Between the Games: From CE to Halo 2

[@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?

[@jshrhrgahhuehtnmppl]

Indeed

[@MVJORV]

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

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

@@michaelandreipalon359correct, theyre not demons

[@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.

[@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

[@ford2618pro]

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?

[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@Hijinx1997]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@Large_Bobr]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@surge9104]

There's a fourth prophet, the prophet of rhyme

[@kacperrembielinski-gaazka1981]

And now, from all the covenant remneants.

[@phantom9062]

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

[@ToastGhost]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@KillerOrca]

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

[@spartandom3370]

I see you everywhere

[@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!

[@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.)

[@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!

[@TAGSTER_HD]

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

[@AttiMatter]

It’s awesome.

[@LeadingMole058]

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

[@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.

[@ViperVibeGamingofficial]

Having the characters at the bottom really helped!

[@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.

[@ReclaimerGaming]

oooo more halo cannon content

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@Jedi_Spartan]

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.

[@SonicMan2007]

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

[@Callfromabove7]

"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?

[@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

[@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

[@ignisofficialgaming]

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

[@solfuras5412]

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

[@RJ-91]

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

[@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.

[@Perinski93]

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

[@45580677]

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

[@Bmuenks31]

Which one? Jega or like Chak Lok

[@danielw.8356]

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

[@Scoutrider127]

high quality production value, loved this video

[@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.

[@whitematthew3218]

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

[@michaelirizzz121]

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

[@baebleton9541]

Incredibly high quality video. Thank you!

[@Rasc0117]

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

[@abe9811]

Beautifully put together 👌

[@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.

[@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.

[@baylithe]

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

[@pepesuarez1092]

What an incredible job! Thank you!

[@theark4833]

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

[@thal-serfera369]

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

[@Wolfie_0202]

Massive work! Thank you Halo Canon!

[@sirbughunter9972]

Outstanding video, very well done and presented!

[@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 😁👍

[@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.

[@glennpruess6936]

You know whats interesting, is that since they arrived back to reach just 3 weeks after its fall, in main part of the slip-space Crystal, noble six actually could've been saved, if you really think about it

[@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

[@SquattingxBear]

I really enjoy the content on this channel!

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@spiderriszer7856]

Sad that Halo Cannon left, would have loved to see him cover the battle of earth, delta halo, and the Ark.

[@novustalks7525]

What happened to him?

[@R-TrainExpress]

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

[@batterysurf]

i am impressed with the presentation

[@iugey]

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

[@jamesfra1311]

My day is better already, thanks to you.

[@Cybermat47]

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

[@chaseTheCase9]

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

[@DarkXVector]

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

[@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!

[@johnhardebeck4243]

Very thankful for you and your channel

[@bronze4871]

Awesome man! Your videos are really good !

[@x0lopossum]

12:30 Amazing OST

[@qncyisdead]

another absolute banger in the list ✔️

[@Soccercrazyigboman]

If only the halo show could just do this instead of what the fuck we've been getting. I simply just don't understand the decision making for the silver timeline

[@Sasquatchvideos38]

This story could of been a game of itself.

[@Jacobolelobo69]

4:28 no shit it’s pitch black your going faster than light you can only see darkness

[@Tallacus]

If there was one thing in the lore the humans had a technological edge over the Covies it was that Human Smart AIs were fortunately superior to Covenant ones who apparently their AI tech was rather in its infancy and derived from humans

[@chrisreilly1290]

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

[@albdamned577]

Chef also lost all his health, never managed to get that back.

[@supersasukemaniac]

ah the Unyielding Hierophant, AKA the Uneven Elephant.

[@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

[@alexblackburn2021]

Whoa cannot believe I’m just now watching this I’m a huge Eric nylund fan having read all three of his halo books and owning all three audiobooks as well this is very well done❤️😁🤔👊🏻💣

[@theviewer4314]

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

[@killerjoshy863]

Quote from Stg Johnson himself "The flood?, well they past me up like undercooked spinach at a Turkey dinner"