#lore-and-universe

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versed helm
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also the suit has a full blown catheter and everything, i doubt it would have issues with sanitation and sweat

zenith sage
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Well @versed helm maybe that’s because not enough Spartans lost only their arm(s) in combat

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The ones that did only lose an arm were the lucky ones, they could have met worse fates

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The ones that keep their limbs intact are even luckier

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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

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Technology that Spartan 3s normally didn’t receive due to their...expendability

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@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)

versed helm
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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?

zenith sage
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I personally doubt that

west silo
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Because people probably like having fleshy bits

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And probably only get cybernetics to replace lost limbs

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You gotta remember this is halo not cyberpunk where every person is a low level cyborg

candid pecan
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yeah

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it would be quite painful to surgically remove and replace a limb, if not more than losing it in action

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and they likely made others uncomfortable and werent exactly a "fashion" choice

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also heres a fun fact completely unrelated, the ancient swords of sanghelios allowed females into their ranks

west silo
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Actually there are females in the swords of sanghelios

cedar surge
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Not the og sos but the new one

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Also what would be better to give a odst with already working arms new robotic ones or give somebody who actually need them

west silo
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What more people seem to forget logistics exist

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Your gonna have to properly maintain that cybernetic part for the rest of your life

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And that probably cost a lot

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Unless your in the military

craggy roost
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So does sangheili shampoo

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They get around

west silo
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So does barns

cedar surge
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Plus how exactly would that one up a spartan

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That's basically telling them you can't one up them without strapping machinery to yourself

formal path
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I think prophets were british

versed helm
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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).

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Cyborg Spartans being referred to as “Mark VIII” is fascinating, Merging the Mjolnir and it’s wearer as being a single project

flat tundra
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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.

versed helm
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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

sick surge
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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

craggy sierra
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I’m done with prequels at this point especially with stuff set in the war

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It’d play out the exact same as Reach but with the characters saying “what the hell is that?” a lot more.

sonic folio
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What happens to human POWs

cedar surge
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Covenant would most likely kill/eat them

vague scroll
# versed helm Eh, to be honest I feel like Halo’s EU has been damaging to creative freedom for...

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.

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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.

jolly furnace
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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

harsh jetty
cedar surge
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The movie or the book

harsh jetty
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Both

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jk the book

harsh jetty
carmine sleet
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All the recent novels have had lots of praise if I recall

craggy sierra
# harsh jetty The new stories aren't really holding up tho.

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.

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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.

slim thorn
cedar surge
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Don't forget the crab monkeys

warm dust
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I'm happy for 343 to recon stuff as long as they do it through a good story

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Like what they did with Spark.

versed helm
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When does hw2 spearbreaker take place? canonically

agile slate
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idk

cedar surge
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Pretty sure a week or two after HW2 ending

fair hazel
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Spearbraker may 1st

slim thorn
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And Flood outbreak is around a month after Operation: Spearbreaker

slim thorn
west silo
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What do hunters eat?

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Do they eat meat or just rocks and metals

humble yacht
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they eat forerunner stuff

terse lava
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Only some, others eat various rocks and minerals

west silo
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If all they humters ate forerunners stuff they'd be extinct

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Or in a way worse position than they were in the covenant

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So what does that make hunters?

Herbivores?

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Rockivores?

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Mineralivores?

cedar surge
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Well some hunters are extinct

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Some hunters ate forerunner mcguffins so the covenant decided they should die

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And the hunters who didn't helped

terse lava
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Yea the ones who ate forerunner material were wiped out by the Covenant. The rest lived and joined the union

west silo
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Its funny when you think of it as the covenant telling the lekgolo
Become vegan or die!!!!

cedar surge
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Forerunner metal is meat?

