Post by Setzer on Sept 27, 2007 22:09:15 GMT -5
THIS SUMMERY CONTAINS SPOILERS AND ENDINGS
THIS SUMMERY CONTAINS SPOILERS AND ENDINGS
THIS SUMMERY CONTAINS SPOILERS AND ENDINGS
I know, sometimes it's hard to follow a story. But if your a little curious, here is the summery of the series.
I'm posting this because earlier this evening, the only plot I understood from the whole halo series was from Halo 1. So I got bored and looked on wikipedia, and practically understood the majority of the plot in half an hour. If anyone gets in my situation, just look in this thread.
These are direct quotes from Wikipedia.
The List of All Characters and Their Information
Halo 1
Halo: First Strike
Halo 2
Halo 3
THIS SUMMERY CONTAINS SPOILERS AND ENDINGS
THIS SUMMERY CONTAINS SPOILERS AND ENDINGS
I know, sometimes it's hard to follow a story. But if your a little curious, here is the summery of the series.
I'm posting this because earlier this evening, the only plot I understood from the whole halo series was from Halo 1. So I got bored and looked on wikipedia, and practically understood the majority of the plot in half an hour. If anyone gets in my situation, just look in this thread.
These are direct quotes from Wikipedia.
The List of All Characters and Their Information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Halo_series_charactersHalo 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_Combat_Evolved#PlotThe story is presented through an instruction manual, scripted events and conversations during the game, and in-game cut scenes. The game begins as the Pillar of Autumn exits slip-space near a mysterious ring-shaped space station, called "Halo" by the Covenant. A Covenant fleet attacks and heavily damages the Pillar of Autumn. Jacob Keyes initiates "The Cole Protocol", a procedure designed to prevent the Covenant from learning the location of Earth. While Keyes prepares to land the ship on Halo, the Master Chief and Cortana escape via an escape pod, which crash lands on the ring.
Captain Keyes survives the Autumn's crash landing, but is captured by the Covenant. In the second and third levels of the game, the Master Chief and Cortana gather human survivors and rescue Captain Keyes, who then orders Master Chief to beat the Covenant to Halo's control center and to discover its purpose. The Master Chief and Cortana travel to a map room called the Silent Cartographer, which leads them to the control room. There, Cortana enters the systems and, discovering something urgent, suddenly sends the Master Chief to find Captain Keyes, while she stays behind. While searching for his commander, the Master Chief learns that the Covenant have accidentally released the Flood, a parasitic alien race capable of spreading itself by overwhelming and infesting other sentient lifeforms. Keyes falls victim to them while looking for a cache of weapons. The release of the Flood prompts 343 Guilty Spark to recruit the Master Chief in retrieving the Index, a device that will activate Halo and prevent the Flood from spreading beyond the facility.
After the Master Chief retrieves and begins to use the Index, Cortana re-appears and warns him against the activation. She has discovered that Halo's defense system is a weapon designed to kill all sentient life in the galaxy, thus effectively starving the Flood. When confronted with this information, 343 Guilty Spark states that the installation technically only has a maximum radius of twenty-five thousand light-years, but that its pulse would trigger other similar installations as well, killing all sentient life in the galaxy.
With Cortana's help, and while fighting the Flood, the Covenant, and Guilty Spark's Sentinels, the Master Chief attempts to destroy Halo before 343 Guilty Spark activates it. Cortana discovers that the best way to destroy Halo is to cause the crashed Pillar of Autumn to self-destruct. However, Captain Keyes' authorization is required to destroy the ship. By the time that they reach Keyes, he has been infested and turned into a Brain Flood. The Master Chief retrieves Keyes' neural implants directly from his brain, and Cortana activates the Autumn's self-destruct sequence. However, 343 Guilty Spark reappears and deactivates the countdown, discovering the record of human history in the process.The Master Chief manually causes the Pillar of Autumn's fusion reactors to begin to melt down, giving him and Cortana only fifteen minutes to escape. The Master Chief and Cortana flee in a UNSC Longsword fighter, before Halo explodes. The ending reveals that 343 Guilty Spark survives the explosion of Halo, and the story is continued in Halo 2.
Captain Keyes survives the Autumn's crash landing, but is captured by the Covenant. In the second and third levels of the game, the Master Chief and Cortana gather human survivors and rescue Captain Keyes, who then orders Master Chief to beat the Covenant to Halo's control center and to discover its purpose. The Master Chief and Cortana travel to a map room called the Silent Cartographer, which leads them to the control room. There, Cortana enters the systems and, discovering something urgent, suddenly sends the Master Chief to find Captain Keyes, while she stays behind. While searching for his commander, the Master Chief learns that the Covenant have accidentally released the Flood, a parasitic alien race capable of spreading itself by overwhelming and infesting other sentient lifeforms. Keyes falls victim to them while looking for a cache of weapons. The release of the Flood prompts 343 Guilty Spark to recruit the Master Chief in retrieving the Index, a device that will activate Halo and prevent the Flood from spreading beyond the facility.
