Silver Team leader John-117 (Pablo Schreiber), more commonly referred to as Master Chief, is having a hard time.
The AI Cortana was removed from his interface. While dealing with that loss, Cortana's creator Halsey is still removed from leading the Spartans program, and her replacement is seemingly doubtful of Silver Team's role in the field, especially for Master Chief himself. All the while, several human colonies have fallen to glassing — the colloquial term for when several Covenant cruisers burn a surface with superheated plasma bombardment — and the Covenant are clearly massing their forces for something. Something bigger than wiping out a handful of colonies. Something that could lead to the destruction of the human race.
