John and his Spartan compatriots went on to participate in numerous new missions for over a year.ĭuring one such mission, John had a vision of a seemingly alive Cortana. John subsequently reunited with Blue Team and with their help, vanquished the Didact a second time. This culminated in an attack on Earth and the Didact's temporary defeat, as well as the apparent loss of Cortana. After his recovery in July 2557, he played a key role in the conflict between the UNSC and the Didact's Promethean forces and a new "Covenant" faction, beginning on the shield world Requiem. In the interbellum, John was lauded as a hero, and though he was officially declared MIA like all Spartans, he was ostensibly believed by the UNSC to have perished. John went missing after the war's final battle in December 2552, having stymied the threat of the Covenant, the Flood, and the Halos. Weeks later, John followed the remaining Covenant forces to the Ark, the Halo Array's control center, which he disabled before the Halos could be fired. Pursuing the invaders' flagship, the Master Chief encountered Installation 05, where a civil war soon broke out within the Covenant. After destroying the Halo, the surrounding Covenant fleet, and the Flood forces on the ring, John returned to Earth and resisted the Covenant's impromptu invasion. However, John and his AI companion Cortana fled Reach and their vessel fortuitously arrived at Halo Installation 04, a one hundred millennia-old superweapon created by the Forerunners to destroy their parasitic enemy, the Flood, by killing all life in the galaxy. Īs the war neared its end, most of John's fellow SPARTAN-IIs were killed in action during the Fall of Reach.
His actions during the Covenant War earned him every major UNSC service medal and combat award, save for the Prisoner of War Medallion, as well as several dozen civilian honors. Though John has commanded nearly every Spartan-II at one time or another, the lion's share of his career has been spent as fireteam leader of Blue Team.
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He served as one of the most important figures of the Human-Covenant War. Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, also known simply by his rank as the " Master Chief" or (as is common in military culture) simply as the " Chief", is a Spartan-II supersoldier of the UNSC Navy's Special Weapons division. In the end, one child could be the difference between peace and a unwinnable war." - Dr. " This child could be more useful to the UNSC than a fleet of destroyers, a thousand Lieutenants - or even me.