[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] hotshot revan II [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Sora Ai I want to weigh in on the conversation. I'll first like to state that I haven't read the books, so please bare with me as what I have to say is simple and I hope can come across as understandable. Retailing of the events on Reach should have been expected to be retconned because rarely does any form of media that retails a story from the original tend to do every thing in the exact same fashion. It's also worth noting that the book, Halo: Fall of Reach, was written by some one who was never part of Bungie or had anything to do with any of the story writing, telling and production in the games (which to me makes the book nothing more than official fanfiction commissioned and authorized by Bungie.) It really doesn't help to make sense of it all or get upset. It's a different way to tell the story, it's something to deal with.[/quote] Eric Nylund got the halo story bible,and he is the one who wrote story of the UNSC,rebels,spartans,...all bungie did is writing the story plot of the halo trilogy. And besides in that logic we can call bungie's work fanficxtion as well because microsoft own Halo and not Bungie. 343 industries has the story bible now,they say what canon is or not and bungie completely ignored them wrote their own stupid story. I think it's bad what bungie did Books are canon,if the books were truly fanfiction then why does bungie uses the spartan III program,as they appeared the ghosts of onyx a books from eric nylund. Seems like bungie uses elements from halo books and opther things and yet they say -blam!- you to it. I'm happy that they won't touch Halo anymore at least 343 industries respects the Halo EU. [/quote] Microsoft own Halo, that is true, but Bungie, to my understanding of their contract, as long as Microsoft owned Bungie, Bungie had all the creative control over Halo, and now that Bungie is independent again, Microsoft created 343 to be the creative control of Halo. And while Reach was being made the change of authority had not completely happened, 343 existed, yes, but they and Bungie were preparing for 343 to take over and fill their shoes as the Halo authority. 343 got the Halo Bible once Reach was completed, not before, Bungie is officially done with Halo now, all they can do is post support updates and such for Reach, they no longer have story control. And Bungie are the ones who created the Halo Story Bible, anything the authors write comes from within there, they get the one little piece(s) that have to do with their story and that's it. So Bungie did create the SIIIs, it's just Nylund who fleshed them out.