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===Invasion=== | ===Invasion=== | ||
Shortly after Mendicant Bias assumed command over the Flood forces, he began ordering termination of the Flood's feeding and exponential growth, and instead, Flood forces were marshaled to penetrate the Maginot Sphere, the Forerunner final line of defense for their inner colonies. If the Maginot Sphere was penetrated, the Forerunners would be doomed, thus making this attack an influential battle that would decide the course of the war. Whereas previously captured Forerunner superluminal ships were sequestered and unused in the Flood war effort, Mendicant Bias now recalled all of them to attack the Maginot Sphere, and the gathered Flood attack fleet was over 4.8 million vessels, although the majority were non-military, and an extremely small number were capital-scale warships. The fleet was led by Mendicant's original 1,000 Forerunner warships. The [[Didact]], who was able to predict where the Flood blow would fall upon the sphere, was able to marshal the [[Suppression Fleet|Suppression]], [[Security Fleet|Security]], and [[Emergency Circumstance Fleet|Emergency Circumstance]] fleets under the command of Mendicant's "brother", [[Offensive Bias]], with a total of over eleven thousand vessels, with the Flood outnumbering the Forerunners 4366:1. | Shortly after Mendicant Bias assumed command over the Flood forces, he began ordering termination of the Flood's feeding and exponential growth, and instead, Flood forces were marshaled to penetrate the Maginot Sphere, the Forerunner final line of defense for their inner colonies. If the Maginot Sphere was penetrated, the Forerunners would be doomed, thus making this attack an influential battle that would decide the course of the war. Whereas previously captured Forerunner superluminal ships were sequestered and unused in the Flood war effort, Mendicant Bias now recalled all of them to attack the Maginot Sphere, and the gathered Flood attack fleet was over 4.8 million vessels, although the majority were non-military, and an extremely small number were capital-scale warships. The fleet was led by Mendicant's original 1,000 Forerunner warships. The [[Didact]], who was able to predict where the Flood blow would fall upon the sphere, was able to marshal the [[Suppression Fleet|Suppression]], [[Security Fleet|Security]], and [[Emergency Circumstance Fleet|Emergency Circumstance]] fleets under the command of Mendicant's "brother", [[Offensive Bias]], who had arrived shortly before the Flood's arrival, with a total of over eleven thousand vessels, with the Flood outnumbering the Forerunners 4366:1. | ||
==Battle== | ==Battle== | ||
===Flood assault=== | ===Flood assault=== | ||
Two hours after the Flood fleet appeared, Mendicant Bias made the first move, devoting over a quarter of his vessels — over 1.7 million small and lightweight leisure craft — to storm the Forerunner fleets, not to attack them with weapons, but rather, to overwhelm them, providing too many targets for too few weapons, and boarding Forerunner ships to infect and capture them. Remarkably, the Forerunner vessels were able to evade boarding for three and a half hours. It was after three and a half hours, larger commercial vessels and smaller military craft were launched by the Flood, and the first Forerunner ship was boarded, although it suicidally rammed an incoming Flood ship, releasing over thirty thousand Flood warriors, killing them as the Forerunner crew perished. For four hours, the Flood attack waves intensified, culminating in a final wave of container and transport vessels and warships, most far heavier than a dreadnought. | Immediately after the Flood arrived, Mendicant Bias sent a coded message to Offensive Bias stating that he would give no quarter and would destroy the Ark. He offered Offensive a chance to join him and survive, Offensive rejected the offer.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 36''</ref> Two hours after the Flood fleet appeared, Mendicant Bias made the first move, devoting over a quarter of his vessels — over 1.7 million small and lightweight leisure craft — to storm the Forerunner fleets, not to attack them with weapons, but rather, to overwhelm them, providing too many targets for too few weapons, and boarding Forerunner ships to infect and capture them. Remarkably, the Forerunner vessels were able to evade boarding for three and a half hours. It was after three and a half hours, larger commercial vessels and smaller military craft were launched by the Flood, and the first Forerunner ship was boarded, although it suicidally rammed an incoming Flood ship, releasing over thirty thousand Flood warriors, killing them as the Forerunner crew perished. For four hours, the Flood attack waves intensified, culminating in a final wave of container and transport vessels and warships, most far heavier than a dreadnought. | ||
===Firing Halo=== | ===Firing Halo=== | ||
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*The Maginot Line was a French defense, which ran along the Franco-German border to defend against the invading Nazis during World War II. Ultimately, it failed due to being rounded by the German invasion through Belgium and the Netherlands, while a decoy force sat opposite the Line in Germany, deceiving the French into believing that the Germans would attack across that border. | *The Maginot Line was a French defense, which ran along the Franco-German border to defend against the invading Nazis during World War II. Ultimately, it failed due to being rounded by the German invasion through Belgium and the Netherlands, while a decoy force sat opposite the Line in Germany, deceiving the French into believing that the Germans would attack across that border. | ||
*This battle maybe a homage to the ''Gainax OVA'' anime series, ''Aim for the Top!: Gunbuster'', in this six episode long series, mankind faces a race of space insects that act very much like the [[The Flood|Flood]]; they are parasitic, but unlike the Flood they reproduce by infesting stars, causing them to age faster than normal. The final episode has humanity defending a large device capable of creating a black hole in the center of the Galaxy that is designed to kill all space insect creatures living in the center. The alien species, like the Flood, outnumbered their opponents by an unimaginable degree. The Forerunner's too, outnumbered tremendously, stalled for time until the Halo Array activated; much like how the humans held off the space insects until the Black Hole device could be detonated. The human commanders in the series underestimated the intelligence and capabilities of the alien attackers, just how [[The Didact|Didact]] initially showed no surprise to the Flood. During the battle, the space insects attacked in mass waves; hoping to get past the defending Earth ships and physically ram the Black Hole device in an attempt to destroy it, despite their superior technology and firepower, the human ships were often destroyed by the ramming attacks itself; just like how the Flood would use commercial vessels that were many times larger than Forerunner warships to either disable, capture or knock them out. | *This battle maybe a homage to the ''Gainax OVA'' anime series, ''Aim for the Top!: Gunbuster'', in this six episode long series, mankind faces a race of space insects that act very much like the [[The Flood|Flood]]; they are parasitic, but unlike the Flood they reproduce by infesting stars, causing them to age faster than normal. The final episode has humanity defending a large device capable of creating a black hole in the center of the Galaxy that is designed to kill all space insect creatures living in the center. The alien species, like the Flood, outnumbered their opponents by an unimaginable degree. The Forerunner's too, outnumbered tremendously, stalled for time until the Halo Array activated; much like how the humans held off the space insects until the Black Hole device could be detonated. The human commanders in the series underestimated the intelligence and capabilities of the alien attackers, just how [[The Didact|Didact]] initially showed no surprise to the Flood. During the battle, the space insects attacked in mass waves; hoping to get past the defending Earth ships and physically ram the Black Hole device in an attempt to destroy it, despite their superior technology and firepower, the human ships were often destroyed by the ramming attacks itself; just like how the Flood would use commercial vessels that were many times larger than Forerunner warships to either disable, capture or knock them out. | ||
==List of appearances== | |||
*''[[Halo 3]]'' <small>([[Terminal/Halo 3|Terminals]])</small> {{1st}} | |||
*''[[Halo: Silentium]]'' | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||