After the Master Chief retrieves and begins to use the Index, Cortana re-appears and warns him against the activation. She has discovered that Halo's defense system is a weapon designed to kill all sentient life in the galaxy, thus effectively starving the Flood. When confronted with this information, 343 Guilty Spark states that the installation technically only has a maximum radius of twenty-five thousand light-years, but that its pulse would trigger other similar installations as well, killing all sentient life in the galaxy.
With Cortana's help, and while fighting the Flood, the Covenant, and Guilty Spark's Sentinels, the Master Chief attempts to destroy Halo before 343 Guilty Spark activates it. Cortana discovers that the best way to destroy Halo is to cause the crashed Pillar of Autumn to self-destruct. However, Captain Keyes' authorization is required to destroy the ship. By the time that they reach Keyes, he has been infested and turned into a Brain Flood. The Master Chief retrieves Keyes' neural implants directly from his brain, and Cortana activates the Autumn's self-destruct sequence. However, 343 Guilty Spark reappears and deactivates the countdown, discovering the record of human history in the process.The Master Chief manually causes the Pillar of Autumn's fusion reactors to begin to melt down, giving him and Cortana only fifteen minutes to escape. The Master Chief and Cortana flee in a UNSC Longsword fighter, before Halo explodes. The ending reveals that 343 Guilty Spark survives the explosion of Halo, and the story is continued in Halo 2.
Halo: First Strike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_First_StrikeDuring the Battle of Reach on August 30, 2552 the last line of defense for the human UNSC was represented by the MAC cannon platforms in orbit around the planet. Faced with the knowledge that these massive weapons are the only thing stemming the tide of alien warships, the SPARTAN-II Master Chief (John-117) sent a team of SPARTAN-II's, the Red Team, to the surface of Reach, in order to protect the MAC's' planet-based fusion power generators... at all costs. This defensive action became nothing more than an ultimately futile gesture, however, when Covenant starships bombarded the surface of the planet with plasma, "glassing" most of the world and forcing the remaining battered SPARTAN-II's to flee underground and find Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, the UNSC scientist who had headed up the SPARTAN-II development project. The SPARTANS and Halsey stumbled upon an incredible discovery in a Forerunner cavern discovered to exist beneath the UNSC Castle Base, the headquarters of the Office of Naval Intelligence, on Reach: a mysterious artifact of the long-vanished alien Forerunners, a crystalline shard, that seems to be imbued with the power to bend time and space. Dr. Halsey had learned of the existence of the Forerunner complex beneath the Castle Base from a fragment of Forerunner hieroglyphics that had been recovered from the human city of Cote D'Azur on the colony world of Sigma Octanus IV during one of the SPARTAN-II's actions against the Covenant. The humans retrieved the alien shard and hid from the Covenant forces who were looking for this very artifact while they waited for a SPARTAN-II retrieval force.
Picking up from where the first video game left off, the Master Chief and the Pillar of Autumn's former A.I. Cortana found themselves stranded in space on September 22, 2552 onboard a UNSC Longsword fighter recovered from the wreckage of the Pillar of Autumn before the destruction of the Alpha Halo. Exactly three days have passed since the Pillar of Autumn first crash landed on Halo. The Longsword found one remaining Pelican dropship from the Pillar of Autumn also stranded in the debris field of Halo that contained other survivors from the Pillar of Autumn including Sergeant Avery Johnson, Lieutenant Haverson, Warrant Officer Polaski, Corporal Locklear, and a set of cryotubes in which lay the SPARTAN-II Linda-058. Laden with valuable intelligence information about the Covenant and a handful of human survivors rescued from the destruction of the Alpha Halo construct (among them Sergeant Avery Johnson, the only man from the Pillar of Autumn who survived infection by the Flood), they planned to return to Earth and did so by infiltrating a Covenant Flagship, the Ascendant Justice.
Once they secured the alien vessel, the humans resolved to return to Earth with accounts of what happened on Halo and for the first time, a Covenant warship that can be handed over to the UNSC's scientists and engineers. The technological benefits for the human race would be enormous and might help win the war. Ascendant Justice's first jump through Slipspace was back to the former UNSC FLEETCOM base on the planet Reach, in line with The Cole Protocol. Because the Protocol dictated that a captured Covenant vessel had to be searched and stripped of all potential Covenant tracking devices before heading on to Earth, the crew decided to leave the Ascendant Justice in orbit around Reach and return to Earth using a human warship. The Master Chief had one additional reason for visiting Reach: as the SPARTAN-II's' commanding officer, John-117 was riven by anguished guilt because of the orders he gave his team during the Battle of Reach that he felt were tantamount to an outright death sentence. The Master Chief wanted to scout Reach to learn the fate of his fellow SPARTAN-II's, or even better, to pick up survivors.
