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2531

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January/February

  • The Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon is first encountered by UNSC forces.[1]
  • In January or February, Spartan Daisy-023 and former Spartan Ralph-103 are killed during the Harvest campaign.[2]
  • Between January and February 4, Lieutenant Prosser assaults a woman in a bar. Sergeant Forge intervenes and confronts the lieutenant. They engage in a fist fight, with charges brought upon the sergeant. Luckily for Forge, the woman who had been attacked proclaims him as a hero and all charges are dropped.
  • January 30: Professor Ellen Anders is recruited by the Office of Naval Intelligence.

February

The UNSC Spirit of Fire played a pivotal role in the events of early 2531.
  • The final battle of the Harvest campaign is won in space: Admiral Preston Cole's fleet engages the alien warships that have again returned to the Harvest colony. Six years after the planet was attacked, UNSC forces emerge victorious at great cost.[3]
  • February 4th: The UNSC Spirit of Fire enters the Epsilon Indi system and arrives back at a glassed and partially frozen Harvest, encountering the Covenant troops of the Fleet of Glorious Interdiction, led by Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee, that are in the process of uncovering a Forerunner Relic on the planet.[4]
  • The Spirit of Fire discovers the damaged UNSC Prophecy, which has been previously attacked by the Covenant and suffered a critical reactor failure. Sergeant Forge and a team of EVA Marines squad rescue the Prophecy' survivors and destroy the ship to prevent its NAV data from falling into Covenant hands.
  • Captain James Cutter of the UNSC Spirit of Fire makes an entry in his log, reflecting on the five years leading up to this point in the war against the Covenant.[5]
  • Serina instructs that production of M41 LAAG weaponry cease on Harvest, Warthogs instead to be upgraded with the M68 Gauss Cannon. Not that it makes much difference as drivers continue to 'splatter' their Covenant enemies, much to the frustration of their maintenance teams.[6]
  • Helena Roman is KIA against the Covenant. Captain Cutter sends a message to her family in regards to her death.
  • Professor Anders joins the Spirit of Fire's crew.
  • Prof. Anders receives some unexpected readings on an EM band and asks a Hornet squadron en route to Rally Point Baker to investigate. They end up sighting a battalion of Sangheili. Sergeant Forge is assigned to Quadrant 4 to investigate.[6]
  • February 6th: Anders writes her father a message detailing her mission to Harvest and the result of her discoveries on the planet, and encodes it as a detailed analysis of Homer's Odyssey. ONI censors miss the cipher completely and the message passes unaltered to her father.
  • February 7th: Spirit of Fire holds service for the crew of the UNSC Prophecy. The crew roster is read despite objections from ONI personnel.
  • February 9th: Spirit of Fire arrives at the planet of Arcadia during battle, where they meet SPARTAN Red Team. Anders is captured by the Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee. Spirit of Fire pursues the Covenant into unknown space. Serina projects an arrival at their destination in 312 hours.
  • February 14th: Serina, knowing that the crew may be on a one way trip, manufactures and delivers fake emails from family members to the crew celebrating Valentine's Day. She uses previous correspondence as a basis for the letters.
  • February 23rd: Battle of Shield World 0459. Medical officers aboard the Spirit of Fire mistake the Flood for a virus.[7]
  • February 25th: Spirit of Fire escapes Shield World 0459 thanks to the sacrifice of John Forge.[7]
  • February 26th: The Spirit of Fire crew burn Flood-infected bodies to prevent the virus from spreading in the ship. Chief Medical Officer O'Neil also decides to cancel any study of the Flood.[7]

March

  • March 1st: Chief Engineer Andrew Prescott finishes his assessment of damage to Spirit of Fire and repairs continue to the hull. The FTL core reactor cannot be replaced and plans to manufacture a spare from base reactor units are deemed unworkable. The decision is made to run the ship on a skeleton crew and place the rest in suspended animation.[7]
  • March 3rd: Captain Cutter files a report in his log, wondering what Anders experienced as a prisoner of the Covenant.[7]
  • March 4th: Anders analyzes the events in the shield world and concludes that the beings who built it knew humans.[7]
  • March 11th: Anders is put into cryosleep by Captain Cutter.[7]
  • March 12th: Captain Cutter writes five commendations, fourteen family condolence letters, and a note to his wife.[7]

May

June

October

November

December

  • December 14th: After being extracted by Colonel James Ackerson, Kurt-051 is briefed on the SPARTAN-III project and given leadership over its implementation, as well as a new identity as "Kurt Ambrose".[11]
  • December 19th: Nicole-458 is born.[12]
  • December 27th: 497 recruits arrive at Camp Currahee on Onyx beginning the Spartan-III program under the command of Kurt-051 forming what will later become Alpha Company.[8]

Other events

  • Spartan-II Blue Team disrupts Insurrectionist activity in Micronesia and breaks up a saboteur ring on Reach between November 2530 and May of this year.[8]
  • Rear Admiral Cole is promoted to admiral upon his return to Earth and learns that a number of outlying colonies have been destroyed, leaving behind no survivors. He begins to move his fleet around, trying to intercept the invaders. Ground and ship-to-ship battles begin in earnest, raging throughout the Outer Colonies.[13]
  • The MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/EOD variant enters service.[14]
  • The Assembly takes note of a "third participant" mentioned in the Covenant battle network during the battle for the Shield World, one which caused "irrational terror" for the Covenant. While presenting the possibility of contacting this third faction, they decide not to, due to the risks involved.[15]

Sources

  1. ^ Bungie.net: Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon
  2. ^ Ralph was killed by a Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon, which was first encountered by UNSC forces in 2531. The Harvest Campaign was ended in February 2531, placing their deaths in January or February of that year.
  3. ^ Halo Wars
  4. ^ http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40831.html
  5. ^ 2008-14-07. E3 2008: Five Long Years Cinematic. Ensemble Studios. Accessed on 2008-14-07
  6. ^ a b Xbox-Halo Wars. Accessed on 2009-02-02
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h Halo Wars Timeline Events
  8. ^ a b c d Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
  9. ^ Dr. Halsey's personal journal
  10. ^ Halo Waypoint - Today in Halo
  11. ^ Halo Waypoint - Today in Halo: 12/14/2531
  12. ^ 2005-13-12, Building a Spartan. Bungie. Accessed on 2008-03-12
  13. ^ Halo Storyline. Accessed on 2008-03-12
  14. ^ IGN Video: Halo: Reach Xbox 360 Video - The Armory Video
  15. ^ Halo: Reach,, Data pd 15