HALO Legends

The first story, Origins (by Hideki Futamura), is actually a tale of two parts and is a retrospective of the story of Halo and what has led up to the point of the Earth - Covenant war. The first half focuses primarily on the story of the ancient race of Forerunners and how they were faced with a threat they were not prepared for - the parasitic species known only as The Flood. Eventually the threat of the flood got so bad they they constructed the Halo weapon which wiped out all life in the galaxy and was then re-seeded automatically using samples the perished forerunners had collected beforehand. It was a last ditch attempt at wiping out the parasitic species, one which they gave their own lives to destroy to protect the younger civilisations. Cortana, who is telling the story whilst adrift in space after the events of Halo 3, also casts a critical eye over humankinds lust for war and how it has driven the species forward at the same time as finding new ways to kill each other. We se... Read more