Art and entertainment

This page covers various pieces of art and entertainment, including books, music, games, films, series, and various pop culture miscellanea.

Films and series
By the 26th century, long-running multimedia franchises are the norm. With ubiquitous streaming services, the line between films and TV series has become blurred, with most long-running shows simply being called "serials".


 * Age of Aquarius — a classic "spiritual science fiction" film serial drawing from 23rd-century New Age revivalism. Later noted for its prominent use of ring-shaped space habitats remarkably similar to the Halo rings.
 * Areomancer — an originally-Martian Solar Fantasy film and media franchise.
 * Callisto: Hunt for the Truth — a low-budget film noted for its use as an Insurrectionist propaganda device.
 * Forlorn Hope — a long-running, war-era series about the UNSC Navy successfully capturing a Covenant 'Star Cruiser'. In the third and fourth seasons, the Forlorn Hope set out to establish contact with other alien races to form an alliance against the Covenant. The ship was rebuffed again and again, as alien civilizations were either indifferent, afraid, or too busy with their own struggles to help Humanity.
 * Genesis: Space — an early-25th century film and game franchise featuring a hopeful and idealistic future vision of humanity living in harmony in a galactic community compose of various alien species.
 * Hard Vacuum — a historical drama centered on the Interplanetary Wars.
 * Into the Howling Dark — a docu-drama miniseries focusing on the Human-Covenant War's final mission at the Ark, featuring a famous interview with the then-retired Lord Hood.
 * The Light Barrier — a popular dramatization of the events that led up to the creation of the Shaw-Fujikawa translight drive, noted for its focus on the interpersonal dynamic between doctors Tobias Shaw and Wallace Fujikawa.
 * Space Pioneers — a science-fiction film series created in the first half of the 24th century and one of the most noted early works to incorporate the then-recently-discovered out-of-place biota phenomenon. Notably, Space Pioneers features the main cast, composed of a crew of "slippers", coming across several "lost colonies" of humans and other hominids, who have developed divergent civilizations on alien worlds.
 * Spartan Strike — a post-war young adult series noted for its colorful depictions of Spartans, a continuity of propagandistic war-era portrayals of the supersoldiers in media.
 * Starshield — a seven-part chronicle of the exploits of the eponymous space hero, Starshield is now widely considered quaint and/or corny, though some have noted the remarkable similarity between the Starshield's iconic "starsuit" and the later MJOLNIR PAA.
 * That Girl from Titan — a romantic comedy lampooning the many stereotypes around Sol's colony populations.
 * Translight Tales — a mythologized retelling of the golden period of slipspace expeditions in the 25th century.

Music

 * Haah 'n' Waaw — an emergent musical genre originally synthesized from the noise of Human-Covenant War-era transmissions warped beyond recognition, of which the name is a loose onomatopoeia.
 * Icecore — a genre of heavy electronic music originating from Europa and having since become a staple of the Jovian Moons' underground dance scene.