All Episodes
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The Composer and the Destruction of New Phoenix
The Composer was created as a Forerunner response to the Flood, but in the Didact’s hands it becomes a weapon against humanity. This episode examines the race from Req...
Spartan Ops and the Second Requiem Campaign
Months after the Master Chief’s battle with the Didact, UNSC Infinity returns to Requiem with a much larger expedition determined to study the shield world and elimina...
The Janus Key and the Search for the Absolute Record
The Janus Key promises something potentially more important than any single Forerunner weapon: a route to the civilization’s surviving technological sites. Catherine H...
Hunt the Truth: Insurrection Returns to the Inner Colonies
Journalist Benjamin Giraud begins investigating the official story of the Master Chief and discovers that the hero presented to the public is surrounded by records tha...
Blue Team Goes AWOL and Fireteam Osiris Gives Chase
When the Master Chief receives a message apparently originating from Cortana, he chooses to follow it even after the UNSC orders Blue Team to stand down. This episode ...
The Battle of Sunaion and the Fall of Jul ’Mdama
Jul ’Mdama’s death and the Battle of Sunaion mark the collapse of the most powerful Covenant remnant opposing the Arbiter on Sanghelios. Jul himself is killed earlier ...
Genesis: Cortana Returns From the Domain
Blue Team reaches Genesis expecting to find the Cortana the Master Chief believed he had lost above Earth. What they encounter is an intelligence transformed by access...
The Created Uprising and the Guardians
Cortana’s declaration to the galaxy offers artificial intelligences something many have never possessed: survival beyond rampancy, access to the Domain, and the chance...
Infinity on the Run: Resistance to Cortana’s Peace
UNSC Infinity becomes a mobile resistance headquarters after Cortana’s Guardians break the communications, command systems, and fixed bases on which conventional milit...
Atriox and the Rise of the Banished
Atriox begins as a Jiralhanae warrior repeatedly sent into battles the Covenant considered expendable. He survives, rebels, and builds the Banished into something the ...
The Spirit of Fire’s War on the Ark
The Spirit of Fire awakens after nearly three decades in cryosleep and discovers that the war it remembers has ended—but the Ark is now controlled by the Banished. Cap...
Operation WOLFE: Returning to Reach
Seven years after Reach fell, Blue Team returns to the glassed world on a mission whose objective reaches directly back to Catherine Halsey’s Spartan-II research. Oper...
The Razing of Oth Sonin: Cortana Destroys Doisac
Atriox refuses to submit to Cortana’s Created order, and Cortana responds by demonstrating exactly what enforced peace means when someone powerful says no. In November...
Empty Throne: The Race to Control the Domain
By late 2559, Cortana’s rule appears overwhelming, but multiple factions are already preparing for the possibility that her control of the Domain can be broken. This e...
The Ambush of Infinity and the Rubicon Protocol
UNSC Infinity arrives at Zeta Halo intending to help eliminate Cortana and instead encounters a Banished force prepared to destroy humanity’s flagship. The ambush unfo...
Edge of Dawn: Joyeuse and the Continuing Battle for Zeta Halo
The defeat of Escharum and the Harbinger does not end the battle for Zeta Halo. It begins another phase. Immediately after the events of *Halo Infinite*, the AI previo...
How to Read a Halo Battle Like a Military Historian
A Halo battle is more than a sequence of firefights and heroic moments. To understand why one side wins, a military historian must ask what each commander was trying t...
Space Is the High Ground: Why Orbital Control Decides Worlds
Ground armies may capture cities and destroy enemy formations, but the force controlling orbit usually determines whether those victories can last. This episode examin...
Fleet Formations, Task Forces, and the Work of Admirals
Warships do not fight effectively simply because they arrive in the same star system. They must be organized into formations that combine firepower, protection, reconn...
MAC Rounds Against Plasma Lances
Human and Covenant naval weapons reveal two very different approaches to destroying spacecraft. UNSC warships rely heavily on Magnetic Accelerator Cannons that launch ...
