#lore-and-universe
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Well @versed helm maybe that’s because not enough Spartans lost only their arm(s) in combat
The ones that did only lose an arm were the lucky ones, they could have met worse fates
The ones that keep their limbs intact are even luckier
Just keep in mind that Kat was a Spartan 3 part of a very unique unit(Noble Team) which received experimental technology with their armour
Technology that Spartan 3s normally didn’t receive due to their...expendability
@paper coyote yes there were 2 Arks, the Greater and the Lesser. The Greater was destroyed by the Primordial and the Lesser is the one we have seen (yes that means there were 2 different Halo Arrays, but the Greater Array was dismantled bar one which is where we are going in Infinite)
yeah but there must have been some odst's who were willing to even replace their current arm if it meant one upping the Spartans?
I personally doubt that
Because people probably like having fleshy bits
And probably only get cybernetics to replace lost limbs
You gotta remember this is halo not cyberpunk where every person is a low level cyborg
yeah
it would be quite painful to surgically remove and replace a limb, if not more than losing it in action
and they likely made others uncomfortable and werent exactly a "fashion" choice
also heres a fun fact completely unrelated, the ancient swords of sanghelios allowed females into their ranks
Actually there are females in the swords of sanghelios
Not the og sos but the new one
Also what would be better to give a odst with already working arms new robotic ones or give somebody who actually need them
What more people seem to forget logistics exist
Your gonna have to properly maintain that cybernetic part for the rest of your life
And that probably cost a lot
Unless your in the military
So does barns
Plus how exactly would that one up a spartan
That's basically telling them you can't one up them without strapping machinery to yourself
I think prophets were british
I absolutely love the old script of Halo CE. It brought a newfound sense of tension to a lot of the scenes (I had no idea they wanted that one Marine to have his guts torn out in the “hold still!” Moment).
Cyborg Spartans being referred to as “Mark VIII” is fascinating, Merging the Mjolnir and it’s wearer as being a single project
Let's say that 343 Industries really want to do more Halo video games, is there any storylines from the Halo novel books you would like to see being explored in future installments? Personally, I want to see the next Halo video games that is based on Halo: Contact Harvest, Halo: Bad Blood and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.
Eh, to be honest I feel like Halo’s EU has been damaging to creative freedom for the newer game writers. A less homogenised structure is crucial for creativity and exploration, and 343’s more liberal use of “everything is A-tier canon” has isolated what they can do with future games
wow I love how sensitive the chat filter is, I typed out this long elaborate paragraph just for it to be deleted when it contained no profanity or sensitive content, really cool really cool
I’d rather they just make new stories
I’m done with prequels at this point especially with stuff set in the war
It’d play out the exact same as Reach but with the characters saying “what the hell is that?” a lot more.
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the warden do be like that
What happens to human POWs
Covenant would most likely kill/eat them
Amen.
I have an opposite opinion, that the games have limited what the EU can explore and do. Because the games are the crucial events in the Halo Universe, all other expanded/lesser stories have to abide and continue to tie back to the events of the games. The Created emergence in Halo 5 is a great example, where immediately after Halo 5 all the books couldn't move forward from that point because early in the design process, people weren't sure what life under Created subjugation looked like - or how to defeat the Guardians. Each little book since has tried to work within that broad and very difficult scope that sets aside every single post-Covenant War narrative like Gao, Venezia, pursuing the San'Shyuum flotilla, the Jiralhanae-Sangheili Blooding Years, the status of the Didact/Librarian/Janus Key, the UNSC's recovery, etc. All those stories have to be set aside now because the Created have sweeped those stories aside and forced characters into hiding or putting them on the run.
It's a new era for Halo but it still only gave 5 short years for the galaxy to explore what life is like with aliens but not while dealing with an galactic war at the same time.
Not even books like Shadows of Reach set a year after Halo 5 really can go into detail on what the Created are doing, and rather focus on the periphery items on the frontier that are smaller and more familiar threats like the Banished.
EU is mainly for hardcore fans and games for casual players I think. Having said that, 4 proved in my opinion, the games can use the EU in the plot well
I know this probably won't happen but I would like for them remake Halo the Fall of Reach(Not gonna happen I know but that's something I would like to see remade to be more lore friendly)
The movie or the book
The new stories aren't really holding up tho.
All the recent novels have had lots of praise if I recall
The issue with the war is that it doesn’t have much in the way of nuance to it. It was literally just 25 years of us getting our teeth kicked in by the covenant. There’s not much you can do with that. Post-war has a lot of political intrigue it can play off and developing the galaxy in a post-war/post-created era and exploring the impacts left by them.
It’s fumbled a lot of thing with the games sure, but the last thing I want is a retreat into a safe zone that they become too scared to ever move away from.
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Well, only those gorillas and Jackals wants to eat the humans while not for the Sangheilis.
Don't forget the crab monkeys
I'm happy for 343 to recon stuff as long as they do it through a good story
Like what they did with Spark.
When does hw2 spearbreaker take place? canonically
idk
Pretty sure a week or two after HW2 ending
Spearbraker may 1st
It's around 1 month after Installation 09 departs
And Flood outbreak is around a month after Operation: Spearbreaker
Oh, bugs that builds houses at Data Hive? Oh, yeah. Forgot that one.
they eat forerunner stuff
Only some, others eat various rocks and minerals
If all they humters ate forerunners stuff they'd be extinct
Or in a way worse position than they were in the covenant
So what does that make hunters?
Herbivores?
