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===Delta Halo===
===Delta Halo===
[[File:Halo 2 cover.jpg|thumb|''Halo 2'' takes place on Earth and around Installation 05 (Delta Halo).]]
[[File:Halo 2 cover.jpg|thumb|''Halo 2'' takes place on Earth and around Installation 05 (Delta Halo).]]
{{Main|Battle of Earth|Halo 2|Battle of Installation 05}}
{{Main|Battle of Earth|Halo 2||Battle of Mombasa|Halo 3: ODST|Battle of Installation 05}}
The game starts with a Covenant attack on Earth. Master Chief begins on one of the three hundred space defense platforms that orbit the planet. After repelling the Covenant boarding parties, the battle shifts to Earth's surface. During which a Covenant ship makes a Slipspace jump which destroys the city of [[New Mombasa]], the UNSC ship the ''In Amber Clad'', with the Master Chief aboard gets swept up in the warp field in a desperate effort to follow it.
Halo 2 starts with the beginning of a Covenant attack on Earth. John-117 begins on one of the three hundred space defense platforms that orbit the planet. After repelling the Covenant boarding parties, the battle shifts to Earth's surface. During which a Covenant ship makes a Slipspace jump which destroys the city of [[New Mombasa]], the UNSC ship the ''In Amber Clad'', with the Master Chief aboard gets swept up in the warp field in a desperate effort to follow it.


The Master Chief is transported to the vicinity of another Halo ring - the [[Installation 05|Delta Halo]] - on which they land. Through an alternating game play story lines a power struggle within the Covenant is revealed, with Brutes usurping the role of the Elites. Furthermore, there is a movement, regarded by the Covenant leadership as heretical, which argues that Covenant teachings aren't true. Lastly, a Flood entity known only as the Gravemind appears to be the controlling mind of the Flood. The creature is obviously highly intelligent and gives the impression of knowing a great deal.
The Master Chief is transported to the vicinity of another Halo ring - the [[Installation 05|Delta Halo]] - on which they land. Through an alternating game play story lines a power struggle within the Covenant is revealed, with Brutes usurping the role of the Elites. Furthermore, there is a movement, regarded by the Covenant leadership as heretical, which argues that Covenant teachings aren't true. Lastly, a Flood entity known only as the Gravemind appears to be the controlling mind of the Flood. The creature is obviously highly intelligent and gives the impression of knowing a great deal.
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The Halos, as revealed by 343 Guilty Spark, were built to prevent the Flood from spreading throughout the Galaxy, and that the Forerunners who built it were wiped out when they fired it as a "weapon of last resort" at some point in the remote past. In spite of this the Covenant activates the ring in preparation to fire, to bring about the Great Journey. Through gameplay the [[Index]] is retrieved and the Halo cannot fire. 343 Guilty Spark reveals that although the Index was removed before Delta Halo had time to complete it's firing sequence, it sent signals to other Halos in the Galaxy, putting them on standby mode. Now, they can be activated remotely from the Ark, whose exact location is not revealed at this point.
The Halos, as revealed by 343 Guilty Spark, were built to prevent the Flood from spreading throughout the Galaxy, and that the Forerunners who built it were wiped out when they fired it as a "weapon of last resort" at some point in the remote past. In spite of this the Covenant activates the ring in preparation to fire, to bring about the Great Journey. Through gameplay the [[Index]] is retrieved and the Halo cannot fire. 343 Guilty Spark reveals that although the Index was removed before Delta Halo had time to complete it's firing sequence, it sent signals to other Halos in the Galaxy, putting them on standby mode. Now, they can be activated remotely from the Ark, whose exact location is not revealed at this point.
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[[File:Onyx cover.jpg|thumb|The book ''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'' takes place on a UNSC-controlled planet, Onyx.]]
[[File:Halo 3 ODST Cover.png|thumb|''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' takes place on New Mombasa, Earth]]