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Wonder if any hunters organized themselves into groups since they control a bunch of covenant machinery

humble yacht
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hunters travel in pairs

versed helm
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What really happened to 049 Abject Testament because we never see him again after that conversation he had with GS

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Did he go rampant or what?

terse lava
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No one knows

versed helm
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So I just watched that CEA terminal with the unknown alien spacecraft and it still bothers me, what race built that ship

gilded mason
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We don't know, and probably never will.

versed helm
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True

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Plus, whatever race built it could be dead by now

ocean ibex
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I mean, they’re likely much more advanced than the current halo factions

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If they built spacecrafts before humans invented farming techniques, they’re likely aliens you don’t wanna mess with

versed helm
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True, I wonder if they would make good allies in our fight against Cortana

ocean ibex
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Well, since you are the god emperor himself why don’t you just banish her to the warp

versed helm
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So where on Earth was Jacob Keyes from?

ocean ibex
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We don’t know, he spent some time of his childhood near the Pacific Ocean

versed helm
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Possibly on the West Coast of North America

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Considering there is an image of the Arizona desert in the CEA terminals

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At least I think it was Arizona

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Could there have been any way for Jacob Keyes to survive the events of Alpha Halo?

ocean ibex
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No?

west silo
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Not be with Johnson's team

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He would also have to survive the attack on alpha base

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And then be with Johnson to end up on the pelican that got off the ring

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Unfortunately he'd most likely be on the captured shipTAR which didn't end well

slim thorn
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Unless Spark teleports the entire team into the library.

narrow wraith
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I can't believe Atriox still on loose

unique rune
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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.

cedar surge
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Oh yea

west silo
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I think that was me

fair hazel
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But why

slim thorn
west silo
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And Decimus is leading the remaining banished forces

stable flower
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Decimus?

carmine sleet
west silo
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Wasn't there some joke going on just now?

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Atriox still being on the ark ?

Douglas wanting to avenge him?

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And yes I know he died it was one of the worse things in the game for me

slim thorn
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Decimus died under the hands of Jerome and Douglas

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and Atriox already escaped from the Ark

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Douglas wants to make revenge of Atriox after he broke his shoulder.

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Possibly now Pavium is leading the Banished on the ark

west silo
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Make revenge of atriox?

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Dude that sounds like avenging him

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You mean get revenge on atriox

half verge
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what's your favorite halo character?

slim thorn
west silo
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Well they did get owned by a single brute

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Who lacked any ranged weapons no less

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And probably doesn't have any shields

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They also have the numbers advantage

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Oh he also broke his arm

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I would be a little angry too

slim thorn
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Yeah, Douglas is extremely pissed about it. Considering he was hospitalized for around two to three days

west silo
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Does atriox have shields?

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Really weird that red team didn't put a bullet through his skull when they were retreating

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They even had a BR pretty much the perfect weapon for that job aside from the sniper rifle

stable flower
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According to concept art, Decimus was meant to be reanimated by the Flood in ATN

versed helm
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So who or what could've been imprisoned within that Halo Reach/CEA map Solitary?

west silo
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Obviously it's masterchief's evil twin

ocean ibex
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Might be a precursor

versed helm
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Maybe an alien race that might've pissed off the Forerunners because we see similar structures in the panorama of the map

west silo
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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?

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Maybe one of those threats or something similar?

versed helm
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I have no idea because I don't have a copy of Warfleet

carmine sleet
# ocean ibex Might be a precursor

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

stable flower
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That gave me an idea. What if the Harbinger is a Precursor?

unique rune
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Sure hope it isn't

craggy sierra
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That’d be kinda dumb

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Precursors in general are something that I feel just shouldn’t be brought up again

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We canonized god and they made our entire existence as a hobby.

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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.”

cedar surge
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Well if the harbinger was a precursor

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Then infinite would like 3 minutes long

craggy sierra
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I mean idk what a precursor would even do

cedar surge
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They could just think you out of existance

craggy sierra
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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

cedar surge
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Nobody except the created could fight one

west silo
craggy sierra
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I guess if you literally don't like anything about the universe sure

west silo
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In the ending of infinite the harbinger destroys the universe and the series takes place in the new one

craggy sierra
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Yeah that'd be terrible

west silo
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Like jojo part 7 or marathon infinity

stable flower
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Aren't the Flood already Lovecraftian though?

west silo
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And yes I am joking

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Yes they are

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But not nothing you do matters lovecraftian

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More bloodborn where they're able to be stopped

stable flower
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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?

cedar surge
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Well the prometheans don't really defend the rings

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They were all stocked up at reqieum

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Maybe holy defensers of reqieum

stable flower
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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).

slim rivet
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so dose the Master chef have a documented age??

gilded mason
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Yes.

