Between the Games: From CE to Halo 2

This has been a long-time coming, let me tell you! Today we take a look at the events that span the time between Halo CE and Halo 2. Mostly this covers Halo: First Strike, but I worked in some other events and happenings, a few you might not have even been aware of. Enjoy!
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0:00 Intro
1:16 Timeline Loading
1:29 Halo Incident Aftermath
7:08 Return to Reach
10:23 Battle in Slipspace
11:31 Choices to Make
13:53 Eridanus Secundus
16:10 To Warn Earth, or Save Her...
16:58 Operation: FIRST STRIKE
18:33 Truth
19:25 Other Incidents
20:41 Regret's Discovery
21:06 Arrival at Earth
22:02 Wrap-up
24:48 Patreon Shoutout

[@Ikcatcher]

And all Johnson had to say about this was that it’s classified

[@TusksTheAxew]

Hah! MY ASS! Well, he can forget about his adjustments to his A2 scope!

[@Iammanzaman]

Huh, my ass!

[@brightroot5719]

@@TusksTheAxew Well he's not in a particularly fine mood. Maybe Lord Hood didn't give him an invitation.

[@HeroesUnite.]

Sorry Guns! That's classified!

[@legoodz1166]

Don't blame him. Dude was cuddling the enemy after all

[@lux_edge]

This could literally be its own Halo game

[@Conman577]

after i read the book i've been saying that for ages, it would make for such a badass game

[@Espartanica]

This should have been part of SPV3

[@cerjmedia]

I have wanted something like this forever. Like, immediately after Halo 2 came out, I've always wanted to know what The Arbiter (Thel' Vadam) was up to before the events of Halo 2. Had he seen the Chief in person? Was he feared by the Covenant? He became one of my favorite characters super quickly. I also wanted a proper follow up with the ODSTs from Halo 3 ODST. Maybe a spin off Halo Title, "Halo The Lost Stories" or something, would be great.

[@Espartanica]

@@cerjmedia Cole Protocol has Arby in it before Halo CE

[@tTaseric]

@@cerjmedia There's a couple of books about them, but I def wanna see the whole team in a game again

[@Mobysimo]

The true shame is that Johnson and the Elite never got the chance to make it work. The true tragedy of the Halo series

[@hokutoulrik7345]

That copping a feel was hilarious.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

This series sure doesn't like interspecies and same sex romance, huh?

[@YTHandlesSuck]

Indeed

[@zakkarystory2352]

​@@michaelandreipalon359quite thr opposite. In the short story "Dirt" there are multiple lesbian characters

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

@@michaelandreipalon359correct, theyre not demons

[@bombomos]

Linda sniping banshee pilots out of their craft while hanging upside down by some wires. One Handed. FUCKING LEGEND

[@th3thatguy631]

Spartan 2s my friend

[@united_socialist1011]

the Human Version of the Halo 2 Legendary Sniper Jackel

[@jaegercat6702]

HAX!

[@scarecrow108productions7]

Hence the fact why she nicknamed her SR-99 Anti-Materiel Rifle as the *"Nornfang"*

[@michaelandreipalon359]

But can she *DUAL WIELD* sniper rifles, like Freelancer Agent North Dakota?

[@gjtrue]

I love the irony and awesomeness of Sgt. Johnson, a SPARTAN-I, always happened to work with so many SPARTANs time and time again. And the fact that he was is the only known survivor to have seen both the start and end of the war with the Covenant.

[@nerdikles]

Halsey?

[@Lord_Maraptor]

@@nerdikles i dont think Halsey really saw much, she was inside of Shield World Ambrose for around a a few months she was around the begi.ing but she did not *see* when it started, and when it ended.

[@BalvornLupus]

@@Lord_Maraptor Sgt. Stacker then

[@raymondjack4634]

Master chief, start to finish.

[@malachibergstrom5426]

What about the man, the legend, chips dubbo. And stacker too.

[@Phobos_Anomaly]

"I'm not sure what that thing is. Don't look like any 'uneven elephant' to me--more like two squids kissing."- Avery Johnson

[@humoroustumor]

I remember laughing my ass off reading First Strike when Johnson called it the “uneven elephant” 🤣 This needs to be it’s own Halo game one day.

