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.1.
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. That was a recon force. The covenant Noble Team fought was most likely part of a smaller force. Then according to the journal of Halsey they arrived en masse on August 30th, where it fell by the end of the day. This smaller force includes the supercarrier, and other ships that managed to land on Reach from 24th of July to the 30th of August.
Source: Halo Reach. Dr. Halsey's Jounal
2. I would say there are now more Alpha Company spartans or that some were just classified as dead. The "survivors" would then be placed on Noble Team or some other team if there is any. I never liked how Nylund made it so 99% of the Spartan III's died. It closed many storied that could of been told in the Halo lore.
Souce: My own assumptions/reasonings
3. I'd wait for an explanation from Bungie or 343 studios. Good Point.
4. Giving this one to you Caboose. Retcon of their ages will be necessary.
5. In order for me to fully answer this, I need to know how they were positioned in orbit, how they move, ect. Because in TFoR it made it appear like they and all the UNSC ships were on one side of them planet. The covenant were also on one side killing them. This would lead to a breach of intelligence of why didn't the covenant just go to the other side of the planet, deploy their troops, go below orbit, and then they could manage to take out their ODPs without the suicidal charges. Correct me if I;m wrong.
6. Who says it was always on the ground? For all we know they could of deployed Teams Red and Blue, then dock with the shipyard, get the fragment of Cortana with the Forerunner data on it, retrieve Blue team (still destroying the supercarrier of course) and then jump to Alpha Halo.
Maybe they believed that this mission could end the war/ceasefire,ect. Perhaps there was a lapse of Covenant ships arriving in system so they believed they could hold them off until the mission was complete. When the 300(700?) ships showed up, they said "Oh -blam!-" and now though that defending Reach was more important now then yesterday due to the fact that this fleet could easily take Reach out within the day and that their navy didn't appear so tough as the previous weeks of fighting small pockets of ships.
So... yeah. Say what's wrong with my statements, I'll change them to fit in better, we'll have a nice discussion on this.
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