User:Wlmaltby3/Halo: First Strike
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| Author | Eric Nylund |
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| Cover Artist | Lorraine McLees |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | American English |
| Series | Halo |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction War |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books Ballantine Books Random House |
| Released | December 2003 |
| Media Type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 352 pages (Paperback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0345467817 (Paperback edition) |
| Preceded by | Halo: The Flood (2003) |
| Followed by | Halo: Ghosts of Coral (2006) |
Halo: First Strike is a science fiction war novel written by author Eric Nylund. It was released in December 2003 by Del Rey Books, a division of Ballantine Books and Random House.
Halo: First Strike is based on the video game series Halo and is set within the fictional Halo universe. It is the sequel of Halo: The Flood, and recounts the events which occured between the video games Halo: Combat Evolved (2001) and Halo 2 (2004), developed by Bungie Studios. Halo: First Strike is considered canon by Bungie Studios.
Halo: First Strike will be succeeded by Halo: Ghosts of Coral, which is expected to be released some time in 2006.
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[edit] Plot introduction
Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemy's clutches.
Now, everything depends on the Spartan known as the "Master Chief." Yet even with the aid of the artificial intelligence Cortana, the Master Chief will be hard-pressed to rescue survivors and evade the Covenant ships patrolling the remains of Halo in debris-strewn space.
Ahead lies a dangerous voyage home, through a gauntlet of Covenant forces. For the sake of all, the Master Chief and his war-torn squad must not only survive, but take the fight to the enemy with a decisive first strike.
[edit] Plot summary
[edit] Section 0: Reach
During the fight for Reach, the last line of defense for the United Nations Space Command is represented by the defense platforms that are orbiting the planet. The defense platforms each house a massive coilgun known to soldiers as the "super MAC gun" [sic]. The weapons are capable of tearing holes clean through Covenant capital ships.
Because the MACs are Reach's last line of defense, the Master Chief sends a team of Spartans to the surface to protect the MACs fusion generators at all costs. However, the Covenant begin to bombard the planet with plasma, effectively destroying the planetside generators and rendering the MACs useless. The Spartan strike team is forced to retreat underground into a top-secret ONI base as Reach burns around them. While underground, the team stumbles upon an ancient Forerunner artifact, which seems capable of bending time and space. They retrieve the object and wait patiently for rescue.
[edit] Section 1: Threshold
Meanwhile, the Master Chief and Cortana are stranded in space, orbiting Threshold amongst the debris of the now-destroyed Halo orbital.
Category:2003 novels Category:Halo novels Category:Science fiction novels Category:War novels