Rockivores?
Mineralivores?
Well some hunters are extinct
Some hunters ate forerunner mcguffins so the covenant decided they should die
And the hunters who didn't helped
Yea the ones who ate forerunner material were wiped out by the Covenant. The rest lived and joined the union
Its funny when you think of it as the covenant telling the lekgolo
Become vegan or die!!!!
Forerunner metal is meat?
Wonder if any hunters organized themselves into groups since they control a bunch of covenant machinery
hunters travel in pairs
What really happened to 049 Abject Testament because we never see him again after that conversation he had with GS
Did he go rampant or what?
No one knows
So I just watched that CEA terminal with the unknown alien spacecraft and it still bothers me, what race built that ship
We don't know, and probably never will.
I mean, they’re likely much more advanced than the current halo factions
If they built spacecrafts before humans invented farming techniques, they’re likely aliens you don’t wanna mess with
True, I wonder if they would make good allies in our fight against Cortana
Well, since you are the god emperor himself why don’t you just banish her to the warp
So where on Earth was Jacob Keyes from?
We don’t know, he spent some time of his childhood near the Pacific Ocean
Possibly on the West Coast of North America
Considering there is an image of the Arizona desert in the CEA terminals
At least I think it was Arizona
Could there have been any way for Jacob Keyes to survive the events of Alpha Halo?
No?
Not be with Johnson's team
He would also have to survive the attack on alpha base
And then be with Johnson to end up on the pelican that got off the ring
Unfortunately he'd most likely be on the captured shipTAR which didn't end well
If there was not any attack to cover the escape of PoA from Reach, Keyes may still be able to survive since Noble Six could be assigned as one of his guard and his escort team may not entirely wiped out or can make a defense perimeter to meet up with chief.
Unless Spark teleports the entire team into the library.
I can't believe Atriox still on loose
Finished Shadows of Reach last night. For some reason I can’t stop thinking about how someone asked here if there was anymore info on Taoti only for it to turn out that said Kig-Yar only appears on one page of novel, half of which is pretty much describing how John kills him.
Oh yea
I think that was me
But why
and Douglas wants to avenge him
And Decimus is leading the remaining banished forces
Decimus?
Decimus died in Halo Wars 2, we literally see him die in game
Wasn't there some joke going on just now?
Atriox still being on the ark ?
Douglas wanting to avenge him?
And yes I know he died it was one of the worse things in the game for me
Decimus died under the hands of Jerome and Douglas
and Atriox already escaped from the Ark
Douglas wants to make revenge of Atriox after he broke his shoulder.
Possibly now Pavium is leading the Banished on the ark
Make revenge of atriox?
Dude that sounds like avenging him
You mean get revenge on atriox
what's your favorite halo character?
Douglas is still angry about what happened to him.
Well they did get owned by a single brute
Who lacked any ranged weapons no less
And probably doesn't have any shields
They also have the numbers advantage
Oh he also broke his arm
I would be a little angry too
Yeah, Douglas is extremely pissed about it. Considering he was hospitalized for around two to three days
Does atriox have shields?
Really weird that red team didn't put a bullet through his skull when they were retreating
They even had a BR pretty much the perfect weapon for that job aside from the sniper rifle
According to concept art, Decimus was meant to be reanimated by the Flood in ATN
So who or what could've been imprisoned within that Halo Reach/CEA map Solitary?
Obviously it's masterchief's evil twin
We don’t know
Might be a precursor
Maybe an alien race that might've pissed off the Forerunners because we see similar structures in the panorama of the map
Remember in warfleet where it stated that there are threats that neither the forerunners or precursors could destroy and were only able to contain in crystallized time prisons?
Maybe one of those threats or something similar?
I have no idea because I don't have a copy of Warfleet
Definitely not a Precursor, the Forerunners only ever found one, and that one was kept on Installation 07 for a time, not in the facility that Solitary is set in
That gave me an idea. What if the Harbinger is a Precursor?
Sure hope it isn't
That’d be kinda dumb
Precursors in general are something that I feel just shouldn’t be brought up again
We canonized god and they made our entire existence as a hobby.
Bringing an entity like that into the modern era pretty much is short hand for saying “everything in the series is meaningless and only happens on the whims of god. Your conflicts mean literally nothing in the grand scale.”
I mean idk what a precursor would even do
They could just think you out of existance
It'd either do shag all to the point of wondering why it even has a place in the story or it would just immediately end all conflict
Nobody except the created could fight one
On the other hand lovecraftian halo sounds Super cool
I guess if you literally don't like anything about the universe sure
In the ending of infinite the harbinger destroys the universe and the series takes place in the new one
Yeah that'd be terrible
Like jojo part 7 or marathon infinity
Aren't the Flood already Lovecraftian though?
And yes I am joking
Yes they are
But not nothing you do matters lovecraftian
More bloodborn where they're able to be stopped
Do the Covenant (or in this case, Ol' Julie's Covenant) consider Prometheans to be holy warriors of the Sacred Rings just like the Sentinels, or something else?
Well the prometheans don't really defend the rings
They were all stocked up at reqieum
Maybe holy defensers of reqieum
I say Sacred Rings because one of the Elites in H2's The Arbiter level called the Sentinels that, even though they weren't on a ring (though it's justified, because it was near Alpha Halo).
so dose the Master chef have a documented age??
