Human-Covenant War: Difference between revisions

[[Humanity]] and the Covenant first came into direct contact in [[2525]], when a [[Kig-Yar]] Frigate discovered a human ship that had dropped out of slipspace due to a problem with the [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]]. The Kig-Yar raided that ship and another one. The Harvest shipping operations AI, Sif, found out about the raids as a result of the distress beacon from the ships (although she and an [[Jilan al-Cygni|undercover ONI spook]] on Harvest thought that Insurrectionists, not aliens, were behind the raids). The spook set a trap for the Kig-Yar which resulted in a [[Skirmish Over Harvest|minor skirmish]] between [[Staff Sergeant]]s [[Nolan Byrne]] and [[Avery Johnson]] and Kig-Yar privateers. When the Covenant returned with another ship and a contingent of Brutes, the UNSC proposed a meeting (via pictogram) to trade. The Covenant met the UNSC on Harvest, but were only interested in claiming the relics that the [[Luminary]] had detected on Harvest, but were completely oblivous that the humans were the "relics". The meeting was botched after [[Osmo]], a member of the [[Colonial Militia]], -was attacked by a nervous [[Grunt]]- who was part of a second Covenant force sent to look for the relics. As a result, a firefight erupted between the two groups and the Covenant retreated back to their ship.