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Posted by: Rolling Flame
Posted by: Mutoid Log
Posted by: CrimsonShadow67
There's also no mention in any of the games, books, diary, etc. of her ever being captured by the Covenant, so it would require some substantial retconning in order to make sense in the overall story Halsey and the Spartan II's.This argument is complete nonsense. Is CH invalid because Johnson never mentioned his Harvest days in the Halo trilogy and FS? Of course new material is going to introduce new storylines. Halo isn't a static piece, it's being expanded constantly.
And actually, the battle is mentioned in Halsey's diary, when she talks about the absent Spartans. She mentions Sheila, Solomon and Arthur.
Allow me to rephrase: Nothing in the *original* story pieces made any mention of this event--Hence the retconning.
Yes, it's a non-static universe to an extent. Whether or not that is always good is up for debate. (Kinda like how Lucasarts keeps stuffing more plot-arcs into the Star Wars franchise) We basically have to re-learn the story every time a new piece changes the way previously established events pan out in the narrative.
Harvest was new material, yes. But it built up and reinforced an established character in a way that really made sense. Prequels have an easier time at this--the trouble is inserting arcs into existing segments of the narrative. That's where you can really mess the story up. (Fortunately, the impact of The Package is relatively minimal, so for those of us who didn't really like it, it is easily forgettable).
In my opinion, this was the least-"believable" of the Halo Legends works (as Sigma617 pointed out--one prowler vs a covenant fleet? Only way I see that working out is if they had already laid out nuclear mines like in GoO...), so that might be the root of my bias of how well this fits in the cannon. But, it has the Bungie stamp of approval, so this is all moot, regardless of whether we like it or not.