Noble Six comes alive as we meet the man behind the visor. Spartan B-312 is Mike Nantz, a man trying to live down a family legacy and his lone wolf reputation. Joining Noble Team he sees a chance for redemption but his interactions with them and Natalia Misriah, the headstrong, wealthy daughter of a UNSC munitions supplier are made more complicated when the Covenant attack Reach.

A young dark haired woman with electric blue eyes wakes up in the middle of the desert. She should be dead, but is not. She should not have a body, but does. She is at the way station, the stop between this world and the next, and she is not alone. An ageless stranger is watching, and he has plans of his own.