Se déroulant au XXVIème siècle, cette série live action basée sur le jeu vidéo est centrée sur une guerre interstellaire entre des humains et une race extraterrestre connue sous le nom de Covenant, principalement à travers les yeux du Master Chief John-117, super-soldat amélioré, et de Cortana, son intelligence artificielle qui l'accompagne.

SilverHawks is an American animated television series developed by Rankin/Bass Productions and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures in 1986. The animation was provided by Japanese studio Pacific Animation Corporation. In total, 65 episodes were made. It was created as a space-bound equivalent of their previous series, ThunderCats.

As was the case with ThunderCats, there was also a SilverHawks comic book series published by then-Marvel Comics imprint Star Comics.

Currently, Warner Bros. owns the rights to the series.

In 2205 A.D., evil forces attack the past, threatening to alter the course of history. The judge calls on four swordsmen, with blades blessed by a Shinto priest, to protect the past and save the future. Loyal to their former master, the demon king Oda Nobunaga, they travel back to the Honnoji Temple where he was murdered. Can they stop evil in its tracks and preserve the past? Only time will tell.