Harvest Campaign

The Harvest Campaign was a series of engagements during the early years of the Human-Covenant War, lasting from 2525 to 2531. Fought near and on the partially razed world of Harvest, the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant Empire committed major resources in their struggle to claim the planet. After years of battle and tremendous losses on both sides, the Covenant finally quit Epsilon Indi entirely and withdrew from Harvest in mid-2531, allowing an exhausted United Nations Space Command to declare victory.
==Timeline==
;2525 January 17 : Action of 17 January 2525: Human special forces engage and defeat Kig-Yar missionaries, resulting in the destruction of the Covenant missionary vessel Minor Transgression. 
;2525 February 3 : The arrival of the Covenant light cruiser Rapid Conversion is detected by the human space station Tiara. 
;2525 February 11 : Attempted negotiations between representatives of the Covenant and Unified Earth Government fail and result in violence. The Human-Covenant War effectively begins. 
;2525 February 21-22 : Covenant light cruiser Rapid Conversion razes outlying farms and residences; Covenant forces destroy Gladsheim. 
;2525 February 23 : Human forces successfully evacuate Harvest. 
;2525 April 20 : The CMA Argo arrives in-system, but is quickly destroyed by the Rapid Conversion. 
;2525 October 7 : Action of 7 October 2525: CMA Battle Group 4 arrives near Harvest and is engaged by the Covenant battleship Merciless Devotion. Frigates CMA Arabia and Vostok are immediately destroyed, while the destroyer CMA Heracles successfully flees into Slipspace. 
;2526 March 1 : Action of 1 March 2526: UNSC Battle Group X-Ray arrives in-system and destroys the Covenant battleship Merciless Devotion at high cost. 
;2526 March 3-7 : Covenant ground forces on Harvest are overwhelmed and destroyed by the 17th Marine Expeditionary Force.
;2531 February 23 : All remaining Covenant forces on Harvest are eliminated. 
Category:Battles of the Human-Covenant War