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| {{Status|Canon}} | | {{era|HW}} |
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| |name=Second Base
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| |system=[[Stidian system]]{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=51}}
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| |species=[[Human]] {{C|Non-native}}
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| |government= [[Unified Earth Government]]
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| |colonized=[[2460]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
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| '''Second Base''' was a [[human]] [[Outer Colony|Outer]] [[Human colonies|Colony]] of the [[Unified Earth Government|Unified Earth Government (UEG)]].{{Ref/Book|[[Halo Mythos]]|Page=54}} In [[2526]], it became one of the first human [[Human colonies|colonies]] to fall to the [[Covenant]].{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | | '''Second Base''' was one of two colonies lost directly after [[Harvest]]. Initially, the UNSC had hoped to cover up their loss by explaining it away as a COM relay malfunction. Eventually, they revealed that the UNSC was now fighting a xenocidal alien hegemony, and that this and [[Green Hills|another colony]] had been destroyed with the total loss of two million civilians between them.<ref>''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]''</ref> |
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| ==History== | | ==References== |
| ===Human-Covenant war===
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| Along with [[Green Hills]], Second Base was one humanity's colonies [[Glassing|glassed]] by the [[Covenant]] soon after their [[First Battle of Harvest|attack]] on [[Harvest]] at the start of the [[Human-Covenant War]].{{Ref/Comic|Id=Genesis|[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]}} After the planet's glassing in [[2526]],{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} the [[United Nations Space Command]] had hoped to cover up their loss by explaining it away as a communications blackout caused by [[Insurrectionist|rebels]]. Eventually, they revealed that the UNSC was now fighting a xenocidal alien hegemony, and that Second Base and Green Hills had both been destroyed with the total loss of two million [[civilian]]s between them.{{Ref/Reuse|Genesis}}
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| In [[2530#January|January 2530]], the [[The Assembly|Assembly]] conservatively estimated that it would take somewhere between one hundred and ten years to three hundred years to [[Terraforming|re-terraform]] Second Base after the Covenant glassed the world.{{Ref/Game|Id=datapad|[[Halo: Reach]]|Detail=[[Data pads|Data pad 14]]}}
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| ==Gallery==
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| File:H2A SecondBaseConcept.jpg|Unused concept art of Second Base for ''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''{{'}}s [[Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|terminals]].
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| </gallery>
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| ==List of appearances==
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| *''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]'' {{1st}}
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| *''[[Halo: Reach]]''
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| **''[[Data pads]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[Halo Mythos]]'' {{Mo}}
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| ==Sources==
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| {{Ref/Sources}}
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| [[Category:Human colonies]] | |