Upon arrival in Reach's star system, the Master Chief's team picked up a radio signal fabricated by the SPARTAN-II's in their training days (the hide-and-seek tune "Oly-Oly-Oxen-Free"); a remnant of SPARTAN-II's had survived the Battle of Reach, along with a handful of UNSC military survivors as well as Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb, the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for the UNSC Defense Forces Navy. The Vice Admiral had armed a powerful Nova thermonuclear mine, a weapon that would either turn Reach and its Covenant invasion force into dust, or destroy whatever Forerunner artifact the Covenant takes off it. While investigating on Reach, the Master Chief also discovers Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey and the rest of the surviving SPARTAN-II's with the Forerunner shard, which appears to have bent time so that the Master Chief and Cortana could rescue Dr. Halsey and the others. The shard had moved Dr. Halsey and the remaining SPARTAN-II's forward in time from September 7, 2552 to September 23, 2552 so that they could meet the Master Chief returning from the Alpha Halo. While this was going on planetside, Cortana found out that the Covenant had discovered the location of Earth and were about to deploy a massive assault fleet against the human homeworld, though the Covenant did not know that Earth was the human homeworld. The coordinates they had come into possession of were for a major Forerunner base known as the Ark, which also just happened to be located on Earth. The attack was to be led by the Covenant's High Prophet of Regret without the knowledge or agreement of his fellow Covenant Hierarch leaders, the High Prophet of Truth and the High Prophet of Mercy. However, because the High Prophet of Regret was acting without the full agreement of his fellow leaders, he was able to only gather a small battle group comprised of thirteen Covenant cruisers and two Covenant assault carriers. Against the UNSC forces defending the Earth, this force was unlikely to be successful.
The humans then had to fend off multiple attacks from the Covenant, who were determined to retrieve the Forerunner relic in the SPARTAN-II's possession. Seeking a safe place to conduct repairs on the Ascendant Justice, the UNSC forces rendezvoused with the human rebels of the Eridanus System in that system's asteroid field who were led by Governor Jiles. These rebels had once stood against the UNSC before the Covenant invasion as they had desired independence from what they saw as the oppression of Earth. While docked at the rebel base, Dr. Halsey sedated the SPARTAN-II Kelly-087 and abducted her in Governor Jiles' Chiroptera-class starship Beatrice, the smallest UNSC vessel to be equipped with an FTL drive, and brought her to the planet Onyx as depicted in the sequel, Ghosts of Onyx. Before she left, Dr. Halsey gave the alien shard to Corporal Locklear, with implicit instructions to destroy it.
With the knowledge that the Covenant were en route to Earth, the Master Chief and his fellow SPARTAN-IIs, determined to buy some time for Earth, decided to go to the enemy fleet's rendezvous point and disrupt its initial operations in a decisive "first strike". The SPARTAN-IIs successfully infiltrated the Covenant command and control center space station, the Unyielding Hierophant, and with the help of a copy of Cortana, they were able to set the Covenant station to self-destruct. In spite of this effort, the Covenant forces were not crippled, but Vice Admiral Whitcomb managed to trick all of them into following the Ascendant Justice towards the doomed space station, pretending the Forerunner shard from Reach was aboard his ship. A few minutes later the Unyielding Hierophant was destroyed, obliterating the whole Covenant fleet, taking the Vice Admiral, Lieutenant Haverson and the Ascendant Justice with it. Onboard a damaged UNSC frigate, John-117 and the surviving SPARTAN-IIs, Fred-104, Linda-058, and Will-043, along with Seargent Avery Johnson and Cortana, headed back to Earth to warn the UNSC of the Covenant's approaching invasion. The Master Chief, Sergeant Avery and Captain Keyes were later decorated for their actions on Alpha Halo (Keyes posthumously; the award was accepted by his daughter, Commander Miranda Keyes).
