Halo: Triumph Within Doubt

, a Second Great War Trilogy story.

Introduction

2604, a year of destruction as are its adjacents with the oncoming brutality of the war. During this time, Harvest was a bustling metropolitan planet and one of the top twenty agricultural colonies. It has served as a safe haven from the war on the frontlines, the new borders of the Human Sphere. This peace, however, ends today, and its up to soldiers and civilians alike to preserve it.

Dramatis Personae

Civilians
 * Jack Williams, owner of Williams Ranch

Prologue
Harvest was a new land of prosperity. Its supercontinent was coated with a sheet of mile-high cities, farms, and large forests. With a population of nearly fifty million, it is much more crucial to interplanetary economy than ever before. Since the Human-Covenant War, its whispy lands have also been laden with elements of the 45th Division as well as an entire division of Colonial Militants. During the Kongo Wars, rebels assaulted Harvest with 2,000 footsoldiers as well as multiple freighters, though to no avail. The skirmish's outcome became one of many roots of the pride Harvestians hold in their hearts.

Fifteen miles outside of Utgard city limits, a small town known as Bradbury was filled with nearly ten thousand citizens and a fair share of cattle. One ranch in particular, the Williams Ranch, was quite popular for its quality of meat that it distributed to a select few in the area, primarily its regular customers and a handful of restaurants. Jack Williams, the ranch's third owner, was a military and cattle enthusiast, and was not afraid to try and master either of the two.

Jack peered down the scope of his rifle.