This is why I fell in love with Halo, the lore and the little stories. Thanks for the mention and hopefully we can do other things in the future :)

Sgt Johnson being so funny that they retconned him from a background character that dies in at the end of the first game to one of the most important characters in Halo for the next two games is just ideal game design.

My Halo dream game is one where you spend the entire game as an Elite/squad of Elites during the peak of the Covenant

2:06 During WW2, the US Army and Wermacht fought together to defend a castle holding former French prisoners from SS troops headed there to execute them. Battle of Castle Itter!

That 4-man group of jackals and marines was probably one of the greatest groups of unsung badasses in the Halo series and I didn't even understand that they died fighting together until I saw the animation earlier this year

The opening narration was just perfect. Indescribably so. I really enjoy seeing Humans and Covenant working side by side in any way. And I was waiting for the last one on the list, I was waiting for it, and I am so satisfied for it. That alliance is truly environmental story telling at its finest. And that animation was truly beautiful. NotPipi is amazing and I will go visit his channel and tell him you sent me.

The Covenant coming back and fragging Atriox for "Desecrating the Holy Ring" would be a fun way to start Halo 7 come to think of it.

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, just an enemy that's taken a side bar.

I’ve been writing/brainstorming a “enemies to stubborn allies to friends” story for a while now, so this comes in handy for research purposes!

Theres one small instance of this being the case which is only implied on the mission 343 guilty spark in halo combat evolved, where you may come across 2 marine corpses and 2 jackal corpses which may suggest that the two duos were making a final stand against the flood.

That first sentence gave me chills immediately. Great work 00!

This is why i love halo. it gives you a since of realism that other space sifi games (for me at least) don't give you

So cool that you’re giving NotPipi the credit and notoriety that he deserves. I’ve been watching his stuff for while and have been subscribed to him for a few months now. His stuff keeps getting better and better and I hope he continues with the Sgt. Mobuto story. Awesome video by the way!

How did Phylliss teaming up with Sanghelli housewives not get a mention?

Your intro got to me. It was always for my brothers and sisters.

Man, that last one with the two marines and kig-yar... that animation was excellent and an absolute tear-jerker. Well done!

Technically its not a Human Covenant alliance. Because in Halo 2 sure you had Jackles and Hunters and Grunts fighting with you in Halo 3 its just Elites.

Hello Installation 00, it’s honestly great to see another video from you. I’ve seen the previous news video and I feel terrible that something like this has been happening to you since it’s totally unfair and unjustified. I’ve hopped onto Patreon and become a member of constructor for £1 a month, I know it’s not much but I hope every little bit adds up. Best wishes to you and your family and I hope u get through this soon. Take care kind sir and find peace in the domain.

Dude I love the Mona Lisa story. Like it just really highlights how terrifying the flood are on a small scale. One interesting theory I’ve also seen about this is that Henry actually let her have the drop pod, as an elite likely wouldn’t fit in the pod designed exclusively for a human. It looks thinner that an elite and shorter too, meaning he likely would have been unable to fit.

How could you forget the intimate moment Johnson Nd that elite had when the Pillar of Autumn was about to explode smh

the covenant didn't ally with the humans the arbiter and the elites (most of them) was against them at the end of halo2

This episode is exactly why I’m hooked for life. Sure you’ve covered every topic, but your ability to keep us wanting more is unmatched. Brovo sir.

I'd really like to see Henry again, he was such a chad.

I honestly feel like what Johnson said to the arbiter when he said they’ll all die further affirmed what the grave mind tried to tell him earlier . Also I never put it into perspective until now, the covenant really went to war with the sanghelli after the exchange of hand that’s crazy. Bad mistake they were basically fighting a war on 3 fronts 2 of which were working together and all three for a brief moment at the very end…wow what poetic justice jesus

Every time I watch one of your videos i just wanna go pick up every Halo book I havent yet read (which is all but the first three 😅)

Enemies become friends. Friends become enemies. I call this phenomenon....frenemies. 😂

inserectionists teaming up with the unsc is interesting

Last light is such an underrated book Fred shines like he was always meant to do.

Just got here I'm sure it's gonna be great again tho

NotPipi's work is fantastic, I'm really looking forward to the Marvin Mobuto animation. Also another great Video bro, Your channel always reminds me how deep Halo's lore is 👊

It’s always cool to see the circumstances of two enemies joining forces for one reason or another. Granted the reasons for why are obvious but it would’ve been nice to see some (not all) of the grunts (namely the ones being attacked by a pair of beserk brutes) and elites in the mission gravemind siding with Chief during the beginning of the schism and later during the flood attacks. Like I said there are plenty of reasons why neither would do that especially with the ‘Demon’ and the alliance really wasn’t struck till the mission great journey and most elites still probably did not care for fighting alongside Chief during halo 3. Even if the whole war was based off a lie, that lie has been circulating for decades hard to just get rid of that stigma in a few days.

