UNSC Home Fleet

The UNSC Home Fleet is a unit of the UNSC Navy. They are assigned to protect Earth from an invasion or attack. Its commanding officer is Fleet Admiral Sir Terrence Hood.

History
The UNSC Home Fleet's known history is short but distinguished. It is likely that the UNSC Home Fleet existed since the formation of the UNSC in the 2100's, most likely for the defense of Earth.

I Love Bees
In ILB, Nassau Station was sent back in time.

First Battle of Earth
The Home Fleet first fought during the First Battle of Earth, where it successfully defeated the Covenant Navy in Earth's orbit. The engagment however was against a very small fleet of two assault carriers and a few cruisers,which due to a fatal intellegence error explained the size of the fleet. This engagement was commanded by both Fleet Admirals Hood and Harper.

On Cairo Station, Fleet Admiral Hood was awarding John-117, Avery Johnson, and Jacob Keyes (Recieved post-humously by his daugher,Miranda Keyes) for their actions at the first Halo. When Cortana recieved a slipspace rupture report near Io, she relayed the information to FADM Hood. When the Covenant Force arrived, the Home Fleet was ready and waiting. Opening up with "Marathon" Class Cruisers and MAC Shells, they decimated the Covenant Fleet, but suffered heavy losses themselves. Also during the engagement, the Covenant released boarding pods to occupy and destroy the MAC Platforms. Stations Athens and Malta were both destroyed due to the bombs planted by the Covenant boarding parties. However Cairo was spared destructon by Spartan-117, who later took the bomb that was planted on the station and destroyed a near-by Assault Carrier by jumping out of the station's airlock and guiding the bomb to the carrier.

Second Battle of Earth
During the Second Battle of Earth, starting in November of 2552, they were slowly being decimated at the hands of the Covenant Loyalists. Later in the battle, the Home Fleet had less than 100 ships and were almost to the point of destruction.

Then, the Covenant Separatists, led by the Arbiter and Shipmaster Rtas 'Vadum helped the UNSC's Home Fleet to push the Loyalists off of Earth.

Two ships of the Home Fleet, the and the  fought during the last battle of the Human-Covenant War, the Battle of Installation 00 at the Ark. There, the Dawn and the Fate helped local UNSC Marine and Separatist forces against the Covenant Loyalist Army.

Battle of Onyx
The UNSC Home Fleet dispatched Battlegroup Stalingrad to Onyx to recover forerunner artifacts reported by Catherine Halsey. When the battle group arrived, they engaged two Covenant Cruisers. They believed they had won the engagement, destroying one ship and heavily damaging the other. Then, a Covenant Fleet appeared from slipspace, and began to destroy the Battle Group. They were decimated after they launched a final suicide assault.

Orbital Defense Platforms

 * ODA-142 Cairo Station
 * ODA-143 Malta Station
 * ODA-144 Athens Station
 * ODA-??? Nassau Station

Subordinate Units

 * Second Fleet
 * Seventh Fleet
 * Sixteenth Fleet
 * Sixth Battle Group
 * Sol Defense Group 3/A-5
 * Battlegroup Stalingrad