<div>This is how it began...</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>It is the year 2524.&nbsp; Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space.&nbsp; But we have trespassed on holy ground--strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant.&nbsp; What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection.&nbsp; So the survival of Harvest's citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees.&nbsp; In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest...a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.</div>