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9/17/2010 5:02:17 AM
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Unexplainable errors in the Halo canon. (Spoilers)
Here is a compilation of errors that we, the universe elite, have created in light of Halo: Reach's launch. Note, that this is STILL a work in progress, and will be upgraded as new breaks are located.
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[b]Error:[/b] Reach was invaded on July 24th.
[b]Proof:[/b] All Halo media has always stated Reach fell in one day, and that day was August 30th.
[b]Sources:[/b]Ghosts of Oynx, First Strike, Fall of Reach.
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[b]Error:[/b] Alpha Company was wiped out completely during Operation: PROMETHEUS in 2537. Carter, Emile, and Jun should not be alive.
[b]Proof:[/b] Halo: Ghosts of Onyx goes into quite a bit of detail on Operation: PROMETHEUS. Spartan-III Alpha Company (comprised of 300 Spartans) were sent to K7-49 on a mission to destroy plasma reactors the Covenant were using to liquefy metallurgical components.
The operation was a success, but it is explicitly stated that it cost the lives of [i]every Spartan-III on the asteroid[/i] because they got cut off from their Calypso-class Exfiltration crafts and completely lost their unit cohesion.
Halo Reach chooses to ignore this. Carter (A-259), Emile (A-239), and Jun (A-266) are a part of Noble Team when they should have been dead years ago; Bungie have given us no explanation on [i]how[/i] they escaped at all.
[b]Sources: [/b]
- Ghosts of Onyx, page 83-87.
- Halo Reach
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[b]Error:[/b] ONI's actions as well as the Cole Protocol.
According to the Cole Protocol, if any Covenant Forces are detected, then all NAV bases and ships should purge their computers of information to protect Earth and the inner colonies.
[b]Proof:[/b]If Covenant are detected on Reach on July 23rd, how is it that a month later, there are still computers with information to Earth still active? If ONI hadn't taken more than a month, than Blue team wouldn't have been deployed to the Circumference, and James wouldn't have died, and Linda wouldn't have been in a coma. Infact, they would have been on Reach with Red team.
Sources:
Pg 289 of The Fall of Reach gives information on the purging of Info not complete.
[url]http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/United_Nations_Space_Command_Emerg ency_Priority_Order_098831A-1[/url]
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[b]Error:[/B] Carter, Emile, and Jun's age.
Carter is born in 2520. He was 11 years old when Alpha Company began their training. This puts him 5 years above the previously stated age, and it makes no sense at all. Why would they have an 11 year old on the same training regime as a 4 year old? It's too large of a difference, and it's an error that can be avoiding by simply changing his birthdate. This same thing goes for Emile and Jun, who are older than 6 years old at Alpha training.
[b]Proof:[/b] Page 69(I'm doing this by memory, I may be wrong.) of Ghosts of Oynx states that all of Alpha Company was comprised of 4, 5, and 6 year old children that he was going to have to forge into the best warriors humanity has ever seen.
[b]Source:[/b] Ghosts of Oynx, page 69.
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[b]Error:[/b] Lack of Orbital MAC's.
[b]Proof:[/b] Reach had a number of Orbital MAC's that were used in the battle of Reach. They were present on August 30th, so they should have been present during the mission "Long Night of Solace" in Halo: Reach. Had they been present, they Jorge wouldn't have died. Where were they?
[B]Source:[/b] Fall of Reach, First Strike, Halo: Reach
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[b]Error:[/b] Pillar of Autumn on Reach.
[b]Proof[/b] During the final level of Halo: Reach, the Pillar of Autumn is on the planet, and isn't in space, preparing for the Prophet mission. This COMPLETELY destroys much of Halo's canon. If the ship wasn't in space, than the Spartans of Red Team would have never jumped to the planet, meaning that the 4 spartans who died, would have still been alive. Which could have hanged the outcome of the battle. PLUS, the space op to destroy the Circumference's NAV data wouldn't have happened. So Chief, James, and Linda had no reason to NOT be part of Red team. So the chief wouldn't have been on the Autumn, so Halo: CE wouldn't have happened.
Why schedule a mission to capture a prophet, when there's a full scale invasion of Humanities second most important planet?
[b]Sources:[/b] Halo: Reach, Fall of Reach
[u]Special Thanks:[/u]
-ajw23207
-MOB74656
-xXFatal v1
-opog
-Kippa
If I've missed any errors, please, point them out. I'll add them to the OP, or try to explain them.
