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====Battle of Installation 04==== =====Release===== Although the first firing of the Halo Array starved large numbers of the Flood, samples of parasitic specimens were kept alive (perhaps in stasis) on various Forerunner outposts for scrutiny and further scientific study. One such research site was located on [[Installation 04]]. This proved to be a grave, irreversible mistake, as both Humanity and the [[Covenant]] stumbled upon the abandoned ring thousands of years after the firing of the Array and the destruction of the Forerunners and most of the Flood. The [[AI]] [[Cortana|construct]] aboard the Human vessel ''[[Pillar of Autumn]]'' made what was presumed to be a blind jump through Slipspace (although it was later revealed that she used translated co-ordinates from a Forerunner artifact found on [[Sigma Octanus IV|Sigma Octanus]]) to evade Covenant pursuers. This led both species to [[Installation 04]], and in turn, the Flood on Installation 04. After the crash of ''Pillar of Autumn'' on the Halo Ring, the surviving crew members dug in for what they believed would be a long and brutal guerrilla campaign against the Covenant forces on Halo. Meanwhile, their pursuers, Covenant cruisers, among them the cruiser ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]'', amassed their ground forces on the surface and soon discovered an underground Forerunner [[Flood Containment Facility|facility]] in the swamps of [[Halo]]. Due to the secure nature of the facility, the Covenant came to use it as a fortified base of operations and an area for storing weaponry, oblivious to its true nature, that of a Flood storage facility. Though some of the Flood managed to escape, the Covenant, terrified, eventually pushed the Flood back in.<ref>[[Halo: The Flood]], where Keyes is about to open the locked door.</ref> It is unknown whether a few still escaped. The flood escaped due to a leak in the library thus allowing the flood to reproduce by spores. After [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes]] was captured by the Covenant for interrogation, he caught wind of this weapons cache and, upon his rescue, organized a group of Marines, [[Fire Team Charlie]] to seize it. When the team arrived at the swamp however, they found the facility is completely devoid of Covenant personnel. However, upon takeoff, a Pelican Dropship whose call sign was [[Victor 933]] which had transported them to the base, crashed into the swamp as a result of enemy action. Then, immediately after the crash, the pilots were able to record a message about their attackers, and calling them "Unknown Hostiles". These "Unknown Hostiles" were actually the Flood, and shortly afterward, they could be seen creeping throughout the swamp, as witnessed by John-117 when he was deployed into the area. At first, when he saw the Covenant scatter out of the Forerunner structure with AR fire, he believed them to be allied forces. However, after he opened the door that [[Captain Keyes]] had unlocked, he learned the brutal truth through Private Jenkins' recording: this was no [[Covenant]] weapons cache. He then proceeded to escape, escorted surviving marines to a drop zone, and encountered [[343 Guilty Spark]]. Guilty Spark then promptly teleports John 117 into the Library and quotes "The Flood is spreading. We must hurry!" The few surviving Covenant soldiers left were scattered and disorganized, and put up little resistance to numerous mangled Covenant corpses, disfigured by an unknown and mysterious force. It is presumed that the Covenant occupants of the research facility had moved through the structure in hopes of finding Forerunner artifacts, inadvertently releasing living Flood specimens. Knowing full well what the Flood are capable of, the Covenant forces promptly locked the facility down and evacuated all personnel who survived the Flood's escape. Keyes and his team were unaware of this fact, and proceeded deeper into the facility ultimately coming across one of the unopened Flood Containment Chambers. Believing it was a weapons cache of some sort, they unlocked the door and were promptly attacked and assimilated by the Flood inside. With a large supply of "edible" sentient life now occupying the ring, the Flood began to multiply and infest most of Halo. Soon the infestation proved too great even for Halo's automated military force, the [[Sentinels]] to handle, and the ring's commanding AI, [[343 Guilty Spark]] was forced to call upon a "[[Reclaimer]]" (John-117) to activate the array once more. Hearing of the above events, John-117 was deployed to the area on the drop ship [[Echo 419]], proceeding into the facility, only to find out that most of the Marines he had been assigned to rescue had succumbed to the Flood. Once again the menace of the Flood had risen... =====Assault===== After the '''Flood''''s escape, the [[Covenant]] forces, which were widely stretched across [[Installation 04]], were heavily engaged and were being overwhelmed by ''Flood'' forces. While at places the Covenant were able to hold the line by using vehicular and air support in the form of [[Ghost]] attack vehicles, [[Banshee]] fighters, and [[Wraith]] heavy tanks, the weaker [[Grunts]] and [[Jackals]] succumbed easily to the Flood, and the few Elites who remained were outnumbered and as a result were destroyed. The [[UNSC]], having a much smaller presence on the Ring, found out about the Flood's might a short while later, when a UNSC [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]] force engaged with the Covenant, near [[Alpha Base]] was ambushed by the Flood, with heavy casualties. However, one of the attacking combat forms, a UNSC [[Marine]], [[Wallace A. Jenkins]], one of the Marines in the original expeditionary mission to the supposed arms cache, was infected by an elderly infection form whose powers of infection had been dulled by years of hibernation, making Jenkins' conversion into a combat form incomplete. Jenkins was still able to resist the pervasive Flood entity in his mind, and although incapable of articulate speech and with a physiologically devastated body, Jenkins was able to betray the Flood through inarticulate hand gestures during an interrogation with [[Major]] [[Silva]], informing the UNSC