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<center>[[File:Halo-Logo.png|400px|left|The official ''Halo'' logo.]]</center><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>

[[File:Halo Generations by Halcylon.jpg|300px|thumb|An image showing the progression of the Halo series.]]

The Flood grow and reproduce via the assimilation of other beings, using corpses and found biomass in order to spread. They are incapable of sexual reproduction, instead they fester inside a host until a certain time period, after which they explode and many new Flood are given off. Once a Gravemind is formed however, the Flood advance to a stage where they no longer require hosts for this, only biomass and calcium, which they require to feed on, and to build bodies with. Once they have advanced, they create hives which can produce thousands of Flood inside large pustules on walls and other surfaces, which act as incubators. During this stage, the Flood are able to build their own life forms using captured biomass and calcium deposits. The Flood continue in this fashion recurrently until either everything is devoured, or until they are stopped, the former usually occurring.

[[File:1206904788 Halo-Ring.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A Forerunner Installation.]]

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*Wheeled contrivances similar in appearance to today's vehicles are used by the UNSC. However, the Covenant prefer to use hovering technology assumed to be based on Forerunner technology.

*[[AI]]s, some of which are modeled after a human brain, work at superior speeds and with greater efficiency; helping with astronavigation, maintenance, managing, and even battle.  

*Standard AIs are incredibly intelligent within their programmed fields whether that be battle strategy, or maintaining plantations on Human colonies.  

While the UNSC became the governing body for most of Human space they never fully defeated various [[Insurrectionist|rebel groups]]. By [[2517]], the UNSC was facing extremely low morale due to piracy and the ongoing near-civil war dubbed the [[Insurrection]]. In order to remove the rebellion without a significant sacrifice of Human life a [[Dr. Catherine Halsey]] moves forward with the [[SPARTAN-II]] project. 75 gifted children were abducted and replaced by flash-clones, and drafted into the UNSC. The children went through rigorous training and physical augmentations. Code-named SPARTANs, these genetically enhanced troopers were trained from the age of six into a life of battle, and would become a great asset against the Covenant.

{{Main|Battle of Harvest|Halo: Contact Harvest|Halo Wars}}

On February 3, [[2525]] the UNSC colony of [[Harvest]] detected an unknown object on its long-range radar. The object was constructed with materials unlike anything seen before. All contact with Harvest was lost soon after. Ships sent to the system revealed that it had been totally destroyed by a new alien group called the Covenant. A battle group was sent but was defeated by the military superior Covenant ships. Only one ship made it back, the ''[[Heracles]]'' returned with a message that was sent to them, pre-translated, saying, "Your destruction is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument".

Having manually triggered a destabilization of the power cores the Master Chief and Cortana commandeered a [[C709 Longsword-class Interceptor|Longsword]] from one of the ''Pillar of Autumn's'' docking bays and achieved a safe minimum distance before the ship exploded, causing the ring-world to fragment.<ref>Halo: Combat Evolved, ''The Maw''  level</ref>{{Clear}}

[[File:FS cover full.jpg|thumb|150px|''Halo: First Strike'' takes place between ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' and ''Halo 2''.]]

====Operation: First Strike====

{{Main|Operation: FIRST STRIKE|Halo: First Strike}}

At the end of the credits, a last cut scene shows that the Master Chief survived, and put himself into cryosleep, as Cortana activates a distress beacon. The rear half of the ''[[Forward Unto Dawn]]'' is seen hurtling through space toward what most fans believe to be a Forerunner planet.

The first Halo title ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' quickly became known as the first "Killer App"<ref>''Electronic Gaming Monthly'' issue 150</ref> for Microsoft's popular [[Xbox]] video game console when it was released in 2001, achieving both critical acclaim and financial success. ''Halo'' was later published on the PC and finally released for the Mac (for which it was originally developed prior to Microsoft's acquisition of developer Bungie). Shortly after that, the company (Gearbox Software) that ported Halo to PC released ''[[Halo: Custom Edition]]'' as a free, downloadable and achievable extension to the Windows port of Halo.