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{{Center|For the UNSC's conflict with the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]], see [[Post-Covenant War conflicts]].}}
{{Battle infobox
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|conc=
|next= [[Forerunner-Flood war]]
|name=Plague War
|image=[[File:H4-Terminal-CharumHakkor-Battle.jpg|350px]]
|conflict=
|date=Centuries before [[107,472 BCE]]{{Ref/Reuse|sil3}}-c. [[107,472 BCE]]{{Ref/Note|The [[Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)]] gives the date 107,472 BCE for the Battle of Charum Hakkor. It's unknown whether this is the end date for the battle or the start date.}}
|place=[[Orion Arm]] of the [[Milky Way|Milky Way galaxy]]
|result='''Forerunner victory'''
*Humanity's empire dissolved and civilization dismantled; species biologically regressed.{{Ref/Reuse|cry1}}
*[[Qom Yaekesh system|San'Shyuum home system]] quarantined{{Ref/Novel|Id=cry14|Cry|Chapter=14}}
*Flood strategic retreat from Milky Way galaxy
|side1={{Icon|Forerunner}} [[Ecumene|Forerunner ecumene]]
*[[Warrior-Servant]]
|side2=[[Human-San'Shyuum alliance]]
*[[Ancestors|Humanity]]
**[[Florian]]s{{Ref/Reuse|Gyre}}
*[[San'Shyuum]]
|side3=[[Flood]]
|commanders1=[[Ur-Didact]]
|commanders2=*[[Yprin Yprikushma]]†
*[[Forthencho]]†
*[[First Prophet]]
*[[Va'larr]]
|commanders3=[[Gravemind]]
|forces1=*{{Class|Sojourner|dreadnought}}s{{Ref/Novel|Id=epi3|Epi|Chapter=3}}
*{{Class|Fortress|vessel}}s{{Ref/Reuse|epi3}}
|forces2=[[Ancient human cruiser]]s
|forces3=
|casual1=Heavy
*Loss of at least 50 star systems{{Ref/Reuse|cry12}}
*The Didact's children{{Ref/Novel|Id=cry13|Cry|Chapter=13}}
|casual2=Heavy
*Loss of at least 1,000 star systems{{Ref/Novel|Id=pri21|Pri|Chapter=21}} 
|casual3=Heavy
*All Flood forms and infected worlds
}}
{{Quote|Ten thousand years ago, humans had fought a war against Forerunners — and lost. The centers of human civilization had been dismantled and the humans themselves devolved and shattered into many forms, some said as punishment — but more likely because they were a naturally violent species.|[[Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting]]{{Ref/Novel|Id=cry1|Cry|Chapter=1}}}}

The '''Plague War''',{{Ref/Reuse|Gyre}} also known as the '''Human-Forerunner wars'''<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 45, 47''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 236, 375''</ref> or the '''Human-Forerunner War''',{{Ref/Site|Id=HFW|URL=http://halo.xbox.com/blogs/Headlines/post/2012/06/20/The-Halo-Bulletin-62012.aspx|Site=The Halo Bulletin|Page=6.20.12|D=11|M=11|Y=2020}}{{Ref/Novel|Epi|Chapter=19}} was a major interstellar conflict fought between the [[human-San'Shyuum alliance]], the Flood, and later the [[Forerunner]] [[ecumene]] for centuries years across the [[Orion Arm]] of the [[Milky Way|Milky Way galaxy]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=sil3|Sil|Chapter=String 3}} Stemming from a [[Flood]] outbreak in the humans' dominion, the wars resulted in the dismantling of [[Ancestors|humanity's interstellar empire]]{{Ref/Reuse|cry1}} and in the quarantine of the [[San'Shyuum]] species.{{Ref/Reuse|cry14}} Over the course of the conflict, humanity never came closer than 15,000 light-years of the [[Orion complex]], the center of Forerunner power.{{Ref/Novel|Id=pri30|Pri|Chapter=30}}

The [[Librarian]] considered the wars to have been the greatest threat to Forerunner power in their history and believed the conflict weakened the Forerunners enough to allow the Flood to emerge victorious until the firing of the [[Halo Array|Halos]].{{Ref/Level|Id=H4R|H4|H4:Reclaimer|Reclaimer}} While humanity's defeat affirmed Forerunner dominance over the entire galaxy, the destruction of a major military power combined with the subsequent political schism within the highest levels of Forerunner society set the stage for the return of the Flood and the disastrous [[Forerunner-Flood war]].

==Background==
===Origins===
Around [[Distant past|150,000 BCE]], humanity had moved their interstellar civilization outward along the Orion Arm, likely looking to escape from the Forerunners' dominion.{{Ref/Reuse|cry1}} This civilization would eventually encompass at least 20,000 worlds in a thousand systems.{{Ref/Novel|Id=pri12|Pri|Chapter=12}} The planet of [[Charum Hakkor]] would be made the capital world of this empire in order to be close to a collection of [[Precursor]] artifacts.{{Ref/Novel|Id=cry11|Cry|Chapter=11}}{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Section=Human History|Page=20-21}} Over time, humanity came to believe that they were the true inheritors to the [[Mantle]].{{Ref/Reuse|cry11}} Eventually, humanity would partner with the [[San'Shyuum]] species, beginning a process of deeper integration between the two species.{{Ref/Book|Id=encancestors26|Enc22|Section=The Ancestors|Page=26-27}}

