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Halopedia Timeline

Primordial Era

  • Over 500,000,000 BCE, the Precursors are stated by the Gravemind to have created the Domain,[1] coalescing the sum of their knowledge—encompassing a hundred billion years—into a unified reservoir integrated into their many neural physics artifacts in the Milky Way galaxy. However, the Domain may have been first created long before this, as Forthencho, acting as a messenger for the Gravemind, later stated that it had existed for many billions of years.[2]

Forerunner era

  • In the face of extinction, most of the Precursors reduce themselves to inert powder, intending to regenerate their forms later. However, this dust would deteriorate over the coming eons, eventually bringing forth the parasitic Flood.[6] However, one intact specimen remains in deep stasis and is buried within a remote asteroid a million years afterward.[4]
  • Prior to 1,100,000 BCE, ancient humanity achieved its earliest known spacefaring technological state and settled on numerous worlds along the galactic margin.[9] They would later experience several dark ages resulting in the loss of most of their historical records and knowledge before eventually encountering the Forerunners.[10]
  • Around 1,100,000 BCE, the Forerunner Theoretical known as Boundless begins to study a particular star within the Path Kethona galaxy. When she continues her work in defiance of Warrior orders to the contrary, she is eventually prosecuted, her studies are suppressed, and she is forced to enter a Cryptum.[9]
  • A thousand years later, Boundless' Cryptum is opened and it is discovered that she has died inside due to a malfunction in the Cryptum, supposedly resulting from sabotage. Her former students discreetly dispose of her body.[9]
  • After Boundless' death, the entire Theoretical rate is absorbed into the Builders.[9]
  • Circa 150,000 BCE, the Forerunners are claimed by some records to have risen as the preeminent species in the Milky Way Galaxy by advancing technological discoveries gathered from the remnants left by prior ancient races. Believing themselves responsible for the lives of all those less advanced then they, the Forerunners initiate the Mantle.[11][note 1]
  • Humanity is believed by the Forerunners to have "moved their interstellar civilization outward along the galactic arm" around this time, possibly to escape Forerunner control.[12]
  • Circa 107,445 BCE, human colonists proceed to uncover crashed vessels containing fine organic powder on both inhabited and deserted worlds near the edges of the Milky Way Galaxy. This powder is administered to the domesticated Pheru, which begin to exhibit more docile behavior; unbeknownst to humanity and their San'Shyuum allies, the powder begins to alter the Pheru's genetic makeup. Centuries later, the Pheru begin to show outward signs of mutation and cannibalize one another. Soon, both humans and San'Shyuum who are exposed to the powder begin to exhibit the same symptoms.[16]
  • The Flood then begins to take over hundreds of worlds, turning its victims into misshapen forms. Humanity begins all-out war against the Flood. During their war against the Flood, humanity desperately invades a minor sector of Forerunner space, sparking the human-Forerunner wars.[17]
  • Yprikushma's science teams revive the Primordial and place it in a timelock held in a vast arena on Charum Hakkor, soon after devising a way to communicate with the creature. The answers given by the Primordial to the humans' questions about the Flood are so traumatizing they are believed by Forthencho to have demoralized humanity to the point of contributing to their defeat against the Forerunners later on.[18]
  • Yprin Yprikushma begins to push humanity to conduct more intensive research into Forerunner technologies recovered during earlier human-Forerunner conflicts. Through the technological advances gained, she buys humanity several more decades in its war with the Forerunners.[18]
  • Some time afterward, the Flood begins to recede from the galaxy; while this is thought to be due to a cure created by humanity, no cure ever actually existed; the Flood's withdrawal is instead due to the Gravemind's long-term strategy.[19] With the Flood seemingly dying out, all traces of the parasite's existence are eventually removed from the Milky Way by humans, their San'Shyuum allies, and Forerunner Warrior-Servants.[20] Throughout the war, most Forerunners remain unaware of the Flood's existence, believing stories of the parasite to be an excuse for humanity's aggressive expansion. The Flood will not seen again for nine millennia.[21]
  • Circa 106,445 BCE, the final battles of the human-Forerunner wars are fought, concluding in the humans' standoff at Charum Hakkor.[25] Stretched thin due to fighting two wars simultaneously, humanity loses the war and the Forerunners eliminate all traces of humanity's former interstellar civilization. The Librarian moves the surviving humans to their homeworld, Erde-Tyrene, and establishes a research station there. With their civilization and technology dismantled, humanity regresses to tribal hunter-gatherers for nearly nine thousand years, eventually developing primitive civilization.[26]
