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==Detailed Summary== | ==Detailed Summary== | ||
[[Image:Notfinal Onyx back.jpg|left|thumb|Concept art of ''Onyx''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s back cover.]] | [[Image:Notfinal Onyx back.jpg|left|thumb|Concept art of ''Onyx''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s back cover.]] | ||
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=== Section 1: Ambrose === | === Section 1: Ambrose === | ||
The narrative then moves back to 2531 to a raid by [[SPARTAN-II]] [[Blue Team]] against insurrectionists on Planet [[Victoria]] to recover stolen [[FENRIS]] nuclear warheads. Though the team is captured by General Howard Graves and the rebels, the timely intervention of [[Kurt-051]] allows the team to complete their mission without any other serious problems, but Graves is killed by corrugated steel, preventing the team from learning valuable secrets the General held about the rebels' command and intelligence structure. Five months later, [[Colonel James Ackerson]] of Section Three of the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]], meets with the top brass of ONI, [[Rear Admiral Rich]], [[Captain Gibson ]]and Vice Admiral [[Parangosky]]. During the meeting, Ackerson moves forward a proposal for a new SPARTAN program which retains most of the effectiveness, of the Series II program without the high costs of the previous project. This becomes the SPARTAN-III program, a more streamlined, "disposable", as well as more numerable, company of SPARTANS that must be trained for high-risk operations. Ackerson is given the UNSC controlled world Onyx with the purpose of training the SPARTANS-III, and is promised one of the SPARTAN-II to train them. The next month, Kurt, Kelly and Fred are sent to | The narrative then moves back to 2531 to a raid by [[SPARTAN-II]] [[Blue Team]] against insurrectionists on Planet [[Victoria]] to recover stolen [[FENRIS]] nuclear warheads. Though the team is captured by General Howard Graves and the rebels, the timely intervention of [[Kurt-051]] allows the team to complete their mission without any other serious problems, but Graves is killed by corrugated steel, preventing the team from learning valuable secrets the General held about the rebels' command and intelligence structure. Five months later, [[Colonel James Ackerson]] of Section Three of the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]], meets with the top brass of ONI, [[Rear Admiral Rich]], [[Captain Gibson ]]and Vice Admiral [[Parangosky]]. During the meeting, Ackerson moves forward a proposal for a new SPARTAN program which retains most of the effectiveness, of the Series II program without the high costs of the previous project. This becomes the SPARTAN-III program, a more streamlined, "disposable", as well as more numerable, company of SPARTANS that must be trained for high-risk operations. Ackerson is given the UNSC controlled world Onyx with the purpose of training the SPARTANS-III, and is promised one of the SPARTAN-II to train them. The next month, Kurt, Kelly and Fred are sent to Station Delphi to investigate a rupture [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]]. When Kurt tries to approach the engine, his T-Pack malfunctions and sends him spinning away into deep space. Kurt awakes a month later and meet Colonel Ackerson. Kurt is told of the SPARTAN-III project and is given orders to progress and succeed with the seemingly impossible task of creating hundreds, if not thousands of new, "Disposable Heroes". Ackerson later promotes him to [[Lieutenant, Junior Grade ]]and assigns him the name: Lt. Kurt Ambrose. | ||
=== Section 2: SPARTAN-III === | === Section 2: SPARTAN-III === | ||
Like the SPARTAN-II, candidates are selected at a young age, and undergo radical biological augmentations as they reach (What would be considered) the normal age of puberty. They are also equipped with special SPI Armor (SPARTAN-II [[Semi Powered Infiltration Armor]]). However the difference with the Series-III lies in selecting orphaned volunteers from ages 4 to 6, who are gathered from worlds destroyed by the Covenant, do not have the perfect psychological and genetic markers and are four times larger than the SPARTANS-II class. They are trained by the SPARTAN-IIs' original trainer, [[Senior Chief Petty Officer Mendez]] ,who even in his later years, is still considered the recruit's best and only hope of becoming true SPARTAN's. Had he been a Spartan himself, he would have been one of | Like the SPARTAN-II, candidates are selected at a young age, and undergo radical biological augmentations as they reach (What would be considered) the normal age of puberty. They are also equipped with special SPI Armor (SPARTAN-II [[Semi Powered Infiltration Armor]]). However the difference with the