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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
After going over pieces of information from the books and other media, I'll leave the Encyclopedia out since nobody seems to care about it...even though 343 released an updated version last week.
Impossible Life and Possible Death of Admiral Preston J. Cole: States that as of December 31st, 2552, the situation humanity finds itself in is still "highly unstable" and that the insurgency and client Covenant species may pose a threat.
Dr. William Iqbal's Letter: Sates that as of January 31st, 2553, "our civilization has undergone a significant shift. Our populations are decimated, our people scattered, and our military is now at it's weakest since the dawn of slipspace travel."
The UNSC got their hands on Slipsapce travel in 2291. That is a 250+ year gap and we've been reduced to that.
Also stated "The Sangheili have promised nothing-and indeed warned us that they do not yet control either the Covenant client species, or even their own domestic situation."
So the Elites aren't sharing anything.
1. That's still pretty close to the end of Halo 3 though, not that much is going to noticeably change drastically in not even a month's time.
2. Same thing as number one, not too much is going to noticeably or drastically change in a whole month.
Eh, I wouldn't really take that statement literally *shrug* It sounds more like hyperbole or plain old exaggeration to me :/
That seems to me more like "we have our -blam!- to deal with right, we can't really do anything that might help you at the moment". What exactly do you mean by "the Elites aren't sharing anything"?
Halo: Glasslands info: From information regarding Glasslands, we will attempt to steal some Engineers from the Elites.
Halo: Reach extra content: By 2589, it would seem we've at last recolonized Reach and created new space-faring vehicles. By 2610, New Alexandria has been rebuilt, recently or years ago.
Halo: Legends: Cortana starts to talk to the Chief at least by 2555. She claims to be 7 at the time and since she was created in 2549, 2555 should be about the date her monologue takes. SO either that is the time the game is set or they keep drifting for a few more years.
3. Why is that really significant? The Engineers will be able to help humanity understand Forerunner technology much, much faster than they would be able to on their own. It's not like they need the Engineers to rebuild their old technology.
4. Again, I don't really see what is so significant about this :/ So Reach is finally able to be recolonized, what exactly does that mean? I don't see how having a Forerunneresque ship in that scene means they only just invented such a ship.
So here is my rough timeline.
Late 2550's: Humanity still recovering, hostilities with Elites and rebels still a big issue.
2580's: New ships are being made and recolonization of glassed worlds being undertaken.
2600's: Humanity is really better off.
So you can see why I don't think the UNSC are going to recover within 10 years or so.
The fact the 2554 Warthog is mentioned would mean that that either the UNSC somehow managed to overcome all this hardship in no time at all, which is really stupid, or they are carrying some understandingly outdated cargo.
That said, it doesn't quite explain how UNSC ships became so advanced. As seen in Reach, it took until the 2580's to resettle on Reach and we saw a ship that kinda looks like the Infinity. I say kinda since we don't get a really good view.
No, I don't really see your position, I think you're overestimating everything by a lot. I don't think there will be a really speedy recovery, but I don't think it'll be anywhere near as slow as you're implying.
Well as 343i said at Halo Fest, the UNSC actually has the time and resources to devote to researching and reverse engineering Forerunner and Covenant technology. Their first uses of the tech would probably be much like what the Covenant did, pretty much just reverse engineering the tech without any or much innovation and then the truly unique and innovative stuff would come along later. I think it probably took until 2589 to really recolonize Reach because that's how long the terraforming process took, and the fact that they would probably focus more on rebuilding their surviving planets and the military before focusing too much on resettlement.
IMO, the ship we see in Reach's epilogue looks more advanced and more Forerunneresque than the Infinity does, which would fall in line with what I theorized above.