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Post by TimeCraked on Feb 2, 2016 13:28:57 GMT 10
Early 2552 (Halo Reach):
• Commander Jacob Keyes defeats a Covenant fleet orbiting a human colony. However, the Covenant plant a tracking beacon on Keyes' ship and discover the location of Reach.
• Days later, a squad of SPARTAN-IIIs dubbed "Noble Team" discover Covenant reconnaissance squads on Reach. Sixty percent of the entire UNSC fleet is redirected to Reach in response.
• Despite heavy UNSC resistance, the Covenant are able to capture most of Reach within days of arriving.
• John-117, now known as the Master Chief, is introduced to Cortana. They are separated when the Master Chief leaves to defend the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, while Cortana stays behind to work with Dr. Halsey.
• Dr. Halsey learns of the true nature behind the SPARTAN-IIIs.
• Noble Team arrives to save Halsey and are ordered to bring Cortana to a ship-breaking facility and rendezvous with the Pillar of Autumn.
• Save for Noble 6 and Noble 3, Noble Team is killed while transporting and defending the Pillar of Autumn. Cortana successfully makes it aboard and reunites with the Master Chief.
• Cortana then provides Captain Keyes with a set of coordinates given to her by Halsey. After jumping to slipspace, the Pillar of Autumn arrives at a massive, ring-shaped facility.
Early 2552 (Halo CE):
• After arriving at Halo, the Chief and Cortana escape via lifeboat. Noble 6 also escapes via a separate lifeboat. Keyes crash-lands the Pillar of Autumn into Halo.
• On Halo, Chief and Cortana reunite with the surviving marines and Noble 6 before rescuing Keyes from the Covenant.
• The group decides to split up, with the Chief and Six searching for Halo's control room while Keyes investigates a supposed Covenant weapons cache.
• Master Chief finds the control room, only for Cortana to send him to stop Keyes. The Chief is too late, and learns of the Flood.
• After fighting his way through the Flood, the Chief and Six meet 343 Guilty Spark, Halo's A.I. monitor. Guilty Spark promises to help the Chief wipe out the Flood by activating Halo, but Cortana reveals that this would wipe out all life in the galaxy.
• Guilty Spark turns on the Chief once the activation is halted. Cortana, Six and the Chief escape and plan to destroy Halo by detonating the Pillar of Autumn's reactor.
• After killing a Flood-infected Keyes, the Chief and Cortana are able to destroy the Pillar of Autumn and Halo along with it. The local Flood infestation and most of the Covenant fleet are wiped out in the ensuing explosion.
Late 2552 (Halo 2 & ODST):
• While the Master Chief is being honored as a hero on Earth with Noble 6 getting R&R on Earth, the Covenant fleet commander who oversaw the destruction of Halo is deemed a heretic.
• The Covenant fleet arrives at Earth, causing an abrupt end to Six's R&R.
• The Chief manages to slow the Covenant advance until one of the Prophets initiates a slipspace jump in-atmosphere. Master Chief, Johnson, and a a few marines are able to follow in a single ship, but much of the city of New Mombasa is destroyed in the resulting blast.
• A squad of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers deploys into New Mombasa as the Prophet warps into slipspace. The squad is scattered by the shockwave.
• After regrouping underneath New Mombasa, the squad discovers a Covenant Engineer trying to defect to the UNSC. They successfully rescue it and manage to escape the city.
• Six regroups with Jun and they help line the defense of Earth's borders as the covenant continue their assault.
• The Covenant fleet commander is pardoned and dubbed the Arbiter. His first task as the "Blade of the Prophets" is to assassinate a heretic leader.
• The Arbiter succeeds in killing the heretic leader, only to learn that 343 Guilty Spark had inadvertently been behind the heretic's revolt.
• Master Chief arrives at Delta Halo, and after fighting through Covenant forces, manages to kill the Prophet of Regret. The Chief is thrown into the ocean by a retaliatory orbital bombardment and is pulled under the surface.
• The Arbiter arrives at Delta Halo and manages to find the installation's firing trigger before being betrayed by the Brutes.
• Both the Arbiter and the Chief are saved by the Gravemind, a massive Flood intelligence. They agree to work together to keep Delta Halo from firing, and they split up.
• As a result of the Brutes being promoted to the Prophets' elite guards, the Elites secede from the Covenant and a civil war begins.
