Contact Harvest
<p>Based on the universe and characters from the multimillion selling Xbox video games Halo and Halo 2, <i>Halo: Contact Harvest</i> continues the story of humanity's next great battle in their ongoing wars against the seemingly infinite alien factions who consider the human race heathens. </p><p>This is how it began...</p><p>It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But we have trespassed on holy ground--strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence.</p><p>But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection. So the survival of Harvest's citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees. In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest...a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.</p>