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|name=Battle of Mombasa | |name=Battle of Mombasa | ||
|image=[[File:Battle of Mombasa compilation.jpg|300px]]<sup>Clockwise from top left: | |image=[[File:Battle of Mombasa compilation.jpg|300px]]<sup>Clockwise from top left: [[M12B Warthog]]s drive along a ruined highway in [[Old Mombasa]]; [[civilian]]s fleeing by [[Human marine craft|watercraft]] during the battle; an image of [[John-117]] taken by [[Benjamin Giraud]] during the battle; a [[Type-47A Scarab]] destroyed in Old Mombasa; the ''[[Solemn Penance]]'' jumping to [[slipspace]] over the city; elements of [[Alpha-Nine]] observing a {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}}.</sup> | ||
|conflict=[[Human-Covenant War]] | |conflict=[[Human-Covenant War]] | ||
|date=[[2552#October|October 20, 2552]] | |date=[[2552#October|October 20, 2552]] | ||
|place=[[Mombasa]], [[Kenya | |place=[[Mombasa]], [[Kenya]], [[East African Protectorate]] | ||
|result=[[Covenant]] victory | |result=[[Covenant]] victory | ||
*Covenant occupation of Mombasa. | *Covenant occupation of Mombasa. | ||
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Eventually, the Rookie managed to meet up with Dare inside the [[New Mombasa Data Center|Superintendent's Data Center]]. Inside, they discovered a [[Huragok]] called [[Quick to Adjust]],<ref name="Catalog"/> who had combined the Superintendent, namely its [[Vergil]] subroutine, with itself. As Quick disconnected from the core, the AI shut itself down, as all of its data had been transferred into the creature. At this point, Buck arrived into the complex and the ODSTs escaped back to the surface through the tunnels filled with Covenant, while protecting the critically important Huragok.<ref name="data"/> | Eventually, the Rookie managed to meet up with Dare inside the [[New Mombasa Data Center|Superintendent's Data Center]]. Inside, they discovered a [[Huragok]] called [[Quick to Adjust]],<ref name="Catalog"/> who had combined the Superintendent, namely its [[Vergil]] subroutine, with itself. As Quick disconnected from the core, the AI shut itself down, as all of its data had been transferred into the creature. At this point, Buck arrived into the complex and the ODSTs escaped back to the surface through the tunnels filled with Covenant, while protecting the critically important Huragok.<ref name="data"/> | ||
In the | In the final hours of the day, the area was already full of arriving Covenant capital ships. Buck, Dare and the Rookie made their way to the surface, through a Covenant outpost in the city, and eventually took an elevator to the city's [[New Mombasa Waterfront Highway|Waterfront Highway]]. They then pushed through the Highway and made a stand at the entrance to Uplift Reserve. The Phantom captured by the rest of the squad arrived and picked them up, and they made it out just as an assault carrier appeared from slipspace and glassed the area.<ref name="coastal"/> | ||
==Aftermath== | ==Aftermath== | ||
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In the summer of [[2557]], nearly five years after the battle, the Forerunner glyphs recovered by several ODSTs in the city were finally decoded, pointing to a region on [[Gamma Halo]] containing an [[unidentified Forerunner machine]].<ref name="ope" /> | In the summer of [[2557]], nearly five years after the battle, the Forerunner glyphs recovered by several ODSTs in the city were finally decoded, pointing to a region on [[Gamma Halo]] containing an [[unidentified Forerunner machine]].<ref name="ope" /> | ||
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