Madrigal
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Madrigal was a thriving human Outer Colony world in the 23 Librae system,[3] and is the only planet within the star's habitable zone.[4] It was the closest world to Harvest in 2525,[5] and in 2528 Madrigal joined Harvest on the list of human colonies to have been glassed by the Covenant.[6]
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History[edit]
Human-Covenant war[edit]
The Covenant arrived in the 23 Librae system in 2528. While the United Nations Space Command battled the Covenant, it was the planet's insurrectionists and rebels that had gathered the planet's civilians and helped them escape the Fall of Madrigal.[7] Many civilians of Madrigal evacuated the planet aboard freighters and cargo ships.[8] The Sangheili Thel 'Vadamee, a future Arbiter, participated in the destruction of Madrigal.[9] Despite being prepared for the Covenant since Harvest was glassed in 2525, Madrigal's defenses failed and the planet was glassed.[6][10][Note 1] The survivors fled to the asteroids trailing the nearby gas giant Hesiod, which they nicknamed the Rubble.[11]
In 2535, Covenant ships, the Retribution's Thunder and A Psalm Every Day, entered the system in search for Kig-Yar "rebels" hiding in the Rubble. The Covenant searched Madrigal's surface to make sure the Kig-Yar were not hiding on the planet.[4] With help from the crew of the frigate UNSC Midsummer Night and SPARTAN Gray Team, the Rubble was evacuated after the battles of the Rubble and Metisette, using Habitat Exodus to reach UNSC-controlled space.[citation needed]
Non-canon and dubious canon appearances[edit]
Silver Timeline[edit]
- Main article: Silver Timeline
In 2552, the Covenant attacked an Insurrectionist outpost on Madrigal while searching for a Forerunner artifact in a nearby cave system. Despite the intervention of Spartan-II Silver Team, all of the Insurrectionists were wiped out except for teenager Kwan Ha. The attacking Sangheili were wiped out by the Spartans and their Phantom was captured by the UNSC, but a single Sangheili managed to escape in a Banshee to report to the Prophet of Mercy. John-117 retrieved the artifact from the cave system before leaving the planet with Kwan Ha.[12]
Trivia[edit]
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- Madrigal is a city in Bungie's Myth series. It serves as the namesake of Siege of Madrigal, a musical piece from Myth: The Fallen Lords. This song serves as an Easter egg in all the Bungie Halo games.
- The names of most known Madrigali residents, as well as the names of places they established on the Rubble, seem to indicate that much of Madrigal's population was of Hispanic heritage.
Gallery[edit]
Concept art of Madrigal for Halo: The Television Series.
Concept art of Madrigal for Halo: The Television Series.
Concept art of an explosion at the Madrigal tether base.
Concept art of infrastructure on the planet.
Concept art of a market on Madrigal.
Concept art of John-117 inside a cave on Madrigal.
Flora that could be used as recreational drugs on Madrigal in Halo: The Television Series.
List of appearances[edit]
- Halo 3 (Mentioned in Halo: The Master Chief Collection only)
- Halo: Contact Harvest (First mentioned)
- Halo: The Cole Protocol (First appearance)
- Halo 3: ODST Pre-mission Evaluation (Mentioned only)
- Halo 3: ODST (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Evolutions
- Dirt (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Reach (Mentioned only)
- Data pads (Mentioned only)
- Halo Living Monument (Mentioned only)
- Halo 4 (Mentioned only)
- Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo (Mentioned only)
- Halo: The Television Series (Silver Timeline appearance)
- Contact
- Unbound
- Emergence (Mentioned only)
- Homecoming
- Reckoning
- Inheritance
Notes[edit]
- ^ The Halo: Reach data pads list Madrigal as among the eight human colonies to have been glassed by 2530. However, as numerous other colonies besides those eight are known to have been glassed prior to 2530, this information is suspect, especially given that the information is from in-universe documentation created by the Assembly, which might not be aware of the other colonies' destruction.
Sources[edit]
- ^ Bungie.net, Meet the Squad (6/2/2009) (Retrieved on Jan 31, 2021) [archive]
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 51
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 13
- ^ a b Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 155
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 24
- ^ a b Halo: The Cole Protocol, chapter 7
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 70
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 41
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 146
- ^ Halo Wars: Genesis
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 11
- ^ Halo: The Television Series, episode Contact
