Halo: The Machine Breaks | Audiobook 

The Promethean Knight in Halo 5 is Dr. Tillson from Halo 4?? And also the Knight from Escalation AND the root cause for the Covenant and Prometheans to end up fighting??? And she is forced to suffer for eternity in that cell? Holy moly, this is a fate worse than death. It's a minor, but damn depressing revelation.

knight tilson was the running joke for a Halo friends video, so glad they made it canon

That ending revalation was unexpected... And peak.

The stories that interconnect with the games are amazing. There needs to be more like this and flipped around so you learn more about the story in the game but get more details in a book and vice versa. The feeling of the reveal on who this Promethean was was awesome.

So glad to have Promethean related content after all this time. Edit: This my new favorite Waypoint Chronicle, not only because I love Forerunners and this one focuses on a Promethean Knight; but because of the use of both visual and auditory assets that add to the atmosphere of the story, because of the character driven narrative, and because of the connection of different events along with the confirmation of the current status of a previously introduced character.

Seems like the Halo Friends finally got Knight Tilson in canon.

As a promethean lover, I’m so glad we’re getting stuff on them again. I’d love to have them back someday soon. Hell, at this rate I’d take a Promethean-themed Operation

What the Didact have done to Humans will not be forgotten. If the Librarian gifted Mankind with a precious gift, the Didact cursed thousands of Humans using the composer.

We finally got Knight Tilson

Wow that was awesome the ending gave me chills. Please try to implement story notes like this in future titles so we can experience this in game. This was awesome.

Ultra-rare Promethean acknowledgement. Bring them back!

So, Tillson was the Knight that was trapped on Genesis in Halo 5. She was just regaining her memories from her previous life, all in vain due to the fact that she was imprisoned again, but this time in a cell, while she herself, as an AI consciousness, is trapped within a Knight’s frame. That’s pretty tragic. Especially with the fact that each composed consciousness is brought back again and again in different Knight frames after their previous ones are destroyed. A true living Hell that’s far worse than being turned into a Flood combat form.

The Promethians deserve a comeback. Revamp the designs in halo infinite’s art style and polish their gameplay. Halo 5 improved them a lot on the knights but messed up the crawlers. They were so close to perfection, they just need one more shot

I always read these first and listen after. This was honestly the best read yet. I could imagine the comic panels as TDS-009 was on Oban and Atkis IV and then once it pivoted to the cell in Halo 5, I knew exactly where it was. This was great in a whole new way because it tied so many visual elements into the story itself! It also leaves interesting lore implications open. Song of Retribution took the basically Promethean repair bay… so where is it now!

Praise to the Hierarchs! We are getting more forerunner/Promethean lore 🙏🏻

Thats... thats a Knight?? i haven't seen one in yeaaaars

Possibly an unpopular opinion but I freaking loved the Prometheans! This audiobook was very cool! I’ve been very impressed with the Halo Waypoint short stories you guys’ have been putting out lately. Thanks so much, I appreciate what you do!

That thumbnail goes super hard!

Thank you for bringing us Promethean content. 🙏

Im verry glad halo keeps so much from its predecessors alien, even the audiobooks

0:21 _"Look at them, they come to this place when they know they are not pure. Tenno use the keys, but they are mere trespassers. Only I, Vor, know the true power of the Void. I was cut in half, destroyed, but through it's Janus Key, the Void called to me. It brought me here and here I was reborn. We cannot blame these creatures, they are being led by a false prophet, an impostor who knows not the secrets of the Void. Behold the Tenno, come to scavenge and desecrate this sacred realm. My brothers, did I not tell of this day? Did I not prophesize this moment? Now, I will stop them. Now I am changed, reborn through the energy of the Janus Key. Forever bound to the Void. Let it be known, if the Tenno want true salvation, they will lay down their arms, and wait for the baptism of my Janus key. It is time. I will teach these trespassers the redemptive power of my Janus key. They will learn it's simple truth. The Tenno are lost, and they will resist. But I, Vor, will cleanse this place of their impurity."_

Another great Halo Waypoint Chronicle! Hopefully the Prometheans make a return to the games! Definitely were a unique enemy that played differently than the Covenant / Banished! Even with the collapse / defeat of The Created in Halo Infinite, hopefully we'll find out what happened to them in the current or future storylines

Please make another anthology book with these

Am i the only one who would love for the Prometheans to return as an enemy?