  • Circa 98,445 BCE (approximately a thousand years prior to the firing of the Halo Array), the Forerunner Prometheans, opposed to the construction of the Halo rings, lose their political battle against an extreme faction of the Builders led by the Master Builder, Faber, and are forced out of the Council. Many are disgraced or executed while others choose the alternative of exile in a Cryptum. For the next thousand years, the Council continues to marginalize and diminish the role of the entire Warrior-Servant rate.[27]
  • In approximately 97,495 BCE or slightly earlier,[note 3] the Forerunner Ecumene Council assigns the Contender-class ancilla Mendicant Bias to test Installation 07 near Charum Hakkor. The installation, fired on a system-wide power setting, destroys all neurologically complex life and Precursor structures in the system and accidentally liberates an ancient Gravemind known as the Primordial, which is transported on the ring on Master Builder Faber's orders. Soon after, Faber tasks Mendicant Bias with interrogating the Primordial and Installation 07 is transported in an unknown location. Over the course of their 43-year conversation, the Primordial manages to turn Mendicant Bias against its makers and causing it to join the Flood's cause to destroy the Forerunners.[38]
  • At the same time the Librarian returns to Earth to index the human species. Sample members of the species are removed from the planet and held on the Ark.[39]
  • In 97,445 BCE the Forerunner-Flood war came to a close with the activation of the Halo Array.[40] It should be noted that all of the events listed here are approximate at best, occurring over the course of several years during the last decade[41] before the firing of the Halo rings in the year 97,445 BCE.[40][note 4] As no definite chronology has been established for that timeframe, the events therein are recorded on this page for the sake of convenience.
  • The Didact is resuscitated from his exile in a Cryptum by Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting, Chakas and Riser. They later make their way to Janjur Qom, where they are captured by Master Builder Faber. The Didact is interrogated and left to die in a Flood-infested system, while an offshoot of his consciousness lives on in Bornstellar's body through an imprint acquired in his mutation.[44]
  • As a result of the Master Builder's activation of the Halo ring, many Lifeworkers and Warrior-Servants on Installation 07 rebel against his forces, but are mostly defeated.[45]
  • A crisis occurs in the Ecumene Council due to the Master Builder's unauthorized activation of Installation 07; many councilors resign in protest while younger ones take their place. Faber is arrested and placed on trial in the Forerunner Capital. Eleven of the Halos are brought to the Capital, awaiting a decision to have them decommissioned. Installation 07 and Mendicant Bias remain missing.[46]
  • During Faber's tribunal, Mendicant Bias, convinced to turn against its masters by the Primordial, brings Installation 07 to the Capital system and launches an assault on the Forerunner government.[45] While the Council's fleets respond to the attack and several of the Halos are destroyed, Mendicant successfully fires Installation 07 before the Halo is forced to retreat into a system near the galaxy's edges.[47]
  • Having survived Mendicant Bias' attack on the capital, Bornstellar, Glory of a Far Dawn and Splendid Dust of Ancient Suns arrive at the greater Ark, where they are healed by the Lifeworkers. As most Forerunners believe the original Didact to be dead, the Didact's consciousness takes control of Bornstellar in order to assume command of Forerunner military forces after a thousand years of exile and continue his mission against the Flood;[48] subsequently, Bornstellar adopts the title IsoDidact.[49]
  • Shortly afterward, the IsoDidact and his fleet track down Installation 07. Although the Halo takes heavy damage, it survives and is transported to the greater Ark. Afterwards, the installation is sent to its final location,[50] to be later joined by the six rings of the newer Halo Array.
    • The Primordial is imprisoned once again, and is interrogated - and eventually executed - by the IsoDidact.[51]
    • Mendicant Bias is captured, deactivated and disassembled to its disparate components which are then distributed across the ecumene.[52]
    • The mind of a mortally wounded Chakas is used as the template for the monitor later to be known as 343 Guilty Spark.[53]
  • The Ecumene Council is reconstituted as the "New Council" and the Didact's plans of a strategy to use shield worlds to combat the Flood are taken into serious consideration again. The use of the Halos is delayed.[54]
  • For a period of at least three years following the crisis at the Capital, Master Builder Faber, thought dead by the ecumene at large, carries out his own small-scale campaign to combat the Flood with a crew of Builder Security and disgraced Warrior-Servants in a secluded region of the ecumene. He captures and haphazardly decontaminates small Flood-infested ships and then hands them over to Warrior-Servant crews. Due to inadequate decontamination, many of the ships are overrun by Flood still on board.[55]
  • The Juridical rate is given unrestricted access to all citizens of the ecumene by the Council, with the mandate to investigate matters surrounding the attack on the Capital, Forerunner and human origins, as well as the fate of the Precursors. To this end, the Juridicals dispatch Catalog to collect testimony from key Forerunner figures, including the Librarian, Ur-Didact, IsoDidact and Faber.[41]
