Vessels in danger of capture must self-destruct. When forced to withdraw, ships must avoid Earth-bound vectors - even if that means jumping without proper navigational calculations. Covenant religious elders declared humanity an affront to the gods, and the Covenant warrior caste waged a holy war upon humanity with gruesome diligence.Īfter a series of crushing defeats and obliterated colonies, UNSC Admiral Preston Cole established the Cole Protocol: no vessel may inadvertently lead the Covenant to Earth. This was humankind’s first encounter with a group of aliens they eventually came to know as the Covenant, a collective of alien races united in their fanatical religious devotion. Its crew told of a seemingly unstoppable alien warship that had effortlessly annihilated their forces. A battlegroup sent to investigate was almost completely destroyed only one badly damaged ship returned to Reach. Thirty-two years ago, contact with the outer colony Harvest was lost.
Conveniently close to Earth, Reach is also a hub of scientific and military activity. A keystone of humanity’s colonization efforts is the planet Reach, an interstellar naval yard that builds colony ships for civilians and warships for the UNSC’s armed forces. Faster-than-light travel is now a reality, and Earth’s unified government, through the United Nations Space Command, has put its full weight behind the colonization effort millions of humans now live on habitable planets in other solar systems.
Planet Earth still exists, but overpopulation has forced many of her former residents to colonize other worlds.
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