[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] RKOSNAKE [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Old Salty27 After player Reach for the first time I tried piecing together the events of the games and books to see if they'd fit, but there were too many inconsistencies and wild leaps in logic. Even when 343 tried clearing things up with the data drops a few months back they just made things worse; ONI luring the Covenant to Reach and allowing half a planet to come under attack to capture a Covy flagship, all the while trying to prevent the other half of the planet and most of Reach's fleet from finding out. What the hell was the point of Red Flag then?! Red flag was set up to PREVENT something like that from happening to Reach and Earth. 343 turned ONI into suicidally retarded morons. I know some would argue they were trying to clean up Bungie's mess, but the cynical part of me thinks they were elated at the prospect of releasing re-edited version of the FoR to add this new stuff in and raking in money from the book sales. [/quote] Red Flag was all about capturing a Covenant ship, even in TFoR it was the same, it was not meant to prevent something like what happened at Reach to happen, so I don't know where you're getting that info from. Besides, it makes more sense to have the Covenant actually scouting the planet beforehand than just have them jump into the system and know every single important location at Reach at that instant.[/quote] He is right though in 343 has turned ONI into a Cerberus faction of stupid evil.