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The era includes UNSC operations against the Rebel/ Insurrection forces in the Outer Colonies, the continuation of the ORION Project and the creation of the SPARTAN-II Program. The Insurrection era includes events spanning from 2494 CE to 2525 CE. It includes the Odyssey settling Reach, the foundation of most critical human interstellar colonies, and the first wave of dissidence from these colonies. The Colonial era spans from 2362 CE to 2494 CE and focuses on the human Domus Diaspora. The Globalization era contains events from 1500 CE to 2362 CE, such as the Industrial Revolution, formations of key nations and empires, the First and Second World Wars, formation of the United Nations, the Cold War, early human space exploration, modern history (including portions of i love bees), early human space colonies, the Interplanetary War, the formation of the Unified Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command, and the creation of the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine. The era includes the San'Shyuum Civil War, Sangheili-San'Shyuum war, formation of the Covenant Empire, assimilation of the Lekgolo and the Kig-Yar, and some early human history (such as the Battle of Thermopylae). The Rise of the Covenant Era is composed of events starting from 50,000 BCE to 1500 CE, during which time the Covenant was first founded and expanded into a large interstellar empire. This era covers events such as the rise of the space-faring prehistoric human civilization, the Forerunner-Flood war, the activation of the Halo Array, and the subsequent repopulation of the galaxy through the Conservation Measure. Spanning from 200,000 BCE to 50,000 BCE, the Forerunner Era covers the time during which the Forerunner Ecumene was the dominant power in the Milky Way galaxy.
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The Precursor era spans the time before 200,000 BCE and covers the time of the Precursors. The Timeline of the Halo universe spans hundreds of thousands of years, and is divided into several different eras for ease of understanding.