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| | The ''Unyielding Hierophant'' is a [[Covenant]] Battle Station located in the Tau Ceti system, which was conquered by [[Covenant]] forces in 2530. The station was a rendezvous point for [[Covenant]] forces, before they launched their impending attack on [[Earth]]. Knowing this, the crew of the [[Ascendant Justice]]-Gettysburg decide to initiate a [[Halo: First Strike|first strike]] against the enemy. During the battle, the ''Unyielding Heirophant'' is destroyed, along with over 200 [[Covenant]] ships, and severely crippling the other 150. It stands as a monumental achievement for the [[UNSC]], and a discerning loss for the [[Covenant]]. |
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| <center>''Were you looking for [[Unyielding]], a music track from [[Halo 2]]?''
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| {{quote|I'm not sure what that thing is. Don't look like any 'uneven elephant' to me-—more like two squids kissing.|[[Avery J. Johnson]]}}
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| The '''''Unyielding Hierophant''''', or to Sergeant Johnson known humorously as "uneven elephant", was a [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] command-and-control center and refit-battle station that was capable of supporting a fleet of over 500<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' page 297</ref> capital ships. It was capable of slipspace jumps <ref>[[Halo: First Strike]] page 198</ref> and was over 10 kilometers (6.3 miles) in circumference. This type of vessel possesses at least two fusion reactor cores for power.
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| == Appearance ==
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| The ''Unyielding Hierophant'' was shaped like a figure-eight, with two tear-drop shaped bulbous sections connected at the center, each 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) long which makes it 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) long total. A rotating ring is connected to the central hub by many long spokes, and is used by Covenant cruisers and carriers to dock with the space station. Thin, filament-like tubes extend from both bulbous sections and move over the surface of the ring; these may be tubes used for transporting personnel and cargo between the ring and other parts of the station.
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| Running the circumference of the station's hub is a repair-and-refit facility, with many slots for Covenant spacecraft to dock and be attended to by Huragok work teams. This section of the ship is crewed by thousands of Huragok and a small number of Unggoy.
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| Inside the main sections, it has large "rooms" that contain environments with foliage, water, and animals to simulate the Covenant's worlds and make occupants feel more at home, rather than on a huge station. The [[Master Chief]] compares these to the large atrium that [[FLEETCOM]] [[HQ]] has in its lobby. These areas have temples for religious sessions. In these large rooms, the Spartans saw pipe-like tubes that carried passengers from one destination to the other inside capsules. Also, the Covenant seemed to have an almost complete control of gravity in the station, as water was seen flowing up and sideways.
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| == History ==
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| At some point before the Covenant assault to Earth, the [[Prophet of Truth]] had managed to discover the location of humanity's homeworld. He secretly begun amassing a fleet of over five hundred warships commanded exclusively by the [[Jiralhanae]] to attack and occupy Earth.<ref name="waypoint">''[[Halo Waypoint]], "Ten Twenty" history entry''</ref>
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| At the time of its destruction it was located in the [[Tau Ceti]] system. The system was conquered by Covenant forces in [[2530]] and was therefore used as a rendezvous point for Covenant forces before they prepared to launch their impending attack on [[Earth]]. When the the crew of the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]-[[Gettysburg]]'' discovered this, they decided to initiate a first strike against the Covenant to postpone an inevitable Covenant assault against Earth. A team of [[SPARTAN-II]]s, among them [[John-117]], [[Grace-093]], [[Fred-104]], [[Linda-058]] and [[William-043]] commandeered a Covenant dropship and, after they had reinforced the armor of the dropship with [[Titanium-A]] armor, lead, and carbon molybdenum steel I-beams so the ship could withstand immense pressures, departed and made the transition from [[Slipspace]] to normal space in one piece.
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| The [[Spartan-II]]s infiltrated the station, using the Covenant's own tugs to tow them aboard, finding themselves within a hangar capable of docking hundreds of single-ships.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', page 304</ref> Avoiding the Covenant presence, the Spartans proceeded inward, with a copy of [[Cortana]] infiltrating the Station's network to distract and hinder the Covenant's coordination. Managing to cross an open plaza with only the loss of [[Grace-093]], who was killed by a Brute with a [[Brute Shot]], Blue team neutralized the [[Brute]] guards of a temple and proceeded to the 512 tera-watt reactors, with the copied Cortana setting them to overload, which would destroy the station and nearby fleet.<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', pages 316-317</ref>
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| The [[Spartans]] attempted to flee using captured [[Banshee]]s, now taking heavy fire from the [[Covenant]] forces aware of their presence. After destroying one of the plaza's windows, they managed to escape, hijacking a floating Covenant dropship and making their way to the evacuation point for the ''Ascendant Justice-Gettysburg.'' The ''Ascendant Justice'', separated from the ''Gettysburg ''and commandeered by Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb and Lieutenant Elias Haverson, drew the Covenant's attention to the station with a holographic ruse, keeping them within the blast radius; the detonation destroyed virtually all of the five-hundred strong fleet, the largest space victory ever accomplished by the [[UNSC]].
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| == Trivia ==
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| *The five hundred twelve tera-watt energy that is used to power the shield generator of the station is strong enough to repel the collision of a small moon.
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| *It is possible that this is a counterpart to the [[UNSC Cradle]], but much larger.
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| *A hierophant, according to Webster's Dictionary is a "priest in ancient Greece; specifically: the chief priest of the Eleusinian mysteries".<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hierophant Unyielding Hierophant on Merriam-Webster]</ref> This may be a reference to the [[Prophets]] and their role in [[Covenant]] Society. Also, the Eleusinian mysteries could be seen as referring to the [[Great Journey]] as both promised salvation to believers and an afterlife.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries Eleusinian Mysteries on ''Wikipedia'']</ref>
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| *It was here that Linda-058 showed her sniping prowess. Sniping one handed, hanging on a steel cable, she was able to provide covering fire for the other Spartans. She took out four pursuing Banshees by shooting through the tiny crack in between the top and bottom segments where the driver enters, which is impossible in the games.
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| *According to the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]'', the 12 ships that survived the station's explosion are the ships the [[Prophet of Regret]] brought with him to Earth.<ref>Halo Encyclopedia</ref> However, a history entry in ''[[Halo Waypoint]]'' establishes these ships to be a part of the fleet secretly summoned to the station by the Prophet of Truth and later used to reinforce Regret's forces on Earth during the events of ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' and after.<ref name="waypoint"/>
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