Halo: Silent Storm
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Halo: Silent Storm - A Master Chief Story is a print novel by Troy Denning, released on September 4, 2018.[1][2] Silent Storm has narrative connections to Halo: Collateral Damage, a three-part comic book series from Dark Horse written by Alex Irvine, as part of the A Master Chief Story series.[3] A sequel, Halo: Oblivion, was released on September 24, 2019.
Official summary
Plot synopsis
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The book begins in early 2526, only a few months after first contact at Harvest and the SPARTAN-IIs boarding of the Covenant vessel Unrelenting at Chi Ceti IV. The SPARTANs are now attached to UNSC Starry Night, a Razor-class prowler, as part of a mission to board and capture a Covenant frigate known as Radiant Arrow, in an effort to know more about the aliens' technology. The SPARTANs, consisting of Blue Team, Green Team and Gold Team, perform an spacewalk to board the frigate, entering the ship through the hatch in its hangar by following the flight path of several Banshees. The SPARTANs proceed to clear the bay, using M99 Stanchions and M41 SPNKRs to quickly eliminate the Covenant defenders. The group then begin to start clearing the ship of hostiles, with Blue Team heading for the bridge and Green Team heading for the ship's engineering section, with Gold acting as support. The plan goes awry when a flight officer aboard one of the prowlers supporting the operation accidentally broadcasts over general channels, alerting the Covenant to the operation and mobilising the defenders aboard the ship. When Blue Team arrives at the bridge, they dispatch of the crew before discovering that the shipmaster activated a dead-man's switch in his chair, leading to the ship's self-destruct being activated. The SPARTANs exfiltrate from the ship and are picked up by Starry Night.
Meanwhile, Sergeant Avery Johnson arrives on the UNSC Everest, flagship of Battle Group X-Ray and seat of Admiral Preston Cole. Having survived the initial Covenant attack on Harvest and even boarded a Covenant ship,Minor Transgression, Johnson is effectively the most experienced human in fighting the Covenant. Coupled with his experience as part of the ORION Project, Johnson is summoned to a meeting with Admirals Cole and Stanforth alongside Doctor Catherine Halsey where he is briefed on their intentions. With the UNSC Navy's ineffectiveness in direct space battles against the Covenant, other means must be sought at leveling the playing field. Following the successful prior boarding actions, the intent is to use the SPARTAN-IIs to board a number of Covenant craft and plant nuclear weapons aboard, destroying them before they can be a threat to human spacecraft.
Appearances
Trivia
- The novel's cover is illustrated by artist Christian McGrath, who has done book covers for many New York Times Best selling authors.
- Steve Downes read an excerpt from Silent Storm's first chapter to promote the book.[4]
- Several details and characters in the novel, originally planned to be included by Troy Denning, were changed at 343 Industries' request. For one, Denning originally planned to include twenty Spartan-IIs, but was told by 343 Industries to reduce their number, resulting in a squad of twelve Spartans in the final novel. Likewise, General Harper Garvin's role was originally to be filled by Howard Graves, originally featured in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. Finally, Denning's early drafts envisioned Castor's Jiralhanae companion as Atriox rather than Orsun, as Halo: Retribution had suggested the two had served together in the Bloodstars during the war.[5]
- There is a mistake in Chapter 21 where the Age of Reclamation had "First Annual, Second Month". This was Troy Dennings interpretation on how the calendar worked, but he was asked to remove them all, and that case was missed.[6]
Gallery
Title reveal art.
Full cover art.
Sources
- ^ Twitter - Silent Storm announcement
- ^ Amazon - Halo: Silent Storm: A Master Chief Story
- ^ Halo Waypoint: Halo: Silent Storm - First Look
- ^ Youtube - Halo: Silent Storm | Special Excerpt Voiced by Steve Downes
- ^ Halo Conversationalists: Episode 71 - Troy Denning Interview
- ^ Twitter, TDenningauthor - "Yikes! I missed that! Iwas supposed to take the "annual, month" references out, so don't put too much weight on them. It was just my interpretation of how the calendar worked. Since I was asked to remove them, I'm assuming it wasn't correct."
