They were nowhere near earth their are countless noumbers of halos in different locations.
Halo 3 ODST Rookie was the first one to survive a failed jump.
Halo CE is on the Halo and 2&3 are on Earth.
you dont survive you have to die
It goes: Halo Wars, halo reach, halo 1 , halo 2, halo odst then halo 3. But there's a fourth halo coming out soon that it not made by bungie. If you want to know how it all started read the first halo book; contact harvest. It's quite good and explains a lot. By the way, planet Harvest was the first to be raided with the covenant. Only because it's the furthest planet from Earth.
the plot of the first game was to destroy a super-weapon called HALO so that the covenant could not use it to destroy many planets including earth
The first Halo game, Halo: Combat Evolved or Halo: CE is about 600MB.
halo was first produced in 2001 was the first Halo Combat Evolved,
Halo: Combat Evolved was the first Halo game made. The new Halo Wars is a prequel of Halo 1.
What happens after the book Halo: Ghosts of Onyx has yet to be determined. The Halo novel that followed this one is called Contact Harvest. It is a prequel to the novels and tells of the first encounters between Human and Convenant forces and the beginning of the war. The Spartans from Onyx, I assume, are still alive because they are trapped in an Earth-like Dyson Sphere that may bear the neccesities to survive, such as food and water. Hopefully the story will be continued through another novel and finished.
Halo Wars is
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Play Halo: Combat Evolved