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[[File:H2A - Earth and Dreadnought.jpg|270px|left|thumb|Truth's final Covenant invasion fleet and the [[UNSC Home Fleet]] furiously engage each other in orbit for Earth's supremacy as the [[Anodyne Spirit|Forerunner Dreadnought]] exited [[Slipstream space|slipspace]].]] | [[File:H2A - Earth and Dreadnought.jpg|270px|left|thumb|Truth's final Covenant invasion fleet and the [[UNSC Home Fleet]] furiously engage each other in orbit for Earth's supremacy as the [[Anodyne Spirit|Forerunner Dreadnought]] exited [[Slipstream space|slipspace]].]] | ||
In [[2552#November|November 2552]] after the beginning of the [[Great Schism]] when the Sangheili were trown out by the Covenant now solely led 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 made 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]]'''</ref> | In [[2552#November|November 2552]] after the beginning of the [[Great Schism]] when the Sangheili were trown out by the Covenant now solely led 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 made 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: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe]]'''</ref> | ||
The final Covenant fleet breached [[Luna]]r perimeter and then battled the horribly-outnumbered and outgunned UNSC Home Fleet that was already weakened by waves of Covenant fleets over Earth. Shortly after, the Dreadnought jumped to Earth where it was later surrounded by the massive space battle between the opposing fleets in high Earth orbit.{{Ref/Level|Id=TGJ|Game=Halo 2|Level=[[The Great Journey (level)|The Great Journey]]}}{{Ref/Comic|Id=HUI3|Comic=Halo: Uprising|Issue=[[Halo: Uprising Issue 3|3]]}}{{Ref/Reuse|HUI4}} Ultimately, the UNSC defending orbital forces was unsuccessful as too much of the [[UNSC fleet]], including many [[Dead fleet|smaller remaining fleets]], and defense forces despite having strong defense was completely obliterated by the overwhelming Covenant fleet but it is likely that countless Covenant vessels, especially the [[capital ship]]s, was in return destroyed, mainly because of the planet's unusually strong defense, including hundreds of [[orbital defense platform]]s equipped with [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon#Mark V|"Super" MAC]] guns.{{Ref/Level|Id=H2TA|Game=Halo 2|Level=The Armory|Quote=The ''[[Cairo Station (station)|Cairo]]'' is just one of ''three hundred'' geosync platforms. That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant capital ship. With coordinated fire from the ''[[Athens Station|Athens]]'' and the ''[[Malta Station|Malta]]'', nothing's getting past this battle cluster in one piece.}} Soon after the remnants of the Covenant fleet move in and began to massively [[orbital bombardment|bombard]] Earth, destroying an extreme number of Earth population, including the most of scattered and remaining UNSC resistance forces.{{Ref/Level|Id=H3CN|Game=Halo 3|Level=Crow's Nest}} | The final Covenant fleet breached [[Luna]]r perimeter and then battled the horribly-outnumbered and outgunned UNSC Home Fleet that was already weakened by waves of Covenant fleets over Earth. Shortly after, the Dreadnought jumped to Earth where it was later surrounded by the massive space battle between the opposing fleets in high Earth orbit.{{Ref/Level|Id=TGJ|Game=Halo 2|Level=[[The Great Journey (level)|The Great Journey]]}}{{Ref/Comic|Id=HUI3|Comic=Halo: Uprising|Issue=[[Halo: Uprising Issue 3|3]]}}{{Ref/Reuse|HUI4}} Ultimately, the UNSC defending orbital forces was unsuccessful as too much of the [[UNSC fleet]], including many [[Dead fleet|smaller remaining fleets]], and defense forces despite having strong defense was completely obliterated by the overwhelming Covenant fleet but it is likely that countless Covenant vessels, especially the [[capital ship]]s, was in return destroyed, mainly because of the planet's unusually strong defense, including hundreds of [[orbital defense platform]]s equipped with [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon#Mark V|"Super" MAC]] guns.{{Ref/Level|Id=H2TA|Game=Halo 2|Level=The Armory|Quote=The ''[[Cairo Station (station)|Cairo]]'' is just one of ''three hundred'' geosync platforms. That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant capital ship. With coordinated fire from the ''[[Athens Station|Athens]]'' and the ''[[Malta Station|Malta]]'', nothing's getting past this battle cluster in one piece.}} Soon after the remnants of the Covenant fleet move in and began to massively [[orbital bombardment|bombard]] Earth, destroying an extreme number of Earth population, including the most of scattered and remaining UNSC resistance forces.{{Ref/Level|Id=H3CN|Game=Halo 3|Level=Crow's Nest}} | ||