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February
- February 28: Jun-266 is born on Tyumen, New Harmony.[1]
June
- June 12: Kojo "Romeo" Agu is born in the Castra arcology, Castra, on Madrigal.
- Mid June: Insurrectionists hit the luxury liner National Holiday above Reach, detonating explosives against its hull. The ship plummets into Reach's atmosphere, burning up via re-entry. ONI manages to portray it as a tragic accident.[2]
- June 16: Staff Sergeants Byrne and Avery J. Johnson lead two four-man teams on a raid in Casbah on Tribute in the Epsilon Eridani System to find rebel bombs [3]. The assault is part of Operation: TREBUCHET.
August
- August 10: Johnson arrives in Chicago, Earth, after the botched operation on Tribute. He goes to visit his aunt Marcille, only to find that she passed away three days ago. In grief, he goes on a drinking spree. Eventually, he's found by Lieutenant Downs.[5]
September
- September 2: The UNSC Horn of Plenty emerges from slipspace in error, courtesy of a radiation leak and sends out a distress beacon. It is all for nothing however, the ship being attacked and captured by a Covenant vessel.[6]
- September 3: Horn of Plentys navigation box is retrieved by the Covenant forces, its contents analyzed by the Huragok Lighter than Some. It finds the vessel's point of origin. The Covenant ship ,Minor Transgression, heads off to obtain more spoils.[7]
December
- December 21: The UNSC Two for Flinching, carrying Johnson and many others, arrives at the Epsilon Indi System.[9] Simultaneously, al-Cyngi is briefed by the AIs Sif and Mack.[10]
- Late December: The Prophet of Restraint impregnates a female San 'Shyuum, despite his defective genes not allowing him to do so. With the mother refusing an abortion, a scandal starts brewing over the issue.[11]
- Minor Transgression launches a raid on the freighter This End Up, killing its captain Henry Gibson. A while later, Sif reports the attack to al-Cyngi, both realising that it was the only ship in the area with a human crew.[12]
Sources
- ^ Game Informer February 2010 Issue
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest page 127
- ^ http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12911
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest page 41
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest pages 37-48
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest page 23
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest pages 49-59
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest page 28
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest page 60
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest page 68
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest page 264, 265
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest page 96-104