#halo reach

Not into Halo but thought it looked pretty cool

Winter-themed gaming wallpapers -M

Miranda Keyes, daughter of legendary parents Dr. Catherine Halsey and Captain Jacob Keyes, served aboard the outdated science vessel UNSC Hilbert during the Battle of Gamma Pavronis VII. Though the ship had no weapons capable of breaching the Covenant’s defenses, Keyes took a desperate gambit and rammed it into the enemy. The gamble paid off; the Hilbert penetrated the Covenant’s shields and was able to push the warship out of orbit, crashing it into the planet’s surface. Her crew escaped unharmed.

To commemorate her valor in battle, a ceremony was held in the city of Quezon on the planet Reach on April 5, 2550. At the ceremony, Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood personally awarded her the Silver Star, a UNSC commendation for extraordinary heroism, promoted her to full Commander, and placed her in command of the frigate UNSC In Amber Clad. Keyes and her ship were immediately returned to active duty, soon becoming embroiled in the Battle of Earth and playing a pivotal role in the combat over Mombasa, Kenya.

(Halo: Reach, 2010)
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I really love halo and the many alien races inside it

These are the elites or Sangheili. During the many games you can see them in different designs and coloration, in my headcanon they all exist simultaneously (except for the halo 4-5 design ew). They have no visible genitals and the females don’t differ that much from the males if not only in robustness, ( even tho we have only 3 representations of females in the series) i drew the most “accurate” female elite (which comes with the same colourations of the males but i was too lazy to make another 3). They’re usually around 7-8 ft, have four mandibles, no tongue ( i think, since i never saw it), a semi binocular vision, 4 fingers, 2 of which are used as thumbs and 2 digits per foot .

They’re a proud and noble warrior race; sadly sexist, only males are allowed in the army of the Covenant, but later, when the vast majority of the elites detached themself from the Covenant army, Thel Vadam, the Arbiter, recognized that females are as capable of fighting as males, but probably not many joined since they are the only ones who were taking care of their planet (since everyone was at war).

Halo Infinite needs a Jason Jones AI

dragonclaw29:

haruspis:

While we’re on the subject of Reach…

It has been 6 years and I am still salty about the completely unnecessary changes to the timeline, turning the battle of Reach from the Covenant absolutely steamrolling the planet with all their might in the space of a few hours to a month long series of relatively small skirmishes.

Here’s the dates for each mission:

• Winter Contingency: July 24th
  
• ONI Sword Base: July 26th (skip 2 days)
• Nightfall: August 11th (skip 16 days)
• Tip of the Spear: August 12th
• Long Night of Solace: August 14th (skip 2 days)
• Exodus: August 23rd (skip 9 days)
• New Alexandria: August 23rd to August 26th (skip 3 days)
• The Package: August 29th (skip 3 days)
• The Pillar of Autumn: August 30th
• Lone Wolf: August 30th

What’s the point of turning it into a month long campaign if we only see just over a week’s worth of events?

Some of these time jumps were just downright nonsensical. Why did there have to be SIXTEEN DAYS between the second and third mission? The entire game takes place on one continent, Eposz, so it’s not like they’re having to travel across the galaxy to get from place to place.

Exodus skipping 9 whole days from the end of Long Night of Solace makes no sense either. We’re supposed to believe that Six, after awakening from falling from the Ardent Prayer, just hobbled over to the city of New Alexandria over the course of 9 days without anything going on…

If they’d turned the battle of Reach into a week long event, I could deal with that. It could have had you starting out with small reconnaissance groups of Covenant in the first act of the game as they start setting up shop to gather intel about the planet and the locations of its Forerunner artefacts in order to prepare for the Fleet of Particular Justice’s arrival.

Instead, Bungie contrived that the Covenant somehow managed to cloak a 2900 kilometre long super carrier and multiple corvettes, as well as land a bunch of big-ass transportation spires to a completely open area of desert, when all some soldiers doing training drills would have to do to spot them (as camouflage generates a hell of a lot of heat) is look in its general direction with thermal goggles on. Or, a weather satellite passing over might picked up an anomalous heat signature that looks suspiciously like a big-ass Covenant ship.

We’re supposed to believe that this was deployed to Reach going completely unnoticed for almost a month…

These timeline changes were dumb and added absolutely nothing to what was supposed to be one of the definitive battles of the Human-Covenant war.

And also the Cortana stuff?? Like, they couldn’t have a game with no references to the previous ones so they unnecessarily had a team of Spartan IIIs take Cortana to the Pillar of Autumn which is so wrong it’s painful. And then they tried to justify it later with “Cortana stayed with Halsey in the excavation site and had to be taken back to the Pillar of Autumn” like what the fuck? No. She was IN THE SHIP. Piloting it. For their top secret mission.

Everybody gangsta until Emile grabs the Lancer

gay-rat-wedding:

the arbiter watching reach get glassed from orbit in his gucci cloak

Magnum goes boom

tip of the spear but the banshees are a-10 warthogs

tip of the spear but the banshees are a-10 warthogs

part one for ch6 of earthrise has been released.

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mrtobenamedlater:

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@mrtobenamedlater and I just finished Reach and I dang near shorted out my controller from sobbing all over it.

@authortobenamedlater was not expecting Lone Wolf. Don’t worry, honey, there will be another time…

I had sort of suspected all along that Noble Six didn’t make it, and even more so by the end of Pillar of Autumn, but it was still a heck of an ending.

Now I feel this urge to write a fanfic of Noble Six charging through all the bad guys in the Lone Wolf level thinking “Hey if this planet is gonna fall on my birthday, I’m going to give us one helluva party” since Reach does fall a few days after my birthday.

Master Chief study. Strictly fan art and practice