The story so far

It is the year 2552.Humanity has long been at war with the terrifying alien civilization calls itself the Covenant.This monstrous conglomerate of warlike species sees Humanity as a form of  heresy against their religion a religion based in the single minded  belief  that a great Journey awaits its faithful and that this Journey can be embarked upon by firing an array of vast ringlike weapons scattered throughout the galaxy. These immense terraformed rings,known as Halos,have been abandoned by their mysterios and long vanished creators,the Forerunners. This conflict,terrible and destructive   though it is,has recently been complicated by a series of  cascadeing events. One of these artificial worlds ,these Halos,was discovered and subseqently destroyed by Humans led by spartan 117 the master chief the last fighting member of the legendary spartan ll military program  and Humanity,s  best hope. Conflict at a second Halo installation then ignited a galaxy spanning conflagration as civil war erupted within the Covenant,driven by revelations that the Covenant leadership,the Prophets,had been deciving its populace. In truth,these Halos would not take the Covenant on a Great Journey but rather eradicate all sentient life in the galaxy a last resort defense against the most terrifying menace the galaxy has ever known and a menace the deluded Covenant has reawakened for the second time in a hundred thousand years. The horror is the Flood a sentient,all consuming parasite that makes monstrours puppets of those it kills and it will not stop until every last thinking creature is absorbed into its ferociously intelligent plan. The second Halo has been activated ,putting all of the remaining installations in a dangerours state of emergency standby  and are primed to fire.Worse still, the    covenant has almost discovered Earths location and crushed almost all human resistance as it seeks vital clues to the nature of the Halo array,some of which may have been hidden under our very feet for untold millennia. Even with our new found     allies,the Elites,and their valiant and honorable leader,the Arbiter,we are still hopelessly out numbered.The Prophets  set their wills against us and forces greater than the Covenant wheel malevolently into place,intent upon the destruction of all but the Flood. As the Master Chief hurtles Earthward in a Forerunner spacecraft,he may be our last chance to stop the Covenant,the Flood,and the ticking time bomb that is the the Halo network,befor every last soul in the galaxy is destroyed.The stakes have never been higher.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Its time to finish the fight.