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11/12/2010 9:22:49 PM
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Halo Reach Did not Destroy the Canon
Anyone else agree?
There are quite a few time gaps in TFoR, plenty enough to have everything in Reach (the game happen). And anyone who says that the UNSC should have detected the Covies coming, well since I just finished reading the book I can where you're coming from, but you have to remember that the only two times it was mentioned they detected anything they mistook the Covenant battle group for an asteroid or small planetoid at first, so the Super Carrier and Corvette in Reach could have easily gotten there without having the sensor stations detecting them.
Now there's still the problem of the ships slipping past the outer defenses, but that's still doable, and it's entirely possible that they had limited stealth technology.
A lot of the "problems" are also fixed in Halsey's Journal, haven't got to read that yet, but I plan to borrow it from my friend who got the Legendary Edition of the game.
Anyway, this is a place for intelligent discussion, so feel free to share your ideas about the "inconsistencies" created by Reach, or just discuss the rest of the cannon, that's fine too.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AlphaZero X [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] GrnDragn It's scarier if a planet falls in a day! It shows that the Covenant are something to be feared. Not incompetent dolts.[/quote] It worked when there was no real backstory. How fearsome are the Covenant? They destroyed the planet in day. They must be mean. But this is the same Covenant that took 3 years to get from Harvest to Madrigal, and the same Covenant that, almost ridiculously, has not managed to find ONE single piece of Nav Data in all the Human colonies they've destroyed. Maintaining the Cole Protocol for 27 years was a stretch for me....it's hard to believe, but I'll go with it. They've never really gone into how long it takes the Covies to glass a planet, we've only seen glimpses and aftermaths. Jericho VII, even Reach in FOR, the actual Fall isn't very detailed, just the Spartan II's actions....there's plenty of room for embellishment.[/quote] Exactly, you've got a good head up there, man, or woman, whichever you may be, there was very little detail about the Battle of Reach in TFoR, and there is plenty room for more additions, especially now that the whole affair is close to a month in length, rather than a day, which doesn't make sense anyway. Two weeks against the full Covenant might on Humanities second "homeworld" makes ever so much more sense than a couple hours, this is Reach we're talking about, just as valuable as Earth. And I don't think Reach was fully glassed anyway, I doubt any whole planet was, only the areas with the largest concentration of humans and where the biggest battles were fought.
