New Phoenix
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New Phoenix is a metropolitan area of Arizona, a location in the United Republic of North America on Earth. It was the fourth most populated city in the URNA, after New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.[2][3] It was one of many well-developed cities in the URNA.[4]
Overview[edit]
Geography[edit]
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History[edit]
New Phoenix was originally two separate cities, Flagstaff and Phoenix. As the populations and boundaries of both cities grew to intersect, they agreed to become one large metropolis.[2][1]
New Phoenix Incident[edit]
- Main article: New Phoenix Incident
During his swift attack on Earth on July 24, 2557, the 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, converting New Phoenix's population of seven million into digital form and disintegrating their bodies within ninety seconds.[2] The attack ended when the SPARTAN-II known as 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.[5]
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 Knights for the Didact's mechanical army.[6][7]
After being sent to the outer boundaries of the Domain following his own digitization, the Didact discovered that the humans composed in New Phoenix had ended up in the human rift alongside the Ancestors. This gave the Ancestors hope that humanity had survived, although they were unable to find out for sure as the composed essences were unable to communicate yet. Forthencho, after learning that the Didact was responsible for this, told the Promethean that it would take centuries for the newcomers to settle and even longer for them to pull themselves together as the ancient humans had done. Having regained his sanity, the Didact felt remorse for what he had done to them.[8] The Didact later welcomed the essences of those composed in New Phoenix into the Domain along with the rest of the Forerunners and humans, giving them a home, a place to heal and rest, to commune and explore.[9][10]
Attack on the ONI facility[edit]
- Main article: Skirmish in New Phoenix
Not long after the attack, the Didact's Covenant followers opened slipspace portals in an ONI base located in the city through a 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 Spartan Headhunter, managed to use a Forerunner artifact known as the Conduit to close the portals and halt the assault.[11]
Quarantine[edit]
Due to the nature of the Composer, the city's infrastructure remained intact.[12] 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,[13] a story that was likely corroborated by the invasion of the ONI facility.[11] 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.[14]
On March 24, 2558, eight months after the attack, the city's quarantine was lifted. 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 his family's home.[2]
Government and society[edit]
Culture[edit]
New Phoenix housed the New Phoenix Philharmonic, an orchestra that Gabriel Thorne's grandmother played in as a violinist for twenty years.[2]
Trivia[edit]
- New Phoenix is the second North American city to be depicted in a Halo game, the first being Chicago in the Halo 2 multiplayer map Foundation.
- Spartan Gabriel Thorne had family and friends who were killed in New Phoenix,[15] most notably his maternal grandmother.[2]
Gallery[edit]
New Phoenix is fired upon by the Composer.
The empty streets of New Phoenix in the aftermath of the Didact's attack.
Two Pelicans touching down in New Phoenix after the incident.
UNSC Marines arrive to investigate the city.
An article on the condition of New Phoenix six months after it was attacked.
Gabriel Thorne's nightmare about the New Phoenix Incident.
Artwork of New Phoenix in Halo: Spartan Strike.
Artwork of some buildings in New Phoenix in Halo: Spartan Strike.
Map of a location in New Phoenix in Halo: Spartan Strike.
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List of appearances[edit]
- Halo 4 (First appearance)
- Spartan Ops (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Escalation
- Halo: Spartan Strike
- Halo Mythos (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Legacy of Onyx (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Shadows of Reach (Indirect mention)
- Halo: Meridian Divide
- Meridian Homecoming (Mentioned only)
Sources[edit]
- ^ a b c Halo Waypoint, Universe - New Phoenix (Retrieved on Jun 1, 2020) [archive]
- ^ a b c d e f g Halo: Escalation: Issue 7
- ^ Halo Waypoint, Universe - Locations, Page 2 (Retrieved on Jun 1, 2020) [archive]
- ^ Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide, page 199
- ^ Halo 4, campaign level Midnight
- ^ Halo: Escalation, issue 9
- ^ Halo 4 - Spartan Ops, episode Memento Mori
- ^ Halo: Epitaph, chapter 22
- ^ Halo: Epitaph, chapter 26
- ^ Halo: Epitaph, chapter 27
- ^ a b Halo: Spartan Strike, Operation D: Adamantine Shield
- ^ Halo 4, campaign level Epilogue
- ^ Halo: Escalation: Issue 3
- ^ Spartan Ops, Departure
- ^ Spartan Ops, E4: Didact's Hand
