Lessons Learned

"I’m thrilled to return to the Halo universe for a fun-sized tale. My story in Halo: Fractures illuminates a particularly action-packed scene from Halo: New Blood from an all-new angle, and then it brings us back to a familiar location and opens the door for all sorts of stories to take place there in the future."

- Matt Forbeck

Lessons Learned is one of several short stories featured in Halo: Fractures: Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon. The short story was written by Matt Forbeck and will have narrative connections to Halo: Legacy of Onyx. It follows Spartan-IIIs Tom-B292 and Lucy-B091 at the time of Rudolf Schein's attack on the Spartan training station during the events of Halo: New Blood and their subsequent reassignment to Trevelyan.

Mistakes

 * The story erroneously identifies Jun-A266 as a member of the SPARTAN-III Beta Company.
 * It is stated that Tom and Lucy had "gone through countless hours in zero-G, both in training and in combat, but they’d usually been wearing Mjolnir armor while doing so." While it is likely that the two would have trained in Mjolnir armor following their assignment to the Spartan branch, the story implies that they had been serving solely as instructors following the events of Halo: Last Light, and does not otherwise mention them participating in combat after the mission on Gao, during which they still wore SPI armor.
 * The Spartan-IVs' electronic locator implant is called a "translocator"; translocation actually refers to slipspace-based teleportation, making this use of the term distinctly out of place.