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Posted by: SonicJohn
Play all of Bungie's Halo games and you'll see that Bungie only wanted one Spartan.
Read all of and play all of Microsoft's Halo stories and you'll see that Microsoft disagreed with this sentiment.
Bungie wanted Halo to be about the Chief and Cortana's story, mostly Cortana, but Microsoft wanted Star Wars level of success, so expanding on the universe is what they needed to do.
You'll notice that playing Reach you'll see that every single Spartan dies. This is to emphasize what Bungie wanted originally. They could've made it so that they were all Spartan IIIs, but they would have been too obvious that they were intending on forcing the Halo story to make sense for what they wanted. But they threw in a Spartan II for good measure.
If you think Reach isn't canon, think of it this way:
Halo Reach, Halo 1, 2, ODST, 3, Halo: Contact Harvest = Bungie Halo Canon (all written by Bungie)Halo Wars, every other novel, comic, anime, short film, Halo 4 and beyond = Microsoft Halo Canon
These two separate canons are based on what Bungie did and what Bungie did not write, and completely] explain any discrepancies. So feel free to bear that in mind in future.
This post should be copied, and pasted into every single "Halo Canon" debate/argument/fanragequit thread.