The book ended with a scene in High Charity, a space station that served as the Covenant's headquarters, where the High Prophet of Truth and the Brutes' Chieftain, Tartarus, discussed the loss of the Alpha Halo Installation 04 and the fate of the "incompetent one," a Covenant Elite who was the Covenant fleet commander who failed to ensure the security of the Ascendant Justice. This Elite had also been the Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice, the Covenant fleet that had won the Battle of Reach and followed the Pillar of Autumn to the first Halo installation. This failure on Alpha Halo was due largely to the fact that a minor Prophet on one of the first Covenant starships to engage the Pillar of Autumn refused to allow the human starship to be destroyed with plasma torpedoes due to the danger it could represent to the "sacred ring" of the Forerunners. Instead, the Prophet had ordered the human cruiser captured by Covenant boarding parties, which had initiated the string of events seen in the first Halo video game. This decision allowed the humans to fend off the attack long enough to land on the Alpha Halo ring-world and establish a foothold. Subsequently, the Flood parasite was accidentally released by the Covenant's clumsy explorations, the Covenant lost control of the situation, and the Master Chief was able to detonate the Pillar of Autumn's fusion reactors and destroy Halo Alpha. Yet, this incompetent Elite also turned out to be none other than the future Covenant Arbiter, a special agent chosen by the High Prophets to defend the Covenant in times of great crisis. The first moments of Halo 2 pick up from the novel here and depict this Elite's subsequent trial before the High Prophets at High Charity.
Picking up from where the first video game left off, the Master Chief and the Pillar of Autumn's former A.I. Cortana found themselves stranded in space on September 22, 2552 onboard a UNSC Longsword fighter recovered from the wreckage of the Pillar of Autumn before the destruction of the Alpha Halo. Exactly three days have passed since the Pillar of Autumn first crash landed on Halo. The Longsword found one remaining Pelican dropship from the Pillar of Autumn also stranded in the debris field of Halo that contained other survivors from the Pillar of Autumn including Sergeant Avery Johnson, Lieutenant Haverson, Warrant Officer Polaski, Corporal Locklear, and a set of cryotubes in which lay the SPARTAN-II Linda-058. Laden with valuable intelligence information about the Covenant and a handful of human survivors rescued from the destruction of the Alpha Halo construct (among them Sergeant Avery Johnson, the only man from the Pillar of Autumn who survived infection by the Flood), they planned to return to Earth and did so by infiltrating a Covenant Flagship, the Ascendant Justice.
Once they secured the alien vessel, the humans resolved to return to Earth with accounts of what happened on Halo and for the first time, a Covenant warship that can be handed over to the UNSC's scientists and engineers. The technological benefits for the human race would be enormous and might help win the war. Ascendant Justice's first jump through Slipspace was back to the former UNSC FLEETCOM base on the planet Reach, in line with The Cole Protocol. Because the Protocol dictated that a captured Covenant vessel had to be searched and stripped of all potential Covenant tracking devices before heading on to Earth, the crew decided to leave the Ascendant Justice in orbit around Reach and return to Earth using a human warship. The Master Chief had one additional reason for visiting Reach: as the SPARTAN-II's' commanding officer, John-117 was riven by anguished guilt because of the orders he gave his team during the Battle of Reach that he felt were tantamount to an outright death sentence. The Master Chief wanted to scout Reach to learn the fate of his fellow SPARTAN-II's, or even better, to pick up survivors.
Upon arrival in Reach's star system, the Master Chief's team picked up a radio signal fabricated by the SPARTAN-II's in their training days (the hide-and-seek tune "Oly-Oly-Oxen-Free"); a remnant of SPARTAN-II's had survived the Battle of Reach, along with a handful of UNSC military survivors as well as Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb, the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for the UNSC Defense Forces Navy. The Vice Admiral had armed a powerful Nova thermonuclear mine, a weapon that would either turn Reach and its Covenant invasion force into dust, or destroy whatever Forerunner artifact the Covenant takes off it. While investigating on Reach, the Master Chief also discovers Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey and the rest of the surviving SPARTAN-II's with the Forerunner shard, which appears to have bent time so that the Master Chief and Cortana could rescue Dr. Halsey and the others. The shard had moved Dr. Halsey and the remaining SPARTAN-II's forward in time from September 7, 2552 to September 23, 2552 so that they could meet the Master Chief returning from the Alpha Halo. While this was going on planetside, Cortana found out that the Covenant had discovered the location of Earth and were about to deploy a massive assault fleet against the human homeworld, though the Covenant did not know that Earth was the human homeworld. The coordinates they had come into possession of were for a major Forerunner base known as the Ark, which also just happened to be located on Earth. The attack was to be led by the Covenant's High Prophet of Regret without the knowledge or agreement of his fellow Covenant Hierarch leaders, the High Prophet of Truth and the High Prophet of Mercy. However, because the High Prophet of Regret was acting without the full agreement of his fellow leaders, he was able to only gather a small battle group comprised of thirteen Covenant cruisers and two Covenant assault carriers. Against the UNSC forces defending the Earth, this force was unlikely to be successful.
