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Subject: Couple Question About Reach

Narly

I read the book (Fall of Reach) about six months ago, and forgot somethings. For starters how did the Covenant find reach, by what in Captain Keyes's ship? Also did the Covenant come to Reach for the coordinates to the first Halo installation? Also didn't Master Chief go down on Reach with a few Spartans (Including Sam) and that's when he took pictures and got debriefed later on?

The reason I am asking all this is because if I know this for sure I can know which theories are way off.

~Thanks in advanced~

  • 07.04.2009 11:06 PM PDT

Oh yeah It's Rayzed.

Posted by: jciliberto
I read the book (Fall of Reach) about six months ago, and forgot somethings. For starters how did the Covenant find reach, by what in Captain Keyes's ship? Also did the Covenant come to Reach for the coordinates to the first Halo installation? Also didn't Master Chief go down on Reach with a few Spartans (Including Sam) and that's when he took pictures and got debriefed later on?

The reason I am asking all this is because if I know this for sure I can know which theories are way off.

~Thanks in advanced~

It's still a mystery on how the Covenant found Reach I think. They may have simply found the location of the artifact and went to nab it. When they arrived we were waiting with spinning MAC generators. The only time Masterchief was on Reach was during his training and few select times.

Sam wasn't on Reach during its Fall. He was dead.

  • 07.04.2009 11:13 PM PDT

Here’s what Luke had to say about the differences in treatment between the Spartans and Elites in Reach:

“Instead of piece-by-piece customization like the Spartans, Elite customization is a full model swap with models selected from the various Elite classes appearing throughout the Campaign. There are all kinds of reasons for this, not the least of which is our continued emphasis on the Spartan as your identity in Reach.”

Posted by: jciliberto
how did the Covenant find reach,

It was marked as a Forerunner Temple on a map that they found, similar to the map room on Halo. They sent an expeditionary force there to explore the planet and find information about the Halos, just like why they attacked Harvest.

by what in Captain Keyes's ship?I don't understand the question.

Also did the Covenant come to Reach for the coordinates to the first Halo installation?Not directly. Cortana found a set of coordinates from a clip that Master Chief recorded either on Reach or another planet, which took them to Halo 1.The covenant either followed them "The covenant ships have always been faster, and at super luminal speeds, my maneuvering options were limited." or by finding the coordinates themselves.

Also didn't Master Chief go down on Reach with a few Spartans (Including Sam) and that's when he took pictures and got debriefed later on? That was on another planet. Reach was at the very end of the book, when one Spartan's jetpack malfunctioned, Chief brawled with an Elite, and another spartan got shot in the chest with plasma.

~Thanks in advanced~Welcome.

  • 07.04.2009 11:15 PM PDT

Narly

Oh okay another planet. Lol the question you didn't understand was me asking how they tracked Keyes's ship to Reach but you answered that above, thanks again!

[Edited on 07.04.2009 11:20 PM PDT]

  • 07.04.2009 11:17 PM PDT

Here’s what Luke had to say about the differences in treatment between the Spartans and Elites in Reach:

“Instead of piece-by-piece customization like the Spartans, Elite customization is a full model swap with models selected from the various Elite classes appearing throughout the Campaign. There are all kinds of reasons for this, not the least of which is our continued emphasis on the Spartan as your identity in Reach.”

Posted by: jciliberto
But was it Reach or some other planet where a squad of Spartans (including Sam And MC) that Master Chief encountered hunters and an alien that rebuilt a car in front of him, and he had to be debriefed about it; also I think they set a nuke off.
That was another planet, I want to say it was Harvest but I am not sure. It was definitely not Reach though, I promise you that.

  • 07.04.2009 11:19 PM PDT

Oh yeah It's Rayzed.

Posted by: jciliberto
But was it Reach or some other planet where a squad of Spartans (including Sam And MC) that Master Chief encountered hunters and an alien that rebuilt a car in front of him, and he had to be debriefed about it; also I think they set a nuke off.

That was Cote'D Azur (Correct my spelling if wrong). Thats where they found the crystal with the location of several Forerunner structures. Such as Alpha Halo(installation 04) and Onyx.

  • 07.04.2009 11:20 PM PDT

Narly

Yeah your definitely right thanks Uncle! By the way did you read The Flood?

  • 07.04.2009 11:22 PM PDT

-blam!- the Free World!!!!

1. A Covenant probe attached to Keyes' ship, the Iriquios and followed it back to Reach, revealing its location to the Covenant.

2. Master Cheif never went on Reach's surface, at least when it fell. He was sent on a space op tp try to delete files recording Earth's location.

3. You must've thought about Sigma Octanus IV, the mission before Reach fell, where Master cheif went on the ground and took pics.

4. Sam was looooong gone before this.

And uncle, you seem to have a worse memory than this guy or you are just talking about Earth?


[Edited on 07.04.2009 11:25 PM PDT]

  • 07.04.2009 11:23 PM PDT

Narly

Yeah that's the one! What's onyx exactly and what book is it in?

