I am a big fan of all the halo games and want to understand the lore as I haven’t read any of the books so I am just wondering where do I start ?
Fall of Reach is a good start as it explains all of the Spartan II program in detail and shows what occurred before the events of Halo CE. If you want to know about the Forerunners then the Forerunner trilogy is the one for you. If you want to know what happened at the very start of the war and some insight into SGT Johnson, Contact Harvest is the book you would need.
Hope this helps!
Thanks that’s a big help I’ll get fall of reach now and then go from there
What about the comics are they worth reading ?
The comics can be worth reading, I personally haven’t read all of them so I can’t say much about them. The only ones I have are the Fall of Reach Bootcamp and Covenant. The Fall of Reach comics are adaptations of the book but I personally prefer the book as it goes further into detail about the backstory.
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Okay thanks for you help
The Fall of Reach comic is a pretty okay summary of the Fall of Reach book, so if you wanted to learn the bare minimum before you moved onto other SPARTAN-II centric books I’d go there first. But if I had to recommend a book that covers the key facets of the lore in one package, it’d definitely be Cole Protocol.
There aren’t any massive, crazy high stakes events in the book, but it shows how a lot of major characters in the universe got to where they were. All Halo books pick from a small list of in-universe subjects to center on: SPARTANs (usually the IIs) and how they handle what happened to them, the Sangheili (or sometimes another species) and the intricacies of Covenant society, the human civilians (i.e: Insurrectionists or Insurrectionist sympathizers) and why the Earth government is messed up, or Forerunner nonsense and how/why all their technology works the way it does. The great thing about the Cole Protocol is it’s got a little of all of that, and you pretty much don’t have to read anything before it to understand what’s happening.
Thank you for the help I will get that one aswell
Halo Mythos wouldn’t be a bad pickup either. Gives a broad summary of events. Warfleet, on the other hand was a huge letdown.
Thank you everyone for your help I’ll be an expert in no time XD