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Post by ShockHelix on Mar 2, 2013 11:37:31 GMT -5
Important Events, Pre/During Human-Covenant War: - 100,000 B.C.E. - The Forerunners fired the Halo Rings, killing all sentient life within three radii of the galactic center. Homo Sapiens began their migration out of the continent of Africa on Earth.
- 852 B.C.E. - The War between the San'Shyuum and the Sangheili comes to an end, with their new alliance being dubbed 'The Covenant.'
- 784 B.C.E - During one of the first Ages of Conversion Covenant forces discover the planet Te and with it the Lekgolo. They discover that many of the Lekgolo worm colonies have literally devoured Forerunner artifacts and installations.The Lekgolo initially prove difficult to defeat however the Covenant are able to ally with and tame the useful Lekgolo.
- 1112 - The Yanme'e are incorporated into The Covenant as a slave race.
- 1342 - The Covenant discover 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 roles of explorers and traders (and often thieves and smugglers.)
- 2080 - Humans settle on Luna, Mars, the Jovian Moons, and asteroids.
- 2142 - In early 2142 the Covenant discover the Unggoy homeworld, Balaho. The Unggoy surrender almost immediately in the imposing presence of the Sangheili and are incorporated into the Covenant.
- 2163 - The United Nations Space Command was established to eliminate the various Rebel organizations in the Sol System.
- 2170 - A Unified Earth Government is formed in the wake of the conflicts of the 2160s. Now, the victors were forced to deal with a less obvious but equally serious threat: overpopulation and a massive military that had no enemy to fight. In the post-war period there were massive population surges and the overpopulation, coupled with the destruction and famine bred by the Rain Forest Wars, threatened to destabilize the economy.
- 2291 - A group of researchers headed by Tobias Shaw and Wallace Fujikawa 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")
- 2310 - The 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. only the best-qualified citizens and soldiers are allowed to colonize "nearby" worlds. This is the birth of the Inner Colonies, the elite of colonies.
- 2313 - The construction of the Quito Space Tether is completed. The first Space Elevator is born.
- 2321 - The ORION Project is first initiated. Poor results determine the Office of Naval Intelligence to temporarily put the project on hold.
- 2390 - 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.
- 2462 - The Unggoy Rebellion occurs. After much conflict in the Covenant, an Arbiter is sent in to end the rebellion.
- 2468 - The planet of Harvest is established as the 17th Human colony, the UNSC Skinblandir transporting the first colonists.
- 2490 - Human space encompasses more than 800 worlds throughout the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy (ranging from fairly well-tamed planetary strongholds to tiny hinterland settlements). Outward expansion continued, and the Inner Colonies become a political and economic stronghold, though they rely heavily on raw materials supplied by the Outer Colonies. During this period, the planet Reach (orbiting Epsilon Eridani, right on Earth's metaphorical doorstep) becomes the UNSC's primary Naval yard and training academy. Reach is a major producer of warships and colony vessels, as well as a training ground for covert operatives and Special Forces.
- 2491 - The Orion Project is initiated, the Spartan-I Program operating under its auspices, and the planet of Onyx is discovered and recommended for colonization.
- 2492 - The Covenant stumbles upon Doisac, the Jiralhanae homeworld. The Jiralhanae were just beginning to recover after warring themselves back into a pre-industrial state, and were quickly forced into submission by the Covenant's superior forces, making them the final species absorbed into the alliance.
- 2494 - March 2nd: Three UNSC Destroyers confront the insurgent-controlled UNSC Callisto in the 26 Draconis System at the culmination of the Callisto Incident. It is effectively the beginning of the Insurrection.
- 2496 - The Eridanus Insurrection is defeated by UNSC forces at the cost of four destroyers. Still, this is considered a monumental victory for the rebels, as most of their forces were still active.
- 2506 - Project ORION, the original SPARTAN project - the first attempt by the Colonial Military Administration to create and train teams of super-soldiers for covert military operations in the Outer Colonies - is deactivated. Though the Spartans are effective, their abilities fall short of original expectations, and they are far too expensive to develop.
- 2511 - A report is made on Forerunner artifacts found during routine excavations in an area designated Zone 67 on Onyx. First known Human findings of something from an Alien culture.
- 2517 - The SPARTAN-II Project is initiated, led by Dr. Catherine Halsey. Seventy-five children are conscripted into the SPARTAN II program, and are led in training by Chief Petty Officer Franklin Medndez.
- 2524 - Horn of Plenty's navigation box is retrieved by Covenant forces and its contents are analyzed by the Huragok Lighter Than Some. Lighter Than Some finds the vessel's point of origin. The Covenant ship, Minor Transgression, heads off to obtain more spoils.
- 2525 - The Covenant ship Minor Transgression attacks another human ship (the Bulk Discount), said human ship having the Walk of Shame in support and hosting not only Staff Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson and Byrne but also an arsenal of weapons. The aliens are repelled (though Johnson receives a fractured skull) and the ship destroyed, though Dadab and Lighter Than Some are able to escape in a escape pod after making a report on the relics they've found. On February 23rd Harvest is evacuated, with over 20,000 civilian deaths and marking the start of the Human-Covenant War. Afterwards, The Covenant show they have been studying humans for quite some time, and UNSC ships are placed on full alert for Covenant Vessels.
