I survived a zombie apocalypse and I came out of it alive, changed but alive. I tried to go back home and landed somewhere completely different. I found myself on Reach, five hundred years in the future, in the middle of the Human Covenant War.
And if that wasn't bad enough, I arrived a month before the Covenant invasion.
Now, technically, I have superpowers. I'm an Infernal Exalt, carrying a power that was never meant to exist in this universe. Unfortunately, that doesn't make me invincible, I don't have an instruction manual and most of what I can do still involves figuring shit out through trial and error. I have a handful of abilities, a snarky demon living in my head and just enough knowledge of the Halo universe to know exactly how screwed I am.
Which brings me to the real problem.
I know what's coming. I know what the Covenant are planning, I know how badly humanity is outmatched and I know that simply following the events I remember isn't going to be enough. But knowing how a war is supposed to end and actually doing something about it are two very different things.
Caught between ONI, the UNSC and an enemy that can wipe entire worlds off the map, I'll have to make use of whatever advantages I can get. That means experimenting with powers I barely understand, working with people who have very good reasons not to trust me and finding ways to turn a hopeless military situation into something humanity might actually survive.
Of course, there's also the small matter of making sure I don't make things worse.
Because if there's one thing I've learned from my previous adventure, it's that having a plan and knowing what the hell you're doing are not necessarily the same thing.
And if that wasn't bad enough, I arrived a month before the Covenant invasion.
Now, technically, I have superpowers. I'm an Infernal Exalt, carrying a power that was never meant to exist in this universe. Unfortunately, that doesn't make me invincible, I don't have an instruction manual and most of what I can do still involves figuring shit out through trial and error. I have a handful of abilities, a snarky demon living in my head and just enough knowledge of the Halo universe to know exactly how screwed I am.
Which brings me to the real problem.
I know what's coming. I know what the Covenant are planning, I know how badly humanity is outmatched and I know that simply following the events I remember isn't going to be enough. But knowing how a war is supposed to end and actually doing something about it are two very different things.
Caught between ONI, the UNSC and an enemy that can wipe entire worlds off the map, I'll have to make use of whatever advantages I can get. That means experimenting with powers I barely understand, working with people who have very good reasons not to trust me and finding ways to turn a hopeless military situation into something humanity might actually survive.
Of course, there's also the small matter of making sure I don't make things worse.
Because if there's one thing I've learned from my previous adventure, it's that having a plan and knowing what the hell you're doing are not necessarily the same thing.