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| |image=[[File:UNSC-Navy-logo1.png|300px]]
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| |formed=circa 2163
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| |formed-title=Founded
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| |country=[[Unified Earth Government]]
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| |country-title=Country
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| |part-of-1=[[United Nations Space Command]]
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| |part-of-1-title=Ministry
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| |part-of-2=[[UNSC Naval Command]]
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| |part-of-2-title=Command
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| |branch-title=Branch
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| |headquarters=[[HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6]]<br>
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| [[Sydney]], [[Australia]], [[Earth]]
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| |motto=Swabbies
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| |motto-title=Motto
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| |engagements=[[Interplanetary War]] <br>
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| [[Insurrection]] <br>
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| [[Human-Covenant War]] <br>
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| [[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]
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| |engagements-title=Engagements
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| |commander1=[[Ruth Charet|President Ruth Charet]]
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| |commander1-title=[[President of the Unified Earth Government|Commander-in-Chief]]
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| |commander2=[[Terrence Hood|FADM Terrence Hood]]
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| |commander2-title=[[Chief of Naval Operations]]
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| |commander3=[[Danforth Whitcomb|VADM Danforth Whitcomb]]†
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| |commander3-title=[[Deputy Chief of Naval Operations]]
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| The '''[[UNSC Navy]]''' ('''UNSCN''') is the naval warfare service of the [[United Nations Space Command]] (UNSC) and is one of five primary uniformed services of the [[Unified Earth Government]] (UEG). The Navy conducts operations throughout interplanetary, interstellar, and to a limited extent, transgalactic space, and planetside at sea, on land, and in the air as the main provider of military aerospace vessels and stations for [[Earth]] and its colonies throughout the [[Orion Arm]]. Fleet operating forces have been charged throughout its some 396 year history to ensure space supremacy in the defense coordination zones surrounding Earth, its colonies, and aligned corporate holdings, including nearby [[interstellar jump point]]s and space lanes.
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| The Navy traces its roots back to the national space-faring fleets contributing equipment, materiel, and personnel to the [[United Nations]] prior to the 2164-2170 [[Interplanetary War]], having cut their teeth in the [[Jovian Moons Campaign|Jovian Moons]] and [[Mars Campaign|Mars]] campaigns. In the resulting conflict the UNSC absorbed entire navies of Earth's nations into a single, regimented order of battle. In the ''[[Domus Diaspora]]'' the Navy would expand in capability courtesy of the advent of the [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]] to embark on expeditions into what would become the [[Inner Colonies]] and conduct spacelift therein supporting colonization efforts funded by the UEG. At this time, the [[Colonial Military Administration]] (CMA) was established to defend the Inner Colonies and the looming frontier in the [[Outer Colonies]], by law relegating the UNSC Navy to the defense of [[Sol system|Sol]]. Despite this, UNSC and CMA naval forces regularly encroached on each other's spacial jurisdiction, attempting to usurp and absorb missions, equipment, personnel, and funding for their own means. By the 25th century the Earther-backed UNSC Navy had assumed authority over both Sol and the Inner Colonies, restricting their CMA counterparts to Orion's frontier. The lack of political, economic, and social autonomy in the Outer Colonies led the UNSC Navy into the [[Callisto Incident]], sparking the decades-long [[Insurrection]]. Fleet forces waged war against a asymmetrical threat utilizing large combatant ships, disembarking and supporting [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] forces ashore, and razing entire colonies with naval gunfire and weapons of mass destruction.
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| Waging a modern naval war across vast stretches of the cosmos prepared the UNSC Navy for the existential threat accompanying first contact with the highly-militarized alien union, the [[Covenant]]. In the [[Human-Covenant War]] of 2525-2552, the Navy would face one major defeat after another delaying the Covenant from progressing into the Outer Colonies, then the Inner Colonies, and ultimately its final [[Wikipedia:Bastion (naval)|bastions]] at [[Reach]], and later, Earth. The Navy stood technologically inferior to the Covenant throughout its wartime combat record, and on occasion, severely outnumbered. Pivotal, yet seemingly token victories at [[Harvest campaign|Harvest]] (2531), in [[Battle of Psi Serpentis|Psi Serpentis]] (2543), at [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV|Sigma Octanus IV]] (2552), and at [[Battle of Earth|Earth]] (2552) kept morale high in spite of a potential extinction event. The Navy suffered the loss of hundreds of millions of sailors, and tens of thousands of starships and countless more aerospace craft in operations against the Covenant over 27 years.
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| The [[UNSC Home Fleet|Home Fleet]] in Sol marshalled the Navy's remaining available fighting forces in early 2553 to liberate occupied human space and reestablish Earth's authority over their now increasingly disparate colonies. Rearmament persisted well into the 2550s through supplementing and ultimately replacing wartime and even pre-first contact ship classes and aircraft. The Navy would capitalize on reverse-engineered Covenant and [[Forerunner]] technologies, ushering in a new era for human spaceflight with the introduction of precise [[slipspace]] drives and [[energy shielding]]. The [[Spartans]] would gain [[Spartan Operations|independence]] from Navy control in the first postbellum year while the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] sought greater autonomy out from under the broader Navy's authority. [[Joint Occupation Zone]]s were stood up and patrolled alongside the [[Swords of Sanghelios]], the UEG's first alien allies, pursuant to the [[Treaty of 2552]]. The UNSC Navy would continue to reassume its capacity for expeditionary warfare with operations throughout the [[Halo Array]] and at [[Requiem]], and in combatting the resurgent [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant]]. [[Cortana]]'s 2558 ''[[Wikipedia:Blitzkrieg|blitzkrieg]]'' leveraging the [[Guardian]] network for area denial and subterfuge via the [[Created]] [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] devastated the Navy's ability to make war.