During their colonization of other planets, humans discovered automated cargo ships of unknown origin, which had supposedly arrived from the [[Large Magellanic Cloud]], crashed on planets near the edge of the galaxy. The humans found no crew, with the ships appearing to be automated, but they did find millions of small transparent cylinders filled with an unknown powder. Initial testing was done in the strictest containment. These early tests showed the powder to be harmless and useless, being composed of lifeless short-chain organic molecules. Early experiments demonstrated psychotropic effects on some smaller domesticated animals, one of which being the [[Pheru]]. The powder tests on the Pheru proved to be initially harmless, and indeed appeared to encourage desirable traits to appear in their appearance and behavior. Over centuries, this powder was applied. During this time, the powder began merging with and altering the genome of the Pheru in order to generate its own [[Flood Super Cell]]s. Soon, the infected Pheru began to infect others and even began showing some symptoms of the Flood mutation, such as fleshy tentacle-like rods. Close contact with the Pheru spread the infection to humanity. Some [[San'Shyuum]] were also infected as the Pheru were also kept as pets on the San'Shyuum worlds. Eventually the Flood began to spread, and the [[Feral Stage]] was initiated.{{Ref/Reuse|cry34}}

===Forerunners===
The [[Grammarian]] was one of the greatest tacticians and war scholars of the time before the Plague War.{{Ref/Novel|Epi|Chapter=9}}

==War==
===Infection===
[[File:HTMCC-H4 Terminals AncestorShipBridge.png|thumb|250px|A human ship prepares to cleanse an infested planet by orbital bombardment.]]
{{quote|We had no idea that the Forerunners were not your ''only'' enemy. Humanity hadn't been expanding. They were ''running''.|The [[Librarian]]{{Ref/Reuse|H4R}}}}
Flood infected humans would begin to forcibly infect other humans. By this point, dozens of systems were already fully infested and could not be recovered. The Flood began to mutate both infected humans and infected animals. These worlds, and some full systems, were quarantined though these measures failed. Many infected had escaped and spread to hundreds of worlds across 15 systems.{{Ref/Reuse|cry34}}

Humanity became desperate.{{Ref/Reuse|cry34}} Over the course of 50 years, humanity probed Forerunner settlements and positions, most of which were the resettled worlds of other species.{{Ref/Reuse|cry11}} Humans would take 50 of these defenseless systems and colonized them for themselves{{Ref/Novel|Id=cry12|Cry|Chapter=12}} as they needed them.{{Ref/Reuse|cry34}} This resulted in a "tide of human migration" to get away from the Flood.{{Ref/Novel|Id=cry34|Cry|Chapter=34}} Sensing these actions would lead to Forerunner aggression in retaliation, humanity struck a military alliance with the San'Shyuum properly.{{Ref/Reuse|cry11}}{{Ref/Reuse|encancestors26}} 

At the height of the conflict, [[Forthencho|Forthencho Oborune]] would be given command over the combined fleets of humanity and the San'Shyuum, becoming known as the "Lord of Admirals".{{Ref/Book|Id=mythos|HM|Page=12}} Forthencho would spearhead a new firebreak strategy where fleets were to sterilize Forerunner planets with Flood infestations.{{Ref/Reuse|mythos}} This was achieved through [[orbital bombardment]], killing millions of unaware Forerunners in the process; fueling the Ecumene's hatred towards perceived human aggression against other species.{{Ref/Game|Id=H4T|H4|H4:Terminals|Terminals}} The Forerunners had indeed been watching the conflict and just prior to the [[Ecumene Council]]'s formal declaration of war, the [[Warrior-Servant]]s had been considering tactics and weaponry for use against humanity.{{Ref/Site|Id=CF|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-didact-delights|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Didact's Delight|D=18|M=05|Y=2023|LocalArchive=Armory Infinitum#Backdraft Cindershot}}

Humanity also made great advances in military and science technology on par with those of the Forerunners, thanks to the efforts of humanity's Political and Morale Commander [[Yprin Yprikushma]], who encouraged humans to study Forerunner technologies from humanity's earlier conflicts with Forerunners. She would also be the one who, 40 years before fighting the Forerunners, found the [[Primordial]] and ordered it transported to Charum Hakkor.{{Ref/Reuse|pri21}}{{Ref/Reuse|pri21}} 

Human researchers brought the creature to Charum Hakkor and attempted to ask the creature about the Flood. They received answers so traumatizing many of them committed suicide rather than live with the knowledge.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 268-271''</ref> 

===Two fronts===
Following the declaration of war, the Forerunners felt they needed to act decisively.{{Ref/Reuse|cry34}} Early Forerunner victories came easily as humanity was heavily weakened by the Flood.{{Ref/Reuse|sil3}} [[Earth|Erda]], humanity's homeworld, was one of the earliest worlds lost to the Forerunners, a tremendous blow to humanity's morale.{{Ref/Reuse|pri21}} The Didact came up with a "[[star-hopping]]" plan, wherein [[Forerunner fleet]]s would [[Slipstream space|jump]] to strategically important human worlds and simply skip other less important human star systems, allowing the Forerunners to conserve their resources and fight efficiently.{{Ref/Novel|Id=pri19|Pri|Chapter=19}} In the midst of this, humanity had rebounded in their war efforts and were able to redouble their efforts against the Forerunners, though those early victories had given the Forerunners the needed positioning to continue to fight effectively.{{Ref/Reuse|sil3}}

