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peacefully in the ongoing battle. The Second Ark Conflict was a large battle fought between the isolated United Nations Space Command forces of the UNSC Spirit

small-scale engagement between the forces of the United Nations Space Command and Banished during the Second Ark Conflict. The engagement was primarily

era, the Banished accrued power and prestige, culminating in Warmaster Atriox's interest in the Ark as a means of securing the Banished position in the galactic

The Raid on Anodyne Spirit was an operation conducted by the Banished during the Second Ark Conflict in 2559. Their objective was to infiltrate the Anodyne

normal operations. Main article: Second Ark Conflict Following the initial battle for the Ark in 2552, the installation was heavily scarred - though not

Ark in the Battle of Installation 00 at the climax of the Human-Covenant War. This excursion would result in the release of the Flood from its quarantine

is about the battle in the post-war era. For the battle during the Human-Covenant War, see Onyx Conflict. On September, 2558, a new conflict was sparked

Charity, the holy city of the Covenant. The Fall of High Charity followed in the onset of the Great Schism, resulting in the Flood taking control of the titanic

after the Created uprising in late 2558. In early 2559, the Ark would become the home of a new conflict as the Banished fought with the forces of the long-lost

Banished, and the UNSC on the Ark with the latter two attempting to keep the Keepers and Covenant forces from using Epsilon Clarion to activate the Halo Array

Eternal The Created uprising, also known as the Created conflict, or the Created rebellion, was a large scale conflict between various forces across the galaxy

foiled by the Banished and the UNSC. In the process, Castor learned the truth about the Halos and broke off his alliance with the loyalists as the UNSC Spirit

costly victories. The conflict was also the cause of the Great Schism within the Covenant. Forced to fight a war on two fronts, the formerly monolithic

and Second Ark Conflict. Two other cases of extragalactic conflict are known to have occurred in the distant past; the Battle of the greater Ark in the

Main article: Second Ark Conflict The Ironclad were a part of the Banished force brought by Atriox to the Ark in 2558, and left under the command of Let

at the Forerunner megastructure Installation 00. During the Second Ark Conflict, Kinsano played a key role in the fight against the Banished as the leader

and the forces of the UNSC Spirit of Fire. During one of these excursions, the quarantine would be breached and the Flood unleashed on the Ark. The Banished

as the first, second, and third battles of Mombasa. The conflict began when the Fleet of Sacred Consecration, under the command of the Prophet of Regret

inside the Control Room and left the Ark with the Halo which was intercepted in slipspace by one of the Created's Guardians. On the Ark, both Cutter and

Spirit of Fire in the early years of the Human-Covenant War, and were present on the ship in February of 2531 when the ship was pulled to the uncharted Korinth

that the Halo Array had been remotely activated, the UNSC planned to send a force from the Home Fleet, led by the cruiser UNSC Endeavor, to the Ark to deactivate

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

Infinity's docking bay. In 2559, the Spirit of Fire continued to employ Vulture gunships in the Second Ark Conflict. After receiving coordinates for a supposed

log describing the situation the Forerunners found themselves in. As the Flood grew in number and became more intelligent in the process, the Forerunners

Alannah Quinn during the Second Ark Conflict. The EXO/TSCS chest is unlockable in Series 5: Anvil of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The chest piece that

threat on the Ark through into 2559, during which time they partook in the Second Ark Conflict as combatants to defend the installation against the forces

to strike the Citadel. The Battle of the Citadel was the final battle of the Human-Covenant War and a battle within the larger Ark Conflict fought between

over the Ark, which by then had fully repaired itself and finished constructing a second replacement ring. At some point during the conflict, the Banished

and land. Main article: Second Ark Conflict "In the shadows of the Ark lurked a banished legacy of the shattered Covenant: a new opponent fueled not by

variant used by the UNSC Spirit of Fire during the Second Ark Conflict. The M808 Scorpion was first manufactured in 2218, rumbling across the sands of Mars

exoskeleton used by the UNSC Army, and the crew of the UNSC Spirit of Fire during the Second Ark Conflict in 2559. The Colossus is the largest and most powerful

watched Guilty Spark aid the humans and Sangheili in engagements across the installation. Later in the battle, Tragic Solitude watched in horror as Installation

became the flagship of the Banished fleet. It was destroyed over Installation 00 by the Ark's Aggressor Sentinels during the conflict with the UNSC Spirit

Regret discovered the location of the Ark Portal from a Forerunner Luminary unearthed in the aftermath of the Battle of Meridian, he quickly conjured a small

ground engagements are in effect, the Covenant will resort to low range bombardment, bringing their ships closer to the surface to destroy the area in question

Post-Covenant War conflicts After the end of the war against the Covenant, the UNSC Marines participated in a number of engagements against the Covenant remnants

Battle of the Silent Cartographer? The Battle for the Cartographer was a large engagement during the initial stages of the Ark Conflict and the penultimate

