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Posted by: BTE
Posted by: SweetTRIX
The only gap I could find was August 2552 (The attach on Reach, The Fall of Reach novel) and October 2552 (When Kurt was training remnants of Gamma on Onyx, The Ghosts of Onyx). Considering the 3 month gap, anything could be written into existence, but the time it takes for UNSC frigates to travle through slipspace, I don't think there would be any practical reason for the S-III's mobilization, unless there are some more firm dates out there. I cannot find my copy of First Strike. Im in the same situation. I gave my friend the books, i'll probably get them back when i go to his house soon. The thing is that the whole S-III has always bothered me alot.
Also remember that the S-III left on a mission but three teams were left behind to compete for top honors and such. What does this tell us? The mission wasn't that important when they just left the best 3 teams on Onyx. Maybe some armor upgrade they would get or something minor (again this is pure speculation since we just dont have any information to back anything up). That might mean that they weren't anywhere close to Onyx and their jump to either Earth or Reach would be faster.
Why my obsession with Earth and Reach? Again, it is stated that Reach was the most important planet after Earth. Just giving it up would not be an option. Look at Harvest. The battle for Harvest took a long time in all and originally Harvest was just some crappy planet (later we learn about the forerunner artifacts and such, but when you think about it Reach seems more important than Harvest and it also seems to have Forerunner artifacts. As for Earth it is the most important planet to the human race so going there after getting the notice that Reach was attacked also seems like a smart idea since it was stated that after Reach fell, Earth would be what the covenant would hit. What can kill the whole Earth argument? Well, when Master Chief is on Earth (in Halo 3) we never hear about any S-III.
In regards to how the UNSC would regards Reach, you need to remember that Harvest was fought for the way it was because that was the first official battleground between the UNSC and the Covenant. It was also a battle that took place in a time before the UNSC was aware of how the Covenant operates, take what they want on the ground, get beaten back/finish objectives, and glass the planet.
Based on that knowledge I don't think that the UNSC would piss away more assets than necessary on a "lost cause" even if that cause was Reach. If they held it in that high a regard, enough to mobilize such a secretive strike force as the S-III's, the would have mobilized more ships as well. By the time MC arrived back at Reach after the events of Halo CE there wasn't much going in there in the way of support, so I don't think the assumption that the UNSC brass would pull out all the stops to save Reach is warranted.