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The truest halo canon source would be the foundations, and do you know what the foundation is? the 4 copies of the halo story bible. them and only them, nothing else can be heralded as the absolute truth of canon, but the halo games from bungie are created directly from the book, by the people who wrote the bloody book. the halo novels were written by outside writers only with minor assistance from the bible, as well as the guys at bungie. the writers were more then encouraged to take artistic license to change canon to make for a good story.
if you play halo reach, then halo ce, then halo 2 and 3, and odst, guess what you will notice? not a single detail outside aesthetics is against canon. it when you throw in the books that were not even written by bungie, is when the canon problems start up.
Posted by: Moirai
Posted by: Atom Alchemist
dear god here comes another long and poorly written response.
anyways, reach invasion timeline.
here is a single, solidary word for you.
RETCON first strike has already been retconned, and the other books will probably follow suit, remember this, when it comes to canon, the first source is always the right one, and the secondary sources are changes to correspond with the first source. seeing as halo started as a video game, the "first"and truest source of what is canon and what isn't would be halo games devoloped by bungie studios. so, halo 1:CE, Halo:2 Halo:3 and Halo:4 are all canon, regardless of what you, or anyone else may think.(outside easter eggs of course) the books are secondary, as they are written outside of the bungie studio, and are not the same media outlet,(one being a novel, the other being a video game)
Actually, that pretty much sums up every little errors you have with the canon, grow the hell up, and think for a split second, the games are all canon, regardless of what you may think, it's the books that are canonically incorrect, not the games.
And therein lies the problem. Too many variations on 'canon'.
The whole point of having a canon story line is to establish a series of immutable reference points to which all other additions can be attached without fear of contradiction.
The books were considered canon by Bungie. They originally authorised them and worked with the authors, giving them full unfettered access to the Halo story bible to achieve this. Now that they've wanted to crowbar in another game they've decided to retcon that chunk and demote it to a lower level of canon, whatever the heck that is.
Besides, the idea of any story having 'two' canon sources is ridiculous, and now leaves that part collapsing in a steaming pile of joke.
It's a bit like screwing around with the foundations of your house and then wondering why bits are falling off and leaving big holes in it. As it is, nailing a few boards over them here and there and then proclaiming, "See? Good as new!", doesn't really cut it in my book.