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11/12/2010 9:22:49 PM
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Halo Reach Did not Destroy the Canon
Anyone else agree?
There are quite a few time gaps in TFoR, plenty enough to have everything in Reach (the game happen). And anyone who says that the UNSC should have detected the Covies coming, well since I just finished reading the book I can where you're coming from, but you have to remember that the only two times it was mentioned they detected anything they mistook the Covenant battle group for an asteroid or small planetoid at first, so the Super Carrier and Corvette in Reach could have easily gotten there without having the sensor stations detecting them.
Now there's still the problem of the ships slipping past the outer defenses, but that's still doable, and it's entirely possible that they had limited stealth technology.
A lot of the "problems" are also fixed in Halsey's Journal, haven't got to read that yet, but I plan to borrow it from my friend who got the Legendary Edition of the game.
Anyway, this is a place for intelligent discussion, so feel free to share your ideas about the "inconsistencies" created by Reach, or just discuss the rest of the cannon, that's fine too.
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@hotshot revan II Unless I'm mistaken, the games came before the books. I understand your point where Eric created the story bible, but that's usually at the behest of who commissions him to do so. Bungie had ideals that they basically told him to flesh out. In the end, things like the Spartan II and III project were of Bungie's ideals, fleshed out by Eric. However when you play the games, there's no ideal that there are different types of Spartans... (Unless there's something in some of the hidden things I've yet to find. Forgive me, I've only played Halo 1,2,3 and Reach. No Wars or ODST yet.) Also, I consider books to be authorized 'fanfiction'. It's just a way I view it, personal view. Can't stress that enough cause I'm sure no one here see it as the same. My main point though was stating that it was to be expected that the game would not follow the events exactly as they unfolded in the book, generally for the sake of keeping gameplay engaging. One person mentioned they cringed when Jorge rose to protect Sara at Sword Base. Emile replies that he forget's what he is. What people feel about Bungie attempting to humanize Spartan is divided, I didn't mind it so much. Seemed to be the only Spartan who gave an actual damn. And how ironically that he's the only Noble who's a Spartan II. But I suppose that is also irrelevant to the actual topic at hand.
