Halo News

Hundreds of years from now, Earth's fledgling planetary empire [SolCore] has been drawn into a merciless war with a consortium of alien races known as the Covenant. Covenant technology is far beyond that of Earth, and the humans are losing. Whole planets are being destroyed. Billions have died. It's only a matter of time before the Covenant find Earth, and destroy it. <br /> <br /> The most recent human planet to be discovered by the Covenant fleet is Reach, population 700 million. The Covenant annihilate it utterly. A single human corvette [the SCS Pillar of Autumn] escapes the battle. In a desperate attempt to lead the Covenant away from Earth, the ship charts a course for a distant unexplored system. <br /> <br /> In a move that baffles the Commander and her crew, the entire Covenant fleet gives chase. <br /> <br /> When the humans arrive at their destination, they find an alien artifact of enormous size in orbit between a gas giant [Threshold] and its moon [Basis]. They have found HALO, a ring ten thousand kilometers in diameter, with a breathable atmosphere. On its inner surface, HALO has oceans, continents, varied climatic zones. It's a habitat. <br /> <br /> The Covenant destroy the human ship in a battle near HALO, but a portion of the human crew escapes to land in scattered groups on the surface of the ring. One of the marines, more skilled than the rest, starts a guerilla war against the Covenant, trying to stop them from learning the secrets of HALO. <br /> <br /> This marine is you. The game begins.