Let me run the ones with a Knight again Halo, the Elites and Brutes don’t have the same bite

From Halo 4 in Ivanoff Station, after Jul M'dama's followers help Didact by retrieving the composer in the Mantle's Approach and activated to kill Dr. Tillson and her scientists where Master Chief passed out and she become TDS-009. Halo: Escalation # 16 where she fought M'dama's zealot elite to save Spartan Hoya from Fireteam Majestic after seeing the girl on Oban. Halo 5 Guardians, where she was sealed in Genesis where 031 Exuberant Witness, Spartan Locke, Edward Buck (Halo 3: ODST), Vale, and Tanaka encounters her, then the calmly crawlers, rageful soldier, elite warrior along with a sleepy grunt, unescaped grunts and a calm grunt sitting to the corner, and unescaped hunter with a bad temper tantrum with his ion cannon to break but failed and they didn't know who she is until regaining her memories back until she recall her rank. 😳🤯! When I play both games in my days, I didn't know it was her.

Please Bring the Prometheans Back, they were Fun and Challenging to fight

So they didn’t completely and utterly throw away the prometheans?

I wish they put this much effort into the writing of the games.

What a cool connection! Next time I play through Halo 5, it'll add a whole new depth to seeing that knight in the cage now...! Great short story!

thats megatron

Halo, always and forever

343 please let me play as a Promethean Soldier🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Fantastic little tale, and a very neat tie-in! I just wish Halo 5 was on PC so I could give it a playthrough

Whoever's been writing and voicing all these chronicles need a raise, all of them, this one maybe more then others, have been absolute bangers

Haunting, and beautiful. I love how many threads you have managed to tie together in a satisfying manner.

Bayverse Megatron

Right, first halo audio book hearing for me. Omw to Audible to download ALL OF THEM

This puts so much context to what it's like inside the knight, how they operate and see the world. It's honestly more of a curse to become aware at this point as you are forever trapped inside a metal cage, unable to scream for help no matter how many times you're killed. Poor Tilson, I never thought much about that knight in that cell, but now, I can't help but feel bad for her and makes the outward actions of that knight in that cell make far more sense and depressing. I honestly want the Prometheans to return, if not for this fact alone. Perhaps even have some knights on your side that have broken free and regained their original selves, looking for revenge, or freedom from this existence. Or even help those they have cared for in their previous life.

I want the return of the Flood AND Halo 4s Prometheans.

The Promethean’s are so underrated

This was incredible.

Bravo. Finished the audio book. One of my favorites by far alongside Saturn Devouring His Son. Just bravo. Excellent narration as always. I'm always down for videos like this.

I love this chronicles

Wish we had Promethean themed armor in halo infinite, UK like the didacts armor

Would have loved to see The Prometheans and Brutes go at it in Infinite!

I'm so happy we keep getting these even through Operations 🧡

Is there a possibility that we might get Promethean armor?

I absolutely loved how it connected to that moment in Halo 5

Give us Promethean cosmetics in infinite. Better yet, give us Prometheans and weapons in infinite.

If nothing else, BRING BACK THE KNIGHTS!!!

Prometheans 🎉🎉🎉🎉

That's it, I'm calling it now. Dr. Tillman is just the first to regain their humanity, the rest will, too. The Flood will come back in one of the next mainline titles and it will be Modern Humans, Forerunners(even if it's just their tech), Ancient Humans via the prometheans getting their minds back, Sangheili, San' Shayum, Created, Banished, Endless, Lekgolo, and even the lowly Unggoy, all together they will fight the flood. Rejecting the sole control of the Mantle and sharing it among the galaxy, that will pass Precursors test. The hint for this was the flood allowing themselves to lose only when humans and the other species worked together in Halo 3.

