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Posted by: Gottalovec4
I find it odd that everything in the UNSC/ ONI is now Australian/British, but whatever.
Yeah, this is pretty much the only thing that does my head in too. I know Traviss is English, and maybe she's proud of that, but it's no excuse to be putting in Britishisms (even disguished as Australianisms) every other word. And I'm English myself.
Yeah some of the characters are a bit teadious, especially Mal and Vaz, but ODSTs see some -blam!-, so can see how they would be a bit off their rocker.
Vaz and Mal are the only characters I think she misstepped with; they're completely interchangable and about as exciting as a soggy biscuit dropped in tea (c wat i did thur?)
Mendez was angry at Halsey because of the self guilt he had in the program, and how he knew his role in the S-III project was worse than Halsey in the S-II. Travis doesn't state it out loud, because you're supposed to use your brain to think about it. Not all authors hold your hand.
Halsey is acting -blam!-y and guilty because she's BEEN -blam!-y and guilty since Fall of Reach! She's always been racked with guilt about the Spartan IIs, but has been able to push the guilt aside due to the war effort, and spending an ungodly amount of time researching shield technology and MJOLNIR. She's finally cracked on Onyx because for once she has nothing to do, and is completely out of her element. In Thursday War she has just lost all of her freedom, doesn't have a single friend in the galaxy, and lost her daughter who she forced away. Gee, you're telling me you wouldn't act any differently?
Yeah, none of them really had the chance for a drawn-out debate in Ghosts of Onyx - they were in heavy combat from the offset, and Kurt was running everything as a strict military operation, with no room for dissidence in the ranks. In the book, even Halsey seemed to understand that and followed his orders.
Parangotsky has every right to be ticked at Halsey and call her a war criminal because she gave Halsey space to work and she betrayed her, wasting resources and arguably making the loss of a child worse for the parents of the SIIs. Now, she has her on a leashe and working on important projects. And her ideas behind the Sangheili are spot on for a military leader.
Parangosky's close to death, and she's realised that even if she was remembered, it'd be for all the wrong reasons. She wants to shift some of the guilt from her memory to Halsey, and then before she dies make sure the only child she's ever needed (humanity) will never be hurt by the remnants of the Covenant again. I think with that in mind, none of her actions are particularly out there.
we realize that some free Sangheili worlds still think the war is going on and don't know the Great Schism has happened. These are Elites that could be loyal to the Arbiter, but would still fight us. Heck, Sangheili civies shot at Mal and Vaz just because they were human.
Wow, really? I'm re-reading Glasslands before I start on The Thursday War; that sounds pretty interesting. I'm not saying she's perfect (I hate her Star Wars books, and anything original she's done has bored me to tears when I've tried it) but one thing she's doing brilliantly with the Halo universe is exploring the Sangheili culture, which was left criminally forgotten after the negative reaction to the Arbiter campaign of Halo 2.
While we all love Arby and Half-Jaw, their beliefs aren't in line with the majority of Sangheili who want nothing to do with humanity, or want us gone. Don't get mad at Traviss because she proposed a unique idea that actually makes sense.
Yeah. It's not just the Sangheili who express this opinion either - even at the end of Halo 3, Hood makes it clear that they're not allies, but they can leave each other alone. That's all ONI's trying to do; make sure the Sangheili are weak enough that they'll have to stay out of our way.
The only problem I have with the trillogy so far is that it appears ONI had a CRAZY amount of resources we knew nothing about. Apparently they went from a simple RND and intel group to something that takes up half the Fleet's budget. I mean hell, simultaniously setting up listening posts, Trelevan's research station, building Infinity, upgrading Port Stanley and mantaining a massive Prowler fleet, in addition to Point of No Return. Seems kinda far fetched.
I don't know - the SPARTAN project and MJOLNIR alone could have created several battlefleets for their cost. It's pretty clear that with anything of a major budget, they have to go through the UNSC - Parangosky mentions this when talking about Infinity, for example.