2524
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2524 was a year in the 2520s in the 26th century.
Events[edit]
January[edit]
January 2
- Gage Yevgenny told a friend about his decision to leave Harvest, then he went round Utgard, walking up and down Mimir River drinking until he could barely walk.[1]
January 3
- A tired and hungover Gage Yevgenny enlisted in the Colonial Military Authority the hour he turned 18. By the evening he became a Private, First Class.[1]
January 18
- A telescope on Mars, CFHT-Mars, while recording the Rosette Nebula, captures the first ever human photograph of the Covenant mobile planetoid, High Charity. The discovery is sent to Dr. Catherine Halsey for evaluation.[2]
February[edit]
February 28
May[edit]
May 22
- James Cutter receives a Bronze Star for his actions aboard the UNSC Glasgow.[7][8]
June[edit]
June 12
- Kojo "Romeo" Agu is born in the Castra Arcology, Castra, on Madrigal.[9][10][11][12][13]
Mid June
- Insurrectionists hit the luxury liner National Holiday above Reach, detonating unmanned orbital taxis loaded with explosives against its hull. The ship plummets into Reach's atmosphere, burning up via re-entry. The Office of Naval Intelligence manages to portray it as a tragic accident.[14]
June 16
- As part of Operation: TREBUCHET; Staff Sergeants Nolan Byrne and Avery Johnson lead two four-man teams on a raid in the city of Casbah on Tribute to find rebel bombs. Johnson hesitates to fire at one of the bombers due to a child being in range leading to the boy's father detonating it.[15]
August[edit]
August 7
- Marcille Johnson passes away in her apartment in Chicago, URNA.[16]
August 10
- Avery Johnson arrives in Chicago, URNA, after the botched operation on Tribute. He goes to visit his aunt Marcille, only to find that she had passed away three days ago. In grief, he goes on a drinking spree.[16]
August 13
- Lieutenant Downs finds a drunk Avery Johnson at the recruitment centre entrance in Chicago. Johnson is transferred to Harvest to train the local militia.[16]
August 22
- Catherine Halsey records in her Journal that she was furious that Spartan-II candidates were rerouted during a training exercise due to interested parties. Halsey then requested that next-generation AI matrix strata be pushed forward so new intrusion and counter-intrusion software can be developed to watch her back, and aid the Spartans.[17]
September[edit]
September 3
- The freighter Horn of Plenty emerges from Slipspace in error, courtesy of a radiation leak, and sends out a distress beacon. The beacon is futile, however, as the ship is attacked and captured by a Covenant vessel.[18]
- Horn of Plenty's navigation box is retrieved by Covenant forces and its contents are analysed by the Huragok Lighter Than Some. Lighter Than Some finds the vessel's point of origin. The Covenant ship, Minor Transgression, heads off to obtain more spoils.[19]
Around September 18
- Horn of Plenty's signal reaches Harvest, being received by the artificial intelligence construct Sif.[18]
September 18
- Lucy Orion Forge is born on Earth to John Forge[20] and Laine Forge.[21]
November[edit]
November 17
- Dr. Catherine Halsey writes in her journal about previously reuniting with Lieutenant Jacob Keyes while attending a conference at the University of Calippus. Their rendezvous left Halsey pregnant with their daughter, Miranda.[22][Note 1]
December[edit]
December 21
- The UNSC Two for Flinching, carrying Staff Sergeant Johnson and many others, arrives in the Epsilon Indi system. Simultaneously, ONI operative Jilan al-Cygni is briefed by the AIs Sif and Mack.[23]
- Minor Transgression's crew launches a raid on the freighter This End Up, killing its captain, Henry Gibson. A while later, Sif reports the attack to al-Cygni, both realizing that it was the only ship in the area with a human crew.[24]
Unknown[edit]
- Office of the High Prophet of Restraint issues an Edict, following an incident with the Kig-Yar ship Pitiless, that teams of Unggoy and Sangheili are to search all Kig-Yar vessels for evidence of "Unclean Beings".<