2524

2524 was a year in the 2520s in the 26th century.

Status

 * According to Felicia Sanderson, since the beginning of Operation: TREBUCHET a decade ago, over a million civilians have been killed. Most of them are collateral damage due to UNSC overreaction, which furthers civilian support to the rebels to some extent.

January
January 3 January 18
 * Gage Yevgenny enlists in the Colonial Military Administration.
 * 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.

February
February 28
 * Jun-A266 is born on Tyumen, New Harmony.

May
May 22
 * James Cutter receives a Bronze Star for his actions aboard the.

June
June 12  Mid June June 16
 * Kojo "Romeo" Agu is born in the Castra Arcology, Castra, on Madrigal.
 * 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.
 * 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. The assault is part of Operation: TREBUCHET.

August
August 7 August 10 August 13
 * Marcille Johnson passes away.
 * 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. Eventually, he is found by Lieutenant Downs.
 * Johnson is transferred to Harvest to train the local militia.

September
September 2 September 3 September 16
 * 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.
 * Horn of Plentys navigation box is retrieved by Covenant forces and its contents are analyzed 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.
 * Horn of Plentys signal reaches Harvest, being received by the artificial intelligence construct Sif.

November
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.

December
December 21 Late December
 * The, 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.
 * The Prophet of Restraint impregnates a female San'Shyuum, despite his defective genes making it illegal for him to reproduce. With the mother refusing an abortion, a scandal starts brewing over the issue.
 * 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.

Unknown

 * 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".

Circa 2524
Arounda year prior to the start of the Human-Covenant War
 * UNSC forces quell a colonial rebellion on Persia IX.