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Born March 7, 2511

west silo
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Hes now old enough to have his midlife crisis

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Hmm isn't that basically the whole reclaimer saga?

slim rivet
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postums yes that's what I was thinking

versed helm
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Johnson was like what, somewhere in his 70s and was still able to kick Covenant booty

stable flower
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I believe they have something in the future that slows aging, which explains how Johnson looked 40 despite being 80

versed helm
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What war was Crow's Nest built for?

opal birch
versed helm
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Wasn't Parangosky like 100 or something the first time we see her?

opal birch
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Don't remember, but medical technology probably advanced enough where the average lifespan is probably a lot closer to 100 than it is now.

slim thorn
cedar surge
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Yea I'm pretty sure crows nest goes back to the interplanetary war

candid pecan
stable flower
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All instances of cancer are easily-curable in the 26th-century too. It's about as serious as having a cold.

ocean ibex
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You still need surgery though

cedar surge
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Like that unsc captain who didn't even know about cancer

jolly furnace
scarlet topaz
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Does somebody know what the big forerunner building was under the ice in the package on halo reach?

humble yacht
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something related to slipspace

jolly furnace
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That was a ship

opal birch
candid pecan
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just sayin

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srry if its not related to what you were saying my bad

candid pecan
cedar surge
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Covenant had some human prisoners on HC

stable flower
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Covenant seem to leave many high-ranking human combatants alive when they capture them.

cedar surge
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Those must have been some pretty high ranking marines to take them onto the holiest site in the covenant empire

west silo
west silo
honest orchid
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cough Arbiter not infected by the flood cough

west silo
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His shields blocked it

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Just roll with it

candid pecan
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you would think that they would be speaking sangheili in front of the prisoner but nope

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good old fashioned english

west silo
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The language of the universe

candid pecan
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yup

versed helm
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So what human planets have remained undisturbed by Cortana and the Created so far?, at least for now

gilded mason
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We don't know.

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Post-Created lore is pretty barren.

versed helm
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The entire Sol System has been compromised and as of Shadows of Reach, Reach as well

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And that one Innie planet

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What is Venezia's status right now?

gilded mason
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We don't know.

versed helm
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I would imagine it remains under the Cortana's radar. at least for now

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If I was in the Halo universe, I would probably just bum it out on either Venezia or Sanghelios

rotund frigate
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haha cliff go brr

versed helm
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Wait, didn't half of Sanghelios get EMPed by a Guardian?

gilded mason
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Yes.

west silo
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Does onyx count as safe?

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Its technically a human world now

versed helm
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What about Forseti?

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Or Cascade or Andesia

west silo
gilded mason
west silo
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Our world

versed helm
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I would probably bum it out on Onyx then

opal birch
west silo
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That's the best place really

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Unless you want to role play nbsg just chill on the infinity

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Well until whatever happens in infinite anyways

terse lava
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Still love how thr guardian had trouble with sangheilos

west silo
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It did ?

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In badblood they just said it got bored shooting fish in a barrel and just emp'd everything

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It was never in danger

slim thorn
craggy sierra
west silo
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Am pretty sure elites will kill you ten out ten times

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Only times are exceptions like when they take prisoners for interrogation or to active forerunners artifacts

slim thorn
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Or having them into a "mercy killing" like having duels

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Still, it's better than other factions

stable flower
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I'm not sure who the Russians of the Covenant were, the Elites or the Brutes

west silo
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Like the union Soviets?

terse lava
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Wh....what?

craggy sierra
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Hunters if anyone

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They share the most societal values that could be equated to communism

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Also stop looking for analogs to real life entities where there’s not meant to be any

west silo
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Great now we just have to find the other WW2 enemy in the covenant

terse lava
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No one in the Covenant, nor the Covenant itself resembled any form of communism

west silo
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Let's please not do this

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Hmmm does this mean that the human covenant was was just WW2 in space

humble yacht
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Didn’t you just say “let’s not”

stable flower
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I meant to say Russian, and it's because of how they treat prisoners or surrendered enemies.

opal birch
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I mean the Japanese and the Germans were just as bad

west silo
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Didn't the covenant have a torture method where they used gravity to peel your skin off?

gilded mason
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That was pretty new.

west silo
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How new?

