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Ballast is a human Inner Colony world, governed by the Unified Earth Government.[2][3]
OverviewEdit
TopographyEdit
LocationsEdit
Known residentsEdit
HistoryEdit
ColonizationEdit
In 2373, humanity arrived in the Kennewick system and established Ballast as an Inner Colony world under the jurisdiction of the Unified Earth Government.[1]
Human-Covenant WarEdit
Prior to 2552 but during the Human-Covenant War, an operation on Ballast took place, where the ODST Gretchen Ketola lost her leg when she stepped an Insurrectionist landmine.[6]
In 2550,[1] Ballast was attacked by the Covenant. During the course of the battle, a rumor that the UNSC Defense Force succeeded in defeating the Covenant began circulating, although many thought it possible that the rumor was created by the Office of Naval Intelligence to raise morale.[2] Regardless of the rumors, Ballast did indeed escape being glassed[1] and the colony still intact during the Battle for Earth in late 2552, as evidenced by active transports from the colony to the Quito Space Tether.[7]
Post-warEdit
After the war, as part of Project ALOHA-19, an Acheron Security AI memory matrix containment and display module was shipped from Havenwinter on Ballast to UNSC Transit Dock L22 on Luna, and from there to an Outpost Discovery on Earth.[8]
Government and societyEdit
EconomyEdit
The car manufacturing company Kabord was originally based out of Vallejo, a city on the world.[4]
TriviaEdit
On the Halo 3 multiplayer map Orbital, one of the incoming transports is from Ballast.
GalleryEdit
Gretchen, Romeo and Dutch fighting together on Ballast.
Gretchen is severely injured by an enemy landmine on Ballast.
List of appearancesEdit
- Halo 3 (First mentioned)
- Halo: Helljumper (Flashback only)
- Halo: Glasslands (Indirect mention)
- Halo 5: Guardians
- Limited Edition dossiers (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Outpost Discovery (Mentioned only)
SourcesEdit
- ^ a b c d e Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 50
- ^ a b Halo Encyclopedia (2011 edition), page 300
- ^ Bungie.net, The M9 Frag Grenade (Retrieved on Jan 31, 2021) [local archive] [external archive]
- ^ a b Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Hog on the Horizon (Retrieved on Sep 30, 2023) [local archive] [external archive]
- ^ Halo Waypoint, Frederic-104 (Retrieved on Jul 30, 2021) [archive]
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 97
- ^ Halo 3, multiplayer map Orbital
- ^ Halo: Outpost Discovery