Halo books: What's next?
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This is a case in which I find that the books based on the games are more interesting and entertaining than the games themselves.
With the references to the Cole Protocol in Red vs Blue: Reconstruction, it's becoming more apparent that Red vs Blue is really intended to be part of the larger Halo universe in some sense. It'd be pretty awesome if eventually some of the books referenced the Blood Gulch gang. 
I'd bet that "planet" the wreck of Forward Unto Dawn drifts too at the end of the Halo 3 legendary ending is Onyx, or rather the dyson sphere the Spartan III's ended up on.
At least I hope they'll pick up on a story like that in Halo 4.
I hope Bungie will get off it's collective ass and authorize the Novelizations of Halo 2 and 3, some rumors I have hears are that Eric Nylund Wrote Halo:ODST as a book, and it's gonna be released the same time as the game, other than that, since they seem to be doing a history of the Halo verse, including stories of side charaters, that either the next book will have the two charaters from the past two books meet up and we will see Sgt. Johnson report to the command of Capt. Keys, or we will see another charater piece, probably a Kathrine Hallsey/Cortana based story
i'd love to see some official material on the Brute/Elite covenant war, my theory is that the dyson sphere we saw in the legendary ending is the same one from ghosts of Onyx, after Kurt and the 3s either figured out how to drop out of slipspace themselves, or it happened automatically after the destruction of the array, and picks up 117. The sphere itself holds an intact and opperational forerunner fleet which is used to wipe out the brute lead covenant and create an alliance with the Elites and remaining covenant species and the Humans which they all now revere as Forerunner decendants, and then all attention is turned on the flood, and those that created them
I'm really annoyed that they seem to consider the spinoff books essential for understanding the games, though; I wanted the games to be standalones and for the books to work around them.
(shrug)
anyway yeah: I think somewhere they established that there's only like 1,000 Prophets (after a civil war they had in ancient times or something) and that more died in the Prophet-Elite War that ended with the founding of the Covenant, so that only like 1,000 are alive during Halo, and they have no homeworld anymore
frankly I think most of the Prophets got killed when High Charity was overrun by the Flood
certainly, there are too few Prophets left for the race to be genetically viable anymore
and further, their entire leadership was killed off
but really, I expect it to be Elites vs Brutes
sorry it just gets to me that the Brutes are such morons; let's charge in head-first guns blazing! yeah...but they don't seem to conceptually understand sniper rifles! The Elites can outwit them at ground combat....again, there was this moment of awe when I was playing Halo 1 and realized that the Elites' had AI that was smart enough to run away when they're losing planning to wait until their shields recharge, then counterattack with renewed force. It was like fighting a human! But the Brutes are on the same level as the enemies we've been fighting since "Doom"
as for space combat, the Brutes were always reliant on Elite tacticians and technology, so they're screwed. It's to the point that an Elite fleet can engage a Brute fleet three times their size and still be confidant of victory.
(shrug)
anyway yeah: I think somewhere they established that there's only like 1,000 Prophets (after a civil war they had in ancient times or something) and that more died in the Prophet-Elite War that ended with the founding of the Covenant, so that only like 1,000 are alive during Halo, and they have no homeworld anymore
frankly I think most of the Prophets got killed when High Charity was overrun by the Flood
certainly, there are too few Prophets left for the race to be genetically viable anymore
and further, their entire leadership was killed off
but really, I expect it to be Elites vs Brutes
sorry it just gets to me that the Brutes are such morons; let's charge in head-first guns blazing! yeah...but they don't seem to conceptually understand sniper rifles! The Elites can outwit them at ground combat....again, there was this moment of awe when I was playing Halo 1 and realized that the Elites' had AI that was smart enough to run away when they're losing planning to wait until their shields recharge, then counterattack with renewed force. It was like fighting a human! But the Brutes are on the same level as the enemies we've been fighting since "Doom"
as for space combat, the Brutes were always reliant on Elite tacticians and technology, so they're screwed. It's to the point that an Elite fleet can engage a Brute fleet three times their size and still be confidant of victory.
I don't think this is the case. A dyson sphere is roughly the size of the Earth's orbit around the sun (depending on the star), which would be a massive body in space. The planet at the end of Halo 3 looks like a planet, which is much much smaller than a dyson sphere.
It couldn't be Onyx either, since the entire planet of Onyx disassembled at the end of the book Ghosts of Onyx.
And by the way, I freaking love these books. The Fall of Reach was just an amazingly fun read. I really hope they continue making more and exploring more of the Halo universe. I want them to continue into the future with the story after Halo 3, but I guess Bungie wants to hold onto that for future games.
I dunno. I wasn't terribly impressed by The Flood; that could have been Dietz's fault and not something inherent in the material, but come on. It's an FPS--not exactly the most adaptable material.
I dunno...saaaay Halo's "misfire" at the edge of the galaxy which destroyed the ark (im assuming) brought the Mini Dyson Sphere out of slipspace and into normal space as a sort of "enjoy your shiny new copy of the Milky Way Galaxy" kinda deal. Plus, when that Hulk of FUD (hehehe, Forward Unto Dawn is FUD) drifts toward whatever planet that is, we dont know when that is, same as we dont know when the Spartan II's and III's went to when they went through the portal.
As for books after Cole Protocol, I havent read it yet, I'll have to pick it up this week though.
EDIT: Gah, i gotta read other posts before posting, sorry Sephiroth for basically repeating what you said :P
the problem with that is that we get no perspective, we see the foreward unto dawn segment infront of the planet/sphere, but nothing giving relative scale, the dawn could have been a parsec away for all we know
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