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Thus began the Human-Covenant War, which has raged for 28 years. Since the [[Battle of Harvest]] in [[2531]], the humans' grip on their territories declined significantly in the course of their struggle. Of the 800 worlds under UNSC control in the 2490's, only 540 colony worlds are left by the time of the ''Halo'' games, and the Covenant's forces were also proving successful in attacking and destroying some of the Inner Colonies as well as the smaller counterparts in the frontier. The UNSC's fleet was effectively outnumbered and out-gunned, and the human sphere of influence shrank as UNSC ships were moved closer to the remaining colonies and to Earth for their protection. As the tide of the war continued to turn against the UNSC, its brass considered more unorthodox tactics for ending it. In a desperate move to stop the [[Covenant]], the Space Command intended to send a group of Spartans to capture one of their ships, find their home world and capture a [[Prophet]] (Prophets are the species and caste that effectively command the Covenant). But on August 30, 2552, only two days before the operation, a massive battle fleet of 314 Covenant warships came out of Slipspace near Reach to recover an artifact and [[The Battle of Reach |destroy the UNSC base there]]. | Thus began the Human-Covenant War, which has raged for 28 years. Since the [[Battle of Harvest]] in [[2531]], the humans' grip on their territories declined significantly in the course of their struggle. Of the 800 worlds under UNSC control in the 2490's, only 540 colony worlds are left by the time of the ''Halo'' games, and the Covenant's forces were also proving successful in attacking and destroying some of the Inner Colonies as well as the smaller counterparts in the frontier. The UNSC's fleet was effectively outnumbered and out-gunned, and the human sphere of influence shrank as UNSC ships were moved closer to the remaining colonies and to Earth for their protection. As the tide of the war continued to turn against the UNSC, its brass considered more unorthodox tactics for ending it. In a desperate move to stop the [[Covenant]], the Space Command intended to send a group of Spartans to capture one of their ships, find their home world and capture a [[Prophet]] (Prophets are the species and caste that effectively command the Covenant). But on August 30, 2552, only two days before the operation, a massive battle fleet of 314 Covenant warships came out of Slipspace near Reach to recover an artifact and [[The Battle of Reach |destroy the UNSC base there]]. | ||
By October of 2552, the Covenant would haphazardly discover the position of the UN home world, Earth, in what became the abortive [[First Battle of Earth]]. By this time, however, a serious political and religious crisis is developing within the Covenant, complicating the battle; sects within the Covenant by the time of the [[Second Battle of Earth]] were seceding, threatening to make the war a three-way conflict. Nevertheless, the discovery of the home world allowed the Covenant to send a large invasion force in their effort to end the human resistance (and also to search for a collection of items and devices involved in the Covenant's state religion, centered around the story of what they call the [[Great Journey]]; head there for a description of the religious story and the crisis of faith that leads to the Covenant's schism). On March 3 2553, the war ends with an UNSC victory, but through losing most of there outer colonies and some of the inner colonies, it came at a very high price | By October of 2552, the Covenant would haphazardly discover the position of the UN home world, Earth, in what became the abortive [[First Battle of Earth]]. By this time, however, a serious political and religious crisis is developing within the Covenant, complicating the battle; sects within the Covenant by the time of the [[Second Battle of Earth]] were seceding, threatening to make the war a three-way conflict. Nevertheless, the discovery of the home world allowed the Covenant to send a large invasion force in their effort to end the human resistance (and also to search for a collection of items and devices involved in the Covenant's state religion, centered around the story of what they call the [[Great Journey]]; head there for a description of the religious story and the crisis of faith that leads to the Covenant's schism). On March 3 2553, the war ends with an UNSC victory, but through losing most of there outer colonies and some of the inner colonies, it came at a very high price. | ||
== Organization == | == Organization == | ||