Thank you for continuing the fight!

The effort you put in to your videos is amazing love ur vids

That animation was so moving. The more lore i absorb the more it will gain profound meaning. Every time the covenant team up with humanity it's a giant middle finger to the Prophets.

Your narration of this is stellar. It would not be out of place in a WW1 or WW2 documentary mate. These events are also the reason I love Halo lore, arguably a bit more than the games themselves, because it's a brilliant universe that isn't too fantastical like Star Wars, over the top like Warhammer 40k, or too utopian like Star Trek. I like all three of these, but Halo has a special place for how it is despite having elements of other great sci fi. Out of all the species of the Covenant, I got a special soft spot for the Sangheili and potentially in some contexts: the Kig-Yar benig allies with humans, as Not Pipi's excellent video demonstrated.

Part of what made me really dislike Halo 4 was that since the end of 3 I'd been hoping to see a Human-Postcovenant alliance taking down the warlords that would take advantage of the power/ideological vacuum and seize remaining artifacts, no longer hindered by the religious rules against modifying ancient tech and adapting human tech. Instead we just got a "First Order" style "The covenant are back at full force using the same tactics and weapons exactly the same as before"

Absolutely love the intro ❤ also someone needs to make a game about the Mona Lisa, that would be awesome

Lore ❤

Since the end of the wa, the description of some armors in MCC and lore around, I hope to one day see in games both Spartans and Sangheilis training together at academies.

When I didn’t see the CE marine jackal alliance before all the newer events, I was going to mention it with the fan film. Thought you might have left it out due to lack of lore, but glad to see it rounded out this episode.

That was outstanding! RIP Marines and Kag-Yar!

the San'Shyuum where Humanitys allys against the forerunners

What a fucking intro my guy. *CHILLS*

I believe there was another instance where cavies and humans fought together. The story of Black Team comes to mind. This was a really good video! Keep up the ever outstanding content!

WAIT! You’re telling me I have missed this one detail for 20 YEARS! I need to play Halo CE again

Sgt.Johnston: "Listen you don't like me and I sure as hell don't like you. But if we don't come together, mr. Mohawk here is going to activate this ring" 😎 4:10

From someone who has been to war, that intro was perfect.

I appreciate your Videos so much bro. Do you have a playlist of which halo songs you chose most? I always don’t find the song I want

4:50 what'd that elite do to deserve a good smackeroo? 😂😂

War of annihilation .

They really dropped the ball on the storytelling in halo 5 and 6. AI uprising that was almost retconned away and we got "the first order" of the Covenant instead. And of course "The Endless", which will probably "end" within the next game...

Having reached the point where I've read all of the books and comics feels like a reward cause now anytime I watch a lore video I recognize it

I'd be interested in learning more about the lore leading up to and culminating in the battle at and destruction of Instalation 0 (The Greater Ark)

I do remember watching pipis vid awhile back.

Also number 7 is utterly amazing

There's even a battle at the end of world war II were a bunch of wehrmact soldiers that separated from the Nazi party including a very popular Commander that helped the nazi invasion of Normandy . The story kind of goes similar to this (wendigoon has a video on it too) basically there was a bunch of French celebrities that were held up inside of a prison and there was only a few Nazi guards on the outside defending it , Then an Austrian resistance group which was formed partially from the said wehrmacht soldiers that I was talking about including the commander found the prison and decided to hold place with an 88 mm gun before sending one of their members to go flag down any allied force that is American to be able to help them defend this Castle which they found a tank commander inside of one Sherman with a small group of American soldiers When they got back to the castle de set up defenses started smoking cigars and drinking wine and Jager together before a Nazi assault group attempted to push back on the castle If I remember correctly the nazis failed but did do decent amount of damage to the infantry defending the castle killing at least four people and injuring six severely I think . As I said before wendigoon did a video on this and the reason why I mentioned him as the source is because he did the best retelling of the story I could find This to me was the greatest example of people coming together in history despite their differences , and part of the reason why it happened is because Hitler I basically disappeared for a little bit and Berlin was being taken over and since it was the end of the war the soldiers in that side of the Fairmont army decided to fall out especially since they were left to fight against Russia or America alone (cause I can't remember ATM) 😂 I hope you all have a good day good luck to you all and may you all find peace in your domains It's funny bc wehrmacht soldiers and u.s marined as well as Austriana and a group of French celebrities all work together to hold off a castle against a decently sized Nazi assault group

Master chief is very skilled, and the prophets didn’t want to acknowledge that, so instead they exiled the elites, I feel bad for em.

