Halo: Ghosts of Onyx: Difference between revisions

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On Earth, two weeks after the [[Battle of Mombasa|New Mombasa slipspace event]], the planet remains under siege by Covenant forces. [[Frederic-104]], [[William-043]], and [[Linda-058]] are pulled out of the line of fire by [[Terrence Hood|Fleet Admiral Hood]], who responds to Halsey's call for reinforcements by dispatching the Spartans to Onyx. After hijacking a [[Covenant destroyer]] called ''[[Bloodied Spirit]]'' and killing all Covenant on board by suffocation, the Spartans head for Onyx, only to be caught in the middle of a battle between [[Jiralhanae|Brute]] and [[Sangheili|Elite]] ships on the way. The Spartans barely escape and arrive at Onyx only to be attacked by the Sentinels. They escape using a [[Type-25 Troop Carrier|Covenant dropship]] and link up with the survivors, and then make their way toward the restricted area of Onyx after shaking Sentinel pursuit.

Fighting off determined Covenant pursuers, they press on into the heart of the planet to find its secrets, but not before the ONI [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] [[Endless Summer]] communicates to Dr. Halsey the importance of shutting down a Forerunner [[Sentinel manufacturing facility]] which is producing new Sentinels at a rapid rate. After disabling the factory, the group proceeds to the location of [[Team Katana]]. They find eight [[slipspace field pod]]s, five of which contain members of Katana, with the rest housing unidentified individuals. They then press on to Onyx's [[Core room antechamber|core]], where they discover a Slipspace rift supposedly leading into the "shield world". Will-043 and Holly-G003 fall fighting off the Covenant forces, Will-043 engaging several Hunters in hand-to-hand combat before meeting his demise. Halsey, Mendez, Tom, Lucy, and the other Spartans escape, while Kurt remains behind in order to stop the Covenant from following the humans into the slipspace rift. He waits for the portal to fully close and then he lists Kurt Ambrose as MIA under SPARTAN-051 along with the other Spartans, adhering to the [[Office of Naval Intelligence Directive 930|tradition]] of never listing a fallen Spartan as KIA. He ends his life responding to the Elite Fleet Master, "''Die? Didn't you know?... Spartans never die,''" he detonates the two [[FENRIS nuclear warhead]]s that the team had taken with them.

*[[Far-gone colony platforms]] {{Fm}}

*{{Class|Chiroptera|stealth vessel}}

*[[Class-3 Bumblebee‎]] {{Mo}}

*{{Class|CPV|heavy destroyer}} {{1st}}

*{{Class|DDS|carrier}}

*{{Class|ORS|heavy cruiser}} {{1st}}

*{{Class|RPV|light destroyer}}

*[[Type-25 Spirit]]

*[[Type-26 Wraith]]

*[[Type-29 Shadow]]

*[[Type-52 Phantom]]

*[[UNSC stealth cruiser]] {{1st}}

*[[Confetti Maker]] {{1st}}

*[[Type-1 plasma grenade]]

*[[Type-25 plasma rifle]]

*[[Type-33 fuel rod gun]]

*[[Type-42 plasma cannon]]

*[[Long Range Stealth Orbital Insertion Pod]] {{1st}}

**[[Oracle N-variant scope]] {{1st}}

*Before the confirmation of the book itself, the book's placeholder and showcase online name was ''"Ghosts of Coral"''. This raised much speculation about [[i love bees]]' significance to the ''Halo'' series, as [[Coral]] is a planet featured in the alternate reality game.

*During the stage that it was still called ''Ghosts of Coral'', two chapters were cut from the novel for 'pacing reasons', though Nylund has expressed a desire to release these.<ref>http://www.ericnylund.net/2008/02/foul.html</ref>