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I have been thinking lately about what would become of the UNSC and the New Covenant after the Human-Covenant War. How likely a scenario do you think this is? EDIT: Yes I know, epic canon fail...
2553: The Elites and Humans form a truce to leave each other alone, but if need be, they will combine military forces to protect each other
2553 - 2560: The UNSC is too weak a military force to regain control of the remaining colonies from the Insurrection. The Elites offer to help retake them, but the UNSC eventually decides that all surviving worlds will become self-governed, while trade and peace remains between them
2560: The UNSC no longer exists after the independence granted to the colonies. The UNSC disbands. The UEG (United Earth Governments) rise from the ashes to form a new, less military-focused UN, much like it was when it was originally created in the 1940s. Each colony begins to create its own global government.
2589: The terraforming campaign ends. Twenty previously destroyed worlds are rebuilt, including Reach. Re-colonization begins.
2600: Friction arises from each human world over control for the new colonies. To prevent another Civil War, the UEG and other world governments agree that each planet will be granted independence.
2650: Because of the Elite technology given to them years ago, human technology advances amazingly fast, especially in weaponry and space. Because humans are innovative, and not imitative as the Elites were, human tech even begins to surpass the Elites.
2667: In an attempt to prevent fighting amongst themselves, the UEG and other world governments form an alliance. Much like the UN, but instead of countries contributing, planets contribute. It is named the UHIA, the United Human Interplanetary Alliance.
2675: The Spartan-IV program begins. Each member of the military is biologically augmented to the equivalent of a Spartan-III, but it is cheaper, easier, safer and faster than ever, with a 97.8438% success rate. Every single soldier becomes as strong as a Spartan-III was, and they are also all given the fully shielded MJOLNIR armor that Spartan-IIs once wore. This is a mainstay for hundreds of years.
2680: The New Covenant is formed. The Elites have accepted Grunts as free members in society, as well as the Hunters. The Jackals decline the Elites' offer and remain on their homeworld to be isolated. Instead of how the Old Covenant was governed (Elites and Prophets on top), the New Covenant is aligned equally, where each species has fair representation in government.
2680: The Prophets are extinct. The Brutes have warred amongst themselves, destroying their society and once again devolving them into a state of prehistoric tribalism.
2700: The UHIA has spread to over 1,000 worlds. In a campaign of aggressive expansion, the unbelievably advanced humans colonize the Drone home world and build their factories. They inadvertently drive the indigenous to extinction.
In addition, the UHIA has colonized the Brute home world and enslaved the indigenous. Brutes become the humans' slave laborers.
2707: After a weak rebellion by the Brutes, human citizens call on slave reform. The Brutes become paid workers (though human currency is meaningless to them), and if they don't want to work they are allowed to join the UHIA Military as low ranking cannon fodder.
2715: The New Covenant and UHIA encounter each other for the first time in 100 years. Both have become incredibly huge empires. The New Covenant is the positive outlook on life, with equal representation and fair rule. The UHIA however, has become much more powerful and arrogant than the UNSC ever was. Much like the US and the Soviet Union, the New Covenant and the UHIA, respectively, begin a Cold War.
2761: Because each empire had incredible power (though the UHIA had a slight advantage), they sign the HCMDTA, Human-Covenant Mutual Destruction Trade Agreement. To prevent from blowing each other up, the opposing empires begin trading with one another and sanctioning their weapons slowly.
2800: The UHIA has become an aggressive, arrogant, power hungry force. They secretly begin attacking Elite merchant ships to prevent the New Covenant planets from interacting with each other.
2813: When all trade routes have been monitored by the UHIA, the humans launch a surprise attack on Sangheilios, the Elite home world. The planet is completely glassed by the UHIA. This sparks a war between the New Covenant (Elites, Grunts, Hunters) and the UHIA (Humans, Brutes). Both have advanced to near-Forerunner status as far as technology goes.
2815: In a response to the attack on Sangheilios, the New Covenant attacks Earth. The attack ends in UHIA victory, but not before three Continents are glassed. The massive destruction and fallout leaves Earth inhabitable, and the humans abandon Earth.
2850: The War rages on. Both factions are losing massive amounts of planets and numbers. Niether side could be considered winning because of the mutual annihilation.
2857: An unknown object crashes on the UHIA planet, Colonial Faction Sector Zero-Four-Eight-Two-Nine-Seven. The UHIA recovers the object.
The object is the back half of the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn. The ship ran out of power sometime in the 2600s. However DNA analysis reveals the soldier inside to be Spartan-117. But because the ships power died, Master Chief died in his sleep in 2688. The AI inside, Cortana, has also died. However, one file inside the inactive storage device inside Cortana makes a startling revelation.
Because the UNSC never went public about the Halo event, the information on the Halos is new to the UHIA. But Cortana's rampancy altered the Halo information, and the UHIA interpreted that a weapon lay dormant on Halo that they could unleash on the New Covenant and end the war. A massive campaign begins to find a new Halo Instillation.
2860: The UHIA discovers Halo Instillation 07. To destroy the New Covenant, the UHIA is convinced by the Instillation's monitor that the activation of Halo could "eradicate all enemies". Fooled, the UHIA activates Halo.
2860: Halo is activated by the UHIA. The humans, Elites, and all other life in the galaxy is killed by the rings firing.
2861: The automatic systems in the Halo array send out a signal. Sentinels begin to reseed the galaxy.
[Edited on 02.26.2011 7:48 PM PST]