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I'm hoping this will clear up some of the confusion that has taken over this forum.
First: It's been confirmed by Microsoft that it is both a First Person Shooter, and is a PREQUEL that takes place during the Fall of Reach.
It will most likely lead right into Halo 1.
They could even make an entire trilogy of this story arc and follow Dr. Halseys Journey from Reach to the events of First Strike and then Ghosts of Onyx. Thats just wishful thinking though.
Third: There ARE still spartans alive, other than Master Chief. Even at the end of Halo 3, although they are MIA, they are not all dead.
Here is a brief Halo timeline (spoilers for those who haven't read the books or played Halo: Wars).
- From the beginning -
2517 - Spartan program is concieved to create super soldiers, to deal with the rebel humans.
They train on the planet Reach.
2525 - Humanity makes first contact with the covenant at the planet Harvest. They try to make peace, but the brutes attack (yes, brutes were seen this far back). Harvest is lost to the Covenant
2531 - Halo : Wars - The Spirit of Fire crew, fighting the covenant on Harvest (after "five long years"). The Covenant open a Forerunner facility wich leads them, and the Spirit of Fire on a journey through space, where they fight the FLOOD (yes, Flood were seen this far back) and find a Forerunner shield world. They use their FTL drive to destroy the planet, but are lost in space without it. Which is why they were never able to warn humanity about the Flood.
The Covenant continue to glass the outer colony worlds working their way to the inner colonies.
2552 - The Covenant jump to the planet Reach, below the orbital defense grid. They have superior slipspace technology which allows them to do that.
Master Chief sends spartans to the surface to fight the Covenant, while he fights his own battle up in space.
The Covenant discover an artifact on Reach which eventually turns out to contain coordinates to Halo installation 04. As Reach is lost to the Covenant, the Pillar of Autumn has to flee. To follow the Cole Protocol, they must jump to random cooridnates, so Cortana jumps to the coordinates that came from the artifact.
Although Reach is Glassed for the most part, Dr. Halsey and a few spartans are underground and survive.
Halo: Combat Evolved - Everyone knows this story, moving on...
Halo: First Strike - The Chief and Cortana find Johnson and a small crew in a pelican near the destroyed halo. They head back to Reach and rescue Dr Halsey and a group of spartans.
Dr. Halsey abducts Kelly and splits from the rest of the group, and they head to Onyx
2531 - 2545 - Halo: Ghosts of Onyx - Spartan III's are being trained on Onyx. Dr. Halsey and Kelly find Kurt and fight their way into a Forerunner structure, eventually they are teleported to a Micro Dyson Sphere.
Onyx is essentially destroyed. leaving the group lost in the sphere. (There seems to be a pattern of the heroes always being lost, beyond contact)
Halo 2 / Halo 3: ODST
Halo 3 - You know the end.
[Edited on 06.05.2009 5:31 AM PDT]