CCRB RECORD No. 0102
Halo: Reach
Determination: Ambient — Corruption 1
A colony falls to an invasion whose religious motive is never stated aloud.
Reach is a military tragedy with a foregone ending: the colony falls and the player's squad dies. The Covenant function as an overwhelming invading army, glassing the planet from orbit. The religious cause of the war is real — the High Prophets declared humanity an affront to their gods and prosecuted a genocidal campaign on that basis — but Reach dramatises the consequence rather than the doctrine. No Prophet appears and no sermon is heard. Recorded as ambient on the strength of the setting's vocabulary alone.