2495


 * The UNSC takes control of the station Hopeful and adds fusion reactors and a Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace Drive, turning the Hopeful into the largest mobile battlefield hospital in history. It is commanded by the legendary Admiral Ysionris Jeromi.


 * The Eridanus Insurrection continues between the Eridanus Rebels and the UNSC.


 * Captain Jacob Keyes is born either this or the previous year.