The halo storyline

Well....the Halo Story line starts way the hell before that, back when the Halo's were Created...The Forerunner Were fighting The Flood and another Gravemind...After the The Forerunner Even out the fight they Created an AI Called Mendicant Bias, this AI turned on the Forerunners and worked with the flood. After the forerunner were going to lose, a Forerunner named Didact activated the halo rings. After the war was over and most Sentient life died, the surviving forerunners Stayed Hidden in shield worlds. like 100,000 years later, a species called the San 'Shyuum(Prophets) found the forerunner Dreadnought(triangle shaped ship that the prophet of truth stays on), and founded the Covenant along with the Sanghelli(Elites). the San 'Shyuum and the Sanghelli were originally at war, over Forerunner artifacts on The Sanghelli homeworld, Sanghellios.

After a long time they gathered other species and grew into what we knew as the Covenant. they mistranslated a symbol found, which said Reclaimers, but was translated into reclamation. which initially started the Human- Covenant War. they thought that humans were unworthy of the ring due to the translated symbol.

i'm a little hazy about the rest....

 

You have it wrong. I may be a little off, but Ill do my best to tell you the story.
Note that this is like a novel that I took about an hour to write for you.

It started with the Forerunners, a race that was at war with the flood. They created the Halo rings as a failsafe to kill all living beings so that the flood would starve. The prophets soon found these rings and considered them holy. They used the Sengheili (elites) as their tools to make up for the fact that the prophets were physically a weak race. Long after the forerunners were wiped away and hidden, the Covenant started the war with the Humans because they believed that the humans were inferior and couldnt be worthy to worship or use the forerunner's mysterious tools due to their translations of the forerunner artifacts.




Halo: Combat Evolved

Petty Officer John-117 was on the battle of Reach with most spartans and left on the Pillar of Autumn (not Forward Unto Dawn) and left through a slipspace portal that was leaving reach. While most other spartans died on Reach, The Pillar of Autumn was attacked and the Captain, Jacob Keyes (father of Miranda from H3), gave 117 Cortana- the military AI that was very important to the UNSC for her intelligence and told 117 to protect her while Keyes goes down with his ship.
After going through the portal, the Pillar of Autumn was located next to a mysterious planet (Halo) and 117 and some marines evacuated the Pillar in an escape pod. They crash land on Halo. John-117 rallies up marines and looks for their Captain which they hope is alive.
The marine squads board an enemy cruiser (Truth and Reconciliation) and find Jacob Keyes in captivity. Keyes gets info from the guards like- Halo is a sacred ring and find that the Sangheili(Elites) are worshiping it to stop "something"
After escaping the Truth and Reconciliation, the marines wander Halo to research the mystery behind it. 117 goes into a structure and finds a tape of Johnson and marines fighting an odd creature (the flood). The location of Johnson and Keyes are unknown. After escaping the structure from the flood, 117 stumbles upon the monitor of the installation ( 343 Guilty Spark) and the spark takes 117 to a library (temple) to get something called "The Index" which activates Halo (no one knows what happens)
Before searching Halo and finding the flood, 117 leaves Cortana in the activation point that they found- like a computer, Cortana stays behind to gather information (this room is exactly where you kill the monitor also in H3) When 117 and the monitor get back to the activation spot with the index, Cortana informs John 117 that Halo is a weapon that the monitor wants to trick 117 into activating.
Halo is a weapon because it kills all flood by killing their food (living creatures) so it kills all things that live in the world. The monitor is unmoved by this because he is AI.
The monitor trys to forcibly remove the index from 117. John and Cortana escape the monitor's grasp.
Cortana brings 117 to a crashed covenant cruiser that is overtaken by the flood. They hear distress calls from Keyes. They board the ship and soon find that Jacob Keyes died from being the host to the flood parasite. 117 still removes the neural implant from Keyes body after seeing his face implanted into a large sac-like flood chamber.
The monitor told 117 that the Covenant have been trying to escape the ring by finding the Pilar of Autumn and using the machinery on that. John finds the Pillar of Autumn after escaping the covenant cruiser in a banshee.
John-117 encounters the flood, the covenant and the sentinel army(monitor's army) all in combat on this ship. 117 then uses the engineering room as a timebomb for Halo. John destroys the engines and then escapes Halo in a Longsword (small ship) as the Pillar of Autumn explodes and the entire Halo is blown to chunks. The monitor makes it off safely.

