Boredom made me type a 9 season Halo TV series

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It’s going to need two posts, because I’m capped at 7500 words.

Season 1:

Brief explanations of humanity up until the beginning of colonization, briefly touch on Cole for an episode or two, show fresh look into the Orion program, specifically following Johnson and his perspective of it and the insurrection. Midseason ends with The conscription of the 150 children and the beginning of the Spartan II program. John, Linda, Kelly, Fred, Sam, Kurt, Will, and many other IIs are introduced, though only the main three (Sam, Kelly, John) are given major screen time. Back half is training, a continually worsening civil war, and strange anomalies (hints of Covenant). Season Finale is the Spartan IIs graduating, with the last scene of them being the funeral for those that died in augmentation, meanwhile Johnson fails to take a shot on Tribute resulting in a lot of people losing their lives. (These events don’t take plae perfectly together, but they’re close enough to weave together, even if it means changing a few elements around)

Season 2:

Johnson is sent to Harvest ostensibly to help the planet with CMA training. The newly augmented Spartan IIs show massive improvements. Johnson’s involvement on Harvest becomes a lot more complex. Midseason ends with the capture of Watts by the Spartan IIs and Johnson starting the op that ultimately ends in the destruction of minor transgression, but the Covenant aren’t revealed until the next episode. Second half involves the Spartan IIs deploying in several ops as they get close to Chi Ceti IV, before ending with Sam’s death. Meanwhile Johnson pretty much plays out the rest of Contact Harvest, the planet is partially glassed and we’re introduced to Tartarus, the three high prophets, and maybe even Thel makes a cameo in the last scene of the season finale. The Covenant and their great journey is hinted at, but it is never revealed as to what exactly it is.

Season 3:

Harvest Campaign, reintroduces Cole and Keyes (who would have briefly appeared in season 1). Johnson’s perspective of the early Human-Covenant war. The Spartan IIs first ground encounter with the Covenant, and the introduction, briefly, of both Hood, Cutter, and The Spirit of Fire. Midseason ends with the Harvest campaign basically being over, madrigal being glassed, and the survivors beginning to form the rubble. Last half shows the final battles of Harvest, The Spirit of Fire and its crew’s perspective on the final battles around Harvest, introducing characters like Anders and Forge and the investigation of Forerunner technology. The Spartan IIs continuing to jump from system to system fighting like hell, before finally ending in preparation for the Battle of Arcadia. Alice, Douglas and Jerome are introduced as minor characters. Lots of fighting and space battles in this season. Johnson is faded out to a minor character this season as well as Keyes. Kurt begins to become more featured throughout this season, and is abducted by ONI, who are really introduced for the first time, near the end of the season. During this and the next season, we see glimpses of the Covenant, with minor arcs for Thel and Tartarus, as well as some insight into Covenant leadership. Buck Cameo.

Season 4:

Battle of Arcadia crosses over both the Spirit of Fire’s arc with the Spartan IIs arc. The majority of Spartan IIs go on and continue to participate in several operations around the galaxy in the continued efforts to stop the Covenant. Three go with the Spirit of Fire, who’s arc concludes with the mid-season finale with the death of Forge and Spirit of Fire being lost with all hands. Kurt, who only played a minor role in the last season, will be featured at the last half of season 4, replacing SoF. Johnson will briefly be featured. The Season will introduce the training of the S-IIIs all the way to the last op of Alpha Company. Cameo for Jun, Carter, Emile, and Thom as kids in Alpha. Keyes will briefly appear towards the end of the season, preparing him for his arc next season.

Season 5:

Keyes is selected to be a part of an effort for the Midsummer Night. Kurt recovers from the damage of losing Alpha company. Deeper machinations of the Covenant reveal that humanity isn’t their primary focus. The Rubble is reintroduced, and plays an important role until it is destroyed in the midseason finale. Grey team briefly appears, and Thel’s backstory is given a lot more depth. The Outer colonies are falling. The Spartan IIs, who are featured less and less as they fade into myth, are breifly featured in an arc that ends with Kelly questioning hope as Jericho VII falls and John watches it get glassed. Kurt trains the newly conscripted Beta spartans vowing not to let the same mistakes happen again.

