Halo 101: The Cole Protocol
Hi fellow Halo Wikians!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, our Dutch counterpart Wilc0 cannot publish this week's Halo 101 blog. Instead I'm filling in for him. This week's topic was originally intended to be Blue Team but instead I thought I'd cover the Cole Protocol and allow Wilc0 to cover Blue Team in the next instalment of this blog series.
United Nations Space Command Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1, colloquially known as the Cole Protocol, was enacted by Admiral Cole Preston following first contact with the Covenant on Harvest as a means of perturbing the Covenants effort to locate Earth and the inner colonies. The Cole Protocol detailed procedures to enact in the event of engaging with or retreating from Covenant forces. The protocol was r…
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test blog for E3
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A Halo Education ...
Hello fellow Halo Nationals!
In October, our main page received a clean up and make over, whilst it looks better than the previous version, I feel we can do better! Over the next week or so, I will be working on a new main page layout, and wikia theme that best reflects Halo Nation's true self: professional, modern, and just generally awesome. The theme may come as a shock to some users, as we are planning on switching from our usual bright background to a darker one, but fear not, this will not effect the legibility of the wiki and it's content; if anything it will make everything easier to read!
In this planned update, we are planning to bring back some old features, such as the "Did you know?" feature and community highlights! But for us …
Affiliates and Languages left to go!
Yet another test blog, but on the bright-side, we only have the affiliates and language box left to do then this theme is ready for exportation after community consent!