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Like a couple 100 years new ?

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Or a few decades new?

gilded mason
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I'll check real quick

terse lava
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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

west silo
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Am pretty sure I remember something about skin peeling

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Or turning elites inside out

gilded mason
west silo
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Yeah that's what am remembering

gilded mason
# west silo How new?

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?”

west silo
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Really really new then

gilded mason
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Ye

west silo
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Cool that they would have used it against the humans on a large scale if the war wasn't basically over

tacit pecan
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I read that book fairly recently.

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God I haven't read a Halo book in what feels like forever.

placid root
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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.

tacit pecan
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If only there was a memes channel.

placid root
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If only,

cedar surge
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Actually not even four

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1 or 2 will do it

ocean ibex
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Where’s you get 4 from

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Cuz like lance said, 2 is enough to disable a marine

versed helm
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So why does the Mombasa in the Halo universe look different from its real life counterpart, in terms of geography?

ocean ibex
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Why would the halo devs go out of their way to research the topography of the city

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Like you understand how terrible the halo 2 development was

versed helm
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Yep, I heard that they used the same assets from Halo CE

ocean ibex
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They did

versed helm
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That was lazy

carmine sleet
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Halo 2 wasn't an asset flip of Combat Evolved but the team making the game definitely when through hell trying to make it

carmine sleet
versed helm
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True

slim thorn
versed helm
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Well, tectonic movements will have caused changes over 500 years.

slim thorn
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15 degrees south it's like... extreme

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That can be like in 35 years, you get one degree to the south

vague scroll
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@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

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@slim thorn you know Bungie isn’t checking something as compulsive as where the sun rests in the sky

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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

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Also I’m pretty sure Mombasa rests on a relatively stable seismic zone compared to Japan or Indonesia

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The closest fault line is the Great Rift Valley inland

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Actually, recount that, East Africa is volatile to seismic activity quite a bit

slim thorn
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Yeah, but not to the extreme point itself like I said.

signal osprey
west silo
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Both of them were about one side on a genocidal campaign against another side while using effective but extremely drawn out methods

slim thorn
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So like The Covenant are axis and UNSC are allies, then?

gilded mason
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What

tulip maple
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I mean it makes sense

unique rune
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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

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Any human victory in the Human-Covenant War was just delaying the inevitable, at best

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Had the Great Schism not happened when it did, the UNSC surely would not have stood a chance.

versed helm
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Humanity only survived because of the Sangheili

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We owe them our thanks, even though their hands are stained with the blood of billions of humans

dusk basin
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so, after recently talking about playable elites and some people thinking they may not be lore friendly- whats the general consensus on that?

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i know peace talks with the sangheili havent been made yet (i think)

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and ONI continues with their crap on the sangheili

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and i definitely dont think playable elites should be excluded because of lore

pale zephyr
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Lore shouldn't have any bearing on multplayer :v

dusk basin
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exactly

pale zephyr
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playable elites would be cool, lore friendly or not.

dusk basin
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well infinite is a good few years after 5 so maybe oni's done with their tomfoolery

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or maybe tensions did erupt and the sangheili (all sangheili) are back to hating humans

cedar surge
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Not sure how playable elites wouldn't be lore friendly

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The unsc is allied with the SoS and train with them

opal birch
# unique rune I feel like that comparison stops working when you add in the fact that the UNSC...

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.

opal birch
dusk basin
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probably just allow them in social but not in ranked

pale zephyr
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That'd work

terse lava
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If 343 really can't think if a way to balance them in rank, give them their own rank playlist.

stable flower
opal birch
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Wait really? It's been like 9-years since I played any mode in Reach that involved the hinge heads.

terse lava
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Yeah, no need for a health pack. Just fall back and heal up

west silo
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That's a pretty big balancing flaw

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Then again this is bungie and looking at destiny 1 and 2 I can't say am surprised

stable flower
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I take it because Bungie didn't think of coming up with the Covenant equivalent of first aid.

slim thorn
stable flower
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That reminds me. Do the Covenant have first aid in lore?

gilded mason
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Yes.