Season 6:

Keyes continues to fight, even as the outer colonies continue to be decimated. The Spartan IIs suffer a few casualties. The Beta IIIs are trained. We’re introduced to Tom, Lucy, Adam, Min, Catherine, and several other members of Beta company. Cole’s fleet continue to barely hold together, winning victories at high prices. Tartarus becomes Truth’s right hand, and we’re introduced to a member of the Vadam clan (not Thel). The two work side by side on several important missions. Midseason ends with Beta graduating and preparing for their first, deployment, and Tartarus, by order of Truth, killing Vadam (not Thel). Truth then reveals a massive fleet, and its movements, which will lead it to clash directly with Cole’s. Back half of the season involves a few minor ops for Beta Company, Tartarus ascending to the leadership of the brutes, Blue team briefly being involved in a few ops. Operation TORPEDO goes live, with Catherine oddly missing. Cole makes a last stand, turning Viperdae into a miniature nova. Beta company is wiped out, except for Tom and Lucy, but TORPEDO is considered a success. Lucy loses her voice. Tom privately breaks down, and is found by Kurt, who is also devastated at the loss. Kurt breaks protocol and indoctrination by showing Tom that Catherine was still alive.

A montage of scenes from the war play. Johnson is angrily killing a group of grunts, lit cigar burning in his mouth, Buck is trying to revive a fallen comrade who is severely burned and has a hole in his midsection, with no success. Thel leads a squad of elites while they tear through a line of marines, the last one alive is left wounded and holds a picture of his daughter before looking up at Thel, who cuts him down. Tartarus is seen striding with confidence as his pack races through a crowded city street, killing civilians with their hands and spikers in a display of savagery. A viewport from space shows a planet burning as Truth’s smiling reflection is seen. Kurt reveals to Tom that several IIIs from Alpha and Gamma were pulled from their companies to work on a special program. Tom Asks why and a the last scene of the montage shows Blue Team, battle scarred but still fighting in a heavily destroyed city, surrounded by recently slain Covenant. It is raining, and the rain washes the blood away, where it mixes with red. Thousands of human corpses are seen littering the city.

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Season 7:

Years later, the inner colonies are now also on the brink of destruction. The sun is setting on Humanity. An older and weary Keyes is seen giving a lecture about the war to students on Luna academy. This lecture is used as exposition to fill in the gap. The Spartan IIs are now publicly known, and are featured heavily in new feeds and other propaganda. The UNSC is shown to be a much more controlling police state now. Sigma Octanus is attacked, but saved with a combination of the Keyes loop and the Spartan IIs on the ground. A grizzled Kurt is seen training Ash, Olivia, Mark, Dante, and Holly, as well as several other members of Gamma. Tom and Lucy are seen stoically at his side. Operation Red Flag is introduced as all the surviving Spartan IIs are recalled for what might finally end the war. Meanwhile, Noble Team is introduced. Thom (Not Tom, but a member of Noble Team) is killed in an op Catherine put together, and his replacement is introduced in the midseason finale, where Winter Contingency is declared on Reach. The last half of the season involves Noble Team defending Reach, John meeting Cortana and getting the new Mark V armor, Political strife within the Covenant, and the eventual Fall of Reach. All of Nobel Team eventually dies, except for Jun, who safely evacuates Halsey to CASTLE Base before disappearing. The majority of the Spartan IIs are left behind on Reach as the Pillar of Autumn, captained by Keyes, is forced to make a blind jump away from the doomed planet. The final scene is the Autumn discovering Halo.

