Setting:Halo
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Halo is a vidya game series exclusively released for the ECKSBAWKS, ECKSBAWKS 360 and to the PC. The series was developed by Bungie, though Microsoft has bought the rights to the game. The halo universe is pretty massive, with all sorts of media ranging from video games and graphic novels to action figures and a series of short movies released to DVD. It became famous for being the game that saved ECKSBAWKS from doing an Atari Jaguar in the 21st century when the PS2 and Gamecube were neck and neck in console sales, primarily because it was the only reason anyone would even want to play an ECKSBAWKS HUEG console. It's storyline is pretty much a copy of your everyday generic sci-fi storyline you can think of with a multiplayer that isn't too original either. It's also famous for it's FUCKING cliffhangers during the end of the game. /Tg/ isn't big on Halo and topics pertaining to Halo will normally be saged, trolled or told to go to /v/ or some combination mentioned in the former. On /v/ however, Halo is widely accepted....much like every vidya gaem out there.
Setting
The HALO universe takes place chronologically in the years of 2500s, the 26th Century. Mankind, led by the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) has developed its own crude version of FTL (the Shaw-Fujiwara Drive) and finally colonized other worlds. At its height, human civilization occupied nearly 800 planets, forming a ring of outer colonies and rings of inner colonies with Earth as its capital.
Sometime in the year 2525, an agricultural world in the outer colonies, creatively named Harvest, is attacked by an unknown force with technology far superior to that of humans. In the succeeding months, all attempts to make contact, or even defend against the alien forces had been met with swift destruction. It is not long before more colonies are wiped out, or in the HALO terminology Glassed (the alien forces obliterate all life on a planet with such an intense plasma bombardment that it leaves a large quantity of the planetary crust smooth as glass). Humanity at this time, strangely have close to zero (0) energy-based weapons and pretty has not developed weapons beyond that of chemical-propelled slugthrowers (like gunpowder. Seriously? 26th Century?).
The unknown menace finally identifies itself as the COVENANT, a coalition of several alien races bent on destroying humanity (yea, HALO is basically a group of alien races beating up one race). At first, the whole We-Come-to-Destroy-humanity thing is a bit cliche and kinda random, leaving people with a galaxy-wide WHAT-THE-FUCK, MAN!?. Later on, it is discovered that the story is somewhat deeper than your regular wednesday afternoon Sci-fi show, apparently humanity is the genetic descendants of an ancient super-technologically advanced alien race called the Forerunners (Covenant-recovered Forerunner technology seems to react to humans, some of the sentient technology even call humans Reclaimers).
The COVENANT found themselves kinda jealous, coz it was they who first discovered the forerunner technology, adapted it to their own science, and finally started worshiping the Forerunners as an intergalactic race of Space Jesuses. Apparently, knowing that your Gods had a favorite (humanity), finding out that it isn't you, and finding out that it's some backward civilization that has barely evolved past primate, induces much Alien Rage. So, back to Glassing. It's not long before the UNSC military, and humanity itself, finds out that it is being PWN'd so absolutely that it shits-itself just thinking about it (seriously, the Covenant has technology that basically turns a plasma bolt into a fucking guided-missile... as in ball of plasma follows you around... and knows where you live).
Nearly 20 years of Human-ball-kicking Ownage later, in steps the SPARTAN II Program, humanity's last hope. And the rest, is gaming-history...
The Covenant
The Covenant are a multitude of technologically advanced races which are composed of:
- Grunts: Cannon fodder/comic relief. They die like bitches.
- Jackals: Cannon fodder with plasma shields. Dies like bitches.
- Elites: Lizardmen IIIIIINNNN SPAAAAAACE! But without tails. Forms the slightly more intelligent branch of the Covenant and broke away from the Covenant in Halo 2. In Halo 3, they team up with the humans to kick the Covenant right in the space nards.
- Hunters: Some odd combination of worm/alien/giant thingy. Carries fuckheug shields and fuel-rod guns. Known for raping anything, short of Master Chief and a starship.
- Brutes: Slightly intelligent Yeti/Cave Troll/Gorilla-like creatures......IIIIIINNN SPAAAAACE!
Also, our only edge is that the Covenant actually think that tinkering with the advanced technology they dug up from the olden days is HERESY... ensuring that we can improve on it. Ironic, hmmm?
The Flood
The other antagonists are "The Flood". A race of parasitic organisms that exist only to infest other lifeforms and OMNOMNOMNOM them. They're sorta like a combination of a zombie virus from your generic zombie horror flic and the Xenomorphs from the Aliens movie franchise where they look like something that Nurgle would have probably made with a little Tyranid on the side.
Spartans
Humanity would have been boned if it were not for the Spartans, an elite group of super-soldiers trained in combat since birth, wearing power-armored suits with energy shields. Despite outward appearances, the Spartan's Mjolnir armor is not fashioned off with Space Marine plot-armor, instead being just typical metal armor. This is evident, due to the fact that Spartans die like bitches in the canon. Their armour is pretty sub-standard, the only perk being some easily disabled energy shield. It really does suck, failing to protect them from well...anything in combat. In fact they're as vulnerable as any foot-soldier to a plasma bolt once their energy shields go offline.
Space Marines
No, we're not refering to the Jihading Space Nazis, these are your everyday cannon-fodder from the UNSC who meet fates similar of the mobile infantry in the first Starship troopers movie or your typical Imperial Guardsman. Actually, they're more like Guardsman considering their service rifle is an assault rifle that uses rounds that would have probably been outdated considering it's been used since like.....1960-1970 and you're fighting aliens who have mastered gauss and Plasma technology and their armor are only fatigues and metal plates that are still incapable of deflecting anything properly while your enemy gets plasma shields and penis fingers.