By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Posted by: OrderedComa
All I've seen ajw do in the posts I've seen is act like a blind troll, his arguments have not been all that strong and he has so far as I have seen based all his arguments in opinion.
What I've come to expect from these forums now, nothing but arrogant hostility...
Your haven't been strong in your arguments either, we don't have to have seen the HSB to know that Reach broke canon. The facts are there.
TFOR, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx and Halo Evolutions state that the battle is 1 days long. The novels were all written with the HSB used as reference, now with Reach the Covenant arrive at Reach in July and the actual battle begins August 14th when the Fleet of Particular Justice arrive just after the Long Night of Solace is destroyed.
On the subject of the Long Night of Solace, how the hell did it manage to exit slipspace by the planet without being detected? It's a Supercarrier, it's about 27 kilometers long and none of the UNSC orbital stations managed to see it coming.
The Covenant could cloak thier ships. They are portraying the Covenant as being too intuitive now. If the Covenant had that ability, then ship-to-ship battles would be instant loses for the UNSC every single time.
Realistically, it would obliterate UNSC forces on the ground easily. Plasma launchers, tactical shield towers, trans-location devices, Radar jammers. It sort of defeats the image of an enemy constantly referred to as "imitative" who cannot create its own ideas for technology and apply them properly, who also rely on brute force to win rather than clever strategy and tactics.
We also have to assume that the Covenant somehow has perfected the process of a silent slipstream transition (Intuition and science that they do not have), otherwise that AC would have been detected.
With this technology, they could cloak an entire Armada, silently slip in-system undetected, use radar jamming to prevent further detection, position themselves and then decisively slit the UNSCs metaphorical throat.
We know that Halcyon-class ships aren't rated for atmosphere, it makes no sense for the Autumn to have been dry-docked when it should have had the Spartans preparing for Operation: RED FLAG on it, but no, RED FLAG can never have happened because Halsey was under SWORD Base with the Cortana fragment examining the "Latchkey" artefact which made absolutely no sense at all.
It had to go through a very long warm-up process. If it docked planetside (onto a planet in the process of being overrun and glassed, I might add) to collect nothing more than an AI chip, they would have left engines running, to leave at a moments notice. But no, it was docked there for over a day.
It had been there a very long time, and they were starting it up for the first time.
Think of it like pulling up outside a store and your friend going inside to buy whatever. Instead of leaving the engine running, you've turned off the engine and put the keys in your pocket. What for?
In case you don't remember, PoA came stupidly close to being glassed by a CCS Battlecruiser. If they had just 'pulled up' to pick up Cortana, then they would not have shut down the engines, leaving them open to just such a possibility.
Carter, Emile and Jun are 5 years too old to be Spartan-IIIs in Alpha Company. Kurt states that there were 470 children aged 4-6 that arrived on Onyx. Spartan candidates CANNOT receive the augmentations if they are in puberty, or finished with it. This was what caused all the deaths with ORION, and thus, Carter/Emile/Jun's age is solidified as a canon error - as they would have been in puberty when they received the augments.
Also, the Cole Protocol. In the case any Covenant are detected, all NAV bases and ships purge their computers of information to protect Earth and the other inner colonies.
If Covenant are detected on Reach on July 23rd, how is it that a month later, there are still computers with information to Earth still active? If ONI hadn't taken more than a month, then Blue team wouldn't have been deployed to the Circumference, and James wouldn't have died, and Linda wouldn't have been in a coma. In fact, they would have been on Reach with Red Team.
There was almost no military presence on Reach either. The novels always refer to it as humanity's military base, their most equipped bastion, yet in the game you are on a farming planet with a few small military bases scattered around.