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[supervike]

It is still a solid idea!

The Battle for Reach, which was taking place moments before the discovery of the 1st Halo, was a gigantic space battle around the system of Reach.

The Humans had thought the defenses of Reach would be impregnable, but then the Covenant showed up with a gigantic Fleet of ships. They also were able to land a massive force to attack the land based generators for the orbiting MAC guns.

All the available Spartans were assigned to protect ground targets....While a small spartan grouping led by Master Chief were given a mission to retrieve a memory core (to stop the Covenant from finding Earth). All hell breaks lose, the Covenent 'glass' most of the planet, and presumably all the Spartans are killed.

The Master Chief, now on the Pillar Of Autumn, escapes into Slipspace only to end up at the First Halo Ring (thus starts Halo 1).


SO....if it is a FPS, I suppose it could be on the other Spartans as they battle on the ground. Or hopefully, it's a mix of levels between Spartans, and the Marines that are struggling to fight at well.

I still would love to see some space based ship to ship combat.

(I'm deep into the Halo 'mythos' right now....can you tell?)