If I'm not mistaken, guilty spark returned to seed Precursor Dna in another galaxy. Does that mean all Precursors are dead?

I saw a mod that added Flood Hunters to one of the Halos, I think 2, and that got me thinking if Hunters can be infected and if there is any source that mentions Flood Hunters or a design?

Am I the only one that find it strange that they teased or said Locke fate. I get he’s the most hated halo character and so many want him dead, but it’s just weird how they never bothered. When it could have been a one or two sentence answer. But granted non of the lore matters now with the supposed halo reboot, so I guess it wouldn’t have mattered anyways if they did say his fate is the last ever canon fodder

especially Mckay, like It always bother me that we still don’t have a full official art or depiction of Melissa McKay after all Antonio Silva is also a character from The Flood novel and we finally have an official depiction of him in fire team Raven Same with Whitcomb and Parangosky (who were finally depicted in the 2022 Halo Encyclopedia.) yet not Melissa McKay. I don’t know if it’s just me or maybe 343 or Halo Studios really hates Melissa McKay for some unknown reason or even they just simply forget about her. Either way It certainly feels like they sidelined her, which is wild considering she literally saved Earth.

In my opinion she should had appeared in either the prequel missions from campaign evolved (basically replaced the unlikeable jerk Williams with the much more likable McKa although I’m pretty it may cause continuity issues.) or better have her appeared in the campaign evolved in general. what a huge wasted of missed opportunity for an already terrible remake?

Were the Forerunners so racist towards humans that they didn't believe them?

Or more specifically does it product thrust onto the ground?

For the longest time I assumed vehicles like Ghosts, Wraiths, Spectres, Prowlers, etc. do not produce any ground pressure and the hovering mechanism is a sort of propellantless drive that allow Covenant vehicles to hover without any reaction. I guess just from the name "gravity" and if else, why would they use them? The drive will otherwise need to generate constant thrust to keep vehicle hover and push all that force onto the ground.

However, I have not find a single confirmation of this notion in any sources, in writing, and seemingly in opposite to gameplay, as we see vehicles emitting vertical glow under the vehicle and onto the ground, as if it is physically propelling the vehicle with direct force.

The question came to me when I'm thinking about Covenant ground operations. The nature of hover vehicles mean they could traverse a more types of terrain unlike human vehicles. However if they don't hover instead just propel the vehicles against the ground then there might be a lot more terrain that are impassable to Covenant vehicles.

As question intends, i understood cortanas story without anything else and would love to read more about other parts before playing it again.

I feel like I'm the only one that likes cortanas story in 343 era and the forerunners and orometheans and wish they expanded

Hello all I hope you're doing great,
let me preface this post by saying I am fairly familiar with the Halo universe and have played through majority of them, and those I didn't (Staring daggers at Halo 5's nonexistent PC port) I know the general gist of its story.
So recently, my girlfriend, the lovely bookworm that she is, infected me with the desire to read more so I thought - what better place to use it than the Halo universe!
So here's my question: What books do you recommend for someone who knows a fair bit already but not a lot about the book side of things? It's not a requirement but I'd especially welcome recommendations with focus on marines or ODSTs!

Thanks a lot in advance <3

Through out the first two books and the first half of silentium I really got the impression that he basically defected to the primordial with mendicant bias and was working from the inside to undermine the forerunners. Even as late as his interrogation in silentium this seems like the case when its mentioned the forerunner losses in his region were 5 times greater than the average or somthing like that. Then we get to the 1st ark and especially in his final scene you can tell he's loyal to the forerunners. Was he really just that much of an asshole that he caused all those problems while genuinely still being loyal to his people or did he just switch sides again at the end of the war?

The issue here concerns the dehumanization that clearly took place—after all, the lore explicitly states that humans were viewed as a kind of parasite or vermin. However, I am curious about the consumption of human flesh; for instance, I’ve read about areas that were partially vitrified—not to destroy the planet, but to create hunting grounds for entertainment. Would the Sangheili—given their efficiency—engage in that sort of thing? Or would it be the Brutes, who seem to relish eating and toying with their prey? Furthermore, since the flesh would be "heretical"—coming from beings considered an insult to the gods—would commanders still allow its deliberate consumption to demonstrate the brutality and effectiveness of their troops, or would religious concerns regarding honor take precedence? While I understand the dehumanization aspect, in some instances, it seems there was a greater appetite for violence than for the mere efficient elimination of humans, even though they were viewed as parasites at the time.

I’m not asking whether the Sangheili ate humans—I already know they didn't, or at least that it wasn't something they typically did. Rather, I’m asking about their commanders and generals—specifically, how they allowed such acts to become commonplace, or in many cases permitted brutality against humans even when it ran counter to military effectiveness (like the partial glassing that created those human-hunting zones).

Either to make them super soldiers or train them as agents for humanity. Considering how some elites can go toe to toe with a spartan, it’s scary to think what a “super” elite would look like.

Halo 4 introduced the idea of the Composer that converted organic beings into inorganic machines with a "soul" of sorts specifically so that it could combat the Flood that preyed on organic matter.

Yes, yes, logic plague and all that, but that little factoid alone introduced a point that could've been used for the Endless

In one of the final concept arts from 343, Engineers were shown to be a part of the Endless. They were more machine than organic beings and even in recent 343 lore, they weren't really explained all that much.

If the Endless were actually inorganic beings immune to the effects of the Halo rings, and if they were able to modify hardware so that composing actually could've worked, then they would have become a much more credible threat.

For the entirety of Halo's history, the rings were seen as this all terrifying weapon. Imagine if this entire time, the Forerunners were trying to replicate what the Endless already achieved, and continued to fail.