Marine battalion that the Flood planned to assault the UNSC base from a series of underground catacombs underneath their base. In response to this intelligence, the UNSC moved to secure them, thus preventing the Flood from staging another attack. By the time of these developments, Flood dominance over the Covenant was assured. The Sentinels were unable to contain the Flood, and the Covenant and the UNSC were sustaining heavy loses and rapidly losing ground. Meanwhile, the Flood was occupying whole areas formerly held by the Covenant, although Covenant and Flood forces continued to wage war on the massive ice plains of the Ring. Although the Covenant had the benefit of [[Shade]] stationary [[plasma]] turrets and vehicular/aerial support, the Flood had captured both UNSC and Covenant weapons, most notably [[M19 Rocket Launchers]] and massive numbers on their side. The Flood, however, were not unintelligent. One of the UNSC personnel captured in the Marine force to the ex-Covenant arms cache was Captain Keyes, a brilliant naval strategist of the [[UNSC Navy]]. When he was infected, instead of using him in combat, the parasitic infection form, while deleting his memories, felt that Keyes held vital information. Keyes knew the location of [[Earth]], the birthplace and major planet of the human race, a planet with tremendous possible assimilation opportunities for the Flood. Instead of becoming a combat form, he was merged with at least four other victims into a massive, engorged proto-gravemind] aboard the [[CCS-class Battlecruiser|''CCS''-class Battlecruiser]], ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]'', a Covenant warship that the Flood were relentlessly attacking. While in the brain form state, The Flood began to comb his memories, [[Captain Keyes]] successfully withheld information about Earth by constantly accessing information available on his [[Command Neural Interface]] such as his name, rank, and serial number, until the [[SPARTAN-117|Chief]] arrived. However, his arrival was too late, for Keyes was already dead. It was at that time the [[Master Chief]] punched a hole through Keyes' skull to get the Captain's CNI. The Covenant Flagship ''Truth and Reconciliation'' was a major point of concentration between the Covenant Special Operations units (SpecOps Elites and Grunts) and the Flood. The Flood had likely entered the warship previously, decimating most of the Covenant crew and garrison on board, leaving only isolated pockets of resistance, mostly small numbers of terrified Grunts and a few Elites aboard the vessel. However, below the ''Truth and Reconciliation'', in a series of rocky canyons, the Covenant were much stronger in force, with large numbers of Elites augmented by Grunts, Jackals, and [[Hunters]], fighting off the Flood. The Covenant High Command on Installation 04, however, were terrified by the Flood presence. Because the [[CCS|''CCS''-class battle cruiser]] had been damaged in a previous space battle with the [[Halcyon-class Cruiser|''Halcyon''-class Cruiser]], [[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|UNSC ''Pillar of Autumn'']], it had been grounded, awaiting repairs for at least two days. After The Flood were discovered to be aboard the battle cruiser, the Covenant High Command sent a Special Operations strike force to the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' to commence immediate emergency repairs, prepare it for lift-off into space and neutralize The Flood. These efforts, however, failed, with the Flood eventually retaking the vessel. Later, the remaining UNSC Marine forces on the ring staged an assault on the Flood-held ''Truth and Reconciliation'', and managed to neutralize most Flood forms on the cruiser in a swift assault, and prepared the battle cruiser for take-off with emergency repairs to escape from the ring to Earth. However, there was tremendous risk: if the Flood-infected vessel travelled to Earth, if there was even "one" Flood form aboard, "''Earth could fall,''" according to UNSC [[AI]] [[Wellsley]], because of the Flood's exponential parasitic potential. Against orders, Marine officer [[McKay]] destroyed the warship with whatever Flood forms were still aboard, killing hundreds of UNSC personnel but saving Earth from the Flood. The fact that a single Flood form could can cause such destruction has been later supported in ''Halo 3'' when ''[[Rtas' Vadum]]'' lectures Lord Hood: ''"One single Flood spore can destroy a species."'' =====Defeat===== The '''Flood''' appeared to be interested in seizing space-capable vessels, in the hope of spreading itself away from the [[Halo installations]] and into the stars: they attacked the [[UNSC]] [[Pillar of Autumn]], also. After the [[UNSC]] cruiser's crash-landing onto the ring, and after engaging over fifteen enemy warships, it had been taken by the [[Covenant]], although a [[UNSC]] raid had managed to temporarily retake the hull. On the third and final day of the Battle of [[Installation 04]], however, the [[Covenant]] were in control of the crashed warship when a [[Covenant]] patrol was ambushed by the Flood, infested, and when it returned into the vessel, the Covenant garrison was attacked by [[Elite]] [[Combat forms]]. The [[combat forms]] were able to scatter before they could all be destroyed, and a steady trickle of Flood continued to enter the [[Pillar of Autumn]] through vents and openings in the hull, waging a tedious guerrilla battle against the [[Covenant]] security force on board. Eventually, the Sentinels came on board, overwhelming the dwindling Covenant forces as the Flood began to come into the warship in full force, in the end almost completely obliterating the Covenant presence and severely limiting the Sentinels on board. Despite their best efforts and enormous numbers, the Flood, Covenant, and Sentinels were unable to stop [[John]] from detonating the wrecked warship's reactors and escaping in a [[C709 Longsword-class Interceptor]] while the thermonuclear detonation severed the ring world, destroying it and its capability to annihilate all sentient life and killing all remaining Flood on Installation 04 along with any other life forms that were on the ring. [[File:1220829955 Flood blood.jpg|thumb|left|Flood blood.]]
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