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You can't imagine how exciting this is! To have a record of all of our lost time!

Welcome to the Bungie Halopedia! A wiki for the Halo Franchise centered around the Bungie-era. The franchise is currently headed by the studio 343 Industries. It has been over a decade since Bungie's purview, and Halo has gone through many changes regarding it's lore and identity. Many things intended by Bungie has been recontextualized or lost. This wiki will hopefully be a tool in educating what the Halo franchise historically was before the modern era.

This wiki is under heavy construction! The current goal is laying down the foundations for the wiki to build on.

What is the Bungie-era?
The Bungie-era is the period of time when Halo was under the control and influence of Bungie, the franchise's creators. The term does not refer to media exclusively having contributions of Bungie employees, but a general group of Halo media during the time of Bungie stewardship. Bungie Halopedia does not have a complete cut-off date for when this time is said to have ended.

Officially, the last piece of media Bungie created for the Halo franchise was the Noble Map Pack DLC for Halo: Reach, released on November 30th, 2010.

Bungie's general involvement with the Halo franchise could be said to have ended on March 31st, 2012, after Bungie.net officially stopped tracking live Halo data, and such functionality was transferred to websites maintained by 343 industries.

The absolute final contribution Bungie had to Halo as a whole was Halo PC/CE patch 1.0.10, released on May 15th, 2014. Primarily released to update the server browser functionality to use Bungie's own master server, after the Gamespy master server the game previously used shut down.

Canon Policy
One if the most pertinent reasons for the creation of Bungie Halopedia is allow for concepts in the Halo universe to be described how they were under Bungie.

Bungie's canon policy was once described by Joseph Staten on November 5th, 2007, in response to a fan on halo.bungie.org

"Everything that Bungie has ever approved is canonical. But even then, certain things trump others. In order of canonical influence:

- The games rank first

- Published materials (books, comics, soundtrack liner notes etc.) rank second

- Marketing and PR materials third

And there's one codicil: the more recent items trump the older ones. So, for example, if some aspect of Halo 3's fiction contradicted Halo 2's, Halo 3's would be the gold standard."

This policy will be Bungie Halopedia's canon policy as whole, but will not be completely exclusive to every single case-by-case basis.