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Thanks all. Well, seeing that everyone here has decided not to really discuss the story, or look for more meaning (bbender stands alone), then I guess I'll have to spew what little I can think of off the top of my mind.
The Side Trilogy Wrap party
Over All, the trilogy was focused on one true theme, "overcoming the odds". Since the beginning, way back in SFFH, we were introduced to characters who were relatively weak in form, but not in heart. Palab, the grunt who would be king, was not even the elder of his Pack. As we discovered in IIWYH, Palab was a ploy created by the Prophets to speed along the division in the Sangheili Academy. They "CREATED" Palab by fertilizing an unggoy female with the seed from the prior grunt king, the very King that started the Grunt Rebellion. The reason the Prophets did this was to convince the Sangheili Watchmen that the Elite's were doomed to fall... to the Watchmen, a grunt leader was a sign that the elites would not go on the great journey. This was of course a lie created by the prophets. Palab survived two assassination attempts on his life and found more strength because of it.
Palab overcame the odds, and the odds were that he would be killed and the grunts would be crushed with him, however.... The Mirratord caught wind of this ploy thanks to Gridolee, one of the young who also believed that Palab would lead to the elite outcast. The division of the Covenant was not something that the Grunts cared about, they simply followed orders, however, Palab was instrumental in keeping a small band of skilled grunts on the side of the elites during the civil war. It is because of Palab that the Grunts, in the end, remained on the good side of the Elites even though the majority of the Grunts sided with the Covenant.
Other key characters in the Side Trilogy were, Simyaldee (the Second in command of the Mirratord) and his dealing with the loss of his mate and his family due to the lies of the Prophets. Simyaldee had a deep hate that made him more driven to fulfill his duty as a Mirratord. There was also Wesley Williams (the young ONI spook that was assigned to shadow Roselyn Santos and their short but very s3xual relationship).
Kelly Spartan 087 story was one that I really wish I cold have fleshed out more. The role she played in Ghost of Onyx drastically changed the progress of her accounts in the Side Story Trilogy. I knew from the moment I introduced her into IIWYH that her character would haunt me, and I guessed right. As It stands I truly am happy that I included her. Having her connected to the history of the Reclaimers and being a rare "Pure Blooded" reclaimer seemed to add more life to Kelly. Her involvement with Major Rawlings added more humanity to the character and I really wish I would have had an opportunity to give it more light, but GoO twisted things and made it nearly impossible to give Kelly any real substance.
Major Rawlings, Gridolee, Melanie Peters and numerous other side characters all had their inner turmoils and deeds that needed to be overcome. I think this was one of my shinning points. The trilogy is full of characters that people could relate to.
Hopefully this will spark some conversations amongst you all before the side trilogy really dies and sinks to the depths of the forums. I'm listening... :D
~soulguard
[Edited on 11.02.2007 10:52 AM PDT]