Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect
:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.
After having fought my way through the Corvette alongside the music of Daft Punk, I managed to reach the bridge. After clearing it out, I stood and observed the hologram in the center of the room, which displays UNSC and Covenant force deployment across the entire planet, remembering a thread a couple weeks ago about this hologram. After observing it in theater a for a good hour, I have come up with the following theories or interpretations of what each hologram means:
- Corvettes in the hologram are in yellow, which would suggest Covenant forces are in yellow, Spirit Dropship brigades are also represented in yellow.
- 41 dots are represent in high orbit over Reach, which leads me to belive are the exit slipspace coordinates for the arriving Covenant Fleet at the end of the level.
- It is not possible that each dot represents a Corvette as there would be approximatly 138 Corvettes in total (Yes, I counted them). A fleet of 138 Corvettes would be a serious problem for the Reach home fleet, especially after suffering a surprise attack in orbit (Remember TotS opening cutscene, Dot says ''We are under attack in the Viery territory, including orbital defenses''.
- The yellow dots must represent Covenant forces in orbit, but not only Capital Ships (Carries, Frigates, Destroyers, etc) We only see Corvettes throughout the campaign because they were assigned to lower priority objectives (Occupy cities, raids on underdefended UNSC facilities) while bigger ships were sent on higher objectives, like engaging other UNSC capital ships (Like the Cruiser that attacks the POA)
- The boarded Covenant Corvette is shown in the hologram, in suppossibly ''Covenant Occupied Space''. For some reason, this is the area of Reach's orbit where there are less Covenant forces present.
- There is a yellow dot surrounded by a red square and a Corvette hologram with apparent red text. Logic would say this represents the boarded Corvette (See above), and thus the Covenant knew about the boarded Corvette. This leaves two options:
1. Either this is a local TACMAP, which is updated every certain ammount of time, thus not allowing the rest of the Covenant fleet knowledge of the overrun Corvette. Knowing the UNSC has an updated by the secound TACMAP, this dosent seem possible for the Covenant, but it's still a possibility.
2. The TACMAP is similar to the UNSC's, which would mean the Covenant knew of the boarded Corvette, but did nothing about it, most likely underestimating what the UNSC was capable of, dismising it as a simple raid.
- Red spots show UNSC positions or UNSC high value targets, that are or are not currently under siege by ally forces.
- SWORDBASE is represented on the hologram, as being a red square surrounded by a yellow square, which would mean it's occupied or it's being assaulted, this time there are numorous yellow dots, meaning a full force attack. This area is towards the northern polar region, next to the ocean, which would fit with Swordbase's geographical location.
Additional: Either Reach is as badly defended as the hologram shows and has pretty much no orbital assest left, or the Covenant dosent have solid intel on deployment of UNSC fleets not currently in combat, which is what it hopefully is, because if not this is just another insult towards ''The most heavily defended UNSC colony''.
The boarded Corvette on the Hologram
''Covenant Occupied Space''
41 dots in High Orbit over Reach
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This is ofcourse, my interpretation of the hologram, and my best guess. Even then, it's still a big mess and still dosent really help the lone of canon Halo Reach represents. Bungie's done goofed up, again. Any thoughts on this guys?
Discuss.
[Edited on 07.18.2011 2:01 PM PDT]