Arcadia

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Arcadia is a United Nations Space Command colony located in the Procyon System.

History
A "tropical paradise", it was a popular destination for tourists and received many shipments from Harvest. It was also home to the Deep Space Research Array. By 2531 it had a population of approximately three million. However, it became a site of conflict in 2531, caught up in the Human-Covenant War, after a Forerunner stellar map on Harvest pointed the Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee towards the colony. Eventually the Covenant were pushed off by the efforts of the crew of the, allowing much of its civilian populace to be evacuated. The capital city of Pirth would soon become overtaken by nature. Meanwhile, the remaining colonists formed the farming community of Abaskun on the continent of Mu. It would remain a mostly lawless region, but continued to supply the UNSC with food. The Covenant would eventually return to Arcadia later in the war, destroying it.

Locations

 * Pirth City - The capital city of Arcadia.
 * Deep Space Research Array - A research facility on Arcadia.
 * ONI base - Curiously enough, there was a secret ONI base in Arcadia's jungles.
 * Forerunner structures - Arcadia had some Forerunner ruins deep in it's jungles.
 * Mu, a continent on Arcadia.
 * Abaskun, a settlement on Mu.

Trivia

 * It may have been named after the actual Arcadia, a region and city south of Greece in the Peloponnesus.
 * Arcadia is also a name for a paradise in Greek mythology, as well as in later fiction.
 * The Arcadian Patrol was the main law enforcement force on the planet.