially, the Cole Protocol was an order forbidding the Covenant

is located at the bottom of a pit in front of the Control Room structure at the end of the level. The terminal is on the ground, under the base of a large