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[[File:HTFoR AS Highlands.jpg|thumb|300px|The Highland Mountains covered in snow.]] | [[File:HTFoR AS Highlands.jpg|thumb|300px|The Highland Mountains covered in snow.]] | ||
The '''Highland Mountains''' are a large range of alpine mountains located within the [[Viery Territory]] of the [[human colony]], and [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] fortress world [[Reach]].{{Ref/Site|Id=defiantend|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/featured/video/defiant-to-the-end/f2595044-7e26-4928-a24b-8e1a2db3ce45|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Defiant to the End|Detail=(Defunct, copy on [https://web.archive.org/web/20110321202843/http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/featured/video/defiant-to-the-end/f2595044-7e26-4928-a24b-8e1a2db3ce45 Wayback Machine])}} Located on Reach's northernmost continent<ref>''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', p. 216</ref> [[Eposz]],{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Shadows of Reach|Chapter=19}} the mountain range stretches many hundreds of kilometers, comprising thousands or tens of thousands of individual peaks. The Highland Mountains are mostly granite.<ref>''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', p. 229</ref> Due to the area's remoteness, it was home to many UNSC [[military base|facilities]] before the planet's glassing in 2552. | The '''Highland Mountains''', or informally the 'Highlands' are a large range of alpine mountains located within the [[Viery Territory]] of the [[human colony]], and [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] fortress world [[Reach]].{{Ref/Site|Id=defiantend|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/featured/video/defiant-to-the-end/f2595044-7e26-4928-a24b-8e1a2db3ce45|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Defiant to the End|Detail=(Defunct, copy on [https://web.archive.org/web/20110321202843/http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/featured/video/defiant-to-the-end/f2595044-7e26-4928-a24b-8e1a2db3ce45 Wayback Machine])}} Located on Reach's northernmost continent<ref>''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', p. 216</ref> [[Eposz]],{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Shadows of Reach|Chapter=19}} the mountain range stretches many hundreds of kilometers, comprising thousands or tens of thousands of individual peaks. The Highland Mountains are mostly granite.<ref>''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', p. 229</ref> Due to the area's remoteness, it was home to many UNSC [[military base|facilities]] before the planet's glassing in 2552. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Human-Covenant war=== | ===Human-Covenant war=== | ||
{{Main|Human-Covenant war}} | {{Main|Human-Covenant war}} | ||
After the [[Fall of Reach]] on [[2552#August|August 30, 2552]], | After the [[Fall of Reach]] on [[2552#August|August 30, 2552]], The Highlands were one of the few areas on Reach to escape the [[Covenant]] plasma bombardment [[glassing|plasma bombardment]]{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Shadows of Reach|Chapter=18}}, though glassing did occur in the area on a small scale.{{Ref/Map|Halo: Reach|[[Highlands]]}} The Covenant concentrated their forces in the region and set up an extensive excavation operation around Menachite Mountain in order to uncover a massive [[Menachite portal complex|subterranean Forerunner structure]].<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', p. 184 (2003 edition)</ref> | ||
A [[flag]] was recovered from the mountains and put on display at [[Outpost Discovery]].<ref>''[[Halo: Outpost Discovery]]'' - [[Hall of History]] - Capture the Flag exhibit</ref> | A [[flag]] was recovered from the mountains and put on display at [[Outpost Discovery]].<ref>''[[Halo: Outpost Discovery]]'' - [[Hall of History]] - Capture the Flag exhibit</ref> | ||
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===Post-Covenant war=== | ===Post-Covenant war=== | ||
{{Main|Operation: WOLFE}} | {{Main|Operation: WOLFE}} | ||
The Highland Mountains experienced widespread ecological disaster in the wake of much of the planet's glassing. Firestorms from the surrounding plains spread up into the Highlands, burning entire forests and melting through rock. Months of black rain had followed, washing the mountainsides bare, and causing landslides the size of cities to wash down into the lower valleys.{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Shadows of Reach|Chapter=1}} | |||
By 2559, areas that had once been snow-covered slopes had been replaced by banks of seared dirt and charred stone. Entire meadows still lay blanketed in cinders and ash. Forested areas had been replaced by bare stony wastelands, and valleys were filled in by kilometers-deep bogs of mud and ash. Small areas on the lower slopes however, showed signs of recovery, with foliage beginning to regenerate between the massive scars left by landslides.{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Shadows of Reach|Chapter=18}} | |||
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