[@ShadeHeart94]

"Two Squids kissing." stayed with me after all this time. It was a good book.

[@ToxicCandy116]

The Halo community is truly blessed to have such a high quality lore channel. Most channels would have just talked over gameplay footage and cutscenes. Where as this feels like I’m watching a proper in game terminal or something similar.

[@ANW115]

True dat

[@jacksonloram7887]

Bit late to comment but HiddenXperia and Halo Followers are prime examples of what you just said. Both channels will literally find any excuse to have a 10 minute video, and just talk about things we already know. Admittedly, Halo Follower is way worse, that dude does not deserve a channel with all the bullshit misleading videos he's made.

[@relentless7124]

@@jacksonloram7887 HiddenExperia isn’t very bad at all, but I agree with your statement on halo follower.

[@johnhardebeck4243]

Facts homie. Halo 4 Ever

[@ANW115]

@@johnhardebeck4243 yeah!

[@reportedbooch697]

It's my personal headcanon that Stacker and Chips Dubbo were onboard Johnson's Pelican as well, explaining how they survived Alpha Halo.

[@nohandle117]

Nonsense. Stacker and Chips Dubbo captured the flagship of the Fleet of Particular Justice by launching a warthog off the surface of Installation 04, crashing into the Seeker's bridge, and fighting off the entirety of the ship's crew by ripping off the warthog's turret and taking turns using it as a club. They then spied on the rest of the Covenant presence in the Soell system, which allowed them to rescue Henry the Elite and Sergeant Lopez after they both managed to stuff themselves into the Mona Lisa's final escape pod.

[@stuglife5514]

@@nohandle117 I heard that Chipps used his big hefty balls as a club

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@nohandle117 More or less. My own headcanon is they got captured at Alpha Halo by Covenant forces, held prisoner, then escaped with a ship (your choice how epic in size!)

[@VegetaLF7]

@@nohandle117 100% canon as far as I'm concerned.

[@mortman200]

Stacker and Chipps have both mastered instant transmission which is how Chips was able to be in multiple places at once during Halo 2 and how Stacker is both an ODST and a regular Marine

[@Hijinx1997]

Linda's story is the most amazing from extended lore to in-game appearance.

[@benreilly9513]

Ooh, that detail about Fred and Kelly's debriefing serves as a tidy explanation for their absence in Halo 2 and Halo 3. I think that's my favorite detail from this video.

[@yorhano.2typeb141]

Not gonna lie, watching the Fall of Reach and Battle of Installation 04 timelines and now this back to back is a very enticing experience

[@KingBigbirdGaming]

Really wish the made an animated moive of this. Most people still dont know this.

[@_Eric._]

I know alot about halo lore yet this is one I have never looked into and has remained a mystery to me personally. A nice animated starship trooper style movie would've been perfect.

[@daspacedog]

i want h2a's cinematic team to make an adaptation of this & the games :P

[@Beef3D]

What I really love about Sangheili is that despite their undeniable physical superiority to humans is that despite their overwhelming belief of them being superior to humans, they still subcautiously cannot help but feel a sense of honor and respect for their enemy and near complete equal: the Spartans. something they didn't have as much for their covenant subordinates. they were utterly blinded by the the pride of the covenant religion, but even they could not deny the spartans' prowess in close quarter combat with their brethern. so much so it would prove to be vital in defecting from their former masters as their human counterparts seemed to be more merciful.

[@autumngottlieb3071]

14:20 More specifically: The magnetic coils from the Gettysburg's MAC were used to project a magnetic field in the place of the original coils on the plasma turret. The shot was still fired from the Ascendant Justice.

[@jaywomer2313]

That smile guns gives when chief puts on his new helmet at the beginning of halo 2. I just love. One of the few that got to watch a legend ready himself to kill millions of alien combatants. I love it

[@JarJarStudiosPlus]

Theysa can still bring Johnson back and when chief begins to ask "How did yousa survive, yousa died in mesa arms..." Johnson will say: "Sorry Chief, dat's classified"

[@Mobysimo]

Chief should slap him in that scenario

[@autumngottlieb3071]

@@Mobysimo Chief slaps Johnson, accidentally killing him instantly.

