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Posted by: Fos Tis Krisis
Posted by: SweetTRIX
Posted by: ChrisSpurr
Halo Wars is none-cannon, as stated by Bungie.
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Your mistaken, Halo Wars is considered canon. Joe Staten has gone on record before stating that through the course of the games and the novels there are slight details that can and most likely will be changed. The main events will not be altered, but certain small things like tha names and roles of "nameless" soldiers are easily altered. Wars ruined nothing from a canon standpoint, considering that everything that happened was relatively isolated to the crew of the Spirit of Fire once they left Harvest.
Except for the one big Canon breaking fact. The use of Elites during the battles for Harvest and Arcadia. That never happened. In Fall of Reach it CLEARLY STATES that the UNSC had NEVER SEEN ELITES UNTIL THE BATTLE FOR REACH. Though there were a FEW Elites in the Cole Protocol, they did not break this Canon, as the only time any humans saw the Elites, they died, and could not report back.No. Fall of Reach has the error.
Firstly, it is the oldest one, so older books and games override it. Remember this. For comes last when it is about the story of books and games.
Secondly, there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary: Elites were encountered by humans before in the Battle of the Rubble and in the First Battle of Arcadia where the Spartan Red Team and Group Omega fought. They were also recognized by Kurt in a mission recording, and most importantly, the UNSC captured an Elite alive during the Battle of the Great Bear.
And the number of Spartan-IIs has long been a major inconsistency, or at least seeming like one. First Strike already had 30 Spartan-IIs where FoR had 25.
Eric Trautmann once responded:
"Re: Spartan strength: I am aware that there is an APPARENT discrepancy between the reported number of Spartans and the ACTUAL number of Spartans.
Emphasis on APPARENT. ;)
We leave lots of hooks for future development buried in the text, to accomodate several ideas/stories we have percolating. Some may see the light of day, some may not.
In general, its best to chalk such discrepancies up to "the fog of war" and if we get the chance, we've got a great explanation for the apparent discontinuity."
The "3 KIA" from FoR was stated to be from the past decade, which excludes Sam from that count, but also the SoF trio. However, that doesn't mean they didn't die earlier. In the case they did die, the most obvious correction would be upping the "33 Spartans survived augmentations" count by three. Some Ackerson theory -style thing that Chewie suggested might also work, but it's a big bunch of theories.