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| {{City infobox | | {{City |
| |city=New Phoenix | | |city=New Phoenix |
| |image=[[File:H4-NewPhoenix.jpg|300px]] | | |image=[[File:H4-NewPhoenix.jpg|300px]] |
| |location=[[Arizona]], [[United Republic of North America|URNA]]{{Ref/Site|Id=waypnewphoenix|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/locations/new-phoenix|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Universe - New Phoenix}} | | |location=[[Wikipedia:Maricopa County, Arizona|Maricopa County]], [[Wikipedia:Arizona|Arizona]], [[United Republic of North America|URNA]] |
| |population=7 million (prior to the [[New Phoenix Incident]]){{Ref/Comic|Id=escalation 7|[[Halo: Escalation]]|Detail=''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 7|Issue 7]]''}} | | |built= |
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| |governance=[[Unified Earth Government]]{{Ref/Reuse|waypnewphoenix}} | | |affiliation=[[United Earth Government]] |
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| | | '''New Phoenix''' is a metropolitan area of [[Wikipedia:Arizona|Arizona]], a state in the [[United Republic of North America]] on [[Earth]]. |
| '''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}} | |
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| ==History== | | ==History== |
| [[File:Thorneschool.png|thumb|200px|[[Gabriel Thorne]] discussing the history of New Phoenix, showing the cities of Flagstaff and Phoenix on a map.]] | | ===Battle of Earth=== |
| 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}} | | {{Main|Battle of Earth (2557)}} |
| | During his swift attack on Earth in [[2557|July 2557]], the [[Didact]] was able to position his flagship, ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'', in a high geosynchronous orbit above the city. Despite resistance from the [[UNSC Home Fleet]], he activated the [[Composer]], converting New Phoenix's population into "digital intelligences" and disintegrating their bodies. [[SPARTAN-II Program|Spartan]] [[John-117]] soon destroyed the Composer, however at least one of the digital intelligences was taken to [[Requiem]].<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[S1/Memento Mori|S1E5: ''Memento Mori'']]</ref> |
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| ===New Phoenix Incident===
| | Due to the nature of the Composer, the city's infrastructure remained completely intact.<ref>'''Halo 4''' - ''[[Epilogue (Halo 4 level)|Epilogue]]''</ref> New Phoenix was quarantined after the holocaust and remained off-limits for at least six months. [[John Sullivan]], an [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] public relations officer, released a statement that the attack was not of [[Covenant]] origin.<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[S1/Departure|S1E1: ''Departure'']]</ref> |
| {{Main|New Phoenix Incident}}
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| 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]]}}
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| 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|Issue=9}}{{Ref/SpOps|Memento Mori}}
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| 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.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi22|Epi|22}} 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.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi26|Epi|26}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=Epi27|Epi|27}}
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| ===Attack on the ONI facility===
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| {{Main|Skirmish in New Phoenix}}
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| 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>
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| ===Quarantine===
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| [[File:New Phoenix rebirth.jpg|thumb|200px|New Phoenix's Rebirth ceremony in March 2558.]]
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| 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>
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| 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}}
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| ==Geography==
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| ===Locations===
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| *[[New Phoenix ONI facility]]
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| ==Culture==
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| 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}}
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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 first North American city to be visually depicted in the story of a ''Halo'' game and is the fifth overall of Earth, after the [[Kenya|Kenyan]] cities of [[New Mombasa]] and [[Voi]], the Ecuadorian city of [[Quito]], and the [[Australia|Australian]] city of [[Sydney]]. |
| *[[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}}
| | *[[Gabriel Thorne]] had family and friends that were killed in New Phoenix. This was the reason he enlisted in the [[SPARTAN-IV Program]].<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[S1/Didact's Hand|S1E4 ''Didact's Hand'']]</ref> |
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| ==Gallery==
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| <gallery>
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| File:H4-ComposerFiringOnPhoenix.jpg|New Phoenix is fired upon by the Composer.
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| File:H4Epilogue - NP Streets.jpg|The empty streets of New Phoenix in the aftermath of the Didact's attack.
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| File:H4Epilogue - NP Pelicans.jpg|Two Pelicans touching down in New Phoenix after the incident.
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| File:H4Epilogue - Hazteam.jpg|UNSC Marines arrive to investigate the city.
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| File:H4 New Phoenix Article.JPG|An article on the condition of New Phoenix six months after it was attacked.
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| File:New Phoenix population composed.jpg|Gabriel Thorne's nightmare about the New Phoenix Incident.
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| File:HSS NewPhoenixDesert.jpg|Artwork of New Phoenix in ''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]''.
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| File:HSS NewPhoenixRoundBuildings.jpg|Artwork of some buildings in New Phoenix in ''Halo: Spartan Strike''.
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| File:New Pheonix Map.png|Map of a location in New Phoenix in ''Halo: Spartan Strike''.
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==List of appearances== |
| *''[[Halo 4]]'' {{1st}} | | *''[[Halo 4]]'' {{1st}} |
| **''[[Spartan Ops]]'' {{Mo}} | | **''[[S1/Departure|Spartan Ops S1E1: Departure]]'' {{Mo}} |
| *''[[Halo: Escalation]]'' | | **''[[S1/Memento Mori|Spartan Ops S1E5: Memento Mori]]'' |
| *''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]'' | |
| *''[[Halo Mythos]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[Halo: Legacy of Onyx]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]'' {{Im}}
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| *''[[Halo: Meridian Divide]]''
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| **''[[Meridian Homecoming]]'' {{Mo}}
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| ==Sources== | | ==Sources== |
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| [[Category:Human cities]] | | [[Category:Cities]] |
| [[Category:United States]] | | [[Category:United States]] |