  • The Ur-Didact, having been left to die in a Flood-infested system by the Master Builder, encounters active Precursor star roads near Uthera Midgeerrd. The Didact is subsequently captured and tortured by the Gravemind.[56] Afterwards, the Gravemind releases the Didact, who is rescued and taken to the Capital system by the Master Builder.[57]
  • The Librarian and the IsoDidact arrive at Earth to oversee its evacuation operation and to give their testimonies to Catalog. However, the Flood's arrival in the sector prompts the IsoDidact to leave to defend the core of the ecumene while the Librarian continues her mission;[58] the two will not reunite until four years later.[59]
  • Mendicant Bias is reassembled and reactivated by a Gravemind after the Flood overruns the facilities in which the components of the AI were held.[52]
  • Catalog is captured by the Flood and corrupted with the logic plague,[60] subsequently spreading the infection across the Juridical network.[61] With the network suspended, Juridicals are eventually forced to cease all Forerunner legal proceedings indefinitely.[62]
  • The Flood begins to reactivate and appropriate formerly dormant Precursor artifacts, allowing them to easily overpower Forerunners in combat. Already weakened and exhausted Forerunner defenses continue to fail at an increasing rate.[63]
  • Over a year before the end of the war, following irregular outages for several years, the Domain goes permanently inaccessible to all Forerunners and ancillas due to the Flood's widespread tapping into its underlying neural physics architecture.[64]
  • Four years after the evacuation of Erde-Tyrene,[65] the Librarian, the IsoDidact and the Ur-Didact reunite in their family estate on Nomdagro. The planet is subsequently overrun by the Flood.[66]
  • After the Capital system is lost to the Flood, command of the ecumene and the bulk of its remaining population is placed at the greater Ark. In the face of imminent defeat, the Master Builder is restored to command and a decision is made to use the Halo Array to purge the galaxy of life and thus starve the Flood. The IsoDidact is tasked with carrying out this plan.[67]
  • Anticipating that Omega Halo's human population may be at risk, the Librarian sends Chant-to-Green to collect more humans from Earth to ensure their numbers will be sufficient to repopulate the species.[68]
  • While the Forerunners attempt to evacuate the greater Ark, the Ur-Didact uses a Composer to harvest the preserved human specimens on the nearby Omega Halo in order to use their patterns to create AIs for his army of Promethean Knights, a desperate and futile effort to combat the Flood via conventional means.[69]
  • Master Builder Faber fires Omega Halo, sterilizing the local galaxy of Path Kethona of sentient life and clearing a temporary path past the star roads laying siege on the greater Ark.[70]
  • The greater Ark and Omega Halo are destroyed by star roads; Faber and most high-ranking Forerunner commanders are killed on Omega Halo, while the IsoDidact is saved by Monitor Chakas.[71] Only a fraction of the Lifeworkers' biological specimens survive and are transported to the secret Installation 00 by the few surviving Forerunners.[72]
  • The Librarian journeys to Earth, planning to draw the Flood there in order to give the IsoDidact time to fire the Halo rings. She sends Chant-to-Green to the lesser Ark, along with the remaining humans gathered from the planet, and passes her title of Lifeshaper on to Chant.[68]
  • The Librarian, stranded on Earth, initiates the burial process of the Portal at Voi. As she spends her last hours in the savanna, the Gravemind sends down imprinted ancient human essences to reveal the Domain's true nature as a Precursor creation; as a result, the Domain will be destroyed when the Halos fire, leading to the loss of not only all Forerunner history but also the knowledge the Precursors had collected over the course of billions of years.[76]
  • As the IsoDidact prepares to activate the rings, Mendicant Bias assembles all Flood-controlled vessels into a fleet of 4.8 million ships, and breaches the Maginot Sphere. On the other side awaits Offensive Bias with the remains of the Forerunner fleet. As the two fleets engage each other in an enormous naval battle, the Halo Array is fired. The Halo pulse kills all sentient life within three radii of the galactic center, including any Forerunners not located on the Ark or within Shield Worlds. Minutes after the firing of the Array, Mendicant Bias's fleet is decimated by Offensive Bias.[77]
  • The remains of Mendicant Bias are brought to Installation 00. The surviving Forerunners hold a trial to the AI for its betrayal; Mendicant Bias is entombed in the installation afterward.[78]
  • The few surviving Forerunners go into self-imposed exile.[78]
  • May: A report is sent to 2401 Penitent Tangent regarding Flood containment failure in a cold storage facility, urging assistance due to the dangers of a full Flood outbreak. Penitent Tangent ignores this report and protocol despite multiple and more urgent reminders. He continued to ignore this for another 99,779 years, at which point a full outbreak had already occurred, but by then it was too late.[79]

