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February
February 2
- Shadow of Intent leaves the Urs system for a diplomatic mission in former Covenant territory.[1]
February 21
- Template:UNSCship is commissioned into service.[2][3]
May-June
May 6 to June 1
- Shadow of Intent participates in naval exercises with the UNSC Navy in a Joint Occupation Zone. After this the ship is tasked with the protection of Sanghelios and Sangheili colonies.[1]
June
June 19
- UNSC Rubicon arrives at the ruins of Installation 00 and deploys several remote contact teams (RCTs) to the Ark's surface.[4]
June 27
- After 8.3 days, all contact with the RCTs is severed. Only RCT-06 returns to the prowler, having suffered extensive casualties. However, they bring the source of the signal aboard: the remains of the monitor 343 Guilty Spark.[4]
- After properly calibrating their AI translator, the human team began to interrogate Spark, hoping to gain insight into the ancient human-Forerunner relations and the Didact.[5] Spark, acknowledging the humans as "the true Reclaimers"[6] proceeds to describe the events that led to his former human self becoming a monitor.
June 30
- After Spark finishes his story, his robotic shell powers down and is jettisoned into space by order of the ONI team commander. Having successfully uploaded his data stream into the ship's computers, however, Spark disables Rubicon's AI and takes full control of the vessel. Having come to the conclusion that the Librarian is alive as a result of long study, and that he has need for the ship and its crew, Spark puts them to sleep and sets course to where he believes the Librarian could be found.[7]
July
July 2
- 48 hours after Rubicon's last notice, the ONI sends search and rescue teams to find the ship, but Rubicon is not found.[1]
July 2-July 21
- Codename: SURGEON a five-report series about the status quo of the post-war galaxy to Codename: COALMINER.
July 21
- Having tried in vain for three years, Jul 'Mdama's Covenant faction finally gain access to the shield world Requiem; Shipmaster Jul 'Mdama orders his forces to board UNSC Forward Unto Dawn to keep the ship from landing on Requiem.[8] Aboard the Forward Unto Dawn, Cortana wakes John-117 from his cryotube and warns him of the intruders. Once off the frigate, they are forcibly pulled into the artificial planet.[9]
July 21-July 23
- John-117 and Cortana engage Covenant forces on Requiem while attempting to find a way back to UNSC-controlled space. Meanwhile, UNSC Infinity is approaching Requiem, oblivious of the gravity well which pulled the Dawn and many Covenant ships inside. While attempting to clear the communications interference preventing them from contacting Infinity, John-117 and Cortana are attacked by mechanical Promethean forces. Activating a supposed broadcast relay in Requiem's core, John-117 instead accidentally releases the Didact from imprisonment. Bent on preventing human ascendance, the Didact leaves immediately and joins forces with the Covenant.[10]
- UNSC Infinity crashes on Requiem. The Didact makes for the crash-site, followed by the Master Chief, who reunites with the UNSC for the first time in years and assists in the defense of the stranded Infinity, eventually driving back the Didact and the Covenant forces. Afterwards, Captain Andrew Del Rio has a difference of opinion with the Master Chief on whether or not they should leave Requiem, or stay and deal with the Didact.[11] In the end, Del Rio orders the Chief to join Gypsy Company and destroy Requiem's gravity well generator so that the Infinity can depart.[12]
- During the mission, John-117 encounters a vision of the Librarian, who warns him of the Didact's plan: to use a machine known as the Composer to neutralize humanity once and for all. To fight the Didact, the Librarian provides the Spartan with additional genetic enhancements, including an immunity to the Composer. Once the gravity well is destroyed, Captain Del Rio orders the Infinity to leave Requiem immediately. Disobeying orders, the Master Chief stays behind in an effort to stop the Didact.[12]
- After the Infinity returns to Earth, FLEETCOM immediately relieves Captain Del Rio of his duties as captain of the ship due to his actions on Requiem; Thomas Lasky is promoted in his place.[13]
- Between July 22 and July 24, the Didact repeatedly contacts Catalog and requests authorization to take control of the ecumene; Catalog rejects his requests.[1]
July 24
- Raid on Ivanoff Station: John-117 pursues the Didact as he travels to Ivanoff Station to acquire the Composer. The Didact is eventually successful and uses the Composer to digitize the occupants of Ivanoff, save for John-117 who is saved by the Librarian's enhancements.[14][15]
July 25
- New Phoenix Incident: As the Didact plans to attack Earth and wipe out humanity using the Composer, John-117 follows him in close pursuit. When the Didact reaches Earth, the Infinity and the UNSC Home Fleet engage his ship immediately. Armed with a nuclear device, John-117 makes his way into the ship and confronts the Didact, but not before the Forerunner uses the Composer to digitize the population of New Phoenix, URNA. With the aid of a rampant Cortana, the Master Chief is eventually able to defeat the Didact and destroy his ship. Cortana sacrifices herself to save John-117 from the explosion and the Spartan is recovered from the debris field soon after.[13]