[@gagekellstrom3978]

@@autumngottlieb3071 he’d come back in a week and say “sorry Chief, that’s classified”

[@zonnodon163]

Nah, that ring firing totaled his body

[@granmastersword]

@@zonnodon163 yup but as consolation, someone in the UNSC created a "dumb" AI modelled after Johnson

[@RoyalFusilier]

I really loved seeing the Chief as the part of this ad-hoc team, First Strike really felt like an adventure on its own, like an entire movie could be made about it. Or a game, but the differences in media allowed First Strike to explore things an actual Halo game typically wouldn't go into. The fact that thanks to that crystal, the events of the novel technically take place before the Autumn even arrives at Installation 04 blows my mind but in a fun sci-fi way.

[@epicbanana4317]

Locklear was one of the most underrated characters for me personally. Hated him at first but loved him in the end.

[@autumngottlieb3071]

Thanks to Locklear, "so's a mercy killing" is going to be my default response whenever someone tries to justify something stupid to me by calling it a classic.

[@ToastGhost]

As not a book guy I've always wondered about the connection between the two games and found this video fascinating, thank you.

[@phantom9062]

I loved that you named the beginning “timeline loading” really sets me in the old Combat evolved days.

[@votivepylon4369]

Another banger, just a little sad that Issac and Vihn didn't get mentioned and how they kamikazed themselves

[@HaloCanon]

I decided to leave out a lot of the specifics the Spartans and Halsey were up to on Reach. Just didn't flow very well and wasn't all that important.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@HaloCanon also, any thoughts if Naomi was on Delta Red, or something? Would be nice if that was wrapped up, somehow, eventually.

[@Mars_over_seer]

@@chrissonofpear1384 I’d like to think Naomi was assisting the Spartan llls during reach, like how Jorge was assigned to Noble team despite being a Spartan ll.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@Mars_over_seer possibly, but there needs to be at least 23 Spartan IIs active at Reach, and they'd already lost a good few. So I hypothesized she was one of the Delta Red members, who went missing after splitting up with Gamma and Beta.

[@AlphaJPM]

The 3 dislikes are the prophets of Truth, Mercy, and Regret

[@nightarmor7723]

4 more from Guilty Spark, Tartarus, pre-Arbiter Thel and the Gravemind

[@dotbox3018]

@@nightarmor7723 Another from the diadact

[@DeltaSpark8]

Truth had to be honest and voice his displeasure, Mercy let us go with one dislike instead of several from his alt accounts, and Regret disliked at first, changed his mind, but he forgot the title of the video and already cleared his browser history so now he can't remove the dislike.

[@josephmother386]

There's a fourth prophet, the prophet of rhyme

[@kacperrembielinski-gaazka1981]

And now, from all the covenant remneants.

[@dextergrif1052]

I love the HUD you have for these timeline videos. Makes it feel like I’m an ONI operative accessing a terminal for an account of these events. I also like how UNSC, Covenant, and Forerunner characters have different outlines at the bottom of the screen.

[@KillerOrca]

“In the lore, slipspace is pitch black” Yes. Yes it is. And I like that

[@spartandom3370]

I see you everywhere

[@JimmyDrippin]

I always thought that elite on the bridge of the justice was thel vadam but i guess not cause of the black armour

[@samba1367]

Would be a somewhat fitting description for his outfit in the Halo Graphic Novel though, wouldn't it?

[@cz.gazz.]

I kind of assumed he could/would have multiple armour configurations available to him as a Supreme Commander. We see Elites with different armour variations a lot in-canon, could have been a suit he donned for boarding the ascendant justice or something? Would be cool if it was him

[@o_o-037]

I never read the books, but you're telling me that there's a magic crystal in Halo that can literally make you travel through time?

[@RoyalFusilier]

FTL travel is already physically impossible, so why not eh. The only reason more series don't mess with this aspect is it can make things very confusing.

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

@@RoyalFusilier If Dragon Ball taught me anything,Time Travel just makes things confusing.

