So, when I was really, really young… Like 1 or 2, there was this war. An alien race, they called themselves the Covenant, they started burning up everything they could on planets in the galaxy. "It was horrible," Mum said, "Everyone the UNSC could get, they were taking… They almost took your brother and your father."
The UNSC, United Nations Space Command, had kept Earth (my home planet) hidden from the Covenant for many years while fighting, until the last year of the war. When they found us, the cold hand of fear and death gripped everyone.
People called it the 'Twilight of Man' and 'Humanity's Genocide'.
I don't remember much, but my Mum had explained it all to me in detail. "Everyday, we waited to hear news about the Covenant… For days there was nothing, just those damn ships looming in the sky, then we heard about New Mombassa. They already glassed the city." She held back tears, "I was so scared… For weeks on end, they glassed Africa. When we heard they started moving north, the ships we could see in the sky disappeared. And instead, UNSC ships appeared."
She explained something about Captain Dare, and an ODST troop that had befriended New Mombassa's AI in the form of a Covenant Engineer. They brought it back to the Space Command, and the newly dubbed Vergil showed them everything it knew about the covenant.
That's how we won the war.
Author's Note:
So I just finished Halo 3: ODST and had a rush of ideas. I just wanted to give sort of a overview before the actual story… 7/1/10… I think. (:| ~ Ren