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Posted by: Fatal Factor
Could you enumerate the timeline then with everything from tfor and the game in chronological order, take into account the journal aswell.
Last i heared, it COULD possibly be done but led to some silly apparant sequence of events, such as the UNSC trying to blow john up in his new armour and wilst reach is beginning to burn and noble team is halfway through getting into halseys lab to retrieve the package. Also how the POA was groundside yet also in orbit dry dock at nearly the same time.
Also, i think the best theory about the supercarrier currently is that is slipped in very close behind the gas giant and coasted towards reach orbit via inertia/slingshot manoeuvre, then quietly descended down to an unpopulated landmass of which there were plenty on reach, used corvettes to deploy the spires piece by piece, and went into cloak and started to deploy a ground invasion force. They did all this to avoid and disable the SMACS from the inside before the main invasion force turned up, SMACs are a serious threat to covt, theyd hit them head on before and lost a fair few capital ships to single SMAC slugs, so they developed a strategy. This did NOT go unnoticed though, ONI picked up on it but kept it quiet to prevent mass hysteria, atleast untill the main fleet turned up and the jig was up. Its not crazy to suggest perhaps the supercarrier had some special stealth technology to assist with this op, after all it had spires with thus far unforseen teleportation technology at its disposal, which is pretty advanced stuff, so why not other cool/experimental tech. Also, it would be very easy to visually miss an inert 30km object drifting in from a close planetary neighbour, against the vastness and blackness of space, i should think.
I dont buy this consensus that the covt were totally incapable of adapting and changing, it just took them a long ass time cos of internal politics and stuff. Reverse engineering and copying forerunner tech in the first place would take significant intellectual chops, even if they didnt fully understand any of it.
Thats basically my theory anyway.
You sir are very smart. I agree with almost everything you say, makes a lot of sense. I don't really have the time to make a full timeline of events, I probably would if I had time, but I have a lot school assignments coming up.
You are right, there are some problems trying to merge the two timelines. However, I don't really think that Ackerson trying to kill Chief is that implausible even if the full scale invasion has begun, the airship he used was armed with the same rocket system as the Scorpions have, and if the Scorpions, which are a mass-produced part of the UNSC military, I doubt their armaments would be that expensive, so their no real problem there.
I agree, they aren't completely stupid, and we don't know their full technological limits, so the Super Carrier could have easily been equipped with loads of experimental tech or tech the Covies were field testing, like Spires.
Yeah, the Long Night of Solace and it's forces looked like something they could easily repel, so it makes sense to me for ONI to have kept it quiet, or as quiet as they could.
Indeed it would be, especially if you take into consideration that it's Reach and there'd be things seen flying and/or moving around in space all the time.