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{{Infobox Military Unit | |||
|unit_name=''High Charity'' defense fleet | |||
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|image=[[File: | |allegiance=[[Covenant Empire]] | ||
| | |branch=[[Covenant Navy]] | ||
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|role=Defense of ''[[High Charity]]'' | |||
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|role=Defense of [[High Charity]] | |||
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|garrison=High Charity | |||
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|battles=[[Battle of High Charity]]<br> | |||
[[Battle of Installation 05]] | |||
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{{Quote|That's the largest Covenant fleet I've ever seen ... the largest anyone's ever seen.|[[Cortana]]}} | {{Quote|That's the largest Covenant fleet I've ever seen ... the largest anyone's ever seen.|[[Cortana]]}} | ||
The '''''High Charity'' defense fleet''' was a formation of multiple [[Covenant Navy]] [[Covenant fleet|fleets]] defending the Covenant holy city of ''[[High Charity]]''.<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 213''</ref> The fleet had hundreds of ships protecting ''High Charity'' at any time, reflecting the holy city's importance. A ship approaching ''High Charity'' had a nanosecond to submit a security code, or it would be destroyed by the sheer might of the fleet and ''High Charity''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s defenses. During [[2552]], the [[Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity]] served within the ''High Charity'' defense fleet. | |||
The '''High Charity defense fleet''' was a formation of multiple [[Covenant]] [[Covenant fleet|fleets]] defending the Covenant holy city of [[High Charity]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 213''</ref> The fleet had hundreds of ships protecting High Charity at any time, reflecting the holy city's importance. A ship approaching High Charity had a nanosecond to submit a security code, or it would be destroyed by the sheer might of the fleet and High Charity's defenses. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
This fleet was thrown into disarray during the [[Battle of High Charity]]. When the [[Great Schism]] splintered Covenant, Elite and Brute controlled vessels within the armada began firing on each other.<ref>'''[[Halo 2]]'''</ref> After taking heavy losses, the surviving Covenant ships loyal to the Prophets retreated to [[Earth]],<ref>'''[[Halo 3]]'''</ref> and the [[Covenant Separatists|Covenant Separatist]] flotilla remained in an attempt to contain [[the Flood]]. These attempts failed, however, when a single [[Unidentified Flood-captured battlecruiser|Flood Ship]] broke through, and headed towards Earth, with a small battle group of Covenant Separatist ships in pursuit.<ref>'''[[Halo 3]]''', campaign level, ''[[Floodgate]]''</ref> | |||
This fleet was thrown into disarray during the [[ | |||
It is unknown what remains of the fleet after High Charity, under the power of the [[Gravemind]], forced its way out of quarantine and | It is unknown what remains of the fleet after ''High Charity'', under the power of the [[Gravemind]], forced its way out of quarantine and passed through [[the Portal]] at Earth. The surviving portion of the fleet may have continued to undertake combat activities against the former Sangheili portion up until the War's end. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:Covie1.jpg|John-117 witnesses the fleet arrive over Installation 05. | File:Covie1.jpg|John-117 witnesses the fleet arrive over Installation 05. | ||
File:SFOHOCbattle.jpg|Sangheili and Jiralhanae controlled ships of the fleet attacking each other during the beginning of the [[Great Schism]]. | File:SFOHOCbattle.jpg|Sangheili and Jiralhanae controlled ships of the fleet attacking each other during the beginning of the [[Great Schism]]. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||
*''[[Halo 2]]'' | |||
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}} | *''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}} | ||
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' | *''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo Legends]]'' | *''[[Halo Legends]]'' | ||
**''[[Origins]]'' | **''[[Origins]]'' | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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{{Covenant Fleet Units}} | {{Covenant Fleet Units}} | ||
[[Category:The Covenant]] | |||
[[Category: | [[Category:Covenant Military Units]] | ||
[[Category:Covenant | |||