The Siege of the Inner Colonies was the series of engagements taking place in humanity's Inner colonies that made up the late Human-Covenant War and roughly

Later, the reconstituted Mendicant Bias assisted the Flood and the Graveminds in their assault on the greater Ark and Omega Halo, resulting in the destruction

history, as the Covenant split apart in the Great Schism at the conclusion of the age. The Ninth Age of Reclamation was the time in which the Human-Covenant

visible during the latter part of The Ark, where engagements with enemies take place across wide open areas In Halo 3 on the level The Ark, Phantoms can

Earth in search of the most sacred Forerunner artifact in existence, the mammoth structure and portal generator that served as the gateway to the Ark, would

and the time of the Covenant were at an end, but the time of the Banished had just begun. "The Ark is ours, humans, and no one will stand before the might

- Nicknamed "The Mark" for his exceptional sniping abilities. Team Saber's marksman. Died in October 2559 during the Second Ark Conflict. Like all known

lost. The Battle of XI Boötis A in 2528 saw the loss of thirty ships out of the UNSC's seventy to the Covenant. The Battle of the Great Bear at the Groombridge

one, the Fleet of Retribution nevertheless succeeded in destroying the Covenant's orbital forces, assisting the UNSC on the surface of the Ark. The surviving

virtually helpless against the new tactics adopted by the Flood in the later years of their conflict: through the logic plague, the parasite was able to rapidly

of the drivers offered his vehicle to the Spartan, who obliged. With this, the unit moved into the second lake bed. Within the second lake bed, the Covenant

retreat, the city remained occupied but now by the Prophet of Truth and his Jiralhanae loyalists. In the aftermath of the battle, the Portal to the Ark was

civilization in the galaxy until the activation of the Halo Array, their Pyrrhic solution to halt the Flood, in 97,445 BCE. Although they themselves are essentially

2552 was a year in the 2550s in the 26th century. It was the ultimate year of the Human-Covenant War, during which the humans of the United Nations Space

Sentinels joined the conflict in its later stages. The battle became the turning point of the Human-Covenant War and ultimately led to the Great Schism. Main

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who faced the Didact again shortly afterward; after defeating the Promethean for the second time, the team continued to serve in the field in a number of

Luminary on Meridian, the Prophet of Regret discovered the presence of a gateway portal to the Ark on the planet of "Erde-Tyrene". From the Ark, he would be able

critical engagements in the war and also to conduct the riskiest missions in the history of mankind. In April 2526, the Corbulo Academy of Military Science

can be delivered directly to the battlefield by D81-LRT Condor dropships, and were used notably in the Second Ark Conflict. The modules then unpack and can

The Recovery of John-117 was a small engagement between the United Nations Space Command against the Covenant on November 17, 2552 in the Tanzanian jungles

- Served in the Fleet of Recalcitrant Ire, before going on to join the Banished. Destroyed over Installation 00 during the Second Ark Conflict. Solemn Penance

Team planted a HAVOK nuke in the sewers beneath the city. In the meantime, they rescued numerous civilians, the only ones the Covenant had not massacred

GREY VEIL's success had become well-known throughout the UNSC; during the Second Ark Conflict in mid-late 2559, after-action reports of O'Brien's sniper

During the Battle for Earth, Stacker served in the 7th Battalion of the 105th Shock Division. He was dispatched from the In Amber Clad under the command

direct the actions of the UNSC's armed forces lies in the office of the President of the Unified Earth Government. The authority granted to the President

participants until near the end of the year. The war would end in 2552. For the Covenant, the war marked the beginning of and took place during the 9th Age of Reclamation

went with them as well. On the Ark, with the help of the UNSC Spirit of Fire, the Ferrets managed to foil the Keepers' plot and the faction was ultimately

Atriox did not believe in the Great Journey and viewed the genocide of the humans as wanton. In 2549, during the occupation of the human colony of Algolis

fighting the Flood on the surface of the ship. During the Onyx Conflict in October-November 2552, the SPARTAN-III Ash-G099 failed to provide the appropriate

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

stabbed in the leg with an energy cutlass, though the humans manage to defeat the Kig-Yar boarders. This raid marks the second meeting of the humans and

Cortana upon discovering the installation The Battle of Installation 05, also known as the battle for the Second Ring of the Gods among the Covenant, was a major

known as the Great Schism that led to the dissolution of the Covenant. This conflict against the Sangheili would continue well after the end of the Human-Covenant

defense grid, the rest of the Fleet of Sacred Consecration was destroyed by the UNSC Home Fleet in the early hours of the Battle of Earth, forcing the assault

afterward. During the late stages of the Human-Covenant War, or the earliest years of the post-war era, Omega Team were involved in the testing of numerous

favoring the fleet spiral formation in space engagements. As they pushed back human forces in the galactic margins in the later phases of the war, the Didact's

dual-wielded M6C magnums during the Second Ark Conflict. Aside from dual wielding Plasma Rifles and Plasma Pistols, the Elites are also seen dual wielding