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Their medical tech is actually extremely advanced

west silo
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Yeah it actually more advanced than humans

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K traviss just made them super dumb

cedar surge
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Well for everyone except most elites

uncut kernel
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The elites have tooo much ''honor'' and just refuse medics.

gilded mason
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Nah

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Only some

uncut kernel
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That was exaggerated.

gilded mason
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Righteo. Felt it was worth a mention since so many others think all of 'em refuse.

uncut kernel
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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.

terse lava
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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

uncut kernel
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I feel like those Sangheili were treated as the anti-vaxxers of the Sangheili

versed helm
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As far as I know, the contact in harvest started the human-covenant war, right?

stable flower
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Yup

uncut kernel
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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.

terse lava
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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.

versed helm
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:0

terse lava
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There was no plan to screw the meeting up that was pure accident

uncut kernel
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The second part was a theory the first part was also a theory

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thanks for clarification, Regret is always the one to accidentally screw up everyone elses's plans

terse lava
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He didn't screw anything up

uncut kernel
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He did for a few things, such as ordering elites to kill jackals that were planning to infiltrate huamns, jumping the gun, ect.

stable flower
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First kill: Johnson. First weapon used to kill: XBR55. First species to be killed: Kig-Yar.

terse lava
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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.

uncut kernel
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Yes, I said accidentally and I should've followed up with accidentally causing the events.

terse lava
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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.

uncut kernel
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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.

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but- Really it was that one prophet in thel's fleet.

deep dew
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who is yap yap

uncut kernel
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They are a grunt that rebelled from the banished.

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And sorta succeeded

stable flower
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So a Grunt started the war?

uncut kernel
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Which war?

terse lava
#

Yapyap may not even be truly canon

stable flower
#

HCW

nocturne owl
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wonder what happened to the librarian

gilded mason
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Died on Earth.

uncut kernel
#

There are probably more grunts than humans so names will 100% overlap/

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Think of some guy named john who died to accidentally sticking himself, that doesn't mean master chief died by sticking themselves.

terse lava
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...huh?

uncut kernel
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Someone said 'died on earth' and I was assuming they were referring to yapyap

gilded mason
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Nope, I was answering the person right above me.

uncut kernel
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Oh, sorry.

gilded mason
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It's fine

noble elk
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Shadows of reach is no longer spoiler content here right?

cedar surge
#

Yea

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Its been months since release

full narwhal
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whats a level 1 directive?
Making a machinima wanna know it’s meaning to use the term or not

cedar surge
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Most important task that needs to be completed I think

thorny wren
#

Hey guys what order should I read the halo books and in a lore standpoint

cedar surge
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I suggest starting off from FoR

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Or if you want to start from the complete beginning

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The forerunner saga

thorny wren
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Can I get a complete list of all the books In order if you want to Planning on getting them this Christmas

hearty dirge
#

I'm pretty sure there is a lot of books.

thorny wren
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Probably 40+ 

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From what I’ve seen

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But I’m a huge fanatic of the Lore and I’m planning on getting all of them

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If anybody has any questions go ahead try me

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I’ll do my best to answer

cedar surge
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Oh I recommend going onto halopedia

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They have a complete list of the books and the order

sick surge
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I think the number of normal books is around 33 but there are a lot more if you consider guides, comics etc.

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I read 2 so far and just got 3 more

twin venture
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Stupid question: What happened to fireteam crimson after halo 4?

vague scroll
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they're still around, the lore hasn't mentioned them since Halo 4 Spartan Ops

craggy sierra
#

I think they cameo’d in shadow’s of reach

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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”

barren ferry
#

How badly would the Human Covenant war have gone for the UNSC

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Had SPARTANs never existed?

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On a scale of 1-10000

craggy sierra
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Honestly I don’t know how much would have been different. The covenant would’ve collapsed in on itself regardless.

barren ferry
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Really wouldn't, considering the prophet of regret wouldn't have died.

