- ImmortalJoshua
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I started up the heated debate on whether the SPARTAN-II in the cryo tube near the end of Reach is really Linda.
I created the Moa XING avatar pic.
Also I earned the All Star nameplate with this submission to Week 14 All Stars http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline11/bwu_0415/art/likea boss.jpg
Posted by: MasterSin
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.
Not possible, In "The fall of Reach" the distress call to the PoA is sent and Captain Keyes has no idea Reach under siege. In Halo: Reach, Captain Keyes is well aware Reach is under siege, he is witnessing a Covenant cruiser CSS heading towards them. What's the point of the distress signal for something he already knows? At this point Reach is already lost. I say the Pillar of Autumn level is after they pick up John and clinically dead Linda from the statio Gamma.
I also posted this (don't remember where) if Red Team was targeted almost right away soon as they went into insertion, how come the PoA entering low orbit insertion wasn't targeted at all? It would have been a juicy sitting duck.
Maybe Bungie didn't bother to read "The fall of Reach". Who knows. The PoA level is the only one problem in the whole story between "The fall of Reach" and Halo: Reach.
Look at the timeline I posted up in my OP. I clearly state with time's from the book and game and this is true. Gamma Station occured first, then Keyes landed back onto Reach.
Now note, that there are several canon mistakes in the book THe Fall of Reach. Such as Halsey never knowing the existence of Elites.
As far as Reach breaking canon, I'm gonna have to compare the game with the books to see if any canon is actually being broken.