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===Alpha Halo=== | ===Alpha Halo=== | ||
[[Image:Halo Cover.jpg|thumb|150px|right|The first game [[Halo: Combat Evolved]] | [[Image:Halo Cover.jpg|thumb|150px|right|The first game [[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'s box art.]] | ||
{{main|Halo: Combat Evolved}} | {{main|Halo: Combat Evolved}} | ||
The Pillar of Autumn exits Slipspace to find a mysterious ring shaped space station orbiting the gas giant [[Threshold]]. The ring, quickly named "Halo", is obviously artificial and teeming with life. A Covenant fleet, however, is also present, and a subsequent battle heavily damages the [[Pillar of Autumn]] and the ship crash landed onto Halo. Before the POA went down the ship's AI construct, Cortana, leaves the ''Autumn'' with Spartan-117 in a [[Bumblebee]] escape pod which also crash lands on Halo. | The Pillar of Autumn exits Slipspace to find a mysterious ring shaped space station orbiting the gas giant [[Threshold]]. The ring, quickly named "Halo", is obviously artificial and teeming with life. A Covenant fleet, however, is also present, and a subsequent battle heavily damages the [[Pillar of Autumn]] and the ship crash landed onto Halo. Before the POA went down the ship's AI construct, Cortana, leaves the ''Autumn'' with Spartan-117 in a [[Bumblebee]] escape pod which also crash lands on Halo. | ||
[[Image:Thefloodbook.jpg|thumb|150px|The book, [[Halo: The Flood]] | [[Image:Thefloodbook.jpg|thumb|150px|The book, [[Halo: The Flood]]'s front cover.]] | ||
The first Halo game begins in earnest with the Master Chief's escape from the ''Autumn'', and continues upon landing. The first levels of the game deal with an attempt to reach Halo's control center to uncover its purpose. It is soon discovered that the Covenant have accidentally released The Flood. The Flood then sweep across Halo and devastate human and Covenant forces positioned on it. The release of the Flood prompts [[343 Guilty Spark]], an eccentric Forerunner Artificial Intelligence, to try to activate Halo's defense system, a pulse weapon that, when fired, would wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy large enough to be hosts for the Flood. Technically, that installation only has a maximum effective radius of 25,000 light years, but the pulse would trigger other installations as well, effectively killing all intelligent life in the galaxy. This system is designed to stop the Flood from spreading through the universe if they escape confinement from Halo by the only way possible: starving the Flood of any life source that can sustain them. | The first Halo game begins in earnest with the Master Chief's escape from the ''Autumn'', and continues upon landing. The first levels of the game deal with an attempt to reach Halo's control center to uncover its purpose. It is soon discovered that the Covenant have accidentally released The Flood. The Flood then sweep across Halo and devastate human and Covenant forces positioned on it. The release of the Flood prompts [[343 Guilty Spark]], an eccentric Forerunner Artificial Intelligence, to try to activate Halo's defense system, a pulse weapon that, when fired, would wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy large enough to be hosts for the Flood. Technically, that installation only has a maximum effective radius of 25,000 light years, but the pulse would trigger other installations as well, effectively killing all intelligent life in the galaxy. This system is designed to stop the Flood from spreading through the universe if they escape confinement from Halo by the only way possible: starving the Flood of any life source that can sustain them. | ||
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====First Strike==== | ====First Strike==== | ||
[[Image:First Strike.jpg|thumb|150px|The book, [[Halo: First Strike]] | [[Image:First Strike.jpg|thumb|150px|The book, [[Halo: First Strike]]'s front cover.]] | ||
{{Main|Halo: First Strike}} | {{Main|Halo: First Strike}} | ||
Occurs between the first and second Halo video games. The story starts off with Master Chief and a few other survivors in space above the destroyed Halo. They capture a Covenant flagship and make their way back to Reach. When they arrive they find the entire planet ravaged. Yet something is strange. The Covenant usually Glass a world and move on, but there are small patches of the planet left unscathed. In an alternate storyline we find out that other Spartans have found an ancient Forerunner structure under ONI's [[CASTLE Base]]. There they find a special artifact that warps space time. | Occurs between the first and second Halo video games. The story starts off with Master Chief and a few other survivors in space above the destroyed Halo. They capture a Covenant flagship and make their way back to Reach. When they arrive they find the entire planet ravaged. Yet something is strange. The Covenant usually Glass a world and move on, but there are small patches of the planet left unscathed. In an alternate storyline we find out that other Spartans have found an ancient Forerunner structure under ONI's [[CASTLE Base]]. There they find a special artifact that warps space time. | ||