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Posted by: MaxRealflugel
For the purpose of righting the wrongs of those who don't agree with Karen Traviss' perspective, allow me to elaborate.
I think it's fair to say that most of the people who visit here will be in their teens. NOTE: I said most, not all.
So it's also fair to say that most visitors/members here won't have children, or military experience. So allow me to explain a few things...
Imagine having your child snatched away at the age of six. Imagine your child dying.
Imagine a great and destructive war coming to an end. No more clear and obvious enemy, no more certainty.
Imagine finding out that one individual, in this case Halsey, has kidnapped children, thrown them into a life of military governance and experimented on them.
I'll admit, Nylund's novels painted a far rosier picture of Halsey. The Spartan's admired her, looked up to her, regarded her as a form of surrogate mother, if you like. And Nylund's novels also concentrated heavily on combat and the inevitable flickering of green acknowledgement lights.
Traviss, however, does none of this. She paints a darker picture, one filled with more realistic characters who have their own ambitions, be they good or bad. Her writing is born from a military background, whereas Nylund's is more technical or scientific.
I don't dislike Nylund's novels at all. In fact, I loved them. But Traviss tells it like it is. War is brutal and people suffer. But they also seek to destroy everything that the enemy still has, to ensure mankind's safety and security.
I'm with Karen Traviss.
Imagine dealing with your child's death.
30 years later a destructive war comes to an ends.
You are then told a woman kidnapped your child, experimented on him and forced them into the military.
Now you figure out the UNSC must had something to do with it because she needed funding and they kinda end up in the navy.
Now the UNSC denies funding and ONI is left with a large portion of the blame.
Nylund created a picture of Halsey and said this is what shes done, here positives and her negatives, you pick what you think of her. We painted the picture she was good because the positive included saving humanity but then lost it a bit because she kid napped Linda.
Travis says here, here Halsey... She is a bad person and constantly throws it down your throat, almost character expressed she is bad person at some point.
She may have a milatary background but use Jargon was minimal and eclipsed my Nylund's... That is not right, Halo books have a lot of Jargon.
these characters are not realistic because they seem really open to breaking rules on classified material and seem to have no long term sight, they are immature beyond belief.
Karen Traviss is not suited to right this sort of novel, she obviously can't handle a grey standpoint although she claimed that is what this novel is. She would be better suited to writing soaps because they seem to have the defined Good and Bad she likes.