WEBVTT 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:18.620 Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back 00:00:18.620 --> 00:00:20.859 to Lore Crimes. Now, you may have noticed this 00:00:20.859 --> 00:00:24.839 is a brand new series, a bit of a special series 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:28.739 that we're premiering just for you, because we 00:00:28.739 --> 00:00:31.000 really enjoy our talks with Fantasy Fireside, 00:00:31.059 --> 00:00:33.179 and we will be getting back to Fantasy Fireside 00:00:33.179 --> 00:00:35.119 and talking about not just Warhammer Fantasy, 00:00:35.219 --> 00:00:37.200 but other stuff. But we also wanted to talk about 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:41.359 some sci -fi stuff. So, Colin, would you like 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:45.200 to announce what this series is called? Of course, 00:00:45.259 --> 00:00:48.619 we're having ourselves a little sci -fi sit -down, 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:52.960 as it were. One could call it as such. Got to 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:54.960 have that alliteration in somewhere. Of course. 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.759 And because Colin was the one who came up with 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:03.079 the idea, I believe, I figured, well, what can 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:04.819 we talk about to start things off? And Colin, 00:01:04.900 --> 00:01:06.719 what are we talking about today? We're going 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:09.359 to be talking about a setting near and dear to 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:11.879 our hearts, a nice little bit of Halo today. 00:01:16.819 --> 00:01:23.700 We love it. Indeed. And today it'll be the, you 00:01:23.700 --> 00:01:25.700 know, in the Halo games, Master Chiefs, he's 00:01:25.700 --> 00:01:28.340 chewing bubble gum and kicking ass and he's being 00:01:28.340 --> 00:01:32.099 a cool guy, doesn't afraid of anything. But, 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:34.840 you know, there was a whole war going on in the 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:39.079 background. So for the first bit of sci -fi sit 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:41.030 down, I figured let's... Let's take a look at 00:01:41.030 --> 00:01:42.969 that war. Let's look at the Human Covenant War. 00:01:43.650 --> 00:01:49.629 What defined the setting of Halo, as it were. 00:01:49.909 --> 00:01:52.790 Where we get Funny Green Man and everyone else, 00:01:52.810 --> 00:02:01.370 almost. And just to get us started, Halo is set 00:02:01.370 --> 00:02:05.530 in our universe in the future. For reference, 00:02:05.629 --> 00:02:10.180 do we know -ish when Halo... Halo Combat Evolved 00:02:10.180 --> 00:02:14.159 takes place. I'm very sketchy on the time zones, 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:17.460 but isn't it something like 2200 or something 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:20.840 like that? Farther ahead, but you are right. 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:25.080 Halo Combat Evolved takes place in the year 2552. 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:30.879 Oh, okay. Wow. I imagine that's at least in part 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:35.080 because 2 and 5 make 7, and Bungie does love 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.449 themselves the number 7. Yeah. They do love Seven. 00:02:38.550 --> 00:02:42.949 Seven and world domination, which... Destiny. 00:02:43.129 --> 00:02:46.030 Oh, no. How's that world domination going out 00:02:46.030 --> 00:02:47.710 for you, Button G? What's going on? Well, I guess 00:02:47.710 --> 00:02:50.069 I should say they used to love Seven in that. 00:02:50.150 --> 00:02:53.129 Now they seem to just like being evil and incompetent. 00:02:53.849 --> 00:02:57.770 Yeah. But yeah, so we've had, kind of like Warhammer, 00:02:57.849 --> 00:03:00.050 we've had the current history we're living in 00:03:00.050 --> 00:03:02.469 through now, and then in a few years' time or 00:03:02.469 --> 00:03:04.879 a few centuries' time... We're in the setting 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:07.539 of Halo. So where are we starting off with the 00:03:07.539 --> 00:03:13.300 Human Covenant? We're going to start a couple 00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:19.840 years beforehand. We're going to go to the lovely 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:25.639 year of 2517, right? Because there's a few things 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:28.800 that have or will occur shortly leading up to 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:33.009 around this year. And it'll help set some background. 00:03:33.169 --> 00:03:38.569 So by 2517, humanity has, you know, in sci -fi 00:03:38.569 --> 00:03:40.469 settings, and we got on ourselves a nice little 00:03:40.469 --> 00:03:44.469 space board empire, right? The UN, pardon me, 00:03:44.569 --> 00:03:49.590 the UEG, United Earth Government, sending out 00:03:49.590 --> 00:03:55.490 WIG. WIG. Sending out, you know, colony ships 00:03:55.490 --> 00:03:57.770 for a couple hundred years, settling on planets, 00:03:57.909 --> 00:04:00.699 terraforming. Some of them are, you know, massive 00:04:00.699 --> 00:04:03.699 population centers such as Reach. Some of them 00:04:03.699 --> 00:04:08.780 are little backwater places of minimal import 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:11.740 were not for what would happen on them like Harvest. 00:04:11.780 --> 00:04:15.599 You know, nothing too important. It's some sci 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:17.920 -fi stuff right now. Humanity's spreading out. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.980 Around 800 worlds, I believe, is the total. Nice. 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:25.220 It's a nice chunk of worlds, you know. It's not 00:04:25.220 --> 00:04:27.500 the Imperium. It's not a million worlds, but 00:04:27.500 --> 00:04:31.519 hey. 800 worlds were only 500 years from the 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:34.519 future. I'd say that's decent. We've only got 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:36.939 one. We can't complain. Yeah, we have one. Any 00:04:36.939 --> 00:04:39.879 amount more than one automatically leagues above 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:45.980 what we have nowadays, right? And by this point, 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:49.639 the setting's history, though. There are some 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:52.579 issues, even before the aliens decide to kill 00:04:52.579 --> 00:04:57.790 everyone. You've got the insurrection. Far away 00:04:57.790 --> 00:05:00.810 colonies going, why do I have to pay taxes to 00:05:00.810 --> 00:05:03.009 Earth? You're like a thousand light years away. 00:05:03.089 --> 00:05:07.149 I don't care. I've never seen Earth. I don't 00:05:07.149 --> 00:05:09.170 care. So, you know, there's some stuff with that. 00:05:09.529 --> 00:05:12.209 You know, some independence movements of Bruin. 00:05:13.230 --> 00:05:20.470 You know, there's some unrest. I combined disruption 00:05:20.470 --> 00:05:24.810 and unrest into a new word. That's going on. 00:05:25.610 --> 00:05:29.689 the reason I chose 2517 as a nice starting point 00:05:29.689 --> 00:05:36.009 is because that is the year that the UNSC, the 00:05:36.009 --> 00:05:38.589 United Nations Space Command, Office of Naval 00:05:38.589 --> 00:05:43.870 Intelligence, did that goofy little thing they 00:05:43.870 --> 00:05:48.750 did and stole 75 children to turn into super 00:05:48.750 --> 00:05:53.250 soldiers. ONI are comically evil, and I love 00:05:53.250 --> 00:05:56.230 it, but also... How did they get so comically 00:05:56.230 --> 00:05:58.709 evil? They must be quite important if they're 00:05:58.709 --> 00:06:01.910 allowed to just do that, surely. Well, I imagine 00:06:01.910 --> 00:06:06.149 it's been... Take the CIA or whatever, right? 00:06:06.230 --> 00:06:11.209 And now give them 500 years of access to space 00:06:11.209 --> 00:06:14.649 -borne technology. You can hide all sorts of 00:06:14.649 --> 00:06:17.089 crazy government stuff in the infinite void of 00:06:17.089 --> 00:06:22.350 space, I imagine. I imagine it didn't take them... 00:06:23.620 --> 00:06:26.319 Even if it took them a few hundred years by Halo 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.459 to become Oni as we know and love and hate, they 00:06:30.459 --> 00:06:35.240 had some time to practice their awfulness. It's 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:37.620 much more easy to interrogate someone on an asteroid 00:06:37.620 --> 00:06:39.939 field and then just leave them there and say, 00:06:40.060 --> 00:06:43.259 a political prisoner? What political prisoner? 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:45.579 Are you going to go look for them? Enjoy the 00:06:45.579 --> 00:06:49.040 entire galaxy? Go find them. Good luck. We could 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:50.879 have just shoved them in a box and sent them 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.449 to the other end. You don't know. Shot him into 00:06:53.449 --> 00:06:58.290 the sun. Why not? So and the reason they do this, 00:06:58.350 --> 00:07:00.689 by the way, for those not familiar, Master Chief 00:07:00.689 --> 00:07:03.050 was not made to fight aliens. They were made 00:07:03.050 --> 00:07:06.490 to fight insurrectionists because there was a 00:07:06.490 --> 00:07:10.750 series of reports made by a fellow named Dr. 00:07:10.769 --> 00:07:13.029 Carver called the Carver findings, as well as 00:07:13.029 --> 00:07:17.350 later annotated and updated by Dr. Catherine 00:07:17.350 --> 00:07:20.009 Halsey, the wonderful woman in charge of turning 00:07:20.009 --> 00:07:23.819 the Spartans into war machines. That said, basically, 00:07:23.899 --> 00:07:27.620 with all this unrest going on in the fringes 00:07:27.620 --> 00:07:31.519 of human space, we got a good few decades before 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:33.680 we nuke ourselves back to the Stone Age at the 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:39.839 worst. Which is definitely the worst case pessimist 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.560 outlook, right? But it doesn't matter if that's 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.740 how true that is, because Oni and the UNSC believed 00:07:47.740 --> 00:07:52.370 it to be true, or they should plan for it. To 00:07:52.370 --> 00:07:54.970 their credit, there was a colony at least once 00:07:54.970 --> 00:07:58.250 that the UNSC pulled an Imperium on, an Exterminatus. 00:07:58.310 --> 00:08:01.209 It was called Far Isle. There was a colony, and 00:08:01.209 --> 00:08:04.949 then there was nuclear wasteland. Yeah. And I 00:08:04.949 --> 00:08:07.430 think there's a little bit of teasing of this 00:08:07.430 --> 00:08:10.529 in Halo Reach when you get onto that first mission 00:08:10.529 --> 00:08:12.910 and you find the people, and they're kind of 00:08:12.910 --> 00:08:15.470 scared by the Spartans, but it's not really explained 00:08:15.470 --> 00:08:18.490 in the games much. It's more in the books. Yeah, 00:08:18.610 --> 00:08:21.860 that is definitely more in the books. Although 00:08:21.860 --> 00:08:26.620 that does incidentally make the Rainbow Six Siege 00:08:26.620 --> 00:08:28.800 Master Chief skin the closest thing we've ever 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:30.980 gotten in a video game to what the Spartans were 00:08:30.980 --> 00:08:34.200 intended for. Coolest thing in the last 10 years. 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:36.840 Master Chief falling through that house like 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:39.399 a sledgehammer. Just being like, right, time 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.539 to clean house. Like, oh, that was good. Oh, 00:08:42.580 --> 00:08:46.120 it's Rainbow Six? Oh. Yeah. So that's why we've 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:49.120 got Spartans. That's why the UNSC military at 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.899 this point was... kicking into gear even before 00:08:52.899 --> 00:08:57.559 the aliens showed up a bit. And a couple different 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:00.299 characters you will eventually know from the 00:09:00.299 --> 00:09:03.360 games. We're starting to get some lore presence 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.700 around this point, games or books. But perhaps 00:09:07.700 --> 00:09:10.919 most importantly, for what would be to come, 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:14.879 humanity, at least some people by this point, 00:09:15.860 --> 00:09:20.519 know that we're not alone in the universe. Certain 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:23.340 archaeological dig sites, naturally immediately 00:09:23.340 --> 00:09:27.080 taken over by Oni, had discovered ancient Forerunner 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:31.759 relics in a couple different facilities. Reach 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.039 has at least a few of them, at least one. You 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.200 blow it up in the game, or at least bury it. 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:41.840 And there was actually a picture taken through 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:46.419 it from a telescope of High Charity. The Covenant 00:09:46.419 --> 00:09:51.480 Homeworld. Homeworld planet station. It's like 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:53.639 a gigantic... People might have a reference of 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:57.639 the Phalanx from Warhammer, but imagine that, 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:02.320 but even larger, I think. It's basically a planet 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:05.899 -sized city that can fly around, if I remember 00:10:05.899 --> 00:10:09.700 correctly, at the scale of it. It's slipspace 00:10:09.700 --> 00:10:15.629 capable. That thing can move. So with all that 00:10:15.629 --> 00:10:23.830 settled, now we go to the year 2525. In this 00:10:23.830 --> 00:10:32.269 year, there's a trading vessel. Just some human 00:10:32.269 --> 00:10:34.529 cargo freighter. Nothing too important on its 00:10:34.529 --> 00:10:38.029 own. Has a bit of an error with a slipspace engine. 00:10:38.250 --> 00:10:41.740 It has to jump out of slipspace. Sucks for that 00:10:41.740 --> 00:10:44.440 guy, but it's like a car breaks down on the highway, 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:46.679 basically. It's not that big of a deal, all things 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:51.460 considered. Not great, but Space AAA can come 00:10:51.460 --> 00:10:55.000 and give you a hand eventually. Humanity is advanced 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:59.159 enough by this point in Halo that it's unfortunate, 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.879 but that guy's not going to die. You're not stranded, 00:11:02.980 --> 00:11:07.379 yeah. No. We'll find you. Well, he is going to 00:11:07.379 --> 00:11:09.580 die, unfortunately, but not because of slow space 00:11:09.580 --> 00:11:14.620 issues. Because a Kigyar, also known as a Jackal 00:11:14.620 --> 00:11:16.919 Frigate, funnily enough, the name of the ship 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:22.279 is the Minor Transgression. Jackals are pirates, 00:11:22.340 --> 00:11:24.500 for those of you not too familiar with the lore 00:11:24.500 --> 00:11:28.340 of the Covenant species. They find this thing 00:11:28.340 --> 00:11:32.480 and they go, hey, what if we invade it? So they 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:37.419 do, and then they invade another one. They do 00:11:37.419 --> 00:11:39.539 manage to get a distress signal off these ships, 00:11:39.620 --> 00:11:41.639 not to save them. These people on these ships 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:46.980 are well dead. But it is enough for an undercover 00:11:46.980 --> 00:11:52.399 ONI agent and an AI on Harvest to realize something's 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.279 going wrong. They think it's insurrectionists, 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.960 though, because like I said, humanity's a civil 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:59.519 war is a ruin. And even before then, there's 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:01.720 a whole lot of minor different rebellions cropping 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:06.049 up. So they think it's insurrectionists. So they 00:12:06.049 --> 00:12:10.490 set a trap for these jackals, right? Such as, 00:12:10.509 --> 00:12:13.990 for example, not for example, one of the members 00:12:13.990 --> 00:12:17.409 of this trap is good old Avery Johnson. And they 00:12:17.409 --> 00:12:20.750 get ready to fight what they think are some innies, 00:12:20.750 --> 00:12:23.730 some dirty innies. And then they start fighting 00:12:23.730 --> 00:12:29.149 aliens, which, oh boy, surprise, we're definitely 00:12:29.149 --> 00:12:32.860 not alone. Previously, you know, the... Just 00:12:32.860 --> 00:12:34.600 because of how space works, right? They could 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:36.740 have seen High Charity from like 10 ,000 light 00:12:36.740 --> 00:12:40.580 years away. That means it was there 10 ,000 years 00:12:40.580 --> 00:12:43.059 ago, you know? There's no proper way to date. 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.600 Are those guys still around? Now we have confirmation. 