New Phoenix

New Phoenix is one of the largest metropolitan areas of Arizona, a state in the United Republic of North America on Earth.

Battle of Earth
In a swift attack on Earth's orbital and territorial defenses, the Didact was able to position the Composer in a high geosynchronous orbit above the desert city on an early July 2557 morning. The Composer was finally activated and its entire population, likely numbering in the hundreds of thousands, were each converted into a "digital intelligence" and their bodies reduced to ash. The Composer was destroyed shortly thereafter and with it, presumably, the digital remnants of New Phoenix's residents. Quarantine procedures were still enforced up to six months after the holocaust; the United Earth Government released a statement soon after that the attack was not of Covenant origin. New Phoenix's infrastructure remained completely unscathed by the Composer's merciless attack.

Trivia
New Phoenix is the first North American city to be visually depicted in the story of a Halo game and is the third overall, after the Kenyan cities of New Mombasa and Voi.

List of appearances

 * Halo 4
 * Spartan Ops S1E1: Departure