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Posted by: privet caboose
Here is a compilation of errors that we, the universe elite, have created in light of Halo: Reach's launch. Note, that this is STILL a work in progress, and will be upgraded as new breaks are located.
Error: Reach was invaded on July 24th.
Proof: All Halo media has always stated Reach fell in one day, and that day was August 30th.
Sources:Ghosts of Oynx, First Strike, Fall of Reach.
Error: Alpha Company was wiped out completely during Operation: PROMETHEUS in 2537. Carter, Emile, and Jun should not be alive.
Proof: Halo: Ghosts of Onyx goes into quite a bit of detail on Operation: PROMETHEUS. Spartan-III Alpha Company (comprised of 300 Spartans) were sent to K7-49 on a mission to destroy plasma reactors the Covenant were using to liquefy metallurgical components.
The operation was a success, but it is explicitly stated that it cost the lives of every Spartan-III on the asteroid because they got cut off from their Calypso-class Exfiltration crafts and completely lost their unit cohesion.
Halo Reach chooses to ignore this. Carter (A-259), Emile (A-239), and Jun (A-266) are a part of Noble Team when they should have been dead years ago; Bungie have given us no explanation on how they escaped at all.
Sources:
- Ghosts of Onyx, page 83-87.
- Halo Reach
Error: ONI's actions as well as the Cole Protocol.
According to the Cole Protocol, if any Covenant Forces are detected, then all NAV bases and ships should purge their computers of information to protect Earth and the inner colonies.
Proof:If Covenant are detected on Reach on July 23rd, how is it that a month later, there are still computers with information to Earth still active? If ONI hadn't taken more than a month, than Blue team wouldn't have been deployed to the Circumference, and James wouldn't have died, and Linda wouldn't have been in a coma. Infact, they would have been on Reach with Red team.
Sources:
Pg 289 of The Fall of Reach gives information on the purging of Info not complete.
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/United_Nations_Space_Command_Emerg ency_Priority_Order_098831A-1
Error: Carter, Emile, and Jun's age.
Carter is born in 2520. He was 11 years old when Alpha Company began their training. This puts him 5 years above the previously stated age, and it makes no sense at all. Why would they have an 11 year old on the same training regime as a 4 year old? It's too large of a difference, and it's an error that can be avoiding by simply changing his birthdate. This same thing goes for Emile and Jun, who are older than 6 years old at Alpha training.
Proof: Page 69(I'm doing this by memory, I may be wrong.) of Ghosts of Oynx states that all of Alpha Company was comprised of 4, 5, and 6 year old children that he was going to have to forge into the best warriors humanity has ever seen.
Source: Ghosts of Oynx, page 69.
Error: Lack of Orbital MAC's.
Proof: Reach had a number of Orbital MAC's that were used in the battle of Reach. They were present on August 30th, so they should have been present during the mission "Long Night of Solace" in Halo: Reach. Had they been present, they Jorge wouldn't have died. Where were they?
Source: Fall of Reach, First Strike, Halo: Reach
Error: Pillar of Autumn on Reach.
Proof During the final level of Halo: Reach, the Pillar of Autumn is on the planet, and isn't in space, preparing for the Prophet mission. This COMPLETELY destroys much of Halo's canon. If the ship wasn't in space, than the Spartans of Red Team would have never jumped to the planet, meaning that the 4 spartans who died, would have still been alive. Which could have hanged the outcome of the battle. PLUS, the space op to destroy the Circumference's NAV data wouldn't have happened. So Chief, James, and Linda had no reason to NOT be part of Red team. So the chief wouldn't have been on the Autumn, so Halo: CE wouldn't have happened.
Why schedule a mission to capture a prophet, when there's a full scale invasion of Humanities second most important planet?
Sources: Halo: Reach, Fall of Reach
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If I've missed any errors, please, point them out. I'll add them to the OP, or try to explain them.
Also, if you have any explanation to these canon errors, please, explain how they fit into canon, and the sources.
Carter Jun and Emile were taken out of Alpha Company after a few missions.
The Circumference was an stealth vessel and the massive attack by the covenant fleet was too quick to delete the nav computer. Yes they knew the Covenant were on Reach but it's ONI we're talking about here haha...they don't follow the rules all the time, First strike shows that. When an ONI operative returns to Earth to report on Reach's destruction, without making multiple slipspace jumps before returning.
The six year old birthdate was for Spartan II's....Spartan III's had a wider gene pool and a wider age range. Remember the UNSC were desperate for expendable super soldiers.
Considering Humans and Covenant races evolved on Earth-like planet, it's hard to think that a planet can be attacked by literally any direction, and very hard to defend it from all angles. So I believe most the MAC guns were on the other side of the planet and the rest were destroyed by the Supercarrier and Corvettes since they would have came up from the surface(by surface I mean in atmosphere) to attack the MAC guns from below, their destruction is backed up by the debris you can see floating in the background of the corvette and sabe missions as well as the Firefight map Corvette if you look out of the hangar shields.
As for the Pillar of Autumn being on Reach is it to hard to believe that after they picked up the Chief, Linda, Johnson and his team, that the Autumn landed on Reach to collect the Cortana fragment. Bungie expanded the timeline for the battle so there is enough time to fit this in.
These are all reasonable explanations and when you factor them into Halo: Reach you realize that Bungie only expanded the battle time, and had the Autumn land on Reach once. Hope this helps. :)
[Edited on 10.14.2010 12:06 AM PDT]