Setting:Halo

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Halo is a vidya game series released for the ECKSBAWKS and ECKSBAWKS 360 and to the PC, it isn't ported to anything else as it's a game developed exclusively by Microsoft. It also has a novel series buuuuut it's not like most people who play Halo has the attention span to read either. 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 off with a multiplayer that isn't too original either. It's also famous for it's FUCKING cliffhangers during the end of the game. Why it became famous to this extent is something only Tzeentch could answer. /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.

Halo takes place in the distant future, where Al-Qaeda-esque aliens called the Covenant are at war with the human race, who still haven't progressed past the gunpowder stage. It's not exactly known why they want to wipe the human race since the humans didn't really do anything to them buuuuut that's aliens for you. The others are teh flood, which exist eat everything that's organic and edible.

The Covenant

The Covenant are a multitude of races, who have mastered advanced technology currently unavailable to mankind, which are composed of:

• Grunts: Cannon fodder/comic relief. Dies 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....where they conveniently discovered Earth, which pretty much busted a gaping plot-hole into Halo's stroyline.

• 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 plasma shields. Unlike traditional metal plating however , the Spartan's Mjolnir armor is fashioned off with Space Marine plot-armor instead of typical metal. This is primarily because they continue to survive yet their armor is incapable of protecting them from well....anything in combat. In fact they're as vulnerable as any foot-soldier to a bullet once their plasma shields go offline. The player controls a Spartan known only as "Master Chief" throughout the series, except for ODST where it was a couple of regular footsoldiers.

Space Marines

No, we're not refering to the Mary sues, these are your everyday cannon-fodder from the UNSC who meet fates similar of the Mobile Infantry in the first Stasrship 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.