[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Jump Into Hell First off, a trilogy can't be a book. Secondly, did you even read The Thursday War or any books from "The Trashlands Trilogy"? Throughout Glasslands, the narrative follows not only Kilo-Five but also Jul 'Mdama and his experiences with the Servants of the Abiding Truth. Thursday War has even more of this, with Raia and Jul's struggles being shown even more clearly. The only one-sided part about the trilogy is how the peaceful humans' viewpoints are not shown clearly in favour of ONI's "kill all the aliens" stance. Which is frankly a minor issue since ONI is the one that holds the power to wreck the weakened Sanghelios - espionage to destroy the Sangheili is a cheaper and safer alternative to having a peace treaty and expecting a previously hostile alien race to keep their side of the deal.[/quote] That's actually what a trilogy technically is, all one story, the same with two-part episodes in a tv series. In any case, "Glasslands", "Glasslands Trilogy" mean the same thing, doesn't matter which one is used, they're both the same story. You may have missed my point, I wasn't talking about "Elite point of view" and "human point of view" what I was referring to were the opposites of what Traviss' soapbox mouth-pieces think. Such as the bull-blam!- contained in the smear-campaign against Halsey, no other point view is presented or acknowledged on the issue except "Halsey is the devil and the vile spawn of Satan", which is not the way to a deep or well developed story, what it leads to is a one-dimensional tale and flat characters populating a flat world. The same with the Elites, every single one is painted with the same brush except for the Arbiter, IE, "we hate humans and want them all dead, hurpa derpa, peace only good until we get kill moar hummies!!!11!11!". That is the only view treated as being held by the Elites, even those who were supporting the Arbiter, such as Levu. They all want to continue genocidal war against humanity, the only differences is...[i]when[/i]. You have those like Jul who want it here and now, and then Levu and Raia, who want to wait, but still want to kill humanity off as much as Jul does. You even get Phillips broad and black and white statement about every single Elite hating humans as well. In Trashlands, the actual canon Bungie laid out from Halo 2 onward for the Elites when it comes to their opinions on humans and relations between the two groups is thrown out and completely ignored. ONI does not hold any power, they are subservient to the UNSC and under its direct command...in canon at least (which Glasslands Trilogy is not by any stretch of the imagination, not even close). They are not a law unto themselves and able to do whatever they want to whenever they want with no consequences, they're not Cerberus, despite what Maggot Parangosky might think otherwise. Even derpy, retarded Cerberus in Mass Effect 3 is smarter than ONI is in Karen Travissty's works. What the Office of Naval Idiocy/Incompetence is doing is not safer by any means, all it takes is one Elite, whether pro-human or a racist like Jul, to find out what they're doing for another war to start up. One the Elites would win effortlessly, if the UNSC tried fighting the Elites, they would fail miserably and it would be a complete curbstomp. Parangosky's plans are not the smart or safe thing to do at all. And the majority of the Elites are human sympathizers, or humans aren't considered that big a deal one way or the other, neither of which wants further war with humanity and stopped fighting them as soon as they found out everything the Prophets had ever said was a completely lie and the very grounds for the fight were groundless. And regardless of opinions on humans and humanity, [i]all[/i] of the Elites follow the guidance and leadership of the Arbiter, he is the de-facto leader of the Sangheili and all of their territories.