Battle of Harvest

The Battle of Harvest was the first official battle of the Human-Covenant War, during which a massive Covenant invasion force attacked and glassed the Human colony world of Harvest, marking the beginning of their genocidal campaign against Humanity that would eventually culminate in their own destruction.

The actual battle itself was little more than a rout, with the Humans being annihilated on every front. Ineffective weapons and tactics meant that the Covenant swept through their military and utterly obliterated the colony world leaving few surviours. One of those survivours, however, was Sergeant Johnson.

The Humans did, however, score several minor victories against their new foes, one of the most notable being the destruction of the Begotten Angel, and the subsequent annihilation of an entire SpecOps team station aboard. Nontheless, the Humans suffered crippling losses at the hands of the Covenant.

Many other battles were soon to follow that would result in the destruction of many Human colony worlds such as the Battle of Arcadia and the Battle of Reach. Although the Humans would eventually take back Harvest in a bloody battle that would see 1/3 of their fleet destroyed, the planet was glassed beyond recognition.