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Posted by: StealthSlasher2
Irked afterwards
And as far as Hood was concerned at the time they were legitimate reasons. The charges were stuck on afterwards, and even someone like Hood wouldn't be able to ignore the fact that Halsey tricked him into sending Spartans away so that she could hide them away from the war. We're already seeing some of that manifest in Spartan Ops with Lasky becoming suspicious of Halsey's actions.
Finding out that Onyx's interior was a cash cow was lucky for the UNSC but doesn't change the fact that Halsey went there with the intention to hide with her Spartans, not find an ace for the UNSC. Seeing how Parangosky is characterized as having some sort of idea as to how Halsey works to rationalize things as well for a perchance for connecting the dots to see gaps in reasoning, it's not hard to believe that she would call bs on any excuse Halsey brought up during her interrogation as to why she headed there and eventually zero in on that fact of the matter.
When someone with just enough power has the ability to prosecute something, and that thing happens to be true it's not something that's going to be ignored by the rest just because of all the good deeds that came before. That sort of thing happens all the time in today's society, look no further than the Petreus scandal going on among many other events in the past. Whether people forgive and forget is another topic, but then and there when the revelation is made the negative will be harped on more than anything. It's simple human nature to weigh in the bad traits past or present over whatever good thus far.
Halsey is somewhat lucky in the sense that it is still an internal conflict within the military with the public at large still unaware thus far. But when the word gets out the logical step would not be to have everyone in public support Halsey because her Spartans saved the day. Opinion would be diverse.
And how would they find that out? Kurt was the only one who Halsey told why she had really come there, so he was the only one who knew her purpose in coming to Onyx, and he's dead....so how would anyone know why Halsey was there in order to be irked? That was the main point/biggest point of my original reply. How would any of them know this in order to be irked? The only person Halsey talked to about it/confessed to is dead, and no one else knew why she was there in the first place.
And I've never gotten that interpretation of Parangosky at all, in fact, I'd have to say that she doesn't understand anyone at all, otherwise she would not have such a god-complex and consider herself above the law and everything else. Halsey being one of the people she has no comprehension of at all, and even if she did, there no prior evidence or hints or anything of the sort to indicate what Halsey's goals would be in going to Onyx. No attempt has ever been made previously of taking the Spartans and trying to save them from dying in battle or hiding somewhere with them. Even if Parangosky tried to claim that, there would not be any evidence to support her assertion(s).
The whole premise of Parangosky having Halsey illegally kidnapped and held as a secret slave is a highly flawed one and doesn't work with the way Halo has been set up and established. She may be able to detain Halsey for a brief amount of time, but it's not something that would be able to be kept secret, especially not with Parangosky's blind hatred of Halsey being quite well known amongst those who know the two ladies, such as Lord Hood. No matter how hard ONI's beloved fuhrer called bull--blam!- on anything, no one would take her word on the matter due to said hatred mentioned above, personal bias and opinions on the subject render Parangosky what is known as an unreliable witness. And that's another thing, Parangosky does not have the power to arrest whoever she wants, actual criminal or personal enemy, the most that can be done is detaining the suspect until any sort of official trial and sentencing can be conducted and whatever matter it is investigated. As far as everyone with any kind of power but Parangosky are concerned, Halsey hasn't done anything wrong and grounds for arrest are baseless.
The Spartan Program is never going to go public though beyond the existence of Spartans. The UNSC are not idiots, revealing the origins of the Spartans IIs and IIIs would only create trouble and rip the UNSC apart. They're too smart to do something stupid like completely declassifying the project. Of course opinion would be diverse on the issue, and therein lies the issue with Traviss' trilogy, she treats the subject of Halsey (as well as the Elites) as something completely one-dimensional, there are no points of view expressed but the negative one of the protagonists in the Glasslands Trilogy. When writing a story one needs to provide depths to both characters and situations, which is not done through forcing the author's own opinion down the audience's throat as if it is the only correct assumption to be had. It needs to be nuanced and both sides need to be present (not necessarily as point of view characters) and acknowledged...neither of which Travissty does, she gets up on her soapbox and only delivers her opinion that Halsey is the devil. Nylund left it open to the interpretation of his readers, as evidenced by people having such widely differing opinions before Glasslands came out or the people who support Traviss extremely biased depiction.
[Edited on 12.09.2012 7:23 PM PST]