I’ll never forget the first time I was introduced to the world of Halo. I was hanging out with my cousin and we were playing Xbox 360 when he suggested we play this new game that had just been released. The game was none other than Halo 3. The moment I picked up the controller, I was instantly enamored with the experience and I was hooked for life. You may be wondering: “Why does this guy care about this game so much? Is it the gameplay? The story? Maybe the graphics? What makes this game so good?” to which I simply answer, secret option “D”, all of the above. However, today I would like to focus primarily on the lore of this franchise. SPOILER ALERT! You’ve been warned, even though I’m going to tell you about it anyway. The world of Halo takes place hundreds of years into the future when humans have settled in space and are on the brink of extinction from an alien race known as the Covenant. Humanity’s last hope is an elite group of soldiers known as spartans. Spartans are …show more content…
It’s here that the Prophet of Truth has found a forerunner relic and activates it creating a slipspace rupture leading to the Ark. The Flood also landed on earth and the Elites help the humans hold them off. The Master Chief and the Arbiter follow the prophet to the Ark where he plans to ignite all seven rings. Arbiter kills Truth and now the Ark is in the process of creating yet another Halo array. Master Chief is probably tired of blowing up Halo rings at this point but he’s got to do it one more time. The Chief activates the unfinished Halo which destroys itself and the Ark, he is left presumably to be dead. There is a commemoration for the war and beating the game on the hardest difficulty reveals the Chief to be alive and taking a cryo nap. Now the story does continue in Halo 4 and 5 but were going to just pretend those games didn't happen! After all, Halo 3’s marketing campaign was “finish the