Halo: Survivor's Quest

Introduction
The battle for the asteroid K7-49, also known as Operation: PROMETHEUS, is over. The SPARTAN-IIIs of Alpha Company, child supersoldiers recruited and trained in order to purchase additional time for humanity's flagging defenses, have accomplished their mission to render the ore refineries of the shipyard asteroid useless. Victory, however, has come at a great price. Cut off and isolated behind enemy lines, the brave young soldiers of Alpha Company have been slaughtered by the legions of Covenant shock troops who now occupy both the surface of K7-49 and the skies above. Soon they will be deployed against humanity again, but for now their only assignment is the menial task of beginning salvage operations on the now-defunct shipyards. It is an elementary task for these combat-hardened veterans, for every one of the three hundred SPARTANs who once opposed them so viciously are now dead.

Or so they think.

From the ashes of the corpse-strewn battlefield emerges a lone survivor: Shephard-A294. He has seen his friends die all around him over the course of the battle and has only escaped through an amalgamated mix of skill, determination, and luck. With no means by which to return to his superiors in the UNSC, he is effectively trapped in the midst of tens of thousands of enemy soldiers. But he has tasted the bitter sting of loss once before with the loss of his family, and now that those he had come to consider his second family have been stripped from him he will not rest until he brings down the Sanghelli commander who was instrumental in defeating and annihilating Alpha Company. This task will prove to be far more difficult than Shephard has anticipated, especially once the Covenant forces begin preparations to engage in a new campaign against humanity. Aided by unlikely allies, the young soldier will be forced to test his resolve and convictions to the limit if he is to have any chance of achieving his goal.