Vertical Umbrage

Vertical Umbrage is a short story written by 343 Industries and released on 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 Everything Has Gone Wrong. The story follows the SPARTAN-IV soldiers of Fireteam Shadow as they board the Zanar-pattern light cruiser Panom's Canticle - a series of events overheard in the Spartan Ops level but not visualised.

Halopedia maintains an unaltered text archive of the Vertical Umbrage short story, should the original page go offline. The text transcript can be found here.

Summary

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Appearances

Characters AI Roland Forerunner Ur-Didact (Mentioned only) Human John-117 (Indirect mention) Horatio Fry Jason Kidman (First appearance) Nina Kovan Jared Miller Sarah Palmer (Mentioned only) Bonita Stone Sangheili Ryn 'Alun (First appearance) Species Forerunner (Mentioned only) Human Kig-Yar Sangheili Unggoy Organizations Unified Earth Government United Nations Space Command Spartan Operations SPARTAN-IV program Fireteam Crimson (Mentioned only) Fireteam Shadow Jul 'Mdama's Covenant Silent Blade Locations Requiem The Refuge High Charity (Mentioned only)

Events Requiem Campaign Battle at The Refuge Operation: VERTICAL UMBRAGE Weapons Energy sword M6 Spartan Laser M6/E Spartan Laser Selene's Lance M9 fragmentation grenade MA5D assault rifle Type-33 needler SRS99-S5 AM sniper rifle Abbey (First appearance) Vehicles D79-TC Pelican Infinity-class supercarrier UNSC Infinity (Mentioned only) Gloto'kef-pattern Assault Carapace Ru'swum-pattern Phantom Zanar-pattern light cruiser Panom's Canticle Technology and equipment Summit MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2) GOBLIN-class Mjolnir GUNGNIR-class Mjolnir OPERATOR-class Mjolnir Pinch fusion reactor TQ-8 seeker drone Type-3 active camouflage Visual Intelligence System, Reconnaissance Wyrd III optics suite (Indirect mention) Z-90 hardlight shield

External links

• Halo 4 - Vertical Umbrage - The official Waypoint post in which the short story was released for free.
• Archive:Vertical Umbrage - Halopedia's own archived backup of the short story.