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Posted by: Grey101
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.
That may be, but I don't think Halo is anywhere big enough to have that kind of problem yet. Star Wars is something of a different matter, it's been around for several decades and has about a million different people writing for it and putting media out. Halo isn't in the same boat yet, and I think 343i have a much better grip on the Halo story than Lucasarts does for Star Wars, but that's just my opinion :/
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.
I have read all the books to date, only once though and I don't own them, so my experience with the books has not been as extensive as others. However, I do not base my opinions on the games, I take the best of both worlds. And my reasoning for concluding that Reach would have lasted longer is from information we've accumulated from mostly the books.
I know the Covenant are stronger than the UNSC, but out classing your opponent does not assure you an easy victory. Especially with everything asset the UNSC had that I listed. What exactly did First Strike say about the Trafalgar's demise? I don't remember the specific details. In any case, it would have done some good before it was destroyed.
Halopedia says the UNSC Navy numbered at nearly 200 strong, so I'd say it's probably somewhere between your estimate and what Halopedia says. That's enough to give the Covenant a hell of a fight, especially considering the 20 or so SMACs and the hundreds of other ODPs around Reach.
The exact purpose of the Supre Cruiser is not stated, it had the ability to snipe the SMACs and other ODPS, but it is never stated that that was its purpose.
Even with a surprise attack, it does not make sense for Reach to fall in two hours, it was almost an ass-pull ending, imo. With a surprise attack I do not think they would last a long time, but it would sure as hell have been more than two hours. The timeline for the battle laid out in Reach is much better and makes much more sense.
Halseys journal fixes SOME errors but defiantly not most of them, 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.
I haven't read it yet for myself, so I only know what I've heard, and everything I've heard indicates that it fixes most of the conflicts. Why does Noble Team have a need to really have their back story really fleshed out? The characters in ODST did not truly have their back stories fleshed out when their game was released either, yet I don't see you or anyone else complaining about that. What do you find so unbelievable about the Autumn being lifted off with those rocket tugs?