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I played Halo on the Xbox and P.C, have all 3 of the Halo books, research on the internet, and I have finally piece together about the History of the Halo Universe.

Before start of Halo Combat: Evolved....

In February 3, 2525 the Covenant Empire launches an assault upon Earth and her colonies. From that time on the U.N.S.C (United Nation Space Command) have been fighting a losing war. In August 30, 2552 the U.N.S.C Reach Military Installation falls under Covenant control. And in that same day the U.N.S.C Pillar of Autumn found the Forerunner artifact called Halo...

History of the Covenant

The Covenant race start with the mighty prophets, who might have evolved on a planet filled with the Forerunner ruins thus, helping them developed their advance technology they have today. The Covenant caste system starts with the Grunts and Jackals, who I think evolve from the same planet, but hated each other much. I believed then Grunts and the Jackals enslave by the Elites and the Prophets and use as cannon fodder in the front lines. Talking about Elites, I don’t know much about them, but it seems that they are the 2nd highest ranking from the Prophets and have the command authority and brave. Now to the Hunters the mighty Covenant warriors have a higher command status than Grunts or Jackal, but lower than the Elites, I have little info about the Hunters except that they have a higher ranking than Grunts and Jackals.

For the note, it seems that the Covenant is an Empire controlled by the Prophets
And that fair amount of Covenant ruling or government class doesn’t want war with the Humans

As for the rest of the History of The Covenant I got from halo.bungie.org

The Covenant have a relatively high level of technology, apparently accrued from excavated Forerunner installations; most of their weapons are plasma-based, which means that whatever power sources the Covenant weapons have, they must be incredibly powerful. Their starships are much faster than Human vessels, and are capable of pinpoint maneuvering while in FTL travel, as is made explicitly clear several times in The Fall of Reach, when Covenant ships materialize right in the middle of a Human battle group. Their technological feats seem coupled with what can only be described as a reverent ignorance; they seem unable, unwilling, and vehemently against attempts (by Covenant or Human agents) to attempt improvement upon any Forerunner relics they come to acquire. To do so would be blasphemy.

As for the Human history…I leave to halo.bungie.org history about us in the future…



By the 24th century, Humans have founded a modest interstellar empire. There are at least a few dozen, but more likely one or two hundred, colony worlds within human-explored space. Some of them, if not most, are relatively heavily populated, indications of a prosperous 2 centuries exploring our neck (or arm, if you like) of the galaxy.
Human technology is not that far advanced from what we have today; the basic technologies are mostly the same, just on a much larger scale, with the exception of FTL travel made possible by the Shaw-Fujikawa slipstream drives of Human starships. Weaponry is still projectile-based, and explosives still seem to involve chemical reactions rather than a release of contained plasma, as the Covenant explosives use. While Humans have recently come to possess artificial gravity, another product of reverse engineering Covenant ordinance (as demonstrated by the gravity on the Pillar of Autumn), they have yet to apply it to smaller planet-bound vehicles; the Warthog, for example, still uses wheels and does not hover.
AI is a different story. Mankind has long striven to artificially produce some semblance of consciousness, and their dedication has not been in vain. For in Humanity's limited extraterrestrial experience, the likes of Cortana appear only to be matched, if at all, by the constructs of the ancient Forerunner themselves. Covenant AI, though inherently complicated and dangerous, prove to be little more than simple-minded curiosities to Cortana, as she so effortlessly dissects and examines her would be tormenter. Their make-up and origins possess riddles enough for the future.
The Covenant, however, "own nothing which they have not stolen", and have had a decisive advantage so far in their own technological revolutions: the raiding of abandoned Forerunner complexes, caches, and worlds. But, as Humanity's resistance plays out across the fields and scrapes of the Milky Way, mankind not only adapts and incorporates, but creates and improves. The Mjolnir armour and shield technology, coupled with the yields of Humanity's fascination with sentient constructs has so far been the most successful of their ingenuities.
The bulk of Humanity still does not know about the events which transpired after the Pillar of Autumn jumped away from the Reach system; the Master Chief and a handful of Human survivors wrenched from Installation 04's wreckage are the only remaining witnesses of our race to the Flood and the Forerunner machines left on Halo. All they know is that their last hope, Reach and her military forces, is either completely lost or severely impeded (depending on the number of surviving Spartans), and that the Covenant still loom over Human space. Earth cannot last long; even with ONI's morale-boosting propaganda and hush tactics, every night they watch the sky, waiting for the hammer to fall.

As from another interesting point from halo.bungie.org

In Manoflaslomas's post about guilty spark addressing you as "Reclaimer" he says "...Guilty Spark thinks (knows?) the master chief is a Reclaimed rather than a member of the covenant or another human (Keys for instance)... this is not quite true on the Library level 343 comments "I would conjecture that the other species currently on the instillation is responsible for releasing the Flood. They seem most persistent in their attempts to access restricted areas." It is assumed from this that he knows that you are indeed human, or thinks the other humans on Halo are forerunner. This would fit in with Mr. Yen’s theories that the forerunners are ancient humans.

Thus ending or at least concluding a part of the history, if I find more interesting things or more Halo history to post, I’ll do it. But for now I’m waiting for Halo 2

  • 06.01.2004 5:13 PM PDT