IMPORTANT!

John and Jane are twins. Jane remembers John, but John not Jane. How Jane is part of the Federation will be hinted at on stamp August 21st, 2552.

March 10th, 2080: The humans of Earth finally advance their technology enough to reach for the stars and begin colonizing other planets. Mars was the first, followed by the Jovian moons and other close worlds followed.

December 21st, 2163: United Nations marines ambushed by first resembles of Insurgent troops at Argyre Planitia and defeated them. While it showed the marine's effectiveness in combat, it showed that a space-military organization representing Humanity's strength was required to keep the peace. Thus, the United Nations Space Command, or UNSC, was created.

June 10th, 2180: A UNSC starship, the UNSC Sephora, is sent out to investigate the distress signal from UNSC Sulaco, which went missing weeks before. Only 100 marines returned home, their ship destroyed after they were ambushed by mercenaries hired by the infamous Weyland-Yutani company, which was immediately dissolved once their actions reached the public. Even a new alien species was claimed to be discovered, but they were wiped from the forever desolate world of LV-426 before these claims could be investigated.

May 31st, 2182: All ship-assigned androids were considered obsolete, and scrapped. After experimenting with another retired company's revolutionary product: the first Artificial Intelligence, AIs were created and replaced the android's position on all starships.

January 20th, 2291: Humanity invents the slip space drive, creating faster-than-light travel.

April 12th, 2310: Earth was officially overpopulated and over-militarized. Using the newly created Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace drive, colony ships were mass-produced, and even more worlds were colonized, giving birth to the Inner Colonies.

August 11th, 2490: Around 800 planets were colonized, ranging from mighty fortresses to tiny settlements. The Inner Colonies were the political and economic strongholds, although materials from the Outer Colonies were essential.

January 6th, 2506: It had become apparent that a massive rebellion against the UNSC was on the verge of occurring. The Office of Naval Intelligence, or ONI, attempted to quell the rebels, now dubbed the Insurrectionists, by creating the ORION Project, or the Spartan-I program, to create real super soldiers and use the most advanced military technology possible. However, expectations were not met, the ORION Project was canceled, and their agents were transferred to other military fields of the UNSC.

September 14th, 2517: As a result of the failure of the Spartan-I Project, Dr. Catherine Halsey created the Spartan-II program to create the ultimate soldiers who would assist the UNSC in ending the Insurrection.

October 31st, 2524: A civilian freighter from Harvest, Horn of Plenty, encountered a Covenant ship. Despite Humanity's attempts to make peace with the aliens, the Covenant and UNSC fought on Harvest, and the UNSC lost. The Human-Covenant War had officially begun.

November 5th, 2525: Dr. Halsey used biological augmentation on her original 75 recruits for the Spartan-II program after years of training, but only 33 survive and as standard armour, they are given the newly invented Mjolnir Mk. IV armour.

January 2nd, 2536: Taking inspiration from the II's, the Spartan-III program was set in motion by Beta-5 Division of ONI, under Colonel James Ackerson. Creating cheaper and better-equipped Spartans-IIIs.

August 10th, 2536: The Covenant destroyed most of the UNSC Outer Colonies and began making their way into the Inner Colonies. Officially starting the Human-Covenant war.

August 20th, 2552: Reach falls to Covenant forces. While losing Reach was destructive to the UNSC, the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, with the now famous AI to Master Chief/Sierra-117, Cortana was able to escape.

August 21st, 2552: Sudden appearance of a ship of unknown design near Earth. The ship was boarded by Marines, multiple dead civilians were found, and only one child was found, however nearly dead.

August 22nd, 2552: The events at Halo Installation 04 occur. John-117, the Master Chief and Cortana pick up any survivors of the attack and hijack a Covenant ship, heading to Reach and return to Earth with surviving Marines, Spartan-IIs and Dr Halsey. They discover the largest ever seen Covenant fleet preparing to invade Earth and with one of the Spartan-II's sacrificing their very life so the rest make it to Earth.

August 23rd, 2552: The survivors return to Earth and warn the UNSC of the imminent invasion. Thel 'Vadum was made 'the Arbiter'.