Rise of the Covenant era

  • The year 2200 BCE saw a major turning point in the history of the San'Shyuum (Prophets). After centuries of unity the San'Shyuum become divided into two groups, the Stoics who believe that Forerunner relics were sacred and not to be altered, and the Reformists who wish to more closely examine the artifacts and use them for their own purposes. This fundamental disagreement sparks the San'Shyuum Schism.[83]
  • After decades of struggle between the Sangheili and San'Shyuum in the Sangheili-San'Shyuum war, the Sangheili finally accept that they must adapt and study their Forerunner relics or face defeat at the hands of the San'Shyuum.[86] The Sangheili warrior priests reluctantly begin using their relics to improve their warships, arms and armor.[87]
  • In the First Age of Reconciliation, the Prophet of Inner Conviction, the Minister of Relative Reconciliation, and the Sangheili treaty commission reconvene to discuss the disappearance of Ussa 'Xellus and his followers.[91]
  • The Ministry of Anticipatory Security is established by the High Prophet of Excellent Redolence and R'Noh Custo is appointed as its Minister.[92]
  • The newly designated Minister of Anticipatory Security tasks the Prophet of Inner Conviction with a mission to Janjur Qom to retrieve a group of Stoic females and a Forerunner Luminary, threatening to use his new-found influence to place the Prophet on the Roll of Celibates if he declines.[93] Despite his best efforts, the High Prophet of Excellent Redolence forces Inner Conviction to reluctantly accept command of the expedition.[94]
  • The Ussans continue to develop their new colony on Shield World 0673, calling it the Refuge. Monitor Enduring Bias informs Ussa and Sooln 'Xellus of the shield world's "Disassembler" process that allows the world to break itself apart and have its disparate parts remain habitable. Intrigued, Ussa investigates the process further.[95]
  • The Prophet of Inner Conviction is given command of stealth corvette Vengeful Vitality, and a crew consisting of San'Shyuum Captain Vervum L'kosur, communications officer S'Prog, and weapons officer Mleer, Sangheili Trok 'Tanghil, Vil 'Kthamee, Ziln 'Klel, and Loquen 'Nvong, and the Huragok Floats Near Ceiling. The corvette then departed for Janjur Qom.[96]
  • Growing distrustful of Ussa, Salus 'Crolon and 'Drem begin to conspire against the Refuge's leadership. Tersa 'Gunok refuses to join them, but becomes inadvertently involved with the conspiracy nonetheless.[97]
  • Vengeful Vitality arrives at the Reskolah region of Janjur Qom and a team is sent to the planet's surface, led by the Prophet of Inner Conviction. Upon arriving at the grotto of the Great Transition, the group retrieves a Luminary and a device.[98] Loquen and Vervum betray the rest of the team, upon the orders of the Minister of Anticipatory Security. However, due to the intervention of Vil and Floats Near Ceiling, the others escape while Vervum and Loquen are killed or captured by the Stoics.[99]
  • Tersa becomes infatuated with Lnur 'Mol, and the two walk together in Ussa's Garden. They overhear 'Crolon and 'Drem attempt to convince two others to join their secret rebellion, but Tersa and Lnur are spotted. The two manage to outrun 'Crolon and 'Drem, but the latter two falsely claim that Tersa and Lnur are conspiring against Ussa.[100]
  • Covenant forces discover the location of the Ussan Sangheili rebels. Former Hierarch Qurlom delivers the news in the middle of the Prophet of Inner Conviction's "trial" in front the other Hierarchs. Inner Conviction is sent to lead a fleet to the Refuge while the Minister of Anticipatory Security is demoted.[101]
  • A Covenant fleet led by the Prophet of Inner Conviction arrives at the Refuge to destroy the last resistance to the Writ of Union. The Prophet secretly contacts Ussa to try to get him to surrender, but Ussa rejects. After a brief battle between Ussan Sangheili and boarding Covenant Sangheili and Sentinels, Ussa contacts Inner Conviction and tells him to pull back his forces or they will perish with his soldier when he destroys the shield world. Amazingly, he does just that, although he and other Ussans survive in separate sections. The Prophet of Inner Conviction decides not to look for survivors and returns to High Charity in partial failure once more.[102]
  • During one of the first Ages of Conversion, Covenant forces make first contact with the Lekgolo on Rentus, a moon of the planet Te.[105][106] They discover that many of the Lekgolo worm colonies have literally devoured Forerunner artifacts and installations, while others eat everything except Forerunner installations. The Lekgolo initially prove difficult to defeat because of their ability to combine into the powerful Mgalekgolo, however due in part to their superior spaceship technology the Covenant are able to ally with and tame the useful Lekgolo, and exterminate the relic-destroying colonies in what will come to be known as the Taming of the Hunters. The compliant Lekgolo are incorporated into the Writ of Union in 784 BCE.[107]

