Halo: First Srike

This is my first time in Halo Universe, after a brief touch with Halo: Combat Evolved.

First Strike take place between Halo 1 and Halo 2. It tells of the Master Chief, after survivng the planet HALO and the Flood, hijacking a Covenant cruiser and arrives at Reach for a long shot to find survivors. It does indeed find a few SPARTAN - II, which he thought he had sent to death. And, with a holy artifact of the Covenant in hand, flees. Cortana on the other hand, discovers a campaign to destroy earth, and Master Chief decides to stop the Fleet before it moves from the Unyeilding Heirophant, and succeeds in doing so. But at the price of nearly all his comrades, and much of the SPARTAN - II.

At the end of the novel, a new type of alien is introduced, the Brutes. There is some typo involved. Joshua was SPARTAN - 029, but Vinh was also identified as SPARTAN - 029.