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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 [http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/09/friday_fanboy_t_1.html blogged] about it.

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], [https://web.archive.org/web/20101009233233/http://machinima.com/series/view%26id%3D45 here], and on iTunes in podcast form. Read about it on [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:The Codex#cite 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.