Halo
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Halo (also known as Gaylo) is a video game made by Bungie for Microsoft. It is biggest Xbox success next to Gears. So far four games have been made in the series, and another two are in production.
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[edit] Cast
[edit] Master Chief
Master Chief (known as Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 to Halo fanboys) is the main protagonist of the Halo.
[edit] Avery Johnson
Sergeant Major Avery J. Johnson is a Marine who leads human forces against Covenant and Flood assaults throughout the Halo series.
[edit] Miranda Keys
Commander Miranda Keys is the daughter of Jacob Keys.
[edit] Cortana
Cortana is an artificially intelligent (AI) character in Halo. Cortana assists the Master Chief providing backstory and tactical information.
[edit] The Lightbulb
The Lightbulb (more commonly known as 343 Guilty Spark) is the Monitor of Installation 04.
[edit] Story
In the future man is fighting a war against the aliens known as the Covenant. Earth's last hope is a robot known as Master Chief. Early in the first game, the humans find "Halo" and try to discover what it is (see below). Master Chief then runs into another form of aliens known as The Flood who feed on the humans. The release of the Flood prompts 343 Guilty Spark (the annoying light bulb) to recruit the Master Chief in retrieving the Index, a device that will activate Halo and prevent the Flood from spreading beyond the facility. After the Master Chief retrieves and begins to use the Index, he discovers that Halo's defense system is a weapon designed to kill all life in the galaxy. Then then discover the only way to succeed in destroying Halo is to blow it up and they do so and everyone is happily ever after... or until the second game came out.
[edit] Halo2
a new alien named The Arbiter is introduced. It is revealed that the Covenant's interest in Halo lies in the religious belief that the activation of the rings would bring about a "Great Journey".
An important member of the Covenant hierarchy, the High Prophet of Regret, flies to the city of New Mombasa, Kenya. The Master Chief clears the city of Covenant; with his fleet destroyed, Regret makes a hasty slipspace jump, and Commander Miranda Keys, Sergeant Avery Johnson, and the Master Chief follow aboard the ship just as the slipspace rupture destroys much of the city. The crew exits slipspace to discover another Halo installation; realizing the danger the ring presents, the Master Chief is sent to kill Regret while Keys and Johnson find Halo's key to activation, the Index.
In the meantime, The Arbiter is sent to find Halo's Index and captures Johnson and Keys before being confronted by Tartarts (Chieftain of the Brutes). Tartarts reveals that the Prophets have ordered the annihilation of the Elites, and sends the Arbiter falling down a deep chasm. The Arbiter is saved by the Gravemind and meets the Master Chief. Gravemind reveals to the Arbiter that the Great Journey would destroy Flood, humans, and Covenant together. Gravemind sends the Arbiter and Master Chief to different places to stop Halo's activation.
When the Arbiter tries to convince Tartarts that the Prophets have betrayed them both, Tartarts angrily activates the ring, and a battle ensues. The Arbiter and Johnson manage to kill Tartarts while Keys removes the Index. The unexpected shutdown of the ring triggers a system-wide failsafe, putting all the Halos on standby for activation from a remote location, which Lightbulb refers to as "the Ark". Someone asks the Master Chief what he is doing aboard the ship. The Chief replies he is "finishing this fight".
[edit] Halo 3
The Chief, Arbiter and Guilty Spark discover that the Ark is creating a new ringworld to replace the one previously destroyed. The Chief decides to activate only this new ring to eliminate the local Flood while sparing the galaxy at large.
Guilty Spark explains that because the Halo is not yet complete, an activation will destroy it and the Ark. Johnson ignores his warning and Guilty Spark kills Johnson to protect his Halo. The Chief destroys Guilty Spark, activates the Halo, and escapes the ring's blast on a ship.
Only the front half of the ship, carrying the Arbiter, makes it through the portal. Believing the Chief and Cortana to have perished, a memorial service is held for the fallen heroes of the human and Covenant war. The Arbiter then departs for his home planet. Meanwhile, the rear half of the ship floats in an unknown space. Cortana drops a beacon, but realizes it may be years before they are rescued. The Chief enters cryonic sleep, telling Cortana to "wake me, when you need me."
[edit] Halos
The Halos were designed as extermination tools to kill The Flood. However, instead of directly killing the Flood, the ring was designed to kill the food source of The Flood. What the flood eat:
- humans
- cats
- dogs
- the Covenant
- themselves
It is learned from The Annoying Light Bulb that the installation technically only has a maximum radius of twenty-five thousand light-years, but that its pulse would trigger other similar installations as well, killing all sentient life in the galaxy.
