Editing Tribute

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'''Tribute''' was a [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[Inner Colonies|inner colony]] world in the [[Epsilon Eridani System]]. Its largest populated urbanized metropolis was [[Casbah]].<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 14''</ref> It was a cold planet with a history of volcanic activity. Tribute was the homeworld of [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN]] [[Carris-137]], who was born on [[2510|December 15th, 2510]] in [[Irbid]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', ''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]''</ref>

==History==
===Insurrection===
Tribute was one of the major focus points of [[Operation: TREBUCHET]] in [[2524]], where UNSC forces operated against [[insurrectionist]] bomb cells. At least one [[battalion]] of [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]] were involved in operations on the planet, supported by the {{UNSCShip|Bum Rush}} and flights of [[AV-14 Attack VTOL]]s.

One of the missions involved [[Staff Sergeant]]s [[Avery Junior Johnson]] and [[Nolan Byrne]], who led two [[squad]]s of Marines in a raid on a rebel bomb shop. Three members of Byrne's team, as well as thirty-eight civilians, were killed in a [[Jim Dandy]] restaurant when a rebel detonated a bomb during a hostage situation. Byrne was critically injured in the explosion and Johnson was lightly wounded.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 9''</ref>

===Human-Covenant War===
During the [[Fall of Reach]], the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] also attacked the other colonies in the system, [[Battle of Tribute|including Tribute]]. [[Corporal]] [[Taylor Miles|Taylor "Dutch" Miles]] was present during the evacuation of the colony, and witnessed the near-total destruction of the UNSC Navy escort fleet in orbit as they protected [[civilian]] refugees.<ref>'''Halo 3: ODST''', ''"Dutch" Firefight Character Profile''</ref> This gave him a thorough respect for the Navy, unlike many Marines or other [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODSTs]]. The colony remained under siege by the Covenant fleet for some time. During the battle, [[Team Black]] was sent to [[Verge]] on a mission to destroy a Covenant [[beacon]] that was mining [[Helium|helium-3]] to provide energy for the fleet blockading Tribute.<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''Blunt Instruments''</ref>

===Post-war===
Tribute was either left [[Glassing|unglassed]] by the Covenant or was [[Terraforming|reterraformed]] following the Human-Covenant War like [[Reach]]. In either case, a series of ship graveyards continued to orbit the planet's northern pole; these graveyards served as the testing ground for the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Deadeye|MJOLNIR Deadeye]] variant.<ref name="Armory">'''Halo 4''', ''MJOLNIR/Deadeye armor description''</ref> [[Gretchen Navarro]] lived on Tribute after the war.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike (2010)''', ''Tug o' War''</ref> Construction of a [[space elevator]] in Casbah seems to have begun by [[2558]].

==Locations==
*[[Bolvadin]]
*[[Casbah]]
*[[Irbid]]

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]''
**''[[Tug o' War]]''
*''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[ONI Candidate Assessment Program V5.02A]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
**''[[Blunt Instruments]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo 4]]''

==Sources==
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