Editing New Phoenix

{{Status|Canon}}
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|image=[[File:H4-NewPhoenix.jpg|300px]]
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|population=7 million (prior to the [[New Phoenix Incident]]){{Ref/Comic|Id=escalation 7|[[Halo: Escalation]]|Detail=''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 7|Issue 7]]''}}
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|governance=[[Unified Earth Government]]{{Ref/Reuse|waypnewphoenix}}
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'''New Phoenix''' is a [[City|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 [[Greater Chicago Industrial Zone|Chicago]].{{Ref/Reuse|escalation 7}}{{Ref/Site|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations?page=2|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Universe - Locations, Page 2}} It was one of many well-developed cities in the URNA.{{Ref/Book|Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide|Page=199}}

==Overview==
===Geography===
====Locations====
*[[New Phoenix ONI facility]]

==History==
[[File:Thorneschool.png|thumb|200px|[[Gabriel Thorne]] discussing the history of New Phoenix, showing the cities of Flagstaff and Phoenix on a map.]]
New Phoenix was originally two separate cities, [[Wikipedia:Flagstaff, Arizona|Flagstaff]] and [[Wikipedia:Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]. As the populations and boundaries of both cities grew to intersect, they agreed to become one large metropolis.{{Ref/Reuse|escalation 7}}{{Ref/Reuse|waypnewphoenix}}

===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/Reuse|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/Level|Halo 4|[[Midnight]]}}

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/Comic|Halo: Escalation|Detail=''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue 9]]''}}<ref>''Spartan Ops'', [[Memento Mori|E5: ''Memento Mori'']]</ref>

===Attack on the ONI facility===
{{Main|Skirmish in New Phoenix}}
Not long after the attack, the Didact's [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|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===
[[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/Level|Halo 4|[[Epilogue (Halo 4 level)|Epilogue]]}} 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/Comic|Halo: Escalation|Detail=''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 3|Issue 3]]''}} a story that was likely corroborated by the invasion of the ONI facility.{{Ref/Reuse|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. 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/Reuse|escalation 7}}

==Government and society==
===Culture===
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/Reuse|escalation 7}}

==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]].
*[[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/Reuse|escalation 7}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:H4-ComposerFiringOnPhoenix.jpg|New Phoenix is fired upon by the Composer.
File:H4 - NewPhoenix Streets.png|The empty streets of New Phoenix in the aftermath of the Didact's attack.
File:H4 - Pelicans in New Phoenix.png|Two Pelicans touching down in New Phoenix after the incident.
File:H4 - HAZMAT Team.png|UNSC Marines arrive to investigate the city.
File:H4 New Phoenix Article.JPG|An article on the condition of New Phoenix six months after it was attacked.
File:New Phoenix population composed.jpg|Gabriel Thorne's nightmare about the New Phoenix Incident.
File:HSS NewPhoenixDesert.jpg|Artwork of New Phoenix in ''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]''.
File:HSS NewPhoenixRoundBuildings.jpg|Artwork of some buildings in New Phoenix in ''Halo: Spartan Strike''.
File:New Pheonix Map.png|Map of a location in New Phoenix in ''Halo: Spartan Strike''.
</gallery>
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==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo 4]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[Spartan Ops]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Escalation]]''
*''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]''
*''[[Halo Mythos]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Legacy of Onyx]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]'' {{Im}}
*''[[Halo: Meridian Divide]]''
**''[[Meridian Homecoming]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
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