Halo & Halo 2 Story (hopefully Contains Spoilers)

[Jack]

I read the sample chapter of one of the books on the PC version, and I thought it was terribly written - like a bad fanfic stuffed with weapons specifications. Can anyone sum up the events of the books so I don't have to waste bandwidth?

[Wallpaper]

this is very brief because theres somthing on tv I wanna watch, if you have any specific questions Irll try and get back tommorow.

Master Chief abducted aged 6

Master Chief trained with other spartans on Reach

Covenant go after Forerunner artifact, stopped by Spatans but recover some info

Master Chief chosen to have Cortana and given mission to capture Covenant ship, fly to Covenant homeland, capture Prophet and make peace

Covenant attack Reach before he gets chance

Spartans try to defend reach, but fail

Covenant bomb reach

Master Chief flees with Pillar of Autumn to Halo, Cortana got co-ordinates from forerunner artifact

Halo 1, plus all the marine survivors and captain keyes story you didn't get to see

after Halo blows up MC & Cortana link up with sargeant Johnson & other survivors, steel a big covenant ship go back to reach to look for spartans

find spartans and another forerunner artifact

Cortana finds out Covenant headed for earth

flee to pirates station, destroy forerunner artifact

stop off on way back to earth to destroy Covenant space station and subsecently most of covenant fleet headed for earth

Halo 2

fuck knows, Bungie saw fit to leave the ending out

[Jack]

this is very brief because theres somthing on tv I wanna watch, if you have any specific questions Irll try and get back tommorow.

Master Chief abducted aged 6

Master Chief trained with other spartans on Reach

Covenant go after Forerunner artifact, stopped by Spatans but recover some info

Master Chief chosen to have Cortana and given mission to capture Covenant ship, fly to Covenant homeland, capture Prophet and make peace

Covenant attack Reach before he gets chance

Spartans try to defend reach, but fail

Covenant bomb reach

Master Chief flees with Pillar of Autumn to Halo, Cortana got co-ordinates from forerunner artifact

Halo 1, plus all the marine survivors and captain keyes story you didn't get to see

after Halo blows up MC & Cortana link up with sargeant Johnson & other survivors, steel a big covenant ship go back to reach to look for spartans

find spartans and another forerunner artifact

Cortana finds out Covenant headed for earth

flee to pirates station, destroy forerunner artifact

stop off on way back to earth to destroy Covenant space station and subsecently most of covenant fleet headed for earth

Halo 2

fuck knows, Bungie saw fit to leave the ending out

This is the bit I don't get. There were no other survivors. "Just dust and echoes." You even see Sarge get obliterated on Legendary, don't you?

[dismembo]

It would seem that the books are somewhat at odds to the games then.

[Jack]

Plus weren't all the Spartans except for John 117 annihilated by the Covenant at Reach?

[CarloOos]

Nope there were about 7-8 Spartans left after Reach, most of which die in the 'First Strike' book, leaving about 3 alongside Chief when Halo 2 occurs:

Kelly - Best sniper/aim of the Spartans

Fred - Strongest and tallest of the Spartans

And - another I cant remember

I was suprised Bungie didn't take the oppertunity to have more Spartans in Halo 2, could have proved sextastic. There's always Halo 3 for that, on Earth presumably.

[arhra]

Kelly - Best sniper/aim of the Spartans

Fred - Strongest and tallest of the Spartans

And - another I cant remember

Linda is the sniper (and the third one you can't remember), Kelly is the fastest one.

I was suprised Bungie didn't take the oppertunity to have more Spartans in Halo 2, could have proved sextastic.  There's always Halo 3 for that, on Earth presumably.

I think they've stated that they thought about it, but couldn't work out a way to fit it in properly - consider that they'd have to be invincible, for story/continuity purposes, like Johnson/Keyes/the Elite Spec Ops Leader/etc, and they'd have to be highly-efficient killing machines, like the Chief is, and actually playing hte levels involving them probably wouldn't be much fun...

Maybe they'll figure out a way to get them involved in #3...

--

This is the bit I don't get. There were no other survivors. "Just dust and echoes." You even see Sarge get obliterated on Legendary, don't you?

The survivors were in a Pelican (Sarge, and a few others), and a cryopod (Linda), drifting more or less dead in space, so they weren't very easy to find. And the Legendary ending is an easter egg/joke.

--

I read the sample chapter of one of the books on the PC version, and I thought it was terribly written - like a bad fanfic stuffed with weapons specifications.

Which book was it? The Flood is pretty crap, but TFoR and FS are pretty decent, overall. Not exactly potential Hugo winners, but still worth picking up.

[iloverage]

Cheers to everyone who contributed to this thread. I've just finished Halo 2 and had a read through - very interesting. Can anyone confirm the message at the end of Halo 2 on legendary?

[Alex W.]

THERE IS NO MESSAGE. That was the concensus.

The "Friday Feb 9th" or whatever date they came up with wouldn't actually have rolled around until about 2010 or something anyway.

[Kryptonian]

Kelly, Fred, Linda & John the Spartans!?

[M.M.S]

Kelly, Fred, Linda & John the Spartans!?

What kind fo music do they play?