Halo: The Machine Breaks

Cover art for the story.

Halo: The Machine Breaks is a short story in the Halo Waypoint Chronicle series, released on September 5, 2024. The story focuses on a malfunctioning Promethean Knight rediscovering its humanity.

Official summary

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2558. As Jul 'Mdama's Covenant grows stronger through acquisition of powerful Forerunner technology, one malfunctioning Promethean Knight discovers the last vestiges of its humanity.

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Plot summary

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Appearances

Characters Artificial intelligence 031 Exuberant Witness TDS-002 Forerunner Ur-Didact (Mentioned only) Human Carlo Hoya Catherine Halsey Edward Buck Henry Glassman (Mentioned only) Sandra Tillson Olympia Vale Sangheili Jul 'Mdama Sali 'Nyon (Mentioned only) Species Forerunner (Technology only) Promethean Promethean Crawler Alpha Crawler Promethean Knight Human Sangheili Organizations Covenant remnants Jul 'Mdama's Covenant Sali 'Nyon's Covenant (Mentioned only) United Nations Space Command Spartan Operations SPARTAN-IV program Fireteam Majestic Fireteam Osiris UNSC Navy Office of Naval Intelligence (Mentioned only) SPARTAN-II program (Mentioned only) Locations Absolute Record (Mentioned only) Aktis system Aktis IV Epoloch system Requiem (Mentioned only) Heshdod system Lodestone (Mentioned only) Khaphrae system Installation 03 (Mentioned only) Ivanoff Station (Mentioned only) Nomos system Genesis Sol system Earth United Republic of North America New Phoenix (Mentioned only) Visper system Oban Wolf 1473 system Coral (Mentioned only) Pegasi Institute (Mentioned only)

Events Human-Forerunner wars (Mentioned only) Post-Covenant War conflicts Battle of Aktis IV Battle of Oban New Phoenix Incident (Mentioned only) Raid on Ivanoff Station (Mentioned only) Weapons Domotos-pattern energy sword Lightblade M395 DMR Z-180 Scattershot (Mentioned only) Z-250 lightrifle Vehicles Infinity-class supercarrier UNSC Infinity (Mentioned only) Kerel-pattern assault carrier Song of Retribution Twelfth-order escort Ru'swum-pattern Phantom Technology and equipment Composer (Mentioned only) Durance Janus Key MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor MJOLNIR [GEN2] OPERATOR-class Mjolnir Promethean Knight Knight Battlewagon Knight Commander Sangheili harness

External links

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