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Upon capturing all five control towers, the field was successfully brought offline, revealing the Sentinel response to this incursion; a [[Retriever Sentinel]]. The massive construct was successfully destroyed, however, freeing up the UNSC forces to make an assault on the construction site.<ref name="Gate" /> | Upon capturing all five control towers, the field was successfully brought offline, revealing the Sentinel response to this incursion; a [[Retriever Sentinel]]. The massive construct was successfully destroyed, however, freeing up the UNSC forces to make an assault on the construction site.<ref name="Gate" /> | ||
===Assaulting the fighter=== | |||
With the path to the fighter launch site open, UNSC forces attempted an air strike via the deployment of a Condor gunship. During the strike, Banished forces seemingly ignored the craft, before it was destroyed by a vast EMP strike. Thanks to data recovered from the Condor prior to its destruction, however, UNSC forces were able to learn that that the pulse came from four charging columns, which were also facilitating the construction of the craft. With this came one complication; the fighter would be complete in fifteen minutes. Sunray 1-1 comes across the first of these columns, but quickly learns that their firepower isn't enough to seriously damage it; instead, a [[Colossus]] is requisitioned to "stomp" the pad. With the column down, the ship's launch was delayed by ten minutes, allowing Sunray the time they needed to further disable the remaining three charging columns, fighting Sentinels and Banished along the way. Eventually, UNSC forces rallied for one final assault on the launch site to permanently bring the fighter offline, encountering a [[Mgalekgolo Captain]] deployed to prevent the attack from succeeding. The assault force was able to damage the captain, resulting in it retreating to be healed by Goliaths. The captain is eventually brought down, allowing the UNSC forces to send in a final wing of [[AV-14 Hornet]]s, destroying the Forerunner fighter by dropping [[Satchel charge]]s into the construction site from above.<ref name="Watch" /> | |||
==Aftermath== | |||
With the ''Despair''-class fighter destroyed, neither Banished nor UNSC would be able to employ it for their purposes. Instead, Atriox would seek out other means of advancing his campaign on the Ark, tasking warlords [[[Pavium]] and [[Voridus]] with salvaging the wreckage of the Covenant holy city [[High Charity]], which had crash-landed on the Ark in the [[Battle of Installation 00]] at the climax of the [[Human-Covenant War]]. This excursion would result in the release of the [[Flood]] from its quarantine zone, forcing Atriox to abandon several of his fortifications to contain the parasite.<ref name="Manifestation">'''Halo Wars 2''', campaign level, ''[[Manifestation]]''</ref> | |||
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