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Posted by: Onyx81
Posted by: Plasma Prestige
Posted by: RKOSNAKE
If you think about it, using Reach's logic we can further solve the clashing parts of the Fall of Reach. So, we know that in the book the battle of Reach lasted 2 hours, because the Covenant deployed dropships to the SMAC generators, now, using the book logic it wouldn't make sense, I mean, they just arrived and knew where to go.
But if you use the events of Halo: Reach it makes more sense since the Covenant were in Reach for over a month without really being noticed, so they could have gathered information and thus, when the main fleet arrived, they already knew what zones to attack, that would help both sides as the Reach would still keep the whole scouting party thing and The Fall of Reach would finally make sense with the whole droships knowing where to attack thing.
I agree.
I loved Eric Nylund's work on the fiction. But now I see that the two pieces are meant to work together for the most part. Yes, there were some retcons, but there was nothing really major that doesn't any sense whatsoever. POA landing on Reach. What was stopping the Covies from glassing it? You can clearly see at least 10 Covie ships off in the distance doing nothing. Also, how does it even land without sustaining major damage to its hull?
In the Reach Datapads, it was estimated that glassing an entire planet for the size of the covenant armada would take 34 months (off the top of my head number, sorry). So certain things come first. The Prophets say kill all humans. So killing the civillians comes first, since they are easy targets. Then you gotta take control of the air, so your fleets hover in atmosphere to launch ordinance, and to gravlift vehicles and infantry on the ground. They can't just fly here and there and glass everything quickly. And using Azod shipwrecking yards to hide the Autumn was clever. They wouldn't need to glass a pile of junk. etc etc.
But the POA landing. yes this one is hard to figure out. How do you land a huge ship on a planet without assistance against gravity. It's just logically impossible to explain due to hull stress, microfractures from gravitational torque...i dunno on that one.
[Edited on 07.12.2011 4:02 PM PDT]