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All of these events take place during Common Era (CE).
Halo: Fractures | Breaking Strain
2553
Context: A short story from Halo: Fractures – Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon. Set after the events of Halo 3 during the aftermath of the Human-Covenant War.
Summary: Stranded on the edge of the Outer Colonies with no way home, the crew of the UNSC Dark Was The Night must navigate tense relations with the human colonists already living there.
Learn more: Halopedia
2 July 2553 // Halo: Anvil Accord
#shortstory #waypointchronicle
Anvil Accord is A Halo Waypoint Chronicle, an ongoing series of short stories available for free from Halo Waypoint.
Anvil Accord predominantly takes place on 3 March 2560, however, the introduction takes place on 2 July 2553 in the form of a letter to the Arbiter from Lord Hood proposing a joint human/Sangheili task force.
Duality
Unknown date
Context: The exact date of this short story is not mentioned, however, it is sometime after the Human-Covenant War.
Summary: A UNSC aligned Sangheili recounts the tale of Arbiter Fal ‘Chavamee (whose story is told in the Halo Legends short film The Duel, found on The Forerunner Legacy page of this timeline) to a human child in his protection. However, this time the story deserves a different ending.
Adaptation: JumperScape Media have unofficially adapted this short story into an audio drama as part of their Stories From Waypoint series. Whilst it is a fan made production, it is 100% faithful to the source material and of a very high production value.
Halo: Fractures | Lessons Learned
29 March 2554
Context: This short story begins on 29 March 2554 during the attack on the Spartan-IV training station as shown in chapter 15 of Halo: New Blood. Although the bulk of the story takes place a few days later and serves as an introduction to the events in Halo: Legacy of Onyx.
Summary: Tom-B292 and Lucy-B091 are reassigned from the Spartan-IV training station to the ONI Research Facility Trevelyan on Onyx, where they must learn to work alongside the Sangheili.
Learn more: Halopedia
18 August 2554 // Halo: Primordium
#book
The main storyline of Halo: Primordium takes place in 97, 446 BCE following the events of Halo: Cryptum. It is told in the form of flashbacks as an ONI science team interrogate a damaged Forerunner monitor which then begins to describe the events of the main storyline. This secondary storyline is used as a narrative framing device for the novel and continues to pop up intermittently throughout. These events take place from 18 August 2554 to 21 August 2554.
Below is an outline of this secondary storyline.
The secondary storyline of Halo: Primordium, which works as a narrative framing device for the main storyline, is set on the UNSC Rubicon and follows an ONI science team who have recovered a damaged Forerunner monitor from The Ark (Installation 00) following the events of Halo 3. As they interrogate the monitor over the course of a few days, hoping to learn more about the Didact, the monitor attempts to hack into the UNSC Rubicon’s systems and take control of the vessel.
Halo Infinite | Season 2: Lone Wolves | Intel 3
11 December 2554
Context: The following transcript is part of a series of written Intel drops released on Halo Waypoint as part of Season 2: Lone Wolves of Halo Infinite.
TRANSCRIPT:
HISTORIAN’S NOTE: The following is a communique between Jun-A266 (Chief of Staff of Spartan Operations) and Rear Admiral Musa Ghanem regarding Spartan Sigrid Eklund's early exploits.
TRANSFER REQUEST
OFFICE BLOCK: 2797.LL
COMMREF: 38H9T44DJ-R-88
DATE: DEC 11, 2554
SND: CINCSPAR | REC: COSSPAR
RE: TRANSFER REQUEST >> [S-IV//82271-20098-SE]
Jun, I've taken a look at your recent recommendations and feel that Spartan Eklund would be an ideal candidate for this next undertaking we spoke of. Her performance while attached to Fireteam Crimson was nothing short of extraordinary, and while the results of BELLINGHAM and LATE TAXI were certainly group achievements, I’m confident her skill set can produce similar gains in more "isolated" endeavors. We'll sort out the details this week and get them sent over.
- Musa
Learn more: Halopedia
Halo 4 | Audio Log: Halsey’s Observations
15 December 2554
Context: The following is a transcript of an audio log found in Halo 4.
TRANSCRIPT:
Halsey: Catherine Halsey, personal observations - December 15, 2554. While the survey crews examining Gamma Halo may be what pass for experts at ONI now, they are woefully out of their league for a task of this scale. There has been one somewhat startling discovery, however. One of the teams stumbled upon a device remarkably similar to the AI Matrix Compiler currently in use by the UNSC. Seeing as how I designed that particular compiler, this finding, needless to say, has piqued my curiosity.
Learn more: The original audio log can be heard in this YouTube video at 16:16 minutes.
