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Posted by: grey101
to be honest the book halo reach and the game halo reach both can't happen at the same time.
Actually they can, it's easy to fit the two together, you just have to use a little common sense. I know you could easily fit things together if you wanted to, I've seen your posts in other threads, I know you could it if you wanted to.
In the game the PoA is on reach for whatever reason and waiting for a cortana fragment.
It was only on the surface to pick up the fragment, and that was it, and there is no indication it was there the entire battle.
In the book PoA was nearly out of the system when the covenant attacked and cortana was on board along with the chief who wasn't in cryo.
Again, we don't actually know where the Autumn was when the Covenant were first found on Reach or when the second and third fleets arrived.
Chief being in the cryo tube is an easter egg, it has no bearing on canon or the story whatsoever, and this is reinforced by you actually having to pan the camera to the side to see it.
In the game Reach didn't have a fleet whatsoever and ships had to be recalled from other systems.
In the book reach had a fleet of roughly 100-130 ships and dozens of orbiting support stations (non macs)
There was a fleet there, otherwise Carter would not have mentioned the ships carrying nukes going down and the Grafton and Savannah would not be located at Reach. In the space section we were in area not heavily fortified, and quite likely whatever defenses nearby had been relocated or they were destroyed.
In the game reach has no Fleet, no MACS (don't give me that we didn't see them BS), no orbital stations of anytype, and called for other ships to come to the system for help.
Reach had to call for help in the book too, or did you conveniently forget that little detail? And a planet is a huge thing, you're not going to see all of it, either in regards to what's in orbit or what's planet side. I agree that Bungie could have done much more with the space battle than they did, but I do not let that minor disappointment cloud my over-all enjoyment of the game.
In all honesty it is ether the book or the game with this one. and yes i know kat said something about the Macs, but we didn't say any on ether side of the planet.
I'm sorry, grey, but I'm just going to have disagree with you on that point, I think it's far too narrow minded and not trying to observe the big picture. You seem to be a great guy, or girl (whichever you may be), and are one of the people I respect on here, maybe even call friend, but I do not, and really cannot, agree with you on this at all.
On the subject of the last issue you raised, as I said earlier, a planet is a large thing, we're not going to see all of it, and I don't think there was anything at all indicating that the LNoS was on the other side of the planet from Anchor 9, they're not that far off, certainly not on the other side of the planet from each other.