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Deva Path
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
We are all going to get banned aren't we?
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: Lord Slade
Good canon overrides bad canon. They're making this to please the audience, remember? That's how they make money, that's how they built a fanbase. Now you're saying that this fanbase just has to take the slap in the face that Reach was.
If we let any craptastic clutter canon be accepted as official, it'll end up worse than Star War's EU.
In your book maybe, but ultimately canon is decided by the developers/owners of the story, in this case Bungie, or rather 343i now. And while you may think Reach is a horrible story, I personally found it quite enjoyable and exactly what I thought it would be.
True but once a series gets big and uncountable amounts of stories have been made; eventually it is up to the fans to piece the canon puzzle together much like starwars fans have been doing.
Plus, Reach falling over a period of two weeks makes infinitely more sense than two hours. I mean think about it, the UNSC had 20 SMACs, almost their whole fleet which had some pretty bigass ships like the Trafalgar, and many of their greatest military minds such as Captain Keyes. There is no way with all of that Reach would fall in just two hours, no matter how many ships the Covenant had (and no, don't bring up that there were 700+ ships because there weren't, that was a mistake as everywhere else in the book it goes back to the approximately 314 from the original print). To be honest have you even read the books and actually understood them or do you just fully know halo off the games? What you have stated is something i fully expect from somebody that only knows halo from the games and not the actual lore.
First off the covenant are far superior to the UNSC which is the main reason they lost nearly every space engagement. secondly ships like Trafalgar were huge and slow therefore a large sitting target for covenant ships; which is the reason it was one of the first ships to be destroyed during the battle before it could do anything and a supporting reason why the UNSC make small to medium sized ships.
Yes Reach had 20 SMACs, but they got swarmed by boarding craft and were also getting sniped by a new class of covenant ship designed to take out MACs.
The fleet of the Reach was only 100 ships (120 at the most with reinforcements) the actual covenant fighitng force of ships was 314 ships (though a good amount was destroyed by mines) even then they still outnumbered the number of ships the UNSC had; as they failed to meet the 3:1 ratio they needed to beat covenant ships.
After a few rounds and breaching a line in the MACs the covenant split the ships into two forces, one force of over 150 focus on UNSC ships while the rest worked on the MACs with the covenant Supercruiser sniped UNSC ships from a distance.
The UNSC tried to split their force of around 50 ships (if i remember right) but there were too many platforms to cover and too many dropships surrounding their ships and going to the surface to take down the MACs.
The reason Reach fell in 2 hours is because there weren't enough ships and not enough SMACs to cover the planet. Not to mention the UNSC only had a low number of 100 ships and didn't expect the covenant to attack.
People are taking this way too personally -.- I mean yes, there are a few errors in Halo: Reach, but if you actually think about it, it's a big deal, and most of it has already been fixed anyway in Halsey's Journal, or just can be easily figured out with a good dosage of common sense.
Halseys journal fix SOME errors but defiantly not most of the, and common sense does not flesh out the backstory of noble team that we were said to get, nor does it explain why the hell the PoA Landed, landed on a drydock instead of an orbital station, and how the hell it could take off like that.
[Edited on 04.29.2011 3:20 PM PDT]