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* AntiMutiny: With the revelation that Hector Nyeto is aligned with the Insurrectionists, Colonel Crowther, Sergeant Major Johnson and a cadre of [=ODSTs=] attempt to relieve Nyeto of command. Unfortunately, the crews of an entire Prowler wing are aligned with Nyeto, and the attempt at an anti-mutiny ends with Crowther dead, with Johnson and the [=ODSTs=] blasted into space. Only some quick thinking on Johnson's part forces the Insurrectionist aligned Prowlers into retreat.
* BetrayalByInaction: Nyeto purposefully takes his time launching an attack intended to support the Spartans fighting the Covenant. It is his hope that the delay will result in the Spartans being decimated. All of the Spartans wind up surviving, much to Nyeto's chagrin.
* BetrayalByInaction: Nyeto purposefully takes his time launching an attack intended to support the Spartans fighting the Covenant. It is his hope that the delay will result in the Spartans being decimated. All of the Spartans wind up surviving, much to Nyeto's chagrin.
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* AllGravityIsTheSame: Subverted. The gravity on the ice moon of Seoba is stated to be much lower than that on Earth. As a result, combatants on the moon are able to make jumps that carry them higher and farther than would typically be normal.
* AntiMutiny: With the revelation that Hector Nyeto is aligned with the Insurrectionists, Colonel Crowther, Sergeant Major Johnson and a cadre of [=ODSTs=] attempt to relieve Nyeto of command. Unfortunately, the UNSC underestimates the number of Insurrectionists among them, with the crews of an entire Prowler wingare aligned with Nyeto, and turning traitor. Consequently, the attempt at an anti-mutiny ends with Crowther dead, with Johnson and the [=ODSTs=] blasted into space. Only some quick thinking on Johnson's part forces the Insurrectionist aligned Prowlers into retreat.
* TheBait: [=ODST=] Nelly Hamm sends the Spartans of Blue Team up a decrepit, unused mass driver. By ascending the mass driver, the Spartans believe they will get ahead of and ambush an incoming convoy of Insurrectionists. This is a ruse on Hamm's part, however; the Insurrectionists spot and attack Blue Team, allowing Hamm's [=ODST's=] to take up positions and ambush the Insurrectionists while they are distracted firing on the Spartans. Blue Team is understandably miffed at being used as unknowing bait.
* BetrayalByInaction: Nyeto launches a sortie to support the Spartans engaging the Covenant on Seoba. He purposefully takes his time launchingan attack intended to support the Spartans fighting the Covenant. It is his hope attack, however, hoping that the delay will result in the Spartans being decimated. All of the Spartans wind up surviving, much to Nyeto's chagrin.
* AntiMutiny: With the revelation that Hector Nyeto is aligned with the Insurrectionists, Colonel Crowther, Sergeant Major Johnson and a cadre of [=ODSTs=] attempt to relieve Nyeto of command. Unfortunately, the UNSC underestimates the number of Insurrectionists among them, with the crews of an entire Prowler wing
* TheBait: [=ODST=] Nelly Hamm sends the Spartans of Blue Team up a decrepit, unused mass driver. By ascending the mass driver, the Spartans believe they will get ahead of and ambush an incoming convoy of Insurrectionists. This is a ruse on Hamm's part, however; the Insurrectionists spot and attack Blue Team, allowing Hamm's [=ODST's=] to take up positions and ambush the Insurrectionists while they are distracted firing on the Spartans. Blue Team is understandably miffed at being used as unknowing bait.
* BetrayalByInaction: Nyeto launches a sortie to support the Spartans engaging the Covenant on Seoba. He purposefully takes his time launching
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* AntiMutiny: With the revelation that Hector Nyeto is aligned with the Insurrectionists, Colonel Crowther, Sergeant Major Johnson and a cadre of ODSTs [=ODSTs=] attempt to relieve Nyeto of command. Unfortunately, the crews of an entire Prowler wing are aligned with Nyeto, and the attempt at an anti-mutiny ends with Crowther dead and dead, with Johnson and the ODSTs [=ODSTs=] blasted into space. Only some quick thinking on Johnson's part forces the Insurrectionist aligned Prowlers into retreat.
