- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I don't think it's FUH though. At the end of H3L it looks more like a Shield Planet than Reach. Plus the ending of Halo 3 was however much time after we revisited Reach in the books. Revisiting Reach a third time would provide very little engaging story in both Human - Covenant interaction, and Forerunner secrets.
Just like you said too, that's a full ship even if broken. Also... "from the beginning you knew the end." It would make sense to put us in a Prequel to Halo 1, during Fall of Reach.
I don't think they'd truly cut the story of Chief and Cortana... at the end of Ghosts of Onyx, there is still a team of surviving S2s and S3s out there with Halsey. I could see some crazy stuff happening to where they meet up again... but it seems like every time Spartans reunite with the Chief, more of them die, haha.
[Edited on 06.01.2009 4:13 PM PDT]