History Fridge / Halo

** I doubt that the word connection was intentional, but HALO (High Altitude, Low Opening) jumps, as the article should show, would definitely be similar to the ODSTs' orbital drops in terms of both being dangerous means of deployment and usually involving only a small team of special operations personnel.

* A note on the Flood. The truly horrifying part of the Gravemind is that he never lied. What he claims all would be true. "...you can surrender and have what you always wanted - infinite life, infinite knowledge, and infinite companionship." By collecting all living organisms into one collective and combining their neural pathways, a victim would indeed never lack companionship. They would all be one organism. Of course, one can argue that the mind that is a part of the Flood collective is not the victim him/herself, instead a recreation much like the composers(another horrifying part of the Forerunners), but what about split brain patients? A mind that has spend an entire life together is split into two, and the two parts operates almost independently. There are instances where the left and right brain would even want to wear different clothes and certainly could not communicated those thoughts with each other. The left side of the brain would try to explain, falsely, why the right brain is doing what it is doing, but the right brain can write down why it wants something and the answer would be completely different than what the left brain had said. In addition to that point, unlike composers, which extract information and leave the biomass of the organism in a disintegrated state, the Flood integrates the biomass of the victim, which means that more likely, the mind that the Flood eats would join them, instead of dying first like what most people believe. They would join together, like a reverse of split brain surgery. And that would fulfill Cortana's dream, being with her family, forever.

* Spartan Ops episode 10. We get a good look at Jul 'Mdama's fleet as they evacuate Requiem. It's ''huge.'' The guy literally has dozens of capital-class ships (albeit mostly outdated sub-types like armored cruisers, brigantines, and Blockade Runners), as well as hundreds of light cruisers, corvettes, and support vessels and two multi-billion ton assault carriers. As well as doubtlessly billions of soldiers scattered throughout the worlds he rules. Considering that 'Mdama is a [[RenegadeRussian renegade Elite]] [[NGOSuperpower commanding only part of the former Covenant]] (tied with the Swords of Sanghelios for the most powerful successor state) and yet still has enough firepower to give [[Franchise/MassEffect Citadel Space]] pause, it really makes you wonder, just how powerful were the original Covenant?

* What else did ONI have to do to cover up the Spartan II program? 75 Children collapsed and died for no good reason. Did nobody recognize it as flash clone deterioration? How many doctors/nurses/coroners were eliminated to keep it a secret?

* Spartan Ops episode 10. We get a good look at Jul 'Mdama's fleet as they evacuate Requiem. It's ''huge.'' The guy literally has hundreds of capital-class ships, as well as support vessels and doubtlessly tens of thousands of warriors, at his command. Considering that 'Mdama is a [[RenegadeRussian renegade Elite]] [[NGOSuperpower commanding a tiny splinter faction of the Covenant]] and yet still has enough firepower to give [[Franchise/MassEffect the Reapers]] pause, it really makes you wonder, just how powerful were the original Covenant?
** That's nothing. In ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'', they lose a fleet of 300 ships and it only delays the invasion of earth. The force that attacks Installation 05 is hundreds of times the size of the 'hundreds' of ships that attacked Reach. It takes a planet full of reactors and miners to fuel even the local Covenant ships, such that the success of Operation Prometheus managed to actually slow the Covenant juggernaut. Suffice to say, they're a galactic empire.

* A lot of the weaponry and vehicles of the UNSC look drastically underpowered and unprotected compared to modern versions. For example, compare the UNSC's [[http://www.halopedia.com/M12_Force_Application_Vehicle Warthog]] to today's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Mobility_Multipurpose_Wheeled_Vehicle Humvee]], or the [[http://www.halopedia.com/UH-144_Falcon Falcon]] to a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook Chinook helicopter]]. ''Halo'''s vehicles feel like a step backward, until you consider how powerful Covenant weaponry is. A Humvee's door may protect from bullets, but plasma weapons will just boil right through them. The added protection isn't worth it, thus the same budget that could build one Humvee is instead used to build four Warthogs, paying the price of less protection in exchange for increased firepower. Seems callous, but this is the same UNSC that authorized the SPARTAN program. Also keep in mind that, by the later parts of the series, we're seeing the end results of a twenty-seven year-long war of attrition; ''Halo Wars'' shows that the UNSC had a lot of really kickass, high-end weaponry in 2525, whereas by 2552 they're down to a scant few colonies, Reach, and Earth. This is showing in their limited armory.

* A lot of the weaponry and vehicles of the UNSC look drastically underpowered and unprotected compared to modern versions. For example, compare the UNSC's [[http://www.halopedian.com/M12_Force_Application_Vehicle Warthog]] to today's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Mobility_Multipurpose_Wheeled_Vehicle Humvee]], or the [[http://www.halopedian.com/UH-144_Falcon Falcon]] to a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook Chinook helicopter]]. ''Halo'''s vehicles feel like a step backward, until you consider how powerful Covenant weaponry is. A Humvee's door may protect from bullets, but plasma weapons will just boil right through them. The added protection isn't worth it, thus the same budget that could build one Humvee is instead used to build four Warthogs, paying the price of less protection in exchange for increased firepower. Seems callous, but this is the same UNSC that authorized the SPARTAN program. Also keep in mind that, by the later parts of the series, we're seeing the end results of a twenty-seven year-long war of attrition; ''Halo Wars'' shows that the UNSC had a lot of really kickass, high-end weaponry in 2525, whereas by 2552 they're down to a scant few colonies, Reach, and Earth. This is showing in their limited armory.

