In the Halo Universe all the species are struggling to adjust, to the post Human-Covenant War era, whether it is managing a viable infrastructure, after long years of war, or learning to become independent, after depending on other species for survival… it seems the lines between borders is vastly blurred but the hatreds run thick and deep… to which breeds colliding factions… and a possible NEW Galaxy wide War… but what about the Flood… will they unite if a re-emergence returns or, bicker amongst themselves until the Flood consumes them, and inevitably consumes all and completes their final goal, Unity through pain and suffering?
So I believe this is what the new galaxy war factions are going to be:
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United Earth Government(UEG)/Human-Sangheili Alliance - Office Of Naval Intelligence(ONI); United Nations Space Command(UNSC) and Covenant ‘Separatist’ Remnant. [Sangheili, Unggoy, Mgalekgolo, Humanity]{Terrance Hood, John-117, Thel 'Vadam, Rtas 'Vadum}
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Colonial Alliance - Human Insurrectionists and the Covenant ‘Mercenary’ Remnant. [Humanity, Sangheili, Jiralhanae, Mgalekgolo, Unggoy, Kig-Yar, T’vaoan] {Mattius Drake, Vata 'Gajat}
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Didact Hand’s Storm Covenant - Promethean ‘Requiem’ Remnant and the Covenant ‘Servants Of Abiding Truth’ Remnant [Sangheili, Kig-Yar, Unggoy, Humanity, Mgalekgolo, Yanme’e, Promethean Automaton, Forerunner] {Catherine Halsey, Jul 'Mdama, Ur-Didact}
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Eldar Chieftain’s Warband - Jiralhanae Clans. [Jiralhanae only] {Lydus}
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Flood - Flood [Flood Forms, Precursor]{Gravemind, Precursor}
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Forerunner ‘Exiled’ Remnant - Forerunner ‘Ecumene’ Remnant [Forerunners, Huragok, Sentinels]{Iso-Didact, Lifeshaper}
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Sentinel Guardians - Forerunner ‘Sentinel’ Monitors [Sentinel]{Mendicant Bias, Offensive Bias}
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The Hive [Yanme’e]
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High Charity Survivors - San’Shyuum ‘Stoics’ and the San’Shyuum ‘Reformists’ Remnant [San’Shyuum, Huragok]
P.S. I tried to put the order in the most likely to see in-game… and the bottom ones are currently where abouts unknown…
I can see this being a problem for the story more than anything else. It would confuse a lot of the player base due to them not knowing who a lot of these characters are. We can’t assume all players would have read the novels and graphic novels and plethora of non-game content.
I had this problem in Halo 4 and i loathed it. I hadn’t caught up on the Halo Books since Halo: Evoloutions. When i went into Halo 4 i had no idea who the Didact was or why he hated humanity. The same goes for the storm covenent. The terminals for me were a terrible excuse for background story on the Didact as well.
Am i saying your idea is bad, no but i wouldnt want 343 to just throw in random characters again without any backstory on them. Especially when the characters of the universe seem to know the new faces but the player has no idea whats going on. 343 would have to find a proper way of introdcing new characters or groups instead of just throwing them in the universe. It would confuse players who haven’t read the books and the story would carry no weight as there would be no connection to the new faces.
Thats just my 2 cents though
I think it would be interesting if a bunch of Brutes, Drones, and Jackals (mostly Skirmishers type stuff though) banded together into a mercenary pirate group, adopting the Brutes unique aesthetic of technology. No plasma, just metal blades, spikes and fire.
> I can see this being a problem for the story more than anything else. It would confuse a lot of the player base due to them not knowing who a lot of these characters are. We can’t assume all players would have read the novels and graphic novels and plethora of non-game content.
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> I had this problem in Halo 4 and i loathed it. I hadn’t caught up on the Halo Books since Halo: Evoloutions. When i went into Halo 4 i had no idea who the Didact was or why he hated humanity. The same goes for the storm covenent. The terminals for me were a terrible excuse for background story on the Didact as well.
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> Am i saying your idea is bad, no but i wouldnt want 343 to just throw in random characters again without any backstory on them. Especially when the characters of the universe seem to know the new faces but the player has no idea whats going on. 343 would have to find a proper way of introdcing new characters or groups instead of just throwing them in the universe. It would confuse players who haven’t read the books and the story would carry no weight as there would be no connection to the new faces.
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> Thats just my 2 cents though
I’m going to have to agree with ^.
Unless they provide a stronger development in-game, then these choices should be sized-down or more suttle.
If they do provide a great development, then I’d stick with what you have posted.
There’s a main huge three right now, and I think that’s enough, IMO. However, if there was to be something like a Halo Wars or ODST 2, then you’re ideas would work fine. Very possible though that we might see a bunch of fractures in between the main factions in the future…
This sounds like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy too many factions to have at once, and I don’t even know what the differences between the Forerunner ones are supposed to be.
