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Pavium quickly assembled a force to rescue his brother, defending against overwhelming Flood forces before finally retreating to meet up with Voridus at a Banished drill site near a Forerunner archive that contained a control terminal for the Sentinel defense network.<ref name="Fighting Retreat">'''[[Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare]]''', campaign level ''[[Fighting Retreat]]''</ref> As the area was honeycombed with fissures filled with unstable explosive power, Pavium managed to use Banished Salvage Drills to start a chain reaction to burn away the majority of the Flood in the area, allowing Voridus to access the archive.<ref name="Light the Fuse">'''[[Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare]]''', campaign level ''[[Light the Fuse]]''</ref> Inside, despite heavy Flood resistance, Voridus and his troops managed to reactivate the Sentinel defense network which began to cleanse the Flood.<ref name="The Archive">'''[[Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare]]''', campaign level ''[[The Archive]]''</ref> However, by this time, the Flood had created a massive [[Proto-Gravemind]] in the area near High Charity that was in danger of becoming a full-fledged [[Gravemind]] while the threat from the Flood forced Atriox to pull back from positions he had established to fight the humans. Voridus, Pavium and Banished forces, with the help of the Ark's defenses, in particular a [[Retriever Sentinel]], managed to kill the Proto-Gravemind before it could become a Gravemind.{{Ref/Reuse|Manifestation}} | Pavium quickly assembled a force to rescue his brother, defending against overwhelming Flood forces before finally retreating to meet up with Voridus at a Banished drill site near a Forerunner archive that contained a control terminal for the Sentinel defense network.<ref name="Fighting Retreat">'''[[Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare]]''', campaign level ''[[Fighting Retreat]]''</ref> As the area was honeycombed with fissures filled with unstable explosive power, Pavium managed to use Banished Salvage Drills to start a chain reaction to burn away the majority of the Flood in the area, allowing Voridus to access the archive.<ref name="Light the Fuse">'''[[Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare]]''', campaign level ''[[Light the Fuse]]''</ref> Inside, despite heavy Flood resistance, Voridus and his troops managed to reactivate the Sentinel defense network which began to cleanse the Flood.<ref name="The Archive">'''[[Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare]]''', campaign level ''[[The Archive]]''</ref> However, by this time, the Flood had created a massive [[Proto-Gravemind]] in the area near High Charity that was in danger of becoming a full-fledged [[Gravemind]] while the threat from the Flood forced Atriox to pull back from positions he had established to fight the humans. Voridus, Pavium and Banished forces, with the help of the Ark's defenses, in particular a [[Retriever Sentinel]], managed to kill the Proto-Gravemind before it could become a Gravemind.{{Ref/Reuse|Manifestation}} | ||
With the Proto-Gravemind dead, the Flood threat was greatly diminished. Atriox ordered Pavium and Voridus to clean up their mess and the Banished joined a force of thousands of the Ark's Sentinels in containing the Flood outbreak and sealing off High Charity once more.{{Ref/Reuse|Manifestation}} The Banished and the Sentinels ultimately " | With the Proto-Gravemind dead, the Flood threat was greatly diminished. Atriox ordered Pavium and Voridus to clean up their mess and the Banished joined a force of thousands of the Ark's Sentinels in containing the Flood outbreak and sealing off High Charity once more.{{Ref/Reuse|Manifestation}} The Banished and the Sentinels ultimately ended up "scouring" the Flood from High Charity.{{Ref/Reuse|Sacrifice}} | ||
After the Flood were scoured from the ruins, the Banished were able to access High Charity's systems and pillage the city's data stores, retrieving, amongst other things, the access code to the ''[[Anodyne Spirit]]''.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Sacrifice|HSoR|Detail= Adjunct - [[Sacrifice]]}} | |||
After learning that Atriox had retrieved the shards of the [[Menachite Forerunner crystal]], [[Castor]] and [[Inslaan 'Gadogai]] were concerned that he had found them in the ruins of High Charity, knowing that if the space station had survived, then the Flood most likely would've too. However, [[Escharum]] explained that Atriox had found them aboard the ''[[Anodyne Spirit]]'' rather than High Charity.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Chapter 3|HSoR|Chapter=3}} | After learning that Atriox had retrieved the shards of the [[Menachite Forerunner crystal]], [[Castor]] and [[Inslaan 'Gadogai]] were concerned that he had found them in the ruins of High Charity, knowing that if the space station had survived, then the Flood most likely would've too. However, [[Escharum]] explained that Atriox had found them aboard the ''[[Anodyne Spirit]]'' rather than High Charity.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Chapter 3|HSoR|Chapter=3}} | ||