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2559 ← 2560 → 2561

The Battle for Zeta Halo

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Next: 2561 • 2567

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Century
26th century

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Years in the 2560s
2560 • 2561 • 2562 • 2563 • 2564
2565 • 2566 • 2567 • 2568 • 2569

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For a complete list, see our timeline category.

2560 was a year in the 2560s in the 26th century.

Events

January

January 20

• Spartans Bonita Stone and Nina Kovan scout out the Banished territory Red Zone, deducing a potential vulnerability of the enemy in that infighting is encouraged. They deduced that only Escharum's leadership keeps them in check.

January 23

• Spartan Hudson Griffin leads Spartans Panago, Malik, and Sarkar on a mission to assassinate Escharum. Spartan Bertold Vettel takes over his place and joins Commander Etana Hensler to lead the forces at the Reverie.

January 30

• Spartan Griffin's team is ambushed by Escharum and all are killed except for Griffin. Escharum taunts him of his team's demise and of the Banished's impending assault on the Mortal Reverie. Griffin is able to send out an encoded message, warning the UNSC survivors at the Reverie. The survivors at the Reverie receive a part of Griffin's transmission and prepare for an assault by the Banished.

January 31

• Banished Jiralhanae Chieftain Tremonius and Captain Arthoc gathers a massive Banished assault force at Riven Gate. Spartan Stone and Boulder Squad conduct a recon sweep at Riven Gate. Stone reports her findings to Mortal Reverie, and warns the Reverie that the Banished would arrive by nightfall. The UNSC survivors at the Mortal Reverie prepare for the Banished assault.
• Banished forces arrive at the Reverie and begin their assault on the wreckage.

February

February 2

• The Reverie's starboard side sustains heavy damage and its Rampart point defense guns are destroyed; Banished air units overwhelm UNSC forces.
• Spartan Vettel orders the UNSC survivors to retreat from the Reverie under the Banished assault. The survivors scattered and fled into mountains or the surrounding area. Many are killed or captured by Banished pursuers.

March

March 3

• The UNSC loses all of its remaining Forward Operating Bases on the fragmented section of the ring.
• Unofficial squads such as the Boat crew, Gravediggers, and Hatetriox have been taking out Banished supply runners, raiding parties, towers, bridges and other Banished structures.
• Spartans Makovich, Vettel, and Sorel declare the enactment of Rubicon Protocol.

April

April 18

• Using Lucas Browning as a Reclaimer, the Banished release the Harbinger from her cylix.

April 22

• Having observed aircraft from Escharum's personal fleet flying towards Outpost Tremonius, members of the boat crew—including Nina Kovan, Bonita Stone, TJ Murphy, Erik Bender, Robin Dimik, and Isaiah Cameron—investigate the outpost.

April 23

• After Spartan Stone shares that she saw Browning at Outpost Tremonius, Spartan Kovan attempts to rescue Browning during the evening, to no avail.
• Separated from Kovan following their escape from the outpost, Stone explores the subterranean Forerunner structures. She sends a transmission to Makovich and Sorel that the Banished are sending forces to another excavation site.

April 24

• Spartans Makovich and Sorel observe Banished activity around the Conservatory and realize the Banished are looking for Installation 07's monitor.

April 26

• Spartan Stone, while in the subterranean structures, finds the cylixes holding the Xalanyn. She picks up a UNSC signal deeper inside the facility. She finds Gorian and Jega 'Rdomnai accessing the Conspectus network data; Stone attacks the excavation team, stealing the data node, but was killed by 'Rdomnai during her escape. Before she was killed, however, Stone order her personal AI Ouco to copy the data into a data crystal chip and corrupted the original node, rendering it useless when 'Rdomnai recovers the date node.

April 29

• After confronting Kovan, Murphy leads the boat crew and infiltrates the subterranean structure underneath Outpost Tremonius. They discover Stone's body and recover the data chip containing the Conspectus network data. After they escape deeper into the structure, they met 091 Adjutant Veridity, who reveals the nature of the data. The boat crew agrees to release 117649 Despondent Pyre from lockdown at the Conservatory to decrypt the data.

April 29

• Spartan Vettel sends out a signal to any remaining UNSC transmitters that he intends to assault Chak Lok's fortress and rescue Spartan Griffin.

May

May 3

• While en route to the Conservatory, the boat crew reunites with Spartan Tomas Horvath. They decide to use one of ring's beacon towers as a supraluminal communications array to broadcast the ring's location to UNSC space and summon reinforcements.

May 9

• 117649 Despondent Pyre is released from lockdown by Spartan Horvath at the Conservatory's cradle.
• After learning of the Harbinger's release, Pyre gives the boat crew a data key that will allow them to broadcast a superluminal message into human-occupied space.
• Pyre refuses Veridity's request to follow the boat crew to a beacon tower; the monitor and her sub-monitors formulate a plan to counter the Harbinger.