Wow, this is actually good!

I hope the devs add more maps like ardent prayer somewhere out in the city or somewhere out in the desert or jungle. That'll be awesome since we already have one in space. The champions update is a W.

The Promethian Knights were perfect, maybe smarter AIs. Crawlers should be more spider like. Soldier, should come in more variants. How can we be on Zeta Halo and not encounter any Promethians ?

Great story❤

That's Megatron from bayverse.

oh ok thanks halo

God can we please bring them back

This was amazing!! Thank you

Lets goooo!😊

*cue Chris Pratt park and rec smiling meme*

This bums me out cause 343 era halo lore does have some really cool stuff, but the execution was so poor. Now most 343 era stuff is sort of just dismissed. Like KILO 5 is awesome, and sets up Jul really well an then it goes nowhere. Or the idea of Jul's covenant using Forerunner tech like the Prometheans to fight and get revenge on humanity is cool. Plus the added info that these "new" Prometheans aren't perfect, and could be unstable just adds a bit more to it. 343 era halo kind of reminds me of the prequel trilogy in Star Wars, a good or interesting story/era told really poorly.

WOOOOOO KNIGHT YEAH WOO YEAHWOOYEA

For a second i thought that was bayverse megatron

Bring these topics to the games please!!, this is a story that deserved a little segment in a fame like halo 4 or 5 , the idea of how the promethean knights conserve some of the organic beings they used to be.

i need a new halo game like halo reach

Holy shit that reveal

When you find out who the knight was.😢😢

Call gold team. They were right about Knight Tilson.

...damn. wow.

TILSON NO

Okay, lets test your targeting first thing. Please look at the top light... Good. Now look at the bottom light...

Why can't we get games with great stories? Why do they have to come in audio forms or only books?

pls bring halo 5 to pc

BRING THEM BACK! THEY DESERVE MORE THAN TO BE SWEPT UNDER THE BANISHED RUG.

Bring the Forerunners back!!!

That was a little depressing

Órale!!! No empieces. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Ni modos lo tengo que traducir

That was good!

Is that a halo4 map i think i recognize it?

NieR: Promethean Just kidding lol

Hey halo how much does a good master chief cosplay cost

That's just Megatron

Megatron?

Well I thought it was megatron

If you bring back the knights use their original design that you guys threw away in Halo 4 that was fully modeled out before it was redesigned it looks more like traditional Sentinels but like humanoid robots and they could Compact and roll themselves around as additional Sentinel like forces and they have a place to play in gameplay that isn't overly frustrating if you design them to work properly with the given sandbox and their stories can be interesting like this audiobook is I really enjoyed this story I hope that Halo gets to have more spin-offs or additional stories in the near future that involve things like this.

No way

#wewantassisinationsback

Honestly I am to lazy to watch through the entire video I only watched about 7 mins but can someone tell me why the Covenant and the Prometheans ended up fighting?

I'm glad this story exists, it acknowledges something the games always should have, but I still can't see these short stories as anything more than lore clutter. There's too much one-off detail for a specific character, event, etc, with no greater storytelling purpose than adding even more detail where it just isn't needed. To use an example, there's a reason Halo 4 didn't give us backstory for Dr. Tillson; it just wasn't needed. You didn't need to know her life story in order to appreciate her role - and her incredible acting - in the game itself. The collateral damage of our hero trying to save the day, a part of deconstructing the Hero's Journey through the Master Chief. That's art, that's purpose. These short stories just read off like narrative technical manuals, no greater purpose or idea. Just details.

The thumbnail looks like Shin Sonic if he got all of the chaos emeralds

Once again they return to us but not in their past appearances..

Now just make the games R rated

Rebelión de prometeos? 😮

Jones Maria Garcia Brenda Moore Timothy

More games / less books

Hjahahahahahah ive never seen those small t-rex arms on a promethean before, i thought they had no biological parts at all.