Truth's fleet: Difference between revisions

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**Around 12 ships {{c|post-FIRST STRKE}}{{Ref/Reuse|first}}

***Unknown large numbers of ships{{Ref/Reuse|Oct20}}

Later, the cruisers were gathered over the industrial center and started excavating the Forerunner structure by [[glassing]] the planet's surface around it, including Mombasa, starting from the crater created by the in-atmosphere [[Slipstream space|slipspace]] jump of Regret's ship. Eventually the next day on October 21, the Prophet of Truth's fleet arrived to join Regret's fleet remnants for excavation of the  excession to the Ark while more and more other Covenant reinforcements later arrived and launched a large full-scale assault on the planet.<!--Halo Waypoint confirms that Truth's fleet arrived on October 21st-->{{Ref/Site|Id=waypointvergil|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-vergil-reality|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Vergil Reality|D=15|M=06|Y=2021}}{{Ref/Reuse|Oct20}}{{Ref/Level|Id=CoastalHighway|Game=Halo 3: ODST|Level=Coastal Highway}} While the majority of Covenant forces that were under Truth's command, including most of his fleet, were preoccupied and focusing their primary objective for the excavation of the portal as the largest and most organized Covenant stronghold on the planet,{{Ref/Reuse|lootcrate2}} only a handful of vessels of Truth's fleet and its deployed forces attacked the UNSC forces,{{Ref/Book|Id=mythos|Book=Halo Mythos|Page=117}} including those at the outskirts of Mombasa during the [[seven]]-day-long [[Second Battle of Mombasa|second battle of the city]].{{Ref/Film|Film=Believe|Story=Museum}} However, some of these forces were disorganized and sometimes less effective against the UNSC.{{Ref/Generic|Id=lootcrate2|Heading=[[Halo Legendary Crate]]|Subheading=[[Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop #2]]}}

In [[2552#November|November 2552]] after the beginning of the [[Great Schism]] when the Sangheili were thrown out by the Covenant now solely led by the Prophet of Truth and its Jiralhanae loyalists,{{Ref/Level|Id=HG|Game=Halo 2|Level=[[High Charity (level)|High Charity]]}} the [[Flood]] [[Fall of High Charity|overwhelmed]] [[High Charity]] and the remaining Covenant reorganized in an attempt to make a final push offensive on Earth.{{Ref/Reuse|Id=TGJ}} By the time the surviving ships and fleets of the [[High Charity defense fleet]] controlled by the [[San'Shyuum]] and Jiralhanae, including the [[Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity]], managed to follow the Prophet of Truth and his [[Forerunner Dreadnought|Dreadnought]] to Earth,{{Ref/Reuse|Id=TGJ}} where they would join the Covenant forces that had arrived earlier. While the Dreadnought, along with a Covenant escorting fleet,{{Ref/Comic|Id=HUI1|Comic=Halo: Uprising|Issue=[[Halo: Uprising Issue 1|1]]}}{{Ref/Comic|Id=HUI2|Comic=Halo: Uprising|Issue=[[Halo: Uprising Issue 2|2]]}} traveled through the system for a period of nine days as it was [[Scramble onboard Forerunner Dreadnought|delayed]] by the presence of the [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II]] [[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]] before eventually jumping to Earth on November 17,{{Ref/Site|Id=bungie|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=16989|Site=bungie.net|Page=Bungie Weekly Update 01/23/09}}{{Ref/Site|Id=lrh|URL=https://youtu.be/8K3hG76Ctmo?t=164|Site=YouTube|Page=Halo 101: Long Road Home|D=14|M=06|Y=2021}} a massive{{Ref/Reuse|HUI4}} Covenant loyalist armada led by the Prophet of Truth arrived in the [[Sol system]].{{Ref/Reuse|Id=TGJ}} By this point, the UNSC was hardly faced with impossible odds with no hope in sight against the full might of Covenant forces on Earth as they began to dramatically increase and mostly focus their forces on the planet following the UNSC's defeat on [[Mars]] after the [[Battle of Mare Erythraeum]].{{Ref/Reuse|HUI4}}{{Ref/Reuse|HUI3}} However, [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson]]'s work in the siege on Mars helped buy UNSC ground forces on Earth precious time.<ref>'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'''</ref>