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I said a while back I'll deal with whatever opinion anyone has, but I will not deal with incorrect information.
Exhibit A:
Posted by: Elder Bias
Posted by: Tian X104
My apologies :) I will try not to ruin it for you, Karen Traviss did a damn fine job on the book.....It's Good ;)
Nope, it remains one of worst Halo books. If you haven't been so blind, you'd realize large inconsistency in the novel such as UNSC unrealistically recovering, SPARTAN-III as being weak (Lucy punching a 60-year old woman in the face with full force which it should kill her), ONI being retarded to start the war with Elites for no legitimate reason, it stomped Great schism in Halo 2, SPARTAN-IV Project, ONI pulling out magical funds out of their ass on UNSC Infinity, etc.
Yeah, it remains one of worst Halo novel.
Spoilers does not matter because the book has been out for few months, everyone should have read that novel. If not, it means they were lazy. So don't worry about them.
Referred from first to last
1) We had no information regarding the UNSC's current state other then they were in a bad way. Glassland showed us only the ONI perspective, but didn't show us infrastructure, economy or military capabilities. And like Glasslands, nothing else ever showed us anything necessary to start casting judgement on the UNSC's post-war state. Without a reference point from which to judge and compare, we cannot say anything.
I also wonder where you got that the UNSC "recovered" when it makes pretty clear that everything's messed up in the beginning.
2) Their depiction is functionally retarded, with that I'll agree with.
3) It is not a war, it is an insurance plan. Politically inducing civil war (or, in fact, any form of internal strife) upon another nation to insure they are not a threat is done all the time, all across history, all over the place. And forgive the ONI for being more xenophobic then the Imperium, they've got every right to not trust the Elites; when the nation in question waged a genocidal campaign against you for 30 years, there tends to be some bad blood.
4) Assuming you're referring to the Brutes, I'd like to point out how they are slaves. To the Elites.
Consider the culture. Dying is a great honor when done in battle, and execution is dishonorable only for the length of time the prisoner is in prison. Then he's dead. The Elites are punishing the Brutes in the most humiliating way their culture can imagine: imprisoning the Brutes, rendering them completely helpless and lost, making them entirely dependant upon their enemies.
5) The next two are in a similar category, but I'll refer to the IVs first.
Col. Ackerson's plan was to distribute the SIII augs as widely as possible, even implying in his pitch to Kurt that he'd like to have an entirely new military division created soley for Spartans ("100,000 Spartans"). Problem is Ackerson's dead. So now we have the IVs, who are different from the original plan only in two ways. 1, that they're voluntary adults, and 2, that they're headed by Parangosky herself. They are functionally identicle to Ackerson's original dream, which was to branch the Spartan program out to a more general population. The SIIIs (who I'll remind you were some still being trained in 2552, indicating the Spartan program had no intention of ever slowing down) are even being rotated into the IV program, an offer the IIs were not offered, supportng that this is just Ackerson's plan reorganized.
And really, what could they have done? It'd be imaginably easier to augment adults since the last time it was tried, about a century earlier, instead of kidnapping 100,000 kids. It is logistically easier now (and more economically viable) to augment pre-trained adults then to create super humans from scratch.
Speaking of economics, I'd like to again return you to the fact that we don't and didn't know jack about the UNSC's economic situation. We in fact knew only two things: 1, that the money is called credits, and 2, battle fleets are expensive. We do not know the way the system works, we do not know what contigency plans were placed for this event, we do not even know for sure that ONI operates under the same rules as everyone else. National security is the UNSC's primary concern, and ONI is the head of that. The term "blank check" applies here.
And again, like above, we cannot call foul when we have nothing from which to call foul as reference. Whenever I say that the people who hate Glasslands are hating it unreasonably, this is exactly what I mean and why I say it.
[Edited on 02.03.2012 1:51 PM PST]