The second front with the Forerunners would rage for nearly five decades.{{Ref/Novel|Epi|Chapter=2|Quote=Up until the battle on Faun Hakkor, the war with the human empire had
raged for nearly five decades.}} During this entire time, the [[Nov Thasta system]] was cut off from the rest of the alliance with considerable defenses preventing a breakthrough.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Chapter=12|Quote=The Didact’s fleets cut off this system from the replenishing armadas of the San’Shyuum. Humans had laid their strongest fortifications on foundations of Precursor ruins. They used unbending filaments to link their orbital platforms, and fought for fifty years against repeated Forerunner assaults, until finally they were defeated.}} The [[Confirmer]] served with the Didact during the war.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Chapter=20|Quote=“Curious as to why anybody even cares about these remnants of our old wars,” the Confirmer said.}} [[Endurance-of-Will]] was the adjutant of [[Bitterness-of-the-Vanquished]] during the war.{{Ref/Novel|Sil|Chapter=String 34}} The ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'' would be designed during the war.{{Ref/Book|H4EVG|Page=193}}

===Defeating the Flood===
Meanwhile, as a last desperate measure against the Flood, humanity's leaders decided to take a third of their population and genetically alter them{{Ref/Reuse|cry34}} using information learned from studying and speaking with the Primordial.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Gyre|Halo: Ghosts of the Gyre}} This third of the population was to be allowed to be consumed by the Flood.{{Ref/Reuse|cry34}} [[Va'larr]] and an unknown [[Florian]] were hand picked by Forthencho to take a number of non-military vessels from the flotilla and sent to an infected world to do such a thing.{{Ref/Reuse|Gyre}} It appeared that these genes aggressively killed off Flood biomatter and destroyed the Flood until the few that survived were forced to escape.{{Ref/Reuse|cry34}} 

[[File:H4-Terminal-PreHuman-Death.jpg|thumb|250px|left|A human warrior falls in battle.]]

Forerunner fleets would soon find healthy human populations in the middle of Flood infected sectors. While dying out, the Flood still maintained control over thousands of worlds across the galactic margin though they were retreating. Where ever the Didact encountered the remaining Flood, he ordered their extermination through firepower. During this, the [[Librarian]] had studied the various Flood ravaged worlds and would achieve the title of [[Lifeshaper]]. She be tasked with finding a cure for against the Flood, for the Forerunners, mostly be learning how humanity had supposedly achieved it.{{Ref/Reuse|sil3}} Due to the Flood's sudden retreat, the Forerunner leadership had come to believe that humanity had found a cure for the parasite.{{Ref/Reuse|cry34}}

 From the few scattered specimens retained for analysis, the Forerunners first learned of the Flood's [[logic plague]], which had corrupted the onboard [[ancilla]]s on the infested fleets.{{Ref/Reuse|s34}}

===The Ecumene Council===
The Forerunner [[Builder]] rate engineered numerous new weapons and vessels for the war effort, increasing their wealth and power by a tremendous degree. The Builder's growing influence affected the [[Ecumene Council]], with the Librarian feeling as though it grew "more and more vindictive and wealth-driven." The Council would come to believe the solution to humanity would be [[Extinction]], though the [[Lifeworker]]s and [[Warrior-Servant]]s disagreed with this. The Council would also debate various solutions to the Flood as they expected their likely return. The solution from the [[Builders]] were the [[Composer]]s, though these would prove to not work as desired. The [[Warrior-Servant]]s would suggest the [[Shield world]]s.{{Ref/Reuse|sil3}}

===Nov Thasta===
====Battle of Faun Hakkor====
At some point, the Forerunners would breakthrough to Faun Hakkor; the last defensive outpost prior to Charum Hakkor.{{Ref/Reuse|Epi2children}} The planet had a small reserve fleet and limited installations.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Chapter=12|Quote=“The reserve forces defended it fiercely but their numbers and installations were minimal, so the planet kept most of its original flora and fauna...”}} After breaking what orbital installations there were, the Forerunners moved to destroy the reserve fleet on the surface.{{Ref/Novel|Epi|Chapter=2|Quote=Nearby his eldest, his daughter, the one most like him, a born leader, intensely loyal to her rate, her family—especially the youngest—burned to death inside of her armor, already gone. They’d finally broken the outer planetary defenses of Faun Hakkor and were poised to crush the infernal human resistance, but had paid a heavy price as the enemy’s reserve fleet lay in wait on the surface.}} Two the Didact's children, the oldest and the youngest died fighting human defenses.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi2children|Epi|Chapter=2|Quote=The eldest and the youngest. Lost here. On Faun Hakkor, the last pivotal defensive outpost before reaching the humans’ stronghold planet of Charum Hakkor.}}

