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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Roberto, IIRC, all the other lore protrays Halsey neutrally.
It doesn't say what she did was good or bad, or much less shoves said viewpoints around.
Also, what you are saying if you learned somebody did that stuff, you'd be angry/enraged against that scientist. Okay I give you that. BUT, at the same time would you be fine with the parent group having suicide soldiers, children barely maybe into their teens augmented and sent to die?
Cause that's what is shown with the ODST. Ready to murder Halsey, yet 100% a-okay with ONI despite knowing the S3's are suicide soldiers, and incredibly young in comparison.
Its a figure-head issue that people have. Why is it everyone hates President Obama for "not doing anything" when it's a Republican Congress blocking his ability to do anything in the first place? People are more likely to be enraged at something with a face to rage at then a faceless entity composed of equally just as bad people. I agree, logicaly, they should be hating ONI far more then Halsey (they allowed it to happen after all, and funded it) but it isn't as if Vaz can just walk into some room, and shoot an Officer named "ONI" in the head and be done with it. As far as he's concerned, Halsey was the master mind behind the idea of kidnapped children, the face of the faceless Spartan Program, and regardless of how you interpret the cloning idea, the thought of a kid having to die twice, and quite slowly at that, as well as the very reason behind the clones' necessity creates extreme anger. Anger and negativity has a tendancy to override the positives, and humans are not logical creatures.
He's not mad at Osman, his closest link to ONI for example, because he sees her as a victim (which she herself sees her as) and because they have a personal link forged in time spent together. He has no clue who this Halsey person is outside of what he's been told. He doesn't know of her deep-seated resentment or any of that. Using the ideas of the Nuremberg trials analogy earlier, the N@zis who truly felt sorry for what they did were not in any way seen as sympathetic people in the eyes of those who saw only the atrocity: they were seen as sociopathic bastards who deserved to die.
Vaz fills the role of that person who saw only the atrocities. Except now, there is a single person he can point his finger at, instead of a bunch of N@zis.