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Posted by: L3GEND411
There is only one problem with this mentality. Fall of Reach isn't vague enough to consider a "different" story. There is only one battle for Reach, and it happens in some pretty specific places in the book which doesn't allow for much wiggle room for plot tangents.
There doesn't need to be "wiggle-room" for Bungie; Bungie decides what is canon. Just because Bungie said the books are considered canon, does not suddenly make the books the law: Bungie is still in charge. They're not going to go to Halo Jail for wiggling the plot.
That said, Bungie also loves to pull the "You just haven't seen it yet" card when introducing elements into the Halo universe. For all we know, there could be a military planet just like Reach on the other side of the galaxy, where the UNSC put an entirely different person than Halsey in charge of a concurrent Spartan program to Halsey's. And some of those Spartans were dispatched to a region of Reach that was not mentioned in FoR.
This is extremely unlikely, but you get my drift: Bungie can and will do whatever the hell they want with the plot to their game.
Only one problem with that, however. They won't. They know that if they do, thousands of people who actually read the books (*Glaring angrily at the people who attempt to say that they're right without having read anything*) and know the plot will cry out in anger. If Bungie changes even a character's eye color, people will make hundreds of posts about it. Imagine the reaction to an entire retcon about the Class IIs?
As I said before, just because Sierra-259 uses the word 'We', it doesn't mean that he's talking about him being a Spartan. Someone (sorry to whoever it was, can't remember) mentioned that maybe it's a squad of marines. The squad leader says who it is, and tells FLEETCOM or whoever he's talking to that the Spartans are on the ground, and that 'We', as in him and his squad, aren't going anywhere.
Now that I think about it, if two groups of Spartans went to the surface, then what if Sierra-320 is the other pelican on the Pillar of Autumn that drops Spartans off. She could be saying that she's in the hanger and ready to fly in.