Epitaph Chapter 2
*Done before Charum Hakkor

Cryptum
*Faun kept it's biosphere because of it until the Halo test

====Standoff at Charum Hakkor====
[[File:H4 - Charum Hakkor.jpg|thumb|250px|Human ships destroyed above Charum Hakkor.]]
{{Main|Battle of Charum Hakkor}}
The human military was eventually pushed back to Charum Hakkor and a few other core systems by the Didact's [[Warrior-Servant]]s. Human forces continually lost star system after system. Eventually, Charum Hakkor was cut off from the rest of the empire by the Didact's [[Forerunner fleet|naval fleets]]. The Forerunners took advantage of their mastery over Slipspace greatly and strategically by cutting off reinforcements and supplies as well as isolating the fortified systems of the human empire. On Charum Hakkor, humanity incorporated Precursor technology into their own designs, constructing formidable fortifications capable of standing up to even the strongest fleets. Among them were [[unbending filament]]s that linked their orbital platforms' defenses. Despite having the combined Forerunner military at his disposal, it took great effort from the Didact to defeat the human resistance and capture the capital.{{Ref/Reuse|pri21}}

Although cut off and unable to receive reinforcements from neither the San'Shyuum nor other human systems, the humans held off continuous attacks for three years. The San 'Shyuum leadership surrendered to the Forerunners at some point during this time, leaving their human allies and the remaining San'Shyuum on Charum Hakkor stranded. The Forerunners offered San 'Shyuum a secret deal to soften their punishment by stripping them of many technologies before reducing and quarantining the population of San 'Shyuum to their home system in exchange for the knowledge and access to the security of Charum Hakkor's defenses. This allowed the Forerunners to breach the impregnable security and land on the planet. The siege might have lasted far longer, even indefinitely, if not for the betrayal of San 'Shyuum.

When the planet finally fell, a significant number of humans and San 'Shyuum committed suicide rather than being taken prisoner.{{Ref/Reuse|cry12}} With the planet's fall, whatever remained of the human empire eventually fell to the enemy forces in the coming years as an effortless mop up.{{Ref/Reuse|pri21}}

Remaining human forces would retreat to the [[Wolf-faced planet]] after Charum Hakkor with 40 [[prime cruiser]]s and 10 [[tuned platform]]s. There, these forces bombarded the surface and other planets nearby when defeat was inevitable.{{Ref/Novel|Pri|Chapter=16}}
{{Clear}}

==Aftermath==
===Immediate===
====Humanity====
{{Quote|Once the second greatest fighting civilization and species in the galaxy, humans were stomped down, reduced, effectively eliminated as a threat.|The Librarian discussing the war during the [[Forerunner-Flood war]].{{Ref/Reuse|sil3}}}}
The defeat was disastrous for both humanity and the San'Shyuum. The victorious Forerunners decided to dismantle human civilization, causing the species to regress to [[Erde-Tyrene civilization|a pre-technological state]].{{Ref/Reuse|cry1}} Remnants of the human species were gathered from across the galaxy by the Forerunners and their subject species,<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''page 156''</ref> including the [[Sangheili]],{{Ref/Reuse|Gyre}} to be exiled to their homeworld and forced through a process of biological devolution.{{Ref/Reuse|s34}}

Humanity's supposed cure spared humanity from extinction, a fate that had fallen on many species that challenged Forerunner control over the ages. Although herself skeptical of the existence of a cure, the [[Librarian]] appealed to the [[Ecumene Council]] so that humanity would be spared, as only with humanity's culture and civilization-wide exchange intact the Forerunners could hope to unlock the cure to the Flood. The Council agreed, but only in part: as opposed to maintaining the humans in their organic forms, numerous humans on Charum Hakkor had their [[Mind transfer|minds extracted]] via [[Composer]]s and subsequently cycled through a rate of interrogation for thousands of years. Copies of these memories were also implanted by the Librarian in the genetic material of future human generations, designed to awaken when the right circumstances were met as part of her own plans.<ref>'''Halo: Primordium''', ''pages 234-235''</ref> 

However, the Librarian and her Lifeworkers remained highly skeptical of whether a cure really existed. Their projections showed that the Flood should have been able to completely overrun the galaxy in several centuries, and suspected that there was something else at play with regard to the Flood's retreat.{{Ref/Reuse|s34}} It was later discovered that not only had humanity not found a cure for the Flood, but that the Flood's retreat had been a feint, undertaken both for the purpose of preserving humanity from destruction at the Forerunners' hands, and for the purpose of wasting Forerunner time and resources on a dead-end hunt for a Flood cure that had never existed.

*Over a thousand years later, new human subspecies. Later rose back to millions. Domesticated animals. Librarian secretly kept cutting staff until Earth was effectively a backwater as it was far outside normal Forerunner space.{{Ref/Reuse|sil3}}

Following the war, memorials were built to commemorate the [[Warrior-Servant]]s who died, with one being built above [[Sothra Hakkor]].{{Ref/Map|H4|H4:Monolith}} 

===San'Shyuum===
The [[San'Shyuum home system]] was placed under quarantine, with the Forerunner {{Class|Fortress|vessel}} ''[[Deep Reverence]]'' orbiting the species' homeworld, [[Janjur Qom]]. Access from outside of the system was blocked by a [[quarantine shield]]. When the [[Librarian]] attempted to index the San'Shyuum during the early stages of Forerunner-Flood war, the San'Shyuum mistook her intentions and rose in revolt against the Forerunners. Master Builder Faber took this opportunity to test Halo's effects on living beings, by testing the weapon on the San'Shyuum homeworld. The test surpassed all expectations. This genocidal act led to the near extinction of the San'Shyuum, as well as Faber's removal from power and his subsequent trial on charges of [[treason]] against the Mantle.{{Citation needed}}