Series-III lies in selecting orphaned volunteers from ages 4 to 6, who are gathered from worlds destroyed by the Covenant, do not have the perfect psychological and genetic markers and are four times larger than the SPARTANS-II class. They are trained by the SPARTAN-IIs' original trainer, [[Senior Chief Petty Officer Mendez]] ,who even in his later years, is still considered the recruit's best and only hope of becoming true SPARTAN's. Had he been a Spartan himself, he would have been one of the best. Ackerson and the ONI brass agree that only a Spartan can train Spartan's, Ackerson selects Kurt-051 as he is viewed as the best SPARTAN-II for instructional duties. Their first drill was to drop from the Pelicans. The trainees were instructed by Navy men, first a girl jumped, other kids didn't. Shane had stood in shock, but a kid pushed him off the pelican. When they both landed, Shane fought against Robert, the kid who had pushed him. | ||
The first SPARTAN-III company, [[Alpha Company]], proves highly successful, but is wiped out when deployed to a major Covenant shipyard just outside of Human controlled space in a mission codenamed [[Operation PROMETHEUS]]. Devastated by the images of the battle and the loss of his soldiers, | The first SPARTAN-III company, [[Alpha Company]], proves highly successful, but is wiped out when deployed to a major Covenant shipyard just outside of Human controlled space in a mission codenamed [[Operation PROMETHEUS]]. Devastated by the images of the battle and the loss of his soldiers, some of which were Shane, Robert and Jane, Kurt improves the training regime for Beta Company, but most are killed in action, leaving just Tom and Lucy. So in an effort to reduce casualties, Kurt then institutes an illegal bioaugmentation procedure on [[Gamma Company]], which will harden their minds and bodies against pain and shock to better their chances against the Covenant onslaught. Tom and Lucy became Kurt's right and left hand, after almost taken away for private missions, and helped Kurt train Gamma Company. | ||
=== Section 3: Intruders === | === Section 3: Intruders === | ||
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[[Doctor Catherine Halsey]] and [[Kelly-087]] arrive in the [[Zeta Doradus System]], as they get closer to Onyx they are attacked by the Drones and crash land. Once on the planet, they meet up with the [[human]] survivors of the attacks, including S-III Team Saber, Kurt, and Chief Mendez. Halsey identifies the drones as [[Onyx Sentinel|Sentinels]] from the [[AI|Artificial Intelligence]], [[Cortana]]'s logs of the events of [[Halo: Combat Evolved]]. Halsey proceeds to call for reinforcements, piggybacking her transmission on, ironically, another transmission made by Cortana at the end of [[Halo 2]]. On the message she calls out for caution about the danger coming from the [[Dreadnought]] that includes SPARTAN-117, as well as the omniscient threat of the Flood, which was trying to escape from Delta Halo at the time. | [[Doctor Catherine Halsey]] and [[Kelly-087]] arrive in the [[Zeta Doradus System]], as they get closer to Onyx they are attacked by the Drones and crash land. Once on the planet, they meet up with the [[human]] survivors of the attacks, including S-III Team Saber, Kurt, and Chief Mendez. Halsey identifies the drones as [[Onyx Sentinel|Sentinels]] from the [[AI|Artificial Intelligence]], [[Cortana]]'s logs of the events of [[Halo: Combat Evolved]]. Halsey proceeds to call for reinforcements, piggybacking her transmission on, ironically, another transmission made by Cortana at the end of [[Halo 2]]. On the message she calls out for caution about the danger coming from the [[Dreadnought]] that includes SPARTAN-117, as well as the omniscient threat of the Flood, which was trying to escape from Delta Halo at the time. | ||
[[Image:SpartanIII.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Kurt-051 in [[SPI Armor]].]] | [[Image:SpartanIII.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Kurt-051 in [[SPI Armor]].]] | ||
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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 Dr. 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. After disabling the factory, the group proceeds to the location of Team Katana. They find eight crypods, five of which contain members of Katana. It is unknown who or what the other three contain. Possibly Forerunner, possibly ONI personnel that were active in Zone 67. They then 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-043 and Holly-G003 fall fighting off the Covenant forces, Will-043 engaging several Hunters in hand to hand combat, before meeting his demise, earning him even the Sangheilli's respect. Halsey, Mendez, Tom, Lucy, and the other Spartans escape. Kurt remains behind in order to stop the Covenant from following the humans into the Dyson Sphere. He waits for the core doors to fully close and then he lists Kurt Ambrose as MIA under SPARTAN-051 along with the other Spartans, adhering to the tradition of never listing a fallen Spartan as KIA. He ends his life responding to the Elite Fleet Master, "''Die? Didn't you know?... Spartans never die,''" he detonates the two [[FENRIS]] nuclear warheads that the team had taken with them. | 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 Dr. 