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By this time, the UNSC overrode the UEG, and thus the central civilian authority throughout the human worlds and Earth itself. Although the central government was more willing to step down, the [[Colonial Administration]] was far more reluctant to this idea, and thus the UNSC stripped it of most of its power. By the middle to late stages of the war, the government of humanity could be more accurately described as an "emergency military" government. | By this time, the UNSC overrode the UEG, and thus the central civilian authority throughout the human worlds and Earth itself. Although the central government was more willing to step down, the [[Colonial Administration]] was far more reluctant to this idea, and thus the UNSC stripped it of most of its power. By the middle to late stages of the war, the government of humanity could be more accurately described as an "emergency military" government. | ||
By [[2552]], the UNSC, outnumbered and out-gunned, had managed to slow down the Covenant's inexorable progress through former human space, but the situation was dire. In desperation, [[HIGHCOM]] ordered a high-risk op, sending the SPARTAN-II super soldiers, the best soldiers ever fielded by humanity, to insert into Covenant space, capture a high-ranking [[Prophet]], and return to UNSC space in an attempt to ransom for a truce. Before this particular operation began, the Covenant found and destroyed the human stronghold planet [[Reach]], killing most of the Spartans and a large portion of the UNSCDF, inadvertently stopping the SPARTAN- | By [[2552]], the UNSC, outnumbered and out-gunned, had managed to slow down the Covenant's inexorable progress through former human space, but the situation was dire. In desperation, [[HIGHCOM]] ordered a high-risk op, sending the SPARTAN-II super soldiers, the best soldiers ever fielded by humanity, to insert into Covenant space, capture a high-ranking [[Prophet]], and return to UNSC space in an attempt to ransom for a truce. Before this particular operation began, the Covenant found and destroyed the human stronghold planet [[Reach]], killing most of the Spartans and a large portion of the UNSCDF, inadvertently stopping the SPARTAN-II operation and rendering a vast amount of the super soldiers [[MIA]]. | ||
A single ship, the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} managed to escape the planet, with two SPARTANs on board, [[Linda-058]], who was presumably killed in the [[Fall of Reach]] and [[John-117]]. The ship followed coordinates derived by the A.I. [[Cortana (AI)|Cortana]] to a ringworld known as [[Halo Array|Halo]]. There John-117 destroyed a large Covenant fleet and the ringworld itself. He also encountered a parasitic lifeform known as the [[Flood]], the species that the ring, [[Halo Array|Halo]], had been built to starve. The major side-effect of the activation of the ring would lead to the extinction of all life within three radii of the galactic center. John-117 destroyed the ring, believing it to be too powerful, by detonation of the reactor of the Pillar of Autumn. After hijacking a Covenant Flagship known as the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'', the SPARTAN reunited with the remaining survivors from Installation 04 and the destruction of Reach and attacked a force of Covenant ships in [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]], one of the most successful UNSC operations against the Covenant in the entire war. | A single ship, the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} managed to escape the planet, with two SPARTANs on board, [[Linda-058]], who was presumably killed in the [[Fall of Reach]] and [[John-117]]. The ship followed coordinates derived by the A.I. [[Cortana (AI)|Cortana]] to a ringworld known as [[Halo Array|Halo]]. There John-117 destroyed a large Covenant fleet and the ringworld itself. He also encountered a parasitic lifeform known as the [[Flood]], the species that the ring, [[Halo Array|Halo]], had been built to starve. The major side-effect of the activation of the ring would lead to the extinction of all life within three radii of the galactic center. John-117 destroyed the ring, believing it to be too powerful, by detonation of the reactor of the Pillar of Autumn. After hijacking a Covenant Flagship known as the ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'', the SPARTAN reunited with the remaining survivors from Installation 04 and the destruction of Reach and attacked a force of Covenant ships in [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]], one of the most successful UNSC operations against the Covenant in the entire war. | ||