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They wouldn't have been able to send Blue Team in halo legends and prove humanity could win either

craggy sierra
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Truth was plotting that very very very far in advance

barren ferry
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After SPARTAN-II'S had been created.

craggy sierra
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If chief hadn’t been around to deck him in the face 25 times something still would’ve happened to regret.

barren ferry
#

The ground battles were really only won when SPARTANs got on the field. The marines had trouble with grunts and jackals I imagine.

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And if an Elite (which was a pretty rare sight for marines) got onto the field, they were pretty much dead.

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Especially if it was a Zealot or Ultra

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(shivers in reach and halo 2 ultras)

craggy sierra
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There were only like 3 dozen spartan 2’s you know.

west silo
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Earth would have died

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Remember first strike?

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Remember halo wars

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Remember reach

barren ferry
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Oh I remember reach quite vividly

craggy sierra
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Yeah none of those events really had to do with the covenant falling apart from the inside.

west silo
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Am not talking bout the covenant stability

barren ferry
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BRO

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AUTOCORRECT

west silo
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Am talking about the unsc dying

barren ferry
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Anyways, there were spartan 3's along with 2's, which provided heavy aid for UNSC Troopers.

craggy sierra
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I mean the war was going terribly even with spartans

barren ferry
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Without those assets, the UNSC only has human troops which could be one-two hit killed by any covenant plasma weapon.

west silo
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And it would have been worse without them

barren ferry
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Active camo didn't exactly help the situation for marines either.

craggy sierra
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Most spartan 3’s were in the same boat as well

west silo
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Spartan 3 were pretty small scale

stable flower
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3s were designed to fight the Covenant

barren ferry
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Hell I'm pretty sure SPARTANs were the only UNSC unit that could stand up to elites 1v1 and actually win.

craggy sierra
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A vast majority of the 3 forces never had power armour

west silo
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As in there operations

barren ferry
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That is true. We saw how badly it turned out on lone wolf with Spartan III's that had MJOLNIR

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Imagine what the ones with SPI had to deal with

craggy sierra
west silo
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Probably not as bad aa the ones on onyx

barren ferry
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I'm really not. SPARTANs greatly increased the morale of marines during it.

west silo
barren ferry
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And without chief to get Cortana off the pillar of autumn, that would have been the end for humanity.

west silo
#

I am not joking

craggy sierra
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Like we were losing the war. We would have lost if the covenant never ate itself from the inside out.

barren ferry
#

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?

west silo
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First strike was gonna happen

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They just got lucky

barren ferry
#

First strike happened before or after CE?

west silo
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After

barren ferry
#

We would have lost before first strike on the pillar of autumn

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Chief was literally their only way to get Cortana off the ship safely.

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And even he struggled to do so.

west silo
#

And time travel was involved A little so the timeline is a little screwed

craggy sierra
barren ferry
#

Yes, chiefs approach right?

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You know, the only soldier humanity had that could break through their defenses even with the pulled troops?

west silo
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Yep

craggy sierra
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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.

west silo
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Wasn't that mercy's?

barren ferry
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Mate those camo elites would have killed any marine squad that was foolish enough to go in on its own.

west silo
#

He sabotaged his chair

craggy sierra
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If chief hadn’t been there truth would have used other means to make it happen.

west silo
#

Can we just answer the actual question?

barren ferry
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Even when Truth pulled away troops, the guards that regret had would have halted any marines trying to get in.

west silo
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What happens to humanity

craggy sierra
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It just so happened that chief was and truth went out of his way to make it as easy as possible.

west silo
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Answer they die

barren ferry
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Yup, and much sooner.

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Halo CE would have been the end.

west silo
#

It probably would have ended on reach

craggy sierra
#

Also I’m pretty sure marine squads regularly take on elite forces.

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You have to remember that gameplay doesn’t equal lore.

barren ferry
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No they don't. Whoever tells you that is downplaying elites.

west silo
#

Yeah and they have terrible losses

barren ferry
#

If anything, gameplay has elites losing to marines.

