Even if you are not part of the "Halo Nation", it's hard to imagine that you have not heard of this highly successful and popular video game series from Microsoft's Bungie Studios. A science fiction based "first-person shooter" type game, the Halo trilogy of games is considered the X-Box's "killer app". The Halo Games have sold over 24.8 million copies worldwide. Upon its release, in September, 2007, Halo 3 sold more than $170 million worth of copies in the first 24 hours, breaking the record set by Halo 2, three years prior. Halo has spawned numerous spinoffs, including five best selling novels, two graphic novels and other licensed products.

The Halo series is set several centuries in the future, where an overcrowded Earth has developed a mode of interstellar transportation, enabling the colonization of over 800 new worlds in the span of about 200 years. In their travels, Mankind has come to the attention of a race of aliens who are called "The Covenant". The Leadership of the Covenant has declared that humans are an affront to their gods, the Forerunner, and they are determined to eradicate all humanity.

Halo is the story of "The Master Chief", a genetically enhanced super soldier, and the female Artificial Intelligence (AI) called Cortana. Various other characters, including an alien rebel faction and their leader called the Arbiter, who join forces with mankind against the Covenant, also feature prominently in the series.

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