Halo TV Series Has Clever Mass Effect Easter Egg

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It's been a very long road for the Halo TV series. Originally announced all the way back in 2013, it featured major industry names like Steven Spielberg and Neill Blomkamp attached to the Halo project. Things quickly got off track, first in 2014 with Xbox Entertainment Studios shutting down, directors and showrunners leaving the project, and then a period of a few years when the show was stuck in development hell.

Finally, at long last, the Halo TV series has pushed through the many obstacles it faced over the past nine years and has finally launched its first episode on Paramount Plus. Although the series is just starting out, Paramount appears confident that the series will succeed in its first season as the company has already renewed the Halo TV series for a second season. While fans continue to debate certain aspects of the show, such as the change in Cortana's appearance, general consensus appears to be positive overall, with some even digging through the first episode to find any hidden secrets.

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While longtime fans would expect to see plenty of nods to the Halo game series that the show is based on, some have discovered a very clever Easter egg for another major Sci-Fi gaming series. During a scene in the first episode with multiple characters watching a UNSC monitor, a background announcement can be heard calling for a character named Commander Shepherd to make their way to an area called the Skillian Response Center.

Now, while it would be easy to brush off the name «Commander Shepherd» as not only is it fairly common, but also mispelled from BioWare's version, the clever aspect of this Easter egg comes in the second part of the message. The use of the term Skillian Response Center, which is