  • 07.04.2009 11:23 PM PDT

Narly

I know now that Sam was dead before this, but I read a thread that had an analysis on the 5 Spartans in the Halo: Reach picture, but with Sam dead it can't be right, and with Linda dead also.

  • 07.04.2009 11:26 PM PDT

-blam!- the Free World!!!!

Hmmmmmmmm... Maybe the book titled The Ghosts of Onyx (which I am reading this week =))
Posted by: jciliberto
Yeah that's the one! What's onyx exactly and what book is it in?

  • 07.04.2009 11:28 PM PDT

Here’s what Luke had to say about the differences in treatment between the Spartans and Elites in Reach:

“Instead of piece-by-piece customization like the Spartans, Elite customization is a full model swap with models selected from the various Elite classes appearing throughout the Campaign. There are all kinds of reasons for this, not the least of which is our continued emphasis on the Spartan as your identity in Reach.”

Posted by: mtaylor808
And uncle, you seem to have a worse memory than this guy or you are just talking about Earth?

?

Also, he is right on the other things. Forgot about that probe thingy.

  • 07.04.2009 11:28 PM PDT

-blam!- the Free World!!!!

She only died for about a few days or so. That thread says Sam is in there because he died in Mark IV armor

  • 07.04.2009 11:30 PM PDT

Narly

Only died for a few days? And I only GOT 1/3 WRONG!

[Edited on 07.04.2009 11:32 PM PDT]

  • 07.04.2009 11:31 PM PDT

Oh yeah It's Rayzed.

Posted by: mtaylor808
Hmmmmmmmm... Maybe the book titled The Ghosts of Onyx (which I am reading this week =))
Posted by: jciliberto
Yeah that's the one! What's onyx exactly and what book is it in?

It is in my opinion the best book released. So much happens and is explained during this tale of Spartans. The most alluring is the Project dubbed S-III. Colonel Ackerson has been trying really hard to keep it hush hush even within ONI.

  • 07.04.2009 11:32 PM PDT

-blam!- the Free World!!!!

Posted by: Uncle Kulikov
Posted by: mtaylor808
And uncle, you seem to have a worse memory than this guy or you are just talking about Earth?

?

Also, he is right on the other things. Forgot about that probe thingy.
I only said that because the Covenant only found Reach because of the probe. Don't take it personally.

  • 07.04.2009 11:32 PM PDT

-blam!- the Free World!!!!

Posted by: jciliberto
Only died for a few days? And I only GOT 1/3 WRONG!
Ya she was brought back by a transplant by Dr. Halsey...

  • 07.04.2009 11:34 PM PDT

Oh yeah It's Rayzed.

Posted by: jciliberto
Only died for a few days? And I only GOT 1/3 WRONG!

~~~//SPOILERS ALERT//~~~
She was extremely close to death upon jumping to Halo. There, her Cryo-pod was jettisoned into space and found by Master Chief during First Strike. She is later revived by a doctor (Halsey I think). Her current location is Onyx

  • 07.04.2009 11:35 PM PDT

Narly

Wow I missed that -blam!-! Unless it was in another book?

  • 07.04.2009 11:35 PM PDT

Narly

It goes Fall of Reach, The Flood, and then First Strike right? Also is The Flood any good because I just started it and it seems to be a mirror of the first Halo game.

  • 07.04.2009 11:37 PM PDT

-blam!- the Free World!!!!

Posted by: Raylette
Posted by: jciliberto
But was it Reach or some other planet where a squad of Spartans (including Sam And MC) that Master Chief encountered hunters and an alien that rebuilt a car in front of him, and he had to be debriefed about it; also I think they set a nuke off.

That was Cote'D Azur (Correct my spelling if wrong). Thats where they found the crystal with the location of several Forerunner structures. Such as Alpha Halo(installation 04) and Onyx.
Except Sam still died a while back. He only went on two "real" missions with the Spartans (The asteriod and when he blew a Covenant ship up with him.

  • 07.04.2009 11:38 PM PDT

-blam!- the Free World!!!!

Posted by: jciliberto
It goes Fall of Reach, The Flood, and then First Strike right? Also is The Flood any good because I just started it and it seems to be a mirror of the first Halo game.
It is a mirror and it was an OK book in my opinion.

  • 07.04.2009 11:39 PM PDT

Here’s what Luke had to say about the differences in treatment between the Spartans and Elites in Reach:

“Instead of piece-by-piece customization like the Spartans, Elite customization is a full model swap with models selected from the various Elite classes appearing throughout the Campaign. There are all kinds of reasons for this, not the least of which is our continued emphasis on the Spartan as your identity in Reach.”

I liked The Flood the best out of them, and Onyx the least.

And I thought, mtaylor, that you were talking about how the Covenant found the first Halo. I actually had no idea how they found reach, I just thought it was how they stumbled upon every other human world looking for artifacts. Though the probe does explain why they used such a massive fleet.

Makes sense that you resoned that I was working from the Earth model.

  • 07.04.2009 11:43 PM PDT