By Eric Nylund
Achieve fell, and while wish appeared misplaced, humanity stood face-to-face with the potential extinction of all lifestyles within the galaxy and lived to inform the tale.
But that was once only one epic conflict, and the battle rages on . . .
The Covenant indicates no mercy as they proceed to attack each human global they could locate, yet of their method lies humanity’s nice champion, Spartan-117, the grasp leader. with his AI better half Cortana and the final final Spartans, the struggle keeps on fronts.
One takes a team of Spartans to the charred floor of achieve, the single planet they’ve ever referred to as domestic. yet underneath the outside, Dr. Halsey has came across an historical secret…one that may adjust the process the conflict.
Meanwhile, grasp leader and Cortana head in the direction of a meeting of Covenant warships as the UNSC’s worst nightmare has come actual: the Covenant has stumbled on the positioning of Earth and is forming a major fleet to damage it…and all who oppose the desire of the Prophets.
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