The Halo World

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A first look at the Halo series and you’ll notice a gigantic ring miles in diameter floating in deep space. The outer ring is its shell while the inner piece is a heavenly artificial garden abundant with trees, rivers, valleys and oceans and was created by a higher intelligence and technology advanced aliens called the forerunners. Its gravity comes from the rings rotation and as it spin it creates a downwards force in the same way a bucket is spins without its water spilling out. Its function however possesses a threat to mankind in the series. This heavenly garden when activated on the inside will annihilate all life in the entire galaxy.  This is just one little detail of the Halo World.  The series being one of the most successful FPS games to date also publishes novels, comics, live action and animation movies.

Halo has a great storyline for those interested in science fiction. Many have complained that the storyline is not complete in the video games between each sequel and in order to fully understand, one must read the books and comics. I try explaining the history below without spoiling too much in game gameplay.

Simply put the Halo universe has never been close to a utopia even before the aliens arrived. In the near future mankind has discovered interplanetary spaceflight sending men to mars and other planets within our range. The last large scale war between humans resulted in the planets countries to join together as one called the UEG short for Unified Earth Government. Fast forwarding a few centuries humanity’s population grew rapidly after the war amplifying the need of expansion and the colonization of habitable planets outside of the solar system. Roughly 200 planets that were colonized in close proximity to earth were called the inner colonies but trouble extended as it became harder to maintain authority to the outer colonies who felt themselves independent from the UEG which eventually lead to a civil war.

This gave way for the SPARTAN 2 program to form and gave birth to the hero we all know and love. Previously the first SPARTAN program wasn’t worth its expensive cost, but the situation between the rebels only worsened. Its procedure was also greatly unethical. John more commonly known as master chief in was closely watched for his athleticism, luck and skill from a young age. He and many other child candidates were abducted as children and replaced by sick clones who died shortly after, to avoid suspicions. Planet Reach was their new home. They were gruesomely trained not only muscle but mind. To add to that they were injected with a risky formula that would increase their athletic capabilities. However, many did not survive. Dr. Halsey, the leader of the project said ‘for the greater good’ these sacrifices must be made. Indeed they were, in fact, they became the solution to a problem that hasn’t yet risen.

 

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[/caption]st, an outer colony planet with its sole purpose for supplying food for the UEG, was attacked by an unknown force with a more advanced technology. On UNSC spaceship radars they would appear, disappear then suddenly reappear again but much closer. They called themselves the covenant, a group of multiple alien species under a single religion. Covenant ships fired plasma rays at the planet from high above its atmosphere, a technique called glassing. More skirmishes occurred between humans and the covenant as they bombarded each planet. The humans had a code to not release any information about Earth or else it would endanger the human species. Planet Reach, the human’s military base was targeted and glassed next with master chief narrowly escape on the Pillar of Autumn through slip space travel. Through the  wormhole they came upon a gigantic ring floating in space, and Halo 1’s story begins.