Chapter 34 Summary

John rereads the distress call form the ship the Circumference, which says the Covenant has detected the ship and that there is a violation of the Cole Protocol. John understands that the Covenant is groundside on planet Reach to destroy the Super MAC weapons and they are infiltrating the Circumference data systems to find out where every human colony is to destroy it. The Captain consults John on how to handle the mission. John says the Spartans are trained for this and will split into two groups. One group will handle the ground invasion while the other will handle protecting the data on the Circumference. As John maneuvers one of the Pelican ships into the Slipstream, a Covenant ship immediately appears right in front of the Pelican's nose.

Chapter 34 Analysis

Once again, the Covenant's technology and ability to move their ships in lightning...