Quarantine Zone (Location)

For other uses, see Quarantine Zone (disambiguation).

The Quarantine Zone is a perimeter established by the Covenant upon their landing on Installation 05. The Quarantine Zone is directly outside the Delta Halo Library's Shield Wall. The Containment Shield Wall had kept much of the Flood from spreading, but once the Shield Wall was deactivated by the Arbiter during his search for the Sacred Icon, the Flood could move more freely about the ring.

This area is guarded and patrolled by Sentinels and Sentinel Majors. The Covenant have fought valiantly against both Flood and Sentinel alike. But since the Arbiter has destroyed the shield, both Sentinel and Flood populations have greatly increased, or so presumed. The Quarantine Zone is starved of all life by the Sentinels. The only signs of past life (besides the Flood) are dead trees and it is constantly snowing. It is possible that the sentinels or 2401 Penitent Tangent have caused this climate change in order to prevent life from growing and/or existing in this area.

Since vehicles have been introduced to the area, the Flood have shown the ability to operate these machines and use them against Sentinel and Covenant alike. Most of the vehicles here are Ghosts, Warthogs, a few Wraiths and a few Scorpion Tanks. Now that they have access to military vehicles, the Flood have become far more mobile.

Also since the humans have entered the area, more and more have become infected and now spread the Flood even more. This has also allowed them to get more weaponry, such as SMGs, M90 Shotguns, and Battle Rifles. Such progress of the Flood is easily noticed in the Arbiter levels here, where many Human Combat Forms can be found.