The humans then had to fend off multiple attacks from the Covenant, who were determined to retrieve the Forerunner relic in the SPARTAN-II's possession. Seeking a safe place to conduct repairs on the Ascendant Justice, the UNSC forces rendezvoused with the human rebels of the Eridanus System in that system's asteroid field who were led by Governor Jiles. These rebels had once stood against the UNSC before the Covenant invasion as they had desired independence from what they saw as the oppression of Earth. While docked at the rebel base, Dr. Halsey sedated the SPARTAN-II Kelly-087 and abducted her in Governor Jiles' Chiroptera-class starship Beatrice, the smallest UNSC vessel to be equipped with an FTL drive, and brought her to the planet Onyx as depicted in the sequel, Ghosts of Onyx. Before she left, Dr. Halsey gave the alien shard to Corporal Locklear, with implicit instructions to destroy it.
With the knowledge that the Covenant were en route to Earth, the Master Chief and his fellow SPARTAN-IIs, determined to buy some time for Earth, decided to go to the enemy fleet's rendezvous point and disrupt its initial operations in a decisive "first strike". The SPARTAN-IIs successfully infiltrated the Covenant command and control center space station, the Unyielding Hierophant, and with the help of a copy of Cortana, they were able to set the Covenant station to self-destruct. In spite of this effort, the Covenant forces were not crippled, but Vice Admiral Whitcomb managed to trick all of them into following the Ascendant Justice towards the doomed space station, pretending the Forerunner shard from Reach was aboard his ship. A few minutes later the Unyielding Hierophant was destroyed, obliterating the whole Covenant fleet, taking the Vice Admiral, Lieutenant Haverson and the Ascendant Justice with it. Onboard a damaged UNSC frigate, John-117 and the surviving SPARTAN-IIs, Fred-104, Linda-058, and Will-043, along with Seargent Avery Johnson and Cortana, headed back to Earth to warn the UNSC of the Covenant's approaching invasion. The Master Chief, Sergeant Avery and Captain Keyes were later decorated for their actions on Alpha Halo (Keyes posthumously; the award was accepted by his daughter, Commander Miranda Keyes).
The book ended with a scene in High Charity, a space station that served as the Covenant's headquarters, where the High Prophet of Truth and the Brutes' Chieftain, Tartarus, discussed the loss of the Alpha Halo Installation 04 and the fate of the "incompetent one," a Covenant Elite who was the Covenant fleet commander who failed to ensure the security of the Ascendant Justice. This Elite had also been the Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice, the Covenant fleet that had won the Battle of Reach and followed the Pillar of Autumn to the first Halo installation. This failure on Alpha Halo was due largely to the fact that a minor Prophet on one of the first Covenant starships to engage the Pillar of Autumn refused to allow the human starship to be destroyed with plasma torpedoes due to the danger it could represent to the "sacred ring" of the Forerunners. Instead, the Prophet had ordered the human cruiser captured by Covenant boarding parties, which had initiated the string of events seen in the first Halo video game. This decision allowed the humans to fend off the attack long enough to land on the Alpha Halo ring-world and establish a foothold. Subsequently, the Flood parasite was accidentally released by the Covenant's clumsy explorations, the Covenant lost control of the situation, and the Master Chief was able to detonate the Pillar of Autumn's fusion reactors and destroy Halo Alpha. Yet, this incompetent Elite also turned out to be none other than the future Covenant Arbiter, a special agent chosen by the High Prophets to defend the Covenant in times of great crisis. The first moments of Halo 2 pick up from the novel here and depict this Elite's subsequent trial before the High Prophets at High Charity.
Halo 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_2#PlotThe story of Halo 2 is told through in-game dialogue as well as cutscenes; the back-story to the game can be found in the game manual. Taking place shortly after the events of the novel Halo: First Strike, the game opens with the judgment and torture of a former Covenant Elite Commander, who is being punished by his fellow Covenant for failing to stop the destruction of the ringworld Halo during the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. This is juxtaposed with the recognition ceremony of the humans Master Chief and Sergeant Avery Johnson receiving awards aboard Cairo Station, a MAC gun platform orbiting Earth, alongside Commander Miranda Keyes. It is revealed that the Covenant's interest in Halo lies in the belief that the activation of Halo would bring about the "Great Journey", which would allow them to follow the ancient Forerunners to the "divine beyond".