May 14

• The boat crew accesses one of the ring's beacon towers and broadcasts Zeta Halo's new coordinates to UNSC space.
• Murphy, Cameron, and Gorian are all killed in the battle at the beacon tower. Spartan Horvath is teleported to an isolated location on the ring via a translocation pad, which is destroyed by a Thrasher missile.
• The surviving members of boat crew—Kovan, Bender, and Dimik—are rescued by 091 Adjutant Veridity and teleported to another location on the ring.

May 15

• Spartans Makovich and Sorel follow the Banished into the Conservatory with the intent to stop them from finding the monitor.
• Inside the Conservatory, the two Spartans encounter Jega 'Rdomnai. Makovich stays behind to hold off the Sangheili and tells Sorel to go on without her. She is killed by 'Rdomnai.
• The wounded Sorel encounters a Banished force led by Hyperius and Tovarus. He manages to take out multiple Banished troops before being slain.

May 25

• Far from any surviving UNSC personnel, Spartan Horvath makes a final transmission on UNSC channels that he is leaving Banished territory to look for survivors and Fireteam Intrepid. He makes an open plea to the Master Chief that they need him now more than ever.

Circa May 28 Around 6 months after the Battle over Installation 07 on December 12–13, 2559

• John-117 is recovered from the remnants of the battle between the UNSC Infinity and the Banished by Echo 216 and its pilot, Fernando Esparza.
• The Ghost of Gbraakon discovers Echo 216 and uses its stasis beam to pull the Pelican aboard. John-117 leaves the Pelican and boards the Gbraakon, overloading its engines, destroying the ship. Escharum is made aware of John-117's survival.
• John-117 recovers the Weapon underneath the surface of Installation 07 and defeats Tremonius. Outpost Tremonius returns to UNSC control.
• Under the command of Escharum, Chak 'Lok activates Spartan Griffin's distress signal to lure John-117 to his Tower. John-117 defeats Chak 'Lok inside his Tower and learns of a Banished mining operation into the Conservatory thanks to Spartan Griffin, who dies of his torture.
• The Weapon helps John-117 defeat Bassus at the Excavation Site and shut down the drill preventing entry into the Conservatory.
• The Weapon learns of a mysterious entity worse than the Flood recovered from a past exchange between Cortana and 117649 Despondent Pyre prior to the arrival of the UNSC Infinity.
• John-117 meets the Harbinger, whose plans are to free the Endless from the Cylixes.
• John-117 and the Weapon learn that the Harbinger and the Banished are planning to repair Installation 07 through Reformation Spires.
• Echo 216 gets shot down by 3 Banished AA cannons en route to the Command Spire.
• John-117 disables the AA cannons and defeats both Hyperius and Tovarus.
• The Harbinger springs a trap on the Weapon while extracting the data needed to enter the Command Spire.
• John-117 liberates FOB Kilo, shuts down the Banished operations at Riven Gate as well as Annex Ridge, and eliminates the Mgalekgolo pair known as Myriad.
• While exploring the Command Spire, more of Cortana's past actions are revealed, including her role in the destruction of Laconia Station at the hands of the AI Leonidas.
• John-117 shuts downs all of the Spires, but Esparza is captured by Jega 'Rdomnai.
• En route to the Pilot's rescue, the Weapon discovers that Cortana destroyed Doisac because Atriox refused to join the Created.
• John-117 survives the House of Reckoning, kills Jega 'Rdomnai and Escharum and rescues the Pilot.
• John-117 and the Weapon discover the true purpose of the Silent Auditorium, the site of Cortana's sacrifice, and defeats the Harbinger. However, the Harbinger succeeds in discovering the location of her people and transmitting it to an unknown recipient.

Around 3 days after the Harbinger's demise and the subsquent collapse of the Silent Auditorium

• Echo 216 picks up John-117 and the Weapon from another location within Installation 07. Atriox discovers the Endless in their Cylixes.

October

October 27

• John-117 was accidentally declared KIA on this date by ONI Section II Press Secretary Lieutenant Penelope Boren, who was meant to say "2558" instead of "2560".

Unknown

• Battle of Suban: The Banished attack the blood-moon of Suban, resulting in a battle against the Swords of Sanghelios and their UNSC allies at some point in early 2560.
• Following the death of the Harbinger in May, Adjutant Revendicate, one of Zeta Halo's sub-monitors, contacts Invariant Bias—custodian of the Absolute Record—and provides an up-to-date record of the state of the Milky Way. The two ancillas then agree that John-117 may be all that would save the galaxy from the Xalanyn threat.