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:50.279 They are still around. And they're a little bit 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:54.980 mean. Also, is it worth briefly mentioning about 00:12:54.980 --> 00:12:58.120 Johnson is kind of like a prototype Spartan in 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.600 a way. He went through a procedure that was similar 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:03.379 to what they were trying to do with Spartans, 00:13:03.379 --> 00:13:06.000 but it failed for what they wanted to create. 00:13:06.220 --> 00:13:09.490 But he is built different. He is built different. 00:13:09.970 --> 00:13:13.210 They call them Spartan Ones, although that is 00:13:13.210 --> 00:13:17.350 in -universe retconning, actually. They renamed 00:13:17.350 --> 00:13:19.830 it the Spartan One program once they started 00:13:19.830 --> 00:13:21.490 working on the Spartan Twos. They were like, 00:13:21.549 --> 00:13:23.710 well, we're taking a whole lot of research notes 00:13:23.710 --> 00:13:27.149 from this. Let's change the name up a bit. So 00:13:27.149 --> 00:13:30.370 technically he's a Spartan. Not Master Chief 00:13:30.370 --> 00:13:33.049 or Spartan Three or even Spartan Four levels, 00:13:33.210 --> 00:13:39.210 but he is built different. So, after this little 00:13:39.210 --> 00:13:44.230 skirmish, they do still manage to open some diplomatic 00:13:44.230 --> 00:13:46.129 channels. Everyone's like, hey, alright, look, 00:13:46.289 --> 00:13:50.730 rough first start, let's try again. Let's just 00:13:50.730 --> 00:13:53.509 try and be reasonable about this, you know? Tensions 00:13:53.509 --> 00:13:55.710 were high, we didn't expect you, you didn't expect 00:13:55.710 --> 00:14:00.269 us, let's try and be reasonable. I find it also 00:14:00.269 --> 00:14:02.269 very funny that in the book Contact Harvest, 00:14:02.350 --> 00:14:06.720 where this takes place, right? The people in 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:09.419 charge are scrambling. We don't know anything 00:14:09.419 --> 00:14:11.440 about them. It's a literally alien culture. How 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:14.100 do we make a good first impression? We want to 00:14:14.100 --> 00:14:16.879 show that we come in peace, right? So they prepare 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:23.460 this massive vegetarian fruit buffet. We don't 00:14:23.460 --> 00:14:24.659 know what they're like. What if they think even 00:14:24.659 --> 00:14:27.720 killing animals is primitive and barbaric? We 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:29.259 don't want to take any chances. And then the 00:14:29.259 --> 00:14:31.980 brutes are the ones in charge of diplomatic meeting. 00:14:32.729 --> 00:14:35.549 Well, they don't remind me of a little bit Sorry 00:14:35.549 --> 00:14:37.669 if this sounds annoying but like mass effect 00:14:37.669 --> 00:14:40.750 when they first find the other alien races who 00:14:40.750 --> 00:14:43.149 at this point are all united they're like a a 00:14:43.149 --> 00:14:46.110 multi -species society they bump into the turians 00:14:46.110 --> 00:14:49.649 who are like a very militarized faction stoic 00:14:49.649 --> 00:14:52.470 disciplined bird people and that starts like 00:14:52.470 --> 00:14:55.210 the first contact war and it's not until the 00:14:55.210 --> 00:14:56.929 asari and some of the other races came i was 00:14:56.929 --> 00:15:00.490 like stop fighting stop it stop it we can fix 00:15:00.490 --> 00:15:03.269 this like okay and so that also means that like 00:15:03.269 --> 00:15:06.480 by the time mass effect starts the the human 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:07.960 species has only been integrated for like 20 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:10.059 years or so, and there's still people who are 00:15:10.059 --> 00:15:12.980 just like, I remember when you attacked my planet, 00:15:13.059 --> 00:15:15.960 and therefore I think you suck, and I'm species 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:24.840 -ish. Kind of like that, but unfortunately, none 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:27.860 of the third parties in the Halo that do exist 00:15:27.860 --> 00:15:33.600 to some extent either were in a position to or 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:37.460 would stop that war. As we get later into this, 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:42.159 that'll make a bit more sense. But something 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:44.279 goes wrong with the meeting. It's already off 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:47.879 to a rough start again. The giant monkeys that 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:50.200 like the taste of meat have been handed a vegetarian 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:53.559 buffet and are realizing that these small little 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.500 funny things are probably quite a bit weaker 00:15:56.500 --> 00:15:59.860 than the giant Tarzan monkey. Are the brutes 00:15:59.860 --> 00:16:02.139 cannibals as well? Am I right in remembering 00:16:02.139 --> 00:16:04.419 they eat each other occasionally? I think they 00:16:04.419 --> 00:16:07.740 will. Uh, yeah. Well, I'm just thinking, like, 00:16:07.779 --> 00:16:10.940 oh, they kind of look like monkeys. We'll eat 00:16:10.940 --> 00:16:13.259 them, too. Like, oh, okay. They're smaller than 00:16:13.259 --> 00:16:16.460 us. We'll eat them. No, please. Brutes are not. 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:27.379 That name is quite accurate. But a grunt. Poor 00:16:27.379 --> 00:16:33.259 grunts. Grunts are a very frightened people, 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:36.399 as a general rule of thumb. They're called ungoi 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:38.399 scientifically. They'll just call them grunts. 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:42.820 He gets a bit nervous and opens fire. A firefight 00:16:42.820 --> 00:16:47.279 starts. Round two of diplomatic meetings have 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:49.779 gone wrong. And unfortunately, there will be 00:16:49.779 --> 00:16:54.179 no round three. Because these three beings, they 00:16:54.179 --> 00:16:56.279 did have names prior to this and occupations, 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:58.220 but they don't matter. We will call them the 00:16:58.220 --> 00:17:03.080 prophets of truth, mercy, and regret. There is 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:06.599 a foreigner AI at the center of High Charity 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:10.380 that helps keep it powered. The covenant prophets 00:17:10.380 --> 00:17:13.500 can go ask it great questions. Maybe it'll deign 00:17:13.500 --> 00:17:16.519 to answer them. Maybe it won't. It tells them 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:18.140 something important about the covenant language 00:17:18.140 --> 00:17:20.859 and religion, which is that the glyph they had 00:17:20.859 --> 00:17:24.359 been reading as reclamation translates to reclaimer, 00:17:24.500 --> 00:17:29.490 which... And that glyph shines quite brightly 00:17:29.490 --> 00:17:33.329 around human presence and detects humans. So 00:17:33.329 --> 00:17:36.950 they come to the realization that, oh no, our 00:17:36.950 --> 00:17:40.569 entire religion is a lie. Because for those of 00:17:40.569 --> 00:17:42.890 you unaware, they worship the foreigners as gods 00:17:42.890 --> 00:17:46.069 and they believe that the covenant is its chosen 00:17:46.069 --> 00:17:49.789 peoples who will follow in their footsteps to 00:17:49.789 --> 00:17:52.410 ascend to godhood as the foreigners did. And 00:17:52.410 --> 00:17:55.849 now one of the surviving artifacts of that religion 00:17:55.849 --> 00:17:59.250 is telling them that, no, humanity is actually 00:17:59.250 --> 00:18:04.390 our successors. Get bent. It's interesting, though, 00:18:04.430 --> 00:18:06.250 that I've already mentioned Mass Effect, the 00:18:06.250 --> 00:18:08.109 comparison of they have the equivalent of the 00:18:08.109 --> 00:18:12.049 the forerunners with the profeons. But it's more 00:18:12.049 --> 00:18:14.329 like we're not going to be religious zealots. 00:18:14.390 --> 00:18:17.069 We're going to be scientific and go, oh, where 00:18:17.069 --> 00:18:19.400 did the profeons go? they left all this technology. 00:18:19.579 --> 00:18:22.480 The humans find a relay on Mars. That's how they 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.000 get to the wider community. But then there is 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:26.960 also a thing of the people who found it, the 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.200 Asari, they kind of concealed that they had knowledge 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.140 of the Protheans from the rest of the galaxy. 00:18:33.299 --> 00:18:35.980 And I'm like, I see you copying Halo's homework 00:18:35.980 --> 00:18:39.339 there, Mass Effect. What are you doing? I know 00:18:39.339 --> 00:18:41.700 you slightly changed it up, but that's cheeky. 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:47.640 I still see what's going on here. But this is... 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:51.019 This is basically, this would spell the death 00:18:51.019 --> 00:18:53.099 knell of the Covenant, or at the very least, 00:18:53.140 --> 00:18:55.880 the Prophets. If you couldn't tell, there's some 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:58.339 religious intonations with their role in Covenant 00:18:58.339 --> 00:19:03.380 society. It would certainly spell the end of 00:19:03.380 --> 00:19:06.259 them being in charge, to say the least. There 00:19:06.259 --> 00:19:09.299 would be some upheaval in Covenant society. As 00:19:09.299 --> 00:19:11.420 I imagine there would be in anything, if you 00:19:11.420 --> 00:19:13.660 got direct message from the chief religion of 00:19:13.660 --> 00:19:17.440 your society that your religion was wrong. Yeah, 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:19.740 imagine if the Vatican Church got a message from 00:19:19.740 --> 00:19:25.480 the god of Buddhism. It's like, oh, it's wrong. 00:19:26.500 --> 00:19:30.019 What about all our treasures and buildings and 00:19:30.019 --> 00:19:32.140 churches? Oh, we can't let... No, I'm the pope. 00:19:32.180 --> 00:19:34.700 No, we don't have that. I got a phone call from 00:19:34.700 --> 00:19:39.140 Zeus. That's not great. Turns out Zeus was correct. 00:19:39.299 --> 00:19:42.599 Yep, worship the thunder god. Awesome. Yeah, 00:19:42.660 --> 00:19:46.000 it's like, oh, that's awkward. So to hide this. 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:49.700 They declare that humans are inherently unclean, 00:19:49.700 --> 00:19:53.079 and it's time for nothing less than the complete 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:59.720 eradication of humanity. So that is how we get 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:02.460 the conflict that would end with the Halo games. 00:20:04.339 --> 00:20:09.099 2555, keep in mind. There is a... I guess, you 00:20:09.099 --> 00:20:10.839 know, a little bit of jumping to the end here, 00:20:10.940 --> 00:20:13.279 but this isn't, you know, quite 40 case again, 00:20:13.339 --> 00:20:16.279 scales of war where it's been 10 ,000 years of 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:20.119 war, but it does. The conflict ends in 2553. 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:23.779 So almost 30 years. And it is long enough for 00:20:23.779 --> 00:20:26.859 an entire generation to be born knowing nothing 00:20:26.859 --> 00:20:32.539 but the human covenant war. It is initially kept 00:20:32.539 --> 00:20:35.859 secret that humanity is at war with aliens and 00:20:35.859 --> 00:20:38.539 they keep this a secret. As much as they can 00:20:38.539 --> 00:20:41.920 for quite a few years, actually. It's only, I 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:44.039 want to say, a little under halfway into the 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:46.859 war that they can't hide the fact that we're 00:20:46.859 --> 00:20:50.119 fighting aliens. Mostly because by this point, 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:55.480 we've lost a good few hundred planets. But building 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:59.900 up to that, the first part of the war was on 00:20:59.900 --> 00:21:02.539 that planet of Harvest. If you've ever played 00:21:02.539 --> 00:21:04.680 Halo Wars, you'll know that it starts with Captain 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:08.549 Cutter. five long years five long years which 00:21:08.549 --> 00:21:10.750 i think also does actually make it the single 00:21:10.750 --> 00:21:13.609 longest battle of the human covenant war because 00:21:13.609 --> 00:21:16.990 most of them didn't last that long and to be 00:21:16.990 --> 00:21:19.730 fair it's like arguably the most grueling even 00:21:19.730 --> 00:21:21.609 kind of when it's like and then setback after 00:21:21.609 --> 00:21:23.930 setback was like we're winning and then it's 00:21:23.930 --> 00:21:26.569 like shots of all these guys being stabbed with 00:21:26.569 --> 00:21:28.630 energy swords and you're like oh no yeah it's 00:21:28.630 --> 00:21:30.829 like it starts with like hoorah marines let's 00:21:30.829 --> 00:21:32.289 get them and you know there's there's a nice 00:21:32.289 --> 00:21:35.839 a shot of uh A bunch of Marines cheering while 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:38.400 a Covenant ship falls from the sky. And then, 00:21:38.420 --> 00:21:40.519 yeah, it immediately cuts to them getting, like, 00:21:40.539 --> 00:21:45.539 stabbed, blown up by Banshees, glassed. It's... 00:21:45.539 --> 00:21:51.299 It's not great. The first bit of the war, right? 00:21:51.940 --> 00:21:55.079 Covenant. They send a single ship over Harvest. 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:57.980 Humanity sends three. Good to be prepared, right? 00:21:58.180 --> 00:22:02.920 None of those three ships report back. So now 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:08.000 they're like, okay. It's time to lock in. They 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:12.700 send 13. And they do. They do manage to destroy 00:22:12.700 --> 00:22:17.059 that Covenant ship. At, I believe, the cost of 00:22:17.059 --> 00:22:24.180 10 human ships. Damn. It is... It's not an even 00:22:24.180 --> 00:22:30.450 fight. It is not at all an even fight. Uh, they 00:22:30.450 --> 00:22:34.069 only won thanks to, uh, the efforts of, uh, how 00:22:34.069 --> 00:22:37.470 do you call them? Not call. Oh, pardon me. I, 00:22:37.549 --> 00:22:40.190 I vastly underestimated. They sent 40 ships and 00:22:40.190 --> 00:22:44.630 13 were destroyed. Wow. That's even, even worse. 00:22:44.710 --> 00:22:48.069 My word, uh, to, to blow up one covenant. Uh, 00:22:48.210 --> 00:22:50.309 this was, it was called a super destroyer. So 00:22:50.309 --> 00:22:52.250 this was like, you know, a real big meaty ship, 00:22:52.329 --> 00:22:54.029 but yeah, this wasn't just like a run of the 00:22:54.029 --> 00:22:55.970 mill, like freighter. This was like, no, this 00:22:55.970 --> 00:22:58.410 is one of their big guns. Okay. Yeah. But even 00:22:58.410 --> 00:23:02.490 still, 40 to 1 is not what you want to see as 00:23:02.490 --> 00:23:05.150 what you need to bring. Yeah, like 30 losses 00:23:05.150 --> 00:23:07.250 between the two different skirmishes. Like, oh, 00:23:07.309 --> 00:23:12.230 30 ships for one of yours? Oh, no. Yeah. 13 were 00:23:12.230 --> 00:23:14.710 destroyed at first. I think the casualty is up 00:23:14.710 --> 00:23:18.309 to 16 ships, but that's still almost half of 00:23:18.309 --> 00:23:23.269 what you sent after them got blown up. Harvest 00:23:23.269 --> 00:23:26.849 is then the site of bloody warfare for five more 00:23:26.849 --> 00:23:30.109 years. It's horrible. This is, by the way, at 00:23:30.109 --> 00:23:32.589 this point, the largest single battle in space 00:23:32.589 --> 00:23:35.589 humanity has ever fought. And it's 40 dudes versus 00:23:35.589 --> 00:23:39.730 one. It was only one because Captain, at this 00:23:39.730 --> 00:23:43.250 point, I think he was only a captain. Preston 00:23:43.250 --> 00:23:48.470 J. Cole, a very cool dude, realized that, and 00:23:48.470 --> 00:23:50.609 this does sound kind of stupid at first, but 00:23:50.609 --> 00:23:53.670 he realized that you need to overload the shields 00:23:53.670 --> 00:23:55.710 first. If you just do, like, periodic sustained 00:23:55.710 --> 00:23:58.119 fire. They're going to keep recharging. You've 00:23:58.119 --> 00:24:01.059 got to fire basically every ship in the fleet 00:24:01.059 --> 00:24:04.240 coordinated all at once at the thing, which sounds 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:07.099 like a little stupid brain -dead idea. Fire everything 00:24:07.099 --> 00:24:12.079 at once, blow them up. But it is like if we don't 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:14.740 overwhelmingly concentrate all at once and coordinate 00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:18.920 our fire, we're screwed. Yeah, I've played a 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:21.319 lot of Halo where you get the elite shields down 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:23.279 and he runs behind a tree like, ah, where are 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:25.569 you going? Come back. Come back. I'm going to 00:24:25.569 --> 00:24:29.150 get you. Yeah, it's it's that. But for a whole 00:24:29.150 --> 00:24:35.430 warship, it's not great. And this this kind of 00:24:35.430 --> 00:24:37.930 becomes the standard of the human covenant war, 00:24:38.130 --> 00:24:42.470 right? The covenant will invade. Humans will 00:24:42.470 --> 00:24:44.329 do what they can. And at first, like, you know, 00:24:44.349 --> 00:24:45.950 mankind's like, all right, we're going to get 00:24:45.950 --> 00:24:48.069 these. We'll do like the Halo Wars. We'll get 00:24:48.069 --> 00:24:49.890 some forward operated bases going. We'll get 00:24:49.890 --> 00:24:52.089 ready for a fight. We're here for a war, right? 