Cause and Effect Piece

Jackson Wolf

1/17/12

Language Arts

Cause and Affect Piece

Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

Have you ever heard of Halo, the game that sold 2.5 million copies in 1999, and Bungie, the creator of Halo, kept the franchise going for a decade. Well, before you can play the games, you can read the books. Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, is a good book, which is what we’re going to talk about today.

Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, is about a team of super enhanced soldiers wearing their infamous MJOLNIR Armor, Blue team. This team consists of John 117, Linda, 058, Kelly 065, and Kurt, 051. Together, they are walking tanks. Blue team was dispatched to Earth to look at the abandoned shipyards on the dark side of the moon. Things go wrong when 051, Kurt’s jump pack failed in a deep space mission accident, was actually considered an ‘excuse’ by The Office of Naval Intelligence, to have Kurt lead the new generation of Spartans: Spartan III’s, which leads to the main climax of the story.

In the climax of the story, Kurt, has received a report from ONI, after being rescued in space by a highly secured Human frigate. He gets a briefing if that he is to train the new Spartan III’s on planet Onyx. It then leads to a covenant Civil War, in the premises of Delta Halo, or Installation 05, as the Oracle, a monitor of halo created by the Forerunners. The flood, a parasite that infects an organism and uses it as their own; plus the unexpected release of the flood which lead to an effect, causing something trigger deep within Onyx, non-human or covenant Origin. Which leads to the conclusion of the book. Kurt destroys the door to the “Shelter, and killing himself in the process, while the others survive, and find themselves at the bomb shelter.