Editing Battle over Installation 07

{{Status|Canon}}

{{Battle infobox

|name=Battle over Installation 07

|prev= [[Razing of Oth Sonin]]

|conc=

|conflict=*[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]

**[[Created conflict]]{{Ref/Reuse|repository}}

|place=In orbit of [[Installation 07]], [[Ephsu I]], [[Ephsu system]]

|result='''Banished victory'''{{Ref/Generic|Id=Premiere|[[Halo Infinite Campaign Gameplay Premiere]]}}

**UNSC forces severely depleted and scattered across Installation 07.{{Ref/Reuse|Premiere}}

**[[John-117]] defeated and tossed into space by [[Atriox]], and assumed dead.{{Ref/Reuse|wg}}

|side2    =*{{Icon|Banished}} [[Banished]]

|side3    =*[[Created]]

*[[Spartan Commander]] [[Sarah Palmer]]

*[[Master Chief Petty Officer|MCPO]] [[John-117]]{{Ref/Reuse|GI341}}

*[[War Chief]] [[Escharum]]{{Ref/Reuse|Premiere}}

|commanders3    = *[[Cortana]]

*7,150 crew/personnel {{Ref/Quest|HI|Ringfall|[[Foundation (Halo Infinite)|Foundation]]}}

*1+ escort fleet†

**6+ {{Class|Mulsanne|light frigate}}s†

*Multiple [[Spartan]]s

**1+ [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II]]s

*[[Dovotaa Workshop Griever]]s{{Ref/Reuse|trp1}}

*Hundreds of "occupation units"{{Ref/Game|Id=ia7|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Infinity's Approach 2|UNSC Audio log|Detail=Infinity's Approach #07 - Objectives}}

**Modular bases

*Numerous of boarding parties

|casual1  = *John-117 assumed [[Missing in action|MIA]]

*UNSC fleet decimated

***1,986 crewmembers of UNSC ''Infinity ''{{Ref/Quest|Id=wg|HI|Ringfall|Warship Gbraakon}}

**{{UNSCShip|Mortal Reverie}}

In [[2558#October|October 2558]], the [[Created conflict]] begun, with the leader of the [[Created]], [[Cortana]], claiming the [[Mantle|Mantle of Responsibility]] to enforce peace throughout the galaxy with the [[Guardian Custode]]s under her command. She made a general broadcast, inviting numerous species and factions to submit themselves to the guardianship of the Created,{{Ref/Level|H5|Guardians}} but threatened those who would resist her leadership with violence.{{Ref/Anthology|Halo: Fractures|[[What Remains]]}}  

Meanwhile, the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} and its fleet, which included an advance group of six {{Class|Mulsanne|light frigate}}s, also traveled to Installation 07.{{Ref/Game|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Infinity's Approach 2|UNSC Audio log|Detail=Infinity's Approach #01 - Preparations}} The UNSC was to carry out a plan devised by Doctor [[Catherine Halsey]]: send [[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]] to the surface of the ring and deploy [[the Weapon]] to lock down Cortana, then return her to the ''Infinity'' for deletion.{{Ref/Game|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Recovered Files 2|UNSC Audio log|Detail=Recovered Files #04 - The Weapon}}{{Ref/Game|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Infinity's Approach 2|UNSC Audio log|Detail=Infinity's Approach #03 - Duty Clearance}}

==Battle==

Upon arriving at the hangar, John-117 ordered Spartan [[Hudson Griffin]] to take Lasky to a dropship while he held off the boarders at the hangar bay.{{Ref/Game|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Infinity's Approach 2|UNSC Audio log|Detail=Infinity's Approach #10 - Priorities}} However, despite his efforts, the hangar bay would eventually be lost to the Banished. As one dreadnought rammed the dorsal hull of the ''Infinity'', causing massive structural damage, John-117 encountered Atriox in the hangar bay and lost the duel. The Spartan was thrown from the hangar bay and into space.{{Ref/Reuse|wg}}{{Ref/Mag|Id=GI341|Game Informer|341|page 43}} Upon hearing of the loss of the Master Chief, [[Fernando Esparza]], a civilian engineering contractor, panicked and stole a Pelican, ''[[Echo 216]]'', and fled from the doomed vessel.{{Ref/Quest|Id=pdown|HI|Graveyards|[[Pelican Down (Halo Infinite level)|Pelican Down]]}}