The Razing of Oth Sonin was a Created attack on the Oth Sonin system, resulting in the destruction of the Jiralhanae homeworld Doisac and the devastation

Seoba—was selected as the staging ground for the operation. During the slipspace voyage, Blue Team and the others trained with the ODSTs in the UNSC Vanishing

was still the strange structure in the ice. After they reached the approach to the interior of it, a detonator and explosives were sighted at the entrance

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

events marked the continuation of an ongoing conflict with Jul 'Mdama's Covenant and the UNSC, and the days following would see the conflict spread to Ivanoff

which Keyes believed was the Ark, but in truth was the portal that would lead to the installation that lay beyond the border of the Milky Way. John eventually

unmatched in the UNSC arsenal. When the Covenant discovered Algolis in 2549, the particular element of the planet was believed to be the purpose of the Covenant's

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

Cortana made her offer at the beginning of the Created conflict to the species of the galaxy, she did not include the Yanme'e in her list of species that

era. The Great Schism formed the bedrock of the Covenant Empire's ultimate collapse and the end of the Human-Covenant War. In the post-war years, the Swords

components during Second Ark Conflict, the Spirit managed to upgrade the suit into a hybrid version of Mark IV/GEN2, along with the rest of Red Team's

themselves drifting above the extragalactic Installation 00, also known as the Ark. There, the vessel's forces were forced to contend with the Banished, a heavily-armed

category. 2558 was a year in the 2550s in the 26th century. It was the year the UNSC Infinity begins Spartan-IV deployments to Requiem in operations referred

Brute Warloads with the first one near the Kodiaks, the second one is to the right of the second mini-base and the third is at the second Banished base. Main

cryosleep following the loss of the Spirit of Fire's Slipspace drive. They awoke twenty-eight years later at the Ark, and went on to participate in several operations

majority of the swarm before Marines entering from the operations center killed off the stragglers. In the control room, the base's personnel were in the process

approach in a Pelican to deploy a Warthog for the team. As the Pelican approached the landing zone, Johnson spotted the structure in the lake that the Prophet

The M193LP 20mm autocannon is a vehicle-mounted heavy armament in the service of the United Nations Space Command. The M193LP is one of several modular

heavy equipment with the intent to drive the UNSC out of the area to begin its excavation effort for the supposed Forerunner Ark. Realizing that they were

cover their backs from the incoming rebel soldiers. Once all rebels in the area were killed or captured, the two teams met up in the capitol building's main

improvements for the Mark IV armor. MJOLNIR/Ardent - Ardent - A helmet that was upgraded by the Spirit of Fire crew during the Second Ark Conflict. MJOLNIR/AA

twenty-eight years later at the Ark, and several members went on to participate in several operations against the Banished on the installation, including Operation:

saved by the rest of the team, who pummeled the Sentinel with rocks, destroying it just in time. A general decision was made and the Team moved to the Camp

Installation 00 in 2559. During the conflict against the Banished, Lotus was deployed to Fort Jordan, an outpost set up to comb through the wreckage of a

witness the activation of the ring and the culmination of the "Great Journey". The Jiralhanae proceeded to massacre the Sangheili, catching the unprepared

thereafter as the Allegiance. In the 2010 edition, the ship is referred to as the Allegiance in both instances.Expansion depth limit exceeded In the original

own bombardment. Searching the ruins of the Banished base, Strike One found information pointing to the Ark's Cartographer as the location of a major Banished

hours to reach the Sigma Octanus system, the description of the battle on the surface suggests the events occurred during the same day as the initial space

desperately set up by the Ark's scientists. The unit proceeded to set up charges on the obstacle to allow Red Team's Warthog to pass through. Recon One then

tasked with the scouting of potential sites for the establishment of firebases. The team made the journey over the alien planet's terrain in an M312 Elephant

helmets on the Mark VII armor core. The original icon style for helmets on the Yoroi armor core. The updated icon style for the helmets on the Yoroi armor

encountered on their way to the city came in the form of Type-26 Banshees overhead, which the Spartans hunkered down in the mud to avoid being spotted by

Operation redirects here. For the periodic updates to Halo Infinite, see Event. An operation is a planned military offensive conducted by a military force

Grizzlei. The tone and content reflect the non-canon, tongue-in-cheek background of the FOTUS armor from Halo 4. The user is referring to the Didact's purported

attacked by the Flood, making them the first known humans to encounter the parasite. Early in the battle, the Flood attempted to board the Spirit of Fire

set of items that is sold though the Halo Infinite shop. Shop bundles can contain armor, visors, and coatings for the player's Spartan, weapon coatings