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The Navy traces its roots back to the national space-faring fleets contributing equipment, materiel, and personnel to the [[United Nations]] prior to the 2164-2170 [[Interplanetary War]], having cut their teeth in the [[Jovian Moons Campaign|Jovian Moons]] and [[Mars Campaign|Mars]] campaigns. In the resulting conflict the UNSC absorbed entire navies of Earth's nations into a single, regimented order of battle. In the ''[[Domus Diaspora]]'' the Navy would expand in capability courtesy of the advent of the [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]] to embark on expeditions into what would become the [[Inner Colonies]] and conduct spacelift therein supporting colonization efforts funded by the UEG. At this time, the [[Colonial Military Administration]] (CMA) was established to defend the Inner Colonies and the looming frontier in the [[Outer Colonies]], by law relegating the UNSC Navy to the defense of [[Sol system|Sol]]. Despite this, UNSC and CMA naval forces regularly encroached on each other's spacial jurisdiction, attempting to usurp and absorb missions, equipment, personnel, and funding for their own means. By the 25th century the Earther-backed UNSC Navy had assumed authority over both Sol and the Inner Colonies, restricting their CMA counterparts to Orion's frontier. The lack of political, economic, and social autonomy in the Outer Colonies led the UNSC Navy into the [[Callisto Incident]], sparking the decades-long [[Insurrection]]. Fleet forces waged war against a asymmetrical threat utilizing large combatant ships, disembarking and supporting [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] forces ashore, and razing entire colonies with naval gunfire and weapons of mass destruction. | The Navy traces its roots back to the national space-faring fleets contributing equipment, materiel, and personnel to the [[United Nations]] prior to the 2164-2170 [[Interplanetary War]], having cut their teeth in the [[Jovian Moons Campaign|Jovian Moons]] and [[Mars Campaign|Mars]] campaigns. In the resulting conflict the UNSC absorbed entire navies of Earth's nations into a single, regimented order of battle. In the ''[[Domus Diaspora]]'' the Navy would expand in capability courtesy of the advent of the [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]] to embark on expeditions into what would become the [[Inner Colonies]] and conduct spacelift therein supporting colonization efforts funded by the UEG. At this time, the [[Colonial Military Administration]] (CMA) was established to defend the Inner Colonies and the looming frontier in the [[Outer Colonies]], by law relegating the UNSC Navy to the defense of [[Sol system|Sol]]. Despite this, UNSC and CMA naval forces regularly encroached on each other's spacial jurisdiction, attempting to usurp and absorb missions, equipment, personnel, and funding for their own means. By the 25th century the Earther-backed UNSC Navy had assumed authority over both Sol and the Inner Colonies, restricting their CMA counterparts to Orion's frontier. The lack of political, economic, and social autonomy in the Outer Colonies led the UNSC Navy into the [[Callisto Incident]], sparking the decades-long [[Insurrection]]. Fleet forces waged war against a asymmetrical threat utilizing large combatant ships, disembarking and supporting [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] forces ashore, and razing entire colonies with naval gunfire and weapons of mass destruction. | ||
Waging a modern naval war across vast stretches of the cosmos prepared the UNSC Navy for the existential threat accompanying first contact with the highly-militarized alien union, the [[Covenant]]. From 2525 to 2552, the Navy would face one major defeat after another delaying the Covenant from progressing into the Outer Colonies, then the Inner Colonies, and ultimately its final [[Wikipedia:Bastion (naval)|bastions]] at [[Reach]], and later, Earth. Pivotal, yet seemingly token victories at [[Harvest campaign|Harvest]] (2531), in [[Battle of Psi Serpentis|Psi Serpentis]] (2543), at [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV|Sigma Octanus IV]] (2552), and at [[Battle of Earth|Earth]] (2552) kept morale high in spite of a potential extinction event. The Navy suffered the loss of hundreds of millions of sailors, and tens of thousands of starships and countless more aerospace craft in operations against the Covenant over 27 years. The [[UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet]] in Sol marshalled the Navy's remaining available fighting forces in early 2553 to liberate occupied human space and reestablish Earth's authority over their now increasingly disparate colonies. | |||
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