Season 8:

The Covenant rejoice over discovering Halo, the great journey is revealed, and John races to uncover the secrets of Halo as the surviving crew of the Autumn try to desperately mount a guerrilla campaign against the Covenant on Halo. Meanwhile, the UNSC struggles to come to terms with the loss of Reach, and the very real threat of finally losing Earth. Back on Halo, Major Silva criticizes John for the Spartan-II program. It is revealed that he lost his sister at the start of the war when they raided Corbulo, and he blames the Spartan program for her death, as the Spartans that rescued the few survivors there failed to save her. His hatred for their inability to save her, his love for “normal humans” - particularly ODSTs, combine, and he is revealed to have some connection with a program meant to augment already existing soldiers. The Flood are revealed and released, leading to the death of Keyes, Johnson, Jenkins, and the eventual destruction of Halo in the midseason finale.

The second half involves John trying to get home. It is revealed that Johnson survived along with a few other humans. Together, they attempt to steal a covenant ship and use its slipspace engines to get home. On Reach, the fates of the Spartan IIs are revealed. The ground op gets off to a rocky start as their pelican is gutted while still in low orbit, and the Spartans are forced to bail out and crash land to the ground. The survivors split up into several groups, but ultimately are overwhelmed by the amount of Covenant, and are forced to retreat. Few survive being routed, and are forced to fall back to CASTLE base, where they discover Halsey to still be alive. John’s arc connects with the Reach arc, as the two are rejoined. A desperate race away from Reach ensues. Meanwhile, The political uproar in the Covenant hits an all-time high, and the Prophet of Truth sets in motion a power play that will change the Covenant forever. Kelly is abducted by Halsey, who flees to an unknown system, meanwhile Operation First Strike goes off nearly flawlessly, costing only three human lives, and destroying a massive Covenant Armada that was preparing to attack Earth. Tartarus gives a report of the incident to Truth, who seems unphased by it, and demands to see the Fleetmaster of the Fleet of Particular Justice, who is revealed to be Thel.

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Season 9:

Barely making it home, John and the few survivors of the Halo ring are in the middle of a ceremony when Earth is attacked. John holds off the attack on the Super MAC platform Cairo. Meanwhile, Thel is tried and found guilty for his failure to protect Halo, and condemned to execution. John, on board In Amber Clad, follows the Prophet of Regret’s ship through slipspace, leading to a second Halo ring. Thel is sent to silence heretics who are renouncing the Covenant views. Kurt’s top honor Gamma IIIs are competing for the honor of being top of their class when an event causes the planet to suddenly be swarmed by Forerunner sentinels. Halsey’s ship arrives at the unknown destination, which turns out to be Onyx. Thel is sent to get the index for Delta Halo, where he runs into Miranda and Johnson. Meanwhile, John successfully assassinates Regret before apparently being killed by a glassing beam. Thel is betrayed by Tartarus as the Brutes begin to overthrow the Elites with the blessing of Truth, and is thrown to the bottom of a pit. Thel and John breifly meet, both being held captive by a flood entity known as the Gravemind. John is sent to kill Truth, while Thel is sent to find the index. In the midseason finale, Thel kills Tartarus and forms an uneasy alliance with Johnson and Miranda, Kelly is reunited with Kurt, and John is forced to leave Cortana behind and returns to Earth, prepared to finish the fight.