**Cryptum
*Librarian takes control of earth after

*Silentium
**Shield world debate again{{Ref/Reuse|sil3}}
**Builders had moved on to the Halos as a solution{{Ref/Reuse|sil3}}
**Sometime after the thousand years of human evolution, Didact, still trying to make shield worlds was held in contempt of the [[Old Council]] and would be sentenced to exile.{{Ref/Reuse|sil3}}
*Cryptum
**In the thousand years after the Didact's exile, the rings were constructed.{{Ref/Reuse|cry34}}

===Legacy===
====Forerunners and the Flood====
The threat of the Flood would lead to the rise of the corrupt [[Builder]]s led by [[Master Builder]] [[Faber]] and eventually the banishment and execution of the [[Promethean]] leadership and the marginalization of the [[Warrior-Servant]] rate. Once humanity was defeated, the tragedies of the war convinced the Didact and his fellow Prometheans that using the Halo Array, like the destruction of humanity, would violate the Mantle. The Prometheans opposed and successfully forestalled the construction of the Halos for thousands of years, until their defeat by the Builders.

While opposed to the complete destruction of humanity advocated by the Council,{{Ref/Reuse|s34}} the Didact blamed humanity for taking the Mantle of Responsibility upon themselves, believing it was their reckless actions that brought the sickness into the galaxy.{{Ref/Reuse|H4T}} In truth, the Forerunners had even less success in battling the Flood than their human rivals. The Mantle, holding that all life was sacred, hamstrung Forerunner attempts to combat the infection, allowing the parasite to exponentially expand until no force could stop it. The Didact later regretted the devolution of humanity, as he had been unaware that the Flood was the reason for humanity's earlier aggression.<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''pages 238-239''</ref>

[[859 Static Carillon]] was created after the Plague War.{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Section=Monitors|Page=370}}

At some point after [[94,401 BCE]], [[Keeper-of-Stone-Songs]] was responsible for the high order construction process for the [[Halo Array#List of installations|Neoteric Array]]. She would later design [[Bastion]].{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Section=Fateful Mission|Page=368-369}}

The Flood would not reappear for another 9,000 years. In truth, however, the Flood had not been defeated, and humanity's "cure" had not been effective at combating the parasite. Rather, the Flood willingly retreated, though the reasons why they did so would not become apparent until thousands of years later.

====The Didact's Revenge====
[[File:H4-ComposerFiringOnPhoenix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Didact using a Composer on Earth in 2557.]]
{{Main|Battle of Requiem|New Phoenix Incident}}
In the year [[2557]], during the [[Battle of Requiem]], the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] was reawakened on the Forerunner [[shield world]] of [[Requiem]] where he intended to finish the destruction of humanity.{{Ref/Level|H4|H4:Forerunner|Forerunner}} While on Requiem, a present-day human, [[SPARTAN-II]] [[John-117]] encountered a personality imprint of [[the Librarian]] who showed John visions of the war and explained the events. The Librarian called the prehistoric human civilization the greatest enemy the Forerunners had ever faced and explained how they had been running from the [[Flood]]. The Librarian warned John that the Didact intended to destroy humanity to end his ancient enemy once and for all. To protect John, the Librarian activated an immunity to the Composer she had placed in the ''[[geas]]'' of humanity when she indexed the species.{{Ref/Reuse|H4R}}

The Didact subsequently [[Raid on Ivanoff Station|retrieved]] [[the Composer]] from [[Ivanoff Station]]{{Ref/Level|H4|H4:Composer|Composer}} and attempted to compose the human homeworld of [[Earth]]. In [[New Phoenix Incident|the subsequent conflict]], John managed to destroy both the Composer and the Didact's flagship ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'', foiling his revenge plot, but not before seven million people were composed by the Didact.{{Ref/Level|H4|H4:Midnight|Midnight}}

After being composed himself and sent to the outer boundaries of the [[Domain]] following his own digitization, the Didact discovered that the humans composed in New Phoenix had ended up in the human rift alongside the [[Ancestors]]. This gave the Ancestors hope that humanity had survived, although they were unable to find out for sure as the composed essences were unable to communicate yet. [[Forthencho]], after learning that the Didact was responsible for this, told the Promethean that it would take centuries for the newcomers to settle and even longer for them to pull themselves together as the ancient humans had done. Having regained his sanity, the Didact felt remorse for what he had done to them.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi22|Epi|Chapter=22}} The Didact later welcomed the essences of those composed in New Phoenix into the Domain along with the rest of the Forerunners and humans, giving them a home, a place to heal and rest, to commune and explore.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi26|Epi|Chapter=26}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi27|Epi|Chapter=27}}

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Cryptum]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Halo: Primordium]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo 4]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[H4:Terminals|Terminals]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Silentium]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Escalation]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]'' {{Im}}
*''[[Halo Mythos]]''
*''[[Halo: Fractures]]''
**''[[Promises to Keep]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo Wars 2]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Renegades]]'' {{mo}}
*''[[Halo: Point of Light]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{Im}}
*''[[Halo: Epitaph]]''
*''[[Halo: The Machine Breaks]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of the Gyre]]'' {{Fn}}

==Notes==
{{Ref/Notes}}

==Sources==
{{Ref/Sources|2}}
{{Human wars}}

[[Category:Wars]]



==Draetheus system mapping==
===Assault on CF-32===
The northern continent of X50, Draetheus-V's moon, was riddled with large ice-covered sinkholes where the UNSC conducted a number of research projects. While there were standard security measures in place, no one was prepared when a massive fleet of Covenant Spirits appeared over the moon in direct violation of the Human/Covenant Treaty of 2552.