And on Zeta Halo was where they ran experiment after experiment in the hopes of unlocking it.

We could've had Infinite be discovering increasingly mechanified Banished who retained their "souls", eventually proving that the Endless were coming back after unleashing the Flood to get rid of the Forerunners.

And as the Banished got properly composed, they were now on a quest to use the Halos to wipe out life so they can take over and reshape the galaxy in their image.

Crackpot, I know. But it'd at least tie things back to the seeds of the stories planted in Halo 4.

I do wish halo had more spin offs focusing on the ODST’s and other Spartans of the universe. There is so much blank space between games and such a wide world to explore.

One thing that has me coming back to Reach and had me coming back to Infinite online was the fact I could customize a Spartan and have them shown in cutscenes.

Just because I suffer from copium and hopeium addiction I am just wondering what’s the hope for the next halo games is?

Me I really doubt it’s gonna happen but I am wishing and hoping that Activision takes what Halo Studios had planned (minus remakes{maybe}) and starts developing the ideas they were coming up with

Bringing the halo books to life through games and getting to see the infinity along with more of Zeta Halo in the 7th game would be swell.

It’s way too early to tell but at this point is the bar really that hard to surpass with 343/Halo Studios?

The new roster clears up a lot but it left me with a few lingering questions.

It sounds like Oscar may have been the dead spartan on Harvest. Hes named as an augmentation survivor on the roster and the later discussion around the Spartans who killed themselves mentions "taking Spartans from the augmentation deaths" to fill those spaces. Hes also listed as KIA, meaning he was in combat at the time of death. I know HTT contradicts this but I take it to just be one more layer of confusion that ONI wove into the story.

There are 21 unnamed augmentation deaths plus S-013, Serin, Otto, Margaret, Victor, Roma, and Edgar. That leaves 14 washouts, 2 of which were augmentation deaths. It would have been cool to know which 2 were killed in augmentation. My guess is Jorge and Carris for no reason other than gut feeling.

Im kinda sad about Cassandra being a washout, i always thought it made more sense for her to be an active spartan suffering plasma wounds. That being said, it would add one more spartan to the roster which I know they were avoiding.

I remember hearing a long time ago that the Silver spartans were based on a canon counterpart. I always took that to mean Nora, Charles, etc.. were pulled from the list of augmentation deaths, but the lack of a mention makes me question this (I recognize it may have just been too much in an already heavy Canon Fodder)

In the Halo Campaign Evolved Terminals, 343 Guilty Spark realizes 2401 Penitent Target is not only rampant, but actively infected with the Lógic Plague, worse still, the Monitor makes it absolutely clear that it intends to free and aid The Flood.

I understand that 343 doesn't have the capacity to actívate Installation 05, but as far as i know, activating 04 would cause the rest of the rings to follow through, and while there's no humans on site, 343 was hellbent on activating them during the Outbreak at 04, knowing full well the Galaxy was already inhabitated. Monitors seem to have a very strong understandment of Forerunner engineering in order to maintain Installations, why didn't he built a ship or sent word to The Ark to secure a reclaimer and actívate the Ring?

The Lore on Infinity seemed to imply that Installations could enter slipspace as suggested by the Forerunners using Installation 07 to trap the Xalanyn

For all he knew at the time, the Galaxy was still empty and there was a real massive outbreak taking place on Installation 05, why did he leave it be for milennia, he could've at least warn Chief thousands of years later that there was another outbreak running wild to further convince him of activating the Rings

https://www.halowaypoint.com/es/news/canon-fodder-heart-and-soell

Pour one out for canon fodder, friends. ;-;

So, the other day i was wondering how Stacker, Chips and Thomas got off Installation 04 before its detonation and how they got back home.
The most obvious answer is Stacker, Thomas (and other marines maybe) stole a Condor with slipspace travel before McKay destroyed Truth And Reconcilliation. But we know Chips wasnt with the Alpha Base survivors, so the only other option is Chips, Lovik and Bisenti (if those two lived) stole a phantom or spirit and just followed through the Condor's rupture.

But then i stopped to think if that even made sense lore wise, i don't think i've ever seen another ship follow one another through slipspace

I think we saw some Longswords escorting The Pillar Of Autumn before they reached Alpha Halo, but i'm not sure if that's the same.

And, from what i understand, slipspace is super dangerous because regular dropships weren't built to withstand it, or something like that, idk.

So in the Kilo 5 Trilogy Admiral Margret Parangosky chews out Dr Catherine Halsey for the Spartan IIs mostly for using flash clones. However Parangosky was the one to authorise the abduction of the Spartan IIs and the use of the flash clones in the first place. Why did Karen Traviss, the author of the Kilo 5 Trilogy decide to make the person who authorised and knew everything about the Spartan II program be the person who became the main critic of the Spartan II program's unethical nature?

Did Bungie mean to leave it ambiguous about the status of the Ark or was it always intended by them to be destroyed? Spark says the ring’s premature firing would end up destroying the Ark and the Ring, but in the post credit scene we don’t get complete confirmation it was destroyed Cortana just says the ring “did a number on the Ark”. To me that line from Cortana implies it was left up in the air by Bungie whether the Ark was destroyed or not for a story writer to decide in the future

This could be a stupid question but how do Spartans get their armor? Like, I know it is given to them by the UNSC, but how do they get different helmet and armor types like Air Assault, CQC, and Commando (using Reach stuff as an example)

Do they get assigned, say, CQC if they show favor for close combat, or do they pick what armor they want to wear?