Their superior technology and numbers proved decisive advantages though effective, the Spartans were too few in number to turn the tide of battle in humanity's favor. In the year 2525, human worlds come under attack by an theocratic alliance of alien races known as the Covenant, whose leadership declared humanity heretics and an affront to their gods-the Forerunners. The UNSC sponsored the SPARTAN-II Project to create an elite group of enhanced supersoldiers to suppress the rebellions covertly. Tensions between the government and colonies desiring independence sparked violent clashes. Nearly a hundred thousand years later in the 26th century, humanity-under the auspices of the United Nations Space Command, or UNSC-colonized many worlds thanks to the development of faster-than-light "slipstream space" (i.e. Delaying as long as they could, the Forerunners activated the rings and disappeared. Exhausting all other strategies, the Forerunners conceived the Halo Array - ring-shaped megastructures and weapons of last resort that would destroy all sentient life in the galaxy to stop the Flood. The Forerunners fought the Flood, which spread through an infestation of sentient life and had overrun much of the Milky Way Galaxy. However, instead of creating Precursors, the spore made a parasite known as the Flood. Among the last of the Precursors, one let out a spore, hoping for it to spread and repopulate the Precursors. In retaliation, the Forerunners drove the Precursors into extinction. However, the Precursors wanted to remove such power from Forerunner hands and give it to the human race.
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Mantle of Responsibility belonged to the Forerunners. Portions of the Ark are visible at the bottom. With more the $6 billion in franchise grosses, Halo is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time, spanning novels, graphic novels, comic books, short movies, animated movies, feature films, and other licensed products.Ī human ship approaches a Halo megastructure under construction. Its sequels expanded the franchise's commercial and critical success, and have sold more than 81 million copies worldwide. After Bungie became independent in 2007, Microsoft established 343 Industries to direct the franchise going forward.Ĭombat Evolved was a critical and commercial success, serving as the Xbox's " killer app" and cementing Microsoft as a major player in the video game console space. The latest main game, Halo Infinite, was released in 2021.Ĭombat Evolved started life as a real-time strategy game, before morphing into a first-person shooter and releasing as an exclusive on Microsoft's new Xbox video game console after Bungie was acquired by the company.
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The series launched in 2001 with the first-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved and its tie-in novel, The Fall of Reach. The eponymous Halos are immense ring-shaped superweapons created by a race known as the Forerunners to destroy the parasitic Flood, but which the alien Covenant mistake for religious artifacts of transcendence.
Primarily taking place in the 26th century, the franchise centers on conflicts between humans and a variety of alien species.
Halo is a military science fiction media franchise, originally developed by Bungie and currently managed and developed by 343 Industries, part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios.
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