How would YOU fix the Halo franchise?
>Fire the current big wigs who are running the franchise. They have no idea what they're doing and wasted an entire generation working on an open world game
>Convince Microsoft that Masterchief has to be the face of the company

Changes needed story wise
>No more attempts to pass the torch, the main games stay with MC and that's final
>Finish the story of the Xalanyns in a book. Go into how they came to grips with the current state of the milky way, how they're interacting with humanity and getting back on their footing
>Retire the weapon. Cortana's death was forced and fell flat and should be reversed. She store a copy of herself on the Domain or was healed by the Librarian or some shit. Have MC send the weapon to pilot a UNSC ship or something
>Throttle down the importance of the Banished. A post-Covenant pirate confederation is ok as a sidestory faction but shouldn't be seen as the big enemy faction

>Instead, the new big enemy faction is ancient humanity
>A large population of humans fled to the andromeda galaxy during the human forerunner war and escaped before their brethren were brought to the stone age and the rings fired
>The ancients have realized Halsey's vision of human evolution; they changed their genome to the point where newborn ancients grow to become superior to Spartans without any cybernetic or genetic enhancements
>Ancients have since lost the drive to carry the mantle of responsibility. Their culture is militaristic and their technology is far superior to both ex-covenant species or the UNSCs
>After the firing of instillation 08, scouts for ancient humanity return to the milkway to investigate and eventually come into contact with the UNSC
>Encounter echoes the first encounter between Humanity and the Covenant. Ancients are disgusted at the evolutionary state of their cousins and see them as primitive and to be conquered or erased.
>Ancients see non-humans as scum too and set out to enslave them
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