The UNSC sponsored the SPARTAN-II Project to create an elite group of enhanced supersoldiers to suppress the rebellions covertly. Tensions between the government and colonies desiring independence sparked violent clashes. Nearly a hundred thousand years later in the 26th century, humanity-under the auspices of the United Nations Space Command, or UNSC-colonized many worlds thanks to the development of faster-than-light "slipstream space" (i.e. Portions of the Ark are visible at the bottom. A human ship approaches a Halo megastructure under construction. The Librarian, along with all the remaining forerunners, trapped her husband inside a Forerunner repository of knowledge known as the Domain, activated the Ark and disappeared. A civil war between the Forerunner's dictator known as the Didact, who wanted to assimilate all the humans on Earth into his army as AI's, thus immune to the flood, and his wife the Librarian, who created the Ark, an instrument which allowed for the mass creation of Halo installations which could all be activated simultaneously. Exhausting all other strategies, the Forerunners conceived the Halo Array - ring-shaped megastructures and weapons of last resort that would destroy all sentient life in the galaxy to stop the Flood.
The Forerunners sent the humans to Earth, reverting them to a primitive civilization based in Africa, and fought the Flood, which spread through an infestation of sentient life and overran much of the Milky Way Galaxy. This dust eventually became defective, infecting and contorting organisms into a new parasitic species, connected by a hivemind to the minds of the last Precursors: The Flood.
Instead of fighting back, the Precursors let themselves die, with some turning into a dust intended to spread and later transform into themselves once again. In retaliation, the Forerunners drove the Precursors into extinction. The Precursors chose an ancient form of humanity as their successors, over a race known as the Forerunners. Many years ago, a race known as the Precursors assumed the Mantle of Responsibility - the guardianship of life in the galaxy. With more than $6 billion in franchise grosses, Halo is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time, spanning novels, graphic novels, comic books, short films, animated films, feature films, and other licensed products. Its sequels expanded the franchise's commercial and critical success, and have sold more than 81 million copies worldwide. Microsoft established 343 Industries to direct the franchise going forward, and has produced games itself and in partnership with other studios.Ĭombat Evolved was a critical and commercial success, serving as the Xbox's " killer app" and cementing Microsoft as a major player in the video game console space. Bungie regained its independence in 2007, releasing additional Halo games through 2010. The latest main game, Halo Infinite, was released in 2021.Ĭombat Evolved started life as a real-time strategy game, then became a third-person shooter, and finally a first-person shooter releasing as an exclusive on Microsoft's new Xbox video game console after Bungie was acquired by the company.
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The series launched in 2001 with the first-person shooter video game Halo: Combat Evolved and its tie-in novel, The Fall of Reach.
Halo is a military science fiction media franchise, originally created and developed by Bungie and currently managed and developed by 343 Industries, part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios.
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