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Subject: Ender, the Chief, and Johnny Rico
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What's this? A suspicious, yet infallible interconnection? Behold:

Fact 1: Ender commanded human fleets against a hostile alien race known as "buggers." After dominating them with his galactic flyswatter of a brain in numerous engagements around their colony worlds, he then found a cocoon containing a "bugger" queen and promised to stash it somewhere where their race could flourish again.

Fact 2: Johnny Rico fought in the Mobile Infantry against a hostile alien race known as Arachnids, or more colloquially, "bugs." He and his fellow team of bad actors fought the "bugs" in numerous engagements on their colony worlds.

Fact 3: the Master Chief, in his long and tiresome dealings with the Covenant, fought numerous encounters with an alien race known as Drones, or more colloquially, "buggers." He found them to be annoying, but not as much as Michelle Rodriguez.

Narrative: Ender was the behind-the-scenes commander of the human fleets in Starship Troopers, confirming all of our suspicions that the Sky Marshal was just a puppet. Johnny Rico was a member of the ground forces utilized during one of Ender's early engagements with the "buggers," who are one and the same in Starship Troopers and Ender's Game. That these ground engagements are never directly mentioned in Ender's Game is immaterial. The "buggers" that Master Chief fought were descendants of the cocoon that Ender found, their bellicosity being the result of human forgetfulness and awful Covenant daytime television programming. This helps to explain the nearly plagiaristic similarity between the respective hangar scenes in Halo: Combat Evolved and Starship Troopers. Johnson, being a veteran of the war against the Arachnids, was cryofrozen and zipped around in a lightspeed ship a la Mazer Rackham, so that human troops would be prepared and properly motivated to deal with the inevitable resurgence of the "bugger" threat.

sic luceat lux

  • 05.16.2011 12:09 PM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

Yay for Ender's Game/Shadow. Great books. :D

  • 05.16.2011 2:42 PM PDT

http://www.halo-forum.com

Halo draws inspiration from many sources, obviously Ender's Game for some subject matter and aesthetics from Starship Troopers but more so Aliens. The Marines in Aliens, their dropship, the guitar chewing black sergeant, all seems very familiar.

  • 05.16.2011 2:56 PM PDT