With the Human-Covenant war over the universe is in chaos. The enemy that gave humanity much-needed drive & unity has been defeated. Rising from the trauma of this long-fought devastating conflict the UNSC must now lay claim to the universe. But new dangers both alien & human may threaten any chance for lasting peace. Join a group of old soldiers & new heroes as they begin a mission to penetrate what was once the heart of the Covenant empire in a desperate attempt to stop old foes from rising again. ...

In the wake of the apparent self-destruction of the Forerunner empire two humans -- Chakas & Riser -- are like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed. They find themselves on an inverted world where horizons rise into the sky & where humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of neglect. They have become strategic pawns in a cosmic game whose madness knows no end -- a game of ancient vengeance between the powers who seeded the galaxy with life & the Forerunners. In the company of a young girl & an old man Chakas begins an epic journey across a lost & damaged Halo in search of a way home an explanation for the warrior spirits rising up within & for the Librarian's tampering with human destiny. This journey will take them into the domain of a powerful & monstrous intelligence who claims to be the Last Precursor & who now has control of both this Halo & the fate of Forerunners & humans alike. Called the Primordial by ancient human warriors this intelligence may control the fate of not only Chakas Riser & the rest of humanity but all of sentient life. ...

In the last years of the Forerunner empire chaos rules. The Flood -- a horrifying shape-changing parasite -- has arrived in force aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defences. Too little too late the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder & others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from the Librarian & both Didacts: the Ur-Didact treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system & the Bornstellar Didact who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against the dire possibility of Hal extermination. Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization the Librarian & Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors & the Flood. The Precursors created many technological species including humanity & the Forerunners. But the roots of the Flood may be found in an act of enormous barbarity carried out beyond our galaxy ten million years before. Because of that barbarism a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact & the Librarian -- husband & wife pushed into desperate conflict -- hold the keys to a solution. Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time -- to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe. ...

The Art of Halo" is the ultimate gallery of the Halo universe with over 400 images including sketches & concept art by acclaimed artists such as Ashley Wood detailed interiors & sweeping landscapes of Alex Chu & Frank Capezzutos breathtaking spacescapes plus commentary from the artists themselves & a Foreword from the face of Halo Frank OConnor." ...

In the first desperate days of the Human-Covenant War the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth & its inner colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems. Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human-occupied planets near Hesiod many of the survivors helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous yet ingenious settlement known as the Rubble--and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar.. .yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best--an ambitious & ruthless Elite whose quest for nobility & rank is matched only by his brutality...and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy & walk the Path. ...

This is a life-or-death mission for ONI's black-ops team Kilo-Five which is tasked with preventing the rutheless Elites once the military leaders of the Covenant from regrouping & threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation
- keeping the Elites busy with their own insurrection
- turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething heart of an alien civil war. But troubles never come singly for Kilo-Five. Colonial terrorism is once again surfacing on one of the worlds that survived the war against the Covenant & the man behind it is much more than just a name to Spartan-010. Meanwhile the treasure trove of Forerunner technology recovered from the shield world of Onyx is being put to work. & a kidnapped Elite plots vengeance on the humans he fears will bring his people to the brink of destruction.

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