Editing New Phoenix

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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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'''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}}

==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|Issue=9}}{{Ref/SpOps|Memento Mori}}

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}}

===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}}

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

==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:H4Epilogue - NP Streets.jpg|The empty streets of New Phoenix in the aftermath of the Didact's attack.
File:H4Epilogue - NP Pelicans.jpg|Two Pelicans touching down in New Phoenix after the incident.
File:H4Epilogue - Hazteam.jpg|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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