• Dr. Halsey and Kelly-087 arrive at Onyx, a Forerunner Shield world. After reuniting with a group of SPARTAN-IIIs, the survivors are trapped within the core of the planet.
• Master Chief is sent aboard a massive Covenant space station and proceeds to chase down the Prophets. He manages to board the Prophets' vessel, the Dreadnaught, before it escapes, but is forced to leave Cortana behind.
• The Arbiter is sent back to the surface of Delta Halo to stop the Brutes from activating the ring. He is successful, but all Halo installations are left on stand-by.
• Both the Prophets and the Master Chief arrive back to Earth.
• Noble 6 single-handedly takes down a Forerunner Jumpgate being manipulated by the Covenant Fleet in order to get to Earth faster, delaying some of the fleet and causing damage to a large number of ships.
• The rescued Engineer from Halo 3: ODST reveals why the Covenant is attacking Earth: a massive Forerunner artifact is buried beneath the planet's surface.
Late 2552 (Halo 3):
• After escaping Covenant capture aboard the Dreadnaught, Master Chief returns to Earth using a piece of the hull as a heat shield.
• Six, Johnson and the Arbiter recover the Chief. After escaping a Covenant ambush, Master Chief leads an assault that allows the UNSC fleet to attack the Dreadnaught.
• Before the UNSC can take the Prophets down, the Covenant opens a Forerunner portal and warps away from Earth.
• The Flood arrives on Earth via an infected Covenant carrier. The Master Chief is able to contain it long enough to allow the Elites to purge the infestation.
• After discovering a message from Cortana, the Chief and Six decide to follow the Prophets through the portal. He arrives at Installation 00, otherwise known as the Ark.
• The Chief fights through both Covenant and Flood armies. He and the Arbiter manage to stop the Prophet of Truth from activating the entire Halo array, and the Covenant fleet is wiped out.
• They then discover a "replacement Halo" (based on the one that was destroyed in Combat Evolved) being constructed aboard the Ark. As the ring is still unfinished, firing it would not trigger the other Halo installations, and Master Chief decides to use this exploit to finish off the Flood once and for all.
• In order to use the new Halo, the Chief rescues Cortana from the center of the Flood infection with Six's assistance. They then travel to the control room, and after a brief skirmish with 343 Guilty Spark, Master Chief manages to activate Halo.
• Halo fires and begins to tear itself apart. Master Chief, Cortana, Six and the Arbiter survive the detonation, but during their escape through the portal back to Earth, the ship is cut in half. The Arbiter returns home, while the Chief and Cortana are left drifting.
2553:
• Following the war against the Covenant, the SPARTAN-IV Program is greenlit.
• Halsey and a small group of survivors are rescued from Onyx's core. The UNSC immediately arrests Halsey.
• Noble Six returns to service in the military as an ONI and the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command agent.
2554:
• Lance Corporal "Rookie" is beaten down and shot in the head during an encounter while deployed on Draco III, surviving the near death experience purely by luck. This incident prompted Dutch to retire, and Rookie, Buck, Mickey and Romeo to become Spartan-IVs.
• "Rookie" recovers, but is now unable to speak due to the wounds he sustained on Draco III. He is still combat capable and moves forward into the Spartan-IV program.
2555:
• Noble Six is enlisted to help in the training and betterment of the Spartan-VIs. He is assisted by several other individuals, including his old friend Jun.
• 'Rookie', 'Mickey', 'Romeo' and Buck are all Spartan-IVs now.
• 'Mickey' considers joining the Insurrection due to being angered at the idea of fighting humans instead of aliens, but is consoled and assisted by his squad mates, before opting to assist in the fight against the Covenant Remnant instead.
2557 (pre-Halo 4):
• The UNSC Infinity is officially commissioned.
2557 (Halo 4):
• Cortana wakes the Chief from his cryosleep after their ship reaches a Forerunner planet named Requiem.
• After a brief firefight, the Chief, Cortana and local Covenant forces are pulled inside the planet.
• Once inside, Cortana broadcasts a distress signal, which is picked up by the UNSC Infinity.
• Cortana reveals that she is suffering from "rampancy," a condition in which A.I. "think themselves to death."
• Master Chief inadvertently awakens the Didact, an ancient Forerunner war criminal. The Didact takes control of the Covenant forces on Requiem.
• The Infinity arrives at Requiem and is pulled inside the planet's core. After the ship crashes, Master Chief finally reunites with the UNSC.
