r/HaloStory

I'm wondering why Master Chief never goes to save Ben Giroux?

Fk me. I just listened to this again for the first time in years. Ben's story has to be one of the saddest that I've ever heard.

Also, where are these gaming studios? If they made a telltale styled game off this, it'd be sick. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is allergic to good gaming development.

So in the beginning cutscene and before chief wakes up, the banished are the most OP faction in the universe (Rip infinity being blown up). Then during rhe MP stories blogs on waypoint their also super OP and lastly SoS are losing to the banished.

Why did we having make banished just the covenant? Like genuinely the “new” banished are just 1 to 1 covenant. Minus prophets and glassing planets. Even tho in infinite I expected them to glass planets after they raid em

I must know they manage to get those things out of the Infinity and onto the ground. I know there was a mission beforehand where we drove to the ship with a scorpion, but the Infinity was crash landed and I don’t imagine they can consistently rely on having a huge patch of suitable terrain for using the elevators.

I can see them having a drop ship for heavier vehicles like the Elephant, but the Mammoth is exponentially larger and I must know how they’re expected to deploy or retrieve them reliably. Is there implied to be some much larger drop ships that we don’t see? Because I can’t imagine anything aside from the Heron being able to carry one, and the Infinity isn’t mentioned to have any of those in its complement.

So I've been introducing Halo to new people and one of them asked for a Google doc that initially was made to recap what had happened in each game as we went through them. While it is still that, it eventually also became something of a cliffnotes lore thing where stuff like the Insurrection, the birth of the SPARTAN program, and other things would be covered to help explain certain parts of Halo's story. (And help me remember stuff about the story as well.) It's not done yet as we still have Halo 4-Infinite to go but I'd still like it to be fact checked by you lovely people as I have read any of the books/ comics yet aside from the Fall of Reach novel. Beware, there are probably quite a few grammatical errors. Please message me for this as fan-creations are not allowed to be posted.

My brother yesterday gifted me with a load of books and a number of them are halo books, I’ve played halo a lot years ago but I’m not knowledgeable of the story of what goes first and wanted advice what books go first and what I’m missing. Thinking of getting all the ones I’m missing and read them all together as a story in its entirety when I have what I’m missing.

So far these are the ones I now have

Contact Harvest

Primordium

The Cole Protocol

Evolutions

The Fall of Reach

The Thursdays War

First Strike

Cryptum

Mortal Dictata

Ghosts of Onyx

The Flood

Ngl, shocked there are so many halo books.

If I understand how the composer works, it turns a beings essence into pure data and uploads them into a proper shell.

Isn't that just making a person into an Ancilla? Due to forerunner data storage I doubt they'd experience rampancy in any sane amount of time (Spark was only starting to go rampant after nearly 100,000 years), but would they at some point go rampant? Would the logic plague affect them?

ASIDE from the events of the games

Just wondering if this has been explored in the lore, but I find it strange how the Forerunners had such bad security and made SO many installations with flood spores that its as though they intended to cause another catastrophe.

Like, I can excuse the first outbreak because the Covenant are dumb and thought it was "holy", but every single installation seems to have a breakout with no tools in place to stop it, besides a couple sentinels. Forerunner tech when its vsing humanity seems top tier, but against the flood I would rather have Billy Bob equipped with a shotgun and a can of Zyns.

I get that they wanted to keep some samples around in case the Flood returned some other way, but they just seem so careless. Like OK, Installation 04 needs a research station because its a major construct and probably will be found someday, but does the gas mining station really need one?

Obviously Gutas are native to Reach which didn’t contain any flood samples. This is more of a hypothetical.

What do you think would happen? Would the Guta just be transformed into a giant hulking combat form, or would it’s immense biomass be used to create a Proto-Gravemind?

Like i can see it being lowered by a phantom's gravity well or in a spirit's, but i don't think an elite could just heft one up and carry it, especially not into some of the tight spaces we see them used in. We see them used basically everywhere the covenant show up so they have to be very easy to transport quickly. My best guess is some kind of hover dolly but I really don't know.

By pre Halo CE I essentially mean the human covenant war books.

And by insane feats and stunts, I mean things even the normal Spartans wouldn’t/haven’t ever done, like giving the covenant back their bomb by flying through space, destroying Halo, almost single-handedly stealing a Covie ship in first strike and (with help) destroying an entire covenant fleet more than once. Stuff like that.

Did chief’s legendary reputation only come after Halo CE?

In the Rubicon Protocol, Spartan Stone goes down the lift in outpost Tremonius which if you'll recall is the one leading to the substructure where Chief finds The Weapon and kills Tremonius in the second mission. There she fights Jega and dies, but right before that she picks up a UNSC signal, clearly The Weapon right? (or maybe Horvath since he was also underground at the time). She dies soon after so maybe she could have found her.

However, then Kovan and the boat crew retrace her steps, find her body and continue forward into the substructure but they somehow don't find her?

To be fair, they were running from the Banished so perhaps they couldn't stop for anything even if they did pick up her signal too but i wish the novel acknowledged it.

My question now is how didn't the Banished find her? My guess is that she hid from anyone without a UNSC signal and she is obviously too advanced for them to crack.

I'll start off by saying I personally think CE has the best singular story out of all the games. Humanity on the run, shipwrecked on an ancient alien world, battling old enemies and new horrors, I just think it's got it all. I love all the other games too, I just like the original the best.

That's not to say I don't think the story could be even stronger. Imagine if some of the lifeboat crew didn't die in the crash. Maybe 4 or 5 survived. Then they proceed to follow Chief on his missions throughout the whole game, but they're all killed one by one like in Reach, to show how desperate the stakes are. They're all named, they all have voice actors, they're all in the cut scenes. We would get to know and love them as they fight alongside us and then get wrecked when they all die.

I would have them all survive Halo, then one dies in Truth and Rec, maybe by one of the camo elites in the brig. No deaths in Cartographer. Then another dies in the final battle of AotCR. Chief tells the survivors to stay behind and guard Cortana and the control room as he goes off in search of Captain Keyes. Chief is solo for Guilty Spark and the Library. No deaths in Two Betrayals, but another dies during Keyes. (The marines could joke about how they feel like they're just doing everything backwards now) Maybe there's one or two marines left at the beginning of the Maw. One survives until the very end when they get infected in the final run to the long sword.

I feel like the cutscene of Chief alone at the end would hit so much harder with something like this. What do you all think? What would you change or adjust?

It’s something we never got an answer for since Infinite came out. Everything else been annoyingly MIA for 6 years but the prometheans? What promethean?

Hey,

I was growing up with the older Halo books:
Fall of Reach
The flood
First strike
Ghost of onyx
Contact harvest
(A bit kilo five trilogy)
And love the first 3 halo games. Played all games and know about the banished but was not happy with the lore halo reach upwards.

How ist the book lore now?

For me, the humans DID tell the forerunners what they were doing, but the forerunners simply didn't believe them. They figured it was an excuse, since when they retook the planets there was no flood, and the flood conveniently only showed up in world's bordering the humans. That's why the didact reacted so aggressively.