Halo TV Show Spartans Riz-028, Kai-125 & Vannak-134 Explained

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The Halo TV series introduces a trio of new Spartans who could be very important to the series' future. Riz-028, Kai-125, and Vannak-134 are all members of the Master Chief's Silver Team and assist him in carrying out special missions for the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) in their war against the Covenant. The three characters get relatively little screen time in Halo episode 1, but they are sent on a mission that suggests they could play a much larger role down the line.

Paramount+'s long-in-development Halo series takes place in a separate timeline from the hit video game series it is based on and features new characters and stories designed to flesh out Master Chief's world. The plot is initiated with Master Chief finding a mysterious Forerunner relic on Madrigal and receiving new insight into the Covenant threat that causes him to desert his command. This escape brings Silver Team into the action, as Dr. Halsey tasks them with hunting down Master Chief and taking him back safely, even if it means protecting him from other UNSC forces.

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Riz-028, Kai-125, and Vannak-134 are all original characters new to the Halo TV series. Silver Team is part of the Asymmetric Warfare Research Group, meaning they likely take on unusual missions where they are badly outnumbered. The name «Silver Team» is taken from the development code name for Halo's TV adaptation, «Silver», after the «silver screen» of television. The team is based out of the White Tower on Reach and is dispatched for missions on different planets, such as the battle on Madrigal that opens the series. While the three were never named characters in the Halo games, their names and designs