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Posted by: Hysterical Joker
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Posted by: Rolling Flame
I don't see what is wrong with the Autumn being planetside. Just because it is docked doesn't mean that it was there the whole battle, and when it buggers off we don't see it entering slipspace. It had to go through a very long warm-up process. If it docked planetside (onto a planet in the process of being overrun and glassed, I might add) to collect nothing more than an AI chip, they would have left engines running, to leave at a moments notice.
It had been there a very long time, and they were starting it up for the first time.
Think of it like pulling up outside a store and your friend going inside to buy whatever. Instead of leaving the engine running, you've turned off the engine and put the keys in your pocket. What for?
In case you don't remember, PoA came stupidly close to being glassed by a CCS Battlecruiser. If they had just 'pulled up' to pick up Cortana, then they would not have shut down the engines, leaving them open to just such a possibility.
The PoA had to undergo repair and construction in order to put that extra engine(Or whatever) inside it, which made the PoA so fast. This explains why it was docked, it was being retrofitted for the Spartan's mission to capture a prophet.
The PoA had already left Reach when word got out the the Covenant had found Reach. They didn't arrive back until after the invasion was in full swing. If ONI was keeping the Recon Covenant secret the PoA would not have been notified. If it was being refitted why would they leave Reach and turn around?
I'm not sure. I'm not arguing that there aren't inconsistencies, just trying to see if a few can be remedied.
Did the PoA get its second engine or whatever before Reach was invaded? I thought they were getting retrofitted when the invasion started
IIRC no UNSC ships should be capable of interatmosphere flight. Much like in Star Trek, these ships are assembled and maintained in space.
Also, original TFoR circumstances et al; im sure that's been covered before.