I know that I made a thread a long time ago like this but it went to hell and back and then back to hell again.

So i will state the mission. This is to give a haloverse crash course on the basic details so you do not have to make your own threads asking them, I know no one likes to ask them in the newb thread. So add anything that i leave out.

First off, if you want to see where you stand in your halo knowledge then take Rotaretilbo's halo knowledge test. Which you can find HERE.

 Halo Wars

       Is a Real Time Strategy, RTS. It is being produced by Ensemble Studios, ES. It will detail the early engagements of the covenant through the eyes of the crew of the Spirit of Fire. There is a possibility of playing the covenant also. An assumed timeline would be around 2525 which is when initial conact was made with the Covenant. Release Date is unknown.

FAQ  

Halo

       If you do not know about this then go to bungie.net and learn.

Spartan I

       These are NOT the spartans from Greece. These were excellent soldiers that were selected from the military and given very minor augmentations. Sergeant Johnson is rumored to be one, found in Halo Graphic Novel or HGN. Their children are called spartan 1.1 and their parents gave them minor augmentation also. This can be found in ilovebees. Ilovebees was embraced as halo canon by bungie.

Spartan II

       The second group of spartans. Spearheaded by Dr. Halsey and trained by Franklin Mendez. These are super soldiers that were hand selected from a pool of 150 canidates. Only 75 were selected. They were conscripted into service at the age of six in the year 2517. They are highly trained and highly educated. They recieved major augmentations on March 9, 2525. The augmentations include: carbide ceramic ossification (bone strengthening), Muscular enhancement injections (steroids), catalytic thyroid implant (growth booster), occipital capillary reversal (better eyes), superconducting fibrification of neural dendrites (DECREASED [thnx UNSC AI #23] reaction time). Conscripted to fight the United Rebel Front (URF) but do a good job on the covenant. First wore Mark IV MJOLNIR prototypes in november of 2525. Got the real deal on August 29, 2552. Upgraded further in 2552 to the Mark V armor.

Spartan III

             Led by Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose, alternativly Kurt-051 a spartan II. and Trained by Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez. Kurt was originally believed to be MIA on a space-op near Station Delphi, an abandoned Shipyard in the Goombridge 34 system. He was captured by a sercret subcell of ONI, Beta-Five, to train the next group of Spartans. This Spartan project was spearheaded by Colonel James Ackerson, a rival of Doctor Halsey. They were trained in 3 companies; Alpha, Beta and Gamma. They were intented to be "disposable" spartans, being cheaper, faster to train and in greater numbers and were intented to go on missions of higher value but with correspondingly lower survival rates. Alpha and Beta companies were massacred by Covenant forces in Operations PROMETHEUS and TORPEDO with only 2 survivors from Beta comapany: Tom-B292 and Lucy-B091. The current status of Gamma company is unknown.   

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John

       John is the Master Chief, aka MC. He is a Spartan II under the Office of Naval Intelligence, aka ONI, in the United Nations Space Command, UNSC, Navy. John was born in the year 2511 in Elysium City on Eridanus II. John was "selected" at the age of six, 2527, to be a super soldier by civilain, Dr. Catherine Halsey. He was chosen because he exhibited special genetic markers. Since people would not understand "selecting" six year olds to be soldiers, ONI produced flash clones as a replacement so that the parents would not know what happened. These clones were prone to disease, though, and died soon after their creation because the cloning technology was not as good. He was one of 75 selected to fight the rebel inssurections.

       Through Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez training John became the squad leader of the spartans. John's first mission is to capture Colonel Robert Watts, a leader in the United Rebel Front, URF. The spartans only had two months of actual combat until they were put up against the covies. Because of the immersion of the covenant a prototype of the Mark IV MJOLNIR armor was given to them at Chi Ceti 4. Right after they put it on and got comfortable wearing it a covenant ship attacked the frigate Commonwealth. John lead his spartans to sneak into the ship and destroy it.

       The John then proceeds to go through many missions involving the covenant and, most notable, his mission on Sigma Octanus IV where the covenant had not glassed the entire planet but instead were searching for something, which turned out to be a "navigational stone" which had the coordinates of a Halo installation 04 or Alpha Halo.

       With the UNSC in desperate trouble they finally send John and his team on a mission to capture a covenant ship and capture a covenant prophet. This is when he gets his real Mark IV MJOLNIR complete with the shields and his AI Cortana. He was to be escorted by Captain Keyes on the Pillar of Autumn, POA. This mission was interfered with during the Fall of Reach, FoR, because the majority of his team had to go down to Reach to protect the Orbital MAC guns grounside reactors. John and a small squad went to Station Gamma to secure the NAV data in the Circumference. When John and Linda, although clinically dead, finish the mission the POA jumps from Reach, which is overrun by the covenant, leaving the rest of the Spartans on Reach. Cortana then uses the NAV data from the stone John recovered in Cote de Azur to jump which leads us to Alpha Halo.

        This where John goes through the sequence of events that are played in Halo Combat Evolved. If you do not know what happened here then i suggest you stop reading and start to play the game NOW.

        John leaves Alpha halo and meets up with a pelican full of survivors. John has Cortana use the pelican to draw the fire of the covenant ships in the area. John uses this diversion to sneak into the covenant flagship. He then kicks a** and takes names and takes there ship. Cortana experiences the first covenant AI. Using the newly aquired ship they go to Reach and save the few spartan's left.

      John then goes on a sequence of events revolving around an artifact of the forerunners that was found on reach during the rescue. During this they discover the location of a covenant refit station called the Unyielding Hierophant. He takes his spartans aboard with a copy of Cortana and manages to blow the station up which, with the help of Lt. Haverson and Admiral Stanforth, he takes out most of the ships at the station, which numbered 500.

      Then John goes to earth and you have halo 2. Again play it if you haven't.

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Alot of stuff that I did not cover yet. I will be updating the list periodically so check back. Again if you have any topics you think I should discuss then tell me and I will add a section. MORE importantly if you see something wrong then tell me and I will make the changes.