Hello Everyone!!

First I want to thank everyone that has viewed and supported this story so far! We just hit 30,000 views the other day and I couldn't be more grateful for all of you giving me and my story a chance! But enough with that, now down to business. I want to announce this but also answer a few potential questions you might have about it.

This might be a surprising update since this story is completed, but I am happy to announce that there is one more chapter I have to share with you all! I haven't published it yet because I wrote this chapter to be a Christmas Special, and it wasn't Christmas yet when I published Chapter 42. This chapter is a bit unique since it is intended to take place before the end of the story, when everyone was still together. For those who may be reading this before reading the rest of the book, I won't spoil it, but it happens when both teams are still together to really instill the Christmas spirit.

For anyone worried that a Christmas chapter will be a waste of time to read as it probably won't have any action in it, I am happy to prove you wrong! I nearly guarantee you will not be disappointed by it in terms of action or feel-good content.

Another question you may have is why didn't I just post the chapter now instead of announcing it? There's a few reasons, but mainly because I intend to post this chapter on Christmas Eve in order to make it more appropriately timed. I figured those interested in reading it may be disappointed by possibly missing it as Christmas is a busy day for many people. I also wanted to announce it so you wouldn't just see the title and think it was written on a whim or lacked the quality of writing I've been providing until now because I supposedly prepared it last minute. I've been waiting all year to share this chapter and hope people will appreciate such. Lastly, I wanted to thank everyone and give people who read this when it first came out a chance to remember this story exists and that this will in-fact be the final chapter I publish for this book. It would be cruel of me to post it and get everyone's hopes up about it continuing if I didn't explain the situation first.

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I want to end with the note that this does not mean I won't post any more content relating to Spartan Steele's story. I actually do have a spin off that is incomplete of another character in progress, and plans to continue this story with a second book. The timeline for this is very uncertain as it somewhat depends on Microsoft and Halo continuing the main storyline in a way that I can incorporate. Currently Halo lore is somewhat broken in terms of order of events, and so I am still waiting for another game to explain what happened in the 6 month gap and what will happen after Master Chief returns. Non-Halo fans may be confused by the necessity of me sticking to the official timeline, but I would still like to keep this book mostly canon in the rare chance Microsoft decides to incorporate it. I put a lot of effort into doing so thus far and have no plans on abandoning those efforts now.

That was a little long but I hope this has explained most of the questions people may have about this book, future plans, and the Christmas Special I will post Christmas Eve! Thank you again for reading my work and I hope you will like the special as much as I did writing it!

Until next time,

-Spartan Steele out