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Posted by: grey101
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I thought that Bungie said that the games were official canon? And lemme explain the Pillar of Autumn thing right now: Wasn't it severely damaged in a battle with a battleship and forced to land for repairs?
I don't remember it getting damaged by the cruiser at all.
And the Pillar never "landed" for repairs. Infact, the refitting station was in space, because it makes more sense that way.
>The pillar of autumn is refitted for it's mission in space
>The Pillar is leaving for it's mission when Reach is attacked
>The Pillar destroys a Super Cruiser
>They return to orbit and split into two teams.
>Red to the surface
>Blue to destroy NAV data
>John returns to the Pillar a short time later with a few marines(Johnson) and Linda's "dead" body.
>Keyes recognizes that Reach is screwed, and initiates Cole Protocol to try and escape.
That's basically how it went down.
Course with the game factored into it the second point becomes something of an oddity. Reach has been openly under siege for quite some time now, yet Keyes decides to take the Autumn out of Reach to the system's edge, then turn back to defend the planet.
Now the original reason for Keyes turning around was in response to the distress call that Reach has suddenly come under attack, but that is no longer feasible given the state Reach has been in, and the fact that Keyes is leaving the planet whilst it's under attack. So he'd be aware of the situation as it stands.
In terms of the current reason within the game's context there doesn't seem to really be one that can make real sense. One could argue that Keyes left Reach doomed as it was, but came back for the package. Yet, if that were the case Keyes would have never left in the first place and would still be waiting on or in close proximity to Reach for that package.
This is my theory on what happened with that. The ship could have just lifted off and helped defend until the package needed to be taken so to do it in the safest way they sent the whole cruiser down so that the pelican would not risk getting shot down, the cortana is a copy used for decoding information, they pick blue team up on their way back, linda is the spartan in the pod for the easter egg bungie put in there since it said she was immediatley frozen when he got to the ship, they lifted off and ran like hell to jump to slip space. As for the ship not being damaged did the ship ever look damaged in halo CE? no. Did it look damaged when it was crashed not really just blackened so they didn't put the damage detail in there to correlate with the Halo CE. My theory not fact
you do understand that it would have been far smarter and safer to send pelicans to get cortana than the entire friggin ship?
And it was damaged like hell in CE, read the books, the only thing is halcyon class ships can lose more than half of their skeletal structure and still be largely intact (something like that going off memory). so despite it not looking crashed (and because it was on xbox) does not meant that it crashed like nothing.
He's right. PoA was heavily damaged as they exited out of random slip-space. So, PoA being at Reach (via ground which it is physically impossible due to size and weight and it was not rated for atmosphere, does not make sense at all.) I find it funny when some people always trying to defend the Reach to death because they seem think that it makes more sense than tFoR or First Strike which I normally laugh at them.
[Edited on 07.15.2011 11:03 AM PDT]