Globalization era

  • In The Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the massive army of Persians for three days in one of history's most famous last stands.[111]
  • A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I could pass. After three days of battle, a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines. Dismissing the rest of the army, King Leonidas stayed behind with 300 Spartans and 700 Thespian volunteers. The Persians succeeded in taking the pass but sustained heavy losses, extremely disproportionate to those of the Greeks.
  • The fierce resistance of the Spartan-led army offered Athens invaluable time to prepare for a decisive naval battle that would determine the outcome of the war. The subsequent Greek victory at the Battle of Salamis left much of the Persian navy destroyed and Xerxes I was forced to retreat back to Asia, leaving his army in Greece under Mardonius, who met the Greeks in battle one last time. The Spartans assembled at full strength and led a pan-Greek army that defeated the Persians decisively at the Battle of Plataea, ending the Greco-Persian War and with it the expansion of the Persian Empire into Europe. This war was shown by Deja on the first day of Spartan training.
  • In 1342, the Covenant discovers the Kig-Yar. Although the Kig-Yar initially attempt to resist absorption into the alliance, they quickly recognize that they are facing a superior force and submit, taking on the role of explorers and traders (and often thieves and smugglers). The Kig-Yar are also motivated by the potential trade and wealth the Covenant can provide.[113]
  • In 1552, the San'Shyuum began developing technologies that could increase their life spans.[114]
  • The first human-made nuclear weapons are used against an enemy, when the United States drops two atomic bombs on the empire of Japan.
  • The end of World War II, which was one of the bloodiest and most expensive wars in human history up to that point.
  • The United Nations is formed on Earth at the end of World War II. The UN eventually forms the UNSC in the 2100s, but the UN begins embarking on military and security operations as early as the 1950s. Fifty-one nations originally signed the UN Charter, which governed the "global association of governments facilitating co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity." By the beginning of the 21st century, practically all the nation-states on Earth are members of the United Nations.
  • The Unified Earth Government is formed as an assembly of political leaders and brilliant minds, commissioned by the United Nations, and tasked with attempting to avert the crises of the next century by solving governmental unification issues of colonizing non-Earth territories.[118][119]
  • In early 2142 the Covenant discover the Unggoy homeworld, Balaho.[125] The Unggoy surrender almost immediately in the imposing presence of the Sangheili and are incorporated into the Covenant.[126]
  • The Jovian Moons Campaign begins: Jovian Frieden secessionist attacks on United Nations colonial advisers on the moon Io lead to three months of fighting between the United Nations military and Jovian Frieden forces. Though this is not the first armed conflict in the Sol System, it is easily one of the bloodiest, and is generally considered to be the spark of increased friction and militarization that followed. The conflict escalates tensions, as Earth's national governments, many of which sponsored colonies within the Sol system, begin fighting proxy wars off-planet. As these continue, tensions on Earth mount, leading to a number of armed conflicts on Earth itself.[129]

