[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wolverfrog [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cmdr DaeFaron [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wolverfrog The ONI Datadrops mean that [i]Reach[/i] more or less fits in perfectly with [i]The Fall of Reach.[/i] It's all retroactive excuses, but done incredibly well.[/quote] Also turns Parangosky into basically a traitor without a lick of intelligence... but oh well... (By that, I mean the fact she willingly tossed Reach to the Covenant just to get a ship to capture.[/quote] Halsey was in on it too. It was sound strategy and would have worked if it hadn't been for the unwillingness of the Autumn's crew to follow orders and stay out of the battle. Though, if they'd kidnapped Regret, I highly doubt Truth would have traded him back for a piece of chewing gum.[/quote] Halsey was in on the "Capture Covie ship, then kidnap a prophet" Not the "We will DAMN Reach and everybody on the planet to do that." [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] The BS Police [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] SubtleSpartan I don't get why everyone loves the FOR story so much. I thought that the bits during the spartan training were really good but the actual invasion of reach was poorly thought out. That the best defended UNSC world fell in a single day, whereas harvest was fought over for more than 5 years, is ridiculous. Also the covenant somehow knew the location of every military base and orbital platform power plant and using only a few thousand phantoms managed to destroy them all, despite supposedly all the spartan IIs being on the planet to defend them. Someone please explain the logic behind that.[/quote]Someone please explain the logic of the UNSC having all of their remaining nukes out of Reach's system and not recalling them ahead of time when they declared Winter Contingency? Let alone how did a freaking super carrier even get to Reach without the UNSC detecting it exiting slipspace when the UNSC has post's set up all over the system to monitor slipspace travel? [/quote] A: Who says Carter frakking knows the situation of the fleet, being on the ground? Remember, the datapads had ONI basically funnel the ENTIRE fleet(pretty much) to the other side of the planet and kept in the dark about what was going on. The ground forces engaged there likewise could be in the dark about what's going on exactly in orbit. B: Again, ONI kept things in the dark. To second part, take it up with 343. They are the ones who said the Supercarrier had a cloaking device of some sort which allowed it to arrive and deploy forces without being detected. Also ties into the "ONI -blam!- had people clueless about what was going on."