Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series

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Halo: The Fall of Reach – The Animated Series is an upcoming animated series adapted from the novel of the same name by Eric Nylund. The series is being created by Sequence in conjunction with 343 Industries. Comprising three acts, the series will be featured in the Limited Edition and Limited Collector's Edition of Halo 5: Guardians. It will be available in its entirety upon the game's release (as opposed to having weekly airing dates like Halo: Nightfall), or a week earlier for those who pre-ordered the Limited Collector's Edition.

Production

Halo: The Fall of Reach – The Animated Series is created and directed by Sequence, along with 343 Industries. The hour-long adaptation is set for release on October 27, 2015, with the Limited Edition and Limited Collector's Edition of Halo 5: Guardians. The series is an animated adaptation of Halo: The Fall of Reach, serving as a way for fans to learn the origins of John-117, Blue Team, and the SPARTAN-II program. One of the goals of the project was to bring new life to the backstory of the Master Chief and his Spartan brethren. Halo: The Fall of Reach – The Animated Series features audio, sound, and visual effects from the Halo series. 343 Industries' Franchise Development Director Frank O'Connor has stated that the series carefully aligns itself with the novel, but takes artistic liberties with certain design choices—such as choice of Covenant ships or weapons. However, the series will tightly adhere to the novel with some additions taken to help "fill in gaps or smooth over previous errors". One of the main challenges of the adaptation was the decision to drop characters' inner monologues from the novel, while fitting the novel's contents into an hour also proved difficult.

The series will feature minor connections to Halo 5: Guardians, which O'Connor claims are "a subtle nod only book readers will even notice". Halo: The Fall of Reach – The Animated Series will share artistic similarities with other works created by Sequence, such as the Terminals for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 4, and Halo 2 Anniversary. Though the scale and fidelity of the animation is noted to be more ambitious, fully animated, and largely 3D, unlike Sequence's previous Halo projects. A trailer for the series was released on July 10, 2015.

Appearances

Characters Catherine Halsey Déjà‎ Franklin Mendez Frederic-104 Jacob Keyes John-117 Jorge-052 Kelly-087 Linda-058 Michael Stanforth‎ Robert Watts Samuel-034 Toran Vance Wallace Ysionris Jeromi Species Human Kig-Yar Unggoy Organizations Unified Earth Government United Nations Space Command UNSC Naval Command UNSC Navy Naval Special Warfare Command SPARTAN-II Program Office of Naval Intelligence Covenant United Rebel Front Locations Chi Ceti system Chi Ceti IV Eridanus sector Eridanus system Eridanus II Elysium city Elysium City Primary Education Facility Number 119 Ehilend Eridanus Secundus FLEETCOM Sector One Epsilon Eridani system Reach Csodaszarvas Highland Mountains Big Horn River Longhorn Valley Military Wilderness Training Preserve Reach Naval Academy Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex Turul Lambda Serpentis system Sol system Earth Greece Sparta

Events Battle of Thermopylae Insurrection SPARTAN-II training SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures Operation: TALON Human-Covenant War Battle of Chi Ceti Fall of Reach Vehicles Charon-class light frigate CMA Arabia CMA Vostok Diplomatic shuttle Han Parabola-class freighter Laden Rapid Conversion (Hologram only) Unrelenting UNSC carrier UNSC Atlas D96-TCE Albatross M12 Warthog Paris-class heavy frigate UNSC Commonwealth Orbital defense platform Weapons M45D shotgun Oathsworn Type-25 plasma pistol Technology and equipment Artificial intelligence Avatar Cryo chamber Flash cloning Holography Holotank Humbler stun device Kig-Yar combat harness Kig-Yar point defense gauntlet MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor MJOLNIR [GEN1] Mark IV MJOLNIR [GEN2] Argus variant Centurion variant Hermes variant Mark VI variant (Modified variant) Thruster pack

Trivia

The soundtrack for Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series was composed by Tom Salta, who also worked on the soundtrack's for Halo: Spartan Assault and Halo: Spartan Strike.

Gallery

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  A promotional image for the series.

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  A piece of concept art for the series shown on Xbox Daily's E3 2015 trailer

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  Spartan recruits gather in a briefing chamber.

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  Spartan recruits eating in a mess hall.

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  John-117 after fighting several ODSTs.

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  Spartans fighting Kig-Yar.

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  Blue Team approaching the Unrelenting.

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  John-117, Samuel-034 and Kelly-087 aboard the Unrelenting.

External links

• Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series trailer on YouTube
• Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series on Halo Waypoint