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|location=[[Arizona]], [[United Republic of North America|URNA]] | |location=[[Arizona]], [[United Republic of North America|URNA]] | ||
|population=7 million (prior to the [[New Phoenix Incident]])<ref name="escalation 7"> | |population=7 million (prior to the [[New Phoenix Incident]])<ref name="escalation 7">''[[Halo: Escalation]]'', [[Halo: Escalation Issue 7|Issue 7]]</ref> | ||
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|governance=[[Unified Earth Government]] | |governance=[[Unified Earth Government]] | ||
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===New Phoenix Incident=== | ===New Phoenix Incident=== | ||
{{Main|New Phoenix Incident}} | {{Main|New Phoenix Incident}} | ||
During his swift attack on Earth on [[2557|July 24, 2557]], the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] was able to position his flagship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'', in [[geosynchronous orbit]] above the city. Despite resistance from the [[UNSC Home Fleet]], he activated the [[Composer]], [[mind transfer|converting]] New Phoenix's population of seven million into digital form and disintegrating their bodies within ninety seconds.<ref name="escalation 7"/> The attack ended when the [[SPARTAN-II]] known as [[John-117|the Master Chief]] destroyed ''Mantle's Approach'' and the Composer with a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]], sparing the rest of the planet New Phoenix's fate.<ref> | During his swift attack on Earth on [[2557|July 24, 2557]], the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] was able to position his flagship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'', in [[geosynchronous orbit]] above the city. Despite resistance from the [[UNSC Home Fleet]], he activated the [[Composer]], [[mind transfer|converting]] New Phoenix's population of seven million into digital form and disintegrating their bodies within ninety seconds.<ref name="escalation 7"/> The attack ended when the [[SPARTAN-II]] known as [[John-117|the Master Chief]] destroyed ''Mantle's Approach'' and the Composer with a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]], sparing the rest of the planet New Phoenix's fate.<ref>''Halo 4'', campaign level [[Midnight]]</ref> | ||
However, many of the harvested minds were sent to the [[Composer's Abyss]] on [[Installation 03]] and later to [[Requiem]] via [[slipspace translocation]], to be implanted into new [[Promethean Knight]]s for the Didact's mechanical army.<ref> | However, many of the harvested minds were sent to the [[Composer's Abyss]] on [[Installation 03]] and later to [[Requiem]] via [[slipspace translocation]], to be implanted into new [[Promethean Knight]]s for the Didact's mechanical army.<ref>''Halo: Escalation'', [[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue 9]]</ref><ref>''Spartan Ops'', [[Memento Mori|E5: ''Memento Mori'']]</ref> | ||
===Attack on the ONI facility=== | ===Attack on the ONI facility=== | ||
{{Main|Battle of New Phoenix}} | {{Main|Battle of New Phoenix}} | ||
Not long after the attack, the Didact's [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|Covenant followers]] opened [[slipspace portal]]s in an [[New Phoenix ONI facility|ONI base]] located in the city through a [[Unidentified Forerunner machine|Forerunner device]] ONI had been studying there. Covenant and Promethean forces invaded the city through the portals, but an ONI research team, with the help of a [[Unidentified Headhunter|Spartan Headhunter]], managed to use a [[Forerunner]] artifact known as the [[Conduit]] to close the portals and halt the assault.<ref name="HSS"> | Not long after the attack, the Didact's [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction|Covenant followers]] opened [[slipspace portal]]s in an [[New Phoenix ONI facility|ONI base]] located in the city through a [[Unidentified Forerunner machine|Forerunner device]] ONI had been studying there. Covenant and Promethean forces invaded the city through the portals, but an ONI research team, with the help of a [[Unidentified Headhunter|Spartan Headhunter]], managed to use a [[Forerunner]] artifact known as the [[Conduit]] to close the portals and halt the assault.<ref name="HSS">''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]'', [[Operation D: Adamantine Shield]]</ref> | ||
===Quarantine=== | ===Quarantine=== | ||
[[File:New Phoenix rebirth.jpg|thumb|200px|New Phoenix's Rebirth ceremony in March 2558.]] | [[File:New Phoenix rebirth.jpg|thumb|200px|New Phoenix's Rebirth ceremony in March 2558.]] | ||
Due to the nature of the Composer, the city's infrastructure remained intact.<ref> | Due to the nature of the Composer, the city's infrastructure remained intact.<ref>''Halo 4'', [[Epilogue (Halo 4 level)|Epilogue]]</ref> New Phoenix was quarantined after the holocaust and remained off-limits. The UNSC hid the details of the incident from the public, concealing it as a Covenant attack,<ref>''Halo: Escalation'', Issue #3</ref> a story that was likely corroborated by the invasion of the ONI facility.<ref name="HSS"/> Six months later, however, [[John Sullivan]], an [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] public relations officer, released a statement that the attack was not of [[Covenant]] origin.<ref>''Spartan Ops'', [[Departure]]</ref> | ||
On [[2558#March|March 24, 2558]], eight months after the attack, the city's quarantine was lifted.<ref name="escalation 7"/> Doctor [[Ruth Charet]], [[President of the Unified Earth Government]], presided over New Phoenix's Rebirth ceremony. Spartan [[Tedra Grant]] accompanied Spartan [[Gabriel Thorne]] as he returned to the city and visited [[Thorne family|his family]]'s home.<ref name="escalation 7"/> | On [[2558#March|March 24, 2558]], eight months after the attack, the city's quarantine was lifted.<ref name="escalation 7"/> Doctor [[Ruth Charet]], [[President of the Unified Earth Government]], presided over New Phoenix's Rebirth ceremony. Spartan [[Tedra Grant]] accompanied Spartan [[Gabriel Thorne]] as he returned to the city and visited [[Thorne family|his family]]'s home.<ref name="escalation 7"/> | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*New Phoenix is the second North American city to be depicted in a ''Halo'' game, the first being [[Greater Chicago Industrial Zone|Chicago]] in the ''[[Halo 2]]'' multiplayer map [[Foundation]]. | *New Phoenix is the second North American city to be depicted in a ''Halo'' game, the first being [[Greater Chicago Industrial Zone|Chicago]] in the ''[[Halo 2]]'' multiplayer map [[Foundation]]. | ||
*[[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan]] [[Gabriel Thorne]] had family and friends who were killed in New Phoenix,<ref> | *[[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan]] [[Gabriel Thorne]] had family and friends who were killed in New Phoenix,<ref>''Spartan Ops'', [[Didact's Hand|E4: Didact's Hand]]</ref> most notably his maternal grandmother.<ref name="escalation 7"/> | ||
*New Phoenix housed the New Phoenix Philharmonic, an orchestra that Gabriel Thorne's [[Thorne family|grandmother]] played in as a violinist for twenty years.<ref name="escalation 7"/> | *New Phoenix housed the New Phoenix Philharmonic, an orchestra that Gabriel Thorne's [[Thorne family|grandmother]] played in as a violinist for twenty years.<ref name="escalation 7"/> | ||