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http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/news/headline/the-halo-bulletin-10 1211-exclusive-book-excerpt-glasslands/280887


Enjoy.

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  • 10.12.2011 9:38 AM PDT

I had a feeling democracy... or something other than militarism, at least, would be brought back after Halo 3.

Got to say, I'm really looking forward to this. Humanity's place in the universe; that's what I find most wonderful about sci-fi. Sure, ancient alien cultures can be interesting, parasitic extra-galactic threats are menacing; at the end of the day though, to me good science fiction is science fiction that brings us back to that age old, relatable question:

"What is it to be human?"

It seems this novel will be exploring that a little. That makes me happy. Her writing style seems a little simplistic from the two chapters I've read so far, but she seems to have a good grasp on characters and dialogue, which can go a long way.

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  • 10.12.2011 9:48 AM PDT

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Posted by: CavemanBCE
http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/news/headline/the-halo-bulletin-10 1211-exclusive-book-excerpt-glasslands/280887

Enjoy.


Link fix. Also already seen but good to see news is spreading.

  • 10.12.2011 9:48 AM PDT

Unfortunately, I have a long, long day of classes today, but I will weigh in with my own opinions this evening.

  • 10.12.2011 9:54 AM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

-blam!- you OP,i -blam!- love you man, you just made my day :DDD

  • 10.12.2011 10:02 AM PDT
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Member of Bungie.net for nearly three years, still continuing!

Enjoy what you have and live on.

My gamertag is Elder Bias

So, Naomi-010 is SPARTAN-II? It confirms my theory that actual number of 33 SPARTAN-IIs aren't really actual number. I'm thinking it's more than 33, as ONI covered it up. ONI is getting more sneaky as I see.

Also, Forerunners technology are quickly implemented to UNSC ships? Looks like UNSC may have speedy recover from the war.

Engineers fleeing from the Elites?

  • 10.12.2011 10:19 AM PDT

They've gone home to Kahje.

Big, stupid jellyfish.

  • 10.12.2011 10:21 AM PDT

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Hey one of the elite drives a warthog!
HOO-RA!

I hope Halsey doesn't die.

  • 10.12.2011 10:26 AM PDT

And everybody's being retarded -blam!-s from what I see.

Thel and Hood want a peace treaty, ONI and group of Elites want MORE war and to commit genocide.

Read first chapter and it just seems... weird.

Nor am I understanding how The rehabed Spartan thinks Halsey just tossed her aside. That seems completely out of character for Halsey to go "You are broken, a failure, boot!"

  • 10.12.2011 10:49 AM PDT

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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.

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They've gone home to Kahje.

Big, stupid jellyfish.


Why should the Jellies receive special treatment?

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Posted by: Spartan 100
Hey one of the elite drives a warthog!
HOO-RA!

I hope Halsey doesn't die.


Screw Halsey, i'm worried about Arby :(

  • 10.12.2011 11:10 AM PDT

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I'm not being retarded...

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Posted by: Spartan 100
I'm not being retarded...


cmdr is refering to the book characters.

Unless your post was a response to my?

  • 10.12.2011 11:12 AM PDT

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Oh I thought he meant the people in this thread.
It wouldn't surprised me if he did.

I like Halsey, the family at the dyson sphere, Lord Hoodie, Thel, etc.

  • 10.12.2011 11:16 AM PDT

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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
And everybody's being retarded -blam!-s from what I see.

Thel and Hood want a peace treaty, ONI and group of Elites want MORE war and to commit genocide.

Read first chapter and it just seems... weird.

Nor am I understanding how The rehabed Spartan thinks Halsey just tossed her aside. That seems completely out of character for Halsey to go "You are broken, a failure, boot!"


Looks like I was right in guessing that Halsey is going to be demonised and will hate on everyone in the Dyson SPhere just for the sake of drama. Why is there tension between her and Mendez?! They have been on very good terms with each other in the past, why does she suddenly have this feeling of resentment towards him?

  • 10.12.2011 11:17 AM PDT


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Posted by: Spartan 100
I'm not being retarded...


cmdr is refering to the book characters.

Unless your post was a response to my?


Talking about book characters yes.

  • 10.12.2011 11:17 AM PDT


Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
And everybody's being retarded -blam!-s from what I see.

Thel and Hood want a peace treaty, ONI and group of Elites want MORE war and to commit genocide.