Hes now old enough to have his midlife crisis
Hmm isn't that basically the whole reclaimer saga?
yes that's what I was thinking
Johnson was like what, somewhere in his 70s and was still able to kick Covenant booty
I believe they have something in the future that slows aging, which explains how Johnson looked 40 despite being 80
What war was Crow's Nest built for?
maybe all the time he spent in cryo contributed to him not looking as old and maybe medical advances helped too
Wasn't Parangosky like 100 or something the first time we see her?
Don't remember, but medical technology probably advanced enough where the average lifespan is probably a lot closer to 100 than it is now.
The Banished then should fear the Flood further if they do indeed secretly brings Decimus body back to HC rather than being thrown into Proto-Gravemind.
Yea I'm pretty sure crows nest goes back to the interplanetary war
yes it is, but the human-covenant war really did effect that, with a lot of humanity being glassed into oblivion
All instances of cancer are easily-curable in the 26th-century too. It's about as serious as having a cold.
You still need surgery though
Like that unsc captain who didn't even know about cancer
Whether they come in or not, all conflicts are in reality meaningless on the grand scale of things. They are out there somewhere observing regardless of whether they come back or not.
Does somebody know what the big forerunner building was under the ice in the package on halo reach?
something related to slipspace
That was a ship
Not talking about the war dude, just how medical advances would increase the time it took to die of old age a little.
yeah ik, but after wartime, as seen in the middle ages of europe, life expectancy does shrink a bit
just sayin
srry if its not related to what you were saying my bad
yeah they rarely took prisoners, sometimes ate em, but some, like Keyes, were valuable
Covenant had some human prisoners on HC
Covenant seem to leave many high-ranking human combatants alive when they capture them.
Those must have been some pretty high ranking marines to take them onto the holiest site in the covenant empire
Actually kats grandma died from cancer surprisingly
Its still one of the most plot convenient things to this day that keyes was able to overhear two elites discussing the location of forerunners superweapons
cough Arbiter not infected by the flood cough
ikr
you would think that they would be speaking sangheili in front of the prisoner but nope
good old fashioned english
The language of the universe
yup
So what human planets have remained undisturbed by Cortana and the Created so far?, at least for now
The entire Sol System has been compromised and as of Shadows of Reach, Reach as well
And that one Innie planet
What is Venezia's status right now?
We don't know.
I would imagine it remains under the Cortana's radar. at least for now
If I was in the Halo universe, I would probably just bum it out on either Venezia or Sanghelios
haha cliff go brr
Wait, didn't half of Sanghelios get EMPed by a Guardian?
Yes.
And it was such a minor thing everyone had a BBQ a few hours later
Joint world. >=(
Our world
I would probably bum it out on Onyx then
don't worry
That's the best place really
Unless you want to role play nbsg just chill on the infinity
Well until whatever happens in infinite anyways
Still love how thr guardian had trouble with sangheilos
It did ?
In badblood they just said it got bored shooting fish in a barrel and just emp'd everything
It was never in danger
Elites did value humans, but not for others like Brutes, jackals, even Drones. They tend to feast on human corpses.
Then they should stay out there and keep having no impact
Am pretty sure elites will kill you ten out ten times
Only times are exceptions like when they take prisoners for interrogation or to active forerunners artifacts
Or having them into a "mercy killing" like having duels
Still, it's better than other factions
I'm not sure who the Russians of the Covenant were, the Elites or the Brutes
Like the union Soviets?
Wh....what?
Hunters if anyone
They share the most societal values that could be equated to communism
Also stop looking for analogs to real life entities where there’s not meant to be any
Great now we just have to find the other WW2 enemy in the covenant
No one in the Covenant, nor the Covenant itself resembled any form of communism
Let's please not do this
Hmmm does this mean that the human covenant was was just WW2 in space
Didn’t you just say “let’s not”
definitely not
I meant to say Russian, and it's because of how they treat prisoners or surrendered enemies.
I mean the Japanese and the Germans were just as bad
Didn't the covenant have a torture method where they used gravity to peel your skin off?
That was pretty new.
I'll check real quick
It was only at best a few years new. It was so new it couldn't be used in the battle against humans. Also, it didn't peel skin, it could change the gravity on something. Like crushing only a hand with the weight of a gas giant
It did squeeze them like a toothpaste bottle
Yeah that's what am remembering
Oh yeah, here's the passage on it:
"Our purposes in this chamber today are for”—he looked at Zo significantly—“interrogation.”
Zo spoke, just to keep his mind busy, to stall the Prophet of Exquisite Devotion. “I have never heard of such a use in the Covenant . . .”
“Oh, it is new. Very new, very experimental—perhaps it will not be practical for our needs with the humans, given their time is almost at a end. But for dissidents? For rebels clawing at us as we make our final steps on the Path?”
Really really new then
Ye
Cool that they would have used it against the humans on a large scale if the war wasn't basically over
I read that book fairly recently.
God I haven't read a Halo book in what feels like forever.
Lore: Plasma weapons could kill a fully armored UNSC marine in about 4 shots
any piece of halo media: That doesn't apply because I can't read.
If only there was a memes channel.
If only,
So why does the Mombasa in the Halo universe look different from its real life counterpart, in terms of geography?
Why would the halo devs go out of their way to research the topography of the city
Like you understand how terrible the halo 2 development was
Yep, I heard that they used the same assets from Halo CE
They did
That was lazy
Halo 2 wasn't an asset flip of Combat Evolved but the team making the game definitely when through hell trying to make it
Bungie more than likely didn't want to limit themselves to real world geography when designing the levels set within the city. Plus, Halo is set 500 years in the future, things aren't going to look the same
True
Yep I noticed that too. Judging by geography position, it moved 15 degrees south considering 7 PM the sun still up at NMPD.