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When their weapons can literally kill a marine in one bolt.

west silo
#

Remember the elite squad of odsts in slient storm

barren ferry
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And they are as fast and strong as SPARTANs.

west silo
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And how all of them died in the end

craggy sierra
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On lore shields are much more squishy than in gameplay concentrated coordination from auto fire can drop them quickly.

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But also, again

barren ferry
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No they aren't. Shields in lore are a lot stronger than in gameplay.

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Maybe for elite minors, but theirs are inferior to MJOLNIRs anyway.

west silo
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Actually shields can take half to full clips in lore

barren ferry
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^

west silo
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But it depends on rank

craggy sierra
#

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.

west silo
#

Minors have extremely weak shields

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Compared to others

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Are we still on that?

barren ferry
#

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

craggy sierra
barren ferry
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ODSTs, Marines, doesn't matter

craggy sierra
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Or ODSTs.

west silo
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Ehh odsts assassinated a prophet once

barren ferry
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And like I said, it would have ended on CE or Reach

west silo
#

Remember the babysitter

craggy sierra
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Heaven forbid there’s things such as political assassinations and poisonings.

west silo
#

He didn't have shields for reasons

barren ferry
#

Like I said, that wouldn't be able to come into play.

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Because humanity would be doomed on reach.

craggy sierra
#

How so?

west silo
#

We're going into speculation territory at this point

barren ferry
#

No marine or ODST squad could have gotten Cortana off Reach like Noble Team did.

west silo
#

We don't know what would happen

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Except humanity dies

barren ferry
#

Even then, it took the sacrifice of multiple genetically enhanced super soldiers to give humanity somewhat of a chance.

west silo
#

That a fact

craggy sierra
#

Okay but how did Cortana cause the covenant civil war that topples them?

west silo
#

She did?

craggy sierra
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She didn’t

west silo
#

That was arbiter

barren ferry
#

You're not getting it. Humanity would have been slaughtered far before that point due to reach alone.

west silo
#

That was caused by truth that was shown to him by the gravemind

craggy sierra
#

Again the elimination of the elites was planned for years in advance by truth.

barren ferry
#

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.

west silo
#

Silent storm

barren ferry
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I already provided it if you weren't paying attention.

west silo
#

And halo oblivion

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A hundred covenant ships were destroying human world

barren ferry
#

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.

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And that includes the location of earth.

west silo
#

A team of Spartans destroyed said ships and a covenant ship yard and also a covenant city

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Guess what

barren ferry
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Yeah, try getting a squad of ODSTs to do what Noble team did. That will go well.

craggy sierra
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We don’t even know what the covenant war path was.

west silo
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It only bought humanity a few months

barren ferry
#

With far worse armor, physical attributes, and reflexes.

west silo
#

That's what's stated by oblivion anyways

barren ferry
#

They lost a hyper lethal spartan along with many others to have a fighting chance.

west silo
#

Wanna argue with the book?

craggy sierra
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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.

west silo
#

The entire point of halo is that Spartans are humanity's last hope

barren ferry
#

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?

west silo
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Without them humanity would have died a looonggg time ago

barren ferry
#

All while dying in the process?

west silo
#

Its just a fact

barren ferry
#

You're understating the SPARTANs role in the war.

west silo
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By a lot

barren ferry
#

The entire premise of halo is that SPARTANs are humanity's last hope.

west silo
#

Yes

barren ferry
#

But nah, they're only some minor people who were insignificant in the end and never needed.

#

Totally.

west silo
#

Halsey outright says it in 4

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Yes she may be biased

craggy sierra
#

I was gonna say

barren ferry
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It was stated even Minors can take out entire marine squads on their own somewhere I think.

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Can't remember where though

vague scroll
#

all Spartans are hyper lethal, just a clarification @barren ferry

west silo
#

Yep

craggy sierra
#

Also I still don’t quite fully understand what noble team did or why people prop sacrafice up on a pedestal with them.

barren ferry
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Not exactly on the level of chief or six, but yeah.

