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Expressing my strong liberal views without shame. Favorite quotes below:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"One starts to live when he can live outside himself."
- Albert Einstein
In this thread, with the help of the community, I'm hoping to unify the events of the book and the game. While there are certain aspects of the original novel that have been retconned, I find that most of the novel's canon is left in tact.
Note italicized portions are speculation. Also, feel free to add to this timeline and make corrections.
Timeline for the Battle of Reach
July 24, 07:28 Hours: NOBLE Team is sent to investigate a disruption in communications with Visegrad relay on Reach after trooper fire teams sent earlier are declared MIA. The Covenant are discovered, a data module of Professor Sorvad is found, and Winter Contingency is declared.
July 26, 11:52 Hours: Covenant Corvette attacks SWORD Base on the northern part of the planet. NOBLE is deployed to activate anti-air defenses, reestablish communications, and take back the Base so that an orbital strike takes out the Corvette.
NOBLE meets Halsey, and the data module is given to her.
On August 11, 26:30 Hours, Noble 3 and Noble 6 go behind enemy lines and plant charges on a pylon blocking UNSC instruments.
August 12, 08:00 Hours: UNSC Army launches an attack on the Viery territory. NOBLE takes down an EMP emitting tower, only to find out it was cloaking the supercarrier Long Night of Solace.
August 12, 20:07 Hours: NOBLE starts developing a plan to take out Covenant supercarrier.
August 14, 12:48 Hours: NOBLE assaults Sabre Launch facility, and takes slipspace bomb to Covenant Corvette Ardent Prayer, setting it on a refueling track with the supercarrier, thereby destroying it. Jorge 052 is KIA. Second invasion force arrives in the Epsilon Eridani system.
Sword Base taken by Covenant forces, Halsey presumed dead.
August 23, Spartan teams Gauntlet, Red, and Echo are assigned to civilian evacuation ops. Red consists of Spartan IIs, and Echo/Gauntlet teams may consist of either IIs or IIIs.
August 23, 15:34 Hours: Covenant starts glassing parts of Reach, and a battle breaks out in New Alexandria, where Noble 6 aids in the evacuation of civilian transports
August 23, 18:57 Hours: N6 regroups with the rest of NOBLE. Three jammers are taken out in New Alexandria while the city is being glassed to allow for evacuation from ONI HQ. Noble 2 is killed in action by sniper fire, and NOBLE is ordered to a "torch and burn op" on Sword Base.
August 26:Remnants of NOBLE are picked up in New Alexandria by a Pelican.
August 27: All surviving Spartan IIs, except for Gray Team, are assembled on a military complex on Reach for a briefing by Dr. Halsey on Operation Red Flag (Red Team taken out of action from their operation four days prior)
August 29, 26:16 Hours: NOBLE redeployed to Sword Base
August 29: AI/MJOLNIR test with John 117, Halsey supervising.
Halsey, between the 29 and 30, but before Noble's arrival to the underground facility, moves from testing range to ONI SWORD Base
August 30: NOBLE retrieves vital data from Halsey
August 30, 04:47 Hours: The Remote Scanning Outpost Fermion detects more incoming Covenant vessels. An emergency message is relayed to FLEETCOM. The outpost then self-destructs per the Cole Protocol due to an unsecured science library and nearby Covenant forces.
August 30, 05:00 Hours: 314 Covenant vessels appear on the edge of the Epsilon Eridani system, the last, and largest invasion force.
August 30, 06:16 Hours: Spartan II Blue Team deployed to Gamma Station to destroy navigational data which failed to self-eradicate by the station AI.
August 30, 06:31 Hours: Red Team Pelican shot down
August 30, 06:37 Hours: John, clinically dead Linda board Pillar of Autumn after completing mission.
Pillar of Autumn lands on Aszod between 06:47 hours and 16:00 hours.
August 30, 07:20 Hours: Remaining SMACs disabled/destroyed
Halsey escorted to CASTLE Base by Jun before 16:52 hours, but on August 30
August 30, 16:52 Hours: Surviving members of Noble Team deliver fragment of Cortana to the Pillar of Autumn, and it takes off and leaves the system. Noble 1 and Noble 4 KIA.
August 30, 20:00 Hours: N6 last remaining Spartan. Dies in a last stand.
Sources
Halo: Reach
Dr. Halsey's Journal
Halo Wiki (corroborated everything from books, used only for dates)
Human Speculation
[Edited on 07.14.2011 7:25 PM PDT]