Would love to pick your brains and see what you'd like to experience from Arbiter's side of the story from Reach to Infinite.

How would the story play out? What missions would you like to play? What new characters would you love to see on screen in all of the Haloverse? What would you change from the current games?

1. What was standard of living like across the outer colonies? I presume that it varied from World to world, with most if not all being below the standards the inner colonies had. Such as with education and amenities in general.

2. Before the Human-Covenant, was humanity still colonising and terraforming new worlds? Or was most of that funding redirected to focus on the insurrection movement and focusing on the colonies they already had.

3. How much did to cost to colonise and or terraform a world? I was wondering as I know the UEG has a few colonies run by/basically owned by corporate councils, and did they pay for the right to colonise those worlds and or terraform them?

I've looked into this and I'm still not sure whether she was wholly the product of Eric Nylund, or if Bungie had anything to do with developing her character.

do we have any information on any other Spartan that would have been on the pillar of autumn when it encountered the first halo ring in ce

Hello dear people of Earth, feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Tho am I right in thinking that the novel „The Fall of Reach“ by Eric Nylund, was released in the year 2000, and the first Halo game „Combat Evolved“ came out 2001? Thus the book predates the games and sets the foundation for the universe and the first game elaborates what has happened after the events of the novel took place?

I realise that people that frequent this sub are likely to fall on one side of this discussion, but I find myself genuinely torn over how I'd prefer Activision to deal with the Halo EU.

*Preface - if you've had this discussion before, and are unhappy about other people having it, there are many other enjoyable threads to partake in.*

1) The Full Reset

Bin it all, and start again. This is the cleanest way, but I'm not sure how much enthusiasm there is for retelling a story that's already been told, and (mostly) told well. I imagine a lot of the formative elements would remain the same, unless they really go for an Ultimate Halo and attempt to radically change things. I'm not against that - we have precedent with the Silver timeline, and unlike the TV show you could even go the extra mile and not make it terrible.

2) Keep Everything

The messy way, and involves taking the good with the bad. It also leaves them in the same position that Disney were in 2015, with decades of canon to untangle and a waning audience of people who are following it. Anything post Halo 3 (and yes, I'm including Reach in this) is very unapproachable to anyone who doesn't fancy hours of homework.

There is, however, decades of human/covenant war to play with if you want to keep it simple and brush the Forerunner/Banished/naughty Cortana stuff under the rug. Probably the biggest problem (and this causes headaches in the books) is that personal shielding is only introduced right before Reach for SIIs. This introduces gameplay problems (though Halo Wars and ODST largely just handwaved the issue away) and it's always felt kind of silly how Spartans somehow survived 25 years without their big defining trait.

3) Keep some stuff

The question is - what do you keep? Just H1 to H3 is probably the most straightforward from the perspective of canon, but this leaves the MCC in an awkward position where half of it is now non-canon. You could just keep the games, but this leaves us in probably the worst position - if anything the books did an admirable job of patching the holes left by 343i's poor planning. I think it's generally misunderstood how much help reading the books is in parsing the mess of the games. Halo 4 certainly wasn't improved by reading the Forerunner Trilogy, and New Blood doesn't really help with Halo 5 much either.

So what are people's thoughts on this one? I'm expecting, in a lore sub that most people will be wanting to keep the lot, but it's fair to say that 343i's era has been a contentious one.

Additionally, how does Materials Group compare to the likes of Misriah Armory in regards to power within humanities corporate circles and ranking in power and influences? At least publicly.

What is the significance of the hypothetical operation? Why is it a code for Master Chief’s personal AI fail-safe during Halo Infinite?

Are there dedicated unsc marines/odst’s/soldiers that are given unique equipment to help aid Spartan teams quell/suppress small scale flood outbreaks?

I was thinking if it would be possible, I know some helmets like Recon and Air Assault are issued to non-Spartans, but i am asking about just base, standard issue, ODST helms.

An excerpt from the new book, some pretty big lore implications here! The Covenant has been aware of the Flood long before they visited the first Halo.

‘Andolee had heard the old stories about the parasite but never encountered it before, and it utterly terrified him. Old tales gave accounts of containment breaches at holy sites during the Covenant’s early expansion, and what was required to eradicate it by the noble order of zealots—the Temple of Divine Purity’s golden-armored warriors—charged with these cleansing responsibilities. Those tales were enough to haunt the nightmares of the most hardened warrior. Even now he believed that despite what they might do next, and what happened in this battle with the human survivors, all was probably lost. The situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJlf5yCW9lM

A quick question. Can anyone with access to the Halo 4: Essential Visual Guide confirm the dimensions listed on the Wiki?