Colonial and Insurrection era

  • The Unified Earth Government becomes a full-fledged governing entity in the wake of the conflicts of the 2160s.[118][119] Now, the victors are forced to deal with a less obvious but equally serious threat: overpopulation and a massive military with no enemy to fight. Overpopulation caused by massive population surges in the post-war period, combined with the destruction and famine bred by the Rain Forest Wars, threaten to destabilize the economy in the coming years.[140]
  • In April, 2291, a group of researchers headed by Tobias Shaw and Wallace Fujikawa[146] secretly developed the Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace Drive, a practical means of propelling spacecraft across vast interstellar distances. This new engine allowed ships to tunnel into "the Slipstream" (also called "Slipspace"). Slipspace is a domain with alternate physical laws, allowing faster-than-light travel without relativistic side effects. Faster-than-light travel is not instantaneous; "short" jumps routinely take up to two months, and "long" jumps can last six months or more. The SFTE generated a resonance field, which when coupled with the unusual physics of the Slipstream, allowed for dramatically shorter transit times between stars; however, scientists noted an odd "flexibility" to temporal flow while inside the Slipstream. Though no human scientist is sure why travel time between stars is not constant, many theorize that there are "eddies" or "currents" within the Slipstream. There is generally a five to ten percent variance in travel times between stars. This temporal inconsistency has given military tacticians and strategists fits-hampering many coordinated attacks.[147]
  • The Unified Earth Government unveils the first in a line of colony ships; given conditions on Earth are deteriorating in the face of overpopulation, hitching a ride out to a colony becomes a highly attractive option. Additionally, the Earth government plans to attach military personnel to each colony, to help better utilize the massive (and expensive) standing fleets. Because FTL travel is still fairly new and expensive, colonists and military personnel face a stringent regimen of physical and mental testing. In theory, only the best-qualified citizens and soldiers are allowed to colonize "nearby" worlds. This is the birth of the Inner Colonies; typically, the Inner Colonials are considered the most elite, best, and brightest.[149]
  • The Committee of Minds for Security holds a session, discussing the likelihood of hostile extrasolar civilizations and the modeling of first-contact scenarios to deal with such threats.[151]
  • In 2319, AMG Transport Dynamics designs the first M12 Warthog prototype, dubbed the "Z-12". The Z-12 prototype vehicles quickly prove to be popular due to a well-crafted advertising campaign and adept engineering team.[157]
  • Within the first eight months of the Z-12 prototype's existence, AMG receives over three dozen exclusivity contracts. Most of these contracts come from the Colonial Military Administration.[157]
  • Around this year, AMG Transport Dynamics works with the CMA and established a deal to cover all of their land-based transportation needs.[157]
  • The Z-12 became integrated into the M12 Warthog. In addition, a pneumatically-powered swivel mount and armored body panels were added to the vehicle.[157]
  • April 13: The ORION Project is first initiated. Poor results determine the Office of Naval Intelligence to temporarily put the project on hold. The Project is re-initiated in 2491.[158][159]
  • The colonization of the Inner Colonies is fully underway. There are 210 Human-occupied worlds in various stages of terraforming, and the population burden across human-controlled space is largely stabilized.[167]
  • In 2415, 48452-556-EPN644, a member of the Assembly, suggests that each of the AIs should occasionally offer themselves to be vivisected by the humans to lower any suspicions the humans might have towards their activities.[175]
  • In 2453, the human colony of Aleria starts to suffer a severe drought which would still be ongoing by 2556, with no rainfall in 103 years.[180] By that point, the drought had devastated the planet and allegedly killed half of its inhabitants.[181]
  • The planet of Harvest is established as the 17th Human colony, the UNSC Skinblandir transporting the first colonists. The ship, under the guidance of the AI Loki, remains in the system to keep an eye on the establishment of infrastructure.[192]
  • By 2488, Harvest had the highest agricultural productivity rate per capita of any UNSC colony[203]. Harvest is the most productive planet in the UNSC, producing fruits and other crops.
  • November 3: L. P. Graves evaluates Cole's performance at Unified Combined Military Boot Camp Sierra Largo, recommending he be moved on to the NCO path.
  • November 27th: Preston Cole is recommended to Luna OCS Academy in Season of Plenty's bi-annual personnel review.

