Okay, lore peeps - got a challenge for you but some background info first. I’ve played every Halo 1-4 including ODST and Reach; however, I haven’t delved into much of the EU with the exception of FUD, some of the in-game terminal stuff, and limited content on the Halo Channel and Halo Waypoint.
So my challenge is, in as succinctly a manner as possible, who can write up the best mini CliffNotes version of the most pertinent events in the EU that would help a fellow like me who’s knowledge of events is pretty much limited to the campaigns get a better feeling of crucial story threads and side content leading into H5???
Fortunately, there’s a youtube channel called Halo Canon, and leading up to the release of Halo 5, I believe there will be videos posted meant to serve this exact purpose: to get everybody up to speed.
And you can go dig through the channel now; there’s plenty there already that’ll help. Namely book synopses, reviews, overviews of the Escalation comic series, summaries of Hunt the Truth, Canon Fodder breakdowns, etc., etc.
After Halo 4, Chief met up with his old team, Blue Team, Spartan-IIs like him who he trained and fought with throughout his early life, (they’ve been in a lot of promo art recently), and was sent on a mission to a place where some stuff was happening. There, he found the Didact, who, long story short, had found the place where Composers were built. And also a Halo, complete with index. Master Chief “kills” him by monologuing him into being dumb and letting himself get trapped as a Halo jettisons part of its structure into an atmosphere. However, the Waypoint Universe article, as well as Frankie, Bryan Reed the writer, and Chief himself have all alluded to a return by him in some way. After that, Chief was ordered by Lord Hood to take a break, but disobeyed and went off to do classified missions. We think he is on one of these missions in his first H5 level. Also, at some point he gatecrashes a Human-Elite peace talk and kills a bunch of terrorists.
Locke is an ex-ONI agent gone Spartan. He was a galaxy-class manhunter and assassin after witnessing what he thought was military incompetence by the UNSC when he lost his home to the Covenant. Later, ONI recruited him. Before becoming a Spartan, he also destroyed a deposit of a special human-killing isotope of an element on a shard of Alpha Halo, which was overrun by Hunter worms and deadly in the daytime due to proximity to a star. Now he leads Fireteam Osiris.
Olympia Vale (red Spartan) is an ONI Sangheili cultural specialist who displayed astonishing skills in combat with minimal training whilst on a mission to the Ark. She speaks Sangheili better than a lot of natives.
Holly Tanaka (beige Spartan) is a military veteran who survived for an extended period on the surface of a glasses planet. She’s also very good at engineering, having built a reactor for her survivor group.
Halsey joined up with Jul Mdama during the course of Spartan Ops to satisfy her hunger for knowledge about the Forerunners. She got the Janus Key in the process, and lost an arm. Now apparently, she wants out.
Let me know if I missed anything.
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> After Halo 4, Chief met up with his old team, Blue Team, Spartan-IIs like him who he trained and fought with throughout his early life, (they’ve been in a lot of promo art recently), and was sent on a mission to a place where some stuff was happening. There, he found the Didact, who, long story short, had found the place where Composers were built. And also a Halo, complete with index. Master Chief “kills” him by monologuing him into being dumb and letting himself get trapped as a Halo jettisons part of its structure into an atmosphere. However, the Waypoint Universe article, as well as Frankie, Bryan Reed the writer, and Chief himself have all alluded to a return by him in some way. After that, Chief was ordered by Lord Hood to take a break, but disobeyed and went off to do classified missions. We think he is on one of these missions in his first H5 level. Also, at some point he gatecrashes a Human-Elite peace talk and kills a bunch of terrorists.
> Locke is an ex-ONI agent gone Spartan. He was a galaxy-class manhunter and assassin after witnessing what he thought was military incompetence by the UNSC when he lost his home to the Covenant. Later, ONI recruited him. Before becoming a Spartan, he also destroyed a deposit of a special human-killing isotope of an element on a shard of Alpha Halo, which was overrun by Hunter worms and deadly in the daytime due to proximity to a star. Now he leads Fireteam Osiris.
> Olympia Vale (red Spartan) is an ONI Sangheili cultural specialist who displayed astonishing skills in combat with minimal training whilst on a mission to the Ark. She speaks Sangheili better than a lot of natives.
> Holly Tanaka (beige Spartan) is a military veteran who survived for an extended period on the surface of a glasses planet. She’s also very good at engineering, having built a reactor for her survivor group.
