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Posted by: Hysterical Joker
Posted by: Chubrock3056
Posted by: Stardriver 1
Posted by: Foley vonAwesom
Posted by: Stardriver 1
The problem some people are having is that, having played all the games and read all the books and otherwise perused all the available media, they believe they know all there is about the Halo universe. Refusing to accept that there are things they still don't know can be frustrating. All you parents out there know what it's like to have teenage kids that "know everything." It takes a while to figure out that you can't know what you haven't learned.
-Your last point is pretty arrogant; similar in manner to those teenage punks you compare us to.
I have responses to your other observations but I have little time today. However, this one needs to be addressed.
I in no way intended to infer or imply that a teenager that feels that they "know everything" is some kind of punk. The observation comes from having been a teenager myself once, having raised two of them myself, and, as a school district employee, I have been up to my eyeballs in them for the last sixteen years.
Teenagers are hardwired to believe they possess all knowledge. It's a survival trait. It's how our species survived. When we get older we understand things better. That's how life goes.
My point being that you can't know what you haven't learned.
You can't base a story on something you never established before either. Bungie didn't care about that, though.
There is one thing that sticks out to me that hasn't really been discussed IMO. Why did ONI try to cover up The Covenant on Reach? Throughout the canon (lol), ONI has been built up as a secretive, yet highly intelligent and powerful organization. They HAD to have known Reach was compromised. It makes no sense to not warn the rest of the military. That is a huge plot hole IMO. That was an incredibly dumb move IMO, because if ONI had promptly warned the rest of the military on 7/24/2552, then Reach could have been further reinforced and possibly saved.
When you look at this logically, there was absolutely NOTHING to be gained from trying to cover up the initial Covenant force.
Not sure, perhaps they wanted the secrecy to let Noble Team see what could be found. But yes, there hardly seems any logical reason to keep it hidden from the UNSC(if that's the case) when there's a Corvette and/or Supercarrier out there.
I think some military was notified and mobilized. It was all just really top secret to the citizens and anyone not directly participating in these mobilizations. If you read the add on to the new version of TFoR there's an exerpt that is a conversation between two workers apparently some distance away (not sure if they are both even on Reach, but one certainly is) and one of the guys is talking about how he's nervous, there seems to be a lot more troops and things being mobilized and set up here on Reach (even possibly Spartans he thinks) as opposed to them usually ending up off planet. His buddy tells him it's probably nothing and he's being paranoid and after some discussion into a few details of the matter is calmed into assuming it's just drills or some other special military stuff, and not a big deal. It doesn't seem that there was NO effort made to fight the Covenant before the big battle, but I think it was only known to the people participating in the fighting and the ONI spooks.