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===Invasion of Earth=== | ===Invasion of Earth=== | ||
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{{ | Discovering that the Halo Array had been remotely activated, the UNSC planned to send a force from the Home Fleet, led by the cruiser {{UNSCship|Endeavour}}, to the Ark to deactivate the signal, and invited advisors from the Swords of Sanghelios, briefing them on the situation and asking for their assistance in activating the Voi portal to reach it. When the portal activated, a Forerunner Retriever emerged, and began to harvest the surrounding countryside, but was destroyed by the ''Endeavour''. While the UNSC wanted to send the Endeavour, Shipmaster N'tho 'Sraom refused to wait, and took his own ship, the heavy corvette ''Mayhem'', through on his own initiative, with UNSC personnel aboard. | ||
The Home Fleet, consisting of dozens of ships, was in place to respond when [[000 Tragic Solitude]] sent through hundreds of Retrievers to strip Earth to repair his installation. These sentinels were rudimentarily armed, but were destroyed in large numbers by the UNSC fleet, though it took heavy casualties until a stalemate between the ''Mayhem's'' crew and Tragic Solitude, forcing the Retrievers to withdraw through the portal. Afterwards, the UNSC sent reinforcements through the portal, discovering that the ''Mayhem's'' crew and passengers had survived. {{UNSCship|Witness}} recovered ''Mayhem'' within one of its hangars, and carried it back through the portal to Earth.<ref>'''[[Halo: Hunters in the Dark]]'''</ref> | |||
===The Didact's attack=== | ===The Didact's attack=== | ||
