Halo: The Thursday War: Difference between revisions

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{{Novel infobox

|image=[[File:HThursday War - Cover.jpeg|300px]]

|author=Karen Traviss

|cover artist=[[Eddie Smith]]

|publisher=[[Tor Books]] (original)<br>[[Simon & Schuster]] (2019 edition)

|publication=[[2012|October 2, 2012]] (original)<br>April 2, 2019

|length=448 pages (original)<br>464 pages (2019 edition)

|ISBN=[[Special:BookSources/0765333635|0765333635]], [[Special:BookSources/978-0765323941|978-0765323941]], [[Special:BookSources/978-1982111793|978-1982111793]]

}}

'''''Halo: The Thursday War''''' is the second novel in the [[Kilo-Five Trilogy]] by [[Karen Traviss]], and a direct follow-up to ''[[Halo: Glasslands]]''. It was released on [[2012|October 2, 2012]].<ref name="tor">[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/tor-books-announces-next-book-in-halo-series '''Tor Announces next book in ''Halo'' series''']</ref> A sequel, ''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]'' was released [[2014|January 21, 2014]].<ref>[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/07/the-halo-kilo-five-trilogy-will-conclude-this-january '''Tor.com:''' ''The Halo Kilo-Five Trilogy Will Conclude This January'']</ref><ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Halo-Mortal-Dictata-Karen-Traviss/dp/076533545X '''Amazon''' - ''Halo: Mortal Dictata'']</ref>

==Official summary==

Welcome to humanity’s new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI’s black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation―keeping the Elites busy with their own insurrection―turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething heart of an alien civil war. But troubles never come singly for Kilo-Five. Colonial terrorism is once again surfacing on one of the worlds that survived the war against the Covenant, and the man behind it is much more than just a name to Spartan-010. Meanwhile, the treasure trove of Forerunner technology recovered from the shield world of Onyx is being put to work while a kidnapped Elite plots vengeance on the humans he fears will bring his people to the brink of destruction.}}

*[[Unggoy Rebellion]] {{Mo}}

|title-6=Vehicles|

**''[[Pious Inquisitor]]'' {{Mo}}

*[[Covenant cruiser]]

**''[[Certain Prophecy]]'' {{1st}}

**''[[Cleansing Truth]]'' {{1st}}

**''[[Promised Revelation]]'' {{1st}}

**''[[Swordsman]]'' {{1st}}

*{{Pattern|Dextro Xur|Spirit}}

*[[Type-26 Banshee]]

*{{Pattern|Wuzum|Spectre}}

*{{Pattern|Rizvum|Revenant}}

*{{UNSCShip|Iceni}} {{Mo}}

*{{UNSCShip|Infinity}}

*{{Pattern|Okarda'phaa|plasma rifle}}

*{{Pattern|Skar'wa|Mantis}} {{Mo}}

|title-8=Equipment and Technology|

*[[Artificial intelligence]]

==Trivia==

*A [[Wikipedia:Thursday War|Thursday War]] is a colloquial name given in the Royal Navy for weekly war-fighting and damage control exercises that are held during Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST), so named because they are usually held on a Thursday.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Thursday War|'''Wikipedia''': ''"Thursday War"'']]</ref>

*The title of the novel is foreshadowed in Chapter 17 of ''Halo: Glasslands'', where the AI [[Black-Box]] tells [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Serin Osman]] that "We might even get you on a Thursday war."<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 422''</ref>

*An excerpt of the novel's prologue first chapter was released on September 3, 2012 on Amazon.com.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076532394X/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=10EDT594YCRAR48TAWM0&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938811&pf_rd_i=507846#reader_076532394X '''Amazon.com''' - ''Halo: The Thursday War'' excerpt]</ref>

*Red vs Blue references were made again, similar to ''Glasslands'', a running-gag of Sangheili mispronouncing the name "Phillips" as "Phyllis", which is the phonetic pronunciation of the AI F.I.L.S.S.

==Sources==