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Is this the new Reach timeline?
JULY
July 2552: A Covenant supercarrier evades UNSC detection and lands on the human colony and military superpower Reach.
July 24, 2552: Noble Team is ordered by Colonel Urban Holland to investigate suspected Insurrectionist activity at the downed Visegrad Relay. Once on the scene, the team learns that a advanced Covenant strike team had disabled the relay. Winter Contingency is declared.
July 26, 2552: A Covenant corvette attacks ONI SWORD Base. Noble Team is sent to reclaim the facility and give Dr. Halsey key information recovered from the corpse of Dr. Lazlo Sorvad.
AUGUST
August 12th, 2552: The UNSC Army and Noble Team head a strike against Covenant spires. The spires are revealed to be cloaking relays and when one tower is disabled, the previously cloaked Covenant supercarrier is revealed and destroys the UNSC Grafton.
August 14th, 2552: Noble Team retakes the classified Sabre Launch Facility. Noble Six and Jorge-052 along with other Sabre pilots launch into orbit. Using the donated Slipspace drive of the UNSC Savannah, Noble Six and Jorge with a squad of Army soldiers board and plant the drive on a Covenant corvette. Jorge-052 is killed in the resulting Slipspace drive detonation due to him having to manually set it.
Covenant troops attack SWORD Base again, Dr. Catherine Halsey escapes capture by hiding in a secret dig site near Forerunner ruins.
August 23, 2552: New Alexandria is attacked and glassed by Covenant forces. Noble Six and the UNSC Army assist in civilian evacuation operations.
Once regrouped with the rest of Noble Team, Noble Six helps disable Covenant jammers and continue evacuation efforts. Kat-B320 is killed by sniper fire.
August 30, 2552: The Remote Scanning Outpost Fermion detects multiple Slipspace ruptures by a fleet of 314 Covenant vessels.
Admiral Roland Freemont (FLEETCOM Sector One Commander) issues an order to all vessels in the Reach, Jericho, and Tantalus systems to Rally Point ZULU.
Covenant vessels disrupt human efforts to regroup in space with Slipspace jumps, a Covenant Carrier also targets the UNSC Pillar of Autumn but is destroyed.
The Covenant vessels begin a new frontal assault. Covenant and Human fleets engage above Reach, it begins as a stalemate as Covenant ships destroy several human vessels while orbital MAC platforms and human vessels destroy an equal number of Covenant cruisers. A new Covenant supercarrier like the one destroyed by Noble Team enters the system and lays waste to human ships.
Dockmaster AI Doppler fails to implement the Cole Protocol on the UNSC Circumference, an ONI prowler docked at Reach Station Gamma, due to security measures in regards Operation: HYPODERMIC. Doppler sends an SOS due to this issue. The COvenant detect this call for help and send a striek team to seize human NAV data.
The SPARTAN-II soldiers are dispatched from the Pillar of Autumn. Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, Linda-058, and James form Blue Team and rush to the Circumference to destroy it, while the remaining Spartans form Red Team and land on reach to destory teh generators powerign the orbital MAC cannons. James is declared MIA when his thruster pack is compromised by a Needler round and jettisons him into space.
Blue Team rescue Sgt. Johnson, Pvt. O'Brien, Pvt. Bisenti and Pvt. Jenkins.
The Covenant fleets pulls back, but the regroups and decimate the UNSC ships and MAC platforms. The Pillar of Autumn eventually destroys the suppercarrier. Moral falls among UNSC.
Red Team is shot down en-route to the generators, four die and six are critically injured.
John-117 and clinically dead Linda-058 make it back to teh Pillar of Autumn, with Sergeant Johnson, Private O'Brien, Private Bisenti, and Private Jenkins. John-117 enters cryo-sleep.
The Pillar of Autumn begins to retreat, but descends back to Reach at the Aszod ship breaking yard to retrieve a fragment of the AI Cortana.
Red Team sets up defenses around ODG Facility A-331, but the facility is destroyed by Covenant glassing. The MAC cannons go offline and are destroyed by the Covenant.
Fred-104, Joshua-029, and Kelly-087 plant a nuclear warhead through the gravity lift in a landing Covenant cruiser, leaving Joshua-029 MIA, (presumed KIA) in the process.
The remaining members of Noble Team return to SWORD Base and rescue Dr. Halsey. Dr. Halsey is escorted to CASTLE Base by Jun-A266.
Noble Six and Emile-A239 head to the Aszod ship breaking yards to deliver a fragment of Cortana holding important navigation data needed on the Pillar of Autumn. Captain Keyes intercepts the Cortana fragment. Emile-A239 is killed by Elite Zealots while manning a MAC cannon defending the Pillar of Autumn. Noble Six regains control of the cannon and allows the Pillar of Autumn to flee. Noble Six is later killed by Covenant forces in a valiant last stand.
SEPTEMBER
September 7th, 2552
The surviving members of Red Team, Dr. Halsey, and possibly Jun, wander for days in the titanium mines of CASTLE Base.
September 11th-12th? (apparent Slipspace anomaly present), 2552
The Installation 04, Alpha Halo, survivors return to Reach and rescue the Spartans and Dr. Halsey.
About as much sense as I can make it.