+Dirty Rascal I can't wait to hear her funny lines in Halo 5

Lol the covenant got rekt in that battle XD

How do you guys feel today?; LMAO

+scs1156320 Naomi was a separate Spartan. I theorized a while back that Naomi was part of Black team, but that turned out to be wrong.

If there were 75 Spartan 2s then how is John 117? It makes no sense

Equipmxnt 115 There were originally going to be 150 Spartans, but the budget got cut, and Halsey had to narrow her candidate pool to 75.

+Halo Canon Black Team: Margaret 053. Roma 143. Otto 031. And Victor 101. Great vid Canon! i think this will be Great for those Who havnt had the opertunity to read the lore yet but want to Keep up with halo 5.

+Halo Canon how come alot of people say that halo wars 2 is still going to be on the early covernant war but in escalation some cryo pods are open if im right then the spirit of fire might of detect unknown life forms or an emergency and checking the halo wars 2 website it said large scale battles so we might be seeing much bigger battles

It impacted John so much his number and name and the mission he died in, was His password for something in infinite

I got they died in the book?

+Kyle Beers (Rabidcaboose) *thought

that's how you know they're gonna die....

+minnitureM if they do die the human race is doomed

+Trillificent Trillogy with the teaser of them saying that neither are the antagonist master chief and Locke will meet and fight then chief will explain himself I bet that's what happens the Locke and his team will work together with blue team and the arbiter

So this is all super interesting and I had no idea halo had such an in depth lore but I have no idea where to start with it. Suggestions?

brian reeds incredible writing

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+Rainbowhotpocket Actually, it's the Halo Legends rendition, but they are incredibly close.

Halo Canon Oh, i recognized it from the level "The Covenant" when you're in the hornet haha

Rainbowhotpocket Like I said, very similar. Besides, you have a much better ear for music than I, so bravo!

The entire Blue team has always been my favorite.

That is the best book in thr series imo

+Spencer Donoghue That's definitely on the "Halo 5 Primer" list. Once blue Team is done, next will be Fireteam Osiris profiles. I may do Thel and the SoS after that, but we'll see.

+Halo Canon since we know the flood is on the UNSC spirit of Fire, then that means they all either abandoned ship, or were all infected. brute aggressors and all. Is it wrong for me to hope that second one is also true?

The7Purplekirbies That they were all infected? Not wrong, but I hope that's not the case.

Halo Canon flood spartans, plus hordes of infected marines AND brutes. if the flood have to come back in any way shape or form you couldn't ASK for a better set-up.

The7Purplekirbies True. Flood Spartans are something I've been dying to see for years!

Halo Canon I believe they only exist in wargames canonically as a simulation for the worst case scenario?

+EDM World It's on the Halo Channel?! Holy fucking awesome Batman!

Halo Canon Yes, in the community creations :) Good job again and keep going :D

It’s almost as if Spartan-IVs in the V2 armor are meant to be just as good as Spartan II, therefore they have a decent chance of being able to take them down

@@SigmaGaming123 Takes more than armor to be just as good as Spartan II's

Even Buck says he wouldn't be able to defeat a spartan II let alone 5.

@@SigmaGaming123 Spartan IV's are just marines in spartan armor. Spartan II's have been selected for strength, Intelligence, Athletics, etc. And they were put into intense training since they were 5. Not to mention the augmentations.

+Endeavor Tabarsi Now that you reminded me, where is Grey Team?

+Endeavor Tabarsi and Red team on the SOF

+Endeavor Tabarsi Like I said, last known active team. Naomi wouldn't really be team, and Grey Team's status is MIA.

+Halo Canon What a bout red team maybe ]... I mean we saw halo wars 2 they could still be active...given that halo wars 2 takes place around halo 4 ish

+Halo Canon Don't you think Naomi should totally join Blue Team?