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** Insurrectionist leader Lyrenne Castilla also makes a cameo appearance near the beginning, having last been seen in The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole.
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* BetrayalByInaction: Nyeto purposefully takes his time launching an attack intended to support the Spartans fighting the Covenant. It is his hope that the delay will result in the Spartans being decimated. All of the Spartans wind up surviving, much to Nyeto's chagrin.
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* FakeRelationship: Doctor Halsey stages a relationship with Colonel Crowther, who realizes Halsey's intentions but plays along. This allows Halsey to bring Crowther into her private quarters without arousing suspicion; Halsey's quarters are free of the surveillance bugs planted by Insurrectionists throughout the rest of the Fleet, allowing them to secret plan retaliatory measures against the Insurrectionist moles embedded throughout Task Force Yama.
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Not quite the right trope, since several chapters are from the vantage point of the Covenant antagonists themselves, whose beliefs are pretty clearly depicted.
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* TheBusCameBack: This novel marks the return of many minor Spartan-II characters who had earlier one-off appearances in other ''Halo'' stories. Daisy-023 (previously seen in ''[[Anime/HaloLegends Homecoming]]'') gets the biggest role of the bunch, with other appearances from many Spartans who had their last significant appearance in ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'' (Joshua-029, Grace-093, Anton-044, and Malcolm-059), one who last appeared in ''[[Anime/HaloLegends The Package]]'' (Solomon-069), and even Kurt-051, who has been mentioned plenty of times throughout the novels but who last appeared in-person back in ''Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx''.
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It is the first year of the Human-Covenant War, and the UNSC is still operating in the dark about the scale and capabilities of their enemy. Desperate to gain a foothold, the Spartan-II program, led by a young John-117 and initially developed to fight Insurrectionist groups in the Outer Colonies, are turned against the Covenant and tasked with intelligence gathering in the hope that some way of delivering a decisive blow to the Covenant onslaught can be discovered. Operation: SILENT STORM is enacted to that end, but the Spartans are faced with a familiar enemy as they face heavy resistance from the United Rebel Front, who see the Covenant invasion as an opportunity to break free from Earth's governance, and even forge an alliance with them to do so. With one Sangheili Shipmaster willing to give the Insurrectionists an ear, the Spartans are on a race against time to prove humanity can stand up against the alien invaders.
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It is the first year of the Human-Covenant War, and the UNSC is still operating in the dark about the scale and capabilities of their enemy. Desperate to gain a foothold, the Spartan-II program, led by a young John-117 and initially developed to fight Insurrectionist groups in the Outer Colonies, are turned against the Covenant and tasked with intelligence gathering in the hope that some way of delivering a decisive blow to the Covenant onslaught can be discovered. Operation: SILENT STORM is enacted to that end, but the Spartans are faced with a familiar enemy as they face encounter heavy resistance from the United Rebel Front, who see the Covenant invasion as an opportunity to break free from Earth's governance, and are even forge willing to consider forging an alliance with them to do so. With one Sangheili Shipmaster willing to give the Insurrectionists an ear, the Spartans are on a race against time to prove humanity can stand up against the alien invaders.
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* LesCollaborators: A group of United Rebel Front cells led by Harper Garvin believe making a truce with the Covenant can secure them their independence from the United Earth Governments.
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* LesCollaborators: LesCollaborateurs: A group of United Rebel Front cells led by Harper Garvin believe making a truce with the Covenant can secure them their independence from the United Earth Governments.
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It is the first year of the Human-Covenant War, and the UNSC is still operating in the dark about the scale and capabilities of their enemy. Desperate to gain a foothold, the Spartan-II program, led by a young John-117 and initially developed to fight Insurrectionist groups in the Outer Colonies, are turned against the Covenant and tasked with intelligence gathering in the hope that some way of delivering a decisive blow to the Covenant onslaught can be discovered. Operation: SILENT STORM is enacted to that end, but the Spartans are faced with a familiar enemy as they face heavy resistance from the United Rebel Front, who see the Covenant invasion as an opportunity to break free from Earth's governance.
