Halo fans! Help!!

[Freman]

I am looking for a chronological listing of Halo and it's expanded universe. I just bought a bunch of Halo comics and novels and am wondering how everything lays out in a timeline.

If you can add things that haven't been released yet, and the anime films as well, that would be great.

I'm looking just for a list of book/game/comic/films titles, not an actual history of the Halo universe.

Thanks

 

[PKerr]

This should help
http://www.amazon.com/Halo-Encyclop...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259683761&sr=8-1

 

[firehawk12]

There's also the Halo wikia:
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

[Freman]

I have no means of picking up that book at the moment, and the only timeline I can find on the wiki (I looked there before I posted this) is an in-universe timeline.

So no help there. thanks anyway though.

 

[firehawk12]

I figure you could find all the material that has been produced and manually do a timeline of everything that's been published though? Kind of a bitch... but then again, if you do it, you could get credit for making that page on the wikia.

 

[Skywalker]

I haven't read everything, but as far as I can tell it goes something like this...

Forerunner Trilogy (not yet released)
Contact Harvest
Halo Wars
The Cole Protocol
Helljumper (this seems to jump around in the war, so it's not an exact placement)
Blood Line (not yet released)
The Fall of Reach (starts before CH but ends just before H1)
Halo/The Flood/Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor (HGN)/Breaking Quarantine (HGN)
First Strike
Armor Testing (Halo Graphic Novel)
Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa (Halo Graphic Novel)
Halo 3: ODST/Halo 2
Uprising
Ghosts of Onyx
Halo 3

 

[LightningStorm]

I haven't read everything, but as far as I can tell it goes something like this...

Forerunner Trilogy (not yet released)
Contact Harvest
Halo Wars
The Cole Protocol
Helljumper (this seems to jump around in the war, so it's not an exact placement)
Blood Line (not yet released)
The Fall of Reach (starts before CH but ends just before H1)
Halo/The Flood/Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor (HGN)/Breaking Quarantine (HGN)
First Strike
Armor Testing (Halo Graphic Novel)
Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa (Halo Graphic Novel)
Halo 3: ODST/Halo 2
Uprising
Ghosts of Onyx
Halo 3

That looks about accurate to me. Two things are missing though: The upcoming game Halo: Reach which I assume would be set before/during the novel The Fall of Reach and the just released Anthology Halo: Evolutions which collects a bunch of short stories likely set at various points in the timeline.

 

[Skywalker]

Ah, yeah, I forgot about Reach, and I have no idea where all the various stories in Evolutions are set, so I didn't even bother.

 

[Freman]

Looks good. Now where do the anime episodes from Halo: Legends fall?

 

[Skywalker]

Hmm, I haven't seen any of them, so I'm not entirely sure, especially about Prototype. If I were to go by the episodes' descriptions, though, my revised order would probably go like this:

Forerunner Trilogy
Origins (Halo Legends; encompasses the entire timeline)
The Duel (Halo Legends)
Homecoming (Halo Legends)
Contact Harvest
Halo Wars
The Cole Protocol
Helljumper
Prototype (Halo Legends)
The Package (Halo Legends)
The Babysitter (Halo Legends)
Blood Line
Halo: Reach/The Fall of Reach
Halo/The Flood/Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor (HGN)/Breaking Quarantine (HGN)
First Strike
Armor Testing (Halo Graphic Novel)
Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa (Halo Graphic Novel)
Halo 3: ODST/Halo 2
Uprising
Ghosts of Onyx
Halo 3

If anyone's seen these episodes and if they feature dates or dialogue placing them elsewhere, feel free to correct me. I'm not including Halo: Evolutions because I can't find any information on the various stories' placement, nor am I including the Halo Legends episode Odd One Out because it's non-canon.

 

[Lindley]

Has anyone ever tried to fit Red vs Blue into the main HALO timeline? Once upon a time that notion would have been ridiculous, but RvB:Reconstruction and RvB:Recreation have done a lot to make the fit more plausible.

 

[Lindley]

Has anyone ever tried to fit Red vs Blue into the main HALO timeline? Once upon a time that notion would have been ridiculous, but RvB:Reconstruction and RvB:Recreation have done a lot to make the fit more plausible.

 

[Dac]

Has anyone ever tried to fit Red vs Blue into the main HALO timeline? Once upon a time that notion would have been ridiculous, but RvB:Reconstruction and RvB:Recreation have done a lot to make the fit more plausible.

I suppose you could argue that the events of RvB COULD be some ONI SpecOps VR intelligence gathering on morale and endurance in a never ending cycle of battle. In which case I'd say put it at some point prior to Reach falling but certainly well into the Human/Covenant War.

Trying to argue it as actual events though would be a hellova job.

 

[Lindley]

That's more or less already been established, actually. Reconstruction called them "Simulation troopers" on several occasions and Wash explicitly told them "You're practice" at least once.

 

[Freman]

Has anyone been able to definitively fit the Halo Legends into a timeline yet? Or do we still not know when these episodes take place?

 

[Oden]

Halo: Reach should take place during the end of the fall of reach and during first strike actually.