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==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
{{Quote|There's a sense of scale and scale that I think was maybe missing from Halo Wars|Frank O'Connor<ref name="gamespot">[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/halo-wars-2-new-story-details-and-images-revealed/1100-6440811/ '''GameSpot''': ''Halo Wars 2 New Story Details and Images Revealed'']</ref>}} | {{Quote|There's a sense of scale and scale that I think was maybe missing from Halo Wars.|Frank O'Connor<ref name="gamespot">[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/halo-wars-2-new-story-details-and-images-revealed/1100-6440811/ '''GameSpot''': ''Halo Wars 2 New Story Details and Images Revealed'']</ref>}} | ||
''Halo Wars 2'' takes place twenty-eight years after the events of ''[[Halo Wars]]'' in [[2531]],<ref name="gamespot"/> after {{Class|Phoenix|colony ship}} {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} had floated adrift in space for decades and declared by the rest of the [[United Nations Space Command]] as "lost with all hands". The remaining crew of ''Spirit of Fire'' are awoken from [[Cryo chamber|cryo-sleep]] above the [[Forerunner]]s' [[Installation 00]], previously the setting for ''[[Halo 3]]''. Led by [[Captain]] [[James Cutter]], the crew of ''Spirit of Fire'' encounter the violent mercenary faction known as [[The Banished]], led by the cunning [[Jiralhanae]] warlord [[Atriox]].<ref name="waypoint hw2"/> Having previously battled the [[Covenant]], the Banished rose to power in wake of the empire's fall in [[2552]] by gaining control of numerous assets from the Covenant.<ref name="E32">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhCnA4bH84g '''YouTube''': ''Halo Wars 2: Behind the Scenes'']</ref> | ''Halo Wars 2'' takes place twenty-eight years after the events of ''[[Halo Wars]]'' in [[2531]],<ref name="gamespot"/> after {{Class|Phoenix|colony ship}} {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} had floated adrift in space for decades and declared by the rest of the [[United Nations Space Command]] as "lost with all hands". The remaining crew of ''Spirit of Fire'' are awoken from [[Cryo chamber|cryo-sleep]] above the [[Forerunner]]s' [[Installation 00]], previously the setting for ''[[Halo 3]]''. Led by [[Captain]] [[James Cutter]], the crew of ''Spirit of Fire'' encounter the violent mercenary faction known as [[The Banished]], led by the cunning [[Jiralhanae]] warlord [[Atriox]].<ref name="waypoint hw2"/> Having previously battled the [[Covenant]], the Banished rose to power in wake of the empire's fall in [[2552]] by gaining control of numerous assets from the Covenant.<ref name="E32">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhCnA4bH84g '''YouTube''': ''Halo Wars 2: Behind the Scenes'']</ref> | ||
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{{Featurelist|secondcolumn=title-5|title-1=Characters| | {{Featurelist|secondcolumn=title-5|title-1=Characters| | ||
*[[Alice-130]] | *[[Alice-130]] | ||
*[[Atriox]]<ref name="e3"/> {{1st}} | |||
*[[Douglas-042]] | *[[Douglas-042]] | ||
*[[Ellen Anders]]<ref>[http://ca.ign.com/videos/2016/06/14/halo-wars-2-developer-interview-ign-live-e3-2016 '''IGN''': ''Halo Wars 2 Developer Interview - IGN Live: E3 201'']</ref> | |||
*[[James Cutter]]<ref name="e3">'''E3 2016''', ''Microsoft press conference''</ref> | |||
*[[Jerome-092]] | *[[Jerome-092]] | ||
|title-2=Species| | |title-2=Species| | ||
*[[Human]] | *[[Human]] | ||