The mystery of Johnson's escape is classified and the legendary ending to Halo CE is confirmed to never have happened (Johnson hugs an elite as the ring explodes and they are on it)

Halo 2

Spartan 117:

After soon meeting up with the marines on one of the global defense stations orbiting around Earth, 117 is equipped with new armor (Mark VI) and soon the station is hijacked by the covenant as they place a bomb on it. The two other stations (alpha and malta i believe) are destroyed. 117 finds the bomb and jumps off the ship carrying the bomb and hurls it at a Covenant cruiser in deep space
(epic scene, YouTube - Halo 2 - Cairo Station - Ending Cutscene)


The chief then lands on a ship with Johnson and Keyes (Miranda Keyes) They fly to earth and fight the covenant there. The covenant think that they found the planet and it belongs to them as the humans kick their ass in New Mombasa. 117 leaves in a ship after destroying a scarab. This ship follows a Covenant cruiser that belongs to regret through a portal. The portal annihilates the city ( THIS IS WHERE H3 ODST STARTS)

After going through the portal, the humans find another Halo ring. The marines then drop onto Halo (including the chief) in drop pods. The ODST then scout the ring and 117 finds Regret and kills him.
After escaping the structure that he killed Regret in, a covenant cruiser tries to glass him (obliterate him). He barely gets away with the help of Gravemind (flood mastermind of each Halo) Gravemind forces 117 and the Arbiter to listen to him and do his work. 117 is sent to High Charity(covenant city that orbits in space- its big!) to stop the prophets and the Arbiter is sent to to the Halo ring to get Tartarus (ill tell you later on)
Chief goes through High Charity guns blazing to find the prophets. Truth gets away and he lets Mercy get eaten by the flood. 117 puts Cortana into the systems (computers) of High Charity so that she may gather info on where they may be heading.
High Charity is attacked by the flood and the Covenant all evacuate the High Charity. 117 boards a forerunner ship that Truth is aboard as they escape for Earth. He leaves Cortana behind.

Arbiter

The Arbiter was a high ranked elite that was blamed for letting 117 escape Halo on the Pillar of Autumn. The arbiter was a regular elite. He is stripped of his rank and his armor. He is also tortured by the brutes as his sentencing. He is then placed in front of the three Prophets- Truth, Mercy, Regret. They tell him that he may become their Arbiter. He is a sacred warrior that is the tool of the prophets. They then send the arbiter to the remains of the destroyed Halo ring (from Halo CE) to find and kill the Heretic (the ones that believes differently from the prophets) These heretics are all elites that have learned the truth of halo (kind of like siding with humans) and learn that the prophets are evil. The Arbiter locates and kills the heretic. The Arbiter is the puppet of the prophets.
The Arbiter then goes to the second Halo ring and recovers the Index (one for all rings) and at that point, he is betrayed by the brute leader- Tartarus. At this point, the Prophets betray all Sangheili (elites) and replace them with brutes. Tartarus throws the Arbiter into a precipice (pretty much a ditch that looks never ending) Tartarus also meets Johnson and Keyes and takes them POW (prisoner of war)
The arbiter awakens next to 117, clutched by the tentacles of Gravemind, where he is forced to listen to reason to how Halo is a weapon and the prophets are lying with their "Great Journey" The "Great Journey" refers to the firing of the Halo and killing all sentient life- they use this to keep everyone unaware of the outcome. The Arbiter goes to Halo to stop the brutes and Tartarus from firing the halo ring.
The Arbiter goes to the activation point and finds Tartarus with Keyes captive- note that only humans may activate the index- Forerunner technology uses this as a defense mechanism. Johnson escapes and steals a scarab to look for help. The Arbiter makes an alliance with the humans to stop Tartarus, he then kills Tartarus at the end of the game. Guilty Spark was also there because Tartarus used guilty spark to inform them of the Great Journey. Guilty Spark then tells the Miranda, Johnson and the Arbiter that Truth is heading for the Ark to activate all of the Halo rings.

The elites then join forces with the humans because of the Arbiter and the fact that they found out about the lies of the prophets.

 

You sir have just saved me a bunch of time as I was going to go back and play through the campaigns of Halo:CE and Halo 2 again. Did you dig that up from an online site or did you remember that all. Cause if you remember that all it would indeed be epic.

 

ha, what's funny is that i have remembered everything about halo's story (sad i know)

anyway good thing mikelp typed it cause... I'm to lazy to type that much.

anyway... you should still play through them again, i did few days ago, it was very fun to play it again. halo 1 is still amazing despite being pretty old.

 

I remember it all. Ive played each campaign over 25 times lol.


Also King, if you still dont get the main gist of Halo 3:

The entire campaign is pretty much chasing after Truth after 117 jumps off of the forerunner ship headed to Earth. Truth opens a portal to the Ark and the humans and elites follow him onto the ark. At the end, chief boards High Charity and gets Cortana and they travel back to the first halo (it was being repaired at the ark) and activate it so that it will destroy the Ark (because of premature firing). All of the visions of Cortana are actually gravemind trying to scare 117 and fill him with grief.

atleast that one didnt take an hour...

 

1. Master Chief was trained to be super soldier.
2. Human's first contact with covenant was on Harvest. First off friendly, but after our race's no exception to there ways and there "Journey" they killed off everything on Harvest.
3. Reach was being attacked and Spartans were there to fight, Reach was destroyed.
4. Master Chief somehow escaped and was refuged from the Forward Unto Dawn.
5. Halo: CE- Humans jump through slipspace randomly to escape (protocol). Humans see first halo ring. Covenant follow FUD. Covenant board FUD and everyone on board escaped in escape pods and land on the first halo ring. Fighting. Flood found as ancient alien race Forerunner's weapon. Halo was discovered to be super weapon. Master chief destroys ring and escapes.
6. Halo 2 is pretty much the same thing but on Human soil. Also, the covenant has a civil war from there religion and Elites split from the Covenant.
7. Halo 3 - Elites join human ranks. Ect.

