- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
this is just a very short version with not many details.
there's a massive space battle going on between the covenent fleet and a secret fleet that the humans had been building, hundreds of ships are beeing destroyed and the covenent fleet has already been sugnificantly weakend by the battle with the flood around delta halo.
slowly the covenent ships gain the upper hand and when there's only about 50 human ships left when suddenly the elite fleet arrives from delta halo and surrounds the covenant fleet just as the covenant are about to be defeated a massive flash of light appears from the surface of the planet (from the artifact in the trailer) a massive beam of light shoots out from the planet vaporising all the ships in it's path.(the beam of light is actually a slip space tunnel which alows ships to travel through space even faster then normalfaster then light travel).
as all this has been happening masterchief has been in the artifact trying to stop the prof of truth from activating it thinking it is the ark (this takes two levels, one in the ruins of new mombasa and one in the artifact)
when this happens the pof of truth boards his carrier and using the slip space tunnel gets transported to the real ark, master chief is then picked up by a pelican and is flown to the elite flagship. the whole elite and human fleet uses the slip space tunnel to travel to the ark where they are confronted by a fleet of of ai controlled ships of forrunner design, a masive space battle occurs in which you get to pilot a long sword fighter through the two fleets engaging in space combat and then fly to the ark with the arbitar and several phantoms filled with human and heratic soldiers once you land on the ark there are a series of levels where you battle through the ark and finally reach the control room where you find out that the proffet of truth is infact a flood which has been under the control of the grave mind since the biggining of the war.
the proffit offers you a deal, he challenges you to a battle, if you win well... he's dead so you win, but if he wins he is aloud to activate the halos which he has reprogramed to destroy only the life forms that could pose a threat to the flood (humans elites grunts hunters ect) then you and the proffit + hords of sentinells and other new ai controlled robots battle it out. in the end if you win then you see a cut seen of all the humans and elites gathered on the ark cheering the master chief and the arbitar and then you hear cortana going on about how an everlasting aliance between the humans and elites was noe garranteed and how you had saved the human race bla bla bla, if you lose you get to see a cut seen were the camera pans to each of the different halos seeying them charging and then firing, when they fire massive bolts ofenergy fly out into space then you see a scene were all the energy bolts colide and a tidal wave aof energy flows out in every dirrection, then you se all theelites grunts humansect beeing vaporised by this tidal waive then the screen goes black and writing comes up "you have failed us"
ok that's it congratulations if you managed to read all this, now you can flame all you like.