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''Contact Harvest'' details many of the events leading to the beginning of the [[Human-Covenant War]].

On the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] colony [[Harvest]], there is only peace and prosperity. Watched by two [[Artificial Intelligence]]s, [[Sif]] and [[Mack]], the colony produces much of [[Human]]ity's food. This peace is interrupted when a [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] [[missionary ship]], ''[[Minor Transgression]]'', discovers a malfunctioning [[Horn of Plenty|unmanned human cargo ship]]. The coordinates registered in the cargo ship's [[navigation computer]] lead the aliens to Harvest. A [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] [[Unggoy]], [[Deacon]] [[Dadab]], is alarmed when the ship's [[Luminary]] seems to register thousands of [[Forerunner]] artifacts and an [[Oracle]] (Forerunner AI). The opportunistic Kig-Yar's plan to take some artifacts for themselves before reporting the discovery to the [[Hierarchs]], and begin surreptitiously raiding human [[freighter]]s. Unfortunately for the Kig-Yar, the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] has recently organized a strike team to counteract what they believed to be a growing [[Insurrectionist]] group, including one [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Junior Johnson]]. They successfully deceive ''Minor Transgression'' into boarding [[Bulk Discount|a freighter]] where they are immediately attacked by Staff Sergeant Johnson and [[Nolan Byrne|Staff Sergeant Byrne]]. Staff Sergeant Johnson receives a cracked skull from their meeting and Staff Sergeant Byrne is stabbed in the leg with an [[energy cutlass]]. This raid marks the first meeting of the humans and Covenant forces, and makes the humans aware of a brand new threat they may be facing. The vessel is self-destructed by its dying captain, with only the Deacon Dadab and his [[Huragok]] friend [[Lighter Than Some]] escaping in an escape pod.