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Posted by: Mr Owen L
I have one issue with the whole of Reach. They have 20 obrital SuperMACS and atleast 300 ships to take out the spire they could easily have just shot them from orbit as the energy released on impact is larger than a Nuke going off.
Also they went thanks Eric nylund for writing the Fall of reach now we'll completly Retcon it all with some stupid story of cloaked covenant on one of Humanities best defended Planets and yet another Spartan II and Cortana being split and The PoA entering atmosphere and Cpt. Keyes asking N6 to come aboard and how reach was being invaded when in FoR the Spartan IIs were being given a lectuer on their next mission. I can go on...
Do you know how powerful a MAC round is, let alone a SMAC? They have about the same power output as several of the most powerful atomic bombs...and can you imagine a slug that big and fired at that speed down onto a planet? The devastation from the impact would be far more costly than the benefit of taking out the target. Shooting a MAC or SMAC (most especially a SMAC) would be a very, very, very bad decision.
Reach didn't really retcon anything about TFoR except the length of the battle. Read the Data Drops over on Halo Waypoint, those offer a lot in explaining what was going on behind the scenes with Halo: Reach, such as ONI for the most part being aware of the Covenant presence on Reach and actually luring them there so they could capture a ship for operation RED FLAG.
So what about Jorge? There have been a ton of Spartan IIs being revealed since TFoR came out, the numbers given in the book are no longer entirely accurate, or at the very least they're no by any means an absolute figure.
As for the rest of the stuff, so what? How is any of that at all any kind of problem?
Posted by: Ace Active
You mean like a Spartan?
Carter had options the lead writer was a bad decision maker. Emile died because instead of clearing the area like any marine would, let alone a Spartan, he chose to talk smack. Jorge can't hot wire a bomb after 40 years battlefield experience. I would have left the AI to die. Jorge is more expensive. Kat had no shield, she ran out in a spotlight instead of the shadows, and she was deaf because phantoms are loud as -blam!-!
Six should have hopped onto a banshee and flown onto a carrier in all the confusion. That way he can meet up with the Chief in Halo 4. Seems like the Spartan thing to do!
Everything was so forced!
What options? He was dying, or at best just very heavily injured and left not very useful in a fight, and even if he had jumped out of the Pelican and survived, he would have only slowed Six and Emile down, possibly gotten them killed due to having to be helped along, or the Cortana piece could have been damaged/destroyed for the same reasons.
As for Emile, how is he supposed to know about the other Elite if it's not showing up on his radar and is sneaking up on him? Spartans don't have eyes in the back of their head, when it comes right down to it they're just as human as you and me, they can, and do, make the same mistake we or any other human could make. Emile was focused on the Elites he knew were there and could see...the ones down in the courtyard that you have to kill on your way up to the Mass Driver.
Jorge is not Kat, while he may have limited tech experience, he's not some miracle worker who can save a timer that's been render useless and is completely fried. And there were no marines left, honestly do you think any marine that was there would survive to the end of the mission in real life?
Guess what, all the rest of Noble ran out there like Kat did, it could have just as easily been someone else. And Phantoms actually aren't that loud, not when they're just sitting there idling, and I highly doubt that it'd be heard over the glassing going on, that is far louder than any Phantom.
And what Banshee would that be? I sure didn't any there, other than the ones you shoot down with the Mass Driver. How would Six have procured this non-existent Banshee pray tell?