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*[[Confederation]] of [[Piracy|pirates]] and raiders{{Ref/Novel|Id=divine|DW|Chapter=1}}

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The '''Banished''' are a multi-species [[confederation]] of [[piracy|pirates]] and raiding clans.{{Ref/Reuse|divine}} Acting as mercenaries,{{Ref/Reuse|Mercenary}} the organization's goals have been described as attaining power in their raids across the [[Orion Arm]],{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22p25|Enc22|Page=25}} while their killers and mercenaries plunder treasure in the name of their own free will.{{Ref/Reuse|Id=HuntingParty2}}

The Banished were formed around [[2549]], during the [[Algolis Invasion]] in the late years of the [[Human-Covenant War]] by [[Atriox]], [[Decimus]], [[En'Geddon]] and several other disgruntled [[Jiralhanae]] who rebelled against their [[Sangheili]] masters, after being used by the [[Covenant]] as cannon fodder repeatedly.{{Ref/Reuse|a new enemy}} After establishing their group, the Banished started as little more than raiders and [[Piracy|pirates]],<ref name="log foundry">''Halo Wars 2'', ''Phoenix Logs - Foundry''</ref> conducting surgical raids against the Covenant and other targets while scavenging for resources and gathering mercenaries to their cause.{{Ref/Reuse|log outpost}}{{Ref/Reuse|a new enemy}} Evading Covenant enforcers led to Atriox prioritizing stealth in his forces.<ref>'''Halo Wars 2''', ''Phoenix Logs - Cloak Generator''</ref> One such attack was on a Covenant training camp in [[2550]], Atriox and the Banished killed the Sangheili guards and stole everything they could including vehicles and weapons. By this point the Banished had attacked at least five other Covenant bases.{{Ref/Game|Id=HW2PL2|HW2|[[Phoenix Logs]]: Rise of Atriox II}}

Decimus advised Atriox that the Banished should travel to the planet [[Otraak]] to recruit an old friend of his, a [[Kig-Yar]] [[T'vaoan]] scientist named [[Sig Raan]]. Decimus was sent to investigate first, where Sig Raan initially welcomed him and his squad showing off her latest invention: a device that could control the [[Yanme'e]] by simulating their [[Yanme'e Queen|queen's]] pheromones. Sig Raan then attacked Decimus with her Yanme'e swarm. Atriox showed up along with more of his Banished forces and attacked Sig Raan in return. Decimus killed her, putting an end to the skirmish.{{Ref/Comic|Id=ROA3|RoA|Detail=[[Halo: Rise of Atriox Issue 3|Issue 3]]}}

[[File:HW2-Banishedfleet.png|thumb|left|300px|Atriox and his Banished being knelt to by Let 'Volir and his crew.]] After having successfully persuaded among the most vengeful of the Sangheili, 'Azavayl's Silent Shadow squad, Atriox confidently sought out the powerful {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}} ''[[Enduring Conviction]]'' and its Sangheili crew. He devised a plan to meet with its Sangheili [[Shipmaster]], [[Let 'Volir]]. Atriox and his Banished attacked a Sangheili-led base on [[Kostroda]], resulting in 'Volir and his forces deploying to the base to defend it. This left ''Enduring Conviction'' vulnerable for a separate Banished strike force to raid and capture the mostly vacant ship. Back on the ground, Atriox surrendered himself to 'Volir after seemingly losing the skirmish at the base, and was brought back up to the bridge of ''Enduring Conviction'' as a prisoner. On the bridge Atriox had his second team of Banished revealed themselves, ambushing 'Volir and turning the tables. Now as a prisoner of Atriox, 'Volir was offered a chance to join the Banished and allow his crew to live a new life as mercenaries and be provided with resources, rather than be used as cannon fodder for the Sangheili-Jiralhanae conflict. After being persuaded, 'Volir had ''Enduring Conviction'' abandon their Sangheili-led fleet. 'Volir and his crew would later pledge their allegiance to the Banished, albeit reluctantly,<ref>[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/halo-wars-2-new-character-images-and-details-revea/1100-6442098/?ftag=GSS-05-10aaa0b '''Gamestop''': ''Halo Wars 2: New Character Images and Details Revealed''] - "This arrangement was deeply unpleasant for the Shipmaster, especially since Elites were used to lording over the Brutes during the time of the Covenant..."</ref> in return the Banished supplied their ship with fuel.{{Ref/Reuse|ROA4}} The Banished would later use similar methods to hire [[Thav 'Sebarim]]'s [[Warriors of Malaston|clan]] and [[Inka 'Saham]]'s [[Valorguards of the Chosen|crew]] as mercenaries as well.{{Ref/Reuse|Hi}}

