Novanskoye

Novanskoye was a largely cold human colony world that was known for an uprising against the planet's UNSC forces during the Insurrection, which saw the UNSC abandon the planet to the insurrectionist faction, only to return much later after the Human-Covenant War on July 8th, 2553.
== Overview ==
Novanskoye has an equal gravity to Earth's. Whether or not it has any moons is unknown.
Novanskoye is largely frozen, covered in ice and snow as well as being home to large mountains and expansive forests created as a result of human terraforming. A single human settlement exists on the surface: A small and underdeveloped town with a UNSC airbase towards the center of the settlement.
== History ==
=== Human colonization ===
Sometime prior to the Insurrection, the United Nations Space Command colonized and terraformed Novanskoye to become a habitable colony for Humanity. By the time the UNSC was unseated from the planet, it was already home to a small, albeit underdeveloped, town and a UNSC airbase.
=== The Insurrection ===
During the Insurrection, Novanskoye faced an uprising by an insurrectionist faction that attacked the UNSC airbase on the planet. Lacking the equipment and firepower to hold off the insurrectionists, the UNSC forces opted to retreat, abandoning the airfield and the planet to the insurrectionists. Not deeming the planet worth the resources it would require to retake it, the UNSC decided to leave the planet alone for the rest of the Insurrection.
=== Human-Covenant War ===
Novanskoye, due to its small size, little ship traffic, or population, and general unimportance to both sides, the planet was spared any fighting during the Human-Covenant War.
=== Post-war ===
==== Operation: NULL FROST ====
After the end of the Human-Covenant War, the Covenant split into multiple remnant factions, either hoping to rebuild the Covenant, eliminate humanity, or just gain whatever power they could. When one of the remnant factions encountered the Novanskoye insurrectionists, the insurrectionists bought several Is'belox-pattern Banshees from them. Once word of the insurrectionists possessing Covenant craft reached the UNSC, they deemed the retaking of the planet a priority and deployed the Ignis Corps, fresh from the Human-Covenant War, aboard the frigate UNSC Arcadia's Revenge, to retake the planet.
Following a prolonged battle between UNSC forces and the insurrectionists, the battle ended in a UNSC victory with all insurrectionists either killed or captured, and many of their vehicles seized or destroyed. Novanskoye's settlement was moderately damaged during the battle, with vehicle wrecks dotting the town after UNSC troops departed and several buildings damaged or even completely destroyed, leveled to their foundations.
== Gallery ==
File:InnieBanshee.png|An insurrectionist Banshee strafing an ODST of the Ignis Corps
File:NullFrostODSTDrop.png|An elevated view of Novanskoye's terrain from an ODST drop pod
File:AirfieldRuin.png|A destroyed hangar at the planet's UNSC airbase
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