- OrderedComa
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Posted by: Colichemarde
Posted by: OrderedComa
I've already pointed out the flaws of that line of reasoning, I'm not going to type it up again here, but see my fifth post in this thread for my rebuttal.
Governments lie to their people willingly and often. Many will eventually forget what's the truth, the lie, or conveniently loose track of what was true and what was theory, or deception. It happens, has, and could with this.
They believe this is what happened.
From the standpoint of how the game ended, with a colony ship in the backround. It could all be the mythos of the Reach that the new colonial leaders want to be the truth.
And as I pointed out but you seemed to over look. ONI may lie to the public, quite often I'm sure, but why would they be openly lying to each other about the timeline and length of the battle. Sure you can argue that Noble's actions during Reach are entirely made up or made more dramatic (and whoever was receiving the information would probably be none the wiser), but the entire military knew how long the Battle of Reach was as a great many of them were there or knew people who were. Especially people in ONI. The message is written as if everything within is fact, if the timeline of the battle was a lie then they would have written it more like what I said. IE this "here's what command has decided on and approved as the official story and time table for Reach" and not "this is the most complete record of the actions of Noble Team and the Battle of Reach that we have been able to gather".