The Hydra System Massacres were a conflict that took place in the early years of human spaceflight.[1] They most likely happened after the beginning of star colonization in 2362[2], but before the division of Inner and Outer Colonies was long established[3] and certainly before 2518.[4]
Sources
- ^ Catherine Halsey, Halo: The Fall of Reach pages 20-21: "Indeed, Lieutenant, ever since we left Earth's gravity well, we’ve been fighting one another for every cubic centimeter of vacuum - from Mars to the Jovian Moons to the Hydra System Massacres and on to the hundred brushfire wars in the Outer Colonies."
- ^ This assumes that the Hydra System is the star system in which the massacres took place.
- ^ Based on Halsey's placement of them before the wars in the Outer Colonies in Fall of Reach.
- ^ Halsey's mention of them in Fall of Reach is dated August 17, 2517.