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| Civilian authority and oversight of the Navy resumed following the disbandment of the emergency military government in 2553, beginning with [[President of the Unified Earth Government|President]] [[Ruth Charet]] in her capacity as Commander-in-Chief. The [[UNSC Naval Command|Naval Command]] manages the administrative and operational functions of the service with a five-star flag officer as [[Chief of Naval Operations|Chief of Naval Operations and Commander-in-Chief Fleet]] (CNO/CINCFLEET) at its head, an office currently occupied by [[Fleet Admiral]] [[Terrence Hood]]; CNO/CINCFLEET is a sitting member of the [[UNSC Security Council|Security Council]]. The Navy's headquarters is currently situated alongside its sister services in the capital [[Sydney]] at [[HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6]].
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| ==Mission==
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| ==History==
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| ===Origins===
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| ===Jovian Moons, Mars, and the Interplanetary War===
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| ===''Domus Diaspora''===
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| ===The Insurrection===
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| ===The Great War===
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| ===Postbellum===
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| ==Culture==
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| ==Organization==
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| ===Operating forces===
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| ===Shore and orbital establishments===
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| ====Schools====
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| ===Relationships with other agencies===
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| ====Colonial Military Administration====
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| ====Office of Naval Intelligence====
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| ====Spartan Operations====
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| ====Swords of Sanghelios====
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| ====UNSC Marine Corps====
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| ==Personnel==
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| ==Assets==
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| ===Atmospheric/Exoatmospheric craft===
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| ===Escape and drop pods===
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| ===Starships===
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| ====Battleships====
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| ====Carriers====
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| ====Cruisers====
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| ====Frigates and corvettes====
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| ====Landing ships====
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| =====Assault ships=====
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| =====Landing craft=====
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| ====Logistics ships====
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| ====Prowlers====
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| ===Stations===
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| ===Technologies===
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| ===Weapons===
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| ==Production notes==
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| ==Trivia==
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| ==List of appearances==
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| {{scrollbox|
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| {{Col-begin}}
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| {{Col-2}}
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| *''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}}
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| *''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''
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| *''[[Halo: The Flood]]''
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| *''[[Halo: First Strike]]''
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| *''[[Halo 2]]''
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| *''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''
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| *''[[Starry Night]]''
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| *''[[Believe]]''
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| **''[[Diorama]]'' {{C|Diorama only}}
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| *''[[Halo: Landfall]]''
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| **''[[Halo: Arms Race|Arms Race]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Uprising]]''
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| *''[[Halo 3]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''
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| *''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''
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| *''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]''
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| *''[[Halo Wars]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Helljumper]]''
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| *''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''
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| *''[[Halo Legends]]''
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| **''[[Babysitter]]''
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| **''[[Homecoming]]''
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| **''[[Origins]]''
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| **''[[Prototype]]''
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| **''[[The Package]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
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| **''[[Blunt Instruments]]''
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| **''[[Dirt]]''
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| **''[[Headhunters (short story)|Headhunters]]''
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| **''[[Palace Hotel (short story)|Palace Hotel]]''
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| **''[[Pariah]]''
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| **''[[Stomping on the Heels of a Fuss]]''
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| **''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]''
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| **''[[The Mona Lisa]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Blood Line]]''
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| *''[[Remember Reach]]''
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| **''[[Birth of a Spartan]]''
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| **''[[Deliver Hope]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Reach]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]''
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| **''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp|Boot Camp]]''
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| **''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Covenant|Covenant]]''
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| **''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Invasion|Invasion]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Glasslands]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''
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| **''[[Terminal/Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary|Terminals]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Primordium]]''
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| *''[[Halo: The Thursday War]]''
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| *''[[The Commissioning]]''
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| *''[[Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn]]''
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| *''[[Scanned]]''
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| *''[[Halo 4]]''
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| **''[[Spartan Ops]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Silentium]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Spartan Assault]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Initiation]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Escalation]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Nightfall]]''
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| *''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''
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| **''[[Terminal/Halo 2: Anniversary|Terminals]]''
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| *''[[Halo: New Blood]]''
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| *''[[Hunt the Truth]]''
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| **''[[All Hail]]''
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| **''[[The Cost]]''
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| **''[[Hunt the Signal]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Hunters in the Dark]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Fleet Battles]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Last Light]]''
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| *''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series]]''
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| *''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''
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| *''[[Know Your Enemy]]''
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| *''[[Halo Mythos]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Fractures]]''
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| **''[[Breaking Strain]]''
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| **''[[A Necessary Truth]]''
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| **''[[Rossbach's World (story)|Rossbach's World]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Tales from Slipspace]]''
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| **''[[Something has Happened]]''
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| **''[[On the Brink]]''
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| **''[[Knight Takes Bishop]]''
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| **''[[Dominion Splinter]]''
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| *''[[Halo Wars 2]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Envoy]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Retribution]]''
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| }}
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| ==Notes==
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| ==Sources==
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