Spartan Davis deployed to site CF32 to support the project's security detail, who were overwhelmed by the sudden attack. Davis managed to blunt the assault and moved to secure Alpha Facility, which he assumed was the inevitable target of the invasion force. 
===The Mirror Mantle Counter-Assault===
X50's huge stretches of ice, the Mirror Flats, were flanked by towering ice cliffs. After ordering their main Wraith battalion to assault Research Facility Alpha, the Covenant had quickly deployed Phantoms to set up supporting artillery along the eastern cliff wall. With this artillery operational, a UNSC counter-offensive would be suicide. This rendered Alpha facility a vulnerable target.

Spartan Palmer and a detachment of Marines were sent to infiltrate the Covenant positions and destroy the plasma artillery. Navigating the maze of cracks covering Mirror Mantle Ridge would have been an insurmountable challenge for most soldiers, but Palmer was able to use the terrain to her advantage and surprise the artillery positions. Here victory was instrumental in giving Alpha facility a fighting chance. 
===Siege of Faraday===
Although Spartan Palmer was successful in warning Draetheus-V of the coming attack, the Covenant assault hit the colonies' defenses like a tidal wave. Draetheus-V's main outpost. Faraday Base, was located on the border of an expanse of dense vegetation to the north and an enormous rock plateau to the south.

When the Covenant invasion force eventually arrived, the first defense lines surrounding Faraday were quickly breached before the base's sentry turrets were fully operational. Palmer took to the field and almost singlehandedly held off the waves of Unggoy suicide units crashing down on the thick concrete wall behind the defense lines. 

===Reactor Field Relief===
UNSC technicians had built numerous magnetic reactor stations across Draetheus V. The western reactor field was one of the largest of these stations and was of great interest to the Covenant. Luckily, the trench-like layout of the reactor field provided the Marines stationed there with a terrain advantage and Covenant infantry platoons had significant difficulty in seizing the station.

After supporting the Marines at Faraday, Spartan Sarah Palmer moved to provide support in the western reactor field. Palmer's prime objectives were to protect several squads of M9 Wolverines and halt the Banshees providing air support to the Covenant infantry. 

===Hunt for the Sangheili Command===
After Faraday Base's defenses were stabilized, Spartan Palmer began trying to establish the location of the Covenant officers leading the invasion.

After taking significant losses, marines of the 21st Scout platoon had managed to uncover a set of promising coordinates. These commanders' locations were well hidden by Draetheus V's unique magnetic signatures. Without Palmer, the officers might have remained hidden for days. She found them within 30 minutes. 

==Installation 04 mapping==
:Halo: Risk
*Ring map
**Wasteland
***Quarry of Bones
***Inland Canyon
***Outland Canyon
***Dust Interlocks
**Mountain Expanse
***Lower Pass
***[[Sidewinder]]
***Crescent Peak
***[[Ridgeline]]
***Upper Pass
**Translocation Grid
***Telemetry Node Alpha
***Telemetry Node Beta
***Telemetry Node Gamma
***Telemetry Node Delta
***Telemetry Node Epsilon
**Communication Complex
***[[Silent Cartographer]]
***Domain Download
***Beacon Tower
***Domain Uplink
***Array Detection
***Ecumene Priority
***Slipspace Tuning
***Transmission Network
***Artificial Gravity Generator
**[[Library|Library Sector]]
***Research Facility A
***Research Facility D
***Research Facility X
***Conservation Database 550
***Conservation Database 343
***Conservation Database 117
***Archive 99-01
***Archive 99-02
***Archive 99-03
***Archive 99-04
**Desolate Plains
***Up-Spin
***Down-Spin
***The Desolation
***Midland
**Phase Pulse Control Center (AotCR/Two Betrayals)
***Pulse Grid 01
***Pulse Grid 02
***Pulse Grid 03
**Highlands
***Lower Gullies
***Upper Beaches
***Wetlands
***Tablelands
***Estuary
*Hammer Map
*Anvil Map
:Reach
*Tempest -> weather control centre near edge of ring
*Installation 04 firefight map
:CE/CEV
*Campaign locations
**"New traffic on the Covenant battlenet. I've found Captain Keyes! He's being held on a Covenant cruiser, the Truth and Reconciliation, a ship I disabled before we abandoned the Autumn. The Truth and Reconciliation touched down on a desert plateau roughly three hundred kilometers up-spin."
*Basically every map

==Human astrography==
*FLEETCOM Sector 1
**Epsilon Eridani
*FLEETCOM Sector 3
**18 Scorpii system
**Psi Serpentis system
**Sigma Octanus system
*FLEETCOM Sector 4
**Eridanus system
**Chosolor system
*Eridanus sector
**Mamore system?
**Eridanus system?
*Geryon sector
*Grenadi sector
**[[Zeruiah system]]
*Isbanola sector
**Orso system
**Cordoba systems
*Polona system
**Igdras system
**Kolaqoa system
**Ephyra system
**Qusdar system
*Vevina sector
**Epsilon Indi system
*Via Casilina Trade Route
**Orso
**Cordoba
**Shaps
**Sverdlovsk
**Elduros

