Venezia
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Orso system (Qab in Sangheili)[1] |
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At least one; Tiro |
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Venezian[2] |
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Population: |
10.9 million [1] |
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Venezia, referred to by the Sangheili as Sqala,[4] is a human Outer Colony[5] world located in the Orso system, formerly governed by the Unified Earth Government and now under the control of centralized insurrectionist militia. Most of the planet is unexplored; New Tyne is essentially the only settlement on the planet,[6] other than scattered farms and factories located ten to fifteen kilometers away from the city.[7] Many small animals lurk around the edges of these settlements.[8] Venezia experiences long, cold, winters, sometimes lasting as long as six Venzian months.[9]
Overview[edit]
Topography and ecology[edit]
Local groves of hidefruit grew outside New Tyne, which were sometimes made into syrup.[10]
Locations[edit]
Known residents[edit]
History[edit]
Rise of humanity[edit]
Venezia was settled in 2450.[3]
Human-Covenant war[edit]
Venezia was squarely on the side of the Insurrection during that conflict that defined the turn of the twenty-sixth century. During the war between humanity and the Covenant, Venezia had gone quiet. Prior to January 2543, the colony cut all ties to the Unified Earth Government.[11] The local Colonial Administration Authority bureau on the world was famously destroyed via explosives by the residents.[12] Even after extinction of the human race was narrowly avoided thanks to the Covenant's undoing, people still remembered what Venezia had done prior to the empire's arrival in human space.[11]
Post-war[edit]
ONI involvement[edit]
On January 27, 2553, the UNSC Ariadne, a Navy patrol ship, was forced to drop out of slipspace near Venezia secondary to a complication with its fusion drive. The Ariadne's commanding officer requested permission to land nonessential personnel on the planet due to the risk posed to their safety, but was refused by tower control. Peter Moritz, the de facto head of the Venezian militia, ruled that the entire thing could be an elaborate ploy to insert UNSC personnel on the planet.[13] The commanding officer of the patrol ship was told that given the situation, it was too dangerous to allow the ship to land or to have Venezians board it to conduct an evacuation. Another ship, the destroyer UNSC Monte Cassino, responded to the plight of the Ariadne and signaled it would journey to the system to assist. Before it could arrive, however, the Ariadne experienced a reactor meltdown and the resultant explosion caused the deaths of everyone aboard. Monte Cassino was hailed by Venezia upon its arrival and warned that it was encroaching on the sovereign colony's territorial limits. Though the destroyer's executive officer tried to assure the colony they had no intentions to land and were simply going to conduct search-and-rescue in the patrol ship's debris field, he was rebuffed and warned that if the ship did not withdraw it would be fired upon. The XO, Commander Cerny, fired back by saying they would respond in kind if it came to that and at this Tower Control simply stated that they would have always done that anyways.[14] Before long, an ultra-heavy bolt of superheated plasma barely missed the Monte Cassino, having been launched at it from a Cheru-pattern Tyrant anti-aircraft cannon on Venezia's surface.[15] The destroyer retailiated immediately and in just eighty-two seconds the emplacement that had fired at that was confirmed destroyed by a missile.
In March of that year the Office of Naval Intelligence black operations unit, Kilo-Five, was contacted by Mike Spenser, an ONI spy who had embedded himself amidst the population in New Tyne. Kilo-Five had been present in a Sahara-class heavy prowler when the Monte Cassino and Venezia exchanged fire in January but had not revealed itself. Now, Spenser was inviting the team to meet him on the colony and promising that they should find what he had to show them very interesting. The UNSC Port Stanley emerged from slipspace 100,000 kilometers out from the planet and established communication with Spenser, who directed the prowler to a set of coordinates thirty kilometers outside of New Tyne. The Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, Vasily Beloi and Malcolm Geffen, were covertly transported to the surface via Pelican where they rendezvoused with Mike and followed him to his new home in the city. There, they learned that one of the Venezians on Spenser's list of potential terrorists was Staffan Sentzke, the father of the team's Spartan-II, Naomi-010. Upon returning to the Port Stanley, the ODSTs shared their revelation and the team left to finish business it had on Sanghelios.
Once the mission on the Sangheili homeworld had concluded, Kilo-Five returned to Venezia on April 5. This time, Vaz and Naomi were the two that met up with Mike. During an undercover effort to sell tagged weapons in order to track the routes they would take, Staffan Sentze and a T'vaoan Kig-Yar named Sav Fel were spo