Read this yesterday... Great read... I understand so much more about things that are referred to in the game, things that have happened, things that will be explained more in later additions to the game and things that are currently going on. Bungie is playing the long game here... And I mean loooong game... They need to have multiple story lines for the future and reading it all in one place is nice to have. I mean halo had tons of outside source material to read too... I appreciate this. Like someone mentioned... It would be awesome to have access to these stories and histories in the speakers library... But non-the-less, I feel after reading this that I have a lot more clarity on things and am even more pumped for the rise of iron and D2