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] privet caboose [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] OrderedComa [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] tabby1234 It's surprising to see just how many errors have been made to what extent...these are silly errors that could have been easily not made...[/quote] The thing is more than half of what the OP has listed have all ready been resolved by Bungie, and thus are no longer, or the solutions are something ridiculously obvious and easy to see.[/quote] No, Bungie hasn't explained ANY of these errors. [/quote] Um yes they have, at [i]least[/i] half of the errors in your OP have had some sort of solution provided, or is something that just doesn't need an official solution because it is something the fans can figure out for themselves and/or doesn't affect the story in absolutely any way whatsoever. Or it's your good old fashioned ret-con and thus doesn't need an explanation and only conflicts if one refuses to acknowledge that an aspect of a story has been ret-conned. Error #1: Reach was invaded on July 24th. I'd probably chock this one up to ret-con, though it is something one can find their own explanation for if they're still bothered. Error #2: Alpha Company was wiped out completely during Operation: PROMETHEUS in 2537. Carter, Emile, and Jun should not be alive. This one is explained [url=http://www.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24040]right here[/url]. Error #3: ONI's actions as well as the Cole Protocol. I am willing to give you this one. Though there are still quite a few plausible explanations that one can come up with to explain the [i]Circumference[/i]'s NAV Data requiring being purged. Error #4: Carter, Emile, and Jun's age. This doesn't even need explaining and has absolutely no affect on the story whatsoever. And it isn't even an error anyway, we know ages don't exactly correlate to how old the person actually is in Halo because of cryo sleep. Error #5: Lack of Orbital MAC's. Doesn't need an explanation. And besides which, planets are huge places, something as small (in comparison) as a SMAC station is not going to be seen unless you're close to it, which the LNoS was not. And the UNSC is not going to throw its most powerful defense stations carelessly at a colossal ship that would eat them for breakfast with absolutely no effort at all. And the game made it abundantly clear that the SMACs and all the rest of the ODPs were still there. In fact the day before Operation UPPERCUT Dot mentions that their orbital defenses are under attack, probably both via the generator complex and physically attacking the SMAC cluster itself. Since we don't know how that played out it is entirely possible that they may have momentarily been offlined and thus could not be used until they could be repaired. Error #6: Pillar of Autumn on Reach. The only way people can even argue this as an error is with the "not rated for atmosphere" argument, which is not really an effective argument.