Soon after the commencement of Master Chief's ceremony, a Covenant fleet jumps out of slipspace near Earth. The Covenant proceeds to send boarding parties towards a battle cluster of MAC stations. These boarding parties are secretly carrying explosives designed to take out the MAC (Magnetic Accelerator Cannon) guns that protect Earth from attack. Master Chief finds and disarms a bomb located on Cairo Station with the help of Cortana, while the flagship of the Covenant fleet speeds past Earth's defenses and heads toward Earth itself. Master Chief and Cortana join the UNSC ship In Amber Clad, which is en route to New Mombasa to deal with the Covenant flagship.
Before reaching New Mombasa, Cortana decodes transmissions revealing that the flagship carries the High Prophet of Regret, an important Covenant figure. The UNSC successfully repels the Covenant invasion force with the help of Master Chief, and the Covenant ship begins preparations for a slipspace jump to an unknown destination. The ship makes the jump, and the city is destroyed in the shockwave. To avoid destruction, In Amber Clad follows and discovers a second Halo installation dubbed "Delta Halo". Despite the Covenant's own ideas about the rings, Master Chief and the crew of the Amber Clad know that the rings are actually weapons that if activated would wreck devastation on a galactic scale. Master Chief is sent to kill the High Prophet of Regret while Keyes attempts to secure the Index to prevent the activation of Delta Halo.
Meanwhile, the disgraced Covenant commander has been given a chance to redeem himself as the "Blade of the Prophets", the Arbiter. His first mission is to silence a heretic who doubts the Prophets' teachings, in turn starting the Arbiter along a path which ultimately results in him doubting his own beliefs about Halo. Seeds of discord are further sown within the Covenant when the Prophets decide to grant the Brutes the job of protecting the Prophets instead of the traditionally favored Elites. During his missions, The Arbiter finally realizes the danger that the rings represent.
The Master Chief and the Arbiter meet upon the release of the Flood, a race of parasitic creatures, from Delta Halo. A mysterious Flood creature called the Gravemind sends the Arbiter and Master Chief in separate directions to prevent The High Prophets from activating Delta Halo. Master Chief finds himself aboard the Covenant Holy City High Charity, a gargantuan space station, and pursues the remaining Prophets. During his mission, he finds himself in the middle of an erupting Covenant civil war between the Brutes and the Elites. After capturing In Amber Clad, the Flood, led by Gravemind, arrive at the city and begin to consume and infect the populace. The only remaining High Prophet, Truth, escapes on a Forerunner vessel hidden in the core of High Charity. The Master Chief stows away on board while Cortana stays behind in order to detonate the In Amber Clad's engine reactors to destroy Delta Halo and High Charity if the Brute Tartarus activates the ring. The Arbiter, with the help of fellow Elites, Avery Johnson, and Keyes, manage to stop the firing. However, the unexpected shutdown causes the ring to send a signal out to the other remaining Halos, sending them all into a "standby" mode so they can be remotely activated from the Ark. Meanwhile, the Forerunner ship that Master Chief has stowed away on approaches Earth. One of Earth's remaining orbital forces contacts him and asks what he is doing aboard the Forerunner ship. He replies, "Sir, finishing this fight," ending the game with an abrupt cliffhanger and setting the tone for Halo 3.
Soon after the commencement of Master Chief's ceremony, a Covenant fleet jumps out of slipspace near Earth. The Covenant proceeds to send boarding parties towards a battle cluster of MAC stations. These boarding parties are secretly carrying explosives designed to take out the MAC (Magnetic Accelerator Cannon) guns that protect Earth from attack. Master Chief finds and disarms a bomb located on Cairo Station with the help of Cortana, while the flagship of the Covenant fleet speeds past Earth's defenses and heads toward Earth itself. Master Chief and Cortana join the UNSC ship In Amber Clad, which is en route to New Mombasa to deal with the Covenant flagship.
Before reaching New Mombasa, Cortana decodes transmissions revealing that the flagship carries the High Prophet of Regret, an important Covenant figure. The UNSC successfully repels the Covenant invasion force with the help of Master Chief, and the Covenant ship begins preparations for a slipspace jump to an unknown destination. The ship makes the jump, and the city is destroyed in the shockwave. To avoid destruction, In Amber Clad follows and discovers a second Halo installation dubbed "Delta Halo". Despite the Covenant's own ideas about the rings, Master Chief and the crew of the Amber Clad know that the rings are actually weapons that if activated would wreck devastation on a galactic scale. Master Chief is sent to kill the High Prophet of Regret while Keyes attempts to secure the Index to prevent the activation of Delta Halo.
Meanwhile, the disgraced Covenant commander has been given a chance to redeem himself as the "Blade of the Prophets", the Arbiter. His first mission is to silence a heretic who doubts the Prophets' teachings, in turn starting the Arbiter along a path which ultimately results in him doubting his own beliefs about Halo. Seeds of discord are further sown within the Covenant when the Prophets decide to grant the Brutes the job of protecting the Prophets instead of the traditionally favored Elites. During his missions, The Arbiter finally realizes the danger that the rings represent.
