Events:
- The UNSC takes control of the station Hopeful and adds fusion reactors and a Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace Drive, turning the Hopeful into the largest mobile battlefield hospital in history. It is commanded by the legendary Admiral Ysionris Jeromi.
- The Eridanus Insurrection continues between the Eridanus Rebels and the UNSC.
- Captain Jacob Keyes is born on Earth.