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1) Master Chief was never on the surface during the entire Reach battle.
What exactly are you saying here? Chief isn't on the ground during the whole Battle of Reach in the game either O_o
2) Cortana was also not on the surface during the entire Reach battle
I assume you are talking about how you have to deliver Cortana to the Autumn? If you are then you should know that the "Cortana" Six delivers to the Autumn is only a fragment, the "real" Cortana is already on the Autumn. If that's not what you're talking about then you'll need to explain yourself better.
3) The Spartan III's in Reach were all dead according to Ghosts of Onyx.
Yes, but new canon outranks old, and the new canon that goes with Reach states that Kurt and Mendez pulled the best Spartans from each company before it was sent on its suicide op and formed into Headhunter teams, or larger teams like Noble that would be sent on the sort of mission an SII would.
4) Halsey knew little to nothing about the Spartan III's at the time of the Reach game.
And that is exactly how it is Reach, she doesn't have any idea what Noble Team is except that they're not her Spartans, well besides Jorge. Her knowing about Noble Team changes nothing, except making her more distrustful of ONI and making it have even more meaning when she finds out that Ackerson had gone rooting through the medical files of the SIIs.
5) The Covenant invasion was nowhere near as long as the game made it out to be.
As I said earlier, new canon outranks old, and honestly, something like Reach falling in under two hours is absolutely ludicrous. It just contradicts common sense and what the books have told us about the UNSC's military might. Falling about two weeks makes a hell of a lot more sense.
6) Keyes was not on Reach during the invasion.
Obviously he was at some point. And this point is hardly an inconsistency, this is just nitpicking small details.
7) If MC was on Reach, where was the other two Spartans that were with him if he didn't go to the station? Yes, there were originally three Spartans on the Pillar of Autumn, two of which were lost in an even the Reach game omitted. This is two Spartans who are now MIA entirely. One could argue they are located somewhere else on the ship but why is MC the only one in a cryotube?
Actually all the Spartans were on the Autumn originally, it would seem like you need to reread the book. The two other Spartans you are talking about are Linda and James. If the Autumn was indeed on Reach the entire time, then they would be with Red Team at the generators. However there is no evidence indicating that the Circumference OP no longer happened, and even if it's pushed back, it can still happen. If it happened on the 30th still, then the Autumn would simply go down to the surface of Reach after it had picked up Chief, Johnson, Linda, and the other marines from Station Gamma.
And you honestly think seeing that Spartan in the cryo tube after Keyes returns to the Autumn has any bearing on canon? It's a -blam!-ing easter egg, it has the same amount of meaning to the canon as seeing Buck pick stuff out of a monkey's back at the end of ODST, or the Grunts and the Brute dancing to the music in that club on New Alexandria.
8) Master Chief was the first Spartan who received the shielded armor upgrade on Reach. The only Spartan II's to receive it were the ones present on Reach at the time and seeing as it was brand new it makes absolutely no sense for there to be so many variations of it already in use by the non-existent Spartan III's.
Reach did not state anything about the Mark V being given to every single Spartan. I see nothing at all wrong with Noble Team having armor similar to Mark V, they're valuable assets who are just like the SIIs, the only difference between Noble and the SIIs is their class distinction. And the armor pieces in Reach don't have any affect on the armor, even in canon, most of them would not offer any changes to the armor, and hell, there's nothing to indicate that they're new, except for the Mark V helmet.
There is tons of inconsistencies between the game and the original story in the novel. TONS. It is ignorant to say that the rest of the story was "complete untouched".
Only in your mind, and every other person who is deeply offended that there were any changes made. You'll find "mistakes" or "inconsistencies" in anything if you nit-pick it enough, hell, even the other Halo books or games contradict each other if you hyper-analyze them like people are doing with Reach.