Posted by: fxnavarro
@grey101
1. It was important enough to dispatch and Elite Strike Team :3
2. The members of Alpha, Beta, etc. in Noble Team were pulled from their companies prior to the destruction of their respective companies. Your question wasn't clear so I just gave what I thought was an answer to it.
3. Its a logical assumption, an educated guess. Clearly it was a shell from some sort of MAC gun, its an unimportant detail that 343i may never go over.
4. Well clearly they survived unscathed, so that basically gives the assumption that there augmented lungs can handle that. Once again, an unimportant detail, might as well take guesses because 343i will not go over it.
5. Once again, read the personal journal, a starmap leading to Halo is kinda important, hence why it was given to Cortana (fragment, later reuinited), and then escorted by S-IIIs to a highly modified ship with S-IIs. That answers your question.
6. The thruster part is a logical assumption, the escape part is shown in the first cutscene of Halo 2.
Mostly, I agree with this.
1. Zealots are dispatched for any type of "holy" encounter. If the covenant found even the slightest hint to forerunner tech, then they would jump on it immediately.
2. Can't really add much more cause I really don't know
3. The corvette had to be destroyed by some sort of orbital MAC round. The longswords were there to give the coordinates so that it could fire. I don't think this is that important and we can assume the MAC idea easily.
4. pretty much agree with the above. They are 500 years in the future, I think they might have been able to come up with something.
5. agreed
6. Like stated, we see the PoA slip past the covenant in the Halo 2 cutscene. Most likely, they fired up their engines to full power and aimed for the biggest opening in the blockade.
Basically, what im trying to say is that for some of these things we can assume because they are not very important. They happened one way or another. Bigger questions could have more specific answers because they are relevent to the entire story. Trying to figure out how the PoA got through the blockade or how the spartans survived radiation is, to me, irrelevant (or at least irrelevant enough to not have this type of discussion about it).
This was in response to grey101's post.