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{{Era|Forerunner|UNSC|HCW}} | {{Era|Forerunner|UNSC|HCW}} | ||
{{Center|This article is about the human colony world. Were you looking for the multiplayer map [[Harvest (level)|Harvest]] from [[Halo 4]]?}} | {{Center|This article is about the human colony world. Were you looking for the multiplayer map [[Harvest (level)|Harvest]] from [[Halo 4]]?}} | ||
{{Planet | {{Planet infobox | ||
|image=[[File:HW-Planet-Harvest.jpg|300px]] | |image=[[File:HW-Planet-Harvest.jpg|300px]] | ||
|name=Harvest | |name=Harvest | ||
|star, position=[[Epsilon Indi system|Epsilon Indi]], IV<ref name="vis">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 91''</ref> | |star, position=[[Epsilon Indi system|Epsilon Indi]], IV<ref name="vis">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 91''</ref><ref name="universe">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/harvest '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Harvest'']</ref> | ||
|moon(s)= None | |moon(s)=None<ref name="universe"/> | ||
|diameter={{Convert|4012|km|mi}}<ref name="vis"/> | |diameter={{Convert|4012|km|mi}}<ref name="vis"/><ref name="universe"/> | ||
|daylength=17.5 hours | |daylength=17.5 hours<ref name="universe"/> | ||
|gravity= 0.998 G | |gravity= 0.998 G<ref name="vis"/><ref name="universe"/> | ||
|atmosphere=1.02 ([[Wikipedia:Nitrogen|N<sub>2</sub>]], [[Oxygen|O<sub>2</sub>]])<ref name="vis"/> | |atmosphere=1.02 ([[Wikipedia:Nitrogen|N<sub>2</sub>]], [[Oxygen|O<sub>2</sub>]])<ref name="vis"/><ref name="universe"/> | ||
|temperature=-19°C to 42°C (-2°F to 108°F)<ref name="vis"/> | |temperature=-19°C to 42°C (-2°F to 108°F)<ref name="vis"/><ref name="universe"/> | ||
|species= [[Human]] | |species= [[Human]] | ||
|population= Approximately 3,000,000<ref group="note" name="population">According to ''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp'', and ''Halo: The Essential Visual Guide'', Harvest had a population of approximately three million. However, ''Halo: Contact Harvest'' consistently states that Harvest had a population of around 300,000, and that roughly 250,000 civilians, who constituted most of the planet's population, escaped before the planet was glassed.</ref> | |population= Approximately 3,000,000<ref group="note" name="population">According to ''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', ''Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp'', and ''Halo: The Essential Visual Guide'', Harvest had a population of approximately three million. However, ''Halo: Contact Harvest'' consistently states that Harvest had a population of around 300,000, and that roughly 250,000 civilians, who constituted most of the planet's population, escaped before the planet was glassed.</ref> | ||
|date of foundation=[[2468]]<ref name="vis"/> | |date of foundation=[[2468]]<ref name="vis"/><ref name="universe"/> | ||
|government=*[[Unified Earth Government]] | |government=*[[Unified Earth Government]] | ||
*[[Parliament of Harvest]] | *[[Parliament of Harvest]] | ||
|technology tier= Tier 3 | |technology tier= Tier 3 | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Harvest''', designated '''CE-309-8 d''' by the [[Forerunner]]s,<ref name="catalog">[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2969315_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2969315 '''Waypoint''': ''Catalog Interaction'' page 14]</ref> was a [[human]] [[Outer Colonies|Outer Colony]] world founded as a [[agriculture world|"breadbasket" world]]. Founded in [[2468]] by the {{UNSCShip|Skidbladnir}}, the colony was the most remote at the time of its founding.<ref>[http://halowars.com/GameInfo/Timeline.aspx '''Official Halo Wars Community Site''': ''Game Info - Timeline'']</ref><ref group="note" name="17th">According to ''Halo: Contact Harvest'', Harvest was the latest of humanity's seventeen colonies to be settled. The claim of humanity having a mere seventeen colony worlds has been ignored in later material, which instead appear to adhere to the more lenient figure of 800 worlds presented in the [[Xbox.com/Halo|original ''Halo'' timeline]]. Given that the timeline also states that 210 [[Inner Colonies]] had been settled before 2390, it is unlikely that the notion of Harvest being the seventeenth colony is considered canonical.</ref> Located in the [[Epsilon Indi system]],<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 32''</ref> the planet had the unfortunate distinction of being the first human planet discovered and destroyed by the [[Covenant]]. After [[First Battle of Harvest|a disastrous first contact]], the planet was subsequently [[glassing|glassed]] by the Covenant, but most of its population managed to escape in [[DCS light freighter|freighters]].<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 387''</ref> | '''Harvest''', designated '''CE-309-8 d''' by the [[Forerunner]]s,<ref name="universe"/><ref name="catalog">[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2969315_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2969315 '''Waypoint''': ''Catalog Interaction'' page 14]</ref> was a [[human]] [[Outer Colonies|Outer Colony]] world founded as a [[agriculture world|"breadbasket" world]]. Founded in [[2468]] by the {{UNSCShip|Skidbladnir}}, the colony was the most remote at the time of its founding.<ref>[http://halowars.com/GameInfo/Timeline.aspx '''Official Halo Wars Community Site''': ''Game Info - Timeline'']</ref><ref group="note" name="17th">According to ''Halo: Contact Harvest'', Harvest was the latest of humanity's seventeen colonies to be settled. The claim of humanity having a mere seventeen colony worlds has been ignored in later material, which instead appear to adhere to the more lenient figure of 800 worlds presented in the [[Xbox.com/Halo|original ''Halo'' timeline]]. Given that the timeline also states that 210 [[Inner Colonies]] had been settled before 2390, it is unlikely that the notion of Harvest being the seventeenth colony is considered canonical.</ref> Located in the [[Epsilon Indi system]],<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 32''</ref> the planet had the unfortunate distinction of being the first human planet discovered and destroyed by the [[Covenant]]. After [[First Battle of Harvest|a disastrous first contact]], the planet was subsequently [[glassing|glassed]] by the Covenant, but most of its population managed to escape in [[DCS light freighter|freighters]].<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 387''</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
=== | ===Prehistory=== | ||
Harvest was known to the [[Forerunner]]s approximately 100,000 years [[100,000 BCE|prior]] to the Human-Covenant War | Harvest was known to the [[Forerunner]]s approximately 100,000 years [[100,000 BCE|prior]] to the Human-Covenant War. The planet was a relatively minor asset in the Forerunners' vast [[Ecumene|empire]] and was utilized as a [[conservation sphere]] waystation. The [[Relic|waystation facility]] included a subsidiary [[Flood]] [[Flood research facility|research]] and [[Flood containment facility|containment]] center,<ref name="catalog"/> as well as administrative nodes that directed Forerunner defenses in the surrounding systems.<ref name="universe"/> The structure housed a [[holography|holographic]] stellar [[cartographer]] that pointed the way to another star system, [[Procyon system|Procyon]]. | ||
===Human colonization=== | ===Human colonization=== | ||