• Cortana and the Chief attempt to free the Infinity from Requiem's core. Along the way, the Chief meets with the Librarian, an ancient Forerunner scientist. She reveals the Didact's greatest weapon, the Composer, which he used to turn ancient humans into psychotic artificial intelligences.
• The Librarian alters the Chief's genetic makeup, immunizing him to the Composer's effects.
• Following another firefight, Infinity is freed from Requiem's core. The Chief stays behind (against orders) to stop the Didact.
• The Chief fails to stop the Didact from leaving Requiem and follows him to Gamma Halo.
• After retrieving the Composer, the Didact wipes out the UNSC research team at Gamma Halo. Master Chief and Cortana are the only survivors.
• The Didact heads to Earth, and the Chief follows. He and Cortana manage to infiltrate the Didact's ship.
• Master Chief manages to knock the Didact into the Composer and detonates a nuclear warhead, destroying the weapon.
• The Chief survives thanks to a hard-light shield created by a fully-rampant Cortana. After saying goodbye, Cortana dies.
• Months after losing Cortana, the Master Chief reunites with a squad of SPARTAN-IIs nicknamed "Blue Team." Together, they defeat the Didact yet again, who had survived his fall into the Composer.
2558 (Spartan Ops):
• The Infinity returns to Requiem in order to clean up the remaining Covenant threat. Noble Six is also commissioned, but most of the ground work is handled by Spartan Fireteams.
• Halsey is brought to Infinity to help the UNSC's research efforts but is ultimately captured by the Covenant. She discovers a Forerunner "map" that details the location of all Forerunner technology in the galaxy.
• The SPARTAN-IVs on Infinity are ordered to execute Halsey. Despite being shot, Halsey survives and remains in Covenant captivity.
• Covenant leaders activate Requiem's fail-safe, which sets the planet on a collision course with its sun. The Infinity barely manages to escape.
2558 (Current):
• Blue Team is set to regroup and become a commissioned Fire Team fit for deployment once more, after the many successes since Installation 03.
• Noble Six hasn't seen Master Chief since The Ark.
• Traces of the Flood are discovered on newly found Forerunner Installations, posing a threat to Humanity once more.
• Strange slipspace phenomenon occur in the depths of space, with no known explanation.
• Commander Jacob Keyes defeats a Covenant fleet orbiting a human colony. However, the Covenant plant a tracking beacon on Keyes' ship and discover the location of Reach.
• Days later, a squad of SPARTAN-IIIs dubbed "Noble Team" discover Covenant reconnaissance squads on Reach. Sixty percent of the entire UNSC fleet is redirected to Reach in response.
• Despite heavy UNSC resistance, the Covenant are able to capture most of Reach within days of arriving.
• John-117, now known as the Master Chief, is introduced to Cortana. They are separated when the Master Chief leaves to defend the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, while Cortana stays behind to work with Dr. Halsey.
• Dr. Halsey learns of the true nature behind the SPARTAN-IIIs.
• Noble Team arrives to save Halsey and are ordered to bring Cortana to a ship-breaking facility and rendezvous with the Pillar of Autumn.
• Save for Noble 6 and Noble 3, Noble Team is killed while transporting and defending the Pillar of Autumn. Cortana successfully makes it aboard and reunites with the Master Chief.
• Cortana then provides Captain Keyes with a set of coordinates given to her by Halsey. After jumping to slipspace, the Pillar of Autumn arrives at a massive, ring-shaped facility.
Early 2552 (Halo CE):
• After arriving at Halo, the Chief and Cortana escape via lifeboat. Noble 6 also escapes via a separate lifeboat. Keyes crash-lands the Pillar of Autumn into Halo.
• On Halo, Chief and Cortana reunite with the surviving marines and Noble 6 before rescuing Keyes from the Covenant.
• The group decides to split up, with the Chief and Six searching for Halo's control room while Keyes investigates a supposed Covenant weapons cache.
• Master Chief finds the control room, only for Cortana to send him to stop Keyes. The Chief is too late, and learns of the Flood.
• After fighting his way through the Flood, the Chief and Six meet 343 Guilty Spark, Halo's A.I. monitor. Guilty Spark promises to help the Chief wipe out the Flood by activating Halo, but Cortana reveals that this would wipe out all life in the galaxy.
• Guilty Spark turns on the Chief once the activation is halted. Cortana, Six and the Chief escape and plan to destroy Halo by detonating the Pillar of Autumn's reactor.