===Battle of Onyx===
''Halo 3: ODST'' tells the story of what happened after the Covenant slipspace jump that destroyed the port city of New Mombasa in ''Halo 2'', as seen from the eyes of [[The Rookie]], an [[ODST]] Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, and his squadmates.
{{Main|Battle of Onyx|Halo: Ghosts of Onyx}}
The [[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx|novel]], which tells the story of the battle, begins with a group of [[SPARTAN-III]]s deploying to a Covenant fleet refueling depot on [[Pegasi Delta]]. They proceed to destroy the facility, but due to unexpectedly heavy Covenant resistance, all but two of the three hundred Spartan team is wiped out. The only survivors, [[Tom-B292]] and [[Lucy-B091]], are revealed to be only twelve years old, and Lucy is traumatized and rendered mute.  


The novel then cuts to a raid by the SPARTAN-II [[Blue Team]] on a rebel base at planet Victoria to recover stolen nuclear warheads. The team is nearly captured by a rebel ambush, but is saved by the timely, intuitive intervention of [[Kurt-051]]. Shortly afterward, the novel cuts to a meeting between the top leadership of ONI. In this meeting, they agree that the SPARTAN-II program is prohibitively expensive and that a more streamlined, "disposable" breed of Spartans must be trained for high-risk operations.  
Prior to the slipspace rupture in Halo 2, a large number of ODSTs are destined to drop into the Covenant Carrier that evaded Earth's orbital defences. The drop is initiated, but the ODST squad of Gunnery Sergeant [[Edward Buck]] is commandeered by his superior, and former love interest, Captain [[Veronica Dare]] of the Office of Naval Intelligence to drop into the city of New Mombasa, as opposed to the Covenant carrier. The slipspace rupture causes the assault on the carrier to fail, and Buck's/Dare's squad to scatter and land in different parts of the city.


Trained on the restricted planet of [[Onyx]] the top three teams of the S-III Gamma Company, [[Team Saber|Teams Saber]], [[Team Katana|Katana]], and [[Team Gladius|Gladius]], conduct a training exercise run into some previously undiscovered Forerunner Sentinels. Through a series of events the Covenant are herd to the existence of Onyx and the human force discover an ancient Forerunner city, and are guided into a massive dome by Halsey, who determines that the entire planet is a [[Shield World|shield world]] referred to by the Forerunners as The Sharpened Shield. Fighting off determined Covenant pursuers, they press on into the heart of the planet to discover that the planet is literally a massive bomb shelter for the Forerunner to survive the activation of the Halos. However they find themselves alone in the vast habitat; for some reason, the Forerunner never entered this structure when the Halos were first activated. [[Kurt-051]] stays behind to activate a pack of FENRIS warheads, thus killing himself, the Covenant pursuers, and obliterating [[Onyx]].
The Rookie wakes about six hours later and must find his squad. He roams the nighttime city, fighting off covenant patrols and discovering, with the aide of the city's [[Superintendent]] AI, clues that allow him to discover the fate of his fellow squadmates (with each discovery putting the Player into that squadmember's place for a level). He then picks up on Captain Dare's distress signal. The Rookie fights his way into and through an underground facility where they meet up, and continue to fight their way through a massive [[Drone]] hive (wakened by the earlier detonation of an ONI Building at the top of the shaft at the hands of [[Mickey]] and [[Dutch]]). They both fight their way to the Superintendent data core, and discover a Covenant [[engineer]], one of many biological supercomputers and unwilling assistants to the Covenant, whom has taken apart the Superintendent's memory core and posesses vital information on the Covenant which could turn the tide of the war.  
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They, along with Buck, fight their way to the highway, and then down it, when they are forced to turn off the highway (wrecked in the beginning stages of an attempt to glass New Mombasa) where they hold off against waves of Covenant until Mickey, Dutch and [[Romeo]] arrive to pick them up. They arrive just before the Covenant prepare to glass their previous positition, actually discovered to be an excavation project. They manage to escape just in time, only to realize that the Covenant has found what they were looking for.
[[File:Halo 3 ODST Cover.png|thumb|''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' takes place on New Mombasa, Earth]]
[[File:Halo 3 ODST Cover.png|thumb|''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' takes place on New Mombasa, Earth]]
===Halo 3: ODST===
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{{Main|Battle of Mombasa|Halo 3: ODST}}
''Halo 3: ODST'' tells the story of what happened after the Covenant slipspace jump that destroyed the port city of New Mombasa in ''Halo 2'', as seen from the eyes of [[The Rookie]], an [[ODST]] Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, and his squadmates.
''Halo 3: ODST'' tells the story of what happened after the Covenant slipspace jump that destroyed the port city of New Mombasa in ''Halo 2'', as seen from the eyes of [[The Rookie]], an [[ODST]] Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, and his squadmates.


