Editing Halo: Initiation Issue 1

{{Title|''Halo: Initiation Issue 1''}}
{{Status|RealWorld}}
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|image=[[File:HaloInitiation1.jpg|250px]]
|author=*[[Brian Reed]] (writer)<br>
*Marco Castiello (artist)<br>
*Michael Atiyeh (colorist)<br>
*John Liberto (cover artist)<br> 
*Terry Dodson, Rachael Dodson (variant cover artists)
|publisher= [[Dark Horse Comics]]
|publication= August 14, 2013
|Length=32 pages
|US Price=$3.99 
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|UK Price=£3.00
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|Availability=Limited series
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'''''Halo: Initiation Issue 1''''' was released on [[2013|August 14, 2013]] and is the first of three in the ''[[Halo: Initiation]]'' series of comics.<ref>[http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/23-761/Halo-Initiation-1-John-Liberto-cover/ '''Dark Horse:''' ''Halo: Initiation Issue 1'']</ref>

==Official summary==
{{Article Quote|Halo - one of the largest video game franchises - comes to Dark Horse! Before she was a supersoldier defending humanity as part of the Spartan IV program, Sarah Palmer was an ODST carrying out the most dangerous missions behind enemy lines! Join her on her dramatic journey from the ranks of humanity’s toughest leathernecks to the highest echelon of elite warriors in the galaxy.
*The origin of Sarah Palmer and the Spartan IV program!
*The Halo franchise has sales eclipsing $3 billion over its lifetime.
*From one of the writers of [[Halo 4]] - comics veteran Brian Reed!}}

==Plot synopsis==
In [[2553#January|January 2553]], [[Commander]] [[Musa-096]], a former [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II]], has arranged an audience with several [[Admiral|admirals]] in [[HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6]]. Despite reprehending the morality of the SPARTAN-II Program, Musa stresses the importance of the Spartans in the [[Human-Covenant War|Covenant War]] and argues that they are still necessary, revealing that he has created [[SPARTAN-IV Program|a new generation]] of the supersoldiers. Three months earlier, in [[2552#October|October 2552]], a group of [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|ODSTs]], including Sarah Palmer, are deployed on a planet under Covenant attack. On the surface, [[Admiral]] [[Kovalic]], protecting an important [[Artificial intelligence|AI]], is heading to an extraction point, but his [[M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle|Warthog]] is attacked by a [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]]. Palmer's [[M8900 drop pod]] lands nearby and she defends Kovalic from the Chieftain and other [[Covenant]] forces converging on their position. Even though she is wounded by a [[Type-33 Guided Munitions Launcher|Needler]] shard, Palmer eventually kills the Chieftain and saves the admiral. Three months later, while still recovering in a [[Lockhart medical station|UNSC medical facility]], Palmer is visited by [[Jun-A266]], who invites her to join the SPARTAN-IV Program.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Halo Initiation.jpg|Full cover art by John Liberto.
File:HI Highcom.png|A meeting convened at Bravo-6.
File:Halo Initiation Musa.png|Musa-096 addresses the Admiralty.
File:Halo Initiation John-117 and a-Spartan-warrior.PNG|Musa regales about the history of the Spartans.
File:InitiationDrop.jpg|Sarah Palmer partakes in a combat drop.
File:Halo Initiation Kovalic.PNG|[[Admiral]] [[Kovalic]] protecting the [[armored matrix]] of an unknown AI.
File:Initiation-Splatter.png|Palmer splatters a Jiralhanae Chieftain with a Warthog.
File:HI Lockhart station.jpg|[[Lockhart medical station]].
File:Jun SarahPalmer.png|[[Spartan-III]] Jun visits and congratulates Palmer.
</gallery>

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==Related articles==
*''[[Halo: Initiation]]''
*''[[Halo: Initiation Issue 2|Issue 2]]''
*''[[Halo: Initiation Issue 3|Issue 3]]''
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