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==History== | ==History== | ||
[[ | [[File:Harvest2.jpg|right|thumb|230px|Harvest before the Covenant assault.]] | ||
===The Forerunners=== | ===The Forerunners=== | ||
Harvest was known to the Forerunners approximately 100,000 years prior to the Human-Covenant War, and possessed at least [[Relic (Structure)|one relic]], a holographic stellar cartographer that pointed the way to another star system, [[Procyon System|Procyon]]. It is unknown whether the relic pointed to other Forerunner worlds and installations, or whether it was specifically built to guide users to a particular system. It is unknown whether Harvest held any other significance to the Forerunners. | Harvest was known to the Forerunners approximately 100,000 years prior to the Human-Covenant War, and possessed at least [[Relic (Structure)|one relic]], a holographic stellar cartographer that pointed the way to another star system, [[Procyon System|Procyon]]. It is unknown whether the relic pointed to other Forerunner worlds and installations, or whether it was specifically built to guide users to a particular system. It is unknown whether Harvest held any other significance to the Forerunners. | ||
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===Escape from Harvest=== | ===Escape from Harvest=== | ||
[[ | [[File:Harvest Plasma Glassed.jpg|right|thumb|230px|Harvest, partially [[glassed]] by the Covenant]] | ||
The citizens of Harvest soon found themselves in the middle of the first battle between the [[Covenant]] and [[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 250,000+ humans managed to escape the planet by packing into 236 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''', ''pages 351-352''</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 40,000 people.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 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''', ''page 352''</ref> | The citizens of Harvest soon found themselves in the middle of the first battle between the [[Covenant]] and [[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 250,000+ humans managed to escape the planet by packing into 236 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''', ''pages 351-352''</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 40,000 people.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 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''', ''page 352''</ref> | ||
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===The Battle of Harvest=== | ===The Battle of Harvest=== | ||
[[ | [[File:Harvest.png|right|thumb|230px|Harvest, with frozen Poles as a result of the "nuclear winter" effect caused by the Covenant's Glassing.]] | ||
By April 12th, [[2525]], the [[Colonial Military Administration]] sent the scout ship ''[[Argo]]'' to investigate. Other then confirming its arrival at Epsilon Indi no other transmissions were sent, and the ''Argo'' was presumed MIA. | By April 12th, [[2525]], the [[Colonial Military Administration]] sent the scout ship ''[[Argo]]'' to investigate. Other then confirming its arrival at Epsilon Indi no other transmissions were sent, and the ''Argo'' was presumed MIA. | ||