By William C. Dietz
The Human-Covenant struggle, a determined fight for humankind’s very survival, has reached its boiling element at the mysterious, ring global referred to as Halo. however the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien army strength identified, should not the single peril mendacity in wait.
As the citadel international of achieve and its courageous defenders have been bombarded to rubble, a unmarried cruiser fled the carnage with the battle’s simply human survivors—Captain Keyes, his staff of some hundred Marines, and the final last SPARTAN super-soldier, the grasp Chief.
With the cruiser’s synthetic intelligence, Cortana, hid in his conflict armor, the grasp leader crash lands on Halo in the course of an enormous Covenant profession. interestingly, the alien squaddies seem to be trying to find anything hidden at the ring. outfitted via a long-dead race, Halo harbors many lethal secrets and techniques, yet one overshadows all of them. Now the grasp leader needs to lead the scattered troops in a brutal race to resolve Halo’s darkest mystery—and unharness its maximum resource of strength. . . .
This novel is predicated on a Mature-rated video game.
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That thing works pretty well. ” SECTION II HALO CHAPTER TWO Deployment+00 hours:03 minutes:24 seconds (Major Silva Mission Clock) / Command HEV, in combat drop to surface of Halo. Consistent with standard UNSC insertion protocols, Major Antonio Silva’s HEV accelerated once it was launched so that it was among the first to enter Halo’s atmosphere. There were a number of reasons for this, including the strongly held belief that officers should lead rather than follow, be willing to do anything their troops were asked to do, and expose themselves to the same level of danger.
Their next task was to take theAutumn down into the atmosphere. No small order considering the fact that, like all vessels of her tonnage, the cruiser had been constructed in zero-gee conditions and wasn’t equipped to operate in a planetary atmosphere. Keyes believed it was possible. With that in mind he planned to close with the ring world, hand control to the subroutine that Cortana had left for that purpose, and use the last lifeboat to make his escape. Maybe the ship would pancake in the way he had planned—and maybe it wouldn’t.
Yes, Excellency,” Yayap replied, “but I can explain—” “There’s no need,” ’Zamamee replied. Yayap almost jumped; the Elite’s voice lacked the customary bark of command. It sounded almost . . reassuring. Yayap was anything but reassured. “You saw that a superior had been wounded,” the Elite continued, “and did what you could to ensure that he received timely medical treatment. ” Yayap stared at the Elite, unable to reply. He felt disoriented. In his universe, Elites didn’t offer accolades. ” Yayapliked the normally sleepy unit to which he was attached, and had no desire to leave it.
