Rob’s Blog

For this assignment I have chosen one of my favorite games, Halo.

 Halo takes place in the year 2552 during a war against the Covenant, a group of aliens united by a theocracy determined to find their masters, “the forerunners” another long dead species.  Humanity is badly losing this war, only still possessing Earth and a few other planets that have escaped the Covenant’s bloody war of extermination.  We follow the adventures of a genetically enhanced super soldier named John who has been in training since the age of 6.  During a botched escape from a besiged planet, John and other marines find a ring-shped construct in space known to the Covenant as a Halo.  John discovers that the rings, which the Covenant think are portals to a higher plane where the forerunner await, are actually superweapons developed by the forerunner to combat a parasite known as the Flood which destryoed the forerunner, some of which are still lurking on the ring.  When activated the rings will destroy all life in the galaxy.  John destroys this ring but more lie in the reaches of space, as well as the Flood.  The story pits the human surviors against the Covenant’s superior military, but when things seem bleakest the Covenant begins to crumble.  After years of tension, two of the leading species have entered into open war with one another.  One of the sides, the seperatists, have found out the truth about the rings and have joined the surviving humans.  The Covenant discover and invade Earth, unwittingly giving the location away to the Flood who follow them.  The covenat, hopelessly outnumberd by the Flood and humans evacuate to the hub of the Halo network, where they can all be fired off.  It is here where John leads his men and the aliens who have sided with them, known as the Elites, against the Covenant, stopping them once and for all.  However the Flood soon turn and attack the humans and elites.  John and an elite known as the Aribiter destroy the instillation killing the remaining flood.  However in their attempt to escape, the ship they are on is smashed in two by the explosion, causing the half with the Arbiter to get back to earth while, John floats alone in his half amongst the ruins of the instillation.  Alone he cliombs in to a cryopod where he will wait for recuse to come, though when they will find him is unknown.

 Two sites that can add addtional information are as follows:

 www.bungie.net - They are the makers of the game

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page - a wiki about the game