Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity

The Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity was the vanguard fleet of the Covenant holy city High Charity. The fleet numbered in hundreds of warships and had the sole responsibility of protecting the holy city from large-scale attacks.
== History ==
=== Great Schism ===
During the ongoing battle of Installation 05, the Prophet of Truth begun his long-planned betrayal of the sangheili, first replacing the Covenant Honor Guard's sangheili with the jiralhanae, and later ordering the execution of the sangheili High Councilors at the hands of jiralhanae Captain Melchus and his troops. As the holy city of High Charity erupted into civil war, the Second Fleet similarly descended into chaos. Jiralhanae and sangheili-controlled ships began to engage one another in the space surrounding High Charity. At the same time other ships were trying to keep the Flood from escaping Installation 05. Some of the ships became infected by the Flood and many were destroyed, some sacrificing themselves to save the others. Sangheili Major Voro 'Mantakree of the Varric-pattern heavy cruiser Incorruptible managed to negotiate a brief truce between the warring vessels to focus on eliminating the Flood threat, but the jiralhanae attacked the sangheili before all Flood-controlled craft had been destroyed. The Incorruptible opted to retreat, in order to heed the summons of Imperial Admiral Xytan 'Jar Wattinree, but was pursued by three jiralhanae-controlled frigates.
Those sangheili-held vessels of the Second Fleet that did not leave for the Salia system or scatter elsewhere reformed into the Fleet of Retribution, under the command of Rtas 'Vadum, and continued to fight the jiralhanae around High Charity even as the plantetoid itself fell to the Flood and the Prophet of Truth fled the Coelest system on board the Anodyne Spirit.