More to the Story

The Second Story experience is an awesome feature built into specific content available on the Halo Channel. So far, both Halo: Nightfall and Red vs Blue: Season 12 have unlockable Second Story content exclusive to the Halo Channel experience. The Second Story collections found within Halo: Nightfall gives viewers a glimpse behind the curtain and into the underbelly of a tumultuous time in the Halo universe. Fresh off the Human-Covenant War, the galaxy is rife with colonies trying to rebuild, and factions steeped in mistrust. The Second Story experience comes in two styles: vignettes that explore a deeper and more personal side of the characters, and classified ONI EYES files that let you peek into the depths of humanity’s most clandestine corners. The fifteen episodes are now bundled into three distinct story arcs, with each looking at a specific angle of the overall narrative.

NIGHTFALL: ACQUISITION reveals the UNSC’s attempts to discern the methods and means by which a deadly new element was collected, trafficked, and ultimately employed against the colonists of Sedra.

NIGHTFALL: HUMAN ELEMENT brings you face to face with those most impacted by the deadly attack on the outer colony of Sedra. From the Alerian miners who harvested the lethal element, to exposed citizens whose lives will never be the same. From first responders on Sedra, to the ONI agents and Sedran Colonial Guard soldiers thrown into the middle of it all.

NIGHTFALL: INTERVENTION details the oftentimes harsh reality of ONI's constant involvement and meddling in effort to find ever-elusive answers by any means necessary.

That’s not even the full (second) story though; like many tales scattered throughout the Halo experience, sometimes there is evidence in the hardest places to find. For example, when Dr. Brynn Morad is trying to dig deeper into the situation surrounding the attack on Sedra during an autopsy report, she is unaware that her searches are being flagged and transmitted to an ONI representative known as CODENAME: FIXER. What might just look like insignificant headlines and articles pulled up on Dr. Morad’s data screens in “Trade Barriers” (Nightfall: Human Element) actually contain detailed insight into the plight of another colony world involved in the events of Halo: Nightfall – the dry and dangerous Aleria. Since it might have been difficult to catch from the viewer’s perspective, we’ve turned the tables on CODENAME: FIXER and pulled a classified data drop for you to get your eyes on, and your eyes only. So if you haven’t already checked out the Halo: Nightfall Second Story collection on the Halo Channel, go do it now! If you have, go do it again. You never know when there’s something you might have missed the first time around…