Also, if you have any explanation to these canon errors, please, explain how they fit into canon, and the sources.
[Edited on 09.16.2010 9:03 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DecepticonCobra Technically, Reach didn't fall in a single day. The UNSC fleet was, ground engagements continued after the 30th. In Halo: Reach, this is still the case. Nothing has changed to state otherwise.[/quote] Losing a battle doesn't mean everyone dying. It means losing. Control of the planet was lost, practically all military presence destroyed. All that was left was small skirmishes in areas where the planet wasn't entirely glassed. That's still losing in a day. [quote]A detail from Ghosts of Onyx has piqued my interest. 497 children are initially chosen to be Spartan-IIIs, but only 300 are chosen. I find it hard to believe ONI would allow these children to go back into public life and potentially blab about what happened to them. They also met the genetic parameters of the program. So we have 197 children left unaccounted for. Does this completely solve the problem? No. But it's still something worth noting. This sounds like we have a few things, a "main" unit of Spartan-IIIs and a "secret" unit of Spartan-IIIs. Maybe this secret batch was used for the Headhunters and teams like Noble. Again, not saying this is the answer.[/quote] The Spartan III's knew there were only 300 slots. Tom states this during training that only 300 of them will pass and become augmented super-soldiers so even if your theory is true these leftovers were never augmented. At least not as part of Kurt's Spartan III program. [quote]Key information about Earth at places like SWORD Base probably were purged, but key info about relevant to the war, and Halsey's research, were probably left intact for the battle. With the Circumference, it may have arrived during the battle to scout and do recon, took damage and headed to Gamma Station for repairs, Cortana intrudes and Doppler is unable to initiate the Cole Protocol.[/quote] That prowler had been erased from docking records by ONI. I doubt that it had just docked (in which case such an action would have been pointless). Secondly, it should have had quite some time to purge its information yet over the month for some odd reason no one knew it was there, even those on the darn station. Even if it had actually just docked and was doing whatever recon it should have been notified of the Covenant and purged its information immediately anyways. [quote]We just don't see them. Last I checked, the SMACs are in a formation, if this is the case, the Supercarrier wisely ignored them and remained out of their range. Even in the Fall of Reach, Covenant forces managed to land on the planet even when the SMACs were online. Seems like it would be easy to circumvent the SMACs.[/quote] I doubt that 700 ships would have concentrated their efforts on one location enough to let the SMAC's group up. Second, Covenant ships would not "remain out of range". The Covenant at this time consider humanity inferior and made rash judgements in combat. Stupid ones even. This is why the UNSC was able to destroy more than 2/3 of their fleet. The reason the forces landed, however, was becuase the poles remained unprotected. They slipped several smaller craft in (craft that the SMAC's would be able to hit, which is why Red Team went to the surface in the first place). [quote]The way I see the Pillar of Autumn essentially being in three places at once is like so. Operation: RED FLAG was put on hold for most of the battle, but initiated at the last minute. The Spartans, hinted to be already deployed at Reach in-game, meet and discuss the mission. Despite Reach being invaded, the UNSC believe sthey can push the Covenant back, probably with leftover confidence after doing so at Sigma Octanus. However, before the Autumn can jump the Fleet of Particular Justice arrives, I don't believe the fleet arriving after Long Night of Solace is the FOPJ, it is flooded with three Priority One hails, one from the MAC Generators, one from Halsey, and one from the AI at Gamma Station. RED FLAG is scrapped. Red Team is deployed to Reach, Chief, James, and Linda are deployed to Gamma Station, and the Autumn goes to Aszod. Now we wonder how it lands, but all you have to do is look at the surroundings. That docking area looks like it was built to handle a Halcyon-class cruiser. The boosters could've been a last-minute addition provided by some string-pulling by Halsey. Autumn takes off and picks up Chief. Initiate jump to Halo and done. The Autumn can land despite "not being rated for atmosphere", whatever that means, Cortana says so in Halo: Combat Evolved. Again, this is not my final thoughts on the matter, but in my head this all brings the conflict of Reach together, despite it if you wish, but I stand by it.[/quote] In the book, Operation RED FLAG was cancelled the moment that Reach was attacked. There is no reason to even TRY to underestimate a ship sneaking into Reach. Hell, what I really don't understand is how they got there and why they would sneak in anyway. The only reason the Covenant found Reach is because of a tracking device placed on a ship. So if the Covenant knew of the planet they would have immediately attacked in full force rather than losing the element of surprise for one single comm station.