But, need to take another look to see if there were any ring that can linked to it such as Japan and Indonesia that often has earthquake due to have the slab from multiple area.
Well, tectonic movements will have caused changes over 500 years.
15 degrees south it's like... extreme
That can be like in 35 years, you get one degree to the south
@versed helm the vast majority of Mombasa is very close to what it looks like in real life just 500 years in the future and some stuff just didn’t make it into the game or quite fit due to lore expansion over time
@slim thorn you know Bungie isn’t checking something as compulsive as where the sun rests in the sky
They’re not Bohemia Interactive getting their employees arrested by the Turkish government for quote on quote spying because they’re taking a bunch of pictures of government buildings and locales for research for Arma
Also I’m pretty sure Mombasa rests on a relatively stable seismic zone compared to Japan or Indonesia
The closest fault line is the Great Rift Valley inland
Actually, recount that, East Africa is volatile to seismic activity quite a bit
Yeah, but not to the extreme point itself like I said.
wow this makes a bit of sense
Both of them were about one side on a genocidal campaign against another side while using effective but extremely drawn out methods
So like The Covenant are axis and UNSC are allies, then?
What
I mean it makes sense
I feel like that comparison stops working when you add in the fact that the UNSC was pretty much just getting steamrolled the entire time by a numerically and technologically superior force
Any human victory in the Human-Covenant War was just delaying the inevitable, at best
Had the Great Schism not happened when it did, the UNSC surely would not have stood a chance.
Humanity only survived because of the Sangheili
We owe them our thanks, even though their hands are stained with the blood of billions of humans
so, after recently talking about playable elites and some people thinking they may not be lore friendly- whats the general consensus on that?
i know peace talks with the sangheili havent been made yet (i think)
and ONI continues with their crap on the sangheili
and i definitely dont think playable elites should be excluded because of lore
Lore shouldn't have any bearing on multplayer :v
exactly
playable elites would be cool, lore friendly or not.
well infinite is a good few years after 5 so maybe oni's done with their tomfoolery
or maybe tensions did erupt and the sangheili (all sangheili) are back to hating humans
Not sure how playable elites wouldn't be lore friendly
The unsc is allied with the SoS and train with them
This. Also the major powers of WW2 were on relatively equal terms technology wise when the war started. The Allies had superior industrial capacity and capability, they established extensive supply lines during the war, had/or established better intelligence and code breaking services, and they eventually fielded larger armies than the Axis powers. The UNSC's victory was kind of a Hail Mary. I don't see how anyone could really make any real parallels between WW2 and the Human-Covenant War.
You're right that it doesn't contradict lore, it's just that Elites were kinda unbalanced due to their weird hit boxes in all the games where they were playable.
probably just allow them in social but not in ranked
That'd work
If 343 really can't think if a way to balance them in rank, give them their own rank playlist.
And the fact that they don't need health packs in Reach.
Wait really? It's been like 9-years since I played any mode in Reach that involved the hinge heads.
Yeah, no need for a health pack. Just fall back and heal up
That's a pretty big balancing flaw
Then again this is bungie and looking at destiny 1 and 2 I can't say am surprised
I take it because Bungie didn't think of coming up with the Covenant equivalent of first aid.
I was personally think ONI is a jack*** politician that only care for profits for their own, not thinking what lies at the future.
That reminds me. Do the Covenant have first aid in lore?
Well for everyone except most elites
The elites have tooo much ''honor'' and just refuse medics.
That was exaggerated.
Righteo. Felt it was worth a mention since so many others think all of 'em refuse.
Yes, obviously the arbiter wants it and the medics want it so the idea that all of them hate medics is contradicted by something sitting right next to the complaining elite.
Yeah, we do see all covenant ships do have medical suites, which are capable of repairing anyone within a very short time. Sure Sangheili sometimes passed on that, but not all
I feel like those Sangheili were treated as the anti-vaxxers of the Sangheili
As far as I know, the contact in harvest started the human-covenant war, right?
Yup
Yep, also I think truth's original plan was to infiltrate humans from the inside but also sent the least negotiable team possible to screw it up from early on.
No, Regret was the one who sent the Jiralhanae as an official first contact group to Harvest. At this time, Regret and Truth, and Mercy were not Hierarchs yet.
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There was no plan to screw the meeting up that was pure accident
The second part was a theory the first part was also a theory
thanks for clarification, Regret is always the one to accidentally screw up everyone elses's plans
He didn't screw anything up
He did for a few things, such as ordering elites to kill jackals that were planning to infiltrate huamns, jumping the gun, ect.
First kill: Johnson. First weapon used to kill: XBR55. First species to be killed: Kig-Yar.
It was all on the over eager unggoy. Two teams were sent to meet with the humans. The team the chieftain was with, and another led by Tartarus. Tartarus's team was searching the area for the oracle while the chieftains group talked with the humans. An over eager unggoy was serving in Tartarus's team and was spooked by a marine and killed him.
Yes, I said accidentally and I should've followed up with accidentally causing the events.
Makes you feel any better, Truth was the one to issue the idea to wipe out the humans, and told Regret to carry it out.
Yes, I knew that he was the one who really wanted humans to be killed (The most) and also regret indirectly caused the covenant to fall by getting to delta halo.
but- Really it was that one prophet in thel's fleet.
who is yap yap
So a Grunt started the war?
