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Posted by: prometheus25
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: prometheus25
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
To Roberto and the others who clearly don't understand my simple message.
You all are basically saying, if after reading a report about Halsey's creation of the S2 project, and knowing exactly what the S3's are, you would still work for ONI? Your morals(and that ODST's apparently) must be pretty -blam!- up then.
I don't think anyone is saying this. I'm not excusing the SIII project. But just because it wasn't mentioned and criticized I'm not going to complain that the SII project was.
Halsey was on a pedestal; she needed, I feel, a more realistic perspective placed on her. From a fan perspective, Halsey was idealized and practically made a saint, while Ackerman was villainized from the beginning. I think that Traviss was merely balancing the scales in the Haloverse.
That's because Ackerson was a villian. He tried to kill Master Chief on Reach for no other reason then to get back at Halsey's project having more funding then his. He acted that way several times and even the admiralty board had to slap him down because he was disrespecting the then believed dead.
Again, my point is the ODST is described as knowing exactly what Spartan 3's are, yet takes more issue with Halsey's S2 program then ONI's S3 program.
So freakin' what? It's a book. If it covered every single detail and moral and ethical conflict, it'd be long, boring and I wouldn't have read it. It'd be filled with so much garbage that everyone would still hate it.
Actually it should have been like the other Halo books did... Tell what they did, why they did it, what the alternative was and then let us decide if they were right or wrong. This book just drags up the old story, it disregards the fact the Spartan II's were made to stop humanity destroying itself in a civil war and then decides it's going to slap a evil sticker on Halsey's head.
She took young children from there families (under orders)
She left flash clones for the families (Against orders.)
She watch them get trained (Under Orders)
She grew attached to the Spartans and started to care for them (Her own choice.)
She then augmented them to the highest standard as safely as she could. (under orders.)
She then kept track all every single one of her Spartans, grieving there deaths. (Her own choice.)
She then gave them high tech Armour, most people couldn't recognized them, Halsey learnt how to. (Her Own choice).
She took one of her Spartans away to try and stop more Spartans being made and to hide her own so she would survive the war. (Against regulation.)
When you look at it properly, her negative acts were Under Orders of ONI, her positive acts were under her own directive.