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Subject: Been away from the lore for a while

7even is Darker

Im looking to get back into it, I used to be an expert with all pre halo 3 lore, after halo 3 I sort of stopped following it so ive missed comics and books that explain lots of info.

Last book I read was contact harvest.

Anyone wanna get me up to speed? what cool info do we have on the halo verse now?

I have also heard we know alot more about the chiefs personality now and he even had a love interest at one point.

[Edited on 02.25.2011 8:11 AM PST]

  • 02.25.2011 8:09 AM PDT

The big one:

*Cryptum Spoilers*



Before the Forerunner-Flood war, humans and the san 'shyuum were already interstellar civilizations. The humans had discovered the flood and fought against it on one side, and along the san 'shyuum against the Forerunners on the other side. They beat the flood, but were defeated by the Forerunners on a Precursor world. The san 'shyuum were quarantined to their planet, and humans were devolved and moved to Earth.




Chief's "love interest" was from his Eridanus II days, when he was six years old. She was a marine in New Mombasa, and Chief recognised her, but didn't reveal himself.

[Edited on 02.25.2011 8:17 AM PST]

  • 02.25.2011 8:15 AM PDT

I am alpha, i am omega.

I am the last of the primes.


Posted by: Mutoid Log
The big one:




Chief's "love interest" was from his Eridanus II days, when he was six years old. She was a marine in New Mombasa, and Chief recognised her, but didn't reveal himself.

Wtf im been foloing halo and ine never seen thsi...
Tell me more...

  • 02.25.2011 8:18 AM PDT

Posted by: ferrrari
Posted by: Mutoid Log
The big one:




Chief's "love interest" was from his Eridanus II days, when he was six years old. She was a marine in New Mombasa, and Chief recognised her, but didn't reveal himself.

Wtf im been foloing halo and ine never seen thsi...
Tell me more...
It's a story from Evolutions, which I don't have with me at the moment. But there's always halopedia.

  • 02.25.2011 8:20 AM PDT
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Wow, that's a lot to catch up on. I don't even know where to start. There's a lot of stuff. If you play Halo Reach, you should probably look into Hasley's Journal(from the collector's and Legendary editions of Halo Reach). It doesn't reconcile ALL the seeming inconsistancies between the game and The Fall of Reach novel, but it takes care of most and at least helps make sense of it all. The comics have been pretty peripheral, interesting but not too necessary probably. There's some pretty great stuff in the anthology novel Halo Evolutions: Essential Tales from the Halo Universe. Watching the Halo Legends DVD couldn't hurt (and Halsey's Journal helps explain a few things from that too(like the number of Spartan II's)). It has some fun side stories and a sort of history of the Halo universe 2-part story that gives a peak at the Forerunner, as narrated by Cortana post Halo 3. She may however be an unreliable narrator in this short(due to what appears to maybe be the onset of rampancy or the influence of Medicant Bias, or both), so anything she says about the Forerunners or anything previously unknown from other sources, may not be 100% accurate.

If Halo 3 lore isn't something you looked too much into, you should probably go to asendantjustice.com and read all of their articles about the Terminals from Halo 3. That will give you a lot of good Forerunner info that wasn't in the main story of the Halo 3 game, but scattered about in the terminals hidden on the ark in that game.

The biggest peice of lore to probably come out since Halo 3 is the new novel Halo Cryptum. It's the first novel in what is called the Forerunner Trilogy and gives a very VERY revealing look at the Forerunner and their relation ship to humans before the Halos were fired 100,000 years ago.

  • 02.25.2011 8:20 AM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

In one of the stories in Halo Evolutions Master Chief sees himself in a picture. The picture was of Master Chief and a girl when they were six. It was taken at a beach. (I think.) The picture was on the girl's data pad or something. She apologized to the Master Chief for it would probably not be approved by the military. But, she did add, input on the picture. Saying something about Master Chief promising to mary her. It's unclear whether she knew that was him or not.

  • 02.25.2011 1:53 PM PDT