Which war?
Yapyap may not even be truly canon
HCW
wonder what happened to the librarian
Died on Earth.
There are probably more grunts than humans so names will 100% overlap/
Think of some guy named john who died to accidentally sticking himself, that doesn't mean master chief died by sticking themselves.
...huh?
Someone said 'died on earth' and I was assuming they were referring to yapyap
Nope, I was answering the person right above me.
Oh, sorry.
It's fine
Shadows of reach is no longer spoiler content here right?
whats a level 1 directive?
Making a machinima wanna know it’s meaning to use the term or not
Most important task that needs to be completed I think
Hey guys what order should I read the halo books and in a lore standpoint
I suggest starting off from FoR
Or if you want to start from the complete beginning
The forerunner saga
Can I get a complete list of all the books In order if you want to Planning on getting them this Christmas
I'm pretty sure there is a lot of books.
Probably 40+ 
From what I’ve seen
But I’m a huge fanatic of the Lore and I’m planning on getting all of them
If anybody has any questions go ahead try me
I’ll do my best to answer
Oh I recommend going onto halopedia
They have a complete list of the books and the order
I think the number of normal books is around 33 but there are a lot more if you consider guides, comics etc.
I read 2 so far and just got 3 more
Stupid question: What happened to fireteam crimson after halo 4?
they're still around, the lore hasn't mentioned them since Halo 4 Spartan Ops
I think they cameo’d in shadow’s of reach
They kinda just show up on when the Infinity sends re-reinforcements and chief’s just like “yep, that’s a group of Spartan’s alright”
How badly would the Human Covenant war have gone for the UNSC
Had SPARTANs never existed?
On a scale of 1-10000
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Honestly I don’t know how much would have been different. The covenant would’ve collapsed in on itself regardless.
Really wouldn't, considering the prophet of regret wouldn't have died.
They wouldn't have been able to send Blue Team in halo legends and prove humanity could win either
Truth was plotting that very very very far in advance
After SPARTAN-II'S had been created.
If chief hadn’t been around to deck him in the face 25 times something still would’ve happened to regret.
The ground battles were really only won when SPARTANs got on the field. The marines had trouble with grunts and jackals I imagine.
And if an Elite (which was a pretty rare sight for marines) got onto the field, they were pretty much dead.
Especially if it was a Zealot or Ultra
(shivers in reach and halo 2 ultras)
There were only like 3 dozen spartan 2’s you know.
Oh I remember reach quite vividly
Yeah none of those events really had to do with the covenant falling apart from the inside.
Am not talking bout the covenant stability
Am talking about the unsc dying
Anyways, there were spartan 3's along with 2's, which provided heavy aid for UNSC Troopers.
I mean the war was going terribly even with spartans
Without those assets, the UNSC only has human troops which could be one-two hit killed by any covenant plasma weapon.
And it would have been worse without them
Active camo didn't exactly help the situation for marines either.
Most spartan 3’s were in the same boat as well
Spartan 3 were pretty small scale
3s were designed to fight the Covenant
Hell I'm pretty sure SPARTANs were the only UNSC unit that could stand up to elites 1v1 and actually win.
A vast majority of the 3 forces never had power armour
As in there operations
That is true. We saw how badly it turned out on lone wolf with Spartan III's that had MJOLNIR
Imagine what the ones with SPI had to deal with
You’re not wrong but you are vastly over selling their role in the war as well.
Probably not as bad aa the ones on onyx
I'm really not. SPARTANs greatly increased the morale of marines during it.
Actually Spartans have more covenant ship kills than most unsc ships
And without chief to get Cortana off the pillar of autumn, that would have been the end for humanity.
I am not joking
Like we were losing the war. We would have lost if the covenant never ate itself from the inside out.
We would have lost without spartans as well. What exactly implies truth was planning to do that without chief and other spartans getting in the way?
We would have lost before that
First strike was gonna happen
They just got lucky
First strike happened before or after CE?
After
We would have lost before first strike on the pillar of autumn
Chief was literally their only way to get Cortana off the ship safely.
And even he struggled to do so.
And time travel was involved A little so the timeline is a little screwed
The broken circle and also the fact that he was literally pulling troops away from regret and silencing communications about chief’s approach.
Yes, chiefs approach right?
You know, the only soldier humanity had that could break through their defenses even with the pulled troops?
Yep
Regret’s death was literally orchestrated by him to usurp the elites with brutes and we just happened to be in the neighbourhood to do it for him.
Wasn't that mercy's?
Mate those camo elites would have killed any marine squad that was foolish enough to go in on its own.
He sabotaged his chair
If chief hadn’t been there truth would have used other means to make it happen.
Can we just answer the actual question?
Even when Truth pulled away troops, the guards that regret had would have halted any marines trying to get in.
What happens to humanity
It just so happened that chief was and truth went out of his way to make it as easy as possible.
Answer they die
It probably would have ended on reach
Also I’m pretty sure marine squads regularly take on elite forces.
You have to remember that gameplay doesn’t equal lore.
No they don't. Whoever tells you that is downplaying elites.
Yeah and they have terrible losses
If anything, gameplay has elites losing to marines.
When their weapons can literally kill a marine in one bolt.
Remember the elite squad of odsts in slient storm
And they are as fast and strong as SPARTANs.
And how all of them died in the end
On lore shields are much more squishy than in gameplay concentrated coordination from auto fire can drop them quickly.
But also, again
No they aren't. Shields in lore are a lot stronger than in gameplay.
