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Posted by ninjakenzen
Oh thanks, i have to hear about "two" incidents of orbital defenses on a shoddy radio that is not seen or heard in major plot points.
Considering the orbital defenses were crucial to the defense of Reach and how it fell.
You consider a word or sentence in a radio about MACS suffient?
You hear about them in the campaign, I can't say whether the SMACs or other orbital defense are mentioned in the FF radios as I've never listened to them, but the SMACs and other orbital defenses are mentioned at least twice in the campaign.
The Planet is Reach not Harvest.
Which brings me to that point about farms.
Reach is considered a Military Planet, therefore it would make sense if the planet was heavily fortified and to a certain extent, more technologically advanced.
We got a city that similar to Arcadia. We got a setting similar to colony planets in Mass Effect. And a Shipping Yard.
At what point in you delusional head would you consider this to be Humanity's best and finest military might?
Using the logic you are using, then Earth in Halo 2 and Halo 3 is a weak farmer colony as well. We only see three total SMAC stations in Halo 2 and none in Halo 3, and just as much military strength groundside as in Halo: Reach in both 2 and 3. With your logic then Earth is just as much a random farmer colony as Harvest. And it would be flawed logic, if there is more than one piece of canon that gives information about a specific event or detail, you can't look at just the one source and reach a conclusion about something, even if you think that there was a poor portrayal of military strength for the UNSC in Reach, it should not be a huge deal if you are not shown a massive force as we know that Reach has a massive military force present.
And if you ask me we see a great deal of military presence and strength in Tip of the Spear while the defenses of Reach are still at their strongest.
In the game they had simply NO FORM of defending themselves in space. Besides the Sabre, the Savannah and a docking station with automated turrets.
If you consider this sufficient, that's your viewpoint. I won't argue against it.
What i will say is.
You're an idiot.
Bungie stated in one of the weekly updates before Reach even came out that the events of the game were taking place on a different area than what we saw in TFoR, so we wouldn't necessarily see the SMACs or other prominent defenses as the events of the game took place in areas that were mostly low in population, New Alexandria being the one exception, and even then we didn't see all that much of the city and it had been under attack for several days at most, so any defenses it had would have been weakened.
Also, in Halo 2 we know there are something close to 300 ODPs, yet we can only see three objects that we know for certain are ODPs. Even if we were close to the SMACs or main concentration of ODPs when Noble Team takes part in UPPERCUT, we wouldn't necessarily see them for the same reason that we didn't in Halo 2, they're not huge ships like a Super Carrier or anything like that, so they are not exactly going to stand out against the planet.