August 25th, 2552: The Battle of Earth begins.

August 30th, 2552: Master Chief finds Delta Halo, kills the Prophet of Regret and after uniting with the Arbiter, fights for their species' survival. In the process, Arbiter 'Vadum kills the Brute's chieftain Tartarus and prevents the ring from being fired.

December 12th, 2552: The Battle aboard Halo Installation 00, the Ark, occurs. Master Chief activates Halo 04B with a rescued Cortana's help and wipes the Flood from Earth. As a result of the firing before the ring could be stabilized, the Halo becomes unstable and blows up the ring and the Ark at the same time.

March 3rd, 2553: After decades of fighting, the Human-Covenant War ends. Over 25 billion humans lost their lives in the war and heavy losses for the other races occurred as well. Humans and Sangheili sign a peace treaty, ending the war between the 2 species. Humans start to break the glass on every former colony's worlds and return the planets to what they were like before their glassing as well as create the Spartan-IV program.

April 5th, 2553: The Swords of Sanghelios Government, or SSG, was set up on Sanghelios. They discover several small factions holding onto Covenant beliefs on Sanghelios and the Urs System.

June 10th, 2557: These factions of the former Covenant unite into the Covenant Storm, led by Jul 'Mdama. The SSG engaged them in another war, with help from the UEG/UNSC.

June 14th, 2557: ONI finds a way to 'factory reset' AIs, with the first being the flash clone off Dr. Halsey to Sierra-117, known as CTN 0452-9 or 'Cortana'. The AI has been experiencing Rampancy onboard off the UNSC Infinity, then under the command of Admiral Del-Rio. While the Chief refused to hand her over to the Admiral, an ONI sleeper agent onboard the Infinity was able to convince the Chief and Cortana to go through with the Experiment. The experiment was a resounding success, with experts arguing that it was the only thing that had Sierra-117 not going AWOL.

December 1st, 2557: The Covenant Storm gained access to the Forerunner shield world of Requiem with the Master Chief's presence, despite his fighting against them.

December 2nd, 2557: The Covenant Storm attempts to awaken the Didact, not realizing, while powerful, thousands of years without anything has made him weak. Allowing a combined fleet of SSG and UNSC to end him just above the planet. The only confirmed lost ship being the 'Infinity' with only half the personnel surviving. Among them were the all medics, Spartans and ODST, most technicians, nearly all marines and the ship bridge crew, Captain Lasky has been ordered to take the ships AI 'Roland' with him, while at first, he refused, the Admiral on board reminded him that he was his superior and that he was ordering him, he eventually gave up and took the AI with him, with the only high-ranking official lost being Admiral Del-Rio who remained on the bridge in order to set her down easy for UNSC recovery personnel to later recover what they could. While the Infinity didn't sustain a lot of damage, the damage that was done forced the UNSC to have her undergo major repairs. Refits and upgrades to the shields and engines would be done at the same time.

December 3rd, 2557: The Storm disbands, and multiple factions arise, the most notable being the Jiralhanae Covenant or JC, and the Banished, consisting of those not granted entrance into the SSG, UEG or JC. Most of the Banished forces are war criminals that didn't enter the JC.

December 23rd, 2557: It became standard practice to have two Smart-AIs on any Infinity-class supercarrier or of similar size. One on primary duties, like MAC aiming and firing, driving or traversing slip space, and another on any secondary functions – and incase the first AI enters Rampancy early the secondary Smart-AI becomes the primary AI, with another Smart-AI, mostly kept by the onboard Spartans or any members of ONI.

June 14th, 2558: Following hard fighting against the JC, the last hideout on Crestian II - a colony world of the UEG - is retaken by SSG and UNSC forces.

June 17th, 2558: The UNSC officially becomes the military arm of the UEG. And talks with the SSG, about light unification, are ongoing.

June 18th, 2558: The MOR act, or 'Mantel of Responsibility act', is past by the UEG and SSG, forcing both sides and all future signers of this act, to render aid to all life in this or any other galaxy and even Universe, and eradicate everything that threatens to massacre an entire species.