- 2531 - The SPARTAN-III Program is initiated. The UNSC Spirit of Fire makes first known contact with the Flood.
- 2535 - Most Outer Colonies have been destroyed. The Cole Protocol is established by military order.
- 2536 - Covenant Forces begin invading the Inner Colonies.
- 2547 - ONI Section Two goes public with the SPARTAN-II Program. The SPARTAN-III Program, however, remains confidential.
- 2552 - The Planet of Reach falls, a group of SPARTANs and Dr. Catherine Halsey is trapped on the Shield World of Onyx, and John-117, Staff Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson, and Captain Jacob Keyes do battle with the Covenant on the Halo ring Installation 04. John-117 and Johnson destroy the ring, and return to Earth. Covenant forces begin their assault on Earth, and the Great Schism begins with the discovery of the truth about the Halo Rings. Miranda Keyes, Johnson, John-117, and Thel'Vadam follow The Prophet of Truth to The Ark, killing Truth and bringing an end to the Human-Covenant War. Mirandaa dn Johnson lost their lives in the conflict, and though John-117, Cortana, and Thel'Vadam escaped, the aft section of the Forward Unto Dawn broke off, leaving Cortana and John-117 drifting toward an unknown planet.
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ShockHelix
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Post by ShockHelix on Mar 2, 2013 11:44:17 GMT -5
Important Events, Post Human-Covenant War: - 2553 - Thel'Vadam returns to Earth. A monument is erected in the Kenyan Savannah to mark the end of the Human-Covenant War, and in remembrance of those who gave their lives in the war effort. John-117 is listed as M.I.A. Thel'Vadam and the remaining Separatist forces depart for Sanghelios, in fear that it may have been attacked after the Great Schism.
- 2553 - Recognizing the potential threat of war at any moment, ONI initiates the SPARTAN-IV program. Surviving SPARTANs are invited to join the program. MJOLNIR GEN2 begins its development to equip the new SPARTANs.
- March, 2553 - ONI, using a civilian named Evan Phillips, secretly incites civil war on Sanghelios. ONI's goal is to destabilize the Sangheili society. The UNSC Infinity assists Thel'Vadam in defeating the rebel forces and drives them into hiding.
- 2557 - The UNSC Infinity departs for exploration and colonization. It arrives at the planet Requiem.
- 2557 - The Didact escapes from Requiem, and after acquiring The Composer, begins to use the device on planet Earth. Through the efforts of John-117 and the sacrifice of the A.I. Cortana, the Didact is stopped and Earth is saved, though the city of New Phoenix is destroyed in the battle.
- February, 2558 - The UNSC Infinity returns to Requiem to combat the Storm and remaining Prometheans. Dr. Catherine Halsey, now branded as a War Criminal, is also taken aboard the Infinity for her unparalleled knowledge of Forerunner technology. In order to hinder the Storm Covenant, Halsey causes events to have herself captured, her machinations allowing her to prevent the Storm from acquiring a key from the Librarian meant only for the Reclaimers. Misinformed, the Spartans are tasked with eliminating Halsey, and she loses her left arm during the attack, before being whisked away by the Storm Covenant, and then vowing revenge against ONI for ordering her demise. Unbeknownst to Halsey, the Storm Covenant traps the UNSC Infinity in Requiem's Gravitational field, as the Installation is set on a crash course orbit with the local star. Through the efforts of Team Majestic, led by Commander Sarah Palmer, and Team Crimson, the Infinity's most trusted squad, the UNSC Infinity breaks free from the gravitational field and escapes in the moments before Requiem is torn asunder by the star.
- 2570 - With the disappointment of Spartan effectiveness in the encounters with the Prometheans, and expecting inevitable war, ONI improves the SPARTAN Program once more, designating the new program as the SPARTAN V Program. Recruits are taken from children and trained in the old fashion of the SPARTAN II program. To keep from encountering another scandal, only volunteers are accepted.
- 2575 - Through the study of Forerunner technology, and the humans own advancements, AI's become far more common. Using a technique of imprinting with the use of human brains through organ harvesting, both their effectiveness and lifespan is greatly improved. As the intake of information between AI's vary, the UNSC recommends a discontinued use of AI's after twenty years, though most SPARTANs prefer to keep them throughout the extent of their service.
- 2577 - ONI, utilizing the reclaimed research of the war criminal Catherine Halsey, begin manufacturing of a far more superior generation of MJOLNIR armour, GEN3. The armour keeps the modularity of GEN2, while vastly increasing the effectiveness, durability and range of functions.
- 2579 - The previously glassed human stronghold of Reach has been completely terraformed, as have numerous other once-destroyed worlds, and humans have once again begun to repopulate the stars. With technology received from their Sangheili allies, and the disarray of covenant forces, the human race is building itself back up into a prominent force.