Maybe for elite minors, but theirs are inferior to MJOLNIRs anyway.
Actually shields can take half to full clips in lore
^
But it depends on rank
Chief just happened to be around to make things easy for truth. Without chief truth would’ve still used other means to get rid of regret.
Like? No marine squad would have gotten past regrets defenses, but that would never happen since Halo CE would be where the war ends, being generous @craggy sierra
Who tf said it needed to be marines?
ODSTs, Marines, doesn't matter
Or ODSTs.
Ehh odsts assassinated a prophet once
And like I said, it would have ended on CE or Reach
Remember the babysitter
Heaven forbid there’s things such as political assassinations and poisonings.
He didn't have shields for reasons
Like I said, that wouldn't be able to come into play.
Because humanity would be doomed on reach.
How so?
We're going into speculation territory at this point
No marine or ODST squad could have gotten Cortana off Reach like Noble Team did.
Even then, it took the sacrifice of multiple genetically enhanced super soldiers to give humanity somewhat of a chance.
That a fact
Okay but how did Cortana cause the covenant civil war that topples them?
She did?
She didn’t
That was arbiter
You're not getting it. Humanity would have been slaughtered far before that point due to reach alone.
That was caused by truth that was shown to him by the gravemind
Again the elimination of the elites was planned for years in advance by truth.
Yes it would have
Noble Team was the only squad that could get her off reach to give them a chance against the covenant.
They could have captured her and then glassed earth.
Proof?
Silent storm
I already provided it if you weren't paying attention.
Noble Team was literally the only squad able to get Cortana off reach without being captured. If they captured her, they would learn everything as stated by Keyes in CE.
And that includes the location of earth.
A team of Spartans destroyed said ships and a covenant ship yard and also a covenant city
Guess what
Yeah, try getting a squad of ODSTs to do what Noble team did. That will go well.
We don’t even know what the covenant war path was.
It only bought humanity a few months
With far worse armor, physical attributes, and reflexes.
That's what's stated by oblivion anyways
They lost a hyper lethal spartan along with many others to have a fighting chance.
Wanna argue with the book?
Spartan’s do incredible things for sure but in the grand scheme of those things were metaphorically only buying minutes in the grand scheme of the war.
The entire point of halo is that Spartans are humanity's last hope
You really think some ODSTs or Troopers can pull off what Noble Team, numerous other SPARTAN-III's and a hyper lethal SPARTAN managed to do?
Without them humanity would have died a looonggg time ago
All while dying in the process?
Its just a fact
You're understating the SPARTANs role in the war.
By a lot
The entire premise of halo is that SPARTANs are humanity's last hope.
Yes
But nah, they're only some minor people who were insignificant in the end and never needed.
Totally.
I was gonna say
It was stated even Minors can take out entire marine squads on their own somewhere I think.
Can't remember where though
all Spartans are hyper lethal, just a clarification @barren ferry
Yep
Also I still don’t quite fully understand what noble team did or why people prop sacrafice up on a pedestal with them.
Not exactly on the level of chief or six, but yeah.
Maybe that's because they got humanity's last fighting chance off of reach?
They died to deliver cortana
no absolutely, the Spartan Field Manual outright says a Spartan in armor is 'hyper letal'
Only one person on the team actually made a conscious sacrifice and that was Jorge.
Well six Carter and emile anyways
the statement about Noble Six being 'hyper lethal' isn't really canon
Wow, so Cortana isn't one of those even though, like I said, she held the key to humanity's victory in the later games?
since it came from a early game trailer
Except no, they didn’t. Only Carter and Emile did.
And jorge to save his planet
Well he died so the autumn could escape
That's the reason he stayed
He had too
I don’t get emile’s death doesn’t he have a radar to see people who sneak up on him
Six died to that Chief and the pillar of autumn could make it off reach. Without him being at the MAC gun, they would have been destroyed.
Spartans have been raised in-universe to a near-legendary status among the civilian population by way of ONI propaganda
Like this is what irks me about noble team. The fact that people think they have a cohesive theme when they really don’t.
it doesn't matter the Spartan, they all might as well get statues
You're acting like you do when you're the one who doesn't realize their significance on reach.
Well if Spartans didn't exist the humanity would have died way earlier
probably
Yep
the war could have gone a lot of ways but yeah Spartans had a tangible effect on the battlefield
They would have never found out the covenant was on reach till far later in the games timeline
For example chief taking down that 500 strong covenant fleet along with his blue team
2 people died in a way that implies a sacrafice out of the team. Actually I guess 3 if you count 6 but like...6 isn’t a character.
Because no marine squad would live to tell the tale.
What about a few squads
"6 isn't a character" literally is the only reason the pillar of autumn escapes.
Sacrafice means knowingly and willingly giving something up. That’s sure as hell not how Emile and Kat went out.
No real difference.
Yeah, cause emile and Kat are definitely all of noble team.
Kat was more so the technician and brains of the team.
Emiles death is so bad and the more I think of it the worse it seems to me
They needed her for a lot of things.
Everyone seems to forget this for some reason
Well that’s my issue with people saying that Noble team is a great pinnacle of sacrafice.
Emile was blinded by rage right
That's why he wasn't checking his surroundings?
Like 2 people and a player insert actually make sacrafices.
Like Emile couldn’t check his radar?
Even then, they accomplished a lot of things nobody else could on reach.
Emile probably broke his radar etching a skull into his helmet
"player insert" alright then. You're really downplaying 6's importance here.
