Battle of Farkeep (AAO)

The Battle of Farkeep was a major engagement in the Human-Covenant war. The battle lasted for several weeks, but would encompass massive Human casualties as one of the first major engagements on a UNSC colony world. Despite the battle occurring on a rather small and unimportant colony, it was the home to many UNSC officials and brought major attention of the threat of the Covenant to the UNSC brass. The battle saw participants such as Reaver Delgado, who would have his career rocketed by the engagement.

The battle lasted exactly four weeks in the end, at the cost of twenty thousand lives. Despite this, most of the dead were military or militia forces and most of the civilians were evacuated from the planet due to an effective UNSC response. Thanks to the large amount of families of military brass, piles of medals were released for action in the battle, far more than is the average for other engagements of its scale. Some have since referred to it as the first TV battle of the UNSC war, as the huge number of medals received massive press attention.

Farkeep was memorialized for a very long time, and "remember Farkeep" was a major motto until towards the end of the war, when the Battle of Reach occurred and Farkeep was immediately forgotten.