- Astrogenesis 1
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So I recently got the new 'December 2010' version of Halo: First Strike.
I was reading the foreword, an thought that it brought up more questions than answers!
**SPOILER WARNING**
At the bottom of the first page, it reads;
Halsey's excavation of the Forerunner cavern in First Strike can be glimpsed at in the Reach game...
...errr, hang on a second, the structure in the 'Reach game' resides under ONI Sword Base, the Forerunner cavern in First Strike, is located under Castle Base, deep inside the Menachite Mountain.
So what the person who wrote the Foreword was smoking, we will never know.
Moving on, I quote;
In the aftermath of the launch of Halo: Reach, the prequel video game for the Xbox 360, readers have a lot of questions. Luckily, for all Halo novels, First Strike is the one that answers the most, at least as those questions relate to the events of Halo 1, 2 and Reach.
Now to me, that sounds like it says that the questions posed in Reach, are going to be answred in First Strike. Right?
The questions I most want anwered are;
1. What happened to Jun?
2. Why was the Autumn on the planet surface?
3. If Halsey knew about the Forerunner structure under Sword base, why was she unaware of those under Castle?
Well, i have read all the way to Chapter 18, and the Adjunct, and alas, my questions have not been answered.
Now don't get silly saying 'read the whole book' or somthing like that, I am in the proccess of doing so. I am mearly bringing to light that this is the 3rd book to be re-released, where 343 had the opertunity to explain some of the inconsistencies of Reach, and have failed misserably.
Definitive Edition, I think not.