The Master Chief and the Arbiter meet upon the release of the Flood, a race of parasitic creatures, from Delta Halo. A mysterious Flood creature called the Gravemind sends the Arbiter and Master Chief in separate directions to prevent The High Prophets from activating Delta Halo. Master Chief finds himself aboard the Covenant Holy City High Charity, a gargantuan space station, and pursues the remaining Prophets. During his mission, he finds himself in the middle of an erupting Covenant civil war between the Brutes and the Elites. After capturing In Amber Clad, the Flood, led by Gravemind, arrive at the city and begin to consume and infect the populace. The only remaining High Prophet, Truth, escapes on a Forerunner vessel hidden in the core of High Charity. The Master Chief stows away on board while Cortana stays behind in order to detonate the In Amber Clad's engine reactors to destroy Delta Halo and High Charity if the Brute Tartarus activates the ring. The Arbiter, with the help of fellow Elites, Avery Johnson, and Keyes, manage to stop the firing. However, the unexpected shutdown causes the ring to send a signal out to the other remaining Halos, sending them all into a "standby" mode so they can be remotely activated from the Ark. Meanwhile, the Forerunner ship that Master Chief has stowed away on approaches Earth. One of Earth's remaining orbital forces contacts him and asks what he is doing aboard the Forerunner ship. He replies, "Sir, finishing this fight," ending the game with an abrupt cliffhanger and setting the tone for Halo 3.
Halo 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_3#Plot_summaryThe game does not begin right where Halo 2 left off. The comic mini-series, Halo: Uprising, will bridge the story gap between the ending of Halo 2, and the beginning of Halo 3.
When the game begins, Master Chief is back on Earth, where the Covenant loyalists (Brutes, Drones, Jackals, and Grunts), led by the Prophet of Truth, have laid waste to most of the planet. Covenant ships are hovering over an excavation site a few miles from the ruins of New Mombasa and have uncovered a large artifact.
The Master Chief, along with Sergeant Major Johnson and the Arbiter, make their way through the jungle towards a UNSC outpost. During this time, the Master Chief seems to experience disturbing broken transmissions from Cortana. Shortly after they reach their destination, the Covenant mounts an attack on the facility. After a brief struggle, in which the outpost is lost, the Master Chief receives orders from Commander Keyes and Lord Hood to clear a way into the African city of Voi, and destroy all anti-air Covenant defenses in preparation for an all-out assault on Truth and the artifact.
After the Master Chief and the Arbiter destroy the defenses, Truth activates the artifact and creates an enormous slipspace portal, into which all the Covenant ships retreat. As the humans weigh their options, a Covenant ship controlled by the Flood arrives by slipspace and crash-lands nearby, the parasite within quickly spreading throughout the city.
The Master Chief and the Arbiter attempt to fight off the Flood, aided by the arrival of the Elite fleet, which proceeds to glass areas that have been infected. Keyes, the Master Chief, the Arbiter, and the Elite fleet decide to follow Truth. They leave Earth via the slipspace portal and find themselves near an immense artificial structure, which is soon revealed to be the Ark. They find that the Ark is in fact positioned outside of the Milky Way galaxy. 343 Guilty Spark arrives by an Elite dropship and promises to help the Master Chief in any way he can, since he has no more pre-programmed duties now that his ring has been destroyed. Guided by Guilty Spark, the Chief and the Arbiter push their way to the control room of the Ark, where they barely manage to stop the Prophet of Truth from activating the rings. Commander Keyes dies during the struggle.
In the meantime, a flood-infested High Charity arrives by slipspace. After executing the Prophet of Truth, the Arbiter and the Master Chief discover that a replacement ring has been constructed by the Ark to replace the one destroyed by Master Chief. The Chief decides to activate the ring so as to destroy any chance the Flood has from spreading even further. However, the Chief and the Arbiter first take a detour through High Charity to recover Cortana, who is still in the custody of Gravemind. After rescuing her, they destroy the Covenant city as they make their escape, apparently killing Gravemind in the process.
When they arrive on the newly built Halo, they soon discover that Gravemind is still alive, and attempting to reconstruct himself on the new Halo. The Chief, the Arbiter, and Sergeant Johnson quickly make their way to the control room, where they attempt to fire Halo. Guilty Spark realizes that this will destroy his new ring because it is not fully ready yet, and kills Sergeant Johnson as he tries to activate the ring. At this point he exclaims to the Master Chief, "...you are Forerunner, but this ring is mine!". The Master Chief destroys Guilty Spark, activates the ring, and barely manages to escape with the Arbiter to Forward Unto Dawn, a UNSC ship. They launch, and cling desperately to the ship as the installation fires. The screen fades to white, leaving the player to wonder if they escaped or not.
