Circinius IV: Difference between revisions

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'''Circinius IV'''<ref group="note">Official material from [[343 Industries]] consistently renders the planet's name as "Circinius-IV". The same naming scheme is used for [[Draetheus V]] from ''[[Halo: Spartan Assault]]''. However, ''Halopedia'' omits the hyphen for the sake of convenience and for consistency with other planetary designations (''e.g.'' [[Jericho VII]] and [[Draco III]]).</ref> was a [[Unified Earth Government]] colony world in the [[Circinius system]]. The planet was orbited by at least three [[natural satellite]]s. It was the location of the [[Corbulo Academy of Military Science]], an [[Officer Candidate School|officer training school]] for the offspring of high-ranking UNSC officials.<ref name="part1">'''[[Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn]]''', ''Part 1''</ref> The [[space elevator]] located at Corbulo Academy was considered one of the planet's most spectacular sites.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0XgIEQ8NR8 '''YouTube''': ''Halo Channel Premiere'']</ref>

===Covenant attack===

{{Main|Fall of Circinius IV}}

After the [[First Battle of Harvest|first engagements]] on [[Harvest]], [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI Section II]] kept the [[Covenant]] invasion secret from the general population. However, Corbulo Academy's superintendent, [[Black|General Black]], was informed. As preparation for a possible attack, Black discreetly increased the readiness of the [[UNSC Marine Corps|UNSC Marine]] garrison posted in the academy and authorized limited communications blackouts under the guise of routine maintenance procedures.<ref name="part1"/>

The colony and the academy were [[Fall of Circinius IV|attacked]] by the [[Covenant]] during the earliest days of the [[Human-Covenant War]] on [[2526|April 26, 2526]].<ref>[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2482554_Today-in-Halo.aspx#post2482554 '''Halo Waypoint Forums''' - ''Today in Halo'']</ref> Orbiting UNSC vessels soon deployed [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]] directly onto Corbulo Academy's campus. The planet's [[space elevator]] was also destroyed, killing many of the escaping cadets as it fell.<ref>'''Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn''', ''Episode 3''</ref> During the battle, the Covenant killed almost the entire population of the planet. Only [[Hastati Squad|four cadets]] from Corbulo Academy survived the initial assault,<ref>'''Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn''', ''Episode 4''</ref> although one of them, [[Chyler Silva]], died during the battle. Later, the planet was [[Glassing|glassed]] by the Covenant.<ref>'''Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn''', ''Episode 5''</ref>

==Trivia==

Along with [[Hat Yai]], Circinius IV is not mentioned in the [[Assembly]]'s report on glassed worlds (dated [[2530|January 1, 2530]]) in [[Data pads#Data pad 14|data pad 14]] from ''[[Halo: Reach]]''. From a real-world perspective, the obvious Doylist explanation is that the planet was created after the game's release, there is no clear in-universe reason for this omission.

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