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Posted by: paulmarv
Regardless of your question, you cannot say that the identity of the True Halo Canon is up to personal opinion - it is NOT and it is the same for everybody.
The Fall of Reach represents the most accurate account of the Battle of Reach as it exists in the True Halo Canon. Halo Reach is a ONI data package (read the note in the Heroic Edition) and is therefore itself a canonical, in-story artifact. Any intent and manifest discrepancy between Halo Reach and the Fall of Reach indicates that ONI is either willfully inaccurate (propaganda), or doesn't have the facts straight.
There is no contradiction, but there certainly is no such thing as "canon is whatever your personal opinion says".
I can come up with my own story for the Halo Universe in my head. Then, no matter how different that is from official canon, I can consider it as canon. We have free will, we follow through a story, make decisions what makes sense and what doesn't and form our own opinion.
While both products are certainly official canon, the consumers are free to consider both and in case they conflict, decide by themselves which they believe is the more logical option. You can't change my opinion that Fall of Reach is more canon than Reach. Regardless of what you say, I can still disregard the whole game and there is nothing you can do about it. Therefore what's canon and what isn't is completely up to the consumer to decide, regardless of what the official canon says.