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[[Image:H3 Zune Marine.jpg|thumb|right|A [[UNSC Marine]] in battle uniform]] | [[Image:H3 Zune Marine.jpg|thumb|right|A [[UNSC Marine]] in battle uniform]] | ||
The four-year long war put the spotlight on | The four-year long war put the spotlight on problems facing the overpopulated planet, and the Rain Forest Wars also exacerbated the problems related to food distribution. The ensuing famine and societal problems related to the post-war population boom provided the impetus to change the political nature of governance on [[Earth]] and elsewhere, leading to the political system seen in the period of the [[Halo]] games. | ||
These pressures also helped make space colonization seem more attractive in later centuries, as the government would sign off on a colony ship program that was revealed in [[2310]] to ease the burden on the ailing home world. This would not have been possible without the invention of the [[Slipspace]] drive in the late 2200's, which allowed the ships to travel far greater distances than ever before. | These pressures also helped make space colonization seem more attractive in later centuries, as the government would sign off on a colony ship program that was revealed in [[2310]] to ease the burden on the ailing home world. This would not have been possible without the invention of the [[Slipspace]] drive in the late 2200's, which allowed the ships to travel far greater distances than ever before. | ||
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===The Human-Covenant War=== | ===The Human-Covenant War=== | ||
{{main|Human-Covenant War}} | {{main|Human-Covenant War}} | ||
[[2525]] marked | [[2525]] marked an important turning point in human history. It would mark the beginning of the great [[Spartan Laser|technological]] [[pulse laser|advancement]], the unification of a divided and fractured human race, and the [[Halo: Contact Harvest|first contact]] of humanity and an extraterrestrial intelligence, the Covenant. It would also see a majority of the UNSC's 800 colony worlds destroyed, and billions of colonists and military personnel slaughtered by orbital plasma bombardment and planetary invasion. Thus began the [[Human-Covenant War]] with the [[Battle of Harvest]]. | ||
Stemming from the chance encounter of humanity and Covenant forces at [[Harvest]], first contact was [[Minor Transgression|less than peaceful]]. A less aggressive meeting between representatives of the two factions met on the fields of Harvest, but peaceful meeting soon turned into a blood bath, with the Covenant claiming the planet for the numerous "[[Reclaimers|Forerunner relics]]" present, slaughtering | Stemming from the chance encounter of humanity and Covenant forces at [[Harvest]], first contact was [[Minor Transgression|less than peaceful]]. A less aggressive meeting between representatives of the two factions met on the fields of Harvest, but peaceful meeting soon turned into a blood bath, with the Covenant claiming the planet for the numerous "[[Reclaimers|Forerunner relics]]" present, slaughtering most of the colony's population. <ref>[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]</ref> | ||
On October 7, a scout ship, ''[[Argo]]'', was sent to investigate the cessation of communications between Harvest and the rest of the UNSC. The scout ship was also lost. It discovered that everything on the planet had been completely incinerated, and the surface had been melted down to glass | On October 7, a scout ship, ''[[Argo]]'', was sent to investigate the cessation of communications between Harvest and the rest of the UNSC. The scout ship was also lost. It discovered that everything on the planet had been completely incinerated, and the surface had been melted down to glass. In orbit around the remains of the colony world was a single alien ship which proceeded to attack the battle group, destroying all the ships except one. Intercepted communications identify the enemy as the Covenant, a caste-driven, theological organization made up of several alien species. The message ''"Your destruction is the will of the gods... and we are their instrument"'' was broadcast in perfect [[English]]. <ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], page 96-98</ref> | ||
Since the later [[Battle of Harvest]] in [[2531]] where a huge human fleet led by [[Admiral Cole]] barely won against a smaller covenant fleet in a symbolic "victory" for humanity, the humans' grip on their territories declined significantly in the course of their struggle. Of the more than 800 [[colony worlds]], the Covenant had managed to capture and glass nearly every, if not all [[Outer Colonies|Outer Colonies]] and a majority of the [[Inner Colonies]]. The [[UNSC Navy]], [[Marine Corps]], [[Army]] and [[Militia]]s, outnumbered and out-gunned, have managed to slow down the Covenants inexorably progress through former human space, but the situation is drastic. In desperation, [[HIGHCOM]] orders a high-risk Op, sending the Spartan-II super soldiers, the best soldiers ever fielded by humanity, to insert into Covenant space, capture a high-ranking [[Prophet]], and return to UNSC space in an attempt to ransom for a truce. Before the operation begins, the Covenant find and destroy the planet that would have served as its launching pad, [[Reach]], killing most of the Spartans and a large portion of the UNSCDF, inadvertently stopping the operation and rendering most of the Spartans [[ | Since the later [[Battle of Harvest]] in [[2531]] where a huge human fleet led by [[Admiral Cole]] barely won against a smaller covenant fleet in a symbolic "victory" for humanity, the humans' grip on their territories declined significantly in the course of their struggle. Of the more than 800 [[colony worlds]], the Covenant had managed to capture and glass nearly every, if not all [[Outer Colonies|Outer Colonies]] and a majority of the [[Inner Colonies]]. The [[UNSC Navy]], [[Marine Corps]], [[Army]] and [[Militia]]s, outnumbered and out-gunned, have managed to slow down the Covenants inexorably progress through former human space, but the situation is drastic. In desperation, [[HIGHCOM]] orders a high-risk Op, sending the Spartan-II super soldiers, the best soldiers ever fielded by humanity, to insert into Covenant space, capture a high-ranking [[Prophet]], and return to UNSC space in an attempt to ransom for a truce. Before the operation begins, the Covenant find and destroy the planet that would have served as its launching pad, [[Reach]], killing most of the Spartans and a large portion of the UNSCDF, inadvertently stopping the operation and rendering most of the Spartans [[KIA]]. | ||
A single ship, the ''[[Pillar of Autumn]]'' managed to escape the planet, with two Spartans on board, [[Linda]] and the [[Master Chief]]. This ship follows co-ordinates derived by the AI [[Cortana]] to a Ring-world known as [[Halo Array|Halo]]. There the Master Chief destroys a large Covenant fleet and the ringworld itself. After hijacking a Covenant Flagship known as ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'', the Spartan reunites with the remaining survivors from Halo and the destruction of Reach and planned [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]] on an amassing force of Covenant ships, one of the most successful UNSC operations against the Covenant in the entire war. | A single ship, the ''[[Pillar of Autumn]]'' managed to escape the planet, with two Spartans on board, [[Linda]] and the [[Master Chief]]. This ship follows co-ordinates derived by the AI [[Cortana]] to a Ring-world known as [[Halo Array|Halo]]. There the Master Chief destroys a large Covenant fleet and the ringworld itself. After hijacking a Covenant Flagship known as ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'', the Spartan reunites with the remaining survivors from Halo and the destruction of Reach and planned [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]] on an amassing force of Covenant ships, one of the most successful UNSC operations against the Covenant in the entire war. | ||