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Posted by: Venator82
First off: This is what I think, and has no relevance whatsoever, and if you don't think it's good, then post some angry comments and be on your way.
Now, we all know that everything besides Halo: Reach states that Reach fell in one day: August 30th, 2552.
But, this is according to the main characters of many of the Halo games/books, but many of which weren't actually present, possibly hinting ONI tried to keep it secret from the rest of the colonies so it wouldn't be a panic attack across the rest of human space (Humanity's fortress is faling? Yeah, becuase that'll make public news before it is actually destroyed) But what about those who were there such as Cortana, Keyes and even John-117 himself?
I propose that it was kept secret from them, as they all had a mission to do: find a Prophet and try and capture it to end the war. Now, the UNSC on Reach knew they couldn't win, with the only real UNSC victory ever being Harvest (it already been glassed anyways) where the UNSC had five times the amount of ships, which it was now the opposite on the UNSCs fortress. So, if they could manage to hold the Covenant long enough to send off the Spartans to end the war, it would be worth the sacrifice.
However, becuase of the Spartans personalities and that of the crew, if they knew Reach was falling they would want to abandon the mission and help Reach. This was unacceptable, so ONI did the worst thing possible: kept them in areas where there were no signs of Covenant and kept their knowledge restricted so they would not realize what was happening.
This explains why the none of the main characters know anything besides Halsey, and she would rather not think about it, and she's known for secrets; it is why TFoR never mentioned any of this.
So, why are Beta Red defending the ODPGs when what seems to be August 23rd and such? Well, it might be Beta Red was a group of Spartans that had accidently had the information leaked to, and volunteered to help, with ONI only letting them do so unless they went on the mission when the ship and the crew were ready (unfortunately, we all know Beta Red was KIA).
So, fast forward to when the Autumn is heading outsystem. So, why was the Autumn recalled when it was supposed to be taking off? Well, it is simply a misunderstanding: when the ships were recalled, there was no specific reference to any ship, but the Autumn was not included. However, Keyes didn't know that, and proceeded to help out when the second part of the Covenant fleet arrived in system.
So why was the Circumfrence sitting there for all this time with navigation data still onboard? It hadn't been sitting there, it was doing things and was on missions untill about a day or so ago. It came back and was being refitted and renamed to look like a civilian ship. So, it wasn't in danger of being captured by the Covenant, and nobody had needed to purge it until the time the Covenant arrived, at which point nobody was really onboard to do so.
So, what is with the Autumn returning to Reach? Keyes didn't know Cortana had a second half, and Halsey had not the time to get Cortana's fragment to Keyes with her helping the S-IIs with their MJOLNIR Mk. V and then rushing to Sword Base to grab Cortana while avoiding the Covenant.
Halsey then required Noble, but probably in that time, contacted Keyes and told him. Now, to re-fuse a very advanced smart AI with a fragment of itself, I'm guessing both had to be powered down beforehand or issues would occur. I will assume that Bungie used this, as we never see the Autumn's actual outsystem jump from out of Cortana's view, and being powered down (both fragments) she would not remember remember a gap in her memory (the Autmumn returning to Reach, then on the ground, then returning back up) and so would not feel the need to recount something she couldn't remember, and this is why we never see this event in TFoR.
Now, the Autumn probably utilized its state-of-the-art artificial gravity to land on Reach, much like how the Spirit of Fire, although massive, could hover in atmosphere (due to the Spirit being a refit colony ship, and so kept the artificial gravity).
So, what have we fixed? Well, a lot I think. Instead of saying the whole Reach invasion was covered up from the public, it is easier and makes more sense to say that the group that had been assigned the most important missions ever in the entire war to have it hidden to make sure their mission would happen without delay or any issues unitl on their way.
So, that's how I think it could happen, but it's my opinion, and if you have even better ways, feel free to share, and if you notice an error that is still unexplained in mine, please point it out.
And if you are one of those "Reach is broken, get over it" types: to all who wish to do as the same as the first commentor, I will not allow this thread to become another one of the many rage threads that populate these forums and now that I've seen what people want to do, I don't want any people doing this, and I will enforece this unless I am messaged from a Mod or other such person with authority as such.
This is supposed to be a progresive thread, not a bickering thread.THIS, i loved it very spot on from what i believe, OP have you read halseys journal by any chance? anyway.
for keyes to return when the spartans met up for halseys briefing or whatever briefing it was( for the capture of a prophet) halsey told Keyes about whats been happening on reach so with that keyes would return to pick up cortanas fragment, when he new he had to, perhaps some bickering between them made him not want too but then when 700 plus ships came to reach he had to get that data from cortanas fragment something risky to save humanity and their Daughter.
it's possible. Red, echo and gauntlet teams were spartan 2's or more spartan 3's considering the full number of spartan 2's( and perhaps 3's are not fully known) another is in reach the game were fighting on half of reach with the army, in the books and games we were of Navy province perhaps half of reach was contained with navy and the other with Army?
other than this you got what i believed after I read halseys journal. nice work
[Edited on 12.16.2010 1:58 AM PST]