Visionary Nexus Network

You may be wondering why there was no post last Saturday. Well, someone decided to release Halo Legends episodes every two weeks now. I saw no announcement of this anywhere, so I don’t even. Know why, that is.

I thought the Arbiter armor was metallic gray? Seems like that ain’t real gold, and that everything about this short is cheap.

In any case,  this short apparently takes place during the early days of the Covenant Empire, when the Sangheili-San ‘Shyuum (Elite-Prophet) alliance was formed. Yet, there’s Hunters and Grunts featured. I’m not sure, but I’m certain those weren’t subjugated by the Covenant until much later. Say, centuries later. Well, technicalities aside.

An oversized moon reflects upon a still pond. Somewhere, an astronomer is crying, when he shouldn’t. As Unskippable any genre-savvy fellow would inform you, everybody knows the moon is bigger in Japan… Land of the Mooninites. (continue reading…)

So I just happened to find out Halo Legends episodes are being shown through Xbox LIVE’s Halo Waypoint for free, for 24 hours every Saturday. For free? For 24 hours? Naturally, I jumped on that and it just came to me half-way through the episode: “Hey, VN hasn’t had much content lately. Maybe I should write a blog post about this.” And here I am. Now, then.

In some mess hall IN SPACE, some nobody tries to eavesdrop on a squad of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODSTs), a.k.a. “Helljumpers.” (This is important because he’s part of the ending aesop thing.) We’re introduced to said squad of 4 ODSTs: O’Brian, Cortez, Dutch (the same from Halo 3: ODST, apparently), and… some black dude. I didn’t catch his name. Let’s just call him Chad. Not like it matters anyway.

… What? Don’t look at my pixelated text like that. IT MAKES SENSE IN CONTEXT, TRUST ME. READ ON AND FIND OUT.
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