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Subject: Some things you should know about Halo : Reach
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Hi, I'm Dropsy. I'm a pretty big Halo fan, yet I have never read up on The Halo Book Series. Feel free to correct me if you feel I am wrong. Note that mostly all of my information is from Halopedia.



I, myself, feel that Halo : Reach will not be a continuation of Halo 3 simply because as most of us know, Halo 3 ends with :

Sergeant Johnson dead.
The Arbiter with his fellow Elites off in space.
Cortana and Chief floating around.
Keyes dead.
Prophet dead.
Flood exterminated.



Now, here is what I believe Reach will be.
Simply a prologue. Possibly the planet seen in the Halo : Reach teaser is our target for this game. Lets begin. Thanks to Halopedia, we know that Reach is " One of the most important Headquarters for the UNSC and the main supplier for military and civilian spacecraft.



HIGHCOM, FLEETCOM, and The UNSC Marine Corps had Headquarters on Reach, as well as many primary ONI bases, which included CASTLE Base .



History

Originally colonized for its rich titanium deposits, Reach had mines throughout it running thousands of meters deep. ONI's secret CASTLE base was located in one of these mines underneath Menachite Mountain. ONI commandeered the mine after it breached a secret area beneath Reach's surface containing a Forerunner artifact that was highly desired by the Covenant. The fact that this artifact was so valuable to them is perhaps the main reason anyone survived Reach at all, as the Covenant were afraid of destroying it. This facility was also the birthplace of the legendary SPARTAN-II Program .

Despite its position as the UNSC's largest naval base, strategic headquarters, and second-largest population center, the Epsilon Eridani system was wracked by Insurrectionist activity throughout the early 26th Century. Reach's sister planet, Tribute, was one of the fronts for the UNSC's anti-terrorist campaign Operation : TREBUCHET. In 2525, mere months prior to the outbreak of the Human-Covenant War, Reach was the site of a major terrorist bombing against the luxury liner National Holiday. A taxi filled with explosives was crashed into the liner, resulting in the deaths of all aboard.



The Fall Of Reach

Reach's darkest hour was near the close of the Human-Covenant War in 2552. The Covenant discovered the location of Reach from a Forerunner artifact recovered during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV. That artifact disclosed its locality, as Reach was the location of yet another artifact. Coincidentally the Human presence on Reach was revealed when the destroyer Iroquois returned to Reach ensuing the battle, unaware that a Covenant spy drone was attached to her hull near the engines. As such the Covenant were aware of the defender's strength prior to the assault.

The UNSC had formulated a plan to end the war. A platoon of SPARTAN-IIs would hijack a Covenant ship, head to their home planet, kidnap the Covenant leadership , and use them to broker a truce with the Covenant. Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 ordered the majority of the SPARTANs to the planet's surface to protect the generators for the Orbital Defense Platform while he and two other Spartans boarded Reach Station Gamma to secure an unprotected NAV database aboard the ONI corvette Circumference.

The battle was a disaster for the numerically-inferior UNSC fleet despite the super MAC guns and the planet was glassed by plasma bombardment. CASTLE base was destroyed after the planet's fall and the Covenant began searching for a Forerunner Crystal. UNSC forces finally abandoned the planet during the Raid of Reach a few weeks later.



Now, in agreement with China, I will return their wall once it is done with analysis.
Theories that I and the the community feel are commendable will be inserted into the thread.

Discuss.

- Dropsy

[Edited on 06.03.2009 4:28 PM PDT]

  • 06.03.2009 4:13 PM PDT
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People, really, can you do me the favor of reading this.
I took 2 hours out of my time to do something for the community and nobody is going to read it because of the imitating body of text?

I know it's against forum rules to BUMP, and I'm sorry for that, but it's worth the read.

- Dropsy

[Edited on 06.03.2009 4:38 PM PDT]

  • 06.03.2009 4:37 PM PDT
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So ahhh, just so we clear this up. You do realize that the fall of Reach occurs BEFORE Halo 1, ya? Thus, Reach is obviously not a sequel.

  • 06.03.2009 4:46 PM PDT
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the will to win is the will to destroy

he never said it was a sequel

  • 06.03.2009 4:50 PM PDT

get on your job

i dont care what it is as long is its as good or better than halo 3 ill like it.

  • 06.03.2009 4:52 PM PDT
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Very well done, this should be pinned.

  • 06.03.2009 4:57 PM PDT
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nice good job

  • 06.03.2009 5:00 PM PDT

Very well put together. Thaks for the great read, also I would like to correct you on things. But everything you stated is correct. But show me your theories, about who you play and in exactly what timezone?

[Edited on 06.03.2009 5:24 PM PDT]

  • 06.03.2009 5:24 PM PDT