00:24:52.509 --> 00:24:54.869 been on harvest for five years. We got to get 00:24:54.869 --> 00:24:58.849 set for a war of conquest. And then about the 00:24:58.849 --> 00:25:01.109 first time the Covenant glass a planet, they're 00:25:01.109 --> 00:25:04.769 like, well, they're not here for conquest. Conquering 00:25:04.769 --> 00:25:09.509 is not the goal. We're just here to kill you. 00:25:10.690 --> 00:25:12.789 And they don't want our stuff. They want us to 00:25:12.789 --> 00:25:18.130 have no stuff. Yeah, no. They don't want us around 00:25:18.130 --> 00:25:21.269 anymore. And it is actually, again, the first 00:25:21.269 --> 00:25:23.430 message this was informed by the prophets, by 00:25:23.430 --> 00:25:25.569 the way, was broadcast in near -perfect English, 00:25:25.730 --> 00:25:28.349 which means they've been studying our language 00:25:28.349 --> 00:25:32.529 for some time before we showed up. So that's 00:25:32.529 --> 00:25:35.289 a nice bit of fun worry. And then the prophet 00:25:35.289 --> 00:25:38.609 of truth was heard all across the world, and 00:25:38.609 --> 00:25:41.549 the humans in perfect English heard ligma balls 00:25:41.549 --> 00:25:48.839 and just glassed. And, uh, it is, uh, early on, 00:25:48.859 --> 00:25:51.720 the pattern sets itself of what the war is going 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:55.539 to be very quickly. Uh, I know some people in 00:25:55.539 --> 00:25:58.400 some, like, different, you know, online, and 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:00.039 I know at least in some videos I've made about 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:02.079 Halo, were like, well, humanity won all the time 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:06.039 on the ground. That is not correct. Uh, the way 00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:09.140 as it is worded, almost verbatim, and I remember 00:26:09.140 --> 00:26:12.119 the Halo Wars timeline very specifically, I read 00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:15.549 through that shit religiously as a kid. humanity 00:26:15.549 --> 00:26:18.609 won isolated engagements, most of which were 00:26:18.609 --> 00:26:21.690 on the ground, which is not humanity won most 00:26:21.690 --> 00:26:24.430 ground victories. It's most of the times they 00:26:24.430 --> 00:26:28.009 managed to win. It was on the ground. It's someone 00:26:28.009 --> 00:26:30.150 put a comma in the wrong place and misread it. 00:26:30.170 --> 00:26:33.839 Oh, okay. Yeah. To be fair, whenever you see 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:38.200 a cutscene or gameplay of just the elites fighting 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:42.299 the regular guys of the UNSC, they're smashing 00:26:42.299 --> 00:26:44.559 through walls, they're cutting them up, they're 00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:46.420 grabbing them by the head and pulling them off 00:26:46.420 --> 00:26:49.920 the ground. That's a tough opponent for one -on 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:52.559 -one. Plus you've got all the cannon fodder of 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:54.480 the jackals and the grunts. You've got the brutes 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.140 involved. You've got the buggers, the buzzers. 00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:00.960 There's an entire coalition of alien racists, 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:02.559 all who specialize in different ways. And then 00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:04.779 you've got like, I'm just a guy with an assault 00:27:04.779 --> 00:27:07.619 rifle. This is too much for me. This is bullshit. 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:13.880 I'm Steve. This is bullshit. Yeah. It's a bit 00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:18.339 of an uneven fight. So. Just like I said, there 00:27:18.339 --> 00:27:21.339 are a fair amount of different winds, right? 00:27:21.980 --> 00:27:25.660 There's one battle fairly early on. The Covenant, 00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:28.920 it's a planet called Hot Yai. The Covenant do 00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:31.059 what they do. They land, they kill as many people 00:27:31.059 --> 00:27:33.599 as they can. They start looking for stuff, which 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:36.160 is probably foreigner artifacts. They love to 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:38.180 hunt for foreigner artifacts. It's kind of their 00:27:38.180 --> 00:27:43.119 whole religion. In response, the UNSC drops 100 00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:45.539 ODSTs on that base, and they manage to take it 00:27:45.539 --> 00:27:48.789 without any casualties. Ooh, ooh, ooh. ODSTs. 00:27:48.789 --> 00:27:53.650 Yeah. ODSTs are pretty sick. Those are the exceptions. 00:27:54.849 --> 00:27:57.289 Because, again, you play Halo, right? You pick 00:27:57.289 --> 00:27:59.150 up a plasma weapon. You think they're great for 00:27:59.150 --> 00:28:01.009 dealing with shields. They're not so great once 00:28:01.009 --> 00:28:02.589 the shields are down. You've got to switch out 00:28:02.589 --> 00:28:05.150 to the bullets. That is not how it works in the 00:28:05.150 --> 00:28:07.049 lore. That is how it works to make the games 00:28:07.049 --> 00:28:10.950 fun. Even if you get hit with a plasma pistol, 00:28:11.190 --> 00:28:13.890 you are probably dead, or at least out of the 00:28:13.890 --> 00:28:18.490 fight. Hmm. Your chest piece is melted, and it's 00:28:18.490 --> 00:28:22.329 melted to your ribcage. Yeah, and that ribcage 00:28:22.329 --> 00:28:28.910 is now on the outside. It's not great. Actually, 00:28:28.990 --> 00:28:31.650 in the universe, a grunt with a plasma pistol 00:28:31.650 --> 00:28:34.869 is a threat to a UNSC Marine. Grunts are scared, 00:28:35.009 --> 00:28:37.410 and if you shoot them loud enough, they'll run 00:28:37.410 --> 00:28:40.130 away even if you don't hit them. But just purely 00:28:40.130 --> 00:28:43.210 looking at technology, it is a vastly uneven 00:28:43.210 --> 00:28:47.869 fight. And then we get to space where the average 00:28:47.869 --> 00:28:52.970 ratio of the UNSC Navy to get a tie, at least, 00:28:53.029 --> 00:28:56.390 like to get a victory, is three to one. And that 00:28:56.390 --> 00:28:58.390 is with equivalent ships, like I said. If the 00:28:58.390 --> 00:29:00.430 Covenant break out like those super carriers, 00:29:00.509 --> 00:29:04.410 like the one over Harvest, I hope you got a whole 00:29:04.410 --> 00:29:07.430 fleet. Humans are like, we don't have a super 00:29:07.430 --> 00:29:09.450 carrier. What do you mean a super carrier? We 00:29:09.450 --> 00:29:12.589 don't have one of those. Yeah, it's not great. 00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:16.900 There are a few things humanity does have going 00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:21.200 for it. Not too many, but there are a few. One, 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:25.039 of course, is those Spartans. Originally, and 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:27.980 their first mission was a semi -test mission, 00:29:28.099 --> 00:29:30.680 the first one, see how they do, was to deal with 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:34.099 some insurrectionists. They're very quickly retooled 00:29:34.099 --> 00:29:37.319 to deal with aliens. Because as it turns out, 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:40.200 super soldiers designed to kill other humans 00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:42.769 is still a super soldier. So the Covenant learns 00:29:42.769 --> 00:29:47.190 what it's like to fight Spartans. And Spartans 00:29:47.190 --> 00:29:49.710 are pretty kick -ass. They're pretty damn cool. 00:29:50.769 --> 00:29:53.829 Even early on, they don't have energy shields 00:29:53.829 --> 00:29:55.650 right away. At least by the time of Halo Wars, 00:29:55.769 --> 00:29:58.109 them having energy shields is again a nice little 00:29:58.109 --> 00:30:00.730 gameplay thing. Even early in the war without 00:30:00.730 --> 00:30:02.829 energy shields, they're still massively augmented. 00:30:02.970 --> 00:30:05.009 They're doing backflips over elites and shooting 00:30:05.009 --> 00:30:08.210 them mid -air. Taking names, doing all sorts 00:30:08.210 --> 00:30:12.880 of special missions. then any time some super 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:15.920 important whatever job needs to be done, you 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:18.319 send in a Spartan, you can rest easy knowing 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:21.339 it's almost certainly going to be achieved. Problem, 00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:28.180 there's 34 Spartans. That is not a lot. So while 00:30:28.180 --> 00:30:30.559 they are great at doing whatever their victory 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.039 is, and even if you just attach them to a normal 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:35.920 army for a mission and say, hey, go rain hell 00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:39.660 behind enemy lines, just make them suffer, that's 00:30:39.660 --> 00:30:42.589 great. and whatever area they're in will probably 00:30:42.589 --> 00:30:45.910 be a UNSC victory. There's the whole rest of 00:30:45.910 --> 00:30:49.950 the battleground occurring, where the Covenant's 00:30:49.950 --> 00:30:53.210 got their wraith tanks and ghosts and hunters, 00:30:53.309 --> 00:31:00.230 the 12 -foot -tall worm monsters. Spartans help 00:31:00.230 --> 00:31:05.109 them last longer, not enough to quite win. There's 00:31:05.109 --> 00:31:07.029 also quite a few brilliant commanders on the 00:31:07.029 --> 00:31:12.180 UNSC side. Captain Keyes. was the, I believe, 00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:16.279 the only person ever in the entire war to win 00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:18.319 against the Covenant in a naval engagement while 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:21.400 he was outnumbered. It was just him on his ship 00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:23.480 he was commanding versus, I think, three Covenant 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:26.759 vessels. And he was doing napkin math the whole 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:28.839 time, like, if I maneuver like this, I gotta 00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:31.920 avoid these. If we do it like this... They called 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:35.240 it the Keys Loop. He Tokyo drifted a frigate, 00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:38.180 basically. And managed to get the Covenant to 00:31:38.180 --> 00:31:40.400 shoot at each other a bit, fire Mac rounds into 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:45.660 it. Looked good. And of course, Admiral Preston 00:31:45.660 --> 00:31:47.960 J. Cole, who never lost a single battle against 00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:52.380 the Covenant, he was eventually promoted to basically, 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:54.839 you are the man of the Navy. We will give you 00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:57.019 everything we want. You need more ships? Yes, 00:31:57.019 --> 00:32:00.420 sir. Have some more ships. He would go on to 00:32:00.420 --> 00:32:02.819 win countless decisive victories against the 00:32:02.819 --> 00:32:05.740 Covenant. at least decisive in the sense that 00:32:05.740 --> 00:32:08.299 he won and the Covenant had to send more troops 00:32:08.299 --> 00:32:12.220 later on. But even despite all this, humanity's 00:32:12.220 --> 00:32:15.039 got heroes born left, right, and center. Sergeant 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:18.539 Johnson, Master Chief, all the Spartans. Do we 00:32:18.539 --> 00:32:23.240 know how many Spartan IIs were made? I want to 00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:25.339 say, top of my head, it's like a couple hundred 00:32:25.339 --> 00:32:30.279 at best. It was 150 originally for the sake of 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:33.880 budget constraints. They had to pull back on 00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:38.539 that, bring it down to 75. Okay. And then of 00:32:38.539 --> 00:32:47.339 those 75, only 45, I believe, 30 of them died 00:32:47.339 --> 00:32:50.859 outright from the augmentations, and 12 more 00:32:50.859 --> 00:32:55.420 washed out. Okay. So, like, they lived, but they 00:32:55.420 --> 00:32:58.769 were... didn't make the cut some of them were 00:32:58.769 --> 00:33:00.569 like permanently crippled i think at least two 00:33:00.569 --> 00:33:02.329 of them had to be put in suspended animation 00:33:02.329 --> 00:33:04.569 just to see if they could ever make anything 00:33:04.569 --> 00:33:10.349 out of it um so 33 spartan twos initially yeah 00:33:10.349 --> 00:33:13.670 and um i did i do have to correct something uh 00:33:13.670 --> 00:33:15.490 there was an episode of law crimes we did a while 00:33:15.490 --> 00:33:18.619 back where i said that Master Chief is the highest 00:33:18.619 --> 00:33:21.740 rank of, like, Spartan officers without being 00:33:21.740 --> 00:33:24.539 a commissioned officer. It's only the case for 00:33:24.539 --> 00:33:27.099 Spartan 2s. The only one who was higher ranked 00:33:27.099 --> 00:33:30.240 than Master Chief was Kurt Ambrose, who was, 00:33:30.259 --> 00:33:33.079 like, the guy who overtore the Spartan 3 program. 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:37.539 So, like, Carter from Halo Reach outranks Master 00:33:37.539 --> 00:33:40.119 Chief, but that's just because Spartan 3s were 00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:41.640 mass produced, whereas Spartan 2s, there were 00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:44.839 so few of them. They were like, we can't give 00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:48.299 Master Chief a desk job. He's too powerful. We 00:33:48.299 --> 00:33:51.380 need to keep him in the front lines. That would 00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:57.519 be a bit of a waste. Yeah, so the war then continues 00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:01.700 on as this. And of course, the other final thing, 00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:04.619 just because everyone likes big guns. Mac cannons. 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:10.239 Super big rail gun, because at the end of the 00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:12.519 day, right? You can have all the fancy science 00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:16.420 fiction, whatever you want. Big rock thrown fast 00:34:16.420 --> 00:34:20.840 enough is still the ultimate weapon. Even that 00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:23.380 close in atmosphere, it's fine, George. Don't 00:34:23.380 --> 00:34:25.380 worry about it. And if I remember correctly, 00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:29.659 the orbital ones can fire something at 4 % the 00:34:29.659 --> 00:34:33.960 speed of light. Those ones, if they managed to 00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:36.639 hit right, they would go through one Covenant 00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:39.199 ship, then go through a second. And it was only 00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:41.519 the third one that would finally stop the Mac 00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:46.880 round. That being said, as much as all those 00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:50.019 things are nice, humanity is outnumbered vastly. 00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:53.199 They're outgunned. Every destroyed Covenant ship 00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:55.739 is promptly replaced by another. And it's not 00:34:55.739 --> 00:35:00.079 like the Covenant is lacking for leadership of 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:01.980 their own, even ignoring the Prophets. There's, 00:35:01.980 --> 00:35:05.519 of course, the Elites. I do love me some giant 00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:10.920 warrior lizards. led by their own intelligent 00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:14.400 admirals ready to see the war through, eliminate 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:17.159 the scourge on their religion, such as good old 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:19.980 Thel Vadimi, a .k .a. the Arbiter, for when we 00:35:19.980 --> 00:35:28.340 get there. And over the next 30 -odd years, a 00:35:28.340 --> 00:35:32.239 little bit less, humanity goes from 800 worlds 00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:39.880 to maybe a dozen. The war is just absolutely 00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.739 brutal. Billions are dying. Eventually, they 00:35:43.739 --> 00:35:46.619 just start evacuating. The Covenants show up. 00:35:46.659 --> 00:35:49.079 They're like, get everyone on a freighter that 00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:53.260 we can. Send them somewhere else. And the next 00:35:53.260 --> 00:35:56.420 30 years is mankind doing every single possible 00:35:56.420 --> 00:35:59.139 thing it can at a certain point just to slow 00:35:59.139 --> 00:36:03.840 the Covenant. By the 20th year of the war, it's 00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:06.079 starting to become clear that I don't know if 00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:10.739 we can win this fight. There's a variety of different 00:36:10.739 --> 00:36:13.159 things. There's the Cole Protocol. Once again, 00:36:13.219 --> 00:36:17.980 Admiral Preston J. Cole, who says, if you're 00:36:17.980 --> 00:36:20.699 captured or about to be boarded or about to be 00:36:20.699 --> 00:36:23.960 destroyed, erase all your navigational data. 