- Mattbluhalofan
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- Intrepid Mythic Member
Poll: What is your favorite section of First Strike? [closed]
| Defense of CASTLE Base:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| Massacre at Eridanus Secundus:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| Operation: First Strike:
50%
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(1 Votes)
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Total Votes: 2
What are your favorite sections of First Strike, see also my poll for The Fall of Reach.
0. Reach: Reach was allright. Not the best, but not the worst. Just fair. A little confusing at first, for me, I expected it to pick up right where The Flood left off.
1. Threshold: Very good, one of my favorites. Master Chief rescuing the survivors, meeting Locklear, Haverson and Polaski, and wondering about good 'ol Johnson, and finally, boarding the Ascendant Justice.
2. Defense of CASTLE Base: This was pretty good. I, personally didn't care much for the sections on Reach, but this one was pretty good. Finding the crystal, rounding up the survivors, hiding out in CASTLE Base. Not bad.
3. Rescue: I liked this one too. Rounding up all of the Reach and Halo survivors, working out a plan, forming the hybrid vessel, Ascendant Justice-Gettysburg, and the bloom of Locklear and Polaski's romance.
4. Gambit: This one was stranger than the others. Just odd, different. jumping into slipspace, with the crystal forming the slipspace bubble, the Covenant on their tail, and sadly, saying goodbye to Polaski, when she was killed piloting the Covenant dropship.
5. Massacre at Eridanus Secundus: This was another section much like Gambit. Kind of hard to classify, but it was fair, allright, decent. Getting out of the slipspace bubble, Halsey leaving Johnson's Flood information up to the Chief, and meeting up again with the rebels in the asteroid, planning to take out the Covenant ship tracking them. And the farewell to Locklear, who killed himself and destroys the crystal by use of explosions, due to depression over Polaski's death.
6. Operation: First Strike: This was a GOOD section. The SPARTANs moving in and invading the Unyielding Hierophant, taking it out, plus, the first introduction of Brutes and Brute Shots, which ultimately lead to Grace's death, although she went out with a bang! And, in the end, Whitcomb and Haverson's heroic sacrifices to help the Master Chief, Linda, Fred, Will, and Sgt. Johnson escape.
7. Harbinger: I'm not really going to count this as a section, seeing as that it was only about 5 pages long, but it was good. It introduced a main Prophet, and Tartarus.
Overall, here's the list:
1. Threshold
2. Operation: First Strike
3. Rescue
4. Defense of CASTLE Base
5. Gambit
6. Massacre at Eridanus Secundus
7. Reach
8. Harbinger