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Posted by: MegaMuffin16
Some errors are minor retcons, others are huge inconsistencies that make the rest of the Halo timeline impossible. If the Covenant had been fighting on Reach for a month, Cole Protocol would have initiated and the data would be purged. Thus Blue Team wouldn't be sent to Gamma station, and so on and so forth.
Wow, I never considered that...........
More reason to think number 3
Plus, I agree with grey, the way Reach was depicted ruined the sense of dread of the Covenant (the polar opposite of what Bungie was trying to achieve). The fall of Reach in the book was epic, quick, brutal and most importantly QUICK. The Covenant obliterated basically our entire military command structure and fleet in one friggin' day . It sealed the deal humanity was doomed. After Reach, humanity was on the run completely, with little to fight back with.
Reach in the game was slow, dull, boring and depicted more as the battle of Harvest (a random farming colony) rather then the last hope of humanity falling. Ironically, the slow painful death was less impactful then the quick and decisive death. The Covenant were depicted as no more powerful then the UNSC. They just won , as in all battles there will be a winner.
There was virtually no fleet to show the audience what Reach was, no armies of thousands of human soldiers and civillians getting massacered, Reach was just.....a farming colony.
Bungie assumed everyone knew what Reach was it seems. You can tell because it is never explained in game. And even still, for those who did know what it was, it was depicted horribly!
[Edited on 05.20.2011 2:02 PM PDT]