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Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: Omanisat
Technically it shouldn't exist, as the POA hadn't launched it's mission by the time Noble-6 delivered Cortana, which is what they were waiting for to start.
The way Halo: Reach's campaign is timed, Noble delivers the fragment, the POA leaves on it's mission, then recieves the distress signal calling all ships back to Reach, where it is heavily damaged, the Spartan-IIs go planetside and the Chief is deployed to the orbital station.
The whole POA segment felt poorly thought out to me. There is no way you could safely land something that big on a planet, let alone get it back into space. It probably wouldn't even be structually capable of supporting it's own weight.
Actually all the events of the tail end of TFoR would have already happened the way Reach is timed. The events of TFoR take place in the early morning on the 30th, around 6:00 or 6:30 AM, and then the last proper mission in Reach, the Pillar of Autumn, takes place at around 4:30 or so PM on the 30th. So all the stuff in space would have already happened.
I don't see any real problem with the PoA landing, it landed safely enough on Alpha Halo with a very minor amount of crew, and for the take off on Reach it had those huge tug-boat inspired thruster packs to lift itself off the ground.
Yeah, it crashed with very little guideance and was in very good shape considering.