Exploring the Universe

I will never be able to fathom how great the universe is. The Halo universe has allowed me to expand my imagination and understand what could be out there. Halo is a video game I enjoy playing and is also now a series of novels. The video game allows you to play through this war between the Covenant, a theocratic alliance of different alien races, and Humanity. Although the video game has many ways of describing the Halo universe, I feel that the novels do much more in expanding my thoughts and imagination about it. This is because they break down the situations that occur throughout the series of games and let you use your imagination to understand what is happening between the Covenant and Humanity instead of it being shown graphically through the game. The  main protagonist in the Halo universe is John-117 or Master Chief, he is a SPARTAN, which is a biologically and cybernetically augmented and enhanced super soldier. He is the last of his kind and helps save humanities' last stronghold against the Covenant, Earth. The video games do not explain his entire story and neither do the novels, but if they are read and played in a certain order then you can completely follow Master Chief's entire journey to save the Human race from destruction and chaos. This sequence starts off with the first novel The Fall of Reach, then the first video game Halo: Combat Evolved, then the next two novels The Flood and First Strike and then the next two video games Halo 2 and Halo 3. The novel where my title comes from is my personal favorite out of the Halo novels, The Ghosts of Onyx, which is the last part of Master Chief's journey. The novels give details of the Master Chief's journey as well as describing stories of other characters in the Halo universe. After reading novels like these, I am able to think in a much broader spectrum of what could be around us in this universe. Literature allows our minds to become free and this causes our imagination to go wild.