Battle of the Quarantine Zone: Difference between revisions

The battle itself was from a strategic stand point, a Covenant victory. They succeeded in not only obtaining the Index but captured all of the Marines that were not infected (the Covenant were well aware that to activate the rings a human hand was required). The Flood on the other hand, won a tactical victory, succeeding in not only escaping Installation 05 but gained the means to spread to other worlds through infesting all the nearby ships (i.e. ''In Amber Clad''). The UNSC forces, on the other hand, failed to recover the Index and were almost completely killed or captured by the Covenant or infected by the Flood and the Forerunner constructs, without the leadership of 2401 Penitent Tangent could not stop the Flood from escaping the ring.

{{Conjecturalization}}

There is supporting evidence to entail and suggest that the Marines were never attacked by Sentinels but were in fact ''assisted'' by them. This is not out of the question because, like on Installation 04, the Sentinels might have identified the Marines as Reclaimers, rather than how Sentinels branded the humans as an "Aboriginal Subspecies" on [[Onyx]]. This would also explain their open hostility to the Covenant who were enemies of the Humans.