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- Parts 10
January 25th, 2637. Eighty-five years ago, the United Nations Space Command brought a galactic war to an end. What began on February 3rd, 2525, with first contact and open hostilities on the agricultural world of Harvest, concluded on December 11th, 2552, with the final collapse of the Covenant's leadership. The war ended when humanity and the Sangheili set aside their differences during the closing months of 2552 to confront a common enemy and bring the genocidal Covenant to its end.
In the decades that followed, the UNSC and the Unified Earth Government emerged stronger than at any other point in human history. Worlds once reduced to glass by Covenant bombardment were painstakingly terraformed and restored, their atmospheres stabilized and their ecosystems rebuilt. By the mid-26th century, every glassed human colony had been reclaimed. Humanity now governs more than nine hundred planets, supported by a reformed political system that replaced the prewar plutocratic order with a true, centralized civilian government. The result has been a civilization more stable, more secure, and more prosperous than any humanity has known before.
Now, eighty-five years after the end of the Human-Covenant War, humanity and its allies stand at the edge of a new era. Long-range exploration efforts have confirmed the existence of a neighboring galaxy, known to its own inhabitants as the Corusca Galaxy, marking the first verified extragalactic contact in human history and opening the door to discoveries-and dangers-on a scale never before encountered.