Prologue
By UNSC Military Historian Arnold Heseltine (active duty 2549-2570)
Earth Reconstruction Commission
Special order of Director William Stealtin
This collection is being compiled to eventually enter both the UNSC archives as well as the future site known as the Museum of Humanity.
The following files describe the real life and death situations surrounding the events of one of humanities darkest hours. Though many of the men and women who are mentioned here did not survive the various engagement we can honor their memory by remembering what they went through in the service of protecting humanity.
As one famous man said "We can only go forward when we have realized where we have been." History let the author of these words go but I do not intend to let these events pass into legend.
I will continue my collection as long as new reports arrive at my desk but I hope to finish this collection before the completion of the museum.