I’m quite excited for the multiplayer, customisation and all the new additions. I’m just not that hyped for the story. I still have the original Halo’s for the original Xbox, but I was too young to remember the story of them.
I only completed Halo 3 again last year to get every achievement for it, and the story made a little more sense to me, but there’s still huge holes in my knowledge of Halo - hence why I loved Reach as it made sense to every player of new and old. And, you can search up about it and see how it links to the main story. I know that the Pillar of Autumn was where Chief was on CE, and where you give them Cortana, but the rest doesn’t make much sense to me. Anyone have any pages or anything useful that I could check out?
> I’m quite excited for the multiplayer, customisation and all the new additions. I’m just not that hyped for the story. I still have the original Halo’s for the original Xbox, but I was too young to remember the story of them.
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> I only completed Halo 3 again last year to get every achievement for it, and the story made a little more sense to me, but there’s still huge holes in my knowledge of Halo - hence why I loved Reach as it made sense to every player of new and old. And, you can search up about it and see how it links to the main story. I know that the Pillar of Autumn was where Chief was on CE, and where you give them Cortana, but the rest doesn’t make much sense to me. Anyone have any pages or anything useful that I could check out?
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> Cheers!
> Stuff about Truth, why the UNSC is at war with the Covenant (or was), general stuff like that what happened throughout Halo 1 and 2.
If you can read Contact:Harvest…that gives the story of the start of the war. I’ll give you the short version.
After the first contact with humans, the Covenant were mistaking a certain symbol on their scanners for Forerunner relics. The symbol actually meant “Reclaimer”, humans being the successors to the Foreunner empire, so to speak. When this was discovered, Truth instigated the war with the Human race in order to cover up the fact that the Covenant’s entire religion was based on a lie. He declared all of humanity an affront their gods and ordered them wiped out.
I’d also suggest playing through Halo 1 and 2 again if you can…
By the time Halo: Reach takes place, humanity had been at war with the covenant for 27 years. Reach is essentially the last stronghold before earth. If it were to fall then humanities extinction would be virtually guaranteed.
However, just as that is about to happen, Halsey makes a discovery, which barely makes it off the planet on a ship originally meant for a suicide mission, and changes the outcome of the war.
Since one cruiser had already found Reach on July 24, it was inevitable more would follow and the planet was doomed, and humanity knew that basically meant extinction. They commissioned the pillar of autumn to take all readily available remaining spartans into covenant territory on what was essentially a suicide mission to capture a prophet and try to negotiate a ceasefire…BEFORE Reach fell. They were desperate. However before they could set off a massive massive fleet arrived, so it was scrapped.
As for the start of the war…
When bungie made Halo 1-2, humans WERE forerunners. That changed around Halo 3, it seems, and forerunners were made to be a different race. But essentially, the prophets saw that the gods they worshipped were these weak little beings, not gods by any stretch of the imagination. Also, the great journey was a lie because if it was real, there wouldn’t be forerunners (humans, at the time) roaming around, right? Since the basis for their entire covenant was shattered, the prophets chose to keep it a secret and instead told everyone that humans were actually a blight.
> > Stuff about Truth, why the UNSC is at war with the Covenant (or was), general stuff like that what happened throughout Halo 1 and 2.
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> If you can read Contact:Harvest…that gives the story of the start of the war. I’ll give you the short version.
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> After the first contact with humans, the Covenant were mistaking a certain symbol on their scanners for Forerunner relics. The symbol actually meant “Reclaimer”, humans being the successors to the Foreunner empire, so to speak. When this was discovered, Truth instigated the war with the Human race in order to cover up the fact that the Covenant’s entire religion was based on a lie. He declared all of humanity an affront their gods and ordered them wiped out.
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> I’d also suggest playing through Halo 1 and 2 again if you can…
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> Anything else?
And because they couldnt find any relics but the luminary showed massive reclamation signs, the Hierarchs told the Covenant that the humans destroyed them, and used this as an excuse to declare a genocidal war on humanity.
Really long story short (about the UNSC/Covenant war only)
3 prophets. Find humans. Fail at reading. Create a war to cover up. Boom boom boom. Pillar of Autumn flees from Reach. Cortana puts in coordinates found in forerunner artifact. Arrive at halo. Fight to survive and escape. Find flood. Fight. Go back to earth. Fight fight fight. Go to Halo Installation 05. Fight fight fight. Come back to earth. Fight fight fight. Go to the Ark. Fight fight fight. Go through portal when it collapses. Win the war.
> Were there two or three prophets in the Covenant?
No. There were more. Minor prophets. It was a whole race the San 'Shyuum, all of them died in Halo 2, when High Charity was infected by the Flood.
Another “funny” fact. Is that the “Ancient Humanity” (in the time of the Forerunners) were alied with the San 'Shyuum (prophets) against the Forerunner; the ancient humanity lost that war due to the Flood and loss of moral due to a discovery when some scientist talked with the “Last Precursor”. The Forerunner punished mankind by destroying the human civilization and “devolving” the humans, taking them back to “Earth”, the San 'Shyuum that surrendered some time before the lost of the “Ancient Human, San 'Shyumm vs Foreruner” war, were only punished to be restricted to 2 planets, no way to contact Humanity, and a Forerunner was asigned to watch them. (His ship was similar to what now is High Charity)
I don’t think all of the prophets were killed on high charity, don’t some still reside on there homeworld and a few colonies, whatwver was left of them fled after the end of the war (thats what I’ve heard anyways).
still off topic but since it’s on STORY now, anybody else notice the usage of Flood and Arc… where they trying to explain Christianity too? Maybe humans made a mistake with their religon like the covenant did in the written word? I may be wrong but I always read it like an easter egg.
> still off topic but since it’s on STORY now, anybody else notice the usage of Flood and Arc… where they trying to explain Christianity too? Maybe humans made a mistake with their religon like the covenant did in the written word? I may be wrong but I always read it like an easter egg.
These were nods to Christianity, specifically the story of Noah.
There was also a few nods to the Great Journey being suicide. There’s a cut scene in Halo 2 where the Prophet of Regret says, “Halo. It’s divine wind will rush through the galaxy, speeding us on our Journey.” or something along those lines. Anyway, another term for “divine wind” is “kamikaze”.
There’s lots of little things like that through out the campaigns. You just have to look for them.