In [[2558]], a Jiralhanae in the [[Voice of Maardoth]] clan led by [[Hekabe]], suggested contacting the Banished after gaining control of the [[Sharquoi]], to move their new weapons as they needed [[slipspace]]-capable vessels and their own had been destroyed. However, Hekabe refused the suggestion, unwilling to share power with Atriox and the Banished when he wanted it all for himself. A dispute had also led to Hekabe killing a Banished Chieftain known as [[Odanostos]].{{Ref/Novel|HEnv}} The [[Children of Oth Sonin]] led by [[Lydus]], one of the strongest Jiralhanae master-packs in the wake of the [[War of Annihilation]],{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22p247|Enc22|Page=247}} had secretly struck a deal with the Banished, using the Banished to take out Lydus' most dangerous rivals in exchange for full access to his shipyards and land.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22p255|Enc22|Page=255}}

Atriox met with [[Shipmaster]] [[Let 'Volir]], who survived his ship's destruction, on the Ark's surface, to assess the situation. They observed a [[Installation 09|new Halo ring]] rising from the Ark's [[Foundry (location)|Foundry]], which the UNSC intended to disarm before sending it to the [[Soell system]] in the [[Milky Way]] to contact the rest of the UNSC. Atriox ordered 'Volir to send his surviving men onto the ring to capture it in a chance for redemption. However, Alice and Douglas led Marines in capturing a portal at the Foundry which the Banished were using to send troops to the ring. The Spartans went through the portal and it was destroyed afterward to limit the Banished presence on the ring.

Atriox contacted Capt. Cutter and offered him a deal: the Banished would allow the ''Spirit of Fire'' to leave the area unharmed if the UNSC surrendered the Halo ring to him. He was refused, with Cutter reminding him that he did not make the same offer to the scientists at the [[Henry Lamb Research Outpost]]. The Banished troops on the ring were unable to stop Professor Anders from hijacking a [[Retriever Sentinel]] to destroy a shield that the Banished had erected around the installation's [[Control Room]].

======Awakening the Nightmare======

After successfully fighting off the Flood and activating the drills, many of the Flood were destroyed by the resulting explosions. With the Flood temporarily weakened, Voridus and Pavium decided the next step was to reactivate the Sentinel Defense Network Voridus had shut down to get to High Charity in the first place. Voridus was chosen to go underground and reactivate the systems, while Pavium stayed up top with the majority of the forces to hold the line. Voridus was accompanied by a small group of soldiers to assist him, consisting of Sangheili Rangers and Jiralhanae Jumpers. They soon found out the Jumpers were crucial to traversing the Forerunner pathways. Despite their small numbers, Voridus' infusion gel helped slow the tide of Flood from overwhelming them in several encounters. Occasionally, Pavium was able to send small groups of troops down to help Voridus through scattered teleporters, but he could not spare many due to his defense against the Flood. Despite the long odds, Voridus and his surviving troops made it to the sentinel activation terminal, but found it covered in Flood biomass. Both Brutes took note of how the Flood seemed to know the defense system was dangerous to them. Pavium decided to send down Voridus' special grenadiers powered by infusion gel and offered any amount of soldiers Voridus needed to clear out and reactivate the system. Despite stiff Flood resistance, Voridus cleared the biomass, and protected the nodes from being clogged up again. After reaching full power, he re-aligned the system, reactivating the sentinel network.{{Ref/Reuse|nightmare}}

With the survival of the Banished and their own lives at stake Pavium and Voridus led all of their forces deep into Flood territory. Noticing the Flood's increase in tactical ability and intelligence, Pavium realized that a Proto-Gravemind must have formed and was commanding the Flood. He also realized that if they did not kill it soon it would become a Gravemind, at which point the Flood would be nearly unstoppable. They threw everything they had at the Flood and the Proto-Gravemind, which had emerged in the Flood badlands. The Proto-Gravemind used its tentacles to block the Banished forces from reaching it, but Pavium's Mega Turret was able to blast the tentacle away. Finally, in range of the Proto-Gravemind, the Banished forces attacked its hard shell, exposing small bulbs. When they were destroyed, the Proto-Gravemind slightly retreated, but exposed its mouth to damage. The Banished fired everything they had, but the beast closed its mouth. Unable to damage it further, Pavium set up another Mega Turret nearby, which opened fire on the beast. The damage was enough to force the Proto-Gravemind out of its defensive state. They attacked the monster again, while holding off ever-increasing Flood forces. This process was repeated several times, adding more Mega Turrets to the barrage every time the Proto-Gravemind went into its defensive position. All the while, it was slowly reaching Gravemind status, but with the constant attacks it could not add enough biomass to reach that state. Pavium and Voridus noticed it was not taking significant damage despite their ever increasing firepower. Pavium decided to call upon a Retriever Sentinel by activating a nearby node specifically meant to control one. With its help, plus the Mega Turrets and Banished forces, the Proto-Gravemind finally succumbed to the damage and was obliterated.{{Ref/Reuse|nightmare}}

A Banished force allied with the [[Legion#Banished|Jiralhanae legions]] [[Keepers of the One Freedom]], the [[Legion of the Corpse-Moon]], and the [[Clan of the Ravaged Tusks|Ravaged Tusks]], were deployed to the glassed surface of [[Reach]] to search for a [[Menachite portal complex|slipspace portal]] which would allow [[Atriox]] to return to the [[Milky Way]] from [[Installation 00|the Ark]], under the orders of [[War Chief]] [[Escharum]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=Chapter 3|SoR|Chapter=3}} They successfully located the portal and activated with the help of the [[Ferret]]s who were undercover in the Keepers of the One Freedom, allowing Atriox to return to the Milky Way in a [[Eklon'Dal Workshop Lich]]. However, [[Castor]] of the Keepers of the One Freedom betrayed the rest of the Banished by going rogue and taking his forces to the Ark, to activate the [[Halo Array]] himself.