[@WarGrowlmon18]

It was destroyed, but yeah. Although Atriox later recovered the shards and used them to help him get home from the Ark.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Yes, a slipspace crystal flake used by the Forerunners back in the past. At least it wasn't designed for Multiversal travel. You know what a wackier and debased Dragon Ball universe's incarnation of (Mr.) Perfect Cell once said, "Multiverse Theory's a b***h." (And recent fiction like Marvel and DC films nowadays has already proven those words increasingly right, in my opinion.)

[@zonnodon163]

Love the flow of this, and the artwork made to go along with this. Still CE > jacked up remastered CE

[@michaelirizzz121]

watching this before you begin Halo 2 feels like a fun prequel, thanks for always enhancing the Halo experience, the visuals are bomb

[@JJAB91]

I wonder if Lak Vadamee is still alive. Its been only about 8 years in canon since we last heard if him. I would like to see him again.

[@CompactCowboy]

You really outdid yourself with this video The visuals are very well done. I’d love to see more content centered around events occurring in between games that happen during some of the books!

[@theowaheo]

I really appreciate the editing on this, the effort put into it is as clear as day!

[@josesanchezrodriguez1783]

No mention of Maria-062 testing the MK 6? :(

[@richardpatterson1694]

Well this is a recap of halo first strike and he already covered the halo graphic novel.

[@HaloCanon]

I knew there was something I'd likely missed. Well damn :(

[@HaloCanon]

@@richardpatterson1694 It should have been included here, honestly. I just forgot, as can happen. This video is mostly first strike, but not just that story.

[@richardpatterson1694]

@@HaloCanon oh I hopped on late and thought it was just a recap for FS. But it was good either way.

[@Ashamedofmypast]

@@HaloCanon its cool dude. We can't all be the librarian when it comes to cataloguing. On another note. My head canon is bucks doppelganger Reynolds is now a balding beard man who has adopted many kids with Maria and she is happily living on a world untouched by the created. Adoption because Maria knows biological kids could be seen by oni as perfect spartan material.

[@LeadingMole058]

First Strike my first love when it comes to Halo books and still among my favourites.

[@ReclaimerGaming]

oooo more halo cannon content

[@Jedi_Spartan_38]

Currently rereading some Halo books in the run up to Infinite in chronological order (Chief focused - original 3 books and Silent Storm) followed by Ghosts of Onyx... also considering Shadows of Reach but unsure. About to start Section V: Reach in FoR tomorrow, also I assume Jun dropped Halsey off at Castle Base shortly before 0400 Hours (UNSC Standard) since Cortana locates Chief's full service record while Halsey was passing through security.

[@45580677]

You know that Elite ejected might be the Elite in Infinite as just hit me

[@Bmuenks31]

Which one? Jega or like Chak Lok

[@Hunted83]

"Aren't going to tell us how you made it home in one Peace?" "Sorry, Master Guns, classified" 😩

[@Matheus-ki9zo]

"Huh... My ass!"

[@Mobysimo]

I mean if Johnson told you they got back thanks to a magic radioactive time traveling crystal, would you believe him?

[@Turbofurby]

It's already been mentioned in another comment, but I was surprised that Maria-062's testing of the Mark VI armor wasn't mentioned, but perhaps this can just be easily gone over as a sort of prelude for the Battle of Earth.

[@tyvernoverlord5363]

"Armor Test" is literally the day before H2 takes place on Mission 01, so I guess it could be considered H2 material

[@ViperVibeGamingofficial]

Having the characters at the bottom really helped!

[@TAGSTER_HD]

I absolutely LOVE that new overlay that loads in !! It’s so good xD

[@AttiMatter]

It’s awesome.

[@jackwagon1770]

Just wanna say this was some awesome work! Never knew all this stuff. Would love to see more of this in like a filler series! Really good editing work to, can tell you put some time into this one!

[@DulceDul217]

this is amazing!! eagerly waiting for the in between halo 2 - 3, maybe including odst (:

[@KatBug]

this video is fantastic wow. i’d love to see more between the games vids like this :)

[@Afrecta]

This video was amazing, the visualization was so great to help us dumbies follow along! Even though I read the book long ago, it was so nice to see things. Great job!