 

Doesn't Halo 3 take place like 12 hours after the end of Halo 2? And wasn't the Chief just killing Elites up until that time? What, the Elites just happened to strike a deal with the Humans to team up with them in that small space of time? That's what I never really got. Why did the Elites join the Humans, and why did they bother to do it right then?

 

Master Chief kills the High Prophet of Regret, right? So POT (Prophet of Truth, awesome abbreviation) accuses them of no longer being able to insure high Prophets' safety. This is on the second/third to last level of Halo 2, rather then elites, Brutes are used. On the second/third last level, you'll not have to fight as hard, as brutes and elites will be killing each other. Arbiter however is with the humans for a whole different reason, the arbiter knows the truth about halo, and tells some highly placed elites.

 

After being attacked on Reach,master chief was cryogenicly preserved as the ship pillar of autumn as the cheif,along with seargent johnson,captain keys,cortona and several other hundred marines slipspace jump into a random location. After 5-6 months of slipspace travel you come out near a halo ring. But as it turns out,the covenant are already here. cortona tries everything to defeat the enemy armada,but they overwhelm and get onboard the ship. After awakining the cheif from his cryptonic slumber,he is took to the head of the ship where he meets the captain,and gets cortona put in his nureal implants,although this is nothing new to the chief.
After battling his way through the ship,he manages to get on the last lifeboat,and rides it to the surface of halo. The landing kill everyone on the boat,but MC. he flees into nearby hills,and finds a set of survivers,including seargant johnson. after getting a warthog,he sets off to find nearby survivers.

after finding everyone he sets of to go to a covenant ship,and rescue the captain (keys). After he rescues the captain,and makes an exit. he goes to find a map of halo on an island. after finding and acivating this map,he learns where halo's control room is,and heads there.

After staging an assualt on the control room (tell me if you catch that) cortona learns that halo is a weapon,and learns about the flood. after a not so descriptive talk wih MC,she makes him go get the captain. After traveling through the jungle,you find a building and enter. as you traverse through you find multiple covenant corpses,and eventually find find a room with a human body against the door,you watch his helmet recordings,and learn about the flodd for yourself. you make an escape and meet with the surviver of the unleasing of the flood,including seargent johnson. you then meet the moniter and precced to get the index,after retreiving it you go back to the control room.

After meeting with cortana again you atempt to activate the ring,but cortana reveals what halo does,but the moniter goes ahead and activate the ring. you buy some time by destroying the things that make halos blast biger,and go rescue the captain from the flloods cluches,but the captain dies.

In order to destroy the flood without activating the rings you decide to destroy the piller of autumns fusion reacters,and suceed. you survive the blast and end up back at earth.

I type halo2 and 3's plots later,my fingers hurt.

 

Oh my god, I've got to play Halo 2 now. How do you get it to work on a 360?

 

You put the game in the disc tray, push the close button, and it'll play for you...

 

First I would recommend that the OP read The Fall of Reach, so you can get a full picture of the Halo story. But here's a couple of things to remember.

1. The UNSC was losing the war with the Covenant. The only thing that saved them from total annihilation was the fact that the Covenant didn't know where Earth (Or Reach) was located . The Covenant were actually led to Reach by Captain Keyes. During a battle with the Covenant a homing device got attached to his ship. And of course you know that the Covenant found Earth by mistake.

2. The Spartans were about to embark on a Mission to capture a prophet to negotiate a Ceasefire. Cortana was assigned to the MC expressly for this reason. She wasn't just a Random shipboard A.I. Right as they departed for the mission on the Pillar of Autumn, the Covenant arrived at Reach with a huge fleet. The Spartans returned to Reach and most of them flew down to the Surface to help stop the Covenant invasion force. Master Chief and two other Spartans did not go down to Reach. They were sent to another UNSC ship that was orbiting Reach to scrub its Data banks so the Covenant wouldn't find Earth. After that mission they returned to the PoA and then it made a random jump away from Reach.

3. The random jump actually wasn't that Random. Cortana had gotten the coordinates from a forerunner artifact MC had found years before. She doesn't know what is there but she suspects its important because the Covenant were looking for it. This of course is the first Halo ring.


4. ODSTs hate Spartans. Very much so.

 

Wow, these are really helpful. I was so confused with all of the other planets they were talking about. you guys actually saved me alot of Campaign playing time

 

The Arbiter actually fought the Heretics and the Flood at the Threshold Gas Mine. The arbiter killed the Leader. Any flood or survivors fell to the planet Threshold when the arbiter cut the cables, just to clear that up

 

your way off forward unto dawn is halo 3 play the games in this order.

Main story order:
Halo CE
Halo 2
Halo 3

Full story
Halo wars
Halo reach
Halo CE
Halo 2
Halo 3 ODST
Halo 3
Halo 4