[QUOTE="cowgriller"][QUOTE="double_heist"] Does Halo have a story?double_heist
was that a serious question?
Yes.yes halo does have a story. it got a bit conveluted around halo 2 but seemed to have tried to return to it's roots in the third installment.
in short:
the human species is at war with an allied alien force known as the covenant. the covenant attack some of the human outlying colonies and triggered a response/war from the UN. the UN sent the navy, the UNSC (United Nations Space Command) in an effort to stamp out the covenant and rebuild the colonies. at first the war went well but the covenant became stronger and attacked earth itself. during an invasion of the carrier, the pillar of autumn, the master chief was awoken from cryo-sleep to fight them while the ship was abandoned. the cheif got to a pod before the pillar went down and he and the unsc troops land on an unknown and uncharted ring world, halo. the covenant, as it turns out were in halo believining that it was some religious artifact that could send them to heaven. turns out it was a weapon of unknown origin. while the chief and the marines tried to find a way to the center of the ring to the control room, they were attacked by an alien species known as the flood. after learning about the flood, halo, and the builders of it, the forerunners, the chief and cortana came up with the best idea to kill off the covenant and the flood before the flood could spread. overload the pillar's drive core and blow halo to pieces.
during halo 2m we were met with another side of the story. the covenant side. the elite that was charged with halo's safety was stripped of his title and tortured. the elite's lost their status as the protectors of the profits and a new enemy was introduced. the brutes. the elite that ws tortured was given reprieve and a chance to defend himself and became to arbiter. at around this time, the elite invaded earth and laid waste to it. the chief landed on earth to fight the covenant and kill the prophets. when the prophets and the covenant were leaving earth, they went into slip-space (hyper-drive) inside the earth atmosphere just over a city and caused a massive explosion that ruined the city. (this were halo: odst takes place, just after the jump). the unsc with the chief went through a portal that the covenant opened up and ended up just outside another halo ring. turns out, there 7 rings. the chief only destroyed one. the covenant tried to find a way to activate all the rings simultaneously to "go on the great journey" as they put it. this inevitably lead them to a giant pyramid shaped object, which was an ancient forerunner ship. the ship flow on autopilot to a control room back on earth.
this leads to halo 3. the chief jumps off the ship just as it's touching down near the covenant dig site in new mombosa africa. after leading through a campaign in the jungle and the city just outside the dig site, he makes his way to the outside rim of the 3 mile wide (all of which is rendered in the game) hole in the ground. the hole was a set of doors and a connected to the forerunner ship the chief came in on, opened a portal in the sky that leads to the ark, the facility that can fire all the rings at once. the rings themselves are weapons to kill off the flood. rather than killing the flood itself, the rings kill off the floods food source, all organic life in the galaxy. the unsc with the chief and the elites which splintered from the covenant in halo 2, went through the portal to kill off the third prophet and stop him from firing the rings. after doing so, he inadvertently pissed off the gravemind, a hive-mind type of creature created by the consolidation of individual flood members. he needed a way to kill off the gravemind and the flood once and for all. so as he did in the first game, he overloaded the frigates dirve core and blow the ring, and possibly the ark itself, to hell. he, cortana ( an ai program) and the arbiter narrowly escapes and passed through the portal just as it closed. the rear end of the frigate he was in broke off and the arbiter in the from thalf land safely in earth. he was trapped in space in half a frigate with cortana. he went into cryo-sleep and told cortana "wake me...when you need me." cortana sets off a beacon to let the unsc know they were alive and needed pick up. if you beat the game on the legendary difficulty, you get a longer cutscene at the end the shows a burnt planet.
some have speculated the planet to be onyx, the planet in the game marathon. one can think it's reach or harvest but reach was destroyed years before the chief was even born. bungie never said anything.
i did left a lot of detail pertaining to characters and events but you'll have to play the series to find them out.
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