[@savioxavier4155]

This video was great. I bet it took a lot of time to do, but damn, I could watch an entire series like this one

[@McSpanklez]

Great video! Its awesome to see Halsey, Chief, cortana and the other spartan 2's all interacting with each other. In the games you don't get to see much of any of that, well expect Chief and Cortana obviously lol. Also just an idea, but it would be cool if you made a few more video's like this covering the events between the other games, like between Halo 3 and 4, Halo 4 and 5, and so on.

[@ignisofficialgaming]

Can’t wait for a timeline video for the rest of the games

[@mattboy5296]

I think it would be really cool if you could do a timeline for the Battle of Earth, detailing the first few missions of Halo 2, Halo 3 ODST, what the other UNSC forces were doing while the In Amber Clad followed the Prophet of Regret to Delta Halo, and then wrapping it up with the first half of Halo 3.

[@abhinavchauhan5575]

You won't believe I had been searching for this the whole day and thanks to you to make a video on

[@AttiMatter]

Funny how things work like that

[@Rasc0117]

I can't wait for Halo 3 to Halo 4(Unless you plan on covering Halo: Spartan Assault/Strike)!!!

[@Wesley_H]

I remember when “CE” was reserved as a reference only for the Custom Edition expansion of the PC port for Halo Combat Evolved. The first Halo game was always referred to as either Halo Combat Evolved or just Halo. Halo CE was always Custom Edition. Custom Edition allowed fans and devs to upload custom built maps to the online multiplayer. Does anybody remember Hugeass? It was a massive map. On my PC, it wouldn’t even render end-to-end. Standing in the middle, I could not see either teams bases. It had flyable Longsword fighters with nukes. It also had a vehicle called a tachikoma which looked like a combination between a toilet and a crab, which I later found out was from some obscure animé. There were also some fighter jets and flyable Pelican drop ships with wing mounted rocket pods. The coolest thing about the map was the “light switch”, an invisible target outside of the map boundary that could be reached by flying over a low spot in the perimeter mountain wall in a Longsword and dropping a nuke. It was a bit of tight spot, so dropping the nuke meant blowing up the Longsword and killing yourself. I almost forgot the warthog teleports and the Scorpion tanks that actually looked like giant robotic scorpions. I loved that map.

[@danielw.8356]

The fact they went back to reach makes this so game worthy

[@beastmode1915]

Once again, another amazing video!! If you don't mind me asking, do you plan on doing a Battle of Onyx timeline at some point as that is one of my favourite Halo conflicts

[@haydentravis3348]

One thing that is missing from the games, that only really books touched on, was how much the Spartans enjoyed fighting. They share smiles and jokes about their tactics, reminisce about their trainers and lament regulations that they often ignore because they're not made for Spartan, but for normal humans. They have so much personality and joy in their existence, despite the war. It's only towards the end, where the endless losses, where their technical success paled in comparison to all the colonies and lives lost anyways, started to wear on their morale. I want to see more of those Spartans, in their prime and loving it. We get a taste of this in Halo 5 and Halo Wars, but everything in the games takes place in the final months of the Human Covenant War, where all the characters, Spartan, ODST and civilian alike are just tired. Even Halo Infinite, Chief is the Old man now, doing it because he's still the best and people need him, but the joy of it has long since left him. I just want to see the Spartans happy.

[@solfuras5412]

I’d love to see videos like this about the other Halo games!

[@JumpDaddy70]

Rest in peace Chief. You were a hero. And before some smart ass says "Chiefs not dead", Im talking about the W-4 not the E-9

[@lycanlass]

THIS VIDEO WAS SICK! SO MANY people made it possible and thats why we love ur channel bro!!!!!!!

[@baylithe]

More love was put into this video than anything 343 has given us since Forward Unto Dawn. Thank you for this

[@zoinksxscooby]

Dude I don't know how the hell the KZbin algorithm brought me to your channel but you are a source of valuable information and I subbed.

[@sirbughunter9972]

Outstanding video, very well done and presented!

[@whitematthew3218]

Have to say, I'm amazed by this lore video! Congratulations!

