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The Chief is too late, and learns of the Flood. Master Chief finds the control room, only for Cortana to send him to stop Keyes.The group decides to split up, with the Chief searching for Halo's control room while Keyes investigates a supposed Covenant weapons cache.On Halo, Chief and Cortana reunite with the surviving marines before rescuing Keyes from the Covenant.Keyes crash-lands the Pillar of Autumn into Halo. After arriving at Halo, the Chief and Cortana escape via lifeboat.After jumping to slipspace, the Pillar of Autumn arrives at a massive, ring-shaped facility. Cortana then provides Captain Keyes with a set of coordinates given to her by Halsey.Cortana successfully makes it aboard and reunites with the Master Chief. Save for a single SPARTAN-III, Noble Team is killed while transporting and defending the Pillar of Autumn.Noble Team arrives to save Halsey and are ordered to bring Cortana to a ship-breaking facility and rendezvous with the Pillar of Autumn.Halsey learns of the true nature behind the SPARTAN-IIIs. They are separated when the Master Chief leaves to defend the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, while Cortana stays behind to work with Dr. John-117, now known as the Master Chief, is introduced to Cortana.Despite heavy UNSC resistance, the Covenant are able to capture most of Reach within days of arriving.Sixty percent of the entire UNSC fleet is redirected to Reach in response. Days later, a squad of SPARTAN-IIIs dubbed 'Noble Team' discover Covenant reconnaissance squads on Reach.However, the Covenant plant a tracking beacon on Keyes' ship and discover the location of Reach. Commander Jacob Keyes defeats a Covenant fleet orbiting a human colony.V armor, complete with reverse-engineered energy shields, is developed and adopted by the surviving SPARTAN-IIs. system, is created from Catherine Halsey's cloned brain. Office of Naval Intelligence publicly reveals the SPARTAN-IIs in order to boost morale.

If capture is inevitable, captains must destroy their ship's A.I. The Cole Protocol is established in order to prevent the Covenant from finding Earth.The SPARTAN-III Project, designed to produce cheaper, disposable Spartan soldiers, begins in secret.It becomes the SPARTAN-II's standard equipment. A revolutionary exoskeleton system, named the Mjolnir Mk.Humanity makes first contact with the Covenant on an agricultural colony named Harvest.Of the original 75 candidates, only 33 survive the augmentation process and remain active. The SPARTAN-IIs undergo biological augmentation.Potential SPARTAN candidates, all of whom are children, are kidnapped and replaced with clones before being brought to Reach for training. Catherine Halsey greenlights the SPARTAN-II Project. Using research from the ORION Project as a stepping stone, Dr.The ORION is shuttered yet again due to mental issues caused by the project's biological augmentations.The first successful batch of augmentees are code-named 'SPARTANs.' Humanity begins colonizing Reach, a planet that would eventually become one of the UNSC's largest military research bases.While it shows promise, the ORION project is ultimately deemed a failure. The ORION Project, a secret bio-engineering experiment, is green-lit.Humanity discovers slipspace, allowing for the development of the 'Slipspace drive' and faster-than-light travel.The United Nations Space Command, or UNSC, is formed as a militarized, exploratory division of Earth's government.These include the Grunts, the Jackals, the Hunters, the Drones and the Brutes.

They begin their hunt for Forerunner artifacts, as well as absorbing other species into their massive war machine. The Sangheili (Elites) and the San 'Shyuum (Prophets) put an end to years of fighting to form the Covenant.Both the Forerunners and the Flood are annihilated.

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As a last resort, the Forerunners fire the Halo rings, a series of weapons designed to wipe out all sentient life, denying the Flood of its food source.

After 300 years of fighting, the Flood has conquered much of the galaxy.

The Forerunners, an ancient race of space-faring scientists, make first contact with a parasitic organism known as the Flood.

So, without any further adieu, here's the complete Halo series timeline! Pre- Halo: Combat Evolved

Halo games timeline