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Posted by: Heaters28
no, the books are officially tied in with the Halo gameplay.....(when will people stop denying this?)
Because they aren't really officially tied in, they just gave Nylund a story and said "Run with it."
The books are his stories, not Bungie's.They give him conflicts (Reach, Circumference, UH, etc.) and help build upon it, while they flesh out the characters from the Halo bible (Tartarus, Truth, Hood, Linda, Kelly, Sam, etc.) and then he writes up the action sequences.
Books and games have the exact same story. Get over it people.
And they're not contradicting themselves, in Halo he was thel ast known Spartan-II from Reach. FoR was released before Halo, so at the time, everyone who read that books thought the S-II on Reach burned alive, and James was still MIA (And still is today).
Nowhere in Halo 2 do they say he is the last Spartan, or even last 'known' Spartan. However, in the CftU booklet, we are introduced to Cassandra..and recently Nylund has said that the other Spartans (8-9) were doing "something else" during Halo 2.
Look at this image. Count the figures. 10. Remember those levels cut out after the end of Halo 2 due to time constraints? You know, the ones when we get back to Earth? Now, keep in mind that Spartans in Mk VI armor are the only ones who can do drop into an atmosphere.