Winter Contention

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Winter Contention (sometimes styled Winter Contention: A Halo Waypoint Chronicle) is a short story written by 343 Industries, released on February 8, 2023, to celebrate the Halo Infinite in-game Noble Intention event. The story follows the Spartan supersoldiers of Noble Team during the Defense of Concord seven months prior to the Fall of Reach, and features the first major appearance of Rosenda-A344 in Halo media and the first appearance of Thom-A293 since his debut and death in Deliver Hope. Accordingly, the story's cover artwork depicts a stylistic take on the original Halo: Reach Noble Team artwork recreated with Halo Infinite art assets, albeit with Rosenda and Thom replacing Emile-A239 and Noble Six, respectively.

As with the previous story in the Halo Waypoint Chronicle series, Vertical Umbrage, the story will be available as an audiobook on YouTube narrated by Alex Wakeford.

Official synopsis

"December 2551. Though the Covenant invasion of Concord has seen a rare UNSC victory, the Spartans of Noble Team find themselves stranded in a remote hinterland town. Though the Covenant’s orbital presence has been neutralized, the remaining alien survivors have regrouped and prepare to make a devastating final stand.
With dwindling time and no reinforcements, Kat-B320 comes up with a daring plan to do what Spartans do best and turn the tide—and it’s up to Thom-A293 and Rosenda-A344 to make it happen."

Summary

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Appearances

Characters Human Carter-A259 Catherine-B320 Emile-A239 (Indirect mention) Jorge-052 Jun-A266 Musa Ghanem Rosenda-A344 Thom-A293 Urban Holland (Mentioned only) Species Human Unggoy Kig-Yar Organizations Covenant Unified Earth Government (Mentioned only) United Nations Space Command UNSC Navy SPARTAN-II program SPARTAN-III program Unified Ground Command UNSC Army UNSC Army Rangers Special Warfare Group Three NOBLE Team Concordian militia (First appearance) Locations Alabaster system Concord Hinterlands region (First appearance) Ploh (First mentioned) Skathi (First appearance) New Ugga (First mentioned) Volanus system Fumirole (Mentioned only)

Events Human-Covenant War Defense of Concord Operation: OFFSET EYE (First appearance) Battle of Fumirole (Indirect mention) Weapons Human Combat knife CQS48 Bulldog M247H machine gun Etilka M9 fragmentation grenade MA37 assault rifle MK50 Sidekick SRS99-AM sniper rifle Covenant Focus cannon Plasma cannon Plasma mortar Vehicles Human Warthog M12 Warthog (Mentioned only) M862 Arctic Warthog M9 Wolverine Marathon-class heavy cruiser C-322 (Indirect mention) Pelican S-14 Baselard Strident-class heavy frigate FFG-427 (Indirect mention) FFG-502 (Indirect mention) Covenant Banshee Bkowe'nei-pattern Vampire Karo'etba-pattern Ghost Wraith Zashk-pattern Draugr Technology and equipment Anti-gravity technology Energy shielding Mass driver MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V AIR ASSAULT-class Mjolnir B-class Mjolnir COMMANDO-class Mjolnir CQC-class Mjolnir GRENADIER-class Mjolnir SCOUT-class Mjolnir Oracle N-variant scope TEAMCOM

Gallery

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  Thom and Rosenda in the story.

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  A Pelican dropship en route to Concord.

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  A Banshee scout on Concord during the battle.

External links

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