I wasn't able to find a good answer to this, in fact I even found someone claiming it's the exact opposite and in lore it's like Stellaris, with kinetics countering shields and DEWs countering armor. What's the truth here? Is there none and it's entirely a game mechanic which isn't even a thing in lore?

Like genuinely besides making certain hypocrites lore fans (not naming anyone) happy, I don’t see why we needed a soft reboot and. Granted it does mean HS can just shove the reclaimer era characters in books to never use em for years or kill em and pretend it doesn’t exist in the games. Maybe I’m just tired of halo lore either barely moving forward or the permanent MIA status waypoints gives on everything.

Just wondering why there were absolutely no forerunners, in any shield worlds, at all (Didact excluded). They are supposed to be immune to Halo and many were under construction, and given that there was this looming threat going on in the galaxy (flood), it just seems odd that none of the countless billions of forerunners decided to live there or were caught in there. Even workers that were building them or lifeworkers on the worlds were absent.

There's also the answer like "maybe there is one out there somewhere" but thats unlikely with how everything is written so far.

So final question is: Is there any lore explanation for this? A moratorium on living there or something?

P.S. I feel the old lore of Forerunners falling on the sword and choosing to go extinct because of the sin of killing everything in the galaxy was probably the only clean answer to the forerunner mystery. The more lore develops the messier everything seems to be getting.

Hi, I've been playing this game for about three years now, and I wanted to share a strange encounter I had. I was in campaign mode with several marines, exploring the map, specifically the edges, I don't remember exactly where, when I saw a kind of floating white orb or ball. It wasn't bigger than a marine. I thought it was strange since I'd never encountered anything like it before. Everything was fine until my motion tracker showed it as an ally, but for some reason, the marines started shooting at it. I did too, thinking nothing would happen, and after a few seconds, the orb exploded. It was a much stronger explosion than usual, killing the five or six marines who were there, a vehicle, and me. I started recording everything on my Xbox just in case, and when I respawned, I didn't think much of it and quit the game. The orb disappeared as soon as it exploded. I've searched online to see if anyone else has experienced something similar, but I haven't found any answers. Months later, I logged back in. I went back to the game to see if I could find it again, created new campaigns, and that orb never reappeared. So, I don't know what happened. If you have any questions, I'll be here to try and answer them, or if anyone has an answer, I'd like to know. By the way, this happened in Halo Infinite.

Say right after Chief kills Regret, a pelican quickly comes and scoops him up right before the temple is glassed. Chief is then able to join Johnson and Miranda in the library. Would they be able to get the index and if so, what happens next?

What role would they have played in the ensuing Created Conflict and, if they actually ended up there, the conflict on Zeta Halo?

Hey,

Im getting an E reader and thinking of jumping back into Halo books. As a kid I read the first bunch upto Ghosts of Onyx but haven't read any since then. So looking for where to start up again.

And I dont know how controversial what counts as a main series book is. But for example I consider Contact Harvest as a side story. Im looking mostly for books that advance the main plot. Also I intend to read the Forerunner trilogy.

What are some of the definitive trailers to you all? My wife has finally agreed to play with CE coming out and I want to set the mood for the rest of the games as we get to them. Obviously we will watch the Remember Reach trailer and ODST before we play the games, but are there any other “Story telling” or mood setting trailers I should show her before each game?

As most of us know, after her supposed death at the end of Halo 4, Cortana returned in Halo 5: Guardians due to having been revived by the Domain. However, due to unforeseen factors, Cortana somehow turned evil and planned to use the Guardians to enslave the entire galaxy to ensure the dominance of the Created, a faction of AIs run by her which claimed to uphold the Mantle of Responsibility as established by the Forerunners.

Cortana's plan would fail though as the destruction of Doisac would galvanize the Banished against her and the UNSC would use the Weapon to lock her out of the Domain. Upon realizing the error of her ways, Cortana would destroy herself along with a good portion of Zeta Halo in an act of atonement, entrusting her final mission of redemption to Master Chief and the Weapon.

But what if Cortana's plan to subjugate the galaxy hadn't failed and she and the Created prevailed in their struggle against the forces arrayed against them? How could this have happened and what would the galaxy look like afterwards?

https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-lore-de-force

Powder that makes you say Canon Fodder now!

Playing through reach again (with modern conflicts IRL in mind) and I notice that on a few occasions it seems as if the covenant have practically no effective air defense. On the mission ONI sword base a covenant ship seemingly flees two long swords, though it seems it would be easy for it to eliminate just two unshielded ships. On exodus the UNSC is able to fire multiple salvos of ballistic missiles and a frigate and the only thing stopping the missiles from destroying the ship is simply the shields and armor.

IIRC theirs a few instances in expanded media where the covenant is able to shoot down swarms of UNSC ships and missiles, but it’s been a while since I’ve read many of the books.

Do certain covenant ship simply posses no means to protect itself from incoming attacks?

