

This was humankind's first encounter with a group of aliens they eventually came to know as the Covenant, a collective of alien races united in their fanatical religious devotion. Its crew told of a seemingly unstoppable alien warship that had effortlessly annihilated their forces. A battlegroup sent to investigate was almost completely destroyed only one badly damaged ship returned to Reach. Thirty-two years ago, contact with the out colony Harvest was lost. Conveniently close to Earth, Reach is also a hub of scientific and military activity. A keystone in humanity's colonization efforts is the planet Reach, an interstellar naval yard that builds colony ships for civilians and warships for the UNSC's armed forces.
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Fasther-than-light travel is now a reality, and Earth's unified government, through the United Nations Space Command, has put its full weight behind the colonization effort millions of humans now live on habitable planets in other solar systems. Planet Earth still exists, but overpopulation has forced many of her former residents to colonize other worlds. It is developed by Bungie Software, famous for the Marathon series on Macintosh computers. It is exclusively for the Microsoft XBox, but will supposedly soon come out for the PC. Halo is a first person shooter, or FPS, with some third person perspectives thrown in occasionally.
