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It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.
Posted by: chickenlittle
Cheeto is the only one among you that doesn't suck.
Posted by: privet caboose
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
Need to find my source, but I'm pretty sure that there was a fictional document explaining that S-III's were pulled from every company for special missions and more "S-II" like deployments, rather than suicide ops.
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
Pretty sure that ONI has never obeyed the Cole Protocol, and never will. Source? The books. Say what? Invalid point is invalid. Besides, even if the Autumn was on the ground, Spartans would still be the best group to handle the Circumference's situation. Again, your point is invalid
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
Firing an Orbital MAC Gun at the planet would not be a good idea. If it missed, the destruction it would cause would be immense. Firing a Super MAC round at the planet defeats the purpose of even having it.
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
Just because the Autumn was on a land based dock rather than an orbital dock means nothing. They could have still been planning it, but instead of just about to launch, they could have still been prepping for it. As I said earlier, UNSC Command would still have wanted Spartans to wipe the core, and Spartans to keep the generators online. You're over analyzing this. A ground dock means nothing different at all.
A few spartans that didn't die in a crash also changes nothing. They still would have been killed in the ground engagements. Hell, their pelican could have been shot down and the still die. You don't know.
There were a lot of holes left open with the campaign. It might have blown apart the book cannon, but it doesn't necessarily have to. Only if you want it to, it does. All the events of the books still seem to fit in very nicely with the game's story, which is awesome. A few dates and such are wrong, but you're wrong about everything else.