Seeking to fulfill part of Atriox's will, Escharum established the ring as the Banished's new home and also sought to free a Xalanyn known as the [[Harbinger]]. A [[Spartan-IV]] team led by [[Hudson Griffin]] attempted to assassinate Escharum, but were ambushed and killed with only Griffin being taken prisoner. Escharum concurrently sent [[Tremonius]] to lead an assault on the crashed [[Mulsanne-class light frigate]] [[UNSC Mortal Reverie]] acting as the humans' base, both as a means of retaliation and to uncover Harbinger resting beneath its crash site. The Banished forces quickly overwhelmed the frigate killing and scattering the UNSC forces stationed around it, and began to excavate the Harbinger's [[cylix]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=TRP17|TRP|Chapter=17}}

Despite their fairly egalitarian stance, which allowed a few [[Unggoy]] such as [[Briglard]] to climb the ranks of the Banished's meritocracy, most Unggoy within the Banished retain their thrall/slave nature as they did within the Covenant. The numerous Unggoy in their service were generally regarded as mere cannon fodder and are often abused for sport by their Jiralhanae superiors.<ref name="Raid Camp">'''Halo Wars 2''', ''Phoenix Logs - Raid Camp''</ref> Several "thrall colonies" exist where Unggoy are bred, only to be indoctrinated into the service of the Banished; the most violent individuals were set apart and formed into [[Suicide Unggoy|suicide squads]].<ref>'''Halo Wars 2''', ''Phoenix Logs - Suicide Grunts''</ref> This led to a [[Yapyap's rebellion|rebellion]] by grunt forces under [[Yapyap]] on the Ark.  

*'''[[Legionmaster]]''': Chieftains in charge of differing Banished legions with considerable degrees of autonomy, below the authority of the War Chief.{{Ref/Novel|Id=SOR4|SoR}}

*'''[[Gray Guards|Gray Guard]]''': A Jiralhanae force present during [[Operation: WOLFE]].

[[Gray Guards|Gray Guard]]<br>

|[[Janissary]]

Having salvaged and repurposed a great deal of [[Covenant]] matériel as well as equipment from other sources,{{Ref/Reuse|Gamespot}} the Banished are well equipped with a wide range of military technology. Covenant technology plundered by the Banished is modified to match the aesthetic tastes of its new masters, including an overt preference for layered armor plating, spikes, and sharp angles contrasted with the smooth curves and surfaces favored by the Covenant.{{Ref/Reuse|surface features}} The Banished additionally have the capabilities to manufacture their own weaponry through clan workshops, utilizing [[gravitic-catapult]]s in their spike weapons. How the Banished have managed to make such improvements in as short a time as they have continues to baffle UNSC technicians.{{Ref/Novel|Id=OSFM45|OSFM|Page=45}} The Banished have also began to develop direct-energy electrolaser weaponry recovered from the Jiralhanae's technological age prior to the [[Great Immolation]], with the [[Sicatt Workshop shock rifle|Shock Rifle]] being the latest in [[Voltaic weaponry|the series of experimental voltaic application devices]] by the [[Sicatt Workshop]].{{Ref/Site|Id=Cfflyme|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-fly-me-to-the-blood-moon|Site=Halo Waypoint|Section=Games|Page=Canon Fodder: Fly Me to the Blood-Moon|D=20|M=11|Y=2023}} The application of voltaic devices also extends to their starships, with the [[Ghost of Barolon]] including an experimental volt piercer among its naval armaments. {{Ref/Site|Id=Season5intel|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/reckoning-intel|Site=Halo Waypoint|Section=Halo Infinite|Page=Reckoning Intel|D=14|M=11|Y=2023|LocalArchive=Halo Infinite Story & Intel#Season 5}}

By [[2559#October|October 2559]], the Banished in the Milky Way have a formidable fleet including at least one former massive [[Covenant supercarrier]], at least one [[intrusion corvette]] and several [[Covenant destroyer|destroyers]] and [[Covenant cruiser|cruisers]] which were present in their search for the portal on Reach fielded by three Banished legions.{{Ref/Novel|SoR}} The Legion of the Corpse-Moon clan was known to house a small but growing fleet within their hidden outpost on the moon of [[Soirapt]].{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22p447}} The Banished have also acquired a number of [[Drekar]]s, powerful and versatile stealth vessels secretly commissioned by the [[High Prophet of Truth]] himself as he laid the groundwork for the elevation of the Jiralhanae over the Sangheili that the Banished quietly sought to procure following clandestine raids on information cells and Covenant armories.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22p461}}

*''[[Halo: Battle for the Blood-Moon]]''