- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Gray January
you speak as if there have been many installations into teh franchise, panzer. The books matter, but when First Strike was written, bungie was much too far into the development process to change mythos around for a book to make perfect sense.
However, The Fall of Reach, and The Flood, do make perfect sense, and First Strike is almost perfectly fit in, if you can use logic to bridge a few gaps. First, the Master Chief and Sgt Johnson were not chastised for not making the x amount of random jumps before returning to earth...they brought loads of information, and a working Covenant ship.
Also, we can assume that the other spartans are in R&R, probably in some form of induced coma, because of the extensive injuries recieved (and note, please, that Plasma is a poisonous gas, and therefore is extremely detrimental to inhale. Spartan airtanks last 90 hours, and they can recycle air for 3 days. They were on reach for a week and a haf after the surface was vaporized, and the atmosphere thus poisoned.) and would probably not be expected to fight. If they did, they would obviously be in different parts of the city, fighting off different covenant forces...it is a city after all, and a big one....I would not expect the other Spartans to run into the Chief, especially since he didnt fight in the cities much, he went from a slum, to a generator complex, to a tunnel, and finally to a small portion of the industrial section of the city, before fighting off a Scarab, and leaving Earth for Delta Halo.
Thus, the stories do pertain to Halo, but not that much post CE has been written, and there isnt enoug game material to test it against.
They never brought back the ship acculy, They left it behind to self dustrct well they went off with a damged friget witch they found floting above reach. They still brought back alot of info thow. But not a working convie ship.
[Edited on 7/2/2006]