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{{era|UNSC|HCW}}
{{Status|Canon}}
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|next=[[Insurrection]]
|name=Hydra System Massacres
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|date=After [[2362]] - [[2494]]
|place=[[Hydra system]]
|result=Unknown
|side1=[[United Nations Space Command]]
|side2=Pirates and insurrectionists
|commanders1=[[UNSC High Command]]
|commanders2=Unknown
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{{Quote|Indeed, Lieutenant, ever since we left Earth's gravity well, we’ve been fighting one another for every cubic centimeter of vacuum—from [[Mars]] to the [[Jovian Moons Campaign|Jovian Moons]] to the Hydra System Massacres and on to the hundred brushfire wars in the Outer Colonies.|Doctor Catherine Halsey to Jacob Keyes<ref name="for">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', p. 20-21 (2001); p. 35 (2010)</ref>}}
The '''Hydra System Massacres''' were a series of massacres that occurred periodically throughout the history of the [[Hydra system]],{{Ref/Reuse|for}} a near-lawless system within the domain of the [[Unified Earth Government]]. With [[Piracy|pirates]] and [[insurrectionist]]s being reoccurring threats within the Hydra system, [[United Nations Space Command|military forces]] of the [[United Nations Space Command]] occasionally arrive in the system to mete out justice with the use of [[nuclear weapon]]s.<ref>''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'', p. 300 (2011)</ref>


The '''Hydra System Massacres''' were a conflict that took place in the early years of [[human]] spaceflight.<ref>[[Catherine Halsey]], ''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' pages 20-21: "Indeed, Lieutenant, ever since we left Earth's gravity well, we’ve been fighting one another for every
The massacres occurred after the ''[[Domus Diaspora]]'' began in [[2362]], but likely before the [[Insurrection]] began in earnest in [[2494]].{{Ref/Note|This is based on Halsey's placement of them before the wars in the Outer Colonies in ''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', as well as her statement being dated on [[2517#August|August 17, 2517]].}}
cubic centimeter of vacuum - from [[Mars]] to the [[Jovian Moons Campaign|Jovian Moons]] to the Hydra System Massacres and on to the hundred brushfire wars in the [[Outer Colonies]]."</ref> It is very possible that they had to do with large groups of killings that occurred in the [[Hydra System]]. They most likely happened after the [[UNSC Odyssey|beginning of star colonization]] in [[2362]], but before the division of [[Inner Colonies|Inner]] and [[Outer Colonies]] was established<ref>Based on Halsey's placement of them before the wars in the Outer Colonies in ''Fall of Reach''.</ref> and certainly before 2518, when Halsey referred to them.<ref>Halsey's mention of them in ''Fall of Reach'' is dated August 17, 2517.</ref>


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