Wel the carvings don't seem that deep
10 years later, I guess this is how Halo games get remembered? Every little thing getting nitpicked into the ground when as a whole it's a pretty good story, or a decent one at least?
Master Chief, Keyes, Cortana, and the pillar of autumn would have all been glassed had 6 not stayed behind and fired the MAC Gun on the covenant cruiser.
And if you look closely he carved around where the eyes would be looking around
Honestly I really didn’t like reach’s story since launch
That's on you man.
Doesn't change the fact humanity would have died on reach without the spartans
Still doesn’t help that two of them died in really dumb ways lol
I guess carter’s death was kind of dumb too
He was going to die anyway.
Carter’s death is just kinda there
May as well have gone out with a bang.
He could have jumped out
Are we just hating on noble team now?
He already had a lethal plasma burn on his armor.
Like the game just smash cuts to a new cutscene and it’s like “oh I guess he’s bleeding out now”
And likely his flesh too.
Of he got plasma Wouldn't his wounds be burned shut
But like imagine if like kat didn’t get randomly sniped or Emile actually checked his radar
Question
If he got hit by plasma with shields down he would probably be dead
Go ahead
Have we forgotten headhunter ?
I guess the radar thing could apply to kat’s death too since wouldn’t they be able to see a phantom above them
Do keep in mind spartans are enhanced so they can survive plasma burns a bit more effectively.
Well its not they been forgotten
With both dying as a result
And plasma bolts don't exactly cauterize wounds, they cause bleeding. It's like blaster bolts from star wars that are also plasma, they can cause a target to bleed along with 4th degree burns
So cut emile some slack
I think its more they are just not relevant except for the silent shadow
Only energy swords or lightsabers really have that capability.
I’d hate that too
Well in halo plasma can blast off limbs with 1 or two shots
Id think those are specific plasma weapons.
Nah
Remeber when rex got hit directly in the chest right next to the heart and survived?
Plasma rifles can probably do that with repeated firing.
That was only due to his pauldron and armor.
But yeah we don’t need to give emile more rope than his character has. He already has more than enough to be dumb with from the skull helmet alone.
Yea all plasma weapons do thar
Clone armor is plastic advanced that spreads heat around
Yea
I think paply was planning something with silo beast armor but that went nowhere
Only in legends is it fully immune
I have also have the perfect counter for that
I'm basing it off legends so
Remeber that stormtrooper armor is made of the same stuff
Although less quality.
And the ewok fight in return of the Jedi
There a comic were stormtroopers get impaled by rocked
Oh yes, the infamous ewok scene.
Just rocks
Remeber when those stormtrooper got killed by rocks and spears
Not magic super sharp rocks
I can explain that. Ewoks are actually pretty strong.
Which technically happened in both versions
And it went through the body glove, not the armor itself
Stronger than a bullet?
Bullets have no continued amount of force.
Oh yeah and a book explains that blasters are just more convenient
As in blasters have different settings and a lot of ammo
Wasn't the legends explanations was that everyone agreed that solid guns were unethical?
No.
I Remeber seeing that in a lore video
The legends explanation was that blasters made most armor almost useless.
Huh
So yeah have fun with you OP slugthrower it'll be a shame once you run out of ammo
Slugthrowers were ineffective against most modern body armor.
I wonder where the unsc will reach that point
Remember the ICS?
Blasters were honestly just more effective.
Because in star wars everyone gets one shot
Terraton turbolasers
And legends is only inconsistent on few occasions.
Do remember thats only on star destroyers or capital ships. @west silo
Accirding to SoR
Gigaton x wings
It's what they use to glass planets.
The infinity can fire at a quarter of the speed of light
Base delta zero
Exactly.
Man the C.I.S had the right idea
The Jedi Droid comics aren't canon fyi
It doesn't matter if you can one shot droids when there are trillions of them
And I agree post ROTJ legends is kinda trash.
No legends are canon anymore
And barely any loss of life
Actually yes
Pre ROTJ legends is what I like for the most part.
Dark empire was pretty good from what I've heard though.
The dark empire trilogy is canon now
I think the clone wars was the best era
I've heard the opposite
Looks at tros
That it was among the worst of Legends
Yea Disney is introducing legends stuff slowly
Disney canon is honestly trash imo
The first comic is great everything else not so much
The new republic
They could have improved upon the post ROTJ EU
I wanted NR vs FO
It's why people hated where TROS was going
What we got was rebellion 2.0
But no, they just took the bad bits of it and made it even worse
At least palpatine didn't try to possess a baby
Its just the ISD with big gun
Dear God
That was honestly dumb tbh. 200 Gigatons can't destroy a planet with one shot.
The most it can do is glass it.
You want to know something funny?
What
Wait as sec
Not the eclipse class?
Yea I Remeber a eck vid where it was found Disney was copying a lot of fan ships
Palpatines personal flag ship
Tbh the eclipse seems cool
For their comic
Never really delved into it though.
It didn't have enough power to fully use it
Man star wars being real creative with its planet busters
But Disney did not get the memo
"Blows planet up but bigger"
They made palpatine really stupid
At least keep them off the impossible to get out of world
I mean he should have learned that fear is not a good thing to lead your empire with
Jesus
Oh yeah and announce you return to the entire galaxy
But not do anything after
It seems his intelligence took a nosedive after becoming emperor
Lazy ads old man
Though shouldn't it be also called the galactic civil war?
At least I die quickly
Also btw for all you non SW fans out there just wanna give some clarification
The AT-AT is not a tank
You know what they did to the remaining alderaians?
