Halo's Human vs Covenant War Explained: Full History
Halo's Human-Covenant War was a brutal conflict that brought humanity to the brink of extermination. The first Halo game released for the Xbox in 2001, introducing players to the Master Chief and an alien Covenant who threatened to wipe out the human race. A phenomenal success, the first-person shooter inspired numerous sequel games and tie-ins. It's now serving as the inspiration for a Paramount TV+ series.
Led by their Prophets, the Covenant is an alliance of different races who are motivated by a religious zeal to follow in the footsteps of an ancient race called the Forerunners. The Prophets have assured them human beings are fit only for extermination, and they will go to any lengths necessary to achieve that goal. Making matters worse, for much of the conflict the true motives of the Covenant remained a mystery, meaning Earth's UNSC — United Nations Space Command — was always on the back foot. Fortunately, humanity had champions; Spartans, most notably the Master Chief, John-117.
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Of course, the Paramount TV+ adaptation may not follow quite the same Halo timeline. Still, the Halo trailers have made it clear the show hews close to the original source material, so viewers may well want to understand how the Human-Covenant War panned out in the games and novels. Here's a full history of the Human-Covenant War.
The beginning of the Human-Covenant War began in the year 2524, with the first contact between humans and the Covenant. The tale is told in Joseph Staten's novel «Contact Harvest.» A Covenant missionary ship stumbled upon an unmanned human cargo ship that had dropped out of slipspace after a malfunction in its slipspace drive; to the Covenant's surprise,
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