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Posted by: flamedude
I'd probably say that if you follow the original trilogy and the first round of books up until Contact Harvest it actually paints a picture that doesn't suggest Infinity, the opposite really. In fact I'd say that up until that point the way the universe was portrayed it almost was saying "Don't put all your eggs in one basket".
Reach, the Trafalgar, Unyielding Hierophant, High Charity, the NOVA detonation..... to me they have a message saying that investing in one massive thing, be it a single ship, a single fleet, a single planet, can only lead to absolute and utter annihilation when your enemy gets wind of it.
So then to have something like the Infinity turn up in Halo..... it just seems odd. Like they didn't understand that message. If the Infinity is destroyed, which could happen, then that old message will still ring true.Well, I kind of understand why they added the Infinity, or actually, I know exactly why. Master Chief was far away, and they wanted a plot device that could bring the UNSC--that we know and love--to the scene, so that one could get human weapons, vehicles, etc, into the game in a rather logical way. Not that is was the only way, far from it, Requi--- let's call it the Legendary planet since it more appropriate for the time, could just as well have devices that were able to produce things that Cortana or The Dawn had blueprints for (like sentinel creators). Which would act as a bridge between Mjolnir and Combat Skin; Human and Forerunner. In other words; there are/were tons of possibilities.
But I digress.. If that was the kind of logic from which the conclusion of there being a massive space ship, came from, I do actually see how one could have though so back then, and now that I come to think of it, so did I, I've even written posts about it.. Ignore my previous post, MaxRealflugel.
Also, the Infinity will probably be destroyed sooner or later, it's just one of those things that fits as an appropriate loss, in terms of storytelling. Halcyon swarm ftw!
[Edited on 11.20.2012 7:45 PM PST]