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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. [quote][/quote] [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. [quote][/quote] [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 [quote][/quote] [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] [quote][/quote] [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. [quote][/quote] [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 [quote][/quote] [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] Astartes Marine Is it my fault the game needs an external source to patch up it's own shortcomings?[/quote] So? You think that every single detail of every single event and backstory should be explained all in one game? Sorry, but that's not really possible, you can't have every single detail of every single story given to you all of the time in just one source of media or even sometimes not at all. And to be quite honest, while the Data Drops are a nice and good thing to have, they're not really needed at all. The game exists just fine on its own without them. [quote]We also know that this supercarrier and the magical cloak that can cover a 95,000 foot long starship are never seen in the series again. Neither are Corvettes for that matter.[/quote] Do we? We haven't seen every single battle in the war or every single event of every single battle, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. And besides which, the Covenant knew where Reach was, the whole point was slipping the makings of an army in with stealth, hence all of the stealth technology we saw in Reach. In contrast, every other battle has been, for the most part, through the Covenant stumbling blindly onto a planet, not much you can do in way of stealth in terms of invading a whole planet when you've already blown your entrance and spoiled the element of surprise. So what I'm saying is we didn't see it applied in any of the battles we've seen (as far as we know at least) because the Covenant had the element of surprise spoiled and massive, widespread army hiding canopies and/or massive stealthed ships are not exactly as useful if it's just a straight up battle. [quote]My bit about the Corvette totally went over your head didn't it? Covie ships at that time came out of slipspace away from planets. The only time they've jumped in-atmosphere was Regret's carrier and that was due to the information about Cortana's adjustments to Covenant slipspace engines aboard the Ascendant Justice that were leaked by the AJ's onboard AI construct before Cortana "killed" it. (First Strike) Fortunately it was not able to leak her improvements to their plasma weaponry. Anyways, as a ship like that would have exited away from the planet it would have, as shown in "The Fall of Reach", been picked up by the many sensor and detection stations in that star system (Fall of Reach). Reach was not blind, as humanity's last major UNSC stronghold they invested just about everything they had in her defense. A ship coming out of slipspace, just the event of exiting slipspace would give off a readable and detectable burst of energy/radiation (Fall of Reach), and it would have been seen. Even Halo 2, when those Covie ships exited slipspace near Earth, they were immediately identified and targeted as hostile. How were they able to evade Reach which at that time had an equal or even greater amount of defenses? Like we saw at the end of Sword Base, one MAC round tore through it and took it out of commission so we know it could easily be taken out, but why wasn't it seen?[/quote] From everything we know about the Corvettes it doesn't look like they have shielding, and if they don't have that I would also guess that they can't get into Slipspace on their own. Though in any case I think it's fairly obvious that they were carried to Reach by the Supercarrier, which we know was able to somehow get to Reach mostly undetected. I say mostly because Halsey states in her Journal that there were anomalies in Slipspace occurring around the 24th when the Covenant were discovered to be on Reach by the UNSC, I also say mostly because ONI knew that the Covenant was there at least a short while before the UNSC did (if not longer) because they used Reach as bait for RED FLAG. It's pretty clear from what we know that the LNoS was able to at least partially mask its exit from Slipspace somehow. [quote]

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