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 On April 20, [[2525]], contact with the Outer Colony, [[Harvest]], was lost. After failing to re-establish contact with Harvest, the [[Colonial Military Administration]] sent a scout ship, the ''[[Argo]]'', to investigate. Contact with the Argo was subsequently lost after the ship arrived in the Harvest system, plunging humanity into a deadly war with an alien race known as the "[[Covenant]]". Harvest was glassed from orbit, and marked the beginning of the war with the Covenant. The war was termed the [[Human-Covenant War]], and was the most destructive conflict in the galaxy's history since the [[Forerunner-Flood War]] 100,000 year prior. Since the war's beginning, hundreds of human colonies have been destroyed and billions of civilian and military personnel have been killed by the Covenant.
-At its peak, the UNSC encompassed a number of star systems, with hundreds of planets, moons and planetoids settled by colonists, some terraformed to greater degrees than others depending on the local conditions and presence of indigenous life. The Inner Colonies encompassed a region of space in at least a 10.5 light-year three-dimensional radius from Earth. Beyond that were the Outer Colonies. In 2456, Harvest was the furthest Outer Colony at 11.83 light-years from the other colonies. Other colonies were established even further - [[Onyx]] in the [[Zeta Doradus]] system, at 38 light-years<ref>''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''</ref>; [[Coral]], at 42 light-years<ref>''[[I Love Bees]]''</ref>; and [[23 Librae]], which lay 83.7 light-years from Earth.<ref>''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''</ref>, [[Sigma Octanus]] at 270 light-years,<ref name="Reach">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''</ref> and [[Beta Centauri]], at 525 light-years from Earth, the furthest ''known'' human-occupied star system.<ref name="Reach"/> It is unknown how many colonies remain at the end of the war in 2553, although remarks made by [[Lord Hood]] suggested that UNSC territory has been reduced to Sol, and a mere handful of Inner Colonies.
+At its peak, the UNSC encompassed a number of star systems, with hundreds of planets, moons and planetoids settled by colonists, some terraformed to greater degrees than others depending on the local conditions and presence of indigenous life. The Inner Colonies encompassed a region of space in at least a 10.5 light-year three-dimensional radius from Earth. Beyond that were the Outer Colonies. Other colonies were established even further - [[Onyx]] in the [[Zeta Doradus]] system, at 38 light-years<ref>''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''</ref>; [[Coral]], at 42 light-years<ref>''[[I Love Bees]]''</ref>; and [[Madrigal]], which lay in the [[23 Librae]] system, 83.7 light-years from Earth.<ref>''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''</ref> In 2456, Harvest was the furthest Outer Colony, at a week of Slipspace travel away from Madrigal and two months from Reach.<ref>''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''</ref> [[Beta Centauri]], at 525 light-years from Earth, is the furthest ''known'' human-occupied star system.<ref name="Reach">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''</ref> It is unknown how many colonies remain at the end of the war in 2553, although remarks made by [[Lord Hood]] suggested that UNSC territory has been reduced to Sol, and a mere handful of Inner Colonies.
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 *[[Onyx|Onyx Shield World]]
 *[[Shield World (Halo Wars)|Unknown Shield World]]
+*[[Unidentified Forerunner Planet]]
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