Back on Earth, a memorial service is held, and it is revealed that the Master Chief has died. When Lord Hood mourns his loss, the Arbiter answers him cryptically, "Were it so easy," and then departs for his own homeworld.
If the player waits through the closing credits, a scene reveals that the Master Chief and Cortana have in fact survived, after being separated from the Arbiter as a section of The Dawn tore off during the slipspace jump. Drifting helplessly through space, Cortana activates a distress beacon while Master Chief climbs into a cryo chamber to await a rescue which Cortana warns may take "years." If the game is completed on the highest difficulty level (Legendary), the hulk of the Dawn is seen after an unknown period of time drifting towards a distant celestial object.
When the game begins, Master Chief is back on Earth, where the Covenant loyalists (Brutes, Drones, Jackals, and Grunts), led by the Prophet of Truth, have laid waste to most of the planet. Covenant ships are hovering over an excavation site a few miles from the ruins of New Mombasa and have uncovered a large artifact.
The Master Chief, along with Sergeant Major Johnson and the Arbiter, make their way through the jungle towards a UNSC outpost. During this time, the Master Chief seems to experience disturbing broken transmissions from Cortana. Shortly after they reach their destination, the Covenant mounts an attack on the facility. After a brief struggle, in which the outpost is lost, the Master Chief receives orders from Commander Keyes and Lord Hood to clear a way into the African city of Voi, and destroy all anti-air Covenant defenses in preparation for an all-out assault on Truth and the artifact.
After the Master Chief and the Arbiter destroy the defenses, Truth activates the artifact and creates an enormous slipspace portal, into which all the Covenant ships retreat. As the humans weigh their options, a Covenant ship controlled by the Flood arrives by slipspace and crash-lands nearby, the parasite within quickly spreading throughout the city.
The Master Chief and the Arbiter attempt to fight off the Flood, aided by the arrival of the Elite fleet, which proceeds to glass areas that have been infected. Keyes, the Master Chief, the Arbiter, and the Elite fleet decide to follow Truth. They leave Earth via the slipspace portal and find themselves near an immense artificial structure, which is soon revealed to be the Ark. They find that the Ark is in fact positioned outside of the Milky Way galaxy. 343 Guilty Spark arrives by an Elite dropship and promises to help the Master Chief in any way he can, since he has no more pre-programmed duties now that his ring has been destroyed. Guided by Guilty Spark, the Chief and the Arbiter push their way to the control room of the Ark, where they barely manage to stop the Prophet of Truth from activating the rings. Commander Keyes dies during the struggle.
In the meantime, a flood-infested High Charity arrives by slipspace. After executing the Prophet of Truth, the Arbiter and the Master Chief discover that a replacement ring has been constructed by the Ark to replace the one destroyed by Master Chief. The Chief decides to activate the ring so as to destroy any chance the Flood has from spreading even further. However, the Chief and the Arbiter first take a detour through High Charity to recover Cortana, who is still in the custody of Gravemind. After rescuing her, they destroy the Covenant city as they make their escape, apparently killing Gravemind in the process.
When they arrive on the newly built Halo, they soon discover that Gravemind is still alive, and attempting to reconstruct himself on the new Halo. The Chief, the Arbiter, and Sergeant Johnson quickly make their way to the control room, where they attempt to fire Halo. Guilty Spark realizes that this will destroy his new ring because it is not fully ready yet, and kills Sergeant Johnson as he tries to activate the ring. At this point he exclaims to the Master Chief, "...you are Forerunner, but this ring is mine!". The Master Chief destroys Guilty Spark, activates the ring, and barely manages to escape with the Arbiter to Forward Unto Dawn, a UNSC ship. They launch, and cling desperately to the ship as the installation fires. The screen fades to white, leaving the player to wonder if they escaped or not.
Back on Earth, a memorial service is held, and it is revealed that the Master Chief has died. When Lord Hood mourns his loss, the Arbiter answers him cryptically, "Were it so easy," and then departs for his own homeworld.
If the player waits through the closing credits, a scene reveals that the Master Chief and Cortana have in fact survived, after being separated from the Arbiter as a section of The Dawn tore off during the slipspace jump. Drifting helplessly through space, Cortana activates a distress beacon while Master Chief climbs into a cryo chamber to await a rescue which Cortana warns may take "years." If the game is completed on the highest difficulty level (Legendary), the hulk of the Dawn is seen after an unknown period of time drifting towards a distant celestial object.
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