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:26.860 Destroy your ship's logs. They cannot find Earth 00:36:26.860 --> 00:36:29.380 or any other planets, but mainly Earth. Can't 00:36:29.380 --> 00:36:32.449 find Earth. Don't let them do that. If you can 00:36:32.449 --> 00:36:34.969 retreat, just jump some more random in space. 00:36:35.050 --> 00:36:37.250 Basically, just smash your hand on the keyboard 00:36:37.250 --> 00:36:41.289 and the GPS input and go wherever you end up 00:36:41.289 --> 00:36:43.269 and then do that a few more times until you can 00:36:43.269 --> 00:36:49.849 finally set a course to safe waters, right? Spartans, 00:36:49.849 --> 00:36:52.650 for the first, I think, it's almost like 30 years 00:36:52.650 --> 00:36:55.510 of their existence, they're not even publicly 00:36:55.510 --> 00:36:59.610 made aware of. But eventually they are, people 00:36:59.610 --> 00:37:02.710 are like, Oni is like, hey, look, we got these 00:37:02.710 --> 00:37:05.030 really cool super soldiers. Aren't they awesome? 00:37:05.570 --> 00:37:08.269 And then ignore the fact that a suspicious amount 00:37:08.269 --> 00:37:10.789 of them are listed as MIA. Spartans never die. 00:37:10.829 --> 00:37:14.050 They're only missing in action. Which is indeed 00:37:14.050 --> 00:37:18.309 official protocol by Oni to never list a Spartan 00:37:18.309 --> 00:37:21.130 as dead. Because no one wants to find out that 00:37:21.130 --> 00:37:24.690 those demigods are actually quite killable. Yep. 00:37:26.679 --> 00:37:30.039 And again, throughout this, there are isolated 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:34.599 human wins. Preston J. Cole goes out, and I say 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:36.940 go out, not die, because there's evidence he 00:37:36.940 --> 00:37:38.659 might have lived and just retired because he 00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:46.119 was just done fighting. He lured about 300 Covenant 00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:49.139 ships into a gas giant and then fired a fleet's 00:37:49.139 --> 00:37:51.360 worth of nukes at that gas giant to turn it into 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:55.969 a star. which vaporized the entire Covenant fleet. 00:37:56.809 --> 00:38:00.710 Nice. The Spartans were this whole time raining 00:38:00.710 --> 00:38:04.250 merry hell, doing what they can to kill every 00:38:04.250 --> 00:38:06.630 Covenant. But as the year goes on, there's less 00:38:06.630 --> 00:38:09.389 and less Spartans. And they can only be deployed 00:38:09.389 --> 00:38:14.110 in like... like kind of like that with like 40k 00:38:14.110 --> 00:38:16.269 like one spartan like master chief can do a lot 00:38:16.269 --> 00:38:20.070 but he's he's limited to a city or a small place 00:38:20.070 --> 00:38:22.230 he can only do anything that's in like small 00:38:22.230 --> 00:38:25.269 arms fire range there's a lot of fighting going 00:38:25.269 --> 00:38:28.630 on and um every time you lose one of those guys 00:38:28.630 --> 00:38:33.289 they're basically irreplaceable so yeah not great 00:38:33.289 --> 00:38:35.230 even as powerful as they are they can only be 00:38:35.230 --> 00:38:38.710 in one place at one time you know they do eventually 00:38:38.710 --> 00:38:42.230 start constructing uh constructing. I guess that 00:38:42.230 --> 00:38:44.750 is a good enough word. Spartan III is the third 00:38:44.750 --> 00:38:47.170 generation, headed by a man named Colonel James 00:38:47.170 --> 00:38:51.909 Ackerson, who I'll give Catherine Halsey some 00:38:51.909 --> 00:38:55.289 amount of credit. She did at least feel bad about 00:38:55.289 --> 00:38:58.070 it. You still kidnap the children and turn them 00:38:58.070 --> 00:39:01.110 into machines of war. She at least had the conscience 00:39:01.110 --> 00:39:05.809 to feel bad about doing it. Yeah. Ackerson did 00:39:05.809 --> 00:39:13.139 not have that conscience. Nope. He admitted it, 00:39:13.219 --> 00:39:17.300 but he didn't feel bad. This goal was to, you 00:39:17.300 --> 00:39:20.059 know, we have Spartans. They're not enough. We 00:39:20.059 --> 00:39:23.239 need expendable Spartans. So he made some expendable 00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:26.139 Spartans. And I'll give the threes some credit. 00:39:26.219 --> 00:39:28.539 I like the threes. If they were given the same 00:39:28.539 --> 00:39:30.539 care as the twos, they could have been just as 00:39:30.539 --> 00:39:33.699 good, if not better. They were given worse off 00:39:33.699 --> 00:39:37.340 armor and basically the explicit purpose of the 00:39:37.340 --> 00:39:41.230 threes. was send them on missions that an ODST 00:39:41.230 --> 00:39:43.969 can't complete and a Spartan 2 can't complete 00:39:43.969 --> 00:39:47.469 without dying in the process. And send like three 00:39:47.469 --> 00:39:49.670 of them, just to be sure. And to be fair, if 00:39:49.670 --> 00:39:52.230 you've got like 40 Spartan 2s, if you can make 00:39:52.230 --> 00:39:55.650 like 400 Spartan 3s, that's a lot more war zones 00:39:55.650 --> 00:39:58.849 that could benefit from Spartans. Indeed, but 00:39:58.849 --> 00:40:01.449 that's basically how it worked. The first couple 00:40:01.449 --> 00:40:04.769 missions of each generation of Spartan 3s, there 00:40:04.769 --> 00:40:06.869 was like 300 of each. You know, 300 Spartans. 00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:11.000 They'd spend like a couple months going on missions 00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:12.719 against the Covenant, kicking ass, taking names. 00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:15.519 These are, again, still children, and it was 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.820 even worse for them because the genetic selection 00:40:19.820 --> 00:40:22.900 process was made looser because technology improved 00:40:22.900 --> 00:40:25.699 after the Spartan IIs, which meant they would 00:40:25.699 --> 00:40:27.800 go up to basically any old random war orphan 00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:29.980 from the Covenant, some six -year -old, and go, 00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:33.039 hey, little Timmy, do you want to hurt the people 00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:36.320 that killed Mommy and Daddy? Yeah, and to be 00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:38.800 fair, with the outbreak of the first contact, 00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:44.340 I believe John was like 14 years old. So he wasn't 00:40:44.340 --> 00:40:47.300 super old by the time he was deployed. And I 00:40:47.300 --> 00:40:49.300 think now in the timeline, he's like pushing 00:40:49.300 --> 00:40:52.980 50. He's got them old bones and he's not allowed 00:40:52.980 --> 00:40:56.420 to sleep. In modern Halo, yeah, he's getting 00:40:56.420 --> 00:41:00.219 older, but he's not even 50. He's getting there, 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:03.719 but they were quite young. I think it's even 00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:06.480 worse for the threes because at least the twos 00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:10.480 had like five years of training for the augmentations 00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:14.059 and time to at least hit puberty. The threes 00:41:14.059 --> 00:41:18.639 were induced puberty, which means that even before 00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:21.400 they were augmented, like there's passages where 00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:24.380 they would stand up and you went from the body 00:41:24.380 --> 00:41:27.219 of a six -year -old to the body of like a 20 00:41:27.219 --> 00:41:30.070 -year -old and to learn how to walk again. And 00:41:30.070 --> 00:41:31.869 then they were augmented and given power armor 00:41:31.869 --> 00:41:35.989 and said, all right, go get them, buddy. I don't 00:41:35.989 --> 00:41:38.590 know how to spell yet. I can't read. Don't worry 00:41:38.590 --> 00:41:41.070 about it. Can you count to 15? Because that's 00:41:41.070 --> 00:41:43.989 what the ammo counter goes up to. Can you count 00:41:43.989 --> 00:41:46.050 the amount of grenades on your chest? Yeah. Well, 00:41:46.150 --> 00:41:49.210 don't lose count because if you drop one, you're 00:41:49.210 --> 00:41:52.550 going to be in trouble. Have at them. That's 00:41:52.550 --> 00:41:55.369 the measures humanity is resorting to at this 00:41:55.369 --> 00:41:59.000 point because it is not looking good. Again, 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:02.460 sporadic victories, but by and large, over the 00:42:02.460 --> 00:42:04.780 course of those almost 30 years, we go from, 00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:06.800 yeah, humanity's got a pretty decent little space 00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:10.940 empire going, to where'd all those planets go? 00:42:11.820 --> 00:42:14.199 They're turned into glass, because the Covenant, 00:42:14.300 --> 00:42:16.980 it's called glassing, they show up with their 00:42:16.980 --> 00:42:20.320 massive ships and their plasma beams, fire at 00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:26.250 the ground until the planet is glass. without 00:42:26.250 --> 00:42:29.230 the scorching more of the let's just let's just 00:42:29.230 --> 00:42:31.889 and to be fair that would come in handy later 00:42:31.889 --> 00:42:35.389 on in the halo timeline at least from humanity's 00:42:35.389 --> 00:42:37.469 perspective but right now it's not great right 00:42:37.469 --> 00:42:40.710 now no this is this is awful i just spent all 00:42:40.710 --> 00:42:42.889 this money on this beautiful house on this on 00:42:42.889 --> 00:42:46.989 the coast oh no it's turned into glass oh no 00:42:46.989 --> 00:42:53.389 and then i'm turned into glass oh no uh oof is 00:42:53.389 --> 00:42:58.610 a good way to put it. It's, they... I remember 00:42:58.610 --> 00:43:00.489 reading, it's in Halo Reach, you can find a data 00:43:00.489 --> 00:43:02.030 log where it's like, initially they're like, 00:43:02.150 --> 00:43:04.730 well, based on what we, you know, we believe 00:43:04.730 --> 00:43:06.630 the Covenant fleet size to be, it would take 00:43:06.630 --> 00:43:08.630 them hundreds of years to glass a single planet, 00:43:08.690 --> 00:43:10.730 let alone all of them. And then they realize, 00:43:10.849 --> 00:43:12.510 oh, there's a lot more Covenant ships than we 00:43:12.510 --> 00:43:19.030 thought there was. Glassing takes days, not centuries. 00:43:21.630 --> 00:43:24.869 They don't always totally glass a planet. Some 00:43:24.869 --> 00:43:27.030 terraforming can always be done. Sometimes they 00:43:27.030 --> 00:43:29.010 just glass the human settlements and then leave. 00:43:29.469 --> 00:43:33.789 But on the real populated worlds, you got a nice 00:43:33.789 --> 00:43:39.849 little marble now left over. Yeah. Going forward 00:43:39.849 --> 00:43:43.730 from there, we would get to the closing years 00:43:43.730 --> 00:43:49.139 of the war. There's, at this point... essentially 00:43:49.139 --> 00:43:52.920 two planets of any worth humanity has left. Earth, 00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:57.059 of course. And I will give Halo credit. They 00:43:57.059 --> 00:44:02.199 avoided calling it Terra. I know after I've... 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:07.579 I got done yapping about Battletech for two hours. 00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:09.880 They also call it Terra. Something about war 00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:12.599 games. They really like changing Earth to Terra. 00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.050 They like that Latin name for some reason. They 00:44:16.050 --> 00:44:18.409 held back in Halo. But yeah, so it's just Earth. 00:44:19.369 --> 00:44:22.789 And of course, the planet of Reach. The most 00:44:22.789 --> 00:44:25.170 important planet, arguably more so than Earth, 00:44:25.269 --> 00:44:27.230 because Earth is the homeworld of humanity. It's 00:44:27.230 --> 00:44:30.289 where a lot of political organizations are home. 00:44:30.369 --> 00:44:33.489 It is important. It's not just symbolic. Reach 00:44:33.489 --> 00:44:35.590 is where you make the weapons that you need to 00:44:35.590 --> 00:44:37.909 kill the aliens that want to kill you. It's like 00:44:37.909 --> 00:44:40.070 Armageddon. Like, oh no, we can't lose this one. 00:44:40.130 --> 00:44:42.170 It's too important. Yeah, it's like, I know it 00:44:42.170 --> 00:44:47.039 sucks, but we really need to keep it. It's like 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:49.039 the headquarters of the military. It's the home 00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:53.179 of the Spartans. I forget the exact number, but 00:44:53.179 --> 00:44:56.380 it's like some hugely disproportionate amount 00:44:56.380 --> 00:45:00.139 of the Navy and the Army come out of Reach. I 00:45:00.139 --> 00:45:02.400 think half of its population is enlisted in the 00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:05.719 military. Yeah, I get the impression from Reach 00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:08.300 that the actual native population, there's not 00:45:08.300 --> 00:45:10.059 that much of them. It's like farming communities 00:45:10.059 --> 00:45:13.920 and stuff like that. it's not about that. It's 00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:16.059 about, we have all these top secret facilities 00:45:16.059 --> 00:45:18.719 and enlisted men who are doing stuff, but they 00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:20.460 don't ask. Don't worry. Don't worry about that. 00:45:20.500 --> 00:45:22.519 We're just, you do your farming and leave us 00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:24.559 alone and we'll leave you alone. It's fine. Yeah. 00:45:25.019 --> 00:45:26.480 There's, there's, I think, like I said at the 00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:28.219 beginning, there's foreigner artifacts on reach 00:45:28.219 --> 00:45:30.539 too. It's like for like all, like every tier 00:45:30.539 --> 00:45:32.380 you can imagine. And there's just massive amounts 00:45:32.380 --> 00:45:34.739 of titanium, which is what the UNSC builds their 00:45:34.739 --> 00:45:37.079 ship out of. So everything for like the most 00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:41.500 mundane, boring reason, we need it to mine. to 00:45:41.500 --> 00:45:45.380 the most top -secret alien super project stuff 00:45:45.380 --> 00:45:49.420 going on in the bowels of Reach. Reach is very 00:45:49.420 --> 00:45:51.920 important. And let's not forget the most important 00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:54.639 thing about Reach, those ostrich -looking things 00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:56.579 that you see on the first level that run past 00:45:56.579 --> 00:45:59.860 you. The moas. Yeah, they're great. You can get 00:45:59.860 --> 00:46:02.239 a moa burger when you're in New Alexandria, or 00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:09.800 Reach City, as a certain show calls it. Doesn't 00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:12.960 that same certain show kill the Arbiter in a 00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:15.980 fight with Master Chief? It kills a Arbiter. 00:46:17.380 --> 00:46:21.400 One of them, yeah. There were other Arbiters, 00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:27.039 but that's not why they did it in the TV show. 00:46:27.139 --> 00:46:29.300 That wasn't a cool little reference to an existing 00:46:29.300 --> 00:46:33.679 character. That was a show bad. Well, it's over 00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:38.440 now. We're free. We're free. Now it's just the 00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:42.639 new Halo games we have to worry about. Anyway. 00:46:44.059 --> 00:46:48.159 Reach. This is... Again, I will give Halsey credit. 00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:50.920 She's a monstrous human being. But she makes 00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:55.719 a point. If Reach falls, we're screwed. Oni estimates, 00:46:56.019 --> 00:46:58.280 the good ol' Office of Naval Intelligence, that 00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:01.820 we got about three months. Like, within three 00:47:01.820 --> 00:47:04.059 months, Coven are gonna find Reach. Like, it 00:47:04.059 --> 00:47:09.699 is inevitable. Three days later. Which, you know, 00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:12.139 three days is technically within three months, 00:47:12.300 --> 00:47:16.539 but when you say three months, I'd give it at 00:47:16.539 --> 00:47:18.460 least like a month and a half before I'd start 00:47:18.460 --> 00:47:22.480 really worrying. Three days is a little early 00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:28.000 in that time span. Thank you, Oni. Noble team, 00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:31.579 a group of Spartan threes, and one two, are sent 00:47:31.579 --> 00:47:33.880 to investigate a comms relay going down. On the 00:47:33.880 --> 00:47:36.719 main military planet, you cannot risk insurrectionists 00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:40.050 causing shit. So they get there, and they find 00:47:40.050 --> 00:47:43.590 the Covenant are on Reach. And over the course 00:47:43.590 --> 00:47:46.710 of a single month, maybe about a month and a 00:47:46.710 --> 00:47:49.469 half, I think, actually, if I remember the game's 00:47:49.469 --> 00:47:53.269 little time dates correctly, Reach goes from 00:47:53.269 --> 00:47:55.550 the single most heavily defended UNSC planet 00:47:55.550 --> 00:48:00.889 to a barren wasteland. At one point, I think 00:48:00.889 --> 00:48:05.329 it says in the game, 40 % of the entire UNSC 00:48:05.329 --> 00:48:08.409 military was beelining it for reach, because 00:48:08.409 --> 00:48:12.210 we cannot lose this. This cannot happen. That 00:48:12.210 --> 00:48:16.769 made me imagine, since I got into 40k, imagine 00:48:16.769 --> 00:48:22.110 40 % of the Imperial Navy over Cadia. Imagine 00:48:22.110 --> 00:48:24.769 half of all the Space Marine chapters deploying 00:48:24.769 --> 00:48:27.530 all of their forces just to stop this one planet 00:48:27.530 --> 00:48:32.190 from dying. Oh, important then. Abaddon warps 00:48:32.190 --> 00:48:35.530 out of the warp. And then a wall of bullets emerges 00:48:35.530 --> 00:48:40.690 from space. Like, oh, that's a lot of Nova cannons. 