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|location=[[Arizona]], [[United Republic of North America|URNA]]

|population=7 million (prior to the [[New Phoenix Incident]])<ref name="escalation 7">'''[[Halo: Escalation]]''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 7|Issue 7]]''</ref>

|governance=[[Unified Earth Government]]

'''New Phoenix''' is a metropolitan area of [[Arizona]], a state in the [[United Republic of North America]] on [[Earth]]. It was the fourth most populated city in the URNA, after [[New York City]], [[Los Angeles]], and [[Greater Chicago Industrial Zone|Chicago]].<ref name="escalation 7"/>

New Phoenix was originally two separate cities, [[Wikipedia:Flagstaff, Arizona|Flagstaff]] and [[Wikipedia:Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]. As the populations and boundaries of both cities grew to intersect, they agreed to become one large metropolis.<ref name="escalation 7"/>

During his swift attack on Earth on [[2557|July 24, 2557]], the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] was able to position his flagship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'', in [[geosynchronous orbit]] above the city. Despite resistance from the [[UNSC Home Fleet]], he activated the [[Composer]], [[mind transfer|converting]] New Phoenix's population of seven million into digital form and disintegrating their bodies within ninety seconds.<ref name="escalation 7"/> The attack ended when the [[SPARTAN-II]] known as [[John-117|the Master Chief]] destroyed ''Mantle's Approach'' and the Composer with a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]], sparing the rest of the planet New Phoenix's fate.<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level, ''[[Midnight]]''</ref>

However, many of the harvested minds were sent to the [[Composer's Abyss]] on [[Installation 03]] and later to [[Requiem]] via [[slipspace translocation]], to be implanted into new [[Promethean Knight]]s for the Didact's mechanical army.<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue 9]]''</ref><ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[Memento Mori|E5: ''Memento Mori'']]</ref>

{{Main|Battle of New Phoenix}}

Not long after the attack, the Didact's [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|Covenant followers]] opened [[slipspace portal]]s in an [[New Phoenix ONI facility|ONI base]] located in the city through a [[Unidentified Forerunner machine|Forerunner device]] ONI had been studying there. Covenant and Promethean forces invaded the city through the portals, but an ONI research team, with the help of a [[Unidentified Headhunter|Spartan Headhunter]], managed to use a [[Forerunner]] artifact known as the [[Conduit]] to close the portals and halt the assault.<ref name="HSS">'''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]''', ''[[Operation D: Adamantine Shield]]''</ref>

Due to the nature of the Composer, the city's infrastructure remained intact.<ref>'''Halo 4''' - ''[[Epilogue (Halo 4 level)|Epilogue]]''</ref> New Phoenix was quarantined after the holocaust and remained off-limits. The UNSC hid the details of the incident from the public, concealing it as a Covenant attack,<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''Issue #3''</ref> a story that was likely corroborated by the invasion of the ONI facility.<ref name="HSS"/> Six months later, however, [[John Sullivan]], an [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] public relations officer, released a statement that the attack was not of [[Covenant]] origin.<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', ''[[Departure]]''</ref>  

On [[2558#March|March 24, 2558]], eight months after the attack, the city's quarantine was lifted.<ref name="escalation 7"/> Doctor [[Ruth Charet]], [[President of the Unified Earth Government]], presided over New Phoenix's Rebirth ceremony. Spartan [[Tedra Grant]] accompanied Spartan [[Gabriel Thorne]] as he returned to the city and visited [[Thorne family|his family]]'s home.<ref name="escalation 7"/>

*[[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan]] [[Gabriel Thorne]] had family and friends who were killed in New Phoenix,<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[Didact's Hand|E4: ''Didact's Hand'']]</ref> most notably his maternal grandmother.<ref name="escalation 7"/>

*New Phoenix housed the New Phoenix Philharmonic, an orchestra that Gabriel Thorne's [[Thorne family|grandmother]] played in as a violinist for twenty years.<ref name="escalation 7"/>

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