After going through the Halo books for a second time, which mention a ton of locations, and after finally beating the Mass effect games (the map of the Galaxy is beautiful in these games), I was trying to find a map of the Halo universe Galaxy that describes covenant and Human controlled spaces, with the locations of the forerunner shield worlds and halos. Sadly I was just able to find fan-made approximations of what the Halo Galaxy might look like. I guess it would be really cool if 343 gives us something like this, or if I’m getting ahead of myself and it already exist, could someone tell me where I can find a canon version of this map? Thanks!
Halo: Warfleet has a galaxy map with locations for the Neoteric Halo Array, a handful of Shield Worlds, and I believe some other Forerunner sites, but outside of that I don’t believe an official, 100% canonically accurate map of the sort exists.
@EMPEROR NOVA01
is right. But I don’t think it’s very canon. Mostly just an approximation of the Halo universe. I go by that because it seems like there aren’t very many planets that belong to each Covenant species, but Humans have a few. Considering that the Covenant has been a space-faring race for longer than humans, I would imagine that there are far more colonized planets than those that are mentioned (and it wouldn’t surprise me if future books mention those planets).
But it’s still a neat book and the map is fun to look at.
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Curious on why that map did not have a display of the Covenant’s size and the human’s share of controlled space. Yet it mentions things that the Precursors could not defeat, only contain.
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> @EMPEROR NOVA01is right. But I don’t think it’s very canon. Mostly just an approximation of the Halo universe.
How is an official galaxy map in an official book (that’s also an authoritative guide) “not very canon”
I’d love to see this map!
(Love mass effect too, and have often wondered about this my own self)
One would think that the good folks here at waypoint would add a feature into the universe section of the site
Like an interactive galaxy map that would give info on the planet and events that took place there
@EMPEROR NOVA01
Thank you so much! It’s a start. Ordering the book right now. When I said Halo books, I meant the ones released all the way to 2013. There is a bunch of recent ones I haven’t read.
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> @EMPEROR NOVA01is right. But I don’t think it’s very canon. Mostly just an approximation of the Halo universe. I go by that because it seems like there aren’t very many planets that belong to each Covenant species, but Humans have a few. Considering that the Covenant has been a space-faring race for longer than humans, I would imagine that there are far more colonized planets than those that are mentioned (and it wouldn’t surprise me if future books mention those planets).
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> But it’s still a neat book and the map is fun to look at.
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It’s not that the map isn’t canon, it’s that the map isn’t comprehensive. It’s very sparsely populated, in fact – something like a dozen points of interest. To be fair, there’s a reason for this: it’s in the Forerunner section and pertains to Forerunner sites of importance. We’re not going to see human or Covenant territory marked on such a map.
I would also like to see a canon galaxy map for territory. I always thought we’d be surprised at what we saw – humanity at its height probably only ever controlled a speck, while the Covenant’s mighty sprawl would probably only be ten or twenty times that. Most of the galaxy is probably unpopulated or held by other civilizations we haven’t yet seen in the franchise. It’s been alluded to, vaguely, that the Covenant has had more important wars to fight than the human war for most of that conflict.
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> > @EMPEROR NOVA01is right. But I don’t think it’s very canon. Mostly just an approximation of the Halo universe.
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> How is an official galaxy map in an official book (that’s also an authoritative guide) “not very canon”
you’re right. Its canon. I guess I was trying to say something closer to what @Rookie Prime said in the post above.
Since the map is so small, and the stories hint at a much bigger universe, I sort of take it as canon as Hyrule Historia was, e.g. that this is what the studio says is true, but that we should be ready to accept that it could change at anytime in the future.
But you’re right. if someone wants to know what the Halo universe looks like, this map is it.
Well the closest we get to an actual assessment of covenant dominion is on this website where it states that the covenant controlled a large portion of the galaxy not just the Orion arm which is far too small for a faction like the covenant to have simply stayed in for no reason and mortal dictata states the covenant had a supply network spanning the Galaxy and with the tech they had there goals and age I don’t see why they wouldn’t have all that territory. Now as for the UNSC it’s never given a number but we know for sure that they had at least hundreds of worlds.
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> Well the closest we get to an actual assessment of covenant dominion is on this website where it states that the covenant controlled a large portion of the galaxy not just the Orion arm which is far too small for a faction like the covenant to have simply stayed in for no reason and mortal dictata states the covenant had a supply network spanning the Galaxy and with the tech they had there goals and age I don’t see why they wouldn’t have all that territory. Now as for the UNSC it’s never given a number but we know for sure that they had at least hundreds of worlds.
I believe it is mentioned that humanity had over 800 colonies, although I don’t remember the source.
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> > Well the closest we get to an actual assessment of covenant dominion is on this website where it states that the covenant controlled a large portion of the galaxy not just the Orion arm which is far too small for a faction like the covenant to have simply stayed in for no reason and mortal dictata states the covenant had a supply network spanning the Galaxy and with the tech they had there goals and age I don’t see why they wouldn’t have all that territory. Now as for the UNSC it’s never given a number but we know for sure that they had at least hundreds of worlds.
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> I believe it is mentioned that humanity had over 800 colonies, although I don’t remember the source.
You are correct. Per Halopedia:
> As of 2490, human-controlled space encompassed around 800 colonized sites, including planets, moons, asteroids and various other outposts.