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'''Harvest''', designated '''CE-309-8 d''' by the [[Forerunner]]s,<ref name="universe"/><ref name="catalog">[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2969315_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2969315 '''Waypoint''': ''Catalog Interaction'' page 14]</ref> was a [[human]] [[Outer Colonies|Outer Colony]] world founded as a [[agriculture world|"breadbasket" world]]. Founded in [[2468]] by the {{UNSCShip|Skidbladnir}}, the colony was the most remote at the time of its founding.<ref>[http://halowars.com/GameInfo/Timeline.aspx '''Official Halo Wars Community Site''': ''Game Info - Timeline'']</ref><ref group="note" name="17th">According to ''Halo: Contact Harvest'', Harvest was the latest of humanity's seventeen colonies to be settled. The claim of humanity having a mere seventeen colony worlds has been ignored in later material, which instead appear to adhere to the more lenient figure of 800 worlds presented in the [[Xbox.com/Halo|original ''Halo'' timeline]]. Given that the timeline also states that 210 [[Inner Colonies]] had been settled before 2390, it is unlikely that the notion of Harvest being the seventeenth colony is considered canonical. This is further evidenced by the "Story So Far" documentary on the Halo: Legends DVD giving the number of human worlds the same as the original timeline.</ref> Located in the [[Epsilon Indi system]],<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 32''</ref> the planet had the unfortunate distinction of being the first human planet discovered and destroyed by the [[Covenant]]. After [[First Battle of Harvest|a disastrous first contact]], the planet was subsequently [[glassing|glassed]] by the Covenant, but most of its population managed to escape in [[DCS light freighter|freighters]].<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 387''</ref>