- 2585 - The Smaller UNSC colonies, in a repetition of history rebel against the UNSC, forming a new Insurrectionist movement.
- 2590 - The Sangheili captures an aged Evan Philips, learning of ONI's treachery in fueling their civil war. Public outrage is massive, on both sides of the alliance. Rebellious Sangheili factions are fueled with anti-UNSC hate causing them to splinter away from the newly named Sanghelios Concordat who, following the UNSC's decommission of the disgraced ONI, decided to stick with their 'innocent' Human allies.
- 2590 - ONI having been decommissioned by HIGHCOM has become a rogue asset, gathering the Human Insurrectionist forces under their banner of a pro-Human, anti-Sangheili agenda. Using their 'liberated' assets and a long list of insurrectionist backers ONI has managed to recreate many projects they aided in creating during their time with the UNSC. Most notably, this has brought Insurrectionist 'SPARTANs' onto the field.
- 2599 - The Covenant, while expanding in their exile, discover Installation 07. The Halo Ring is completely overrun with flood life forms. With such a large infestation, they cannot land without risk of flood expansion. Arrogant as ever, the Prophets send a message throughout the stars, threatening to burn the heretics in cleansing flame.
- 2607 - The Museum of Humanity is erected, depicting the most important sections of human history from prehistoric times til the Battle of Earth.
- 2608 - The remaining Prometheans of Requiem, lost without their charge to defend or to guide them, set out in search of the next protocol on their list: locate the next Forerunner or Construct higher than themselves to receive further orders. Having a map of the Halo arrays allowed them to "re-discover" installation 02, one currently unknown to today's galactic forces. The Prometheans found what they were looking for - a Monitor. This Monitor, driven rampant by the length of time and loneliness of his stay on the Installation, had already succumbed to the fear brought by having his "weapon", his Installation, disarmed. The Prometheans brought evidence with them, recordings of their war with the UNSC and their skirmishes with Covenant and Sangheili forces. This Monitor, seeing the clear disregard for Forerunner constructs represented by these "Reclaimers" and the lesser interlopers finally broke his protocols. He established himself as a new Didact. A ruler of his new found Promethean army with their data store of possibly millions of Promethean A.I., backed by his already substantial Sentinel construction facilities, in a crusade against all "sufficiently evolved" life in the galaxy. For fear of his own existence and that they would release the Parasite...
- 2611 - Preparing for war, Brutes begin training new soldiers called Demon Hunters, in an effort to match and destroy the UNSC's SPARTANs. Their increased training is coupled with advances in powered armour capable of combating the advanced SPARTAN technology.
- 2615 - With the increase in SPARTAN effectiveness, and the emergence of the Brutes elite warriors, the Demon Hunters, Sangheili create a specialized group of soldiers of their own. Taking ideals from the Arbiters, a new group called the Ordinators. Sangheili scientists, finally free of the limitations of the Prophets, have also been working on more advanced technology, culminating in the highly advanced Ordinator's Armour and its ability to 'teleport' short distances by utilizing miniature slip-space technology.
- 2635 - Promethean forces, using vessels manufactured on Installation 02, begin simultaneous assaults on fringe colonies of the UNSC, Covenant and the Sanghelios Concordat. Their purpose is clear, genocide of all 'sufficiently evolved' races. Their master and origin is unknown to the other factions, for the Monitor fears his Installation would be lost and their manufacturing facilities destroyed. Various Promethean outposts have been established on those worlds that used to house Forerunners, excavating and bringing the ancient installations back on line appears to be another of their goals.
- 2648 - A peace talk of several of the rare Prophets, high-ranking UNSC officials and Sangheili Shipmasters takes place in a custom-built space station over the ruins of the planet Joyous Exultation, a planet which fell during the Great Schism when it was destroyed by a NOVA Bomb. The peace talks progress sourly with the Prophets looking set to abandon them at any moment, when everything goes from bad to worse. As if in a repeat of past events an explosion rips the combined fleets apart, destroying what was left of the planet they were orbiting. The explosion seemed to be centered on the space station itself, the culprits unknown. This was the case until ONI, now leading Insurrectionist forces, reveals to the Covenant that the bomb was of UNSC origin. This revelation, although far from the truth, causes all progress with peace to evaporate as the Covenant begin another full-scale war against the combined UNSC and Sanghelios Concordat forces. The Insurrectionist bombing of the space station instigated a war on the scale unseen since the Human-Covenant war of over a hundred years prior, one which pits each of the Milky Way's major factions and alliances against each other.
- 2650 - War looms over the Milky Way. The bombing of the peace talks over the Joyous Exultation has sparked a war between the Covenant and the UNSC/Sanghelios Concordat alliances that threatens to eclipse their true foe, the returned Promethean forces continue to attack fringe colonies as if testing for weaknesses in the defenses of the major factions. To top it all off, Insurrectionist forces of both Covenant and Human in origin are slowly undermining the hold that the major factions have on their outer colonies. The galaxy is on the brink of collapse. This, is where it all begins.
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