three years after the battle of the Ark, Master Chief awakens to a whole new world full of monsterous creatures and super powered teens with odd weaponry. Can he adapt to this new world and threat? or will he succumb to the tide of evil that threatens to destroy life on this small, broken dustball?

Spartan John-1362 deserts the UNSC and settles down on Arcadia. Then Blue team finds him and tries to take him away, but the Arcadians won't let them and begin an undeclared war for freedom against the UNSC.

The ruins of an old ship thousands of years old holds a strange device with a blue woman inside. The only true AI in the galaxy. While she doesn't remember her own past, she may be able to help uncover Ahsoka's, her master's and everyone around them. The Council has it's secrets, as does the Senate. And they will destroy each other. And everyone else.

Cortana is with Master Chief when he returns to Sanghelios after the events of Genesis and things are not as they appear. And there is only one person happy to see her.