[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] OrderedComa [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] StealthSlasher2 What did matter was the battle on the ground and stopping Truth from getting to the very thing that's preventing the Covenant from outright glassing Earth. So it would be understandable for someone to be rather irked that a significant ground asset such as a Spartan, let alone several, would be redeployed away from Earth under false pretenses. The UNSC was lucky as hell to have had the Master Chief return to assist in ground ops when he did.[/quote] How would anyone know if they're false pretenses or not? Kurt is dead, and Halsey is the only one who knows her reasoning for going to Onyx in the first place. And even so, Parangosky has no right at all to act as she did because the order for sending the Spartans to Onyx was given by someone higher up in the chain of command. Hood is the defacto commander in chief of the UNSC by this point and he authorized sending Blue Team to Onyx himself, Parangosky has no room to decide anything on the matter, and in the end it all paid off anyway. Infinity would be nowhere near what it is currently without the Onyx Shield World having been uncovered. And not to mention that were it not for Halsey none of the people on Onyx would have survived at all.[/quote] Irked [i]afterwards[/i] And as far as Hood was concerned at the time they were legitimate reasons. The charges were stuck on afterwards, and even someone like Hood wouldn't be able to ignore the fact that Halsey tricked him into sending Spartans away so that she could hide them away from the war. We're already seeing some of that manifest in Spartan Ops with Lasky becoming suspicious of Halsey's actions. Finding out that Onyx's interior was a cash cow was lucky for the UNSC but doesn't change the fact that Halsey went there with the intention to hide with her Spartans, not find an ace for the UNSC. Seeing how Parangosky is characterized as having some sort of idea as to how Halsey works to rationalize things as well for a perchance for connecting the dots to see gaps in reasoning, it's not hard to believe that she would call bs on any excuse Halsey brought up during her interrogation as to why she headed there and eventually zero in on that fact of the matter. When someone with just [i]enough power[/i] has the ability to prosecute something, and that thing happens to be true it's not something that's going to be ignored by the rest just because of all the good deeds that came before. That sort of thing happens [i]all the time[/i] in today's society, look no further than the Petreus scandal going on among many other events in the past. Whether people forgive and forget is another topic, but then and there when the revelation is made the negative will be harped on more than anything. It's simple human nature to weigh in the bad traits past or present over whatever good thus far. Halsey is somewhat lucky in the sense that it is still an internal conflict within the military with the public at large still unaware thus far. But when the word gets out the logical step would not be to have everyone in public support Halsey because her Spartans saved the day. Opinion would be diverse.