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Marine: "Got a new contact. Unknown Classification!"
Lord Hood: "If it isn't one of ours, take it out."
MC: "This is bus 117, can anyone hear me? Over."
Lord Hood: "Isolate that signal. Master Chief, you mind telling me you're doing at that school?"
MC: "Sir... picking up these kids."
I play my part in both universes, both maintaining information and spreading it.
I can say without a doubt that Star Wars has much more in terms of different media in which they try to show it's stories, and due to it's 200+ species and all of their BACKSTORIES, it's a pretty massive trademark.
BUT there is a differences between the two that I acknowledge.
While Star Wars does have an extensive history in it and does have many stories per individual, per faction, per specie, etc Star Wars lacks in a few areas:
1. The technology they use in Star Wars can only be measured so far, therefore you have to suspend your disbelif a bit. Halo does this too, but tries DESPERATELY to give an explanation where as Star Wars expects you to accept it and move on. Both approaches are correct, and Star Wars doesn't always do this, but it does it more than Halo, and it probably has to due to it's size.
2. The Species in both Star Wars and in Halo are both appealing, however Star Wars was made almost 40 years ago and most of the species in the series have been of simple design, merely switching heads for humanoid bodies, not attempting to classify a species or phylum etc. Also evolution wasn't taken into account in most of them. That's not something you can confrim so much as it's heavily implied by some of the more basic looking aliens that are just humaond bodies with masks, or just humans with one extra feature (such as Zabraks, Anzats, Balosars, Cerean, Chiss, Askajian, and MANY MANY MANY MANY MORE). In Halo it defines it's species and where they came from by how they look, their skin, it's texture, they aren't limited to one pair of knees for and obvious instance, also Halo talks about how they reproduce and other things that might be too "mature" for a family fun Star Wars media, as well as many other things. I will admit that species hav been GIVEN a backstory and some science behind their appearence, but that didn't occur for a WHILE before the Star Wars universe was less about believing and more about proving. Halo created these species and planets with that in mind for a more believeable experience.
3. Halo has the unfair advantage of also being a part of our human history, which makes every event in our history a part of it. It's true that Star Wars is a LONG time ago in a galaxy FAR AWAY, bu the universes have never been connected at all and I don't feel like they ever will be, they also don't play a role in one another. Halo fits in more snug with our own universe.
These are the reasons that Halo feels bigger, but I wouldn't say it's bigger in terms of size, I'd say it's more definitive, and it makes you have to suspend your disbelif less, and that's a good thing for a Sci Fi to do.