Master Chief has just returned to Earth. He expends his grief by going into stasis via cyro sleep. Meanwhile, Requeim has exploded. Infinity is on it's way to inner Sol, when it's fascination catches the captain's eyes...Installation 07, a location filled with ancient histories about man. Meanwhile, Thel Vadam' is once again placed in an arbitary state, as his blasphemous beliefs of the Forerunners defy the newly persistent society, ran by the storm covenant. He is sent with multiple corvettes to glass Mars. On his way to Mars, they intercept Infinity and I07. Infinity destroys half of the fleet, leading the covenant to their usual resort, jumping. Once again, the human ship follows, leading to the orbit of Earth. Attacks on several locations cause the UNSC to immediately awaken John, who goes on a hijacking mission to attack a cruiser from the inside out, only to find Thel Vadam', who is convinced into liberaton, and they both hijack the ship back to I07, but the jump causes damage to the Infinity, and is now grounded. Chief and the Arbiter then crashland unto I07, where they find ancient humans enslaved by forerunners. With the assistance of the Homo Sapiens, the cheif and the Arbiter acquire the "Sacred Icon" and they detonate the corvette's engines. Unfortunately, they must be detonated manually, and Thel Vadam' was never heard from again...a little before, the Infinity regains power, and they head for Mars to fight off the covenant. All of sudden, Roland goes rampant, and the infinity crashes mars out of the sun orbit, and mars just so happens to go directly into the ring, actually fitting tightly into it, right about the moment when the corvette engine goes of, sending mars as a fiery meteroid into a supermassive black hole, filling the entire gap with forerunner energy, causing the black hole to release all matter that was once contained, and it just so happens that one of these things was a data purge that roland just happened to pass through, but then he went psycho, and this is where it get's interesting...Roland starts to speak in a voice so memberable...