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. After disabling the factory, the group proceeds to the location of Team Katana. They find eight crypods, five of which contain members of Katana. It is unknown who or what the other three contain. Possibly Forerunner, possibly ONI personnel that were active in Zone 67. They then 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-043 and Holly-G003 fall fighting off the Covenant forces, Will-043 engaging several Hunters in hand to hand combat, before meeting his demise, earning him even the Sangheilli's respect. Halsey, Mendez, Tom, Lucy, and the other Spartans escape. Kurt remains behind in order to stop the Covenant from following the humans into the Dyson Sphere. He waits for the core doors to fully close and then he lists Kurt Ambrose as MIA under SPARTAN-051 along with the other Spartans, adhering to the tradition of never listing a fallen Spartan as KIA. He ends his life responding to the Elite Fleet Master, "''Die? Didn't you know?... Spartans never die,''" he detonates the two [[FENRIS]] nuclear warheads that the team had taken with them. | ||
From outside [[Onyx]], the surviving UNSC prowler ''Dusk'' watches on as the planet's surface rips apart, to reveal that the entire world is constructed of literally trillions of Sentinels, all connected together to provide an impenetrable defense around the Dyson Sphere at the heart of the planet. Within this sphere, which features terrain similar to that of Earth. Dr Halsey reveals that five pods they recovered after destroying the sentinel factory are pods that suspends the user inside a Slipspace field, the user is extruded into an alternate set of | From outside [[Onyx]], the surviving UNSC prowler ''Dusk'' watches on as the planet's surface rips apart, to reveal that the entire world is constructed of literally trillions of Sentinels, all connected together to provide an impenetrable defense around the Dyson Sphere at the heart of the planet. Within this sphere, which features terrain similar to that of Earth. Dr Halsey reveals that five pods they recovered after destroying the sentinel factory are pods that suspends the user inside a Slipspace field, the user is extruded into an alternate set of spatial co-ordinates excluded from time and nothing can harm them, because technically they are not there. 5 of the remaining Spartans, known as Team Katana, are each trapped in a [[Slipspace Field Pod]]. Concluding the story, Fred-104 takes command of the remaining survivors who find themselves alone in the vast habitat. Fred orders Dr. Halsey and the others to find the Forerunner artifacts and search for method of escape. Kelly then welcomes the new Spartan III's to the Blue Team, ensuring that they were "going to make a great team." | ||
==Characters== | ==Characters== | ||
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*On pages 260 (chapter 29) and 367 (chapter 39), [[MA5B]] is misspelled as MAB5. | *On pages 260 (chapter 29) and 367 (chapter 39), [[MA5B]] is misspelled as MAB5. | ||
*On page 371 Kurt-051 is listed as Lieutenant Commandeer, not Lieutenant Commander | *On page 371 Kurt-051 is listed as Lieutenant Commandeer, not Lieutenant Commander | ||
*On page 281 [[Sangheili]] is misspelled as Sangeili | *On page 281 [[Sangheili]] is misspelled as Sangeili. | ||
*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]] was destroyed. | *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]] was destroyed. | ||
*At the start of Chapter 22, the [http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/UNSC_In_Amber_Clad UNSC In Amber Clad] is incorrectly described as a Destroyer, it is in fact a Frigate. | *At the start of Chapter 22, the [http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/UNSC_In_Amber_Clad UNSC In Amber Clad] is incorrectly described as a Destroyer, it is in fact a Frigate. | ||
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*[http://astore.amazon.ca/gp/detail.html?tag=cuteseller-20&linkCode=sb1&asin=0765315688 Read an excerpt] | *[http://astore.amazon.ca/gp/detail.html?tag=cuteseller-20&linkCode=sb1&asin=0765315688 Read an excerpt] | ||
*[[wikipedia:Halo: Ghosts of Onyx|Wikipedia's article on Ghosts of Onyx]] | *[[wikipedia:Halo: Ghosts of Onyx|Wikipedia's article on Ghosts of Onyx]] | ||
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