Halo: Ghosts of Onyx: Difference between revisions

   

While this is going on, the Sangheili leader [[Xytan 'Jar Wattinree]] rallies the Elites together to have a meeting.  The focus was on the apparent treachery of the Brutes and Prophets, and how to go about handling the situation. Ship Master Voro 'Mantakree speaks to his fellow ship masters and suggests that they go to Onyx, as well as be vigilant of the [[Flood]] threat. He is promoted to the rank of Fleet Master and is given command of a fleet of eighteen destroyers, two cruisers and one carrier.  They then prepare to go to Onyx, and retrieve the [[Forerunner]] technology. A split-second after they jump to [[Slipspace]], the Nova bomb goes off, destroying every ship not on the dark side of the planet [[Joyous Exultation]]. A quarter of the world is scorched, [[Malhiem]] is destroyed, and the three hundred-kilometer-per-hour winds obliterate cities.   

The human forces on Onyx discover an ancient Forerunner city, and are guided into a massive dome by Halsey, who determines that the entire planet is a "shield world" referred to by the Forerunners as [[The Sharpened Shield]].   

Fighting off determined Covenant pursuers, they press on into the heart of the planet to find its secrets, but not before the ONI [[AI]] communicates to Doctor Halsey the importance of shutting down a Forerunner "factory located at the "tip" of the plant that manufactures a new Sentinel every six seconds, or 600 per hour. Disabling the factory, they press on to the planet's core, where they discover a Slipspace rift that shunts those that pass through it to a miniaturized [[Dyson Sphere]] that is separated from normal space-time by advanced Forerunner Slipspace technology. Will and Holly fall fighting off the Covenant forces, and Kurt remains behind to ensure that the Covenant do not plunder Onyx's secrets, giving his life to prevent them from reopening the rift by waiting for the core doors to fully close and protect Dr. Halsey and the remaining Spartans, then detonating the FENRIS warheads that the team had taken with them, ending his life, along with a vast Covenant strike force, and causing the now-gutted planet of Onyx to disassemble into the myriads of Sentinels that it was made of due to the shock waves of the detonations below. In the end however, Kurt did receive an honorable death by Spartan tradition, taking all of the enemy forces with his own death. He ends his life responding to the Elite Fleet Master, "''Die? Didn't you know? Spartans never die,''" just before detonating the nukes.   

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===List of Errors===

*On page 67 the date given is December 27, 2531. It states Kurt had been developing a training regime for the Spartan IIIs for 6 months. However, according to page 57, he had become involved on December 14, 2531, a mere 13 days prior. In later editions, Chapter 6 begins on December 27, 2532, a year later.

*On page 79 the date is listed as July 30, 2537 and states it has been 15 years since the indoctrination of the Alpha Company of Spartan IIIs, when in fact that would only be 5 years later.

*On page 281 [[Sangheili]] is misspelled as Sangeili

*On page 287, Commander [[Lash]] mentions a watch given to him by his father upon graduation of OSC, but it is likely that he graduated from ''OCS'', or Officer Cadet School.

*In the report that states that Kurt is missing, it labels his armor as a Mark V. However, this is impossible, since the Mark IV armor was still being used for another twenty-one years, until [[Reach]] is destroyed.