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Human-Covenant War

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Template:Infobox Military Conflicts The Human-Covenant War, also known as The Great War, was a major intergalactic conflict between the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant during the mid-26th century.

The conflict was closely connected with, and the cause of, the Covenant Civil War; both of which proved instrumental in the final defeat of the Covenant and Flood on March 3, 2553.

Factions

United Earth Government

United Nations Space Command

Leaders: HIGHCOM

Homeworld: Earth (intact at the end of the war)

Military Forces: Exact numbers are unknown.

The Covenant

Leaders: The High Council

Homeworld: multiple worlds

Capital City: High Charity (destroyed by the Master Chief after being turned into a Flood Hive and crashing on the Ark)

Military Forces: Exact numbers are unknown.

Confirmed Casualties

The following is a short list of confirmed losses for both the Humans and the Covenant. These numbers are pulled from the battles that took place and are only an estimation; the true numbers while unknown, are probably a lot higher for both sides.

Covenant

Ships: Over 880

Military, Civilian, Etc.: Over 500.67 Million (most likely a much higher number)

The Unyielding Hierophant

High Charity

Joyous Exultation

Malhiem

Human

Ships: Over 180.

Worlds glassed: A minimum of 210 worlds.

Military, Civilians, Etc.: Over 1.006 billion.

Timeline

2525

  • The Prophet of Truth discovers humanity's relation to the Forerunners, and instead of risking a bloody civil war that this knowledge could cause, he immediately demands the annihilation of all humanity.
  • The UNSC makes first contact with the Covenant at the UNSC colony world Harvest. The Covenant destroy the colony without warning or provocation.

2530

2531

2535

  • The Covenant destroys the UNSC colony world of Jericho VII in the Battle of Jericho VII.
  • In the course of four short years, UNSC forces have been hammered, despite excellent leadership and tactical brilliance. It is simply a matter of being outgunned; Covenant kill ratios tend to top three to one in ship-to-ship combat. By 2535, virtually all of the Outer Colony worlds have been glassed by the Covenant.

2536

  • Covenant forces begin to swarm into the Inner Colonies. For several years the war falls into a pattern: humans win isolated battles, typically during ground operations, but at a horrible cost. In space combat, the humans are losing at a precipitous rate, and one by one, the colonies fall.

2537

2544

2545

2549

2552

July

August

  • Battle of Reach. In the largest naval battle yet in the war, 314 Covenant ships destroy 152 UNSC ships and 20 MAC gun platforms around Reach, and win a major victory, destroying a great UNSC' military stronghold, although at a horrible cost to themselves; at least 2/3's of their fleet is destroyed.

September

  • The Battle of Installation 04. A single UNSC ship, the UNSC Pillar of Autumn escapes to Installation 04. After four days of hard fighting, the Covenant discover the Flood organism and Forerunner constructs, hampering their efforts to control the installation. The melee ends with Installation 04 destroyed with only a handful of survivors.
  • Operation: FIRST STRIKE. Six SPARTAN-II supersoldiers are able to rout and destroy a fleet of 500 Covenant starships preparing to jump to Earth. This is the single greatest victory for the humans during the entire war and the single greatest loss to the Covenant.

October

November

2553

March 3

The war ends in a UNSC-Covenant Separatist victory. The victors erect a monument to commemorate their dead.

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