Prologue

The Briareos came out of slip space and into regular space. The Shaw-Fujikawa engines died down and the ship moved at impulse speed. The ship hadn’t taken much damage, but enough so that there was plenty of work to be done.

It had been three days since the ship had gone into slip space. The marines on bored had spent most of their time resting, checking their weapons and helping the engineers with minor repairs to fill the boredom.

Lyra sat in her small cramped quarters that she shared with another marine. Lyra lay on the bottom bunk of the bunk bed. She starred out the small round window and wondered why the captain had ordered a slip space jump. It wasn’t like they were carrying anything important, were they?

Captain Uranus stood on the bridge as the ship dropped out of slip space.

He hoped they had escaped the Covenant and he hoped that they weren’t lost.

“Sir there’s an object in out there Its Halo.”

The captain was confused. He looked at the image on the main view screen.

The first Halo had been destroyed and Delta Halo had hundreds of enemy ships around it. But this one was in perfect shape and there were no Covenant ships to be seen.

“Well, it looks like we’ve found another Halo.” Replied the Captain.

“Sir there’s an incoming transmission, audio only.”

“Lets here it.” Said the captain intent on hearing what their “new friends” had to say.

“We are the Yegnitos the creators of Halo.”

Book II

Know Your Enemy

Part I: Yegnito