Eleventh Hour reports

The Eleventh Hour reports are a series of reports sent by Codename: SURGEON to Codename: COALMINER, detailing the status quo of the post-war galaxy. The introduction, or Part 1, ponders how humanity will adjust to the new galactic paradigm, while Part 2 discusses the disposition of some of the Covenant's former client races. Part 3 details the origins of the SPARTAN-IV program and the Spartan branch ; Part 4 of the report details the recovery of a damaged 343 Guilty Spark from Installation 00 by the ; and Part 5 details humanity's progress in locating and investigating the remaining Halo installations.

Behind the scenes

 * In part 4, the statement made by Guilty Spark to the science teams attempting to withdraw data from him is the basis of the novel Halo: Primordium.
 * Similar to the Data Drop, which led up to the release of Halo: Glasslands, the Eleventh Hour reports were used to promote Halo 4 and to provide more insight into the contemporary state of the galaxy. Like the Data Drop, one installment was featured in each weekly Halo Bulletin, beginning with the October 10, 2012 edition, the text was hidden with invisible text.
 * The third, fourth, and fifth reports in document form were found during the Section 3 Alternate Reality Game, hidden within PNG files.

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