- On Installation 03, a UNSC science team, along with SPARTAN-II Team Black assigned to escort them, observes multiple inbound slipspace signatures. One of the objects crash-lands nearby and the Spartans move to examine it. Lying on the bottom of the impact crater is the Ur-Didact, who awakens shortly after and kills the Spartans and the science team.[16]
- 859 Static Carillon appears from the Composer's Abyss, expressing its confusion over why Promethean constructs are present on the ring, and wishes to see the 049 Abject Testament. The monitor approaches the Didact and he identifies the monitor as the caretaker of the Composer's Forge and the keeper of the Composers. Static Carillon explains that it came to Gamma Halo to investigate the reactivation of a service portal. The Didact then asks the monitor to take him to the Composer's Forge.[16]
- A group of SPARTAN-IV recruits is deployed offworld at the time of the attack.[17]
- John-117 is debriefed by the UNSC Security Council about the Didact and the loss of Cortana. The Council decides to tell the public that the attack was carried out by the Covenant and it was stopped by Master Chief.[15]
- Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood informs John-117 about the loss of contact with the Installation 03 science team an hour earlier, and that the attackers may have been Prometheans. John reunites with Blue Team and deploys immediately to Gamma Halo.[15]
July 26
- After arriving at Gamma Halo, Blue Team find the bodies of the deceased science team and Team Black. While looking for Team Black's killer, the Spartans are attacked by Promethean Knights. After a short firefight, Blue Team destroys the Knights and discovers the former location of the Composer.[15]
- Upon entering the structure, the Spartans discover the Composer's Abyss, a facility used to store victims digitized by the Composer. At the end of the Abyss, the Spartans discover a slipspace portal.[15]
- On the Composer's Forge, 859 Static Carillon informs the Didact that Blue Team has found the portal. However, the Didact claims that he looks forward to welcoming the Spartans to his world.[15]
- Blue Team to the Composer's Forge and discover six Composers, just before the Didact appears behind the Spartans. Blue Team open fire, to no avail; the Didact stomps the ground, generating a shockwave that causes the Spartans to stumble. The Didact summons more of his Promethean minions and a frantic firefight breaks out.[16]
- Static Carillon arrives in the scene and begins to complain about the Didact violating their agreement in having created more of the Promethean constructs. The Didact angrily grabs Static Carillon and urges it to fulfill its part of their bargain. The monitor obliges, and a Halo installation appears in the sky from slipspace. Satisfied, the Didact procures one of the Composers and states that he will repair the ring.[16]
- Static Carillon tells Blue Team that the Didact is planning to use the Halo against humanity and Earth. The monitor takes issue at the Didact's creation of new Prometheans from the humans of New Phoenix and helps the Spartans retreat back to the Gamma Halo portal in pursuit of the Didact, holding off the hordes of Promethean machines.[16]
- Blue Team return to the surface of Gamma Halo from the Composer's Abyss, but the Didact attacks and prepares to finish off them. As the Didact is about to execute Kelly-087, John-117 sneaks behind the Forerunner and stabs him in the eye with a combat knife. Intending to correct his mistake of not having killed the Spartan when he had the chance, the Didact grabs John by the helmet, lifts him in the air and crushed his helmet.[16]
July 26-27
- John-117 disappears following the events at Gamma Halo and the Composer's Forge.[18]
December
December 5
Unknown
- Gek 'Lhar carries out a terrorist attack on Earth; he is detained and sent to Midnight Facility for interrogation.[19]
Sources
- ^ a b c d Halo Waypoint: Catalog Interaction - Page 14
- ^ Halo 4, The Commissioning
- ^ Halo 4 Limited Edition — Infinity Briefing Packet
- ^ a b Eleventh Hour reports, Report #4 Provenance
- ^ Halo: Primordium, pages 11-13
- ^ Halo: Primordium, page 371
- ^ Halo: Primordium, pages 376-379
- ^ Halo Waypoint: Halo 4 Terminal: Jul 'Mdama
- ^ Halo 4, campaign level Dawn
- ^ Halo 4, campaign level Forerunner
- ^ Halo 4, campaign level Infinity
- ^ a b Halo 4, campaign level Reclaimer
- ^ a b Halo 4, campaign level Midnight
- ^ Halo 4, campaign level Composer
- ^ a b c d e f Halo: Escalation - Issue #8
- ^ a b c d e f Halo: Escalation - Issue #9
- ^ a b Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide
- ^ Halo: Escalation - Issue #3 (Vladimir Scruggs: "What about your pal, the Master Chief? Any of you heard of him lately?")
- ^ Halo Waypoint - I wish 343i would of done more with Gek Lhar