00:48:41.429 --> 00:48:45.909 Yeah. Unfortunately, the UNSC does not have that 00:48:45.909 --> 00:48:48.989 hardware. They have those orbital Mac planets. 00:48:49.170 --> 00:48:51.070 They're taking Covenant names left, right, and 00:48:51.070 --> 00:48:53.610 center. On the ground, you know, you've got the 00:48:53.610 --> 00:48:57.590 UNSC army valiantly fighting, pushing the Covenant 00:48:57.590 --> 00:48:59.630 back. In some places, they do secure, you know, 00:48:59.650 --> 00:49:01.449 a good amount of victories. This is Reach. This 00:49:01.449 --> 00:49:04.239 is about... The only planet humanity has something 00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:08.980 resembling an advantage. And then, I mean, you 00:49:08.980 --> 00:49:10.820 know the cutscene. Slip space rupture detected. 00:49:11.400 --> 00:49:13.719 George destroys a supercarrier at the cost of 00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:16.699 his own life. What if 100 more ships showed up 00:49:16.699 --> 00:49:20.920 and fuck you? Yeah. This time led by... Not fair, 00:49:21.059 --> 00:49:24.760 not fair. Yeah. This time led by the man who 00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:27.719 would become the Arbiter. So he's in charge now 00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:31.679 and he... He was a very decorated elite admiral. 00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:34.500 If I remember correctly, you could trace back 00:49:34.500 --> 00:49:37.400 one billion dead humans to his actions in the 00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:42.940 war. He knew how to fight, to say the least. 00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:48.519 So, in spite of this, reach within barely, not 00:49:48.519 --> 00:49:51.400 even two months, goes from the headquarters of 00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:55.920 the military to a barren wasteland. And by this 00:49:55.920 --> 00:49:58.559 point... humanity's kind of just waiting to die. 00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:00.500 I will say, there is one thing, and I know you 00:50:00.500 --> 00:50:03.019 find Halo 4 very boring. I will give it credit. 00:50:03.139 --> 00:50:05.539 I do like the original purpose of the UNSC Infinity. 00:50:07.139 --> 00:50:11.480 Because by this point, humanity was kind of accepting 00:50:11.480 --> 00:50:16.039 that we've lost. Like, this is it. We've lost. 00:50:17.219 --> 00:50:19.340 So the original purpose of the Infinity, that 00:50:19.340 --> 00:50:23.320 big ship from Halo 4 and beyond, was a giant, 00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:26.880 like, ark ship. fiddle with as many people as 00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:29.900 we can make it as big as we can and send it off 00:50:29.900 --> 00:50:35.900 to space so someone will survive but isn't Halo 00:50:35.900 --> 00:50:38.579 4 also the game that's like oh by the way all 00:50:38.579 --> 00:50:41.440 the war crimes Halsey did we imprinted them in 00:50:41.440 --> 00:50:44.420 her mind because the Spartans we actually made 00:50:44.420 --> 00:50:46.280 like a blueprint for them in your genetic material 00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:48.920 so they were inevitably going to be created and 00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:51.300 therefore we're going to take away all of the 00:50:51.300 --> 00:50:54.119 moral quandaries of the spartans just say oh 00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:56.280 no we put that there because we knew what was 00:50:56.280 --> 00:50:59.340 going to happen and oh i hate that storyline 00:50:59.340 --> 00:51:03.519 we can ignore that one yeah not a fan not a fan 00:51:03.519 --> 00:51:06.980 like i still think halo 5 is a decent game but 00:51:06.980 --> 00:51:09.719 there's a there's a lot that's uh halo 5 is a 00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:13.539 decent game halo 4 no no i was gonna say you 00:51:13.539 --> 00:51:17.119 don't want that on the internet i like halo 4 00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:20.809 i will defend halo 4 I will defend Halo 5's multiplayer 00:51:20.809 --> 00:51:24.650 parts of it. There's only so much that Nathan 00:51:24.650 --> 00:51:27.510 Fillion can save that game. He can't hold it 00:51:27.510 --> 00:51:32.050 up on his own. When Buck and the Arbiter show 00:51:32.050 --> 00:51:35.010 up in Halo 5, it's like a drowning man getting 00:51:35.010 --> 00:51:38.510 a brief gasp of fresh air before you're sent 00:51:38.510 --> 00:51:44.510 back down to drown in the shit pile. Yeah. But 00:51:44.510 --> 00:51:48.489 Human Covenant War at this point... It's going 00:51:48.489 --> 00:51:51.690 to be over soon one way or another. In fact, 00:51:51.690 --> 00:51:53.389 what Master Chief was going to be doing during 00:51:53.389 --> 00:51:56.809 this was one last final mission. Get all of the 00:51:56.809 --> 00:52:01.630 Spartan 2s together. Refit a specialized human 00:52:01.630 --> 00:52:05.409 cruiser, the Pillar of Autumn. And try and find 00:52:05.409 --> 00:52:07.469 the Covenant homeworld and kidnap one of their 00:52:07.469 --> 00:52:09.570 leaders and hopefully force a ceasefire, right? 00:52:11.090 --> 00:52:13.190 And then Reach happened. They don't get to do 00:52:13.190 --> 00:52:15.730 that. Master Chief is aboard the Pillar of Autumn. 00:52:15.829 --> 00:52:19.489 It makes a... random, according to the Cole Protocol 00:52:19.489 --> 00:52:23.570 jump, but it actually jumps to, of course, the 00:52:23.570 --> 00:52:26.250 beginning of Halo Combat Evolved. It does not 00:52:26.250 --> 00:52:29.269 jump to a random system, because Cortana was 00:52:29.269 --> 00:52:31.769 with Halsey, digging around in Forerunner stuff, 00:52:32.070 --> 00:52:36.570 with Noble Six's sacrifice, get Cortana to the 00:52:36.570 --> 00:52:39.190 Chief, the Pillar of Autumn makes that jump, 00:52:39.369 --> 00:52:43.710 and we end up over this strange floating ring. 00:52:44.769 --> 00:52:47.190 Andy, what do you want to say? What is this ring? 00:52:48.650 --> 00:52:58.630 They call it Halo. What is it, said Captain Keyes? 00:52:58.670 --> 00:53:01.110 It's a big ring, isn't it, said Cortana. And 00:53:01.110 --> 00:53:06.829 then, fun game. And this is where we can summarize 00:53:06.829 --> 00:53:08.769 a bit more through this, because this is the 00:53:08.769 --> 00:53:13.019 Halo games now. But we find this ring. This fancy 00:53:13.019 --> 00:53:16.300 big old ring in space. And the Covenant are very 00:53:16.300 --> 00:53:21.260 interested in it. So naturally, Cortana has some 00:53:21.260 --> 00:53:23.059 extent of knowledge as to what it is. Not full 00:53:23.059 --> 00:53:25.480 extent. You find that out partway through the 00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:28.579 game, what Halo exactly is. But knowledge of 00:53:28.579 --> 00:53:31.500 foreign artifacts is a little bit had by her. 00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:34.780 So everyone touches down. Pillar of Autumn gets 00:53:34.780 --> 00:53:36.780 shot out of the sky after taking down a good 00:53:36.780 --> 00:53:38.360 amount of Covenant ships. Good for the Pillar 00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:42.679 of Autumn. Good for Cortana. uh there was as 00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:45.400 truth might say blinded by its majesty at first 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:49.300 uh they uh they begin fighting on these alien 00:53:49.300 --> 00:53:52.639 ruins doing what they can to invent ruins artifact 00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:55.400 is a better word doing what they can to investigate 00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:59.840 uh they were looking for a super weapon uh because 00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:02.500 as halsey puts it as they added in halo reach 00:54:02.500 --> 00:54:06.219 we need something real special and we think this 00:54:06.219 --> 00:54:09.019 might be it and am i right in thinking because 00:54:09.019 --> 00:54:11.780 you mentioned that The man who would be Arbiter 00:54:11.780 --> 00:54:16.460 was in charge of the Reach campaign. He diverted 00:54:16.460 --> 00:54:18.219 to follow this Pillar of Autumn because that's 00:54:18.219 --> 00:54:22.239 the beginning of Halo 2. He's getting stuck with 00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:25.500 a big hot poker, but he's in charge of the Halo 00:54:25.500 --> 00:54:28.900 1 offensive. Yeah, he is the one in charge of 00:54:28.900 --> 00:54:33.119 the ships over the Halo, the first Halo. Well, 00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:34.960 I believe it's Installation 04, technically, 00:54:35.119 --> 00:54:38.019 so first Halo, what are you going to do? First 00:54:38.019 --> 00:54:41.289 contact of the Halo device. Yeah. There's some 00:54:41.289 --> 00:54:43.570 evidence humanity has to believe that this could 00:54:43.570 --> 00:54:46.329 be a superweapon. Humanity being like Oni, Halsey, 00:54:46.469 --> 00:54:49.389 Cortana. Everyone else is like, what the hell 00:54:49.389 --> 00:54:52.949 is this? So they land on it. They're like, alright, 00:54:53.110 --> 00:54:55.750 let's see what this is. Covenant lands on it 00:54:55.750 --> 00:54:58.570 soon, sure enough. Start finding out that the 00:54:58.570 --> 00:55:03.210 ring is inhabited. Mostly just by Forerunner 00:55:03.210 --> 00:55:06.949 constructs. Nothing too special. Sentinels. At 00:55:06.949 --> 00:55:09.710 this point on Halo, they're just kind of floating 00:55:09.710 --> 00:55:13.050 around, making repairs, existing. Nothing too 00:55:13.050 --> 00:55:17.670 fancy. And then the Covenant decide to play a... 00:55:17.670 --> 00:55:20.090 What is that game show where it's like, what's 00:55:20.090 --> 00:55:24.349 behind the door? You could win a brand new car. 00:55:24.969 --> 00:55:28.409 Is it fair to say that they see the humans more 00:55:28.409 --> 00:55:30.369 as a nuisance? Because they're like, it's one 00:55:30.369 --> 00:55:33.360 ship. They've got a guy who's running around 00:55:33.360 --> 00:55:36.400 on the surface, but they're not concertedly sending 00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:38.559 the military to kill Master Chief. They're just 00:55:38.559 --> 00:55:42.400 like, oh, just look for the materials. We need 00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:43.900 to uncover what's going on. It's more of that 00:55:43.900 --> 00:55:46.699 Master Chief, in a way, gets a bit of a lucky 00:55:46.699 --> 00:55:49.300 break of they're not focusing on the humans. 00:55:49.380 --> 00:55:52.079 They're distracted by the Forerunner tech, which 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:55.739 is why he's able to circumnavigate their battle 00:55:55.739 --> 00:55:58.780 lines. do some damage, and it's only until this 00:55:58.780 --> 00:56:02.280 point when you realize, oh, we weren't the threat 00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:05.260 all along. There's something else living here, 00:56:05.340 --> 00:56:08.380 and it's scary. Part one is like, because the 00:56:08.380 --> 00:56:10.719 Halo Rings, again, for a little bit more, is 00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:13.380 how the Covenant would ascend as the Forerunners 00:56:13.380 --> 00:56:16.340 did in their belief. You activate the Halo Rings, 00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:20.159 you get to be gods along with your Forerunners. 00:56:20.179 --> 00:56:22.239 Now you ascend with them, alongside them, and 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:26.820 you can live in an eternal paradise. And then 00:56:26.820 --> 00:56:30.800 as they're poking around, they open a door. And 00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:34.460 as the Master Chief is fighting, and the rest 00:56:34.460 --> 00:56:36.380 of, if you read the book Halo of the Flood, you 00:56:36.380 --> 00:56:38.960 actually get to see what the rest of the Pillar 00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:40.860 of Autumn's crew was doing. Like, guerrilla war, 00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:43.219 they've got a couple bases here and there, trying 00:56:43.219 --> 00:56:45.920 to do what they can on the Halo rings. There 00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:48.760 are actually, Halo rings are also part wildlife 00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:51.530 preserve. They were cut from the games for technical 00:56:51.530 --> 00:56:53.150 reasons, but there were supposed to be animals 00:56:53.150 --> 00:56:54.889 and stuff around. So, you know, there's foraging, 00:56:54.889 --> 00:56:57.989 scavenging, seeing what the hell this weird thing 00:56:57.989 --> 00:56:59.769 is. They've never seen anything like it, even 00:56:59.769 --> 00:57:03.489 after 30 years of fighting aliens. Covenant open 00:57:03.489 --> 00:57:09.030 a door. It gets quiet in that little area. Captain 00:57:09.030 --> 00:57:14.090 Keyes is like, we think there might be weapons 00:57:14.090 --> 00:57:16.030 in that door. Why are they being so quiet about 00:57:16.030 --> 00:57:18.610 it? They might have found something cool. Captain 00:57:18.610 --> 00:57:21.550 Keyes goes to investigate. Why is Captain Keyes 00:57:21.550 --> 00:57:23.250 falling silent now? He must have been captured 00:57:23.250 --> 00:57:26.210 by the Covenant. And where is Johnson? Where 00:57:26.210 --> 00:57:30.670 is my boy? Where is Johnson? Johnson apparently 00:57:30.670 --> 00:57:32.750 just book it and ran, which I don't blame him. 00:57:32.989 --> 00:57:34.969 He's built different. Don't worry about it. He's 00:57:34.969 --> 00:57:38.130 built different. So now it's time to send in 00:57:38.130 --> 00:57:39.829 the chief. Like, all right, what's going on here? 00:57:39.949 --> 00:57:43.760 What's going on here? He shows up. Whole bunch 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:46.239 of grunts running for their lives. And jackals, 00:57:46.300 --> 00:57:49.639 which is different. That's different. Usually 00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:51.579 we're the ones running. What's going on here? 00:57:52.340 --> 00:57:54.699 Dio dives into the facility. It's very quiet. 00:57:55.420 --> 00:58:00.400 There's one crazy Marine. Why is he crazy? Horror 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:04.320 is a war. Get away from me! Get away from me! 00:58:04.699 --> 00:58:08.039 You're dead. You're dead. Oh, God. That's concerning. 00:58:08.239 --> 00:58:11.400 Why are the walls glooping? Why are they making 00:58:11.400 --> 00:58:16.369 gloopy noises? let's go in deeper why not he 00:58:16.369 --> 00:58:20.210 goes in deeper finds a recording and oh zombies 00:58:20.210 --> 00:58:23.650 exist that's fun oh they're mushrooms that uh 00:58:23.650 --> 00:58:28.849 can control oh shit the flood are now here uh 00:58:28.849 --> 00:58:31.269 the third participant of the human covenant war 00:58:31.269 --> 00:58:34.369 though a very brief one is here to be a problem 00:58:34.369 --> 00:58:40.940 uh the flood for those unaware Oh, good God. 00:58:41.019 --> 00:58:43.260 How do I summarize this after all that has been 00:58:43.260 --> 00:58:45.679 released about the Flood and everything? The 00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:47.820 Forerunner, as you can guess from the name Forerunner, 00:58:47.900 --> 00:58:50.039 they were the civilization that ruled the galaxy 00:58:50.039 --> 00:58:54.900 before anyone else. The Flood are the corrupted 00:58:54.900 --> 00:58:56.920 remnants of the guys that came before them that 00:58:56.920 --> 00:58:59.719 the Forerunners killed. They tried to kill everyone 00:58:59.719 --> 00:59:03.300 once, as Master Chief soon finds out. In order 00:59:03.300 --> 00:59:05.219 to defeat the Flood, because there was no other 00:59:05.219 --> 00:59:07.159 option for the Forerunners, they just had to 00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:10.449 kill. Everything in the galaxy. Basically larger 00:59:10.449 --> 00:59:16.130 than a spider. To starve the flood out. And they 00:59:16.130 --> 00:59:20.550 contain the rest. To try and. Study and just 00:59:20.550 --> 00:59:23.969 keep them. From getting out and escaping. That's 00:59:23.969 --> 00:59:26.230 always a good idea. We need to understand that 00:59:26.230 --> 00:59:29.090 they. No kill it. Put it in the fire. Put it 00:59:29.090 --> 00:59:33.780 in the furnace. They take over the bodies and 00:59:33.780 --> 00:59:37.699 minds and biomass of those around them and add 00:59:37.699 --> 00:59:40.960 them to the ranks. They're proper zombies. Well, 00:59:41.019 --> 00:59:43.400 much more horrifying zombies because these ones 00:59:43.400 --> 00:59:47.119 can leap 50 feet at you. And they can use guns 00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:50.739 and pilot vehicles and even ships. And are guided 00:59:50.739 --> 00:59:53.340 by a vastly intelligent hive mind. It's like 00:59:53.340 --> 00:59:55.719 the tyranids if the hive mind would sometimes 00:59:55.719 --> 00:59:59.300 speak poetry at you. It's an articulate, tyrannid 00:59:59.300 --> 01:00:02.440 hive mind. Like, yeah, they can speak. And I 01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:06.300 must admit, I think the first time I saw the 01:00:06.300 --> 01:00:09.880 Halo anniversary cutscene of the grave mind, 01:00:10.099 --> 01:00:14.260 I think my jaw dropped because of, like, how 01:00:14.260 --> 01:00:17.940 gross it was. Oh, yeah. How interesting it was. 01:00:18.059 --> 01:00:23.820 I'm like, ugh. Yeah, it's nasty. The Covenant 01:00:23.820 --> 01:00:27.679 are... Now also dealing with this threat, the 01:00:27.679 --> 01:00:31.019 sentinels around the Halo have realized, oh, 01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:34.659 the flood's out. That's bad. Humanity's now dealing 01:00:34.659 --> 01:00:37.480 with this too. Everyone on Halo is like, why 01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:41.019 does this exist? This is a new awful problem. 