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Posted by: Three00Jews
Ok. So I'm a HUGE Halo Canon lover...but the Halo Legends episode: The Package is FULL of errors...like-it's kinda sad. And they worked with 343i on this?
1) When Chief asks what will happen if they fail, the captain states they will have no choice but to "Annihilate the Covenant fleet, the Package, and your entire team." This makes ABSOLUTELY no sense. How does a single UNSC ONI Prowler annihilate an entire Covenant fleet, complete with multiple CCS Battlecruisers AND a Flagship? According to First Strike, Prowlers just drop Nuclear Mines before battles and stuff. How does a single Prowler do what he says they will do?
2) The Booster Frames. Some of the top UNSC officials even commented(in Ghosts of Onyx) that the cost of creating Mjolnir armor could fund an entire battle group. Also, the only reason the UNSC really loses is because they get destroyed in space. If a UNSC MAC gun can't even destroy some Covenant ships, how do 5 single X-Wing fighter type, single manned ships destroy entire ships? Like there are more weapons on those damn things than in an entire UNSC Battle Group. Did you SEE those MAC guns on them?
3) When Solomon thinks he has a reading and decides to go in alone. Kelly tells him to wait and he ignores her. This is incredibly wrong, as Spartans were trained with the most rigorous military discipline. Disobeying orders or a commanding officer is STRICTLY something Spartans do not do.
4) The Booster Frames shoot bullets. In space. Bullets can't shoot in space. (At least I think...)
5) The Package itself. Is a human. The Covenant take NO prisoners, which means they would have never captured Dr.Halsey, they would have just killed her. Also, I don't think Halsey was ever off of the planet Reach except for when she went to meet the Spartans when they were kids(not entirely sure, but I think this is true). Therefore, it isn't possible for her to even encounter the Covenant personally until Reach, which happens long after this episode. And also, there is no reason for the Covenant to keep her because aside from "Demons", they don't know of any specific humans, and, supposedly, some can't even tell human genders apart.
Also, Dr.Halsey is younger than Chief in this episode. Possibly an artistic choice, but one that makes ABSOLUTELY no sense. I'll let you figure this one out.
6) The crew of the Flagship. The crew is made up of both Brutes and Elites. This never happens on a Covenant ship as both races hate each other. Elites would never let Brute savages onto their ship for multiple reasons, and we all know what they are. Brutes have their own ships(hardly, but still), so there would be no Brutes to kill.
Also, some of the Grunts have Plasma Rifles. Umm...
Also, the Major's two Elite comrades both have swords, but their armor is that of a Minor. Owning a Plasma Sword shows you have achieved a high rank, are incredibly skilled and have lots of honor, something Elite Minor's don't have. They would have Plasma Pistols, probably, but not swords. The Major? Yes. Minors? No.
7) The Major's sword deflects an entire clip of AR bullets. Plasma isn't a solid object, it can't deflect solid bullets. Maybe the handle could, but then the Major's hand would have gotten shot and you would have seen his shields flare.
8) There is a 117 clearly on the front of his armor...he never had that. The whole 117 thing is the # he was in the identification process-he was 117/150. Many people didn't even use the 117 when talking to/about him, except for his CO's. Like-they would use Sierra 117, but otherwise, it was Master Chief, or John.
Just...a few things I noticed XD
None of these are errors in the slightest, yeesh, I knew people didn't like Halo Legends but I didn't know it could get this bad :/
1. Prowlers have varying sizes, they're not all tiny little things, and seeing as this was a special mission it would be outfitted with armaments to make the captain's claim at least somewhat based in reality, the UNSC does have some very high-yield nukes at its disposal (especially earlier on in the war) and enough of them launched into the tightly packed Covenant ships would be enough to destroy quite a few of them. I the line was probably more exageration than fact though, much like Hood's line in Halo 2 about the fleet at Reach being fifty times the size of that at Earth.
2. What does the cost of Mjolner have to do with the Booster Frames? And unless we're talking about different videos here, the Booster Frames didn't destroy any Covenant ships at all. And they were nowhere near as well armed as you seem to think, they had a lot of missiles, a high-powered variant of the common Gauss (not a MAC gun) canon, and a couple machine guns on the wings, that's it. The only ships they destroyed were Seraphs.
3. He doesn't ignore her, I believe his line is something along the lines of "there's no time" in response to her suggestion to wait for Chief. And I don't think Kelly was higher ranked than him or holding a more seniorative position on the team (not really enough to order him around anyway). The positions of leader would be Chief as Team Leader, and then Fred would be the most likely candidate for second in command as he often led his own team.
4. Nothing to say here since other people have already explained it and you already conceded it.
5. We've known for a very long time that that is complete and utter bull--blam!-. The Covenant take prisoners ALL the time. Especially if it's someone they know would be important such as Halsey, Keyes, and Colonel Ackerson. Heck they ever take prisoners even they know they're not important, such as several squads of marines in both Halo 2 and 3, the marines with Keyes on the Truth and Reconciliation in CE, and probably other instances I'm possibly forgetting.
As for Halsey's appearance, yes, that was just artistic license.
6. The only Elites we actually see in the episode are on the bridge then entire time except for when the Major and his two guards go to confront Chief, Fred, and Kelly. And I don't think it would really be a significant problem having them on the same ship, happened on High Charity, and the relations between Elites and Brutes are practically same as Grunts and Jackals, yet those two are always on ships together. But really both Brutes and Elites will do what the Prophets tell them to (if perhaps grudgingly at best on the Elite's part).
I don't remember seeing any Grunts wielding Plasma Rifles, care to elaborate on what part you're talking about specifically that shows them with that weapon? And if they actually are holding Plasma Rifles I would just attribute it to artistic license.
And wielding a sword is not dependent on rank at all the Elites are all about skill and ability (among others we're all familiar with), thus a swordsman can be of any rank.
7. If the swords were not solid, or semi-solid then they would not have sort of cutting power to them at all, and they certainly would "clash" with each other like in the games. The energy swords are similar to the Jackal shields or the shielding systems on Mjolner, IE more like solid objects than the bolts of plasma fired by the Covenat weaponry.
8. So what? Artistic license that is entirely plausible, it's probably mostly though so the fans can identify Chief at a glance. In reality there is nothing at all wrong with him bearing his numerical disignation on his armor, especially since he has been referred to as Spartan-117 before in Halo lore.
There you go, easy explanations for your supposed "errors" in the story.