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Insurrection | ||||||||||||||||
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2520 | ||||||||||||||||
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Epsilon Eridanus | ||||||||||||||||
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UNSC Pyrrhic Victory | ||||||||||||||||
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- "Why so much bloodshed for a jungle that holds absolutely no strategic value at all?"
- —Army Lieutenant
The Third Battle of Death Jungle was the final engagement between the UNSC and Insurrectionists in Death Jungle.
91.72% of men who walk in there, never walk out.
Background[]
UNSC forces landed on Eridanus II as to counter the growing Insurrectionist movement in the system. The UNSC forces was off to a good start steadily taking ground, until they hit what is now called Death Jungle, in which the Insurrectionists staged a bloody ambush.