01:00:41.280 --> 01:00:44.559 We only have one group of aliens to deal with. 01:00:44.679 --> 01:00:47.159 Chip's Dubbo like, what is that? Oh, let's shoot 01:00:47.159 --> 01:00:50.699 it with the rifle, Chief. Let's go. God bless 01:00:50.699 --> 01:00:55.809 Chip's Dubbo. Humanity, it's bad. It's not great, 01:00:55.969 --> 01:00:59.329 especially on the Halo ring. There's more battles 01:00:59.329 --> 01:01:01.250 taking place again, like there was another planet, 01:01:01.369 --> 01:01:05.190 I forget the name of it, but around the same 01:01:05.190 --> 01:01:07.949 time as Reach, just a little cutback to the rest 01:01:07.949 --> 01:01:11.130 of the outside universe, that about 90 % of the 01:01:11.130 --> 01:01:13.070 fleet around that planet was destroyed, so the 01:01:13.070 --> 01:01:14.789 Covenant in the background is still mulching 01:01:14.789 --> 01:01:18.630 its way through humanity. But in Halo, you can 01:01:18.630 --> 01:01:23.389 see, you know, Spaceman 117. fighting for his 01:01:23.389 --> 01:01:28.929 goddamn life. Eventually, he meets a Forerunner 01:01:28.929 --> 01:01:30.929 AI, which, if you read the Forerunner trilogy, 01:01:31.210 --> 01:01:35.489 and as much as I know people don't like a lot 01:01:35.489 --> 01:01:39.329 of Forerunner stuff, anything since 343, the 01:01:39.329 --> 01:01:41.030 Forerunner trilogy is quite a good read. I would 01:01:41.030 --> 01:01:45.489 recommend it. 343, Guilty Spark, a Forerunner 01:01:45.489 --> 01:01:49.559 AI, the Monitor of Installation 04. who is actually 01:01:49.559 --> 01:01:52.360 the digitized personality of an ancient human. 01:01:52.440 --> 01:01:58.739 Fun fact. They put him in a robo body. And is 01:01:58.739 --> 01:02:01.519 it worth briefly touching on like humans existed 01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:05.739 before the Covenant and they were there at the 01:02:05.739 --> 01:02:08.820 same time as the Forerunners? It is. Actually, 01:02:08.820 --> 01:02:10.679 that being said, I guess they had that brief 01:02:10.679 --> 01:02:13.590 little tangent. All the species did exist, because 01:02:13.590 --> 01:02:16.510 before the Halo's fire, the Forerunners basically 01:02:16.510 --> 01:02:19.289 went around cataloging everyone they could in 01:02:19.289 --> 01:02:22.369 massive preservation chambers, like, let's just 01:02:22.369 --> 01:02:24.269 save what we can, because we're going to kill 01:02:24.269 --> 01:02:28.389 everything else. Humanity did have an ancient 01:02:28.389 --> 01:02:30.070 space empire, and they did at one point fight 01:02:30.070 --> 01:02:32.489 the Forerunners, which, fun fact, their allies 01:02:32.489 --> 01:02:37.750 in that war were the Prophet Race. How are the 01:02:37.750 --> 01:02:40.789 turntables? You gotta get the Palpatine for that 01:02:40.789 --> 01:02:46.309 one. Ironic. But yeah, on Halo, the Flood is 01:02:46.309 --> 01:02:50.550 out rapidly assimilating everything. Just taking 01:02:50.550 --> 01:02:52.309 over everything, adding it to their biomass. 01:02:53.050 --> 01:02:56.050 Including good old Captain Keyes. And the Flood, 01:02:56.050 --> 01:02:58.429 too, is interested in the human homeworld of 01:02:58.429 --> 01:03:01.590 Earth. For less religious reasons than the Covenant 01:03:01.590 --> 01:03:04.170 were granted, the Flood simply want it just to 01:03:04.170 --> 01:03:08.679 eat. That sounds like a mighty fine buffet, said 01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:13.360 the Gravemind. This was never, I don't think 01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:16.280 it was ever even put into any kind of Halo canon. 01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:19.659 But the original idea they had at Bungie behind 01:03:19.659 --> 01:03:23.760 the Flood was that, you know, as a... I'll just 01:03:23.760 --> 01:03:26.599 say it now. The Flood, as more and more Flood 01:03:26.599 --> 01:03:28.659 exists, they get smarter. Because it adds your 01:03:28.659 --> 01:03:33.099 intelligence to the Hivemind. Every corpse added 01:03:33.099 --> 01:03:35.360 is a little bit more brainpower for the Flood. 01:03:35.659 --> 01:03:38.539 To have. Makes something called a proto -grave 01:03:38.539 --> 01:03:41.039 mind. Which is that weird icky ball sack thing. 01:03:41.659 --> 01:03:45.699 Captain Keyes was a part of. Which is very smart. 01:03:46.579 --> 01:03:48.900 Then if it gets bigger. Makes a grave mind. Which 01:03:48.900 --> 01:03:52.139 is the massive disgusting ugly. Tentacle thing. 01:03:53.139 --> 01:03:55.400 That speaks in iambic pentameter. I think it 01:03:55.400 --> 01:03:59.969 is. And originally, like I said, I don't believe 01:03:59.969 --> 01:04:02.329 this was ever added to any game or book, but 01:04:02.329 --> 01:04:04.550 the idea that the Bungie office was that the 01:04:04.550 --> 01:04:07.750 grave mine was not the end. They would then make 01:04:07.750 --> 01:04:10.630 more grave mines in other planets, and if they 01:04:10.630 --> 01:04:13.050 made enough grave mines, the Flood could then 01:04:13.050 --> 01:04:15.630 create a new universe by destroying the current 01:04:15.630 --> 01:04:19.630 one. Wow. Putting the Dead Space universe to 01:04:19.630 --> 01:04:21.369 shame there. We're like, we can become moons. 01:04:21.690 --> 01:04:25.340 We're making a new universe, mate. Follocks. 01:04:25.340 --> 01:04:28.420 Yeah. So even at some level, even before the 01:04:28.420 --> 01:04:30.659 Florida trilogy, the flood were eldritch zombies. 01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:35.599 Hmm. But Master Chief has one and Cortana. They've 01:04:35.599 --> 01:04:39.039 got one less ace up their sleeve. Even after, 01:04:39.079 --> 01:04:40.840 you know, Guilty Spark tells them to go activate 01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:43.880 the halo ring, which Cortana says, no, don't 01:04:43.880 --> 01:04:49.320 do that. That'll kill everyone. So Master Chief 01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:52.219 doesn't. That ace up his sleeve, the Pillar of 01:04:52.219 --> 01:04:55.219 Autumn slipspace engine. turn it on set it to 01:04:55.219 --> 01:04:59.119 overdrive and it blows up i must say i don't 01:04:59.119 --> 01:05:00.920 know how you felt the first time you played halo 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:04.179 but um i remember when i was at the end of the 01:05:04.179 --> 01:05:06.780 game on that and i'm like i don't know i'm like 01:05:06.780 --> 01:05:09.320 teenage yet less than a teenager at the time 01:05:09.320 --> 01:05:11.659 when it was released and that final level kicks 01:05:11.659 --> 01:05:15.820 in and the music's there and you just see the 01:05:15.820 --> 01:05:18.400 pillar of autumn beached on like the edge of 01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:21.079 this crevasse and you have and you have like 01:05:21.079 --> 01:05:22.960 the flood but it's just like it's just barren 01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:24.820 and you're going through the corridors again 01:05:24.820 --> 01:05:27.079 and you're like this is where this started and 01:05:27.079 --> 01:05:28.900 especially for me this was like a very important 01:05:28.900 --> 01:05:31.380 game for me because it was so different and it 01:05:31.380 --> 01:05:35.019 was just that going from this full of life level 01:05:35.019 --> 01:05:38.059 full of lots of staff and crew and keys and cortana 01:05:38.059 --> 01:05:40.099 and i'm like keys is dead i don't know where 01:05:40.099 --> 01:05:42.579 johnson is all the crew are dead although i haven't 01:05:42.579 --> 01:05:45.320 seen a human being in forever and so echo for 01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:49.400 i hope echo 419 is okay and then it's like going 01:05:49.400 --> 01:05:51.460 through there and it's like i remember when this 01:05:51.460 --> 01:05:54.079 started it was about fighting the covenant and 01:05:54.079 --> 01:05:56.599 now this threat makes them pale in comparison 01:05:56.599 --> 01:05:59.400 you're like wow that was so well done i love 01:05:59.400 --> 01:06:04.730 it yeah so yeah it's phenomenal First Halo blown 01:06:04.730 --> 01:06:06.969 up. Master Chief escapes. Gets back to Earth. 01:06:07.329 --> 01:06:09.809 Gets himself a fancy new suit of armor. Somehow 01:06:09.809 --> 01:06:13.210 Sergeant Johnson got off too. Don't worry about 01:06:13.210 --> 01:06:16.369 it. They did cover that in one of the books. 01:06:16.489 --> 01:06:20.269 Like there was some him and like three other 01:06:20.269 --> 01:06:22.949 people. Ships Dubbo! Ships Dubbo and I believe 01:06:22.949 --> 01:06:27.619 also another Spartan too, Naomi. I don't remember 01:06:27.619 --> 01:06:31.019 if it was Naomi. She's on the ship, isn't she? 01:06:31.079 --> 01:06:32.440 Because when you look at the beginning of the 01:06:32.440 --> 01:06:36.219 game, there's a readout of vital signs, and it's 01:06:36.219 --> 01:06:39.760 like John 117 and her, I think? There's that. 01:06:40.300 --> 01:06:43.579 I know at the end of Halo Reach, in one of the 01:06:43.579 --> 01:06:46.360 final cutscenes, if you pan the camera to the 01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:47.880 right, it's the only cutscene you can move the 01:06:47.880 --> 01:06:51.039 camera during. You can see her taking a nap in 01:06:51.039 --> 01:06:53.659 a cryo chamber. Because she was critically wounded, 01:06:53.860 --> 01:06:56.099 so they put her in the freeze tank to keep her 01:06:56.099 --> 01:07:02.260 alive. So that happens. Get back to Earth. Halo 01:07:02.260 --> 01:07:06.539 2, everyone's having a great time on Earth. And 01:07:06.539 --> 01:07:10.659 then we cut to the Arbiter, as he will soon be 01:07:10.659 --> 01:07:16.380 known, not having a great time. Also, Ron Perlman's 01:07:16.380 --> 01:07:21.320 here. It should be noted that at this point, 01:07:21.869 --> 01:07:24.690 War had been going on for a while. The elites 01:07:24.690 --> 01:07:27.989 at first threw themselves into it. They're the 01:07:27.989 --> 01:07:30.050 military arm of the Covenant. Let's take down 01:07:30.050 --> 01:07:33.489 these heathens. They started growing some respect 01:07:33.489 --> 01:07:36.289 for humanity over time and began to wonder, why 01:07:36.289 --> 01:07:39.429 don't we invite them to join the Covenant? They 01:07:39.429 --> 01:07:42.809 would see cases of lone human soldiers dying 01:07:42.809 --> 01:07:45.670 to buy time for people to escape. Humanity as 01:07:45.670 --> 01:07:49.110 a whole fighting tooth and nail. They were like, 01:07:49.250 --> 01:07:52.900 humans? They're pretty honorable warriors. We 01:07:52.900 --> 01:07:54.539 like them. We like what they're doing, which 01:07:54.539 --> 01:07:57.400 for an elite, you know, we can maybe talk about 01:07:57.400 --> 01:07:59.659 them another time. For an elite, acknowledging 01:07:59.659 --> 01:08:01.699 you as a potential equal in any way is like, 01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:03.579 ooh, that is one hell of a compliment. So a lot 01:08:03.579 --> 01:08:06.119 of the elites were like, they're pretty cool. 01:08:06.219 --> 01:08:09.480 Why don't we let them join? Sergeant Forge, giving 01:08:09.480 --> 01:08:12.920 them heck. And for the record, I'd have kicked 01:08:12.920 --> 01:08:15.860 your ass the first time if it wasn't for the 01:08:15.860 --> 01:08:18.260 lady. Yeah. Just like, yeah, turn on the rest 01:08:18.260 --> 01:08:22.180 of the news. Within the Covenant also, the elites 01:08:22.180 --> 01:08:25.220 and the prophets, a lot of politics go on in 01:08:25.220 --> 01:08:28.979 Covenant high society, as it were. Lots of big 01:08:28.979 --> 01:08:34.659 hats. Lots of big hats, lots of bickering. The 01:08:34.659 --> 01:08:39.520 prophets have always wanted to get definitely 01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:42.619 won over on the elites. And now, as more and 01:08:42.619 --> 01:08:45.039 more elites are wondering, why are we still fighting 01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:47.039 humanity? Surely they should be offered at least 01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:49.819 a chance to say yes and join, right? Because 01:08:49.819 --> 01:08:51.880 unlike anyone else, humanity was never given 01:08:51.880 --> 01:08:54.420 that option. I guess the grunts weren't either, 01:08:54.520 --> 01:08:56.619 but they weren't genocided. They were just enslaved. 01:08:57.100 --> 01:09:00.159 But the grunts are so small. I'm just going to 01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:03.479 kick you until you say yes. Yeah. Humanity didn't 01:09:03.479 --> 01:09:08.199 even get that. So combined with this, we get 01:09:08.199 --> 01:09:11.840 to Halo 2, where the Arbiter is made the Arbiter. 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:18.819 A great warrior and an influential leader. nothing 01:09:18.819 --> 01:09:21.920 but coincidence that the figures that are arbiters, 01:09:21.939 --> 01:09:23.840 uh, are usually people who could politically 01:09:23.840 --> 01:09:25.899 threaten the profits. That's just a coincidence. 01:09:26.579 --> 01:09:29.359 These highly influential elites are given the 01:09:29.359 --> 01:09:31.659 honor of being told to die in a suicide mission 01:09:31.659 --> 01:09:36.220 for the profits. Uh, we now have the arbiter, 01:09:36.279 --> 01:09:41.539 uh, who after letting halo blow up, uh, is told 01:09:41.539 --> 01:09:43.659 this is the only way forward for you unless you'd 01:09:43.659 --> 01:09:47.500 like to be executed. Of course, uh, shortly into 01:09:47.500 --> 01:09:50.420 the game, Covenant finds Earth. The worst case 01:09:50.420 --> 01:09:53.220 scenario happens. They trip over it on accident. 01:09:53.380 --> 01:09:55.140 The Prophet of Regret thought it was just a foreigner 01:09:55.140 --> 01:09:57.079 dig site. Little did he know, oh, this is the 01:09:57.079 --> 01:10:00.979 homeworld of humanity. So now the battle for 01:10:00.979 --> 01:10:03.640 Earth has begun. Chief is fighting. Everyone's 01:10:03.640 --> 01:10:06.119 fighting. Earth cities are getting glassed in 01:10:06.119 --> 01:10:08.720 the background as the battle goes on. Rip new 01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:13.100 Mombasa. Rip new Mombasa. Eventually, they cut 01:10:13.100 --> 01:10:16.840 to another Halo ring because, of course. They 01:10:16.840 --> 01:10:18.939 find another one. There's seven of those things. 01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:23.960 This one, unlike the previous ring, the flood 01:10:23.960 --> 01:10:28.539 are already out. And so while Master Chief goes 01:10:28.539 --> 01:10:30.560 down there, kills the prophet of regret, one 01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:32.939 of the three major religious leaders. It's a 01:10:32.939 --> 01:10:35.340 bit of a wild card. Even in the early cutscenes 01:10:35.340 --> 01:10:37.819 of Halo 2, you can tell the other two don't respect 01:10:37.819 --> 01:10:41.000 regret as much as... Truth is obviously in charge. 01:10:42.140 --> 01:10:44.500 What's the other one? Truth, regret, and... Mercy. 01:10:45.149 --> 01:10:47.550 yeah mercy's like the old guy who who's like 01:10:47.550 --> 01:10:49.850 you can tell by the way they've pitched it probably 01:10:49.850 --> 01:10:52.329 regrets the young one he's the old one and then 01:10:52.329 --> 01:10:54.569 truth is the one who's like the real power who's 01:10:54.569 --> 01:10:56.710 kind of manipulating them both and regrets like 01:10:56.710 --> 01:10:59.430 oh i know i've been like told to get rid of the 01:10:59.430 --> 01:11:03.609 humans on earth but oh shiny shiny jingly jangly 01:11:03.609 --> 01:11:06.010 jingly jangle oh is that a halo ring off he goes 01:11:06.010 --> 01:11:09.149 gets chased and then they're like oh he's really 01:11:09.149 --> 01:11:11.890 badly prepared to invade this halo ring and the 01:11:11.890 --> 01:11:14.939 other prophets you get like from them, getting 01:11:14.939 --> 01:11:16.920 like, why have you broken away from the main 01:11:16.920 --> 01:11:20.479 force? What are you doing? You're being stupid. 01:11:20.760 --> 01:11:25.100 Which causes Master Chief to punch him in the 01:11:25.100 --> 01:11:28.819 face until he dies in one of the boss fights 01:11:28.819 --> 01:11:32.779 of all time. One of the most underwhelming boss 01:11:32.779 --> 01:11:36.420 fights of all time. Jump and press punch. I love 01:11:36.420 --> 01:11:38.359 Halo, but gosh, their boss fights are pretty 01:11:38.359 --> 01:11:46.210 bad. It is then... As the elites argue, we could 01:11:46.210 --> 01:11:48.770 have saved him if the Prophet of Truth allowed 01:11:48.770 --> 01:11:52.449 more reinforcements to be delivered. But such 01:11:52.449 --> 01:11:56.789 was not the case. And as Truth puts it, no, you 01:11:56.789 --> 01:11:59.590 failed to protect him. It just is what it is. 01:11:59.970 --> 01:12:02.329 We will be changing the Honor Guard of the Covenant 01:12:02.329 --> 01:12:04.189 to the Brutes. It is now the Brutes who will 01:12:04.189 --> 01:12:09.529 protect the Prophets. The Arbiter is sent in 01:12:09.529 --> 01:12:15.029 to retrieve the key that activates Halo. Succeeds. 01:12:15.029 --> 01:12:18.250 And then Ron Perlman shoves him into a pit with 01:12:18.250 --> 01:12:21.350 a gravity hammer. The Chief... Ardorous Chieftain 01:12:21.350 --> 01:12:25.869 of the Brutes. And Master Chief and the Arbiter 01:12:25.869 --> 01:12:27.869 get to meet each other for the first time and 01:12:27.869 --> 01:12:33.449 have a one -on -one with the Gravemind. Who informs 01:12:33.449 --> 01:12:36.750 them that, look, you gotta stop that key from 01:12:36.750 --> 01:12:40.090 turning. You gotta keep the... Keep Regret from 01:12:40.090 --> 01:12:46.510 turning on the Halo Array. Do you say Ron Perlman? 