The Great War era

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Notes

  1. ^ This entry, originating from the Halo Encyclopedia, is of dubious accuracy in light of information from The Forerunner Saga, in which the Forerunners are stated to have been spacefaring for millions of years (albeit having experienced a number of technological dark ages and large-scale record loss events over the course of this period) and that they held the Mantle since 10,000,000 BCE, having forcibly seized it from the Precursors. However, the Encyclopedia notes that "all Forerunner era dates are approximate, based on available translation and scattered historical data", which provides a canonical explanation for the possible inaccuracies of this entry.
  2. ^ Halo: Primordium specifies that the Primordial was discovered 40 years before "the last of the human-Forerunner wars". This is assumed to refer to the final 53-year conflict fought mainly in the Charum Hakkor system, as this is the longest mentioned continuous conflict which can be reasonably said to fall within the "few extra decades" Yprikushma bought humanity with her subsequent work.
  3. ^ The Halo Array was fired in 97,445 BCE. Mendicant Bias' test-firing of Installation 07 and the Halo's subsequent disappearance took place 43 years before the installation's return during the events of Halo: Cryptum (Halo: Cryptum page 244 and Halo: Primordium page 192). Halo: Cryptum takes place a minimum of seven years before the firing of the Halo Array, which can be extrapolated from a number of statements in Halo: Silentium:

    It is implied in the description and beginning of Halo: Silentium that the novel begins several years after the end of Halo: Primordium. On page 193, while testifying to the Master Juridical, Master Builder Faber states that he and his forces held a salient against the Flood for three years after Mendicant Bias' attack on the Capital. Since the Master Juridical would know how long Faber had been missing since the fall of the Capital, it would be futile for the latter to claim that he had been running his private operation for more than the time he had been confirmed to be missing. As such, his statement about holding off for three years can be considered the minimum figure for the duration of his exile. However, it should be noted that Faber may have remained missing for more than that time, as the three years of holding that particular salient may have constituted only a portion of the operations he undertook during his exile.

    Faber's testimony took place after his return to the ecumene, which coincided with his rescue of the Ur-Didact. As stated on page 28 of Silentium, the Ur-Didact's return had already occurred some time prior to the evacuation of Erde-Tyrene and the Librarian's deposition by Catalog. There is a four-year period between the Librarian's and the IsoDidact's parting during the evacuation of Erde-Tyrene and their reunion on Nomdagro (Silentium, page 197). Although it is not definitely stated how much time passes between the meeting on Nomdagro and the firing of the Halo Array, the almost continuous recounting of the events past Nomdagro up until the Halos' activation in Silentium would suggest no more than several days or weeks passed in the interim. However, this does not take into account the possibility of increased time dilation effects due to the Precursor-empowered Flood's corruption of spacetime, which interfered with the Forerunners' slipspace travel in the final years of the war.

    The year 97,495 BCE for Installation 07's disappearance is calculated on the basis that seven years passed between the events of Halo: Cryptum and the firing of the Halos, therefore indicating that the events described on this page took place fifty years before the firing of the Array. Due to several ambiguities it is possible that the events took place several (though likely no more than five) years earlier than this, but anything beyond the known minimum figure remains in the realm of speculation. It should be noted that the Halo Encyclopedia lists Mendicant Bias' conversation with the Gravemind as having begun on 100,043 BCE, or 43 years before the approximate date for the firing of the Halos. However, because the Encyclopedia itself notes that the timeline is only approximate and due to the manifold revisions to Forerunner-era canon introduced by The Forerunner Saga, the information from the novels can be considered to be of superior canonicity to the more unreliable and rough dating provided in the Encyclopedia.
  4. ^ 343 Guilty Spark put the date of the firing of the Array as the year 97,448 BCE, though it should be noted that he measured it on Installation 04's year, not the 365.25 day Earth calendar.
  5. ^ This is 7 years ago relative to 2004. Therefore, 1997.