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Aug 30 The remaining SPARTANS are divided into two teams: Red and Blue. John and the rest of Blue team (Linda and James), while on an orbital mission to ensure that a NAV database stays out of Covenant hands, end up onboard the Pillar of Autumn when she jumps away from the Reach system to evade Covenant forces. James is lost and Linda is mortally wounded, and the subsequent mission on Halo is left to the Master Chief to complete.
The Covenant take the surface of Reach, and Red team splits, one group to retrieve Admiral Whitcomb, while the rest hole up in ONI\'s Castle Base underground facility with Dr. Halsey. The Spartans receive parts of a MJOLNIR Mark V upgrade and new weapons, while Dr. Halsey learns of Colonel Ackerson\'s mysterious plans, plans that seem to involve \"her\" Spartans.
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Sep 4 Lieutenant Wagner returns to Earth and reports on the evident destruction of Reach to Colonel Ackerson, Admiral Hood, and General Strauss at an ONI facility in Sydney, Australia.
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Sep 7 The Time/Date Record Anomaly of Sep 23, 2552 most likely rejoins the timeline here. Dr. Halsey and members of Red team discover an enigmatic shard in an ancient installation below the ONI facility. Blue team joins with team Gamma to retrieve Admiral Whitcomb, and rejoin the rest of Red team who have been besieged by the Covenant, who apparently revere the artifact that the humans have found. Dr. Halsey destroys ONI\'s underground facility CASTLE BASE on Reach, preventing the Covenant from gaining control of its secrets.
Unknown The remaining Spartans, Admiral Whitcomb, Dr. Halsey, Sgt. Johnson, Lieutenant Haverson, Warrant Officer Polaski, and Corporal Locklear jump to Slipspace on board the Covenant/Human hybrid ship Gettysburg/Ascendant Justice, and discover that the shard seems to have the ability to bend both space and time.
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Sep 12 The Gettysburg/Ascendant Justice arrives for refit and provisioning in Eridanus system and meets with the rebels under Governor Jiles. Dr. Halsey sedates Spartan 087, Kelly, and absconds with her on Governor Jiles ship (the Beatrice), a Chiroptera-class vessel, the smallest UNSC classification that contains an SFTE. Before she goes, she gives the alien artifact to Corporal Locklear, with implicit instructions to destroy it.
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Sep 13 Admiral Whitcomb and Lieutenant Haverson destroy the majority of the surrounding Covenant fleet by detonating the Unyielding Hierophant. John, Linda, Will, and Fred, the last known remaining Spartans, along with Sgt. Johnson, and, of course, Cortana, depart for Earth to warn of the impending Covenant invasion.
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Sep 19 The Pillar Of Autumn arrives at Halo. A company of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (UNSC Naval Special Forces) led by Major Antonio Silva and his second in command, Lieutenant Mellisa McKay land on Halo via \'Human Entry Vehicles\' and establish an operational firebase situated near a mesa a few kilometers away from the Pillar of Autmun\'s crash site. Alpha Base, as it was designated, had been supplied and heavily fortified with what remained of the Pillar of Autmun\'s arsenal.
Believing that the Master Chief was hiding out at Alpha Base, Covenant ground and aerial forces commanded by Zuka \'Zamamee and Noga \'Putumee attack the base in an effort to capture the Chief. The attack fails and the base is held by Major Silva.
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Sep 22 The Master Chief and Cortana, onboard a Longsword in the debris field of the destroyed Halo, find one remaining Pelican containing Sgt. Johnson, Lieutenant Haverson, Warrant Officer Polaski, Corporal Locklear, and a set of cryotubes containing Spartan 058, Linda.
Planning to fly the Truth and Reconciliation to Earth, Major Silva and the ODSTs abandon Alpha Base. The captured Covenant ship, however, had been sabotaged by Lieutenant McKay, leading to Major Silva\'s, the ODSTs and her death.
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Sep 23 The Master Chief, Cortana, Linda, Polaski, Sgt. Johnson, Haverson, and Locklear depart for Reach via Slipspace aboard the Covenant Flagship Ascendant Justice, captured near the Halo debris field. A Time/Date Record Anomaly continues from this point in the narrative, resolved above on Sep 7, 2552.
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October SPARTAN-062 (Maria) tests the Mjolnir MARK VI armor system against a platoon of ODSTs, guided by naval officers at the Songnam Special Warfare Center in Korea. The armor is approved and sent to the Cairo Orbital Defense Platform.
Blue Team responds to Covenant incursions and expeditions on Mount Erebus in the Antarctic and the Yucatan Peninsula. Covenant forces in the Antarctic are eliminated by a HAVOK tactical nuclear missile. These number of Covenant expeditions consisted in geological examinations and excavations of Earth\'s soil and seabeds.
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Oct 20 The Master Chief and Captain Keyes (post-humously) are decorated for their actions on Reach and Halo 04.
Concurrently, the Elite Commander of the Covenant fleet \"Particular Justice\" is punished for Heresy before being transformed into the Arbiter.
The Prophet of Regret and his relatively minor fleet arrive at Earth presumably looking for Forerunner installations, unaware of its status as the Human homeworld. After a brief conflict and some exploration in Africa, Regret retreats to Delta Halo 05 followed by Miranda and the In Amber Clad.
Four other UNSC vessels, the corvette Coral Sea, the two frigates Redoubtable and Paris, and the prowler Dusk are both close enough to the Slipspace rift and have charged Slipspace capacitors, and attempt to follow the In Amber Clad into the eleven nondimensions of Slipspace.
New Mombasa is destroyed in the Slipspace wake of Regret\'s ship.
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Oct 31 While engaged in a drill near Camp Currahee on the planet Onyx, members of SPARTAN III Gamma Company observe apparently newly-activated Sentinels operating within Zone 67.
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Fall UNSC ground forces (possibly UNSC Army) led by Colonel James Ackerson are pinned down against the Covenant Loyalist Army in the Mare Erythraeum basin on Mars. The battle results in a UNSC defeat, and Colonel Ackerson is captured and interrogated by the Brute Commander Lepidus onboard the Covenant cruiser Triumphant Declaration. While being tortured, Ackerson reveals that a certain \"Key of Osanalan\" located in the city of Cleveland, United Republic of North America on Earth, is required to properly fire the Halo arrays. This later sparks the Covenant Loyalist assault on Cleveland, where combined forces of UNSC Marines and ODSTs attempt to resist the onslaught.
From here on are the remaining events from Halo 2 and 3.