Ariel

Ariel is a Human colony world of the Unified Earth Government.
==History==
It was once the site of a Forerunner artifact named The Knowing used to store information.
===Human Colonization===
Under human occupation, the planet had two archaeological dig sites and one settlement, with a population of approximately 4000 residents.Halo: Helljumper - Issue One
In 2532, several SPARTAN-II augumentation chemicals precursors were sent to an ONI Section 3 laboratory on this colony.Halo: Reach Legendary Edition - Bonus Item: Dr. Halsey's personal journal, January 18, 2532
===Battle of Ariel===
During the Human-Covenant war, the Covenant invaded the colony, and one of the civilians managed to send out a distress signal, to which UNSC High Command sent a force of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers from the 105th ODST Division to investigate. The UNSC forces came to notice that the Covenant were not operating in their usual fashion; Glassing of the planet was not their intent, but they were searching for something under the surface instead.
==Trivia==
*Ariel is also the name of the planet Uranus's fourth largest moon.
*Ariel is also the name of a planet in the television series Firefly, which starred the voice actors for Buck, Dutch and Mickey (being Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin and Alan Tudyk, respectively).
*There is information in Halo Encyclopedia that Spartans wearing MJOLNIR mark IV armor were sighted. Suspiciously, that armor possessed energy shielding, thus it wasn't confirmed by ONI.
==Appearances==
*Halo: Helljumper 
==Sources==
Category:UEG Worlds