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Posted by: Ruley117
also, the nanobot theory has a slight hole:
Why is the chiefs chest plate still damaged in exactly the same place as in Halo 3 if Cortana used the nanobots to both repair and upgrade? or surely one could argue the armor would need rearing before it could be upgraded otherwise that section of the armor is a weakpoint?
I don't think this transition was handled very well from a story perspective.
Is it a PERFECT explanation? No. I also ask that question. However, Nanobots upgraded the armor. Previously employed by a handful of SPARTAN-II assets, including the Master Chief, Mjolnir's Mark VI armor was the last iteration of GEN1 suits that were engineered for contesting rebel activity but quickly repurposed to deal with the Covenant. the description of Mark VI, in MP, which is very much based on the halo 2-3 armor. MP is canon, the armors is canon. Therefore, halo 2-3 Mark VI look IS CANON. In Halo 4's campaign, John-117 wears his original Mark VI suit, though it is drastically different in appearance from its Halo 2 and Halo 3 incarnations. This is because Cortana used nano-machines stored aboard the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn to repair and upgrade the suit Halopedian's comment on it.
It's based on THIS statement of waypoint In Campaign, players take the role of the Master Chief, the living legend of the Covenant War, a SPARTAN-II super-soldier wearing heavily modified GEN1 Mjolnir armor. If it's just the same mark VI from halo 2 and 3, then why would it be described as "Heavily modified"? If it was a complete retcon of the look, that statement wouldn't fit.
Posted by: GrandmasterNinja
Posted by: GrandmasterNinja
Why was Halo CE retconned? If you look at the intro cutscene they made it seem like Chief never had to change his armor in Halo 2?!
Can somebody here address this?
Simple, it's a stylization of the human-covenant war condensed into a single battle. Covenant arrive, -blam!- -blam!- up, Spartans save the day. Don't view it as hard canon.
Several elements in the cutscene are different from how they canonically occurred. The most prominent is that the Spartans are all shown wearing MJOLNIR Mark VI, specifically the heavily modified version Cortana devised for John. Halsey could not have known this variant existed, and she has shown distaste for alterations to "her" armor.[1] Several elements of John's upgraded suit, such as its thruster pack, were also not applied to the mainline MJOLNIR models except as attachments, such as the built-in thruster pack the cutscene's Spartans use to slow their descent, which would have been useful to Red Team during their orbital drop at the Fall of Reach.
Some of the events can be assumed as representative rather than exact. When and where the battle in the city occurred is unclear, but it is likely not meant to be a specific battle; rather, it could be considered a summation of the entire war. Likewise, the scene in which Halsey presents Cortana to John did not occur as such, as evidenced by John's armor and him meeting Cortana by hologram; canonically, as seen in Halo: The Fall of Reach, John met Cortana after she was inserted into his neural interface for the first time. Overall, most questionable aspects of the cutscene could be due to Halsey's embellishment; elements that Halsey could not have known, such as John's unique armor, should be considered mere artistic license.