Halo: New Blood
circa late 2555
Context: This novella is an in-universe report by Edward Buck that continues his story between Halo 3: ODST and Halo 5: Guardians. It is told in a non-linear fashion and takes us up to August 2555.
Summary: The story of how Edward Buck and his squad, Alpha-Nine, went from being ODSTs to joining the Spartan-IV programme in the aftermath of the Human-Covenant War.
Learn more: Halopedia
December 2555 // Eleventh Hour Reports
#shortstory
At some point after the discovery of the Composer (which Dr Catherine Halsey notes in her personal log on 15 December 2554) a series of five reports detailing the status quo of the post-war galaxy where sent by Codename: SURGEON to Codename: COALMINER.
These reports are available to read on Halopedia.
2556 // Halo: Escalation – The Glass Horizon
#comic
“The Glass Horizon is a two-part story arc in Halo: Escalation (Issues 17 and 18).” – Halopedia
The mysterious origins of Spartan IV, Holly Tanaka, are revealed on the treacherous and barren glasslands of a Covenant-ravaged colony world. Plus past and present converge on a high-risk search-and-rescue mission.
Timeline Note: As the narrative jumps back and forth between 2551 and 2556, it makes most sense to place this story on the timeline in 2556, as the earlier scenes read as flashbacks.
Saturn Devouring His Son (A Halo Waypoint Chronicle)
2556
Context: This is a self contained short story set on a mining installation nicknamed Elvie, located amidst the asteroid belt of a non-description gas giant in the Marcey system.
Summary: A group of miners discover a long lost Forerunner ship. However, when they begin to excavate it for resources they get more than they bargained for and a Flood infection is released.
Adaptation: JumperScape Media has unofficially adapted this short story into an audio drama as part of their Stories From Waypoint series. Whilst it is a fan made production, it is 100% faithful to the source material and of a very high production value.
Halo: Fractures | Anarosa
March 2556
Context: A short story from Halo: Evolutions – Essential Tales from the Halo Universe. Whilst it is not obvious from the story, it actually tells the origins of the AI Isabel.
Summary: Agent Prauss and Leo must convince Michael Carmelo to donate the brain of his recently deceased sister, Anarosa, to the creation of a new Smart AI.
Learn more: Halopedia
Halo 4 | Terminal: Prologue – Jul ‘Mdama
21 July 2557
Context: The first half of this video takes place three years earlier, whilst the second half takes place immediately before Halo 4.
Summary: Jul ‘Mdama arrives at Requiem.
Learn more: Jul ‘Mdama
Halo 4
21 July 2557
Context: Set four and a half years after the events of Halo 3.
Summary: After four and a half years adrift in space, the remains of the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn and its two surviving passengers, the Master Chief and Cortana, are pulled into the mysterious Forerunner shield world of Requiem where they must face an ancient evil within.
Audio logs: In addition to the terminals, the majority of which I have embedded in The Forerunner Legacy section of this timeline, there are also a series of audio logs scattered throughout the game. Most of these audio logs provide further context to the Master Chief’s immediate environment/situation. However, there are two audio logs recorded by Dr Halsey which have dates attached to them. The excellent video below features all of the audio logs. However, I have also transcribed Halsey’s voice recordings and inserted them in their relevant timeline positions (11 February 2550 and 15 December 2554).
Halo: Escalation – The Next 72 Hours
25 July 2557
Context: The Next 72 Hours is a three issue story arc from the comic Halo: Escalation. Beginning with Issue #8, it is set one day after the events of Halo 4 and continues the story of the Master Chief and the Didact over the next 72 hours.
Summary: At the request of Lord Hood, the Master Chief reunites with Blue Team to investigate the loss of a science team on Gamma Halo. Meanwhile the Didact, having survived his fall into the slipspace fissure at the end of Halo 4 and crash landing on Gamma Halo, sees another opportunity for vengeance against humanity.
Learn more: Gamma Halo
Vertical Umbrage (A Halo Waypoint Chronicle)
14 February 2558
Context: This story follows Fireteam Shadow and takes place concurrently with the Halo 4: Spartan Ops mission “Everything Has Gone Wrong.” Fireteam Shadow reappear later in the timeline, in Halo: The Rubicon Protocol and the Halo Infinite audio logs.
Summary: Fireteam Shadow are reassigned to infiltrate and destroy a Covenant cruiser inbound for Fireteam Crimson’s location.
Adaptation: JumperScape Media has unofficially adapted this short story into an audio drama as part of their Stories From Waypoint series. Whilst it is a fan made production, it is 100% faithful to the source material and of a very high production value.
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