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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
-The existence of the Noble Team SPARTANS.
-The age of the Noble Team SPARTANS.
-Jorge being a member of Noble Team.
-Moving the dates of the battle back 5 weeks.
-Moving the date of the main Covenant fleet's arrival back 2 weeks.
-Implying that less than 300 UNSC ships could fight 750 Covenant ships for two solid weeks in orbit, and that the Covenant wouldn't already bother glassing.
-PoA touching down on Reach totally destroys First Strike's tale of Red Team's operation, and also means that Blue Team's cannot be undergone. Even from the start, that's 5 KIA and 1 WIA scratched off the bat, before Alpha(?) Red gets glassed at the Generators.
-This also means that Johnson and Jenkins remain on Orbital Dock Gamma and are never retrieved by the SPARTANS and/or PoA, and therefore a major character from the entire series, and key (ie: epically major) plot points of The Flood and First Strike are also removed.
There are others, but these are all that come to mind currently.
Why do people say it's broken? Because most people didn't bother to do research and one guy made a quite convincing thread because he wanted it to be broken? Come on.
-They were pulled out right after training.
-SIIIs were new and the success rates were better, so having them older makes more sense than the SIIs.
-Jorge could've been considered MIA. In fact, it's possible he was one of the few Spartans whom are hinted to have been "resurected" in Halsey's Journal, or the others could know he's alive, just not what he's part of. Also, when Halsey says all Spartans are present, she didn't have to mean they were in the room, so Jorge could be part of that grouping.
-ONI, knowing the importance of Reach, could have been keeping secret. It also could've been a force like Earth's first; didn't know where they were or that humans would be there, just that the Forerunners had structures on the surface.
-It probably wasn't the whole fleet, just a smaller advance fleet to locate the relics and retrieve them so the Covenant the major fleet could start glassing as soon as they arrived.
-Again, it wasn't the whole fleet, which didn't arrive until August 30th. If you're going on Urban's quote "It's the whole damn Covennant Fleet!" he hasn't seen the whole fleet, so was just assuming as Covenant ships hadn't been seen above 3 or so rather than the ten-fifteen or so. Also, they don't glass just in case they get the relics, only starting when they've retrieved them.
-The PoA touched down after deploying Red Team and collecting Blue Team. It was nearly midnight at the beggining of the Package, and early/mid morning by the time the level ended and Dot said it was waiting, and the PoA started to accelerate outsystem (presumambly before Halsey called it back) at about 0615 hours.
The canon isn't broken if you look at it properly. Believe me, I wanted it to be broken until I looked, at which point I was dissapointed and, even more so, relieved that it wasn't just intact, but expanded.