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They, along with Buck, fight their way to the highway, and then down it, when they are forced to turn off the highway (wrecked in the beginning stages of an attempt to glass New Mombasa) where they hold off against waves of Covenant until Mickey, Dutch and [[Romeo]] arrive to pick them up. They arrive just before the Covenant prepare to glass their previous positition, actually discovered to be an excavation project. They manage to escape just in time, only to realize that the Covenant has found what they were looking for.
They, along with Buck, fight their way to the highway, and then down it, when they are forced to turn off the highway (wrecked in the beginning stages of an attempt to glass New Mombasa) where they hold off against waves of Covenant until Mickey, Dutch and [[Romeo]] arrive to pick them up. They arrive just before the Covenant prepare to glass their previous positition, actually discovered to be an excavation project. They manage to escape just in time, only to realize that the Covenant has found what they were looking for.
[[File:Onyx cover.jpg|thumb|The book ''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'' takes place on a UNSC-controlled planet, Onyx.]]
===Battle of Onyx===
{{Main|Battle of Onyx|Halo: Ghosts of Onyx}}
The [[Halo:Ghosts of Onyx|novel]], which tells the story of the battle, begins with a group of [[SPARTAN-III]]s deploying to a Covenant fleet refueling depot on [[Pegasi Delta]]. They proceed to destroy the facility, but due to unexpectedly heavy Covenant resistance, all but two of the three hundred Spartan team is wiped out. The only survivors, [[Tom-B292]] and [[Lucy-B091]], are revealed to be only twelve years old, and Lucy is traumatized and rendered mute.
The novel then cuts to a raid by the SPARTAN-II [[Blue Team]] on a rebel base at planet Victoria to recover stolen nuclear warheads. The team is nearly captured by a rebel ambush, but is saved by the timely, intuitive intervention of [[Kurt-051]]. Shortly afterward, the novel cuts to a meeting between the top leadership of ONI. In this meeting, they agree that the SPARTAN-II program is prohibitively expensive and that a more streamlined, "disposable" breed of Spartans must be trained for high-risk operations.
Trained on the restricted planet of [[Onyx]] the top three teams of the S-III Gamma Company, [[Team Saber|Teams Saber]], [[Team Katana|Katana]], and [[Team Gladius|Gladius]], conduct a training exercise run into some previously undiscovered Forerunner Sentinels. Through a series of events the Covenant are herd to the existence of Onyx and the human force discover an ancient Forerunner city, and are guided into a massive dome by Halsey, who determines that the entire planet is a [[Shield World|shield world]] referred to by the Forerunners as The Sharpened Shield. Fighting off determined Covenant pursuers, they press on into the heart of the planet to discover that the planet is literally a massive bomb shelter for the Forerunner to survive the activation of the Halos. However they find themselves alone in the vast habitat; for some reason, the Forerunner never entered this structure when the Halos were first activated. [[Kurt-051]] stays behind to activate a pack of FENRIS warheads, thus killing himself, the Covenant pursuers, and obliterating [[Onyx]].
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[[File:Halo3coverart.JPG|thumb|''[[Halo 3]]'' takes place on Earth and around The Ark.]]
[[File:Halo3coverart.JPG|thumb|''[[Halo 3]]'' takes place on Earth and around The Ark.]]
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