The second half involves the Onyx battle, and the the second battle of Earth. Blue Team is sent to Onyx after intercepting a distress beacon from Halsey. There they are reunited with Kurt, Kelly, and Halsey. John returns to Earth on Truth’s keyship, but is forced to bail out and crashes in the jungles of Africa. There he is met by Johnson, who, along with Miranda, came back to Earth with Thel. After a brief confrontation between the two, John and Thel fight the occupying Brute force. After getting to a base and overseeing its evacuation, John leads a push for Truth’s ship, but before it can be destroyed, it activates a portal and leaves. Moments later, a ship carrying the flood crashes nearby, and it is revealed to be holding a message from Cortana. After retrieving the message, and destroying the ship, and the infection it brought with it, John convinces Hood to allow him to go with the elites through the portal to kill Truth, and possibly find a solution to the Flood. Back on Onyx, Halsey leads the group deep into the core of the planet, where they too aim to find a portal. Dante is killed by a needler while trying to get deeper underground. It is discovered that Onyx is an artificial planet, and a portal to its core is closing. In addition, a factory mass-producing hundreds of thousands of sentinels is discovered. Blue Team and Gamma manage to destroy the factory, but are forced to make a last stand while the portal to the core closes. Holly and Will are killed, before Kurt orders everybody else through the portal. When it closes, he detonates two nuclear devices and and dies in the blast, eliminating the Covenant forces on Onyx. Shortly there after, the planet rips itself apart. John and forces arrive on the other side, discovering the Ark. A battle overhead ensues, while John, Thel, and Johnson are among the many sent groundside. After finding a cartographer, the find the location of where Truth is hiding. The Brute Fleet is destroyed, and a massive ground and air assault is launched on Truth’s position. Johnson is badly wounded and captured by Truth. The shield surrounding Truth’s Citadel is destroyed, but before he can be stopped, High Charity, new infected with flood, appears, and cripples the Elite Ship, Shadow of Intent. Miranda attempts to rescue Johnson but is killed . Truth prepares to activate all Halo rings, wiping out all life in the galaxy, but is stopped by John and Thel with the help of Flood forces controlled by the Gravemind. Thel kills Truth but they are quickly betrayed by Gravemind. They manage to get away, and discover a nearly rebuilt Halo ring replacing the one he destroyed. John and Thel mount a rescue effort for Cortana in the bowels of High Charity. They successfully save her, and she reveals she has the index for the Halo ring. They activate the Halo, but are betrayed by its monitor, who kills Johnson. They quickly kill the monitor, and escape the ring, before it fires, killing the Gravemind, as well as destroying the ring. Only half the ship they escape on makes it through, leaving John and Cortana behind. Months later, Thel attends a memorial service for the war, where they honor the fallen Spartan. The Core room of Onyx is revealed to be a microdyson sphere. The now-stranded survivors of Blue Team speculate the fate of John, concluding that he’s out there somewhere. John is revealed to have survived, but is left adrift in space. He enters Cryo, telling Cortana to wake him when she needs him.

Alright, that’s enough of that. Maybe I’ll write more later. This has been a fun writing project that has kept my interests up, but my girlfriend came home, so I’m going to call it for today. Either way, the point is, you could easily make an amazing Halo TV series using mostly already existing canon. It practically writes itself, so no more excuses Microsoft, give us our damn show already.

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RESERVED, but its safe to say this is the last page needed.

Feel free to bask in my nerdiness now folks.

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You must have been so bored to write the entire halo universe into tv show form

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So this would be the single most expansive, expensive, amazing thing to ever be put on television.
It would never be made, but I honestly am amazed on how entertaining you made this thread. You literally covered almost everything there was to cover in Halo up to Halo 3.
Just imagining a Game of Thrones version of Halo gets me more sweaty then a freshman at prom.
(By the way, I was that freshman, and I was very sweaty.)

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> 2535458356653045;6:
> So this would be the single most expansive, expensive, amazing thing to ever be put on television.
> It would never be made, but I honestly am amazed on how entertaining you made this thread. You literally covered almost everything there was to cover in Halo up to Halo 3.
> Just imagining a Game of Thrones version of Halo gets me more sweaty then a freshman at prom.
> (By the way, I was that freshman, and I was very sweaty.)

Well, they did claim the Halo TV series(which is supposedly still in development) has a “Game of Thrones-esque” budget…

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> 2533274974033696;7:
> > 2535458356653045;6:
> > So this would be the single most expansive, expensive, amazing thing to ever be put on television.
> > It would never be made, but I honestly am amazed on how entertaining you made this thread. You literally covered almost everything there was to cover in Halo up to Halo 3.
> > Just imagining a Game of Thrones version of Halo gets me more sweaty then a freshman at prom.
> > (By the way, I was that freshman, and I was very sweaty.)
>
> Well, they did claim the Halo TV series(which is supposedly still in development) has a “Game of Thrones-esque” budget…

_starts sweating_

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Wow…this post is fantastic. Bravo, OP.

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How long did it take you to write this? I didn’t even have enough time to read half of it!!

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Just finished reading and I gotta say, bravo good sir! Looking forward to reading the last page!