History Literature / HaloHuntersInTheDark

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:000 Tragic Solitude. He claims that the people of the modern galaxy are a violent, hopeless case, unlike his ideal image of the Forerunners. Olympia Vale reminds him that the Forerunners most likely went through the ''[[NotSoDifferent exact same thing]]'' in their millions of years of development.]]

* TooSoon: InUniverse. Kola truthfully but insensitively tells Luther than [[spoiler:Henry's death was from foolishness ''right over his dead body''.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Tragic Solitude''']]: Why would you assume that [[spoiler:I care in the least about humankind?]]
-->'''Drifts Randomly''' [[spoiler:I have control of the Ark.]]

* [[invoked]]TooSoon: As mentioned above, Kola truthfully but insensitively tells Luther than [[spoiler:Henry's death was from foolishness ''right over his dead body''.]]

-->* [[spoiler:'''Tragic Solitude''']]: Why would you assume that [[spoiler:I care in the least about humankind?]]

-->* '''Drifts Randomly''' [[spoiler:I have control of the Ark.]]

''Halo: Hunters in the Dark'' is the 15th novel-length book in the ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' franchise, written by Creator/PeterDavid. Set in 2555 (two years after the end of ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}'' and two before ''{{VideoGame/Halo 4}}'') the novel follows a joint UNSC/Sangheili expedition to the Ark to solve a mystery that threatens everyone in the galaxy.

During an expedition to the seventh Halo ringworld, scientists Luther Mann and Henry Lamb uncover a strange alien signal emanating from the array, which turns out to be a Forerunner countdown reading five weeks from today. Fearing the worst, that the Halos may have been reactivated and will fire upon the galaxy once time's up, the Office of Naval Intelligence plans for an expedition back to the remains of the Ark, the enormous space station that controlled the rings. But the portal to the Ark from Earth has been inactive for years, so the Sangheili are commissioned with reviving the machine. Tensions broil between the two species from old wounds in the war, but the dangers aboard the Ark will put their cooperation to the test.

''Hunters In the Dark'' brings back old characters like N'tho 'Sraom and Usze 'Taham (the co-op player Elites from ''Halo 3'') and introduces many new ones, including Olympia Vale, who has a major role in ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians''.

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* ActionGirl: Olympia Vale is a civilian, not a soldier, but her combat instincts and training are enough to impressive even the Spartans.

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* BigBad: [[spoiler:000 Tragic Solitude, the monitor of the Ark, who intends to strip-mine Earth and all other life-bearing worlds as revenge for the destruction of the Ark.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:000 Tragic Solitude, the monitor of the Ark, who intends to strip-mine Earth and all other life-bearing worlds as revenge for the destruction to the Ark.]]

* ArtificialLimbs: Spartan Kodiak has a prosthetic left arm, though it's usually disguised by long sleeves or additional armor. [[spoiler:He lost during the war with an Elite who turned out to be N'tho 'Sraom, and sees his chance for revenge when the two are assigned together for the expedition.]]

''Halo: Hunters in the Dark'' is the 15th novel-length book in the ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' franchise, written by Creator/PeterDavid. Set in 2555 (two years after the end of ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}'' and two before ''{{VideoGame/Halo 4}}'') the novel follows a joint UNSC/Sangheili expedition to the remains of the Ark to solve a mystery that threatens everyone in the galaxy.

During an expedition to the seventh Halo ring, scientists Luther Mann and Henry Lamb uncover a strange alien signal emanating from the array, which turns out to be a Forerunner countdown reading five weeks from today. Fearing the worst, that the Halos may have been reactivated and will fire upon the galaxy once time's up, the Office of Naval Intelligence plans for an expedition back to the remains of the Ark in hopes that the rings can be shut off from there. But the portal to the Ark from Earth has been inactive for years, so the Sangheili are commissioned with reviving the machine. Tensions broil between the two species from old wounds in the war, but the dangers aboard the Ark will put their cooperation to the test.

* {{Interspecies Friendship}}: Usze 'Taham and Olympia Vale express a mutual interest in each other and over the course of the book establish a companionship untroubled by past grievances between their species.

* TheLoad: Captain Richards views herself to be this after 1. [[spoiler:she and her men are basically kidnapped by N'tho and the Sangheili to travel to the Ark]] and 2. [[spoiler:she wrenches her leg too badly to continue traveling with the others]]. However, [[spoiler:Admiral Osman sees differently and offers her a medal and a promotion.]]

** The book opens with the narration of the last crewman of the UNSC Rubicon, the ill-fated starship sent to examine the remains of the Ark in ''Literature/HaloPrimordium''.

** While examining Installation 07, Luther points out that its structure is so different from the other Halos that it was either built before or after all the other rings. As ''Primordium'' tells, it was the former.

* NightmareFetishist: Both Luther and Olympia were viewed as this during the war for wanting to study the Covenant, since most human folks didn't take kindly to the extraterrestrials currently in the midst of slaughtering them.

* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Tragic Solitude has turned into an OmnicidalManiac as a result of millennia alone and thirst for revenge for the inadvertent damage to the Ark. Olympia wonders at one point if maybe the Ark's damage also damaged him, hence why he's become a sociopath.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Tragic Solitude has turned into an OmnicidalManiac as a result of millennia alone and the inadvertent damage to the Ark. Olympia wonders at one point if maybe the Ark's damage also damaged him, hence why he's become a sociopath.]]

** BadassPacifist: That said, though peaceful he's capable of disarming stronger opponents, can survive extreme temperatures, float fast enough to keep up with a Sangheili at full sprint, and even [[spoiler:forces Tragic Solitude into submission when he hacks into the monitor's date stores. For a pacifist mechanic, Tragic Solitude rightly considers him the greatest threat of the party.]]

During an expedition to the seventh Halo ring, scientists Luther Mann and Henry Lamb uncover a strange alien signal emanating from the array, which turns out to be a Forerunner countdown reading five weeks from today. Fearing the worst, that the Halos may have been reactivated and will fire upon the galaxy once time's up, the Office of Naval Intelligence plans for an expedition back to the remains of the Ark, in hopes that the rings can be shut off from there. But the portal to the Ark from Earth has been inactive for years, so the Sangheili are commissioned with reviving the machine. Tensions broil between the two species from old wounds in the war, but the dangers aboard the Ark will put their cooperation to the test.

''Hunters In the Dark'' brings back old characters like N'tho 'Sraom and Usze 'Taham (the co-op player Elites from ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}'') and introduces many new ones, including Olympia Vale, who has a major role in ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians''.

** In ''Halo 3'', on the level "The Ark", the player can find a Terminal with a short exchange between 343 Guilty Spark and an unknown AI. [[spoiler:That AI turns out here to be 000 Tragic Solitude, the monitor of Installation 00.]]

* TooSoon: As mentioned above, Kola truthfully but insensitively tells Luther than [[spoiler:Henry's death was from foolishness ''right over his dead body''.]]