In the annals of military science fiction, few figures loom as large as Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, the stoic protagonist of the Halo franchise. Clad in Mjolnir armor and wielding an arsenal ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter when she was five years old. Since then, she ...

All of it ultimately descends directly from Master Chief as a character, with the look of the character serving as something of a bedrock for the rest of the franchise to be built upon. That’s what ...

Most of Master Chief’s backstory comes from the Eric Nylund novel The Fall of Reach. There, we learn that Chief was taken from his home planet by Dr. Catherine Halsey and Lieutenant Jacob Keyes and ...