[@PequotWhiteHawk]

Thank you for the information! I would also like to say that your production quality is great and I enjoyed the video got a new sub 😁👍

[@RJ-91]

Thank you Halo Canon, for making these vids, love abit of Halo lore.

[@abe9811]

Beautifully put together 👌

[@iugey]

Wow this clears up so much. Very enlightening video, cool!

[@Darren_Xero]

I think it would be a great idea to have an Infinite campaign DLC about Jun telling his "self-insert headcanon" story about how he was there in Operation First Strike, not only as a way to make amendments for the First Strike novel with Jun included in the aforementioned operation, but also as a canon way to explain how Jun got off Reach alive, got back to Earth & end up became a recruiter for Spartan-IV program

[@klennalbertb.delapena322]

I think theres a stort about that, made canon

[@Scoutrider127]

high quality production value, loved this video

[@TheWolfSaid]

Massive work! Thank you Halo Canon!

[@baebleton9541]

Incredibly high quality video. Thank you!

[@MadDadLad]

"Uneven Elephant?? Looks like two giant squid kissing." And I was pissed that Whitcomb and Haverson didn't even get a mention in the debrief that Fred and Linda were called to! Those two were damn heroes and went out like absolute chads!

[@michaelirizzz121]

Wow I just finished First Strike finally, this video was 10/10, love these!

[@pepesuarez1092]

What an incredible job! Thank you!

[@theark4833]

I hope you continue this series and do it for all games Great vid

[@DarkXVector]

*Alpha Halo is blown apart* Announcer: LOST THE LEAD

[@kineticdeath]

I always liked the bit how they "upgraded" the covenant plasma weapons from the slow clunky blobs to a sustained beam. Would be cool to see future iterations of halo lore/content with UNSC ships firing plasma beam weapons

[@jamesfra1311]

My day is better already, thanks to you.

[@SquattingxBear]

I really enjoy the content on this channel!

[@chaseTheCase9]

This channel is awesome! Thanks for the awesome content! 🤙🏽

[@johnhardebeck4243]

Very thankful for you and your channel

[@R-TrainExpress]

Love the format you used when showing who was alive and who died

[@Cybermat47]

And my day has already been improved by a new HC video :D

[@bronze4871]

Awesome man! Your videos are really good !

[@ronbrackin1352]

I don't play the game but I read the books. The story is awesome and I find these video's to be very entertaining. Keep up the great work.

[@slicer940]

Also the Mona Lisa incident. Terrifying but interesting film.

[@theviewer4314]

Loved the video I hope to see more like this in soon

[@qncyisdead]

another absolute banger in the list ✔️

[@Sasquatchvideos38]

This story could of been a game of itself.

[@batterysurf]

i am impressed with the presentation

[@chrisreilly1290]

I had no idea there were so many survivors and so many events between the games

[@Gorczy]

1:31 How'd you forget about our boy Dustin Echoes :P

[@LMG1792]

Awesome video man

[@wadurito]

This is exactly what I needed. I've always wanted to read the novels but never put the work in to find them and read them.

[@MrMegaMetroid]

Hey man i got all of them as drm free epub files. If you have an epup reader(read era on android is a good free one) i can give you literally all halo books in existance. I got em all here, just direct message me here on youtube (i got comment notifications turned off)

[@WarGrowlmon18]

It's called Amazon. Or the nearest book store. They really aren't that hard to find and are worth it to read, at least for the most part.

[@x0lopossum]

12:30 Amazing OST

[@Perinski93]

Man I miss Halo Canon. wherever he is i hope hes doing well

[@penguindude24]

This was a very well made video.

[@samba1367]

Great video! Would've loved a few sentences about ilovebees, as that story explains how truth found the location of earth, iirc?

[@djsnobodycares6065]

Cortana killed that A.I.... line by line... Gotta love Cortana, eh? 😂

[@SadTropix]

I literally just got done reading First Strike again lol

[@jeremybowers3181]

Thanks for the refresher man! Now how about from H2 to H3.😎👍

[@thepeeve]

One thing to bring up in Arby’s report. He mentioned the humans released the flood? I’m pretty sure the covenant did when looking for holy relics as discussed in the books/game.