> Halsey joined up with Jul Mdama during the course of Spartan Ops to satisfy her hunger for knowledge about the Forerunners. She got the Janus Key in the process, and lost an arm. Now apparently, she wants out.
> Let me know if I missed anything.
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Also, after much reluctance, Buck accepted Jun’s offer to join the Spartan IV program.
The Rookie died, Dutch quit to become a train driver, and Mickey betrayed Romeo and Buck. Buck decided he’d like to work as part of a team that doesn’t involve him leading it.
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> - After Halo 4, Chief met up with his old team, Blue Team, Spartan-IIs like him who he trained and fought with throughout his early life, (they’ve been in a lot of promo art recently), and was sent on a mission to a place where some stuff was happening. There, he found the Didact, who, long story short, had found the place where Composers were built. And also a Halo, complete with index. Master Chief “kills” him by monologuing him into being dumb and letting himself get trapped as a Halo jettisons part of its structure into an atmosphere. However, the Waypoint Universe article, as well as Frankie, Bryan Reed the writer, and Chief himself have all alluded to a return by him in some way. After that, Chief was ordered by Lord Hood to take a break, but disobeyed and went off to do classified missions. We think he is on one of these missions in his first H5 level. Also, at some point he gatecrashes a Human-Elite peace talk and kills a bunch of terrorists.
> - Locke is an ex-ONI agent gone Spartan. He was a galaxy-class manhunter and assassin after witnessing what he thought was military incompetence by the UNSC when he lost his home to the Covenant. Later, ONI recruited him. Before becoming a Spartan, he also destroyed a deposit of a special human-killing isotope of an element on a shard of Alpha Halo, which was overrun by Hunter worms and deadly in the daytime due to proximity to a star. Now he leads Fireteam Osiris.
> - Olympia Vale (red Spartan) is an ONI Sangheili cultural specialist who displayed astonishing skills in combat with minimal training whilst on a mission to the Ark. She speaks Sangheili better than a lot of natives.
> - Holly Tanaka (beige Spartan) is a military veteran who survived for an extended period on the surface of a glasses planet. She’s also very good at engineering, having built a reactor for her survivor group.
> - Halsey joined up with Jul Mdama during the course of Spartan Ops to satisfy her hunger for knowledge about the Forerunners. She got the Janus Key in the process, and lost an arm. Now apparently, she wants out.
> Let me know if I missed anything.
Interesting thanks!
So these “classified” missions Chief’s on are personal missions? They don’t sound sanctioned.
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> > - After Halo 4, Chief met up with his old team, Blue Team, Spartan-IIs like him who he trained and fought with throughout his early life, (they’ve been in a lot of promo art recently), and was sent on a mission to a place where some stuff was happening. There, he found the Didact, who, long story short, had found the place where Composers were built. And also a Halo, complete with index. Master Chief “kills” him by monologuing him into being dumb and letting himself get trapped as a Halo jettisons part of its structure into an atmosphere. However, the Waypoint Universe article, as well as Frankie, Bryan Reed the writer, and Chief himself have all alluded to a return by him in some way. After that, Chief was ordered by Lord Hood to take a break, but disobeyed and went off to do classified missions. We think he is on one of these missions in his first H5 level. Also, at some point he gatecrashes a Human-Elite peace talk and kills a bunch of terrorists.
> > - Locke is an ex-ONI agent gone Spartan. He was a galaxy-class manhunter and assassin after witnessing what he thought was military incompetence by the UNSC when he lost his home to the Covenant. Later, ONI recruited him. Before becoming a Spartan, he also destroyed a deposit of a special human-killing isotope of an element on a shard of Alpha Halo, which was overrun by Hunter worms and deadly in the daytime due to proximity to a star. Now he leads Fireteam Osiris.
> > - Olympia Vale (red Spartan) is an ONI Sangheili cultural specialist who displayed astonishing skills in combat with minimal training whilst on a mission to the Ark. She speaks Sangheili better than a lot of natives.
> > - Holly Tanaka (beige Spartan) is a military veteran who survived for an extended period on the surface of a glasses planet. She’s also very good at engineering, having built a reactor for her survivor group.
> > - Halsey joined up with Jul Mdama during the course of Spartan Ops to satisfy her hunger for knowledge about the Forerunners. She got the Janus Key in the process, and lost an arm. Now apparently, she wants out.
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> So these “classified” missions Chief’s on are personal missions? They don’t sound sanctioned.
They are not sanctioned. Chief was just doin’ his own thing for a while with Blue Team.
UNSC considers him AWOL now, and that’s why they sent Locke to find him.