01:12:46.569 --> 01:12:49.609 Do you mean Keith? Or no, that's not Ron Perlman. 01:12:49.710 --> 01:12:53.270 Keith David is the Arbiter. Yeah, Keith David 01:12:53.270 --> 01:12:56.750 is the Arbiter. Yeah, who's Tartarus? It's another 01:12:56.750 --> 01:12:59.750 big voice actor. Oh, that's a good question. 01:13:00.010 --> 01:13:02.649 I can't remember. I know Keith David is the Arbiter. 01:13:02.930 --> 01:13:08.829 Hood is Ron Perlman. I'll check for you. I'll 01:13:08.829 --> 01:13:11.949 check for you. In the meantime, again, it's the 01:13:11.949 --> 01:13:15.579 rest of Halo 2. You got to stop the... Evan Michael 01:13:15.579 --> 01:13:19.619 Richardson. There you go. That's who it is. By 01:13:19.619 --> 01:13:21.899 this point, by the way, High Charity and the 01:13:21.899 --> 01:13:24.100 largest Covenant fleet anyone's ever seen has 01:13:24.100 --> 01:13:27.539 warped over the Halo Ring. So the Gravemind sends 01:13:27.539 --> 01:13:29.739 Master Chief to High Charity, teleports him there 01:13:29.739 --> 01:13:31.460 because the Flood are insane and they can just 01:13:31.460 --> 01:13:34.399 teleport you if they wish. They're usually more 01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:36.319 interested in eating you, so they don't usually 01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:41.000 do it, but they can. And the Arbiter just remains 01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:44.090 on the Halo Ring to... Go a different route. 01:13:46.050 --> 01:13:50.550 Master Chief almost kills the Truth and Mercy, 01:13:50.750 --> 01:13:55.270 those prophets, and starts running around High 01:13:55.270 --> 01:13:57.430 Charity just causing problems. The floods show 01:13:57.430 --> 01:14:01.210 up to High Charity, more problems. It is a bad 01:14:01.210 --> 01:14:05.810 day to be a citizen of High Charity. The Arbiter, 01:14:05.949 --> 01:14:08.369 meanwhile, is explaining to the rest of the elites 01:14:08.369 --> 01:14:11.710 that they're now marked for death by the prophets. 01:14:13.710 --> 01:14:16.069 And the Covenant Civil War, the Great Schism, 01:14:16.069 --> 01:14:19.770 begins. At first, it's just the elites and anyone 01:14:19.770 --> 01:14:21.590 under their command who might side with them 01:14:21.590 --> 01:14:25.270 fighting the rest of the Covenant. Master Chief 01:14:25.270 --> 01:14:30.789 almost stops the Prophets from taking Miranda 01:14:30.789 --> 01:14:34.210 Keyes and Avery Johnson to the Halo Ring, but 01:14:34.210 --> 01:14:36.029 doesn't quite make it. He's stranded on High 01:14:36.029 --> 01:14:40.449 Charity. And Mercy's gone. Mercy gets killed 01:14:40.449 --> 01:14:44.279 by the Flood. Truth could have stopped that and 01:14:44.279 --> 01:14:47.560 naturally didn't. And to be fair, Master Chief 01:14:47.560 --> 01:14:50.380 does pull the flood off and pop him where he's 01:14:50.380 --> 01:14:53.500 like, he's gone, but I'm not going to be malicious 01:14:53.500 --> 01:14:57.359 about it. Like, there you go. He's more moral 01:14:57.359 --> 01:15:04.720 than truth. Yeah. And Halo 2 ends with Sergeant 01:15:04.720 --> 01:15:07.520 Johnson pointing a scarab at the Arbiter. You 01:15:07.520 --> 01:15:09.439 don't like me and I sure as hell don't like you, 01:15:09.500 --> 01:15:12.250 but we got to do what we got to do. So they go 01:15:12.250 --> 01:15:16.250 kill Tartarus, Chieftain of the Brutes. 343 Guilty 01:15:16.250 --> 01:15:20.069 Spark shows back up. Tells them all that, yes, 01:15:20.210 --> 01:15:23.949 there's actually six more Halo rings. A beacon? 01:15:25.250 --> 01:15:29.529 Listen, Tilkabow, don't make me. Don't shake 01:15:29.529 --> 01:15:34.850 the light bulb. And, you know, the Arbiter's 01:15:34.850 --> 01:15:38.270 like, where do we go? Why the Ark? We get the 01:15:38.270 --> 01:15:42.090 most... awful cliffhanger in video game history 01:15:42.090 --> 01:15:44.369 you mind telling me what you're doing on that 01:15:44.369 --> 01:15:47.890 ship sir finishing this fight did you have to 01:15:47.890 --> 01:15:50.510 live through that wait i did not my first halo 01:15:50.510 --> 01:15:55.350 game was three it was oh it was bad i'm finishing 01:15:55.350 --> 01:15:58.390 halo 2 and i was like i will say i was allayed 01:15:58.390 --> 01:16:00.689 a bit by steve by's cover of the halo theme in 01:16:00.689 --> 01:16:02.569 the credits i'm like all right i'll give you 01:16:04.970 --> 01:16:07.329 Okay. I'm going to play some LAN parties. But 01:16:07.329 --> 01:16:10.609 like, oh, it was excruciating. But what was the 01:16:10.609 --> 01:16:12.550 time frame between 2 and 3? Like a couple of 01:16:12.550 --> 01:16:17.069 years? Three years. Yeah, makes sense. But oh, 01:16:17.229 --> 01:16:20.510 it was a good game. Cut to Halo 3. The Battle 01:16:20.510 --> 01:16:23.510 of Earth is in full swing, though. And it's a 01:16:23.510 --> 01:16:26.289 mess. The elites are on our team now. That's 01:16:26.289 --> 01:16:29.750 something. Some Covenant tech is on our side 01:16:29.750 --> 01:16:33.100 now. We can fight a bit more evenly. But Earth's 01:16:33.100 --> 01:16:36.079 defenses have been shattered by this point. Lord 01:16:36.079 --> 01:16:40.619 Hood says as much that we're kind of all dead. 01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:44.880 He doesn't want to go to the Ark because he's 01:16:44.880 --> 01:16:46.720 like, we have nothing to go to the Ark with. 01:16:47.300 --> 01:16:50.260 And not only that, if we abandon Earth, it's 01:16:50.260 --> 01:16:52.880 like, okay, let's say we win the fight to get 01:16:52.880 --> 01:16:56.659 the Ark. What are we coming back to? Like a glass, 01:16:56.899 --> 01:17:00.460 a marble? A marble planet? No good. I live here. 01:17:00.539 --> 01:17:03.079 I'm one of the idiots who lives here. That's 01:17:03.079 --> 01:17:06.399 Ron Perlman. No, I'm not doing it. But he does 01:17:06.399 --> 01:17:10.119 allow Captain Keyes' daughter Miranda to go and 01:17:10.119 --> 01:17:15.460 lead the charge. He does. Between the threat 01:17:15.460 --> 01:17:18.859 of the Covenant activating Halo and Cortana, 01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:21.220 who had stayed behind on High Charity and was 01:17:21.220 --> 01:17:26.579 tortured by the Gravemind. Yes, the Flood can 01:17:26.579 --> 01:17:29.460 torture robots. Robots can feel pain, turns out. 01:17:30.300 --> 01:17:33.060 Hmm. Just enough tentacles, you can do anything, 01:17:33.279 --> 01:17:37.579 says the Flood. And between, you know, again, 01:17:37.680 --> 01:17:40.060 the threat of the Covenant activating the Ark, 01:17:40.180 --> 01:17:42.180 because they have made it to the Ark, as well 01:17:42.180 --> 01:17:46.140 as the fact that a whole lot of Flood were going 01:17:46.140 --> 01:17:48.539 to be on their way through High Charity, which 01:17:48.539 --> 01:17:50.500 they have taken over by this point and turned 01:17:50.500 --> 01:17:55.640 it into a meat garden. I like that. Meat garden. 01:17:55.840 --> 01:17:59.640 Yeah. Which, fun fact, all of that flood biomass 01:17:59.640 --> 01:18:01.939 you see in the High Charity level, that used 01:18:01.939 --> 01:18:04.579 to be an alien. That used to be part of the Covenant. 01:18:04.899 --> 01:18:07.500 And probably a little bit of human, just to admit. 01:18:07.699 --> 01:18:09.359 Because I think the first ship that crashes is 01:18:09.359 --> 01:18:14.859 a Pelican, and it's full of human blood. Yeah, 01:18:14.859 --> 01:18:17.619 the in amber clad, the frigate from early on 01:18:17.619 --> 01:18:20.060 in Halo 2 crashes, and then a Pelican flies out 01:18:20.060 --> 01:18:23.739 of it. And then, oh, it was full of flood. There's 01:18:23.739 --> 01:18:27.180 a little bit of human in that lasagna as well. 01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:29.720 Yeah. Somewhere in the layers. Don't eat it. 01:18:29.760 --> 01:18:32.619 It's poisonous. It's bad. So the final act of 01:18:32.619 --> 01:18:34.760 the Human Covenant War is to stop Truth from 01:18:34.760 --> 01:18:38.819 turning on the Halo array and maybe stop the 01:18:38.819 --> 01:18:42.680 flood while we're at it. We may, which, sure 01:18:42.680 --> 01:18:44.659 enough, it's the plot of Halo 3. We get there. 01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:48.039 Truth gets killed after one final effort. Probably 01:18:48.039 --> 01:18:51.649 my favorite mission in all of Halo. The Covenant 01:18:51.649 --> 01:18:58.210 is just the title of it. And they succeed. They 01:18:58.210 --> 01:19:01.250 manage to kill Truth between the Chief, the Arbiter, 01:19:01.430 --> 01:19:05.850 Hall of Humanity, the Elites. They... You must 01:19:05.850 --> 01:19:09.689 be silenced. And what was the actor who played... 01:19:09.689 --> 01:19:12.970 I don't remember who played Truth. He was in 01:19:12.970 --> 01:19:15.569 Superman as Zod, and he was in Oblivion, I believe, 01:19:15.689 --> 01:19:19.579 as the Mankar Cameron. Truth Factor. Hey, what's 01:19:19.579 --> 01:19:23.399 his name? Chancellor Valorum, is it? Oh, no, 01:19:23.500 --> 01:19:26.199 it's Michael Wincott. Completely different. No, 01:19:26.239 --> 01:19:29.659 that's Halo 2. No, it was Terrence Stamp in Halo 01:19:29.659 --> 01:19:32.600 3. They swapped actors between 2 and 3. So, yeah, 01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:36.039 the Mankar Cameron from Oblivion slash Zod from 01:19:36.039 --> 01:19:38.920 Superman was also the Prophet of Truth. I knew 01:19:38.920 --> 01:19:42.760 he sounded different. I just figured the... Oh, 01:19:42.859 --> 01:19:47.260 that's cool. I didn't know that. Yeah. And with 01:19:47.260 --> 01:19:50.579 that, though, the Human Covenant War officially 01:19:50.579 --> 01:19:54.739 came to a close. It was 2553 by this point. The 01:19:54.739 --> 01:19:56.939 rest of Halo is not technically part of the Human 01:19:56.939 --> 01:19:59.960 Covenant War. It is Master Chief and the Arbiter 01:19:59.960 --> 01:20:02.659 and Sergeant Avery Johnson blowing up the Ark. 01:20:03.119 --> 01:20:06.319 Rest in peace, Avery Johnson. You pissed off 01:20:06.319 --> 01:20:12.869 the light bulb so it melted your skin. Every 01:20:12.869 --> 01:20:15.050 day. When I go to bed every day, I have a picture 01:20:15.050 --> 01:20:17.010 of him in a frame and I give it a kiss before 01:20:17.010 --> 01:20:21.069 I go to bed. But with that, the Gravebite was 01:20:21.069 --> 01:20:24.430 destroyed. All of the flood that were out and 01:20:24.430 --> 01:20:27.090 about in the galaxy at that point were destroyed. 01:20:27.609 --> 01:20:32.810 They show back a couple more times. But the day 01:20:32.810 --> 01:20:37.109 was ultimately won at the cost of... Let me see 01:20:37.109 --> 01:20:40.869 if I can... If I can find a nice casualty figure, 01:20:41.109 --> 01:20:45.029 because that one... Give me one moment. That 01:20:45.029 --> 01:20:48.449 I didn't prepare. Let me check the high score. 01:20:48.710 --> 01:20:51.250 I need to check the table for how many casualties. 01:20:51.609 --> 01:20:54.130 What was the Arbiter's kill count at the end 01:20:54.130 --> 01:21:03.750 of it? Yeah, let me... It would appear that prior 01:21:03.750 --> 01:21:08.750 to the Human Covenant War... Uh, there were... 01:21:08.750 --> 01:21:15.090 23 billion people, humans, died during the war, 01:21:15.229 --> 01:21:19.890 and then billions more coveted. Ooh. And, like, 01:21:19.970 --> 01:21:22.289 Halo... Master Chief is just, like, raising his 01:21:22.289 --> 01:21:24.750 hands, like, I got at least 2 billion on my own. 01:21:24.829 --> 01:21:26.409 He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, fair enough, mate, 01:21:26.449 --> 01:21:29.909 fair enough. Kurt, they're like, well, I did 01:21:29.909 --> 01:21:31.970 my bit, but then I pretended to die, and then 01:21:31.970 --> 01:21:34.229 I didn't die, and then I made the spot and freeze, 01:21:34.409 --> 01:21:38.960 but then I did die. Although, for a few more 01:21:38.960 --> 01:21:42.939 highlights, I must shout out Vice Admiral Danforth 01:21:42.939 --> 01:21:45.539 Whitcomb. Have you seen a picture of this man, 01:21:45.640 --> 01:21:51.439 Andy? His mustache is, I think, took out Covenant 01:21:51.439 --> 01:21:56.520 on its own. He gave them one hell of a final 01:21:56.520 --> 01:22:00.079 present after he died, which was to leave a recorded 01:22:00.079 --> 01:22:03.489 message in a Death Star in a can. that took out 01:22:03.489 --> 01:22:06.130 about 300 Covenant ships and a refueling station 01:22:06.130 --> 01:22:09.069 that was going to invade Earth. There were a 01:22:09.069 --> 01:22:11.189 lot of, like, cool bits throughout the Human 01:22:11.189 --> 01:22:13.289 Covenant War that just for the sake of, you know, 01:22:13.289 --> 01:22:16.210 not getting into every little detail, there was 01:22:16.210 --> 01:22:19.970 quite a lot of cool things like that. The last 01:22:19.970 --> 01:22:22.170 technical action of the Human Covenant War was, 01:22:22.229 --> 01:22:25.329 I think, a couple years later, though, when Spartan 01:22:25.329 --> 01:22:29.329 Gray Team, who had another Nova bomb, they were 01:22:29.329 --> 01:22:31.250 behind enemy lines and had no way to contact 01:22:31.250 --> 01:22:36.829 humanity. They didn't know if there was any humanity 01:22:36.829 --> 01:22:41.270 left. They had a vote. Do we turn on this Nova 01:22:41.270 --> 01:22:45.170 bomb over this elite colony? They voted yes. 01:22:46.029 --> 01:22:47.890 They didn't know there was a truce. They were 01:22:47.890 --> 01:22:52.010 like, ah, it's fine. I think the Arbiter forgave 01:22:52.010 --> 01:22:55.130 him. Which, on the one hand, good on him. Arbiter's 01:22:55.130 --> 01:22:57.810 a real one for that. On the other hand, he did 01:22:57.810 --> 01:23:00.670 kill one billion people. So he was probably like, 01:23:00.789 --> 01:23:04.949 that's, uh... That's fair. At one point, the 01:23:04.949 --> 01:23:07.369 opponent's like, who am I to judge? I've committed 01:23:07.369 --> 01:23:10.250 so many war crimes. I don't know. Live and let 01:23:10.250 --> 01:23:14.710 live, said Keith David. Yeah. And, you know, 01:23:14.729 --> 01:23:16.909 for a little bit after the war, humanity was 01:23:16.909 --> 01:23:20.489 in pieces. The rest of the Covenant now had to 01:23:20.489 --> 01:23:22.529 figure out what to do now that there's no Covenant 01:23:22.529 --> 01:23:26.369 anymore. I know, for example, like, well, the 01:23:26.369 --> 01:23:28.210 grunts mostly just kind of kept doing whatever. 01:23:28.430 --> 01:23:31.369 They're grunts, right? Like, they just kept kind 01:23:31.369 --> 01:23:33.770 of hanging around whoever they were already with. 01:23:34.510 --> 01:23:36.810 The elites and the brutes would then fight a 01:23:36.810 --> 01:23:41.890 bit of a murderous war. That's still going on. 01:23:42.210 --> 01:23:48.310 Yeah. The elites also... I want to say it was 01:23:48.310 --> 01:23:51.489 like about 3 ,000, maybe 4 ,000 years of the 01:23:51.489 --> 01:23:53.710 prophets handling all the engineering and everything. 01:23:54.189 --> 01:23:56.609 The elites had to figure out kind of like humanity 01:23:56.609 --> 01:24:00.949 in like 40K, like... How do we build our ships? 01:24:02.289 --> 01:24:05.770 But also, a fair few of them defected to side 01:24:05.770 --> 01:24:08.590 with the Brutes for some reason. In the new stuff, 01:24:08.710 --> 01:24:10.590 they're all like, we fight with the Brutes because 01:24:10.590 --> 01:24:13.890 I guess they're just indoctrinated enough to 01:24:13.890 --> 01:24:15.350 be like, we're going to avenge the Prophets. 01:24:16.329 --> 01:24:19.329 There was a lot of different splinter groups 01:24:19.329 --> 01:24:21.729 after the fact, as you could expect from the 01:24:21.729 --> 01:24:25.810 fall of a galaxy -spanning empire. Some just 01:24:25.810 --> 01:24:27.930 wanted to remake the Covenant. Some are just 01:24:27.930 --> 01:24:29.890 still sticking to that diehard belief. Some of 01:24:29.890 --> 01:24:32.109 them joined, you know, the Banished, which was 01:24:32.109 --> 01:24:34.930 its own thing. Again, not even part of the Covenant, 01:24:35.010 --> 01:24:37.470 which, you know, those were like originally brutes 01:24:37.470 --> 01:24:39.010 who fought the Covenant. Some elites are like, 01:24:39.069 --> 01:24:42.149 well, you don't like the Covenant, but we don't 01:24:42.149 --> 01:24:44.090 like humanity and you don't either. So, hell, 01:24:44.170 --> 01:24:48.529 why not? At the end of the Human Covenant War, 01:24:48.670 --> 01:24:51.569 to say the powers that be were in a bit of a 01:24:51.569 --> 01:24:55.430 mess was an understatement. Yeah. There was some 01:24:55.430 --> 01:24:57.430 hope at the end. You know, rebuilding can begin. 01:24:58.470 --> 01:25:02.789 Humanity is, if nothing else, got access to a 01:25:02.789 --> 01:25:04.970 whole lot of new toys through reverse engineering 01:25:04.970 --> 01:25:08.789 of Foreigner and Covenant stuff. So, hey, rebuilding 01:25:08.789 --> 01:25:11.010 could begin. Peace was made with at least the 01:25:11.010 --> 01:25:14.529 elites. Very tentative peace because the Office 01:25:14.529 --> 01:25:20.649 of Naval Intelligence is awful. They just suck. 01:25:21.449 --> 01:25:24.810 Yeah. I think that's one of my favorite things 01:25:24.810 --> 01:25:27.510 in one of the post -Human Covenant War books, 01:25:27.649 --> 01:25:30.850 is that Oni was funding a bunch of those splinter 01:25:30.850 --> 01:25:32.949 groups to keep the elites fighting amongst each 01:25:32.949 --> 01:25:35.890 other. And all of that amounted to the Infinity 01:25:35.890 --> 01:25:40.449 Mac blasting them basically all at once. Taxpayer 01:25:40.449 --> 01:25:45.090 dollars well spent. Yep. It's like one day the 01:25:45.090 --> 01:25:47.109 Arbiter walks in and is like, what is that? It's 01:25:47.109 --> 01:25:49.289 like, oh, that's a mass autopsy of the elite 01:25:49.289 --> 01:25:53.810 species. Why? Oh, we just haven't shut it down 01:25:53.810 --> 01:25:56.729 since the end of the war. The war was two years 01:25:56.729 --> 01:26:00.449 ago. Why are you still doing this? Don't worry 01:26:00.449 --> 01:26:02.970 about it. Don't worry about it. It's fine. I 01:26:02.970 --> 01:26:05.229 guess, you know, last thing, two last notes. 