The resulting conflict was fought on both planetary surfaces and in space engagements, where the San'Shyuum held the distinct advantage due to their use of the Forerunner Dreadnought, a Forerunner keyship fitted by the San'Shyuum with offensive armament. The Sangheili had been a spacefaring civilization for some time by 938 BCE, when they encountered the San'Shyuum.
The Covenant races, meanwhile, have been spacefaring for significantly longer than humanity. While Unified Ground Command (UNICOM) oversees planetary campaigns, orbital defenses and space-based combat is directed by UNSC Naval Command (NAVCOM). Following the Callisto Incident of 2494, the numerous small-scale space engagements occurred between the UNSC Navy and Insurrectionists across human space. The UNSC Navy only conducted low-level operations, such as anti- piracy actions, until the Insurrection, which forced the Navy to develop a modern space warfare doctrine. In the late 23rd century, humanity invented and began to utilize the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine on their spacecraft, allowing human ships to travel through slipstream space to reach destinations light-years away. The campaign marked a turning-point in space warfare through dedicated utilizations of Marine forces in ground assaults and ship- boarding operations that would follow during the war. The dawn of the Interplanetary War and its associated engagements saw the formation of the United Nations Space Command's Navy following the Mars Campaign. The new outlet of travel and exploration would eventually lead to conflict. In the late 21st century, humanity had become an interplanetary-faring species with colonies established in their home system. With the invention of human space travel in the 20th century, many organizations and nations began to consider or invest in possible military operations conducted in space. Space warfare evolved from engagements on a world's surface or in its atmosphere. A tactical readout of the UNSC's Fifth Fleet engaging the Covenant Fleet of Sacred Consecration above Earth.
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