=Ancestor ships=
The [[Ancestors]] produced several different ship classes of varying sizes
<gallery>
File:H4-Terminal-Human-ShipDesigns.jpg|Turnarounds of various Ancestor ships.
File:H4-Terminal-Forthencho-Fleet.jpg|Ancestor ships in use.
</gallery>
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=I love bees=
==character locations==
*[[Jersey Morelli]] and [[Janissary James]] - New Jersey
**Chapter 9 mentions Kamal needing to head to New Jersey. This is in reference to having to go meet Jersey Morelli. This is reiterated in Chapter 10 with Kamal being told that a driver at [[Jerry's Diner]] (possibly in Pittsburgh) will take him to New Jersey. When Kamal and Jersey meet, Jersey makes a sarcastic remark about heading to Atlantic City. When Jersey meets Rani in Boston in Chapter 10, he has NYC on his bags, something that Rani notices immediately. Also, he has an NYC accent something that Jersey himself mentions. As for Janissary, Jersey and Janissary live in the same building as mentioned in Chapter 1. Also when Durga brings up the emergency call it is for Bergen County, New Jersey which is on the western banks of the Hudson in the NYC area.
*[[Rani Sobeck]] - Boston, Kentucky, and Washington DC
**Sarah and Rani talk about leaving Boston in Chapter 10. 

==other info==
*Chapter 9, public health law requires people to be tested for intestinal TB if they are exposed to it. Testing costs money
*Chapter 10, people not from Earth referred to as colonial. Jersey turned 18 in June of that year.

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{{Status|Silver}}
{{Notice/Silver|UNSC}}
{{Military infobox advanced
|image=[[File:Merch UNSC Logo Black.svg|100px|class=invert-dark]]<br>The [[Symbols of the UNSC|UNSC logo]].
[[File:HTV-Promo.jpg|300px]]<br>[[UNSC Marine Corps|UNSC Marines]] and several UNSC vehicles at [[WHITE TOWER]].
|formed=
|allegiance=[[Unified Earth Government]]
|headquarters=[[Reach/Silver|Reach]]{{Ref/Book|Id=making12|[[The Making of Halo The Series: Hope, Heroism, Humanity]]|Page=12}}
|branch=
|type=
|role=
|size-title=Divisions
|size=
*'''[[FLEETCOM]]'''
**'''[[UNSC Navy]]'''
***'''[[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'''
**'''[[UNSC Marine Corps]]'''
|nicknames=UNSC
|motto=
|engagements=
|commander1-title=Judicial branch
|commander1=[[UNSC Judge Advocate General's Corps]]{{Ref/Film|Id=Solace|TV|Episode=[[Solace (TV Series)|Solace]]}}
|commander2-title=
|commander2=
|commander3-title=Head of military
|commander3=
*[[UNSC Security Council]]{{Ref/Reuse|silver}}
|commander4-title=Chairman
|commander4=[[Fleet Admiral]] [[Lord Terrence Hood]]
}}

The '''United Nations Space Command''' ('''UNSC''' for short) are a major military force for humanity.{{Ref/Reuse|making12}}

==Mission==
The UNSC has provided peacekeeping efforts.{{Ref/Reuse|silver}}

==Structure==
[[FLEETCOM]] represents the command for numerous organizations within the UNSC.{{Ref/Site|Id=silver|URL=https://halotheseries.tv/|Site=Halo: The Series|Page=Dr. Catherine Halsey's Computer|D=25|M=3|Y=2022|LocalArchive=Dr. Catherine Halsey's Computer}} The UNSC also maintained the [[UNSC Information Operations]].

==Military departments==
===Navy===
The UNSC Navy{{Ref/Book|Id=making63|[[The Making of Halo The Series: Hope, Heroism, Humanity]]|Page=63}} represents the department focused on the deployment of [[UNSC starship]]s and their personnel. [[Naval Special Warfare Command|NAVSPECWAR]] appears to be the command charged with oversight of Naval infantry special forces. FLEETCOM controls many different naval organizations including the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].{{Ref/Reuse|silver}} NAVSPECWAR also created a [[NAVSPECWAR Response Plan|response plan]].
===Marine Corps===
The Marine Corps are a major infantry command within the UNSC. They could be forward deployed for expeditionary functions{{Ref/Reuse|Sanctuary}} or also perform [[military police]] functions.{{Ref/Reuse|Solace}} A motto for Marines is "Semper Fi."{{Ref/Film|Id=Reach|TV|Episode=[[Reach (TV Series)|Reach]]}}
<gallery class=center>
File:UNSC Navy Logo.svg|The UNSC Navy's logo.
File:UNSC MC Logo.svg|The UNSC Marine Corps' logo.
</gallery>
==History==
Some time after 2440, the UNSC and CMA engaged insurrectionists in the [[Eridanus system]].{{Ref/Reuse|silver}}
*[[Roman Quinn]]{{Ref/Reuse|Solace}}
===Human-Covenant War===
{{Main|Human-Covenant War/Silver}}
The UNSC and the Covenant would enter into conflict starting sometime around 2511.{{Ref/Film|TV|Episode=Sanctuary|Quote=I understand you're the same that came before. To our first home. 42 years ago.}}

The UNSC began the [[SPARTAN-II program/Silver|SPARTAN-II program]] sometime before [[Timeline/Silver|2530]].{{Ref/Film|Id=Unbound|TV|Episode=[[Unbound]]}} Prior to 2552, they had been deployed to at least 23 planets.{{Ref/Film|Id=Emergence|TV|Episode=[[Emergence]]}}

*[[UNSC Security Act of 2534]]

*Many Insurrectionists believed that the Covenant were UNSC propaganda
In 2552, the UNSC had begun [[Operation: DEFIANT GLASS]]. 

