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The UNSC is the least interesting part of Halo. The Covenant, Flood, Forerunners, and Precursors are all much more interesting and unquiet, both visually, thematically, and narratively.

In particular I think Covenant aeshetics are really engaging (iridescent/pearlescent armor, vehicles, and weapons with smooth, sleek shapes inspired by things like deep-sea marine life and insect exoskeletons plus designer cars, see pic, tho even this I think is one of the less interesting examples) and in terms of themes/narratives, the Forerunner book triology is unironically one of the most interesting and absolutely wild/novel stuff i've ever read.

The final book in particular is like insane cosmic horror meets biblical/mythological epic but is far future (well, far past) sci-fi at the same time. It's wild, and I highly suggest the triology to people even if they don't give a shit about Halo (it';s so far removed from anything else in the series temporally that you don't need to know anything about the series) if you want a sci-fi thing that really delivers on having otherworldly and legitimately novel technologies and concepts and really executes on having unfathomable sense of scale in both space and time.