Didn't they try to exterminate them?
Put em on a moon
Or something
The anti-Prequel crowd loves the Sequels because they're rehashes
They hunted the last one done
Then tricked a guy into killing them up
Because empire evil
You know what the siths are right?
Dang it look at the only good sith raven
And he's just an edgy jedi
Praying to God Rey gets sniped with a DLT-19X in the new trilogy
But hey her head will probably regenerate from the Blaster burn cause Disney
The whole blowing up alderran thing was dumb anyway
Like they just made it into a matyr
Pretty sure there was a whole video bout how the empire is a dumb empire
I really don't take those videos words tbh
Though I wonder how things would have turned out if the Death Star wasn't destroyed, and the fear of it stayed above everyone's heads.
You'd be surprised by the amount of people who think the Empire are good guys
They aren't exactly evil in the traditional sense.
Looks at YouTube
It is so weird when I see it unironically.
I mean yea the rebels have committed a bunch of crimes
I can't even find it funny
Against an evil empire
The Empire definitely aren't the good guys though
Like remember in rebels where they put every imperial in the city onto one station and blew it up yet framed it as good?
They blew up an entire planet of pacifists just to prove a point.
Hey wanna hear something more depressing?
Pls no
Cauuse jede?
Empire are totally the good guys 100%
Because they knew the rebels would rush in to provide relief
You know that actually isn't all that bad of a plan, but there were better ones
Palpatine was asking for a rebellion
Oh if you have no morals its a great plan
And is not afraid of half the population dying
Warehouse sized
But ehh they have thousands of planets soo who cares am I right?
Not thousands millions
Oh yea don't forget the "human superior" ideology
Ohhhh boooyyyy
That the funny part
They don't care about humans
Seriously did palpy want the empire to crash and burn
They'll slaughter you too
Cause this is the way to do it
Remember a lot of people apart of the Empire are aliens
Its like throwing gasoline onto a fire
You think Cole equal to thrawn?
Tbh I prefer the Galactic Republic a lot more
Or Keyes maybe?
Man imagine if we got the yuu son vung trilogy
Though at least not "genocidal" corrupt
Hey get this
And wasn't breaking its own knees
They had 4000 years of peace
The Empire was around for only 30 years
And is considered the most bloodliest periods ever
Man every galactic governement after the republic was a failure
None lasted more than 50 years
Want to know what was the bloodiest?
Uzang vong?
Yes
Trillion dead
Oh yea
That's canon
Then it's an even fight
If not for palpatine
The C.I.S could take on a bunch of factions
Doesnt matter if you take down hundreds if they can make thousands in a few minutes
There's a lot more than 2 million clones.
Legends
They couldn't and wouldn't give us a clear figure for the clone army numbers in the EU.
I couldn't care less about disney's canon to be honest.
Tell that to karen
Okay
Traviss
It was one planet that was supposed to produce a army to protect a galactic empire
Hey Karen traviss
The republic as the empire
I don't care what you say
Rude
The coveant would lose after a long bloody war
The covenant is too unsable
And too small to fight a war against such a big threat
Remember the galactic empire has millions of worlds
And 25 thousand SSD alone
And that's there most technically rarest type of ship
I meant how would the covenant fit in
All of the sudden you got these new aliens and a faction
Well they'd probably try to kill humans
And it just goes down hill from there
Because when the covenant attack a galactic empire world well it basically all out war
What worse this would make the Empire look like good guys
They just... Were Incompatible with themself
How long would you say ghat war would last
Also since these are star wars humans not halo humans
They won't have the directive for forerunner stuff
If the covenant used hit & Run they'd be very very effective imo
Depends on if they find any covenant worlds
Because that world will fall very soon
High charity is safe
They just didn't use very good tactics in my opinion.
Until the death star is constructed anyways
Well the covejant have a huge advantage
If they did they'd be far more deadly.
The empire would have to manually map out hyperspace lames to their planets
So would the covenant unfortunately
While the covenant don't have to worry about hitting stuff
New lore from warfleet
What
Oh my god
The factions ways of attacking are very similar though - just brute force & overwhelm the ships and units to destroy their enemy
Do I have powers
They are far more likely to kamikaze then empire though, so they could go into a huge area and sacrifice their ships with bombs to the max
Range tho
They do it on small and big scale.
And weapons
They just didn't really need to during the main parts of the war
This is really just 50,000 weak pew pew vs 500 Strong zap zap
Fun fact just look at star wars rebels
There lasers are weak
But there is a lore reason for that
Turbolasers lose energy in atmosphere
I mean 1 plasma lance can turn part of a planet to nothing but glass. not a large area
Over a long period of time yes
Thanks
👌
But still, I'd say they were stronger weapons but weaker in numbers.
Everybody gangster till the covenant got the rings.
So yeah slipspace travel is pretty much the speed of plot
Yup
You can dial it up to
WE GOTTA USE A PLOT THING NOW!!!!
Or yeah that took 5 months what of it.
Cough atriox making it to reach from the ark in only a matter of minutes
Yep
Speed of plot
Like, if truth saw a rough map to the ark humanity galaxy would be finished according to the atriox thing.
Then again maybe the crystal had something to do with it
Then again maybe not
It just opened it
~~ T H E C R Y S T A L G U I D E S M E~~
So when do you believe Disney will buy the Halo francize and merge it with Star Wars?
No.
wait is there a star wars vs halo fight going on
It ended
Yes.