User:Spartan 501/Installation 04: What If

The story so far...
The year is 2552. The United Nations Space Command, or UNSC, has been slowly losing the war to the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant. In a last ditch attempt to defeat the Covenant, or at least broker a cease-fire, the UNSC has equipped the Pillar of Autumn, an aging cruiser, with a array of modern new shipboard systems. In addition, it has been loaded to the brim with personell and equipment, including the notorious SPARTAN-IIs, and their specialized equipment. On August 30th, the Pillar of Autumn moved to an outsystem vector, and was about to transition when it recieved a priority distress signal from the planet Reach, it's homebase. However, the Captain, a man named Keyes, argued with himself over the best course of action, even as the Pillar of Autumn's crew watched the Covenant destroy Reach's orbital defenses. Keyes eventually moved in, only to find the defenses destroyed. Closeby, another craft, a frieghter, was destroyed, and it jettisoned a single escape pod. The Pillar of Autumn retrtieved this pod, and was surprised to find a pair of SPARTANs inside. It then fled, engines damaged, with the Covenant Fleet of Particular Justice en-route. It finally transitioned in a so-called random vector--actually a precise location that the ship's AI Cortana wished to investigate. However, after exiting the faster than light dimension known as slipspace, things became very, very strange.

This is a story of what the events of Halo 1 would be like if they were changed at their very basis, their very foundation, if they were manipulated with new elements, and this story will explore what these elements would do.

Chapeter One: The Pillar of Autumn

Chapter Two: Halo

[[User:Spartan 501/Installation 04: What If/Chapter Three: The Truth and Reconciliation
 * Chapter Three: The Truth and Reconciliation]]

Chapter Four: The Silent Cartographer

[[User:Spartan 501/Installation 04: What If/Chapter Five: Assault on the Control Room
 * Chapter Five: Assault on the Control Room]]

Chapter Six: 343 Guilty Spark

Chapter Seven: The Library

Chapter Eight: Two Betrayls

Chapter Nine: Keyes

Chapter Ten: The Maw

Characters

 * Captain Jacob Keyes
 * AI Cortana
 * Staff Seargent Avery Johnson
 * Seargent Stacker
 * PFC Wallace Jenkin
 * PFC Medoza
 * Foehammer
 * 343 Guilty Spark
 * Fireteam Zulu Pilot
 * Victor 933 Pilot
 * Bravo 022 Pilot
 * SPARTAN-117 John
 * SPARTAN-008 Li
 * SPARTAN-029 Joshua
 * SPARTAN-030 Vinh
 * SPARTAN-039 Isaac
 * SPARTAN-043 William
 * SPARTAN-044 Anton
 * SPARTAN-058 Linda
 * SPARTAN-059 Malcolm
 * SPARTAN-087 Kelly
 * SPARTAN-093 Grace
 * SPARTAN-104 Frederic
 * SPARTAN-074 James
 * SPARTAN-091 Jared
 * SPARTAN-014 Adrian
 * SPARTAN-077 Edward
 * SPARTAN-054 Angel
 * SPARTAN-028 Mike
 * SPARTAN-038 Melanie
 * SPARTAN-070 Elise
 * SPARTAN-073 Sirius
 * SPARTAN-080 Alfred
 * SPARTAN-060 Maverick
 * SPARTAN-013 Ajax

Thanks
Special thanks to everyone that let me use their SPARTAN-II characters, and to CMT, for creating SpV1 which inspired this fan-fiction (quite heavily I might add).