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The citizens of Harvest soon found themselves in the middle of the first battle between the [[Covenant]] and [[human|humanity]], using their newly trained militia to herd hundreds of thousands of civilian survivors from [[Gladsheim]], Vigrond, and other locations to the [[Utgard]] [[Space Elevator]]s to escape the planet. During the first [[Covenant]] attack on Harvest about a lot of humans managed to escape the planet by packing intoa lot of freight containers which were then loaded into seven elevator depots in Utgard. Every five to '''[[seven]]''' minutes, '''seven''' pairs of freight containers were loaded into the Space Elevator. Loaded ahead of these freight containers were seven "grease buckets", maintenance containers, two which were loaded with Johnson's men and Jilan al-Cygni. The other five were decoys rigged with claymore mines which were used to soften the Brutes, Grunts and Drones which had boarded and taken control of ''[[Tiara]]''.<ref>Halo: Contact Harvest p.351-52</ref> While the other two "grease buckets" holding Johnson and Co. stopped and they were fighting off the Covenant, the number seven strand of the Space Elevator snapped a few thousand kilometers above its anchor due to the stress caused by the load becoming unbalanced. There were 11 pairs of freight containers on the strand when it snapped, killing around 20,000 people.<ref>Halo: Contact Harvest p.372</ref> The remaining freight containers carrying the survivors of Harvest continued up the elevator, out into space, where they met up with [[propulsion pods]] that [[Sif]] had placed previously. Once Johnson and Co. finished fighting the Covenant on the ''Tiara'', they joined the survivors and used the propulsion pods to enter Slipspace. <ref>Halo: Contact Harvest p.352</ref> In these freight containers was at least one future member of the [[Spartan-III]] project.