Halo timeline: The Fall of Reach and the Pillar of Autumn's escape

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After decades of fighting, the UNSC was pushed back to their strongest system: Reach. Thought to be impenetrable, the UNSC believed the Covenant could be stopped here. They were wrong.
In the last article, we saw how the UNSC Spirit of Fire and her crew was able to prevent the Covenant from winning the war early.

• Halo timeline part one: Precursors, Forerunner betrayal, and the era that followed
• Halo timeline part two: Forerunner-Flood War and the firing of the Halo arrays
• Halo timeline part three: War of Beginnings and formation of the Covenant
• Halo timeline part four: Growth and expansion of the Covenant empire
• Halo timeline part five: Rise of humanity and the Spartan program
• Halo timeline part six: Beginning of the Human-Covenant War and the downfall of Harvest
• Halo timeline part seven: The Battle of the Etran Harborage

In this article, we're going to fast forward to the war's latter stages. Weakened after two decades of fighting, the UNSC was pushed back all the way to planet Reach. It was kept hidden from the Covenant for a time...but that didn't last.

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