So, got the second moon mission done. The story continues to suck. Just a heads up.
If I seem bitter, it's because I kind of am. I managed to fool myself into thinking that there had to be something else to this, but no, it's really just that awful. Halo might not have had the deepest, most revolutionary storytelling, but it was orders of magnitude better than this.
And before I hear anything about how "it's a social game, you can't expect it to be story-heavy," I'm not. It's literally worse than most MMOs I've played.