Will you be doing a Halo Outcasts spoiler talk?

Do you think ONI already knows about the Spirit of Fire being on the Ark right now?

Another temporary alliance I particularly like is the one that was made between Spartan black team and a group of covenant to save their own against a rampant monitor of a flood immunity research facility which also had a device that weaponised gravity of something for some reason.

Gorian just wanted a good fight lol

That animation is top tier

Though the banished had small amount of humans in their ranks

The flood bring everyone together

Really hope at some point we get post war humans working alongside more than just Elites and Engineers later down the line. Would love to see Hunters with UNSC armor and weapons.

I will say that for World War 2, when you consider the talks between the US and Britain. Neither wanted to have to make nice with the Russians. None of the Western governments ultimately liked or adopted Communism. Few people actually liked Stalin, fewer still actually trusted him on the world stage. (Consider the amount of supplies the US actually could have sent on lend lease deals, but ultimately did not make those deals.) He wasn't antagonized because he wasn't being an aggressor initially before 1938/39 with the first half of the Winter War with Finland and the invasion of Poland to the east, and then the Continuation war in 1940 against Finland. But then when you have the biggest facist war machine plowing through you, you're a valuable ally. You're tying up the majority of that war machine. We'll help take the pressure off. Eventually... And the fact that the cold war basically started the second Berlin was sectioned off and hands weren't being shaken, demeanors towards each other quickly changed, tells the story of "Enemy of my enemy is my friend." more than words alone.

Damn, I was really hoping the two Kig-Yar had a picture of themselves as well.

Lasky summed it up well in Halo 4 I think

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” - Captain Price

This is it, baby. Hold me.

im not sure if its youtube compression or whatever but the framerate of your background gameplay is not good, aside from thatawesome video

*I’m surprised you didn’t mention the Insurrectionists giving the Covenant information about the Spartans in the hopes that they would be destroyed.*

22:36 Halo Wars Main theme intensifies!!

10:25 the space birbs could have easily been humans best pals ♥ 🐔. Had to stop at 18:44. Im behind on the books.

I always love story time

So counter theory of the 2 marines and two jackles. 3 marines and 2 jackles. Who’s the third marine? The crazed marine. Reason it’s my head canon is that they did fend off the flood temporarily but the fact the human bodies weren’t made into combat forms means there wasn’t a single infection form left. Then how did he get further up? You may ask. Well, adrenaline pumping got him only so far. His mental state deteriorated rapidly and he couldn’t go any further. Which is where we find him.

Question, how much of a strain did humanity put onto the covenant during the years of the war

4:52 not chill

Human nationalism probably exists as an ideology in the halo universe

Patrick Rimmer? I BARELY KNOW HER

Alternate history Allied vs axis Year 1942 One rouge covenant ship appears Earth powers ally Who wins

Only a dead bug is a good bug

What did that red elite do to deserve getting whacked in the face?

The statement about WW1 and WW2 is incorrect considering the communists in both wars had very different goals than the allies and it all eventually boiled down to the cold war. The germans and the entete both fought the red army in WW1 to stop the spread of communism and in WW2 the soviets only joined the allies because they couldnt fight germany alone.

Is the Not Pipi channel link broken?

What about black team?

sovieg union was a third party. other than that great video😂😂😂

Funny you use ww2 as an example of the enemy of my enemy is my friend as being rare. Really, the soviets and allies always were enemies, it was that exact principle that made them into our allies

BROKEN PIPI LINK

Great video, though I disagree with how you characterized WWII. That war was absolutely about enemies becoming allies to fight a common enemy. The United States, Britain, France, China and others were all Imperialist capitalist countries. The Soviet Union and a large amount of the Partisan forces throughout the conflict were Socialist, Anarchist, Communist, and various other Left wing ideologies. The Allies and The Comintern were enemies and resumed fighting immediately after the war was over. Hell they fought a little even during the war if you want to include various resistance groups that were funded by or shared the views of the British or the Soviets.

First 30 seconds of this video sounds like today's political environment in the United States

please for the love of all that is holy please use footage with higher fps please there's so many clips in this video where the footage is low fps its really jarring , 5:20 for example 8:00 14:00

I'd never take orders from a chick 💯

Animation ruined by flamboyant flashing.