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The Codex is a 20-episode online machinima series made by Edgeworks Entertainment and set in Bungie Studios' Halo video game universe. Along with its sister series, The Heretic
, it is part of the greater Codex Series
. Written and directed by Alexander Winn and produced by Alexander Winn and Ryan Luther, the series relates the story of a Covenant invasion of a Human world in order to recover a Forerunner artifact, and the story of the Humans resistance of that invasion. Since its initial release on February 9 2005, The Codex has earned a large international fan base. In his September 29 2005 Long Tail blog entry, Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, described The Codex as the best machinima he had ever seen and an excellent example of his Long Tail theory. The Codex is the highest trafficked peer-produced Halo machinima series in existence, ranking second only to the professionally produced machinima series Red vs Blue
.

On August 13 2005, the 20th episode of The Codex was released, bringing the series to a conclusion. The team that assembled the series set the limit at 20 because they wanted to end the series before leaving for college. However, even though this seems like a permanent conclusion the team was also careful to make the ending a cliffhanger so that, if they wanted to continue the series, they would have that option.

On February 9 2006, it was announced that a prequel to The Codex, entitled The Heretic, was in the planning stages and was to debut in the upcoming summer.

Overview

Unlike most Halo machinima series, such as Red vs Blue, The Codex focuses on action and drama, not comedy. Also, The Codex is set in the Halo universe, with many of the same situations as in Halo canon, rather than a completely new world. Episodes were released every Friday, and the Characters and Story pages were updated with the new information from each week's episode, as well.

Story and characters

The story focuses on two sides: the Spartan soldiers and the Covenant Elite army. The Spartan side's most notable characters are Jack Foster, an optimistic wild soldier; Candice McKenzie, a direct commander who has a love-hate relationship with Jack; and The Chief, the commander of the Spartans. The Covenant side's most notable characters are the Praetor, the supreme military leader of the army; Anda Sofadee, leader of the stealth operatives; and the Cleric, who speaks for the religious hierarchy (who are the Holy Prophets from Halo 2).

The Spartans in the series are forced to fight the Covenant with guerrilla tactics. The Elites however are forced with planning the attacks against the Spartans, and preventing the relegious hierarchy (the Cleric) from seizing power. Both sides in the end are fighting for control of the Codex, which has the ability to activate the Halo megastructures all over the galaxy and thereby destroy all life.

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