Halo: The Fall of Reach: Difference between revisions

The surface of Reach is also overrun. The Spartans which John sent to the surface are presumably overrun and all slaughtered. Without the generators, the Super MAC Cannons fall silent and are destroyed by the Covenant, who soon proceed to begin [[glassing]] the planet. The remaining UNSC ships are all destroyed, except for the Pillar of Autumn, when Cortana plots an exit vector in compliance with the Cole Protocol, though not completely at random. She had decrypted [[Forerunner]] glyphs found by the Master Chief on [[Sigma Octanus IV]]. The NAV coordinates led the ''Pillar of Autumn'' to what the Covenant had been searching for: [[Installation_04|Halo]], an extremely sacred Forerunner artifact. The book ends with Captain Keyes looking through view screens at the ring talking to Cortana about it. After the jump they orbited a giant planet beside installation 04 before the Covenants external and internal battle, ''The Pillar Of Autumn.''  

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==Trivia==

*The [[Banshee]] on the front cover of the book is projecting the same "energy beams" that the Banshee is on the front cover of [[Halo: Combat Evolved]].