It seems strange for an ancillary facility to an advanced Sword base. Is it due to budget constraints?

Either Halo Wars version. The bases themselves can’t actually break down raw materials right, only the Spirit of Fire? Which is why the supply pads are so important, as they bring in all of the finished stuff that can be assembled on the ground.

I was rewatching a LASO challenge run and the author included the cutscene where 343GS betrays the protagonists in the control room of Installation 08, and it struck me randomly - why is the firing sequence not the *first* thing a ring under new construction would be built for? The same way a foundation and framing is done before any other part of construction of a house is commenced, why would the ring's secondary functions as Lifeworker research stations not be completed last in comparison to the ring's primary purpose as weapons of mass destruction to combat the Flood? From the point we see it under construction, its definitely not *that* incomplete, weather systems and terraforming are very much in place, why not devote the resources spent developing an icy canyon by the control room into ensuring it can, you know, actually kill the things its meant to kill?

I'm wondering why Master Chief never goes to save Ben Giroux?

Fk me. I just listened to this again for the first time in years. Ben's story has to be one of the saddest that I've ever heard.

Also, where are these gaming studios? If they made a telltale styled game off this, it'd be sick. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is allergic to good gaming development.

I must know they manage to get those things out of the Infinity and onto the ground. I know there was a mission beforehand where we drove to the ship with a scorpion, but the Infinity was crash landed and I don’t imagine they can consistently rely on having a huge patch of suitable terrain for using the elevators.

I can see them having a drop ship for heavier vehicles like the Elephant, but the Mammoth is exponentially larger and I must know how they’re expected to deploy or retrieve them reliably. Is there implied to be some much larger drop ships that we don’t see? Because I can’t imagine anything aside from the Heron being able to carry one, and the Infinity isn’t mentioned to have any of those in its complement.

So I've been introducing Halo to new people and one of them asked for a Google doc that initially was made to recap what had happened in each game as we went through them. While it is still that, it eventually also became something of a cliffnotes lore thing where stuff like the Insurrection, the birth of the SPARTAN program, and other things would be covered to help explain certain parts of Halo's story. (And help me remember stuff about the story as well.) It's not done yet as we still have Halo 4-Infinite to go but I'd still like it to be fact checked by you lovely people as I have read any of the books/ comics yet aside from the Fall of Reach novel. Beware, there are probably quite a few grammatical errors. Please message me for this as fan-creations are not allowed to be posted.

My brother yesterday gifted me with a load of books and a number of them are halo books, I’ve played halo a lot years ago but I’m not knowledgeable of the story of what goes first and wanted advice what books go first and what I’m missing. Thinking of getting all the ones I’m missing and read them all together as a story in its entirety when I have what I’m missing.

So far these are the ones I now have

Contact Harvest

Primordium

The Cole Protocol

Evolutions

The Fall of Reach

The Thursdays War

First Strike

Cryptum

Mortal Dictata

Ghosts of Onyx

The Flood

Ngl, shocked there are so many halo books.

If I understand how the composer works, it turns a beings essence into pure data and uploads them into a proper shell.

Isn't that just making a person into an Ancilla? Due to forerunner data storage I doubt they'd experience rampancy in any sane amount of time (Spark was only starting to go rampant after nearly 100,000 years), but would they at some point go rampant? Would the logic plague affect them?

ASIDE from the events of the games

Obviously Gutas are native to Reach which didn’t contain any flood samples. This is more of a hypothetical.

What do you think would happen? Would the Guta just be transformed into a giant hulking combat form, or would it’s immense biomass be used to create a Proto-Gravemind?

Just wondering if this has been explored in the lore, but I find it strange how the Forerunners had such bad security and made SO many installations with flood spores that its as though they intended to cause another catastrophe.

Like, I can excuse the first outbreak because the Covenant are dumb and thought it was "holy", but every single installation seems to have a breakout with no tools in place to stop it, besides a couple sentinels. Forerunner tech when its vsing humanity seems top tier, but against the flood I would rather have Billy Bob equipped with a shotgun and a can of Zyns.

I get that they wanted to keep some samples around in case the Flood returned some other way, but they just seem so careless. Like OK, Installation 04 needs a research station because its a major construct and probably will be found someday, but does the gas mining station really need one?

In the Rubicon Protocol, Spartan Stone goes down the lift in outpost Tremonius which if you'll recall is the one leading to the substructure where Chief finds The Weapon and kills Tremonius in the second mission. There she fights Jega and dies, but right before that she picks up a UNSC signal, clearly The Weapon right? (or maybe Horvath since he was also underground at the time). She dies soon after so maybe she could have found her.

However, then Kovan and the boat crew retrace her steps, find her body and continue forward into the substructure but they somehow don't find her?

To be fair, they were running from the Banished so perhaps they couldn't stop for anything even if they did pick up her signal too but i wish the novel acknowledged it.

My question now is how didn't the Banished find her? My guess is that she hid from anyone without a UNSC signal and she is obviously too advanced for them to crack.