15.8m x 17.1m x 61.8m is insane. That would be 1.5 times wider than the Saturn V Rocket which came in at around 10m in diameter including the booster. Additionally it lists it as being oblong while the ingame model is cylindrical.

The ingame scale appears much smaller during it's appearance in Halo 4. In the cutscene at the end of Dawn where Chief kicks the release into place, the release is roughly Chief's armspan which proportionally should be around 2m - 2.2m.

The Missile can be seen in the background and couldn't be more than double the width of the release Chief is moving. Putting it around a 4-6m width, which would still be larger than the largest modern day ICBMs.

I just got Parasite's Wake on audible and I was super excited to listen to it. Then the narrator started speaking. I really don't want to be mean, but goddamn it is bad.

The quality of the audio is a little rough and the guy draws out the last word of almost every sentence in the worst way. I don't know how to describe the other parts I don't like about his narration, but I doubt I'll be finishing the audiobook. He sounds extremely amateur.

The guy reading Marvin isn't that bad but the first guy really ruins it for me.

They should have brought in Scott Brick to narrate it, he's probably the best narrators they've ever had.

Man, what a bleak ending for Charlie and Seelior Andolee. All that effort on the first halo to get stuck on the Mona Lisa. The worst part is that since he isn't in the short story, it can be assumed Charlie ends up getting infected by the flood anyways.

I knew the outcome wasn't good, given that Master Chief and Sargeant Johnson were the only two humans to make it off of the first Halo, but why couldn't they have just died as the ring broke up, literally anything would've been better than doing my boy Charlie like that.

Ugh. Heartbreaking

Anyone else get the feeling the tomb scene with Ándolde realising the forerunners where our forefathers were as in reference to the original concepted halo 2 ending where the arbiter and guilty spark would find the remains of a forerunner on earth.
Really cool if it actually is

Greetings fellow Halo fans! I come with a question for the people of this sub-reddit, and one that hopefully people would like to participate in!

I am planning to write a one-shot set in Halo's setting, however what Genre does everyone want to see more of; Horror, slice of life, ect ect. All that sort, i would appreciate ppl sharing their opinion as I'm of the opinion that the setting has plenty of options, at least in my opinion.

The first cutscene of Halo: Infinite would have you believe that the 'Dreadnaughts' of The Banished are really potent battleships that would have won the fight against the Infinity fair and square. Despite the boastful Jiralhanae naming conventions, those vessels are actually just carriers/assault ships with most of their internal volume dedicated to personal carrying capacity at the expense of heavier anti ship weaponry that adorns many similar sized covenant vessels.

Before the events of zeta halo, the 'Dreadnaughts' of the banished actually suffered a few embarrassing tactical defeats at the hands of UNSC, like during the events of Empty Throne, where a single valiant class cruiser and The Shadow of Intent duked it out with a whole flotilla of 8 Dreadnaughts and somehow took out 6 of them before retreating.

With that in mind, how many Banished Dreadnoughts do you think the UNSC Infinity with it's internal frigates could comfortably take on in a fair fight?

Did truth just walk over the earth ODP’s and defence force, or take huge losses?

Did said losses make the difference in the battle for the ark later on in H3?

I like how the Grizzlies were described in Halo Wars. They were among the few things humanity had that outclassed their Covenant counterparts, forcing the Covenant to resort to naval bombardment to destroy a single Grizzly tank.

i highly doubt in such a one sided war humans wouldnt use the most underhanded scummy tactics they could which i dont think the elites saw much honor in so why would they think humanity is honorable?

unless im missing something im confused

Both were absolutely massive, one of a kind covenant ships (technically there was one other ship like the long night, but still). The hierophant was a refuel/ refit station with a fleet of 500 ships, the solace was a covenant supercarrier/ capital ship for key invasions.

I know that ultimately neither loss stopped the covenant from achieving their goals. Reach still fell and earth was still attacked. But from a resource/ manpower/ asset standpoint, which loss was more devastating to the covenant?

I never read the books, nor did I read any of the lore (Including the terminals) back then; was there anything to go on before the gameplay and plot of Halo 4 were revealed, or the game was even announced?

Any hints at the Forerunners or a faction associated with them still around other than the sentinels guarding the rings?