[quote]the Skirmisher called Tek informs Shipmaster 'Gajat[/quote]
HOLD UP.
The Skirmisher race went extinct on Reach, or was that retconned? Or am I missing something.
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They didn't go extinct. Entire battalions of Skirmishers were deployed on Reach. However, due to the extreme losses sustained, the Skirmisher Corps was retired from the Covenant's military after Reach.
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There was mentioning of other Skirmishers before in other books. You'll have to forgive me in that I haven't read the books in a long while so I can't remember specifics, but they have come up before once or twice.
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Is it in the reprints? I've read all of the older books except The Cole Protocol and Contact Harvest. I'm pretty positive the Skirmishers were never mentioned in the other books. Also I haven't read the The Thursday War so I'm not sure.
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Edited by A Cheese Potato: 1/8/2014 12:45:39 AMLike I said I can't remember, but I am pretty sure it's in the new Kilo Five trilogy so The Thursday War or Glasslands
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There's a Skirmisher in Thursday War.
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But as I said before, they all went extinct on Reach right? Or was that something they changed along with data drops, etc?
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They never went extinct. The Skirmisher Corps was just disbanded. Show me the source where it says they went extinct.
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I can't give you a source, I'm just pretty sure I remember seeing somewhere(whether a video or someone asking) that Bungie stated the Skirmishers weren't canonically in any Halos after Reach because the whole race went extinct on Reach.
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Bungie always bullshits about fiction so that non EU readers can understand it properly. I once heard one of them saying the SMG is still in production during reach hence why it isn't in the game.
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Just checked sources listed on Halopedia regarding the Skirmishers. The interviews you're talking about state that the Skirmishers saw extensive causalities during Reach with their reserves utterly exhausted leading to their race being nearly wiped out. So some did survive, but not very many. Very appropriate given that Tek is the second Skirmisher ever to have been confirmed to survive the end of the war.
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Gotcha, I was just confused. Thanks mate.
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That's because Bungie just likes retconning shit into Reach that was never there.