Halo fan and hobbyist screenwriter. Read my Halo 7 spec script, Halo: Judgment, free at dominikcontigo.com.
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Following the destruction of Omega Fleet over Lithos, the Arbiter and the Swords of Sanghelios ally with Lord Hood and a ragtag trio of UNSC warships—including the newly rescued Spirit of Fire and their mysterious ONI attaché—to secure Zeta Halo. Meanwhile, the Master Chief and Cortana discover the UNSC Infinity and its surviving crew trapped in a slipspace bubble along with Atriox and the prison of the Endless. Chief captures Atriox and brings him before the allied summit to answer for his crimes—but he escapes when the Flood-worshipping Arisen Covenant cult arrives with a Gravemind in tow. The Master Chief, the Kaidon Thel 'Vadam, and the Swords of Sanghelios race the Flood to the repose of the Vigilant, a sundered shade of Offensive Bias, as Red Team hunts a Prophet in a Palace of Pain belonging to the monitor-bound Forerunner essence of Genemender-Folder-of-Fortune. With the help of Commander Palmer, Captain Lasky, civilian engineer Fernando Esparza, Rtas 'Vadum, Dr. Halsey, and a new cast of unlikely allies, these courageous heroes fight a multi-front war to prevent the Gravemind from securing the Forerunners' fabled slipspace core and resurrecting his Primordial form, now invincible to the might of material weaponry.
Halo: Judgment is my #Halo7 fan script set directly after #HaloInfinite. The full 465-page script features 16 original missions (played mainly as the Master Chief, but with turns as Commander Palmer, the Arbiter, and Red Team as well) containing loads of references and lore details for diehard #Halo fans. (Since it was written before Edge of Dawn released, it should therefore be considered an "alternative history.")
Read #HaloJudgment free on my site (link in bio). Please let me know what you think!
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I never really understood the "no shit" response to Cortana's line about "natural formations" in Halo: Combat Evolved.
Maybe it's the slightly stilted delivery that made people overlook it—recorded by a relatively inexperienced voice actor before the referent visuals even existed, so cut her a break!—but it always seemed to me that the writers wanted to draw our attention to the fact that, while the cave is not natural, its makers would have us *think so.* Before crossing the threshold and seeing the inner workings, you don't really see the entrance, nor can you from farther off, as you approach the gully.
I think it's the late triggering of the line that makes it seem silly, rather than the dialogue itself—not to mention that the geometry in the final build is a smoothly bored corridor with sweet-ass ramps for jumping. (Quite the cave!)
Though it's certainly true that nothing about the ring is "natural," Almighty Nature still seemed worthy of deference in Forerunner design thinking.
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I guess I'm just saying that adding a ten-foot span of stalactites or something before you get to the glowing walls with exit signs and uplighting could probably save the line
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Musings on aesthetic departures and "wet metal triangle" discourse following the October 2025 reveal:
We are sadly left with what some Halo fans hilariously call "wet metal triangles." These uncannily pristine surfaces do not harken to ancient, misplaced destinies, but certain high-rise complexes built by sheiks on the Upper East Side.
Don't get me wrong—it's not just that they're ugly. The repugnance of the post-Halo 4 Forerunner aesthetic is philosophical, not merely stylistic. Whether it's "pretty" or not doesn't really factor into the discussion, inasmuch as these structures represent such a holistic upset in scenic narrative design that fans like myself wouldn't even be satisfied by a replacement so beautiful it made us weep if it were not, in some way, more faithful.
Now that the Forerunner structures no longer blend into nature, we as players no longer feel subtly invited to a curated exploration of our *inner nature* via humble contemplations of the natural world (which was so precious to the once-human Forerunners that it required preserving). Instead of wandering the well-trod road of Destiny, we're hauling ass to some kind of Dubai hotel for a breakfast sammie.
The Silent Cartographer's outlying buildings are no longer etched in semi-Mayan, spinal effusions of stone-like metal that seamlessly meld with nature, but rise like vaseline-coated knives thrust through the bodice of Halo. The buildings are too commercial, too "prefab," and too errantly placed. It's nice to hang out at the mall every now and again, but you don't do much thinking about God at the Orange Julius.
The buildings shown off in the gameplay reveal lack vivacity; they remind one more of the latest spy-crawler annuel from Ubisoft than the enchanted cathedrals of Halo. The scenery looks stunning, and the landscaping and foliage neat and purposeful, but the overall sum fails to evoke the quintessential mystery that defined the original Halo trilogy because of this immediately glaring departure.
