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Subject: A few questions I have about reach (SPOILERS FOR REACH AND HALO 1)

the cake is a lie
I'm on twitter http://twitter.com/mrsaturnjr

this was posted in another forum but it was the wrong one so I'll just post it here

I replayed reach recently and noticed some things

1. How come in the ending shows your destroyed helmet in the same place but with grass and blue skies? did you helmet fly and land somewhere else? or did part of reach survive?

2. If Linda-058 was confirmed to be on the same ship as chief was in the start of halo 1 (its confirmed by the easter egg in anniversary edition), and is seen through the easter egg at the end (its either her or master chief but I assume its her), why wasn't she seen on the pillar of Autumn in halo 1?

3. How did the long night solace (covenant ship) get to reach undetected? that things huge couldn't they see it with radars or anything?

4. My biggest one is this. In halo 1 cortana obviously knows Master Chief. How? She was found in that huge thing under sword base, but Chief wasn't there. How did she get there? Why does she know chief?

Sorry if these are obvious and I'm just to stupid to understand. I just don't get it ;_;

  • 06.11.2012 2:33 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

1) It's 30 years later when apparently Reach is terraformed and resettled by humanity again.

2) Linda does appear on the monitor screens of the Autumn in CEA.

3) Everyone seemed to have a massive IQ drop. Active camouflage generators emit a -blam!-ton of heat and somehow they completely missed it (as well as about a dozen Corvette sites around the rest of the planet as we see on the Ardent Prayer's bridge).

4) Cortana was created in 2549, in 2552 she split herself into 2 fragments apparently - 1 would be on the Autumn with Keyes and the other was with Halsey helping her do something we never learn the meaning of with this 'Latchkey artefact' which is never explained. The whole point of Noble Team basically was to get the second fragment back to the Autumn for some reason we're still never told.

DW, what can laughably be called the 'story' of Reach is a whole bucketload of stupid. We share your pain.

  • 06.11.2012 2:39 PM PDT


Posted by: ajw34307
4) Cortana was created in 2549, in 2552 she split herself into 2 fragments apparently - 1 would be on the Autumn with Keyes and the other was with Halsey helping her do something we never learn the meaning of with this 'Latchkey artefact' which is never explained. The whole point of Noble Team basically was to get the second fragment back to the Autumn for some reason we're still never told.
The data from the Forerunner structure under Sword Base the second fragment was working on helped find Alpha Halo.

  • 06.11.2012 3:05 PM PDT

the cake is a lie
I'm on twitter http://twitter.com/mrsaturnjr

thanks everyone for the replies. So basically they just pulled everything out of their ***?

[Edited on 06.11.2012 3:08 PM PDT]

  • 06.11.2012 3:08 PM PDT

Posted by: mrsaturnjr
thanks everyone for the replies. So basically they just pulled everything out of their ***?
Most part, yes, but Reach wasn't going to follow the books.

  • 06.11.2012 3:11 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.


Posted by: boomdeyadah

Posted by: ajw34307
4) Cortana was created in 2549, in 2552 she split herself into 2 fragments apparently - 1 would be on the Autumn with Keyes and the other was with Halsey helping her do something we never learn the meaning of with this 'Latchkey artefact' which is never explained. The whole point of Noble Team basically was to get the second fragment back to the Autumn for some reason we're still never told.
The data from the Forerunner structure under Sword Base the second fragment was working on helped find Alpha Halo.


Can't have been. Cortana had the coordinates to Installation 04 for weeks before the battle of Reach even began. We're not told what this Latchkey BS is, Cortana punched in the coordinates as a last resort measure because of the Cole Protocol, there was nothing deliberate surrounding the discovery of Installation 04.

  • 06.11.2012 3:47 PM PDT


Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: boomdeyadah

Posted by: ajw34307
4) Cortana was created in 2549, in 2552 she split herself into 2 fragments apparently - 1 would be on the Autumn with Keyes and the other was with Halsey helping her do something we never learn the meaning of with this 'Latchkey artefact' which is never explained. The whole point of Noble Team basically was to get the second fragment back to the Autumn for some reason we're still never told.
The data from the Forerunner structure under Sword Base the second fragment was working on helped find Alpha Halo.


Can't have been. Cortana had the coordinates to Installation 04 for weeks before the battle of Reach even began. We're not told what this Latchkey BS is, Cortana punched in the coordinates as a last resort measure because of the Cole Protocol, there was nothing deliberate surrounding the discovery of Installation 04.

As I remember it, Cortana used those coordinates due to curiosity rather than a whim. It's true that she didn't know I04 was there, but it wasn't random.

  • 06.11.2012 3:51 PM PDT

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"Not enough polar bears in teh judicial system!"

In reach, they did'nt even mention the orbital MAC cannons and the spartans defending the generators on reach.

  • 06.11.2012 4:02 PM PDT

New Zealand is pretty much the best place in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/user/8Donny8?feature=mhee

omg you ruined halo 1 and reach for me

[Edited on 06.11.2012 4:25 PM PDT]

  • 06.11.2012 4:25 PM PDT

the cake is a lie
I'm on twitter http://twitter.com/mrsaturnjr

omg you ruined halo 1 and reach for me

Well I did put in a warning in the title...

EDIT: apparently I'm unable to understand the concept of "sarcasm"

[Edited on 06.12.2012 6:17 AM PDT]

  • 06.11.2012 5:46 PM PDT


Posted by: Lord Donny
omg you ruined halo 1 and reach for me

Lol, sarcasm at its best.

  • 06.12.2012 12:35 AM PDT


Posted by: Lord Donny
omg you ruined halo 1 and reach for me


i lold

  • 06.12.2012 9:02 AM PDT

How can you spoil a game story for a game which has been out for 10+years?

  • 06.12.2012 9:10 AM PDT

the cake is a lie
I'm on twitter http://twitter.com/mrsaturnjr

How can you spoil a game story for a game which has been out for 10+years?

Someone might not have bought halo 1 and is planning on getting halo CE anniversary.


[Edited on 06.12.2012 10:16 AM PDT]

  • 06.12.2012 10:16 AM PDT