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| Halo: First Strike is a book written by [[Eric Nylund]], that describes the events at [[Reach]], and then the aftermath of [[Halo 1]]. It is essentially the prequel to [[Halo 2]].
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| == Plot Summary ==
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| ===Brief Summary===
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| ''Halo: First Strike'' clarifies a few plot questions that might have been raised by [[Halo: Combat Evolved|Halo]] fans, including exactly what happened to the SPARTANs on [[Reach]] and also how [[Sergeant Johnson|Johnson]] survived the attack of the [[Flood]]. It is written by [[Eric Nylund]], who also wrote [[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], and is part of the official Halo canon. This has led to certain inconsistencies in [[Halo 2]], however. They include Sir Hood's comment on the fleet attacking [[Earth]], that the Covenant fleet that attacked Reach was "50 times this size", seemingly ignoring the impact of the ''First Strike'' mission, and what exactly happened to the other surviving Spartans upon their return to Earth.
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| ===Detailed Summary===
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| '''''Spoiler Warning: Following contents may contain ending details'''''
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| ==== Section 0: Reach ====
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| The novel starts out before the Battle for [[Reach]], at the part in [[Halo: The Fall of Reach]] where [[Captain Keyes]] informed the [[Master Chief]] of the matter of the undeleted NAV database. [[Frederic-104]] is made the leader of Red Team and ordered to take the other [[SPARTAN-II|SPARTAN-IIs]] down to [[Reach]] to protect the generators powering the orbital [[MAC]] guns.
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| Red Team takes a [[Pelican]] down to the surface, but are forced to freefall to the ground after the pilot gets hit. The impact kills a few of the Spartans. The survivors group up with the few remnants of [[Marine]] Charlie Company.
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| Vice [[Admiral Whitcomb]] contacts the Spartans and orders an extraction. Fred takes [[Kelly-087]] and [[Joshua-029]] on a mission to destroy a large [[Covenant]] camp in a valley near to the bunker Charlie Company once occupied. Taking three [[Banshee|Banshees]], they delivered a Fury tactical nuke into a Covenant starship. Joshuas Banshee slipped under enemy fire and fell behind, his fate is unknown and he is listed as MIA, Fred and Kelly completed the mission.
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| Despite their efforts, however, the Covenant managed to take the reactors on Reach. The Covenant starships then initiated glassing of Reach. However, Fred refused to sit around and die to the plasma firepower.
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| ==== Section 1: Threshold ====
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| The novel then moves to the debris field of [[Installation 04]], right after the events of [[Halo: Combat Evolved]]. Aboard the [[Longsword]] used to escape the destruction, [[Cortana]] and the Chief converse, with the Chief insisting that Cortana repeat her scans of the debris.
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| A battlegroup of 7 Covenant starships enters the system, as does a Covenant flagship. Cortana finds three cryopods that were jettisioned from the [[Pillar of Autumn]] prior to its crash on Alpha Halo. While she moves the Longsword towards the cyropods, she finds a Pelican landed on a nearby asteroid. As the Chief retrieves the cryopods and returns to the Longsword, the Pelican takes off and attacks the lead Covenant starship, diverting attention away from the Longsword.
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| ''Summary unfinished.''
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| ==Images==
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| [http://www.bungie.net/images/games/halo/wallpapers/ZHaloFirstStrike_1600.jpg http://img244.echo.cx/img244/4/zhalofirststrike1001fu.jpg]
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| == Related Links ==
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| *[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]
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| *[[Halo: The Flood]]
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| ==External Links==
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| *[http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0345467817/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-6002849-0256936#reader-link Read the First Chapter of Halo: First Strike]
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