Halo's Article 72 Is A Dark Video Game Change
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Halo episode 1.
Paramount's new Halo series puts Master Chief and the UNSC in a complex position right from the beginning with Article 72, a new protocol serving as a dark change from the videogame source material. While John-117 and the UNSC may be humanity's best chance at fighting the alien forces of the Covenant, that doesn't mean their flawless heroes. Mankind's expansion into the stars has seemingly necessitated dark measures. The new Article 72 looks to be a large part of that, resulting in the execution order of a colony's sole survivor given to Master Chief himself.
In the first episode of Paramount's Halo starring Pablo Schreiber as John-117, a.k.a. Master Chief, he and the SPARTAN unit known as Silver Team intercept a Covenant attack on the planet Madrigal. While Halo's Covenant Elite forces are terminated, only one survivor remains: Kwan Ha, the daughter of an insurrectionist leader. Following their investigation of a nearby Covenant dig site and recovery of a mysterious artifact, Master Chief is ordered to bring Kwan back to the United Nations Space Command on the planet Reach. En route, the UNSC's Miranda Keyes speaks with Kwan to see if she'd be willing to publically speak to the other colonies about the UNSC trying to help humanity and protect them from the Covenant, who are a very real threat. However, looking to fulfill her father's mission, Kwan threatens to lie and place the blame of the colonists' deaths on the UNSC itself if they don't grant her world independence from the UNSC.
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As Miranda soon learns from her own father Captain Jacob Keyes, the top brass is unwilling to meet Kwan's demands, choosing
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