I do not make the mistake of thinking this game is for me, but I sorely hope that this new generation will get to experience a Halo that looks as inviting as the original, so they'll stay with it for a good, long time.
(October 2025, excerpted from the preface to #HaloJudgment, p. 10–11)
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didn't Sgt. Johnson earn the rank of sergeant major just before receiving the colonial cross from Lord Hood in Halo 2? I thought he was still a staff sergeant in Halo: CE. is this now retconned? has it been for a while?
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we have now canonized the woeful misreading of the escape pod scene. Chief laying a hand on the shoulder of the Marine is not, as some like to contend, a meaningful reassurance (which would be cruelly dishonest), but a bleakly comic "attaboy." he has no words to minimize the likelihood of this poor soldier's impending death. it's meant to be paltry comfort, from which we'll extrapolate Chief's awkward superhumanity; he has good reason to think *he'll* live. He doesn't even sit down. The rest of these guys...
A mysterious ring. A lone Spartan.
This is Halo completely rebuilt.
This is Halo: Campaign Evolved.
#HaloCE
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some will probably argue that the comedy of this gesture originates in the awkward, extremely manual rigging of these cutscenes (see Joe Staten's remarks in the CE developer commentary), but I'd counter that the *pause* is what's funny. The dead air that follows the Marine's pleading is hilarious. You can hear the gears turning, like, "What the hell am I supposed to say here?"
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Correction: the actual exchange between Cortana and the Chief is about his sitting down, to which he replies, "We'll be fine." I was thinking of the dialogue from their approach to the Pillar of Autumn later on.
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"damn okay captain this shit iced the fuck out"
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I guess what really bothers me is that the Master Chief of Halo: Combat Evolved is not a blank slate. He's a bleakly charming, ironizing man-child in a cyborg frame. Back when he was (as the original manual attested) "the last SPARTAN-II," he was characterized as a somewhat dopey, if extremely jacked *everyman* who could just as easily be convinced to turn the ignition on Halo's Galaxy Killer (by Spark) as save the universe (by Cortana, whom we must remember is the guiding sprite who ascertains all of Halo's unknown truths and ultimately architects the third act), provided the universe would brook saving through the expenditure of thousands of bullets. Balking at the frightened soldier in the pod is the second, miniscule character beat we get for poor Chief in CE (after speaking with Cortana and Keyes on the bridge), and it has now been replaced by the Lantern-Jaw McSensitive schtick from Halo 4–6. We have erased a key character flaw—his inability to meaningfully relate to unmodified humans—and replaced it with the misshapen, no-laughs heroism of the 343 era. If you think about it, Chief's preference for the company of his computer and his lack of real friendships beyond other Spartans (before it was decided that Johnson was his bosom buddy), puts him decidedly in chud territory
Jun 8
we have now canonized the woeful misreading of the escape pod scene. Chief laying a hand on the shoulder of the Marine is not, as some like to contend, a meaningful reassurance (which would be cruelly dishonest), but a bleakly comic "attaboy." he has no words to minimize the likelihood of this poor soldier's impending death. it's meant to be paltry comfort, from which we'll extrapolate Chief's awkward superhumanity; he has good reason to think *he'll* live. He doesn't even sit down. The rest of these guys...
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Didn't the Master Chief earn the appellation of "Demon" AFTER destroying Installation 04?
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idk guys some of these Campaign Evolved skins look pretty cool
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Site update! You may now read Halo: Judgment directly on my website, without using Google Drive. No more fishy logins—just a nice, scrollable, paginated embed. Features 16 original missions available to read for free. Check it out, and please lmk what you think! Link in bio #HaloInfinite #Halo #HaloJudgment #fanfic
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"The Prophet will die by my hands, not yours."
ALT Halo 2, final act. Earth Ark. After the battle against Truth in the Ark control room, the Dervish (Arbiter) faces against his former leader for the finishing blow, snapping his neck. As the Master Chief deactivates the Ark, overloading it's generators and subsequently causing the entire temple to collapse.
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the technological marvels of later Forerunner lore really ruin the magic of the original Halo trilogy bc it's like what do you mean you built a map room? you guys didn't have wi-fi?
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Gigachad Captain Keyes mogging the Covenant while he overhears their whole evil plan from jail
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