• After killing a Flood-infected Keyes, the Chief and Cortana are able to destroy the Pillar of Autumn and Halo along with it. The local Flood infestation and most of the Covenant fleet are wiped out in the ensuing explosion.
Late 2552 (Halo 2 & ODST):
• While the Master Chief is being honored as a hero on Earth with Noble 6 getting R&R on Earth, the Covenant fleet commander who oversaw the destruction of Halo is deemed a heretic.
• The Covenant fleet arrives at Earth, causing an abrupt end to Six's R&R.
• The Chief manages to slow the Covenant advance until one of the Prophets initiates a slipspace jump in-atmosphere. Master Chief, Johnson, and a a few marines are able to follow in a single ship, but much of the city of New Mombasa is destroyed in the resulting blast.
• A squad of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers deploys into New Mombasa as the Prophet warps into slipspace. The squad is scattered by the shockwave.
• After regrouping underneath New Mombasa, the squad discovers a Covenant Engineer trying to defect to the UNSC. They successfully rescue it and manage to escape the city.
• Six regroups with Jun and they help line the defense of Earth's borders as the covenant continue their assault.
• The Covenant fleet commander is pardoned and dubbed the Arbiter. His first task as the "Blade of the Prophets" is to assassinate a heretic leader.
• The Arbiter succeeds in killing the heretic leader, only to learn that 343 Guilty Spark had inadvertently been behind the heretic's revolt.
• Master Chief arrives at Delta Halo, and after fighting through Covenant forces, manages to kill the Prophet of Regret. The Chief is thrown into the ocean by a retaliatory orbital bombardment and is pulled under the surface.
• The Arbiter arrives at Delta Halo and manages to find the installation's firing trigger before being betrayed by the Brutes.
• Both the Arbiter and the Chief are saved by the Gravemind, a massive Flood intelligence. They agree to work together to keep Delta Halo from firing, and they split up.
• As a result of the Brutes being promoted to the Prophets' elite guards, the Elites secede from the Covenant and a civil war begins.
• Dr. Halsey and Kelly-087 arrive at Onyx, a Forerunner Shield world. After reuniting with a group of SPARTAN-IIIs, the survivors are trapped within the core of the planet.
• Master Chief is sent aboard a massive Covenant space station and proceeds to chase down the Prophets. He manages to board the Prophets' vessel, the Dreadnaught, before it escapes, but is forced to leave Cortana behind.
• The Arbiter is sent back to the surface of Delta Halo to stop the Brutes from activating the ring. He is successful, but all Halo installations are left on stand-by.
• Both the Prophets and the Master Chief arrive back to Earth.
• Noble 6 single-handedly takes down a Forerunner Jumpgate being manipulated by the Covenant Fleet in order to get to Earth faster, delaying some of the fleet and causing damage to a large number of ships.
• The rescued Engineer from Halo 3: ODST reveals why the Covenant is attacking Earth: a massive Forerunner artifact is buried beneath the planet's surface.
Late 2552 (Halo 3):
• After escaping Covenant capture aboard the Dreadnaught, Master Chief returns to Earth using a piece of the hull as a heat shield.
• Six, Johnson and the Arbiter recover the Chief. After escaping a Covenant ambush, Master Chief leads an assault that allows the UNSC fleet to attack the Dreadnaught.
• Before the UNSC can take the Prophets down, the Covenant opens a Forerunner portal and warps away from Earth.
• The Flood arrives on Earth via an infected Covenant carrier. The Master Chief is able to contain it long enough to allow the Elites to purge the infestation.
• After discovering a message from Cortana, the Chief and Six decide to follow the Prophets through the portal. He arrives at Installation 00, otherwise known as the Ark.
• The Chief fights through both Covenant and Flood armies. He and the Arbiter manage to stop the Prophet of Truth from activating the entire Halo array, and the Covenant fleet is wiped out.
• They then discover a "replacement Halo" (based on the one that was destroyed in Combat Evolved) being constructed aboard the Ark. As the ring is still unfinished, firing it would not trigger the other Halo installations, and Master Chief decides to use this exploit to finish off the Flood once and for all.
• In order to use the new Halo, the Chief rescues Cortana from the center of the Flood infection with Six's assistance. They then travel to the control room, and after a brief skirmish with 343 Guilty Spark, Master Chief manages to activate Halo.
