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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: prometheus25
You do realize this is science-fiction, right? You're looking ridiculous trying to demand where the UNSC bean-counters were during all of this.
Pretty much every other book dealt with the effects of funding for the UNSC war effort, now it doesn't matter because it's science-fiction? Seriously?
Unless you can tell us the ins and outs of the UNSC's budget, and the ONI's budget, as well as in what state specifically ONI's budget is in, I don't see a point in discussing funding. What effects that were discussed previously came primarily down too "the cost for *insert item here* is outrageous, you could build a battle group with that kind of money!" Economics really were more about resource management, like nuclear stockpiles (or lack of). There were no long monologues detailing the UNSC budget limitations, or ONI's for that (who works so far outside the law that budgeting is probably not their biggest concern). There was no detailed explanation on how the economic system worked, and all we know about the UNSC's budget is that it is severely depleted by war's end. But by what standards is it depleted? I'm sure that even post war UNSC would be an economic tyrant in modern day earth, what with them having access to the resources of multiple worlds.
What worlds they have are fewer by far then pre-war, but they no less are still an interstellar and interplanetary force with full access to those worlds. By our standards, they'd be able to buy us all out. So it isn't really that hard to understand that, with the resources of so many worlds and an effective encyclopedia on all things Forerunners, as well as a treassure trove of working technology presumably on all facets of science, from medicale to starship, that they'd be able to construct the Infinity or start the Spartan IV program or create the MJOLNIR Mk. VII, which, I'll remind you, was being constructed before war's end, for the war. No one was -blam!- ing about the Mk. V. and VI, armors being made just months prior to war's end, now were they? Was it because there was still a war on? Yes. Is Mk. VII being constructed for a war that ended ubruptly and with no notice? Yes. Was the budget in pretty much the same condition a couple months prior to the war's end as it is now? Yes, except now the UNSC can focus less on battle groups and war fighting and concentrate on other endeavors; in that regard, they have more oppurtunity. So I don't get the complaints.
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
[quote]Posted by: risay_117
It'd certainly disprove the fact Traviss showed a one-sided viewpoint despite her claims of neutrality in the presentation of the book.
If you want the other side of the argument, read literally every thing in the Halo universe that depicts Halsey sans Glasslands. Traviss was just writing how anyone would react to the revelation that someone was using children as experiments and soldiers--for the characters (whose mind we occupy in tight third person writing, as is what she writes) there is virtually no nuetrality involved in such a revelation. Traviss isn't expressing her opinion, she's expressing the opinions of the characters.
It's also only the first book in a trilogy. If the Gears of War novels are anything to go by, she introduces different opinions in book sequels. The first book or so was more pro-humanity and anti-Locust. Then the last few came out and showed the human race was pretty much just as awful as the Locust Horde, depicting the Hammer strikes, the ongoing racial biggotry of the Coaltion and West Indies(?) and Stranded. So if Glasslands is anti-Halsey, perhaps book two or three will be pro-Halsey, who knows.
[Edited on 01.11.2012 4:28 PM PST]