While the Spirit fights off the attack in space, Alice-130 and her forces must survive waves of Banished forces without orbital support. However, their victory is short-lived as the Spirit of Fire falls under attack by the Banished flagship Enduring Conviction. After a lengthy battle, the UNSC forces manage to destroy the portal node and kill Decimus. Anticipating the UNSC's plans, Atriox has stationed forces led by Decimus in the area. Destroying a key control node will deny the Banished access to the portals. Interfacing with the Cartographer, Professor Anders learns that Atriox has been using the site to take over the Ark's entire portal network, allowing him to quickly transport his forces across the installation. Meanwhile, the UNSC forces reach the Cartographer, and after meeting some resistance from the Banished and the Ark's Sentinels, they gain access to the central chamber. Isabel outlines her plan to destroy the Enduring Conviction. After successfully doing so, she is placed in command of the UNSC forces in the area by Captain Cutter, with the intent of continuing a local campaign against the Banished. She launches an operation to rescue UNSC prisoners while using another abandoned research outpost to reestablish contact with the Spirit of Fire. While the UNSC forces secure the access point to the Cartographer, the narrative returns to Alice-130, who has been carrying out her own operations against the Banished behind their lines. To prevent the Banished from making use of the Cartographer, Captain Cutter decides to mount an assault on the site. In the Banished base's wreckage, data is discovered pointing to a Cartographer - a map room of the entire installation. Decimus and his local forces are eventually defeated, but he manages to escape. The Spirit of Fire crew begin their campaign against the Banished with a strike on a salvage operation led by Atriox's lieutenant Decimus, while Anders works to find a way to contact the UNSC. The AI pleads the crew to flee, but Cutter instead chooses to stay and stop the Banished on the Ark. Aboard the Spirit of Fire, a shaken Isabel briefs Captain Cutter and the crew on the new threat: A Jiralhanae warlord, Atriox, who rebelled against the Covenant during the Human-Covenant War, amassing a mercenary army known as the Banished, who have now attacked the Ark and massacred the humans under Isabel's charge. While the others board a Pelican, Alice-130 stays behind to hold off the attackers, her fate uncertain. The Spartans fall back, evacuating their now-unconscious comrade, and escape the outpost with hostile forces in pursuit. In a lopsided fight to the alien's favor, Douglas-042 is seriously wounded. Almost immediately, the Spartans are ambushed by a large Jiralhanae.

Inside they meet a frightened logistics AI who identifies herself as Isabel. Scouting the surface, Spartan-II Red Team comes across signs of battle and a deserted science outpost. While Halo Wars 2 is tonally designed to feel like a direct continuation of Halo Wars, managing director Kevin Grace stated that the game would have a similar tone to Halo: Combat Evolved, as the game's setting is primarily contained within one location. It is at this time that the crew encounter Atriox and the Banished. In an effort to return home, Captain James Cutter leads the ship's crew to the surface of Installation 00 to search for a way to reconnect with the rest of the UNSC. The crew of the Spirit of Fire, having been in cryo-sleep since 2531, are unaware of the nature of the installation, nor do they know the result of the Human-Covenant War. ДЄccording to franchise director Frank O'Connor, a primary theme of the game is two commanders from two very different backgrounds facing off against each other in an attempt to gain control of Installation 00. Having previously battled the Covenant, the Banished rose to power in wake of the empire's fall in 2552 by gaining control of numerous assets from the Covenant. Led by Captain James Cutter, the crew of Spirit of Fire encounter the mercenary faction known as the Banished, led by the cunning Jiralhanae warlord Atriox. The remaining crew of the Spirit of Fire are awoken from cryo-sleep above the Forerunners' Installation 00, previously the setting for Halo 3. Halo Wars 2 takes place 28 years after the events of Halo Wars in 2531, after Phoenix-class colony ship UNSC Spirit of Fire had floated adrift in space for decades and declared by the rest of the United Nations Space Command as 'lost with all hands'. ' There's a sense of scale and scale that I think was maybe missing from Halo Wars.' - Frank O'Connor 5.21 The Flood Vidoc - Awakening The Nightmare.

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