Sometimes, simpler is better. I believe that this is one of those times.
Why are jul’s guys and the didact’s guys two separate factions? Why are sentinels considered their own faction when historically they’ve served like 3 of the groups you mentioned.
I really doubt any forerunners would follow the Ur-Didact. He’s nuts. His closest allies already turned themselves into Knights. The surviving forerunners were primarily life shapers and have been with the much more sane Iso-Didact.
The odds of drones appearing as their own factions is extremely minuscule. Beyond Spartan Assault (where they’d be grouped in with Jul’s faction) the Drones haven’t even gotten a mention from my understanding.
Firstly the Didacts Promethean faction stating Forerunners was simply saying that the Ur-Didact is Forerunner as Catherine Halsey is a Human… only oine exists in that faction, but it still is there.
I have done some re-arranging… to better the list.
The Exiled Forerunners are the Iso-Didact and Lifeshapers group that escaped the firing of the Halo Arrays and left to galaxies unknown… they may be monitoring Humanities and the galaxies progress from a far… but have vouched never to directly interfere with the workings of the Milky Way, ever again.
The Sentinel faction is they are nuetral they both help and fight each faction as well as Mendicant Bias and Offensive Bias, do not belong in any other faction… as they are not Forerunner Exiles or Prometheans.
Flood kinda self-explainatory and their return is just too inevitable.
The Drone Hive is just the fact that the drones have taken a back bone in the Halo Universe and thus would have returned to the Hive and Queen… so perhaps their is options to verse them and their queen…
San’Shyuum Survivors… very unknown however, it was stated that the San’Shyuum (‘Reformists’) aboard Covenant Holy City High Charity was decimated badly yet was not fully killed… some had escaped. It also states that their homeworld Janjur Qom was apparently destoryed due to a nearby star going super nova… which only sources were the San’Shyuum… to which the Halo Beastarium suggest they could have been lying due to mistrusting the Sangheili.
> Mendicant Bias and Offensive Bias, do not belong in any other faction.
Offensive Bias served the Iso-Didact and defended the ecumene. There is no evidence to suggest he is now neutral. For all we know he left with the Iso-Didact and the lifeshapers to wherever they went.
Mendicant Bias is more his own character than a faction.
I think you are leaving out the faction consisting of brutes skirmishers drones and innies.
Also, I don’t know if I missed this, but is the Didact himself a faction or is he in the didacts’s hand?
> I think you are leaving out the faction consisting of brutes skirmishers drones and innies.
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> Also, I don’t know if I missed this, but is the Didact himself a faction or is he in the didacts’s hand?
Wait, that’s actually a thing? Excellent! Throw Innies in as well and we’ve got plenty of room for new unit types.
And I think it is more like The Didact’s Hand is a part of the Didact’s faction.
> I think you are leaving out the faction consisting of brutes skirmishers drones and innies.
Isn’t that already listed as Colonial Alliance?
I am pretty sure it is a different faction. Don’t take my word but I am pretty sure. The colonial alliance as stated in the post above mentions grunts hunters jackals and elites. I specifically remember it saying just brutes innies skirmishers and drones.
Also I think you might be forgetting another faction. I don’t know if you have it posted. I am bad at remembering things.
Another one is just jackal pirates.
That’s all I think. Cool topic though.
I take it you’re referring to Venezia. Note that that is 4 years before halo 4 (since Mortal Dictata’s events are still in 2553) its possible Venezia joined the CA.
Gah, I would love to see the Stoics in the Games or even in some sort of Cover art. They probably look like the ones mentioned in the Forerunner Saga that were Muscular and Beautiful as observed by Humans and Forerunners. Not like the ones wee see in the games that are Old, Weak, Hunch-Backed.
> Gah, I would love to see the Stoics in the Games or even in some sort of Cover art. They probably look like the ones mentioned in the Forerunner Saga that were Muscular and Beautiful as observed by Humans and Forerunners. Not like the ones wee see in the games that are Old, Weak, Hunch-Backed.
Probably due to nepotism, gluttony, sloth and pride.
Quote to all the other posters… about Jackal Pirates, Offensive Bias, Mendicant Bias, Drones… etc. I had original had them which amounted to about 12 or so factions… which lets face it… is too much.
The Ur-Didact’s Faction is more, or less, the Covenant Remnant, known as the Storm. He is in-turn the ultimate supreme commander… no matter what Jul 'Mdama thinks… as he boasts the Sangheili religious beliefs of the Forerunner, and that he is extremely powerful… Jul is merely his puppet steward. Plus due to having insufficient numbers for a Promethean army… they had integrate with the Forerunner Ecumene, and now the Storm Covenant.
The Colonial Alliance is in-fact the Insurrectionist-Covenant Mercenaries Alliance… just a fancy name.
I can’t see the main saga having the galaxy split into so many factions like this, but… Halo Wars 2? 