I only have enough time to finish 1 more Halo book before Halo 4 comes out and I’m split between Thursday War and Primordium. So I was wondering, which book would you guys say prepares you most for Halo 4 and is the most interesting?
Read Thursday War. It directly leads up to Halo 4 and it details the Infinity’s involvement as well as The Storm’s.
Every Halo book’s worth a read in my opinion, but The Thursday War I think is an improvement from Glasslands, and it certainly got me more excited for Halo 4 .
So yes, go and read it! 
Definatly Thursday war.
I recommend it.
I have the feeling that Primordium will be more relevant to Halo 4, assuming you haven’t read either.
> I have the feeling that Primordium will be more relevant to Halo 4, assuming you haven’t read either.
From what I’ve seen, not so much. Silentium, on the other hand…
> > I have the feeling that Primordium will be more relevant to Halo 4, assuming you haven’t read either.
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> From what I’ve seen, not so much. Silentium, on the other hand…
Spoilers for Primordium and The Thursday War:
In TTW not much that could be relevant to Halo 4 happens besides Jul 'Mdama escaping from Trevalyan and meeting those religious Sangheili colonials.
In Primordium Guilty Spark’s resurrection is explained.
If Spark is in Halo 4 I think that would need more explaining than the Storm’s leader escaping from ONI custody. TTW’s plot point just seems pretty simple and obvious in comparison to Primordium’s.
Of course, if Spark isn’t in Halo 4 then you would be completely right.
> > > I have the feeling that Primordium will be more relevant to Halo 4, assuming you haven’t read either.
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> > From what I’ve seen, not so much. Silentium, on the other hand…
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> Spoilers for Primordium and The Thursday War:
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> In TTW not much that could be relevant to Halo 4 happens besides Jul 'Mdama escaping from Trevalyan and meeting those religious Sangheili colonials.
> In Primordium Guilty Spark’s resurrection is explained.
> If Spark is in Halo 4 I think that would need more explaining than the Storm’s leader escaping from ONI custody. TTW’s plot point just seems pretty simple and obvious in comparison to Primordium’s.
> Of course, if Spark isn’t in Halo 4 then you would be completely right.
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The way the ONI team and Chakas (not Spark. Spark was a fragment of Chakas) were talking, it implied, to me, that it took place after Halo 4.
We faced the Didact then as you do now, and perhaps after, or something like that.
TTW was pretty simple, but it explained the origins of the Storm Covenant and why and how Halsey is on the Infinity. Primordium introduced us to the Composer, which I can only guess may have a role in Halo 4, based on the name of Halo 4’s 7th mission.
Primordium would be by far the much better choice as your next read. I have seen or heard about very, very little info in the Glasslands Trilogy that will be of any significant relevance to Halo 4…the Forerunner Trilogy/Saga on the other hand, you got stuff all over. And frankly I think it more relevant and important because of its focus on the Forerunners and that whole time period. So I would say go read Primordium…and besides being most relevant, it’s definitely far more interesting by far than Thursday War, I think so at least…
Honestly? Both. You can grind through Thursday war in a couple days, that’s what I did. They are both full of so much content and backstory and AWESOMENESS that it would be a sin to overlook either of them. Do et. You must!!
I thought both were a good read in their own way.
There’s still time, you don’t have to choose.
> Honestly? Both. You can grind through Thursday war in a couple days, that’s what I did. They are both full of so much content and backstory and AWESOMENESS that it would be a sin to overlook either of them. Do et. You must!!
^this
There’s nothing that happens in TTW that can’t be explained in a paragraph, in terms of setting up Halo 4. For example,
ONI and Fleet are still playing opposite sides of the Sangheili civil war, which results in the death of Raia 'Mdama (and Forze). Jul 'Mdama escapes Onyx/Trevelyan via a portal (like the one Phillips discovers on Sangheilios) to a rural Sangheili world. Learning of his wife’s death at the hands of humans, Jul vows revenge. We also find out that The Didact sleeps on Requiem, waiting to come help the faithful in their time of need. Oh, sprinkle in a little of the Infinity strutting its stuff.So, yeah - it sets up The Storm and what’s up with Requiem to some extent. It’s not that there’s anything dramatically revelatory, but that’s not really the point. The reason you want to read the book is that it really builds out the universe. It colors in the outlines that I just mentioned above, and sets up some tie-ins (“resonant moments”, right Frankie?) that you may not catch if you haven’t read it.
This is why you do/don’t read ANY of the books, in a nutshell. Coloring in the characters and the universe in more detail. Either you care or you don’t - but if you do care, you may as well read all of the books. They’re short and cheap.
in my opinion the Forerunner Saga has the most relevence because as the guys explained earlier it introduces you to the Forerunners. The book is extremely relevatory in the fact that it explains the true intentions of the falsely described “Watchers of the Galaxy.” Truth is humans were pretty damn powerful against the Forerunners and it explains a lot of the history. Wait until you really find out who is responsible for the flood!
> Read Thursday War. It directly leads up to Halo 4 and it details the Infinity’s involvement as well as The Storm’s.
This.
But it is a really tough call. Both of those books are relevant to Halo 4, but I’d say TW is a bit more directly leading into H4.