Edited Essay

Jackson Wolf
2/14/11
Language Arts
Halo First Strike
Halo: First Strike, the epic sequel to the original Xbox game Halo: Combat Evolved. It’s a story that takes place in the year 2552, where we humans have found other planets to successfully live and breathe rather than live on the first planet in the inner colonies, Earth. However, we have discovered a (Replace it with “an” so it makes more sense) unknown species during the process, The Covenant, led by their leaders The Prophets plan to take out and wipe out all human population.
The plotline of the story is the main character; John (Known as Master Chief 117) is in his Longsword (A bomber if you don’t already know) when he doubts his own survival (List why he doubts his own survival), A Covenant Cruiser (CCS Class) approaches to search through Halo’s debris (What is Halo?), prior to its explosion, to destroy the flood, a Parasite that when it takes or controls a life form, takes over its body, turns in then into a combatant form, and finally a carrier form which carries flood spores which from there an entire species can be brought to extinction.
So John plans an attack against the Cruiser when Cortana (An A.I.) (What’s an A.I.?) notices an oddly looking asteroid. A closer look shows that there is a Pelican (A human drop ship) with survivors onboard. They then plan a life or death rescue mission. It succeeds, and they take the survivors onboard. From there they plan a mission to highjack one of the CCS cruisers, and take it to their home planet reach to see if they can find survivors on the glassed planet. They infiltrate the ship and kill all hostiles onboard. Then Cortana helps the crew learn how to pilot the massive ship.
Soon after they highjack the vessel they “Jump” to Planet Reach, one of the main planets of human controlled space, but was invaded by covenant and killed nearly every living being on the planet. Where John finds his squadron. Kelly, Kurt, Sam, and other remaining Spartans in an old forerunner base in the planet. (What’s a forerunner) Then they begin on a quest to stop an invasion on earth. A humongous covenant base station (What’s the name of it?). The rest continues in the next book the Cole Protocol.