Read first chapter and it just seems... weird.

Nor am I understanding how The rehabed Spartan thinks Halsey just tossed her aside. That seems completely out of character for Halsey to go "You are broken, a failure, boot!"


Looks like I was right in guessing that Halsey is going to be demonised and will hate on everyone in the Dyson SPhere just for the sake of drama. Why is there tension between her and Mendez?! They have been on very good terms with each other in the past, why does she suddenly have this feeling of resentment towards him?


And why does he suddenly distrust/dislike her?


I mean the dialogue "We've been awfully civil so far." and basically sounding like "Let's just get the -blam!-ing into the open."

  • 10.12.2011 11:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan 100
Oh I thought he meant the people in this thread.
It wouldn't surprised me if he did.

I like Halsey, the family at the dyson sphere, Lord Hoodie, Thel, etc.


Me too

But i'm really worried about Arby, alot of Sangheili are against him and ONI :(

I think that Halsey and the family will side with Arby, especially if they would discover that arby is the only one who had seen John and Cortana for last time and because Arby helped them instead of returning to the galaxy with Rtas

  • 10.12.2011 11:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron

Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
And everybody's being retarded -blam!-s from what I see.

Thel and Hood want a peace treaty, ONI and group of Elites want MORE war and to commit genocide.

Read first chapter and it just seems... weird.

Nor am I understanding how The rehabed Spartan thinks Halsey just tossed her aside. That seems completely out of character for Halsey to go "You are broken, a failure, boot!"


Looks like I was right in guessing that Halsey is going to be demonised and will hate on everyone in the Dyson SPhere just for the sake of drama. Why is there tension between her and Mendez?! They have been on very good terms with each other in the past, why does she suddenly have this feeling of resentment towards him?


And why does he suddenly distrust/dislike her?


I mean the dialogue "We've been awfully civil so far." and basically sounding like "Let's just get the -blam!-ing into the open."


Yeah. He's done everything she asked willingly knowing it was the right thing, if anything it's Halsey who had doubts about what she was doing, she resented herself, not others.

And that reference to Miranda at the end felt very out-of-place, just to establish the link for the sake of it.

And then there's the fact that Thel is on Sanghelios as early as January when Halo 3 shows him on Earth at the memorial service in March, that's a 2 month difference there, it's heavily implied he only recently got back to Earth and it's evident he never left it because the Shadow of Intent is the only ship there.

My brain...

  • 10.12.2011 11:22 AM PDT


Posted by: anish panchalin
Because the Spartan project was very personal to her. She felt betrayed that one of her close colleagues would go behind her back and make another project using her ideas without telling her and cutting her out of the loop.

This can easily be gathered from the excerpts alex, the way I see it. Before you ask how I know your name its because I've seen connor (wolverfrog) use it twice.


Again, he didn't make the project, Ackerson did. She hadn't even heard from him in a long time at that point, so why hate him for not telling her?

I'd have to look into GoO, but I think even then there wasn't this mutual resentment between the two.

  • 10.12.2011 11:23 AM PDT

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Wolverfrog used to be on the halo wars forums. Funny thing how I became someone halo wars important, kind of.

Anyways back to topic, I liked the reference to Halsey's Journal. I was like, I read it too!

  • 10.12.2011 11:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: anish panchalin
Because the Spartan project was very personal to her. She felt betrayed that one of her close colleagues would go behind her back and make another project using her ideas without telling her and cutting her out of the loop.

This can easily be gathered from the excerpts alex, the way I see it. Before you ask how I know your name its because I've seen connor (wolverfrog) use it twice.


Again, he didn't make the project, Ackerson did. She hadn't even heard from him in a long time at that point, so why hate him for not telling her?

I'd have to look into GoO, but I think even then there wasn't this mutual resentment between the two.


The interaction between Halsey and Mendez in GoO was still very friendly, she gladly held his hand as they were walking into the interior of Onyx despite knowing (and even suspecting for a long time) that mendez was involved with the S-III Project. There has never been an indication of rivalry at any point.

This can easily be gathered from the excerpts alex, the way I see it. Before you ask how I know your name its because I've seen connor (wolverfrog) use it twice.

Does not mean you get to use my name just because you know it, you do not know me...

  • 10.12.2011 11:26 AM PDT