** To add to that, if you ask the Windows 10 Cortana the right question, she implies she's the same Cortana as the one in this series.

** To add to that, if you ask the Windows 10 Cortana te right question, she implies she's the same Cortana as the one in this series.

* In ''Halo 2'', the Prophet of Mercy refers to Halo as a "divine wind [that] will sweep through the stars, delivering all who are worthy to salvation." "Divine wind" is a literal English translation of the Japanese word "kamikaze", whose [[TakingYouWithMe more modern definition]] is closer to Halo's actual purpose.

* In halo 5 It's relieved that the swords of Sanghilos have female soldiers integrated into their forces, at first it seemed like just random exposition but then it hit me, during the events of halo 2 and 3 The arbiter had seen women in the UNSC military hold their own against the Covenant and the flood, It was Miranda Keyes who stopped the halo from firing and who commanded the human force at the assault on the ark's control room, from these experiences Arbiter probably came to the conclusion that like the great journey, that the tradition of forbidding women from becoming warriors was another thing that was a lie passed down.

* There's something very appropriate about Dr. Halsey saying she chose John for his luck. Namely, another famous Halsey, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Halsey,_Jr Fleet Admiral William Jr]] , commanded the task force centred on the ''Enterprise'' (CV-6), the luckiest of America's WW2 aircraft carriers.

* In halo 5 It's relieved that the swords of Sanghilos have female soldiers integrated into their forces, at first it seemed like just random exposition but then it hit me, during the events of halo 2 and 3 The arbiter had seen women in the UNSC military hold their own against the Covenant and the flood, It was Miranda Keyes who stopped the halo from firing and who commanded the human force at the assault on the ark's control room, from these experiences Arbiter probably came to the conclusion that like the great journey, that forbidding women from joining the Swords of Sanghilos.

* In halo 5 It's relieved that the swords of Sanghilos have female soldiers integrated into their forces, at first it seemed like just random exposition but then it hit me, during the events of halo 2 and 3 The arbiter had seen women in the UNSC military hold their own against the Covenant and the flood, It was Miranda Keyes who stopped the halo from firing and Arbiter probably came to conclusion that like the great journey that forbidding women from joining the Swords of Sanghilos.

* One may imagine that the concept of the [[VideoGame/Halo3ODST ODST]] shares a bit of similarity to [[ItsRainingMen HALO jumpers]] (a high-altitude aerial insertion; to say the physical requirements are strenuous might be understating it a bit: see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HALO_jump the article]] on ThatOtherWiki for details). ''{{Franchise/Halo}}''... [[FunWithAcronyms HALO]]. Whoa.

* ''{{Franchise/Halo}}''. Specifically, the Human-Covenant war. The casualties are never really covered in the games... but Bungie have released statistics. Remember when Miranda Keyes says "casualties from the initial bombardment were... extreme" in ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}'', referring to Truth's bombardment of Earth? Well, it turns out that this bombardment meant that there were only 200 million humans left on Earth by the end. Less than the population of America. And Earth wasn't even fully glassed - whereas around 70 planets were, many of them major colonies like Reach. You know what this means? '''Dozens of billions of humans''' have been killed in the Halo universe. Soldiers, civilians, children. All mercilessly eradicated by a beam from space so powerful, it turns the surface of the planet to glass. It reminds This me or pouring water into an ant's nest, in the most horrifying way possible... doubly so when you realise that's what we must seem like to the xenophobic captains of the Covenant ships. At the end of the war, we - people like you and me - may very well be on the verge of extinction.

* Gravemind says it is "a monument to all your sins". A lot of people were wondering what that actually means. 343 Guilty Spark says that Master Chief and Humanity are, as successors, Forerunner. [[spoiler:In the expanded universe, the Flood were created as a last-ditch effort by the Precursors during a war against the Forerunners.]] He said this because he recognized MC as a "new Forerunner".

* Just recently I questioned why Covenant ships didn't always utterly curbstomp human fleets no matter what, they're supposed to be using Forerunner tech. But then it hit me, the Covenant capital ships are good at glassing planets. The ships that the Covenant are using are after battle clean up ships, designed to completely eradicate flood a infestation after a real battle. And to the response of 'but they don't really glass the planets, just render them inhospitable by convection', they don't always have to glass the entire planet, as in Halo 3 with half of Africa, but if it really becomes necessary, just throw more ships at the problem.

* One may imagine that the concept of the [[VideoGame/Halo3ODST ODST]] shares a bit of similarity to [[ItsRainingMen HALO jumpers]] (a high-altitude aerial insertion; to say the [[{{Badass}} physical requirements are strenuous]] might be understating it a bit: see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HALO_jump the article]] on ThatOtherWiki for details). ''{{Franchise/Halo}}''... [[FunWithAcronyms HALO]]. Whoa.

** To add to that, if you ask the Windows 10 Cortana it implies she's the same Cortana as the one in this series.

* A bit of meta FridgeHorror, Windows 10 has a program called "Cortana", which is Microsoft's answer to Apple's "Siri". Now, lets take in account Halo 5 and Cortana's characterization in it. Microsoft, [[BigBrotherIsWatching what]] are you trying to tell us?

* The ending of ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}''. Literally: Master Chief didn't die, he's just MIA.

** That's nothing. In ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'', they lose a fleet of 300 ships and it only delays the invasion of earth. The force that attacks Installation 05 is hundreds of times the size of the 'hundreds' of ships that attacked Reach. It takes a planet full of reactors and miners to fuel even the local Covenant ships, such that the success of Operation Prometheus managed to actually slow the Covenant juggernaut. Suffice to say, they're a galactic empire.