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A ''[[Halo]]'' machinima series released during 2005, the Codex was created by Edgeworks Entertainment, headed by Alexander Winn and Ryan Luther. Consisting of twenty episodes, it focuses on the Covenant invasion of a human planet named Ariaos II in order to recover a Forerunner artifact called the Codex. The human resistance is lead by two teams of Spartan II supersoldiers, Red Team and Blue Team. Notable characters on that side include Jack Foster, a wild and optimistic soldier, Candice McKenzie, a more reserved and precise soldier who has plenty of [[UST]] with Jack, and the leader of the Spartans, [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|the Chief]]. Notable Covenant characters include the Praetor, the leader of all the Covenant military forces on Ariaos II, Anda Sofadee, female leader of the Special Forces, and the Cleric, the voice of the religious hierarchy of the Covenant. The Cleric does not particularly get along with the other two.

This series stands out among its peers for being extremely well written, as well as being set as close to Halo canon as possible and focusing more on action and drama, forgoing the humor that most Halo machinimas shoot for. It won six categories of the 2005 Rockets on Prisoner awards, and has a large international fan base. Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, even [https://web.archive.org/web/20160416035827/http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/09/friday_fanboy_t_1.html blogged] about it.

Can be found [http://www.edgeworksent.com/tc/?page=videos here], [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20101009233233/http://machinima.com/series/view&id=45%26id%3D45 here], and on iTunes in podcast form. Read about it on [[The Other Wiki]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Codex:The Codex#cite_notecite note-Anderson-0 |here]]. Also spawned a prequel series, called ''The Heretic''. A sequel to it was planned called ''The Reclaimer'', but Edgeworks decided against making it due to Microsoft's Content Usage Terms.

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The Edgeworks Entertainment web-site contains a lot of info on the personal history of all characters. This includes [[All There in Thethe Script|names for many unnamed characters]], training and areas of expertise, and general background information.

* [[All There in Thethe Script]]: The official web-site gives the names of many characters who are not named in the series themselves.

* [[Doing It for Thethe Art]]: The entire Codex series was conceived and completed before any of its production crew had completed college and was produced only on personal computer equipment and X-Box consoles. Copyright laws meant that Edgeworks Entertainment could make no profits off the sale of the videos themselves, and instead kept the site active and funded through "sponsorships." All videos are available for download regardless of whether or not you have sponsored.

* [[Single -Stroke Battle]]: When Green 2 and the Captain of the Seraphim square off the Spartan begins to unload his shotgun at the Elite, supplemented by a grenade, while the Captain slowly walks forward and kills him with a single stroke of his energy sword.

* [[V -Formation Team Shot]]: The Evil version. The Seraphim just love posing in a line with either the Cleric or their Captain before them.

* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]]: The Cleric, being a cleric of the Covenant, is revered by all the soldiers of the Covenant. When the Preator fears the Cleric will try to kill the Foreman he has members of the Special Operations Elites covertly guard the engineer, but being constantly shadowed by combat soldiers leads the Foreman to fear that the Praetor is trying to kill him [[Too Dumb to Live|and he runs to the Cleric for help]].

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Green 2 stays behind to buy time for the other Spartans to escape...at least, [[Single -Stroke Battle|until the Captain of the Seraphim shows up]].