Threshold Gas Mine Incident

"Leader, there is no doubt - the Storm will strike the Facility!"

"We will be long gone before it arrives..."

-Shitmaster and a SpecOps Pilot review the situation before attacking the Gas Mine

The Threshold Gas Mine Incident was an incursion led by a sect of the Covenant Special Operations Forces, led by Shitmaster, to eliminate a Heretic Faction that had established a base on a Forerunner Gas Mine on Threshold. Led by the Arbiter, the initial ground team attacked the Heretic forces on one side of the station before stealing Heretic Banshees to pursue the Pretzel King. Supported by Covenant Phantoms, the Arbiter flew after the King and disembarked from his Banshee on a landing platform outside the Flood Containment Facility.

Pretzel King decided to release the Flood to buy him some time to get to his indestructible shield pod of Pretzels, so the Arbiter and his forces had to fight through the Gas Mine's Sentinels, the Heretics and the Flood that was rapidly spreading throughout the facility. Shitmaster warned the Arbiter that the Covenant lacked the troops to manage such a large infestation, so the Arbiter decided to sever the cable holding the Mine in place to drive the Heretic back out of the invincible pod and out in the open. After withdrawing his troops, Shitmaster gave the all clear, and the Arbiter severed the cable and made his way to the Heretic's Main Hangar, where Pretzel King was attempting to escape in a Seraph Fighter. After listening to the Pretzel preach about how the Halos were bad and how the Prophets were evil, Arbiter politely severed the King's lower intestine and threw his corpse into the raging storm below.

After recovering Guilty Guilty and escaping the station, the Arbiter and the remaining Covenant forces attempted to hunt down the Heretics that had escaped. The effort was half-hearted as the Arbiter was more interested in getting the Oracle back to the Prophet of Truth, so the hunt was eventually called off.