Editing Blightlands

[[File:PF BlightlandsEnvironment Screenshot.png|thumb|300px|Blightlands on a [[Halo Array|Halo]] in [[Project Foundry]].]]

'''Blightlands''' are large regions which have been infested by the [[Flood]], with the parasite [[terraforming]] the local environment to suit its needs. They are generally typified by the presence of extreme amounts of [[Flood spore]]s, structures constructed from [[Flood Super Cell]] (FSC) and engineered warm, humid conditions ideal to grow more Flood forms to spread the infestation.{{Ref/Game|Id=PL|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Detail=Blightlands}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=413}}{{Ref/Site|Id=CFBlightlands|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-blightlands-and-brigands|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Blightlands and Brigands|D=16|M=10|Y=2024}}

While the Flood are capable of operating in almost any environment (including the vacuum of space), the FSC generally has a fairly narrow band of habitability where it is most effective. In more localised [[Flood outbreak]]s, this kind of ideal environment can be established in the climate-controlled conditions of a [[Flood hive]]; however, for larger infestations, conversion of a region into blightlands offers many of the same functions.{{Ref/Reuse|PL}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}{{Ref/Reuse|CFBlightlands}} This conversion generally begins once the Flood has entered the [[Coordinated Stage]] of an outbreak.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}

 

Static Flood growths generally found inside infested regions such as blightlands include [[Flood blister|blisters]], [[Flood hive|hives]], [[Flood den|dens]], [[Flood nest|nests]], [[Flood colony|colonies]], [[Spore Mound]]s, [[Flood launcher|spore launchers]], [[Flood root|roots]], [[porta]]s, and [[Flood vent|vents]]. Flood [[Blightstalker]]s are also some of the most dangerous [[keymind]] inhabitants of the blightlands, alongside any [[Gravemind]]s or [[Proto-Gravemind]]s that may reside at their heart.

===Trove===

[[File:Old HW Infestation.png|thumb|250px|An infected [[Sangheili]] in the Blightlands on the outer surface of Trove.]]

Prior to [[2531]], a Flood outbreak on the surface of [[Trove]] had led to the establishment of Flood blightlands across the [[shield world]]'s outer surface. The infection of [[human]]s from the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} and [[Covenant]] forces would lead to the establishment of Flood [[Flood den|den]]s, [[Flood hive|hive]]s, [[Flood nest|nest]]s, [[Flood colony|colonies]] and, most importantly, a [[Proto-Gravemind]].{{Ref/Level|HW|Anders' Signal}}{{Ref/Level|HW|The Flood (level)|The Flood}}{{Ref/Level|HW|Shield World (level)|Shield World}} The shield world's [[Battle of the Trove|destruction]] would ultimately destroy the blightlands here.{{Ref/Reuse|CFBlightlands}}

Following the destruction of [[High Charity]] in the [[Battle of Installation 00]], the gargantuan Flood hive's ruins were quarantined by the installation's [[Sentinel]]s. Approximately three-hundred meters away from the perimeter, life stopped growing and the area was absent of any kind of noise.{{Ref/Game|Id=Pandora's Box|HW2|Phoenix Logs|Pandora's Box}} For seven years, the Flood inside the quarantine zone would continue to fester until the shield was broken by [[Voridus]] during the [[Second Ark Conflict]], hoping to salvage old war-era Covenant equipment from the ruins of the city.{{Ref/Level|HW2|What Could Go Wrong?}} The Flood would quickly escape this breach and begin turning the area surrounding the destroyed ruins of High Charity into a blightland, eventually cocooning UNSC and [[Banished]] bases and establishing a new Proto-Gravemind. The Gravemind was eventually destroyed by Banished [[Eklon'Dal Workshop Antlion|Antlion]] artillery, however, and the Sentinel network activated to reenact the quarantine of the facility.{{Ref/Level|HW2|Manifestation}}{{Ref/Reuse|CFBlightlands}}

File:HW2_Blightlands_Concept_1.jpg|Concept art of blightlands in ''[[Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare]]''.

File:HW2_Blightlands_Concept_2.jpg|Concept art of blightlands in ''Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare''.

File:HW2_Blightlands_Concept_3.jpg|Concept art of a blightland on Installation 00.

File:HW2_Blightlands_Concept_4.jpg|Concept art of a blightland on Installation 00.  

File:HW2_Blightlands_Concept_5.jpg|Concept art of a blightland on Installation 00.

File:HW2 FloodEnvironments Concept.jpg|Concept art of a blightland on Installation 00.

File:HW2_ATNMission3Detail_Concept_1.jpg|Concept art of a blightland on Installation 00.

File:HW2_ATNMission3Detail_Concept_2.jpg|Concept art of a blightland on Installation 00.

File:HW2_ATNMission3Detail_Concept_3.jpg|Concept art of a blightland on Installation 00.

File:HW2_ATNMission3Detail_Concept_4.jpg|Concept art of a blightland on Installation 00.File:PF BlightlandsEnvironment Screenshot.png|Blightlands on a Halo ring in ''[[Project Foundry]]''.

File:Anniversary, The Flood.jpg|Blightlands in the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], in the [[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)|Terminals]] of ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''.

File:Flood_city.jpeg|A simulation of [[New Mombasa]]-turned blightlands in ''[[Halo: Spartan Assault]]''{{'}}s [[Halo: Spartan Assault co-op missions|co-operative missions]].{{Ref/Reuse|CFBlightlands}}

File:Flood_city2.jpeg|Simulation of [[Flood combat form]]s in an urban blightland.

File:HSA Flood infesting Earth.jpg|Simulation of blightlands rapidly spreading over East [[Africa]].

File:HW2-Atriox&Protogravemind.png|[[Atriox]] standing before a Proto-Gravemind in the blightlands surrounding the destroyed ruins High Charity.