Halo: Venezian Sonata

Cover art for the story.

Halo: Venezian Sonata is a short story in the Halo Waypoint Chronicle series, released on September 23, 2024. The story focuses on an operation led by Veronica Dare on Venezia.

Official summary

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September 2559. Captain Veronica Dare is deployed to Venezia on a reconnaissance mission to investigate the emergence of a potential new threat.

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Appearances

Characters Artificial intelligence Cortana (Mentioned only) Roland Human Adam Andrews Callie Calder (First appearance) Dan (Mentioned only) Edward Buck Gretchen Ketola Taylor Miles Thomas Lasky (Mentioned only) Veronica Dare Kig-Yar Ke'jal (First mentioned) Nor Fel (Mentioned only) Sangheili Zef 'Trahl Yonhet M'raad (First appearance) Species Human Jiralhanae (Mentioned only) Kig-Yar (Mentioned only) Sangheili Yonhet Organizations Covenant (Mentioned only) Covenant remnants Banished Keepers of the One Freedom (Mentioned only) New Colonial Alliance (Mentioned only) Created (Mentioned only) Janissaries Optican Ottoman Empire (Mentioned only) Unified Earth Government United Nations Space Command Spartan Operations SPARTAN-IV program Alpha-Nine UNSC Navy Office of Naval Intelligence SPARTAN-II program (Mentioned only) Venezian Militia (Mentioned only) Locations Cygnus (Mentioned only) Orso system Venezia New Tyne Reach (Mentioned only) Sol system Earth New Mombasa (Mentioned only) Touchstone system Andesia Noctus (Mentioned only)

Events Human-Covenant War (Mentioned only) Created uprising Operation: SONATA (First appearance) Operation: WOLFE (Mentioned only) Weapons Mk50 Sidekick Vehicles UNSC Infinity (Mentioned only) Technology and equipment Rumbledrug (Mentioned only)

External links

• Halo: Venezian Sonata - The official Waypoint post in which the short story was released for free.
• Official Halo: Venezian Sonata PDF - The PDF of the short story released on Halo Waypoint (Archived copyMedia:Venezian Sonata.pdf).
• Halo: Venezian Sonata | Audiobook - The audiobook narrated by Alex Wakeford.