• Halo fires and begins to tear itself apart. Master Chief, Cortana, Six and the Arbiter survive the detonation, but during their escape through the portal back to Earth, the ship is cut in half. The Arbiter returns home, while the Chief and Cortana are left drifting.
2553:
• Following the war against the Covenant, the SPARTAN-IV Program is greenlit.
• Halsey and a small group of survivors are rescued from Onyx's core. The UNSC immediately arrests Halsey.
• Noble Six returns to service in the military as an ONI and the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command agent.
2554:
• Lance Corporal "Rookie" is beaten down and shot in the head during an encounter while deployed on Draco III, surviving the near death experience purely by luck. This incident prompted Dutch to retire, and Rookie, Buck, Mickey and Romeo to become Spartan-IVs.
• "Rookie" recovers, but is now unable to speak due to the wounds he sustained on Draco III. He is still combat capable and moves forward into the Spartan-IV program.
2555:
• Noble Six is enlisted to help in the training and betterment of the Spartan-VIs. He is assisted by several other individuals, including his old friend Jun.
• 'Rookie', 'Mickey', 'Romeo' and Buck are all Spartan-IVs now.
• 'Mickey' considers joining the Insurrection due to being angered at the idea of fighting humans instead of aliens, but is consoled and assisted by his squad mates, before opting to assist in the fight against the Covenant Remnant instead.
2557 (pre-Halo 4):
• The UNSC Infinity is officially commissioned.
2557 (Halo 4):
• Cortana wakes the Chief from his cryosleep after their ship reaches a Forerunner planet named Requiem.
• After a brief firefight, the Chief, Cortana and local Covenant forces are pulled inside the planet.
• Once inside, Cortana broadcasts a distress signal, which is picked up by the UNSC Infinity.
• Cortana reveals that she is suffering from "rampancy," a condition in which A.I. "think themselves to death."
• Master Chief inadvertently awakens the Didact, an ancient Forerunner war criminal. The Didact takes control of the Covenant forces on Requiem.
• The Infinity arrives at Requiem and is pulled inside the planet's core. After the ship crashes, Master Chief finally reunites with the UNSC.
• Cortana and the Chief attempt to free the Infinity from Requiem's core. Along the way, the Chief meets with the Librarian, an ancient Forerunner scientist. She reveals the Didact's greatest weapon, the Composer, which he used to turn ancient humans into psychotic artificial intelligences.
• The Librarian alters the Chief's genetic makeup, immunizing him to the Composer's effects.
• Following another firefight, Infinity is freed from Requiem's core. The Chief stays behind (against orders) to stop the Didact.
• The Chief fails to stop the Didact from leaving Requiem and follows him to Gamma Halo.
• After retrieving the Composer, the Didact wipes out the UNSC research team at Gamma Halo. Master Chief and Cortana are the only survivors.
• The Didact heads to Earth, and the Chief follows. He and Cortana manage to infiltrate the Didact's ship.
• Master Chief manages to knock the Didact into the Composer and detonates a nuclear warhead, destroying the weapon.
• The Chief survives thanks to a hard-light shield created by a fully-rampant Cortana. After saying goodbye, Cortana dies.
• Months after losing Cortana, the Master Chief reunites with a squad of SPARTAN-IIs nicknamed "Blue Team." Together, they defeat the Didact yet again, who had survived his fall into the Composer.
2558 (Spartan Ops):
• The Infinity returns to Requiem in order to clean up the remaining Covenant threat. Noble Six is also commissioned, but most of the ground work is handled by Spartan Fireteams.
• Halsey is brought to Infinity to help the UNSC's research efforts but is ultimately captured by the Covenant. She discovers a Forerunner "map" that details the location of all Forerunner technology in the galaxy.
• The SPARTAN-IVs on Infinity are ordered to execute Halsey. Despite being shot, Halsey survives and remains in Covenant captivity.
• Covenant leaders activate Requiem's fail-safe, which sets the planet on a collision course with its sun. The Infinity barely manages to escape.
2558 (Current):
• Blue Team is set to regroup and become a commissioned Fire Team fit for deployment once more, after the many successes since Installation 03.
• Noble Six hasn't seen Master Chief since The Ark.
• Traces of the Flood are discovered on newly found Forerunner Installations, posing a threat to Humanity once more.
• Strange slipspace phenomenon occur in the depths of space, with no known explanation.