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It is the first year of the Human-Covenant War, and the UNSC is still operating in the dark about the scale and capabilities of their enemy. Desperate to gain a foothold, the Spartan-II program, led by a young John-117 and initially developed to fight Insurrectionist groups in the Outer Colonies, are turned against the Covenant and tasked with intelligence gathering in the hope that some way of delivering a decisive blow to the Covenant onslaught can be discovered. Operation: SILENT STORM is enacted to that end, but the Spartans are faced with a familiar enemy as they face heavy resistance from the United Rebel Front, who see the Covenant invasion as an opportunity to break free from Earth's governance.
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* LesCollaborators: A group of United Rebel Front cells led by Harper Garvin believe making a truce with the Covenant can secure them their independence from the United Earth Governments.
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->''"The UNSC needs time to develop effective countermeasures against Covenant technology, and it’s your job to buy that time. You need to make the alien commanders afraid of us. You need to convince them that humans are crazy, that anytime a Covenant fleet outruns its support or fails to consolidate its advances, we will find a way to make it pay."''
-->--'''Admiral Preston J. Cole'''
''Halo: Silent Storm'' is the 26th book in the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' franchise, written by Creator/TroyDenning, making this his third Halo novel.
It is the first year of the Human-Covenant War, and the UNSC is still operating in the dark about the scale and capabilities of their enemy. Desperate to gain a foothold, the Spartan-II program, led by a young John-117 and initially developed to fight Insurrectionist groups in the Outer Colonies, are turned against the Covenant and tasked with intelligence gathering in the hope that some way of delivering a decisive blow to the Covenant onslaught can be discovered. Operation: SILENT STORM is enacted to that end, but the Spartans are faced with a familiar enemy as they face heavy resistance from the United Rebel Front, who see the Covenant invasion as an opportunity to break free from Earth's governance.
It is followed by a direct sequel, ''Literature/HaloOblivion''.
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!!Tropes featured:
* DownerBeginning: The book opens with the Spartan-II's infiltrating a Covenant frigate to acquire intelligence, which ends with a dud when the ship is alerted to the UNSC presence and self-destructs.
* GenreThrowback: The book as a whole reads as a throwback to the early Eric Nylund-authored ''Halo'' books, which were largely hardened MilitaryScienceFiction in tone.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The UNSC still have very little idea about how to fight the Covenant at this stage of the war, making them come off as this in their eyes.
->''"The UNSC needs time to develop effective countermeasures against Covenant technology, and it’s your job to buy that time. You need to make the alien commanders afraid of us. You need to convince them that humans are crazy, that anytime a Covenant fleet outruns its support or fails to consolidate its advances, we will find a way to make it pay."''
-->--'''Admiral Preston J. Cole'''
''Halo: Silent Storm'' is the 26th book in the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' franchise, written by Creator/TroyDenning, making this his third Halo novel.
It is the first year of the Human-Covenant War, and the UNSC is still operating in the dark about the scale and capabilities of their enemy. Desperate to gain a foothold, the Spartan-II program, led by a young John-117 and initially developed to fight Insurrectionist groups in the Outer Colonies, are turned against the Covenant and tasked with intelligence gathering in the hope that some way of delivering a decisive blow to the Covenant onslaught can be discovered. Operation: SILENT STORM is enacted to that end, but the Spartans are faced with a familiar enemy as they face heavy resistance from the United Rebel Front, who see the Covenant invasion as an opportunity to break free from Earth's governance.
It is followed by a direct sequel, ''Literature/HaloOblivion''.
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!!Tropes featured:
* DownerBeginning: The book opens with the Spartan-II's infiltrating a Covenant frigate to acquire intelligence, which ends with a dud when the ship is alerted to the UNSC presence and self-destructs.
* GenreThrowback: The book as a whole reads as a throwback to the early Eric Nylund-authored ''Halo'' books, which were largely hardened MilitaryScienceFiction in tone.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The UNSC still have very little idea about how to fight the Covenant at this stage of the war, making them come off as this in their eyes.