01:26:05.289 --> 01:26:07.090 We'll end on the Arbiter, because I love me some 01:26:07.090 --> 01:26:10.149 elites. The Arbiter would go on to become the 01:26:10.149 --> 01:26:13.010 leader of Sanghelios and try and rebuild parts 01:26:13.010 --> 01:26:14.550 of the rest of the Covenant splinter forces. 01:26:16.909 --> 01:26:19.470 The title of Arbiter was once again a position 01:26:19.470 --> 01:26:22.229 of respect long after all the years where the 01:26:22.229 --> 01:26:25.890 Covenant made it a disgraced title. And one last 01:26:25.890 --> 01:26:29.750 fun fact. The Arbiter thought Sauron was real. 01:26:32.729 --> 01:26:39.670 Like actually J .R .R. Tolkien Sauron. Yes. Some 01:26:39.670 --> 01:26:43.899 cultural differences. uh happened and he thought 01:26:43.899 --> 01:26:45.720 someone i think someone made like a reference 01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:49.520 to sauron and he was like must be some great 01:26:49.520 --> 01:26:53.859 evil from ancient human times because he didn't 01:26:53.859 --> 01:26:55.479 know that they were just talking about a book 01:26:55.479 --> 01:26:58.739 that just reminds me of star trek with uh the 01:26:58.739 --> 01:27:01.680 klingon wharf where he's in the bar one day and 01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:04.659 he's like give me a human drink and they give 01:27:04.659 --> 01:27:06.819 him prune juice and he just gulps it down and 01:27:06.819 --> 01:27:10.819 goes warrior's drink. It's not a warrior's drink. 01:27:12.300 --> 01:27:15.140 He's happy. Let him enjoy it. Let him have fun. 01:27:15.359 --> 01:27:19.520 Let him be. Funny little note to end on. The 01:27:19.520 --> 01:27:22.020 Arbiter thought Sauron was a historical figure. 01:27:22.680 --> 01:27:29.560 Yeah. And he was. It's an interesting timeline 01:27:29.560 --> 01:27:31.300 because there's obviously so many characters. 01:27:32.060 --> 01:27:33.659 You've got the Spartans, you've got the Navy, 01:27:33.899 --> 01:27:35.739 you've got the Grunts on the ground, you've got... 01:27:36.109 --> 01:27:38.630 All the politics of the Covenant going on in 01:27:38.630 --> 01:27:40.409 the background. You've got the literal grunts. 01:27:40.930 --> 01:27:47.729 Yeah, the literal grunts. I find these days I 01:27:47.729 --> 01:27:52.390 have to siphon off post -Halo reach Halo content 01:27:52.390 --> 01:27:55.550 to enjoy the original stuff untarnished. But 01:27:55.550 --> 01:27:59.979 what it stands... I'm always like... I'm a la 01:27:59.979 --> 01:28:02.840 carte taking bits of the Halo 4 onward stuff 01:28:02.840 --> 01:28:06.260 that I like and don't like. I like this. I don't 01:28:06.260 --> 01:28:09.119 like that. I like this. I don't like that. I 01:28:09.119 --> 01:28:12.220 will say I do like the Forerunner trilogy a lot. 01:28:12.359 --> 01:28:14.279 I have something that's going to get me yelled 01:28:14.279 --> 01:28:16.140 at in the comments section, and I know for a 01:28:16.140 --> 01:28:19.060 fact it's going to get me yelled at. But I'm 01:28:19.060 --> 01:28:21.720 sorry. Even when Bungie was running the show, 01:28:21.939 --> 01:28:26.399 they decided the Forerunners were aliens. GuiltySpark 01:28:26.399 --> 01:28:28.659 was either speaking in metaphor when he called 01:28:28.659 --> 01:28:32.460 Master Chief Forerunner, or, you know, he was 01:28:32.460 --> 01:28:35.840 clearly rampant. Or maybe it was just the case 01:28:35.840 --> 01:28:38.079 if he was like, oh, humans were there before, 01:28:38.239 --> 01:28:41.199 so Forerunner could be a catch -all term of like, 01:28:41.380 --> 01:28:43.659 there's the species, but then there's just like, 01:28:43.779 --> 01:28:46.279 you were here before, you're the before -time 01:28:46.279 --> 01:28:50.960 species. It's that. But I have vivid memories 01:28:50.960 --> 01:28:55.570 of reading a terminal in Halo 3 that says, humans 01:28:55.570 --> 01:28:58.850 and the Forerunners fought a war in ancient times. 01:28:59.470 --> 01:29:02.630 And it was not called a civil war, which would 01:29:02.630 --> 01:29:04.670 kind of imply they're different species. And 01:29:04.670 --> 01:29:07.069 I'm sorry, even when Bungie was in control, the 01:29:07.069 --> 01:29:09.270 Forerunners stopped being humans and passed Halo 01:29:09.270 --> 01:29:12.850 2 at the latest. I still remember when you'd 01:29:12.850 --> 01:29:15.130 play Halo 3 on the Xbox 360, you'd go to the 01:29:15.130 --> 01:29:18.149 terminal, it would open the app in the Halo Waypoint 01:29:18.149 --> 01:29:20.930 app on Xbox 360, and it would play a video and 01:29:20.930 --> 01:29:23.159 it would tell you all the lore. So it did happen. 01:29:23.220 --> 01:29:26.560 I was there in the olden days. It's true. And 01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:28.359 to be fair, like, Halo, they didn't know what 01:29:28.359 --> 01:29:31.859 they were doing in a broad sense at Halo 1, and 01:29:31.859 --> 01:29:33.680 they had to be, like Warhammer, they had to be 01:29:33.680 --> 01:29:37.840 together as they went. Yeah. So I am very sorry, 01:29:37.899 --> 01:29:39.760 people who are going to yell at me in the comments. 01:29:40.439 --> 01:29:43.300 It was not 343 that made the Forerunners aliens. 01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:48.449 That was Bungie. No. Oh, God, no, fuck. See, 01:29:48.489 --> 01:29:51.409 early on, I mean, with Halo CE, Halo was still 01:29:51.409 --> 01:29:55.470 like a soft marathon sequel. Yeah, yeah. Look 01:29:55.470 --> 01:30:00.090 how that turned out for them. Uh -oh. Uh -oh. 01:30:00.810 --> 01:30:07.770 Yeah. Any closing thoughts for the Halo Human 01:30:07.770 --> 01:30:12.739 Covenant war? I mean... we've done broad strokes 01:30:12.739 --> 01:30:14.699 are there any like good books to investigate 01:30:14.699 --> 01:30:17.899 or um or just simply this game or that game which 01:30:17.899 --> 01:30:20.100 you would say contact i think like halo wars 01:30:20.100 --> 01:30:23.079 is quite good halo wars is quite good uh obviously 01:30:23.079 --> 01:30:26.520 the original halo trilogy reach and odst bangers 01:30:26.520 --> 01:30:32.840 um let's see what else uh the it's i know there's 01:30:32.840 --> 01:30:35.720 well there's like the i think it was for the 01:30:35.720 --> 01:30:37.939 build -up of halo 3 or it might have been i don't 01:30:37.939 --> 01:30:40.819 remember when halo legends came out But either 01:30:40.819 --> 01:30:43.439 way, fun animated shorts for Halo. You should 01:30:43.439 --> 01:30:45.699 absolutely watch Halo Legends. You can find them 01:30:45.699 --> 01:30:52.539 on YouTube for free. So you might as well. There 01:30:52.539 --> 01:30:55.319 is... I'm also... It wasn't called Halo Legends, 01:30:55.520 --> 01:30:59.560 but... It might have still been called Halo Legends 01:30:59.560 --> 01:31:04.819 as a book. Halo Evolutions. I always think it's 01:31:04.819 --> 01:31:07.079 just another book called Halo Legends. No, there 01:31:07.079 --> 01:31:10.489 is... No, never mind. Halo Evolutions, though. 01:31:10.569 --> 01:31:14.850 It's a nice collection of stories throughout 01:31:14.850 --> 01:31:16.789 Halo, some of which are during the Human Covenant 01:31:16.789 --> 01:31:22.310 War. I like them. They're fun reads. Yeah, I 01:31:22.310 --> 01:31:27.449 quite like that. That's got some stuff about 01:31:27.449 --> 01:31:33.270 Cole. Fall of Reach, I will say. Reach came after 01:31:33.270 --> 01:31:35.630 the book Fall of Reach so Bungie did do some 01:31:35.630 --> 01:31:38.090 retconning which I know even back during when 01:31:38.090 --> 01:31:40.090 Reach was released people were upset about that 01:31:40.090 --> 01:31:43.010 I prefer as it is in Halo Reach and then like 01:31:43.010 --> 01:31:44.489 you kind of said Andy you can pick and choose 01:31:44.489 --> 01:31:46.569 stuff from the Fall of Reach that you like more 01:31:46.569 --> 01:31:50.729 there is that animated live action film as well 01:31:50.729 --> 01:31:54.989 which is like it's a tie -in to Halo 4 but it's 01:31:54.989 --> 01:31:59.130 set before Halo 1 where it's like Pulaski and 01:31:59.130 --> 01:32:01.369 some of the guys who would go on to be officers 01:32:01.369 --> 01:32:05.829 are saved by Master Chief in the very early days 01:32:05.829 --> 01:32:12.189 of the Human Covenant war. Is it Forward Unto 01:32:12.189 --> 01:32:15.789 Dawn? I think it's Forward Unto Dawn, yeah. Also, 01:32:15.810 --> 01:32:19.909 fun fact, Chief is like 17 at that point. Yeah, 01:32:19.949 --> 01:32:22.149 and he pops down, he's like 17 foot, and you're 01:32:22.149 --> 01:32:25.250 like, oh my word. But it also is good at establishing 01:32:25.250 --> 01:32:28.560 that him and... It is Pulaski, isn't it, from 01:32:28.560 --> 01:32:32.539 Halo 4? Yeah, I think he's the cool guy. He's 01:32:32.539 --> 01:32:34.920 the one who's like, he becomes Captain. Or is 01:32:34.920 --> 01:32:37.819 it Lasky, not Pulaski? Yeah, Lasky. Lasky. So 01:32:37.819 --> 01:32:40.159 it's him and Lasky meet at that incident, and 01:32:40.159 --> 01:32:42.319 then when Halo 4 happens, they have like, oh, 01:32:42.359 --> 01:32:44.600 I remember you. You saved me and my school kid 01:32:44.600 --> 01:32:46.979 friends who were in this military base from dying, 01:32:47.039 --> 01:32:49.140 and you killed a bunch of hunters. That was cool. 01:32:50.539 --> 01:32:52.380 But yeah, there's Halo Legends. There's that 01:32:52.380 --> 01:32:55.859 film. there's some lore here like even like the 01:32:55.859 --> 01:32:59.000 halo trailers it's like check out the halo trailers 01:32:59.000 --> 01:33:02.539 for odst for halo 3 with the believe campaign 01:33:02.539 --> 01:33:06.340 um they had like the halo 3 believe campaign 01:33:06.340 --> 01:33:11.100 trailers alone have so much like just charm and 01:33:11.100 --> 01:33:13.970 character going into them charm and character 01:33:13.970 --> 01:33:15.829 and there's like that one trailer where it's 01:33:15.829 --> 01:33:18.430 like a really it was the i think it was supposed 01:33:18.430 --> 01:33:21.029 to be like a test subject because spielberg was 01:33:21.029 --> 01:33:22.729 originally going to make a halo tv series but 01:33:22.729 --> 01:33:26.390 he dropped out and it was like that one cinematic 01:33:26.390 --> 01:33:29.850 is basically the guys who target locked master 01:33:29.850 --> 01:33:31.789 chief when he was falling onto earth so they 01:33:31.789 --> 01:33:33.710 knew where to pick him up and so they had to 01:33:33.710 --> 01:33:35.550 make sure they didn't miss the time frame of 01:33:35.550 --> 01:33:39.060 like He's burning up in atmosphere. Because if 01:33:39.060 --> 01:33:41.260 you miss it, we don't know where he is. And I 01:33:41.260 --> 01:33:44.939 liked when Halo did little cinematic trailers. 01:33:44.960 --> 01:33:47.460 Stuff like that, yeah. The Halo Reach one where 01:33:47.460 --> 01:33:51.050 it's the original Noble Six. and it's cat running 01:33:51.050 --> 01:33:53.869 through cat had her arm in that one still yeah 01:33:53.869 --> 01:33:55.909 and then she lost her arm and then tom i think 01:33:55.909 --> 01:33:58.329 it's tom who's the guy who was before hate noble 01:33:58.329 --> 01:34:00.729 six picks up the bomb and chucks it into the 01:34:00.729 --> 01:34:03.090 super carrier and you get those trailers and 01:34:03.090 --> 01:34:04.949 they're so well made and it's a shame that's 01:34:04.949 --> 01:34:08.609 like a bygone era of game trailers yeah that's 01:34:08.609 --> 01:34:10.590 that's not even just halo that's just gaming 01:34:10.590 --> 01:34:15.310 in general just in general which is sad yeah 01:34:15.310 --> 01:34:18.739 but yeah yeah uh Fall of Reach is good. Read 01:34:18.739 --> 01:34:24.239 The Flood. Halo Legends, watch. And Halo Evolutions, 01:34:24.279 --> 01:34:29.579 read. They're good stuff. Odd One Out is the 01:34:29.579 --> 01:34:32.220 best short. I might as well cause more fights. 01:34:32.520 --> 01:34:35.920 I like the funny Dragon Ball Z Spartan. I'm sorry. 01:34:37.560 --> 01:34:40.680 He's one heck of a mama. And there's the Gundam 01:34:40.680 --> 01:34:42.560 episode where it's like the guy in a big mecha 01:34:42.560 --> 01:34:49.159 suit. Which one was that? Be Human. I think so. 01:34:49.619 --> 01:34:51.939 You just say, ba -ba -ba -ba -ba -ba -ba. Wow, 01:34:52.279 --> 01:34:55.939 they have Gundams in Halo. That's cool. But yes, 01:34:56.140 --> 01:34:59.060 other than that, any closing thoughts for the 01:34:59.060 --> 01:35:02.100 Halo Covenant War? Or the Human Covenant War, 01:35:02.220 --> 01:35:04.939 I should say, from Halo? I just, I think I'll 01:35:04.939 --> 01:35:07.220 close with, I think the reason, part of why it 01:35:07.220 --> 01:35:11.420 drew me to Halo so much is that I like how Halo 01:35:11.420 --> 01:35:15.199 does humanity being at a losing front. Because 01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:17.340 in the games, it doesn't show as much because 01:35:17.340 --> 01:35:19.539 you're Spaceman John Master Chief kicking ass, 01:35:19.699 --> 01:35:21.659 right? And then you read a book and it's like, 01:35:21.760 --> 01:35:24.880 oh, Jesus Christ, humanity is getting its shit 01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:30.239 pushed in. Like, it is horrific. Which, like 01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:33.079 a lot of different, like, a lot of alien stories 01:35:33.079 --> 01:35:35.100 have, you know, or stories with aliens, like, 01:35:35.159 --> 01:35:37.779 humanity is on the losing front. But it doesn't 01:35:37.779 --> 01:35:39.699 necessarily come across that way. I mean, you 01:35:39.699 --> 01:35:43.109 know, even Independence Day. Hello, boys, I'm 01:35:43.109 --> 01:35:47.149 back. Or, you know, like 40K will a lot of the 01:35:47.149 --> 01:35:49.409 time say, you know, X aliens are a threat. And 01:35:49.409 --> 01:35:52.770 then we read Space Marine Man murders a high 01:35:52.770 --> 01:35:55.569 fleet on his own. Like, I feel like you're telling 01:35:55.569 --> 01:35:59.329 me one thing and you're showing me another. Yeah, 01:35:59.390 --> 01:36:01.850 I don't know. With the work like Halo Reach alone 01:36:01.850 --> 01:36:05.390 put into like this is humanity's greatest bastion. 01:36:05.729 --> 01:36:09.189 And it was like a small hurdle for the Covenant. 01:36:10.779 --> 01:36:12.859 The best trailer for the games that does this 01:36:12.859 --> 01:36:15.960 is the life trailer for ODST, where it's the 01:36:15.960 --> 01:36:18.420 ODSTs with the Welsh music in the background. 01:36:19.100 --> 01:36:21.699 And it's like them drop potting in and it's all 01:36:21.699 --> 01:36:23.899 grimy and dirty. I feel like what they should 01:36:23.899 --> 01:36:26.340 have done with the Halo series is be like, do 01:36:26.340 --> 01:36:28.359 it from the perspective of some Halo grunts, 01:36:28.399 --> 01:36:32.000 do it from some like ODSTs or UNIT. And then 01:36:32.000 --> 01:36:34.420 like Master Chief is this kind of almost mythical 01:36:34.420 --> 01:36:36.880 feature who would pop in at one time and just 01:36:36.880 --> 01:36:39.979 crunk the hell out of the Covenant. And then 01:36:39.979 --> 01:36:41.640 be gone. And it was almost like, did that even 01:36:41.640 --> 01:36:44.819 happen? But it's like, follow the gritty kind 01:36:44.819 --> 01:36:47.079 of like the, the trailer that I mentioned before 01:36:47.079 --> 01:36:49.619 about like them target locking him. And it's 01:36:49.619 --> 01:36:51.939 like, the guy's got the big spiker in his shoulder 01:36:51.939 --> 01:36:54.260 and the medics pulling it out. And he stuck to 01:36:54.260 --> 01:36:56.859 the wall. Like have that grimy gritty part of 01:36:56.859 --> 01:37:00.479 halo law. And then the Spartans pop in, but they're 01:37:00.479 --> 01:37:02.399 not the focus. Cause otherwise you have them 01:37:02.399 --> 01:37:06.180 going through weird love stories and taking the 01:37:06.180 --> 01:37:07.779 helmets off in the first episode. And you're 01:37:07.779 --> 01:37:12.060 like, what is this? Get out of here. Get out 01:37:12.060 --> 01:37:17.720 of here. I think it does a good job. I like all 01:37:17.720 --> 01:37:19.899 the ways everyone's portrayed in the Human Covenant 01:37:19.899 --> 01:37:22.920 war, even the aliens. I think they did a good 01:37:22.920 --> 01:37:26.399 job with the aliens too. That opening cinematic 01:37:26.399 --> 01:37:29.140 for Halo 2 was such a breath of fresh air. Even 01:37:29.140 --> 01:37:31.039 when I played it originally, I was like, oh, 01:37:31.079 --> 01:37:32.800 I get to see the perspective of the Covenant 01:37:32.800 --> 01:37:34.979 where it's like... Here's Master Chief and Johnson 01:37:34.979 --> 01:37:38.220 being rewarded for winning, and here's the loser 01:37:38.220 --> 01:37:41.060 of that exchange being punished and how they 01:37:41.060 --> 01:37:44.020 treat him. Getting horrifically tortured. Yeah, 01:37:44.180 --> 01:37:46.880 and how the two sides of the coin are... That's 01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:49.579 really cool. And then you see a bit more of that, 01:37:49.640 --> 01:37:54.399 which is nice. But yeah, I guess that's our first 01:37:54.399 --> 01:37:57.880 episode of Sci -Fi Sit -Down. Indeed. Please 01:37:57.880 --> 01:37:59.979 let us know in the comments if there's any other 01:37:59.979 --> 01:38:02.560 sci -fi settings you would like us to talk about. 01:38:02.819 --> 01:38:06.119 I'll put it out there. I'd love to talk about 01:38:06.119 --> 01:38:09.560 a bit of Mass Effect. But yeah, we'll see what 01:38:09.560 --> 01:38:13.039 we can do. And if you want us to talk about more 01:38:13.039 --> 01:38:15.619 Halo or other settings that are not Halo, let 01:38:15.619 --> 01:38:19.439 us know. Yeah, I think this was a good start 01:38:19.439 --> 01:38:23.920 to the series. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, so let 01:38:23.920 --> 01:38:28.760 us know and we'll go from here. Awesome. Great. 01:38:28.960 --> 01:38:30.960 We'll see you guys on the next episode then. 01:38:31.159 --> 01:38:32.560 Bye everybody. Bye.