==Aftermath==

===Installation 07===

As UNSC forces scattered over the ring and fought against the Banished forces, Atriox confronted Cortana, claiming he had killed John-117, leaving the latter devastated by the news of John-117's apparent death. Having consolidated her presence and core processes at the Silent Auditorium and seemingly locked down by the Weapon deployed from {{UNSCShip|Infinity}},{{Ref/Reuse|enc22p423}} Cortana could not retaliate.{{Ref/Quest|HI|Endless|Silent Auditorium|Quote=Look around, Cortana. Your Empire. Over! Your great plan? Ended at the hands of those who made you.|Quotee=Atriox}} Atriox presented her with the terms of her surrender, intending to take control of the ring and unlock the secrets locked within the [[Silent Auditorium (location)|Silent Auditorium]].{{Ref/Quest|HI|Endless|Silent Auditorium|Quote=I have learned so much, Cortana. this Ring is different. It has secrets within... That I will have. This... Silent Auditorium. Do you know its history? Its true purpose? I have little needs for a failed god. This Ring is all I need. Surrender it to me.|Quotee=Atriox}}  In an attempt to prevent Atriox from accessing Silent Auditorium or possibly activating the ring, Cortana initiated a local self-dstruction sequence at the Auditorium, killing herself, fracturing the ring's surface, and leaving the installation inoperable.{{Ref/Reuse|enc22p25}}{{Ref/Quest|Id=sa|HI|Endless|Silent Auditorium|Quote=It was her. She destroyed the Ring. Stopped my deletion.|Quotee=The Weapon}} Her efforts were proven to be temporary, as the ring begun its self-repair process days later,{{Ref/Game|HI|Audio log (Halo Infinite)#Reverie 2|UNSC Audio log|Detail=Reverie #04 - On the Mend}} although it would take a considerable amount of time without the [[Reformation Spire]]s to facilitate the process.{{Ref/Quest|HI|Connections|[[Spire (Halo Infinite level)|Spire]]}} Although he survived the explosion, Atriox was left severely scarred,{{Ref/Game|Id=stinger|HINF|post-credits cinematic}} and was also presumed dead by both the UNSC and the Banished.{{Ref/Reuse|wg}} Cortana, in hopes of John-117's survival, predicted he would stop the Banished from accessing the Silent Auditorium and prevented the Weapon's deletion protocol so she could assist him,{{Ref/Reuse|sa}} leaving the Weapon in the ring's subterranean structure for retrieval.{{Ref/Quest|HI|Ringfall|[[Foundation (Halo Infinite)|Foundation]]}}

===UNSC and Banished conflict===

{{Quote|We lost. Lost everything. There's nothing left for us here. I don't even know where here is.|[[Fernando Esparza]] to [[John-117]].{{Ref/Reuse|discoverhope}}}}

==Participants==

|{{Class|Infinity|supercarrier}}

|{{UNSCShip|Infinity}}

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|{{Class|Mulsanne|light frigate}}

====Military personnel====

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! Branch

|Escaped

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|Unknown

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! Status<!--This refers to their status after the battle, not their overall status-->

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|''[[Echo 216]]''

|Escaped

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|Successfully escaped to Zeta Halo

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|-

|}

|[[The Weapon|"The Weapon"]]

|Survived

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{{Col-2}}

===Banished===

====Military personnel====

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! Branch

File:HINF Concept Infinity Hangar Under Attack.jpg|Concept art of Pelicans abandoning the ''Infinity'' via its hangars.

File:HINF Concept Infinity under attack.jpg|Concept art of the ''Infinity'' going down in flames by sort of Banished assets.

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*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{1st}}

*''[[Halo: The Rubicon Protocol]]''

==Notes==