June 20th, 2558: The UEG and SSG colonized all planets lost during the 'Human-Covenant War of Heresy', even if just very lightly with maybe a few villages on most planets.

October 24th, 2559: The Infinity was reactivated into active service under the newly promoted, Rear Admiral Thomas Lasky, who has proven himself fighting the JC and Banished forces.

December 9th, 2569: Unfortunately fighting with the Banished is still ongoing, but it was isolated to planets far away from any home. Resulting in a Stalemate and unofficial cease-fire.

December 15th, 2569: The Spartan-V Programm is started, allowing for regular civilians to immediately become Spartans. The selection process is considered cruel by all standards but is considered the best training in the entire USNC and necessary to have people not physically capable enough to use the MJOLNIR armour, in order to minimize or eliminate any possible deaths during the training process.

December 12th, 2570: ONI makes the first Smart-AI with the capability to 'Stabilize' allowing the AI to remain under partial control even while the AI is experiencing Rampancy until the AI can be reset into a non-rampant setting.

June 7th, 2572: The last of the Spartan IIs are retired and often put in charge of training the new generation of Spartans-Vs.

September 25th, 2574: ONI and SIO officially unite under the Federation Information Agency, or FIA, often called 'new ONI' or 'new SIO', depending on where you're from.

September 29th, 2574: The UEG and SSG, unite under the United Sentient Species Federation, or USSF. SSG and UNSC forces are brought under the command of the United Federation Space Command, or UFSC (ship designation: FSC), often called 'new UNSC' by both sides, as they prefer UNSC-style ships, slow heavy hitters -especially over range- over SIO-style ships. For the USSF capital, the human world of Reach is chosen, with the FSC Eternity, an Infinity-class Supercarrier, being chosen as the mobile home of the Federation Species Council, which is responsible for the military of the USSF, the UFSC, -Consisting of representatives of each Species within USSF space, which are chosen upon death and CAN be removed by certain events-. First human: Lord Admiral Terrence Hood, First Sangheili: Rtas 'Vadum.

December 24th, 2574: The FIA Stealth-Prowler Jawohl Mister, finds tens of thousands of ships of unknown design -designated 'Alien Life Fleet'-. The Federation Council (UFC) enacts 'Possible-emergency' powers and orders the FIA to keep Spying on the aliens.

February 21st, 2575: The FIA Stealth-Prowler Jawohl Mister breaks into the Alien Fleets language database and a rough translation matrix is compiled by the onboard Smart-AI. Further incursions into the Aliens Systems are done regularly.

February 23rd, 2575: The FIA learns that there is another Humanity out there, that is part of another Galactic Government called the Citadel. With permission from the Federation, Council spies are sent into their ranks.

February 26th, 2575: The FIA gets wind of a secret project and infiltrates it with Engineers, a pilot, and even a Spartan -under the cover of being a new N7- for the ground team.

August 12th, 2576: The first USSF Parliament is elected, consisting of 500 representatives, elected by their respective Sector or Over-Sector Parliaments or Sectorial- or System-Governments. This number of 500 is set to increase to 700 by 2585 and 1000 by 2600. The Earth Calendar of, 365 days, 7 days a week, and 24 hours a day, is accepted as the Federation Standard. With each planet being urged to have their own, more planet-accurate system, with the 'Earth' Calendar only being used with official dealings and multi-planet organisation.

September 13th, 2576: The FSC Exploration Group 14, gets a distress signal from the Spartan aboard the Normandy-SR1. It was destroyed with most personnel escaping with Pods or being fished out of space by the EG14.

September 14th, 2576: John Shepard is brought to facility -REDACTED-, for healing and augmentation with -REDATED- class augmentations. Most Federation personnel that was on or worked on the Normandy-SR1 are brought back to USSF Space for re-training and working a possible new Normandy.

September 15th, 2576: The UFC permits the secret development and construction of an upgraded Normandy Eezo Stealth Craft/Prowler.

June 1st, 2578: The facility where Citadel Council (CC) Spectre John Shepard is being healed and augmented is attacked by an unknown force. The facility has to be abandoned due to critical structural damage. John Shepard is awoken two months before the timed 'restoration'.