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|image=[[File:Human-Covenant War composite.png|400px]]<sup>Clockwise from top left: the UNSC responds to a Covenant invasion of a UEG colony world; [[Fleet of Righteous Vigilance|a Covenant fleet]] glasses [[Kholo]]; the UNSC, Covenant and the [[Flood]] battle on [[Installation 04]]; the [[Battle of Installation 00|war's final battle at the Ark]]; the [[Battle of Earth]]; and the ''Pillar of Autumn'' fleeing from the [[Fall of Reach]].</sup> | |image=[[File:Human-Covenant War composite.png|400px]]<sup>Clockwise from top left: the UNSC responds to a Covenant invasion of a UEG colony world; [[Fleet of Righteous Vigilance|a Covenant fleet]] glasses [[Kholo]]; the UNSC, Covenant and the [[Flood]] battle on [[Installation 04]]; the [[Battle of Installation 00|war's final battle at the Ark]]; the [[Battle of Earth]]; and the ''Pillar of Autumn'' fleeing from the [[Fall of Reach]].</sup> | ||
|date=[[2525|February 11, 2525]]<ref>[[First Battle of Harvest]]</ref> – [[2553#March|March 3, 2553]]<ref name="Dr. Iqbal">'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', ''[[From the Office of Dr. William Arthur Iqbal]]''</ref> | |date=[[2525|February 11, 2525]]<ref>[[First Battle of Harvest]]</ref> – [[2553#March|March 3, 2553]]<ref name="Dr. Iqbal">'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', ''[[From the Office of Dr. William Arthur Iqbal]]''</ref> | ||
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After the war, [[Codename: SURGEON]] authored [[Eleventh Hour reports|a series of reports]] detailing the impact of the Covenant War and the postwar status quo. In light of predicted resurgences of the Covenant and the Insurrection, as well as new discoveries regarding the Forerunners and their complex relationship with humanity, SURGEON hoped that future historians would view the war as an experience which served to strengthen the resolve of humanity as a whole and prepared them for even worse struggles yet to come.<ref name="EH"/> This view echoes SURGEON's own conclusions regarding the Insurrection's impact on humanity's survival in the Covenant War in ''[[Historical/Psychological Analysis of Cole, Preston J.]]''<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''' - ''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole'', ''page 457''</ref> | After the war, [[Codename: SURGEON]] authored [[Eleventh Hour reports|a series of reports]] detailing the impact of the Covenant War and the postwar status quo. In light of predicted resurgences of the Covenant and the Insurrection, as well as new discoveries regarding the Forerunners and their complex relationship with humanity, SURGEON hoped that future historians would view the war as an experience which served to strengthen the resolve of humanity as a whole and prepared them for even worse struggles yet to come.<ref name="EH"/> This view echoes SURGEON's own conclusions regarding the Insurrection's impact on humanity's survival in the Covenant War in ''[[Historical/Psychological Analysis of Cole, Preston J.]]''<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''' - ''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole'', ''page 457''</ref> | ||
The end of the war only provided a short period of calm for humanity and the former-Covenant species, before threats both new and old began to emerge. The end of the war had had a profound effect on Thel 'Vadam, whose human-sympathetic policies were ultimately a factor in the beginning of the Sangheili civil war and the rise of the [[Servants of the Abiding Truth]]. [[Shipmaster]] [[Jul 'Mdama]] eventually reunited some of the disparate factions which had surfaced in the wake of the Great Schism and [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|reformed the Covenant]]. At some point after early 2553, this new Covenant started a [[ | The end of the war only provided a short period of calm for humanity and the former-Covenant species, before threats both new and old began to emerge. The end of the war had had a profound effect on Thel 'Vadam, whose human-sympathetic policies were ultimately a factor in the beginning of the Sangheili civil war and the rise of the [[Servants of the Abiding Truth]]. [[Shipmaster]] [[Jul 'Mdama]] eventually reunited some of the disparate factions which had surfaced in the wake of the Great Schism and [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|reformed the Covenant]]. At some point after early 2553, this new Covenant started a [[Post-Covenant War conflicts|second war with humanity]], which later saw the involvement of reawakened [[Forerunner]] [[Promethean]]s led by the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]]. This war would be fought as late as [[2558|February 2558]].<ref name="Reed"/><ref>'''Halo 4'',' ''Spartan Ops''</ref> | ||
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