*Spartan operations under one? Halsey in charge and replaced by Ackerson?

Following [[Operation: SHEPHERD]] in [[Timeline/Silver#2553|2553]], the UNSC would for the first time, award a [[Colonial Cross]] to a communications specialist.{{Ref/Film|Id=Sanctuary|TV|Episode=[[Sanctuary (TV Series)|Sanctuary]]}} Around the April of that year,{{Ref/Film|Id=Aleria|TV|Episode=[[Aleria (TV Series)|Aleria]]}} Reach would fall.{{Ref/Reuse|Reach}}

Around the same time, the [[SPARTAN-III program/Silver|SPARTAN-III program]] would begin. As well, they would find and [[Battle of Installation 04/Silver|battle the Covenant for the Halo ring]].

==Personnel==
UNSC personnel are subject to the [[Uniform Code of Military Justice]].{{Ref/Film|Id=Visegrád|TV|Episode=[[Visegrád (TV Series)|Visegrád]]}}

==Military assets==
===Infantry weapons===
Across its branches and organizations, the UNSC makes use of a variety of weapons. Most of these weapons are ballistic in nature. These weapons include [[assault rifle]]s such as the [[MA5C assault rifle#Silver Timeline|MA5C assault rifle]] and [[MA40 assault rifle#Silver Timeline|MA40 assault rifle]]; marksman weapons such the [[SRS99 series#Silver Timeline|SRS99 series snipers]] or [[M392 DMR#Silver Timeline|M392B DMR]]; and [[pistol]]s like the [[M6G magnum#Silver Timeline|M6G magnum]].

===Vehicles===
*[[M808C Scorpion]]
*[[D80 Condor]]
*[[M12B Warthog]]
*[[M290 Mongoose]]
*[[F-99 Wombat]]
===Spacecraft===
*[[Stalwart-class light frigate]]
*[[Halberd-class light destroyer]]
*[[Halcyon-class light cruiser]]
*[[Gladius-class heavy corvette]]
===Facilities===
The UNSC maintained several facilities across multiple planets. On Reach, there was [[SWORD Base]],{{Ref/Film|Id=Sword|TV|Episode=[[Sword (TV Series)|Sword]]}} [[CASTLE Base]], [[WHITE TOWER]], and the [[Visegrád Relay]].{{Ref/Film|Id=Visegrad|TV|Episode=[[Visegrad (TV Series)|Visegrad]]}} They also maintained [[Camp Currahee]] on [[Onyx/Silver|Onyx]].

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: The Television Series Season One]]''
**''[[Contact]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[Unbound]]''
**''[[Emergence]]''
**''[[Homecoming (TV Series)|Homecoming]]''
**''[[Reckoning]]''
**''[[Solace (TV Series)|Solace]]''
**''[[Inheritance]]''
**''[[Allegiance]]''
**''[[Transcendence]]''
*''[[Halo: The Television Series Season Two]]''
**''[[Sanctuary (TV Series)|Sanctuary]]''
**''[[Sword (TV Series)|Sword]]''
**''[[Visegrád (TV Series)|Visegrád]]''
**''[[Reach (TV Series)|Reach]]''
**''[[Aleria (TV Series)|Aleria]]''
**''[[Onyx (TV Series)|Onyx]]''
**''[[Thermopylae (TV Series)|Thermopylae]]''
**''[[Halo (TV Series)|Halo]]''

==Sources==
{{Ref/List}}
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{{Navbox
|name=Navbox/Silver/HumanWeapons
|title=Infantry weapons of [[Human|humanity]]

|style= background:#B3B3B3;
|titlestyle= background:#B3B3B3;
|groupstyle= background:#F2F2F2; border-right:1px dashed #000;

|group1  = Assault rifles
|list1 = [[MA5C assault rifle#Silver Timeline|MA5C assault rifle]] {{*}} [[MA40 assault rifle#Silver Timeline|MA40 assault rifle]]

|group2 = SMGs
|list2 = [[M7S SMG]] {{*}} [[V Mark I SMG]]

|group3 = Pistols
|list3  = [[M6G magnum#Silver Timeline|M6G magnum]]

|group4 = Shotguns
|list4 = [[M45 shotgun]]

|group5=Marksmen rifles
|list5=[[M392 DMR]] {{*}} [[VK78 Commando#Silver Timeline|VK78 Commando]]

|group6=Sniper rifles
|list6=[[SRS99-S7 AM sniper rifle]]

|group7=Other
|list7=[[V Mark III - Heavy Barrel rifle]]

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==General==
This is a template that is used on the various powered armor pages of the [[Silver Timeline]].

[[Category:Navigation templates]]</noinclude>
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