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{{Quote|It would take ''years'' to ram this down the throats of the politicians, but as far as my battle group was concerned it was ''law''.|Admiral Cole on his first draft of the Cole Protocol.<ref name="HWG">'''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]''', page 8</ref>}} | {{Quote|It would take ''years'' to ram this down the throats of the politicians, but as far as my battle group was concerned it was ''law''.|Admiral Cole on his first draft of the Cole Protocol.<ref name="HWG">'''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]''', page 8</ref>}} | ||
The '''United Nations Space Command Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1''', otherwise known as the '''Cole Protocol''', was a command enacted by [[Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] to prevent the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] from finding the location of [[Earth]] or any other core world location. It was an order preventing [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] retrieval of data that contained the location of Earth, and forbids retreating vessels from setting a direct slipspace course towards any human population center, as the Covenant were able to track [[Slipspace|Slipspace travel vectors]] and calculate the evacuating ship's destination. The policy also stated that to prevent capture, any [[UNSC]] or Human vessel, in the event of an emergency evacuation, was to self destruct, after wiping all data matrices, to prevent the advance of the Covenant. | The '''United Nations Space Command Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1''', otherwise known as the '''Cole Protocol''', was a command enacted by [[Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] to prevent the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] from finding the location of [[Earth]] or any other core world location. It was an order preventing [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] retrieval of data that contained the location of Earth, and forbids retreating vessels from setting a direct slipspace course towards any human population center, as the Covenant were able to track [[Slipspace|Slipspace travel vectors]] and calculate the evacuating ship's destination. The policy also stated that to prevent capture, any [[UNSC]] or Human vessel, in the event of an emergency evacuation("Abandon Ship" order), was to self destruct, after wiping all data matrices, to prevent the advance of the Covenant. | ||
All UNSC personnel were commanded to read the Cole Protocol under [[NAVCOM]] [[UNSC Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1]]. The Cole Protocol ensured that in nearly 27 years of interstellar warfare, the Covenant never discovered the Human presence on Earth, and only found other population centers by either accident, tracking devices left aboard ships,<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'''</ref> or [[Forerunner]] artifacts.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]'''</ref> Unfortunately, the Protocol eventually outlived its usefulness when the Covenant discovered Earth, as well as nearly all large population centers, by 2552. | All UNSC personnel were commanded to read the Cole Protocol under [[NAVCOM]] [[UNSC Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1]]. The Cole Protocol ensured that in nearly 27 years of interstellar warfare, the Covenant never discovered the Human presence on Earth, and only found other population centers by either accident, tracking devices left aboard ships,<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'''</ref> or [[Forerunner]] artifacts.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]'''</ref> Unfortunately, the Protocol eventually outlived its usefulness when the Covenant discovered Earth, as well as nearly all large population centers, by 2552. | ||