Bungie held out on story sooo damn hard on us cuz they started going into reach but not the fall of reach which woulda been awesome training could have been us as kids so we're more attached and instead of unknown Spartans I expected to meet what I'd read in the books or play as chief or at least meet him on reach & or the team red or blue or both briefly which would have made for such a better story than what we got was bs! The entire 1st half of 1/3rd of the game irrelevant to the rest of the halo story that should have been a book and the book fall of reach should have been the story and keep the ending the same and keep the Halsey mission in there. Also halo3odst made no sense either cuz instead of explaining that when the covey ship jumped that it destroyed new Mombasa with it which didn't make sense was it cuz they did so inside atmosphere? I mean thinking about it now and knowing the power of a sonic boom just amplified by 1,000x's or more then yeah it would cause damage but idk if a nuclear event is the end result also whenever they did this in space nothing was taken with it or destroyed. Anyway just odd thought odst would have explained more and started or flashbacks at least to before that jump and the city made no sense the bad layout map design etc the worst halo game next to reach its in the top3 worst halos being odst,reach,&halo5 for various reasons an example is not only story telling but the moving in time and the weapons get weaker!? Wtf!? The beam rifle in halo5 is just as bad as it was in reach oh and having the BR come out standard after the DMR (Bungie lied! "The DMR is a death star in your hands it's a 1 shot kill to the head" negating to mention it's a 5shot weapon now! Which ok I guess cuz it's before they made the BR but ffs that + sprint made the halo balance and flow be thrown way off and was only recently fixed in halo4&5 and extremely difficult to get 4shot perfect kills now that both are in game they need make the DMR weaker in close quarters and stronger at distances so 5shots close the BR 4shot close, the DMR 4shot far & the BR 5shot far essentially opposite each other but still have a purpose and balancing both perfectly. The answer is always so simple devs just make it hard. Ugh but I digress didn't mean to go there but it's a valid point! Makes no sense lore wise and makes me care less than I would about the lore. So with the lore what pisses me off so damn bad is that Bungie was sitting on all this amazing material as revealed in ghost of onyx I'd rather have had a side story being that game (as I'm sure I'm not the only one who wanted answers after finishing the book & had such a hard time trying to imagine the stuff we'd never seen in game before) example in was it first strike? Or no the flood chiefs shields get a repair job (maybe spoiler alert for the book!) but by an engineer which never happens in the game still even and were introduced to us in game first time in odst I can't remember if they're added now to the game in the AE or TMCC versions. But the fact that we never heard of them until after halo3! Cmon the same with didact and all the for runners stuff sentinels and guardians we had to imagine it all instead it should have been in game! And not halo wars which kinda sorta gives some idea and an Easter egg knod towards the "shield world" which I guess was where we played halo4? Idk or another one or was that U.S. Finding onyx? Idk Bungie refused to tell the most interesting stories for mediocre uninspired with what all they had available to tell and it took 343 to finally tell us this story but by then it's like too lil too late and at the same time too much hence all these plot holes that requires so many hours of research and reading books comics etc everything except playing the games and most sad is when reading the first 7 books the entire time I'm thinking damn I wished I could play this! And only halo2 was out back then! So this says a lot. Why did Bungie with hold so much!? And only focus on 117 & a few halos instead of the rest cuz there doesn't need to be a ring to make a halo game as part4&5 odst & reach taught us! That's my long winded gripes

+thatguy9211 Before. Like John, they received upgrade when they returned to Earth. John got base-line Mk. VI while Blue Team started testing some prototype upgrades that would eventually be part of the [GEN2] project.

Bombs apparently... xP

+Cheez And Bakon The covenant destroyed enough in one section to make a hole to blow through.

+scs1156320 actually if you look up a reliable source on the power of a SMAC, they can one shot any covenant ship from 12000 km away. it's bullshit. the Cairo watched as a massive CAS class carrier slipped through, not only that but she was constantly firing at space, apparently hitting nothing.

Reach shouldn't have been lost either it was one of our best protected planets with a heavy military force

+Equipmxnt 115 I'm positive that reach was destined to fall considering it was the covenants largest offensive against humanity numbers-wise.

Yes and no. Some Spartan-IIIs worked with Blue Team for a short period of time, though I don't think they were officially considered members. I could be wrong, though.

Kelly used the shotgun linda used the sniper

+JJAB91 Well, I wanted to get this stuff out in advance of Halo 5, give people unfamiliar with the EU the basics so they aren't too lost.

+Alanthier Seorn Well, this is the history of Blue Team. The Chief's video covers it, to a degree. At the time of Halo 4, the Chief was considered MIA, thus not part of Blue Team.

+Koala Kev I give the source for everything in the video, but given the subject, it's going to contain a lot of spoilers from all over.

+178thbattlegroup Best guess? Multiple composers. The Didact said that the Composer "wouldn't work on [his] new form". We've assumed that meant immunity, but perhaps resistance or something else is more accurate.

+SantaFe5central Covenant ship design has been largely guided by the San'Shyuum, but not without Sangheili influence. What a true "Sangheili" ship looks like remains to be seen.

+Halo Canon hmmm, alright, thank you.

+Deadly Didgeridoo Thank you! A friend mentioned that the level was leaked but was soon removed from KZfaq. Never did I consider other sources.

Ah so it's the gameplay segment that Greenskull described. Very cool and thanks for the link. :) Also did you hear the music? I heard both the opening themes for Halo 2's first level AND CE's first level (names escape me atm, but they're recognizable)! :D

+josh11735 Second Prelude and Truth and Reconciliation Suite? :D

EDM World I believe so, yes! :D

Awesome

+Douglas Mitchell We will next year :)

Kurt trained the spartan 3s

+Halo 2 Sniper Rifle it's been years since I read the book lol your right

+shawn figueroa Kurt was a Spartan II who was trained the Spartan III's and he refused to wear his Mark V armor when the sentinels attacked because he felt that it would alienate him from his new family, the Spartan III's.

+Sergio Cruz It's from the Halo 2 Anniversary terminal called "Unyielding." You can find it on KZfaq, or it's unlocked in the Halo channel after finding all the Halo 2 Anniversary terminals. And yes, that's how it looked. 343's depiction is spot on with Eric Nylund's original description, which described the station as "Two tear drops", or as Sgt. Johnson put it, "two squids kissing".

+blackknightkanos Marvel. They were from the comic adaptation of Fall of Reach, the last Halo comic series produced by Marvel.

blackknightkanos Marvel.

Halo Canon Well I miss Marvel Halo Comics.

blackknightkanos Me too :\