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{{Title|''Halo: Vertical Umbrage''}}
{{Title|''Vertical Umbrage''}}
{{Status|RealWorld}}
{{Status|Canon}}
[[File:VerticalUmbrage Shadow Cover.jpg|thumb|300px|''Vertical Umbrage'' keyart by [[:Category:Images by William Cameron|William "Pixelflare" Cameron]].{{Ref/Reuse|CFAuditory}}]]
'''''Vertical Umbrage''''' is a short story written by [[343 Industries]] and released on [[2022#November|November 7, 2022]], to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the release of ''[[Halo 4]]''. The story is set in early [[2558]] during the [[Requiem Campaign]], concurrently with the [[Spartan Ops]] mission [[Memento Mori/Everything Has Gone Wrong|Everything Has Gone Wrong]]. The story follows the [[SPARTAN-IV program|SPARTAN-IV]] soldiers of [[Fireteam Shadow]] as they board the {{Pattern|Zanar|light cruiser}} ''[[Panom's Canticle]]'' - a series of events overheard in the Spartan Ops level but not visualised.{{Ref/Site|Id=Waypoint|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/halo-4-vertical-umbrage|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Halo 4 - Vertical Umbrage|D=07|M=11|Y=2022}}
'''''Halo: Vertical Umbrage''''' was the first short story in the [[Halo Waypoint Chronicle]]s series written by [[343 Industries]] and released on [[2022#November|November 7, 2022]], to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the release of ''[[Halo 4]]''. The story is set in early [[2558]] during the [[Requiem Campaign]], concurrently with the [[Spartan Ops]] mission [[Memento Mori/Everything Has Gone Wrong|Everything Has Gone Wrong]]. The story follows the [[SPARTAN-IV program|SPARTAN-IV]] soldiers of [[Fireteam Shadow]] as they board the {{Pattern|Zanar|light cruiser}} ''[[Panom's Canticle]]'' - a series of events overheard in the Spartan Ops level but not visualised.{{Ref/Site|Id=Waypoint|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/halo-4-vertical-umbrage|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Halo 4 - Vertical Umbrage|D=07|M=11|Y=2022}}


The story was also later released as a free-to-download PDF (available [[#External links|here]]), and as an audiobook on YouTube narrated by [[Alex Wakeford]] (available [[#External links|here]]).{{Ref/Site|Id=CFAuditory|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-auditory-additions|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Auditory Additions|D=15|M=12|Y=2022}}
Halopedia maintains an unaltered [[Archive:Text archives|text archive]] of the ''Vertical Umbrage'' short story, should the original page go offline. The text transcript can be found [[Archive:Vertical Umbrage|here]].


==Summary==
==Summary==
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;Sangheili
;Sangheili
*[[Jul 'Mdama]] {{Mo}}
*[[Ryn 'Alun]] {{1st}}
*[[Ryn 'Alun]] {{1st}}


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|title-3=Organizations|
|title-3=Organizations|
*[[Covenant]] {{Mo}}
*[[Unified Earth Government]]
*[[Unified Earth Government]]
**[[United Nations Space Command]]
**[[United Nations Space Command]]
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*[[Requiem]]
*[[Requiem]]
**[[The Refuge (Requiem location)|The Refuge]]
**[[The Refuge (Requiem location)|The Refuge]]
*''[[High Charity]]'' {{Mo}}
*[[High Charity]] {{Mo}}


|title-5=Events|
|title-5=Events|
*[[Battle of Requiem]] {{Mo}}
*[[Requiem Campaign]]
*[[Requiem Campaign]]
**[[Battle at The Refuge]]
**[[Battle at The Refuge]]
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*[[Z-90 hardlight shield]]
*[[Z-90 hardlight shield]]
}}
}}
==Trivia==
The Ur-Didact's quote in the story is an alternate version of his awakening originally recorded by the late voice actor David Anthony Pizzuto in the ''Composing A Universe'' featurette included in the limited edition of ''[[Halo 4: Original Soundtrack]]''.


==External links==
==External links==
*[https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/halo-4-vertical-umbrage Halo 4 - Vertical Umbrage] - The official Waypoint post in which the short story was released for free.
*[https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/halo-4-vertical-umbrage Halo 4 - Vertical Umbrage] - The official Waypoint post in which the short story was released for free.
*[https://wpassets.halowaypoint.com/wp-content/2022/11/Halo-Vertical-Umbrage-PDF.pdf Official ''Vertical Umbrage'' PDF] - The PDF of the short story released on Halo Waypoint ({{file link|Vertical Umbrage.pdf|Archived copy}}).
*[[Archive:Vertical Umbrage]] - Halopedia's own archived backup of the short story.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSYtZvxAGvc Halo: Vertical Umbrage | Audiobook] - The audiobook narrated by Alex Wakeford.


==Sources==
==Sources==
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