All Episodes
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The Spartan-III Program: Cheaper Soldiers for Impossible Missions
The Spartan-III program was created because humanity needed far more supersoldiers than the Spartan-II system could ever produce. Colonel James Ackerson proposed a for...
Operation PROMETHEUS: Alpha Company’s Last Stand
Operation PROMETHEUS demonstrated both the extraordinary effectiveness and the terrible strategic logic of the Spartan-III program. Alpha Company was deployed against ...
Operation TORPEDO: Beta Company at Pegasi Delta
Beta Company inherited Alpha Company’s mission profile and eventually faced its own nearly impossible objective during Operation TORPEDO. The target on Pegasi Delta wa...
The Battle of Psi Serpentis and the Disappearance of Preston Cole
By 2543, Preston Cole had spent years fighting Covenant fleets that repeatedly outnumbered or outclassed the forces available to humanity. At Psi Serpentis, he faced m...
Meridian and the Collapse of the Outer Colonies
The destruction of the Outer Colonies was not one campaign ending on one date. It was a long collapse in which human worlds disappeared from the strategic map faster t...
Sigma Octanus IV: The Road to Reach
The Battle of Sigma Octanus IV in 2552 appeared to be a rare human victory, but it helped open the road to Reach. Covenant forces attacked the Inner Colony with object...
2552: Humanity at the Edge of Extinction
By 2552, the Human-Covenant War has lasted twenty-seven years and humanity is running out of places to retreat. Most Outer Colonies have been destroyed or abandoned, I...
Operation RED FLAG: The Plan That Never Happened
Operation RED FLAG was humanity’s desperate attempt to end the Covenant War with one extraordinarily dangerous special operation. The plan called for Spartan-IIs to bo...
Winter Contingency: The Covenant Finds Reach
The discovery of Covenant forces on Reach begins not with a massive fleet appearing in orbit, but with a missing communications relay and reports that initially resemb...
Noble Team and the Defense of Sword Base
ONI’s Sword Base is one of Reach’s most important classified installations, and Covenant forces attack it before the UNSC fully understands the scale of the invasion. ...
The Viery Campaign: Army Warfare on Reach
The Viery Campaign shows the invasion of Reach at the scale of conventional ground warfare. UNSC Army formations, armored vehicles, artillery, aircraft, and Spartan un...
Operation UPPER CUT: Destroying the Long Night of Solace
The Long Night of Solace is too powerful for available UNSC forces to destroy through a conventional engagement, so Noble Team turns a damaged slipspace drive into a b...
New Alexandria: Evacuation Under Fire
New Alexandria becomes a battlefield of evacuation rather than conquest as the Covenant assault overwhelms one of Reach’s great cities. This episode examines the milit...
The Fall of Reach in Orbit
Reach’s decisive battle is fought in orbit, where the UNSC commits major naval forces and twenty powerful orbital defense platforms against the Covenant invasion fleet...
The Pillar of Autumn: Escape to Alpha Halo
The Pillar of Autumn was supposed to carry the Spartan-IIs into Operation RED FLAG. Instead, it leaves Reach carrying the survivors and one of the most important artif...
The Battle of Installation 04
The Battle of Installation 04 begins as a conventional struggle between surviving UNSC forces and the Covenant and ends as a three-sided war involving a parasite capab...
Captain Keyes, the Truth and Reconciliation, and the Ground War
Captain Jacob Keyes spends much of the Alpha Halo campaign moving between command responsibility and frontline danger. After the Covenant captures him aboard the Truth...
The Flood Outbreak
The Flood outbreak transforms Alpha Halo from an archaeological discovery into an extinction-level emergency. Covenant forces searching Forerunner facilities breach co...
The Library, the Index, and the Race to Fire Halo
343 Guilty Spark identifies the Master Chief as a Reclaimer and leads him through the Library to recover the Index required to activate Installation 04. The Monitor pr...
The Maw: Destroying Alpha Halo
Destroying Alpha Halo requires using the wreck of the Pillar of Autumn as a weapon. Cortana develops a plan to overload the ship’s fusion reactors, creating an explosi...