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Maybe that's because they got humanity's last fighting chance off of reach?

west silo
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They died to deliver cortana

vague scroll
#

no absolutely, the Spartan Field Manual outright says a Spartan in armor is 'hyper letal'

craggy sierra
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Only one person on the team actually made a conscious sacrifice and that was Jorge.

west silo
#

Well six Carter and emile anyways

vague scroll
#

the statement about Noble Six being 'hyper lethal' isn't really canon

barren ferry
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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?

vague scroll
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since it came from a early game trailer

craggy sierra
west silo
#

And jorge to save his planet

west silo
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That's the reason he stayed

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He had too

full citrus
#

I don’t get emile’s death doesn’t he have a radar to see people who sneak up on him

barren ferry
#

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.

vague scroll
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Spartans have been raised in-universe to a near-legendary status among the civilian population by way of ONI propaganda

craggy sierra
#

Like this is what irks me about noble team. The fact that people think they have a cohesive theme when they really don’t.

vague scroll
#

it doesn't matter the Spartan, they all might as well get statues

barren ferry
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You're acting like you do when you're the one who doesn't realize their significance on reach.

cedar surge
#

Well if Spartans didn't exist the humanity would have died way earlier

vague scroll
#

probably

terse lava
#

Yep

vague scroll
#

the war could have gone a lot of ways but yeah Spartans had a tangible effect on the battlefield

barren ferry
#

They would have never found out the covenant was on reach till far later in the games timeline

cedar surge
#

For example chief taking down that 500 strong covenant fleet along with his blue team

craggy sierra
#

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.

barren ferry
#

Because no marine squad would live to tell the tale.

cedar surge
#

What about a few squads

barren ferry
#

"6 isn't a character" literally is the only reason the pillar of autumn escapes.

craggy sierra
#

Sacrafice means knowingly and willingly giving something up. That’s sure as hell not how Emile and Kat went out.

barren ferry
#

Yeah, cause emile and Kat are definitely all of noble team.

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Kat was more so the technician and brains of the team.

full citrus
#

Emiles death is so bad and the more I think of it the worse it seems to me

barren ferry
#

They needed her for a lot of things.

west silo
craggy sierra
#

Well that’s my issue with people saying that Noble team is a great pinnacle of sacrafice.

cedar surge
#

Emile was blinded by rage right

barren ferry
#

That's cause they are man.

#

Emile and Kat aren't the whole team.

cedar surge
#

That's why he wasn't checking his surroundings?

craggy sierra
#

Like 2 people and a player insert actually make sacrafices.

full citrus
#

Like Emile couldn’t check his radar?

barren ferry
#

Even then, they accomplished a lot of things nobody else could on reach.

craggy sierra
#

Emile probably broke his radar etching a skull into his helmet

barren ferry
#

"player insert" alright then. You're really downplaying 6's importance here.

cedar surge
#

Wel the carvings don't seem that deep

vague scroll
#

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?

barren ferry
#

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.

cedar surge
#

And if you look closely he carved around where the eyes would be looking around

craggy sierra
#

Honestly I really didn’t like reach’s story since launch

barren ferry
#

That's on you man.

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Doesn't change the fact humanity would have died on reach without the spartans

full citrus
#

Still doesn’t help that two of them died in really dumb ways lol

#

I guess carter’s death was kind of dumb too

barren ferry
#

He was going to die anyway.

craggy sierra
#

Carter’s death is just kinda there

barren ferry
#

May as well have gone out with a bang.

cedar surge
#

He could have jumped out

west silo
#

Are we just hating on noble team now?

barren ferry
#

He already had a lethal plasma burn on his armor.

craggy sierra
#

Like the game just smash cuts to a new cutscene and it’s like “oh I guess he’s bleeding out now”

barren ferry
#

And likely his flesh too.

cedar surge
#

Of he got plasma Wouldn't his wounds be burned shut

full citrus
#

But like imagine if like kat didn’t get randomly sniped or Emile actually checked his radar

barren ferry
#

They probably were.

#

You noticed the burn on his armor right?

cedar surge
#

And plus he still got all his parts attached

#

Yea

west silo
#

Question

cedar surge
#

If he got hit by plasma with shields down he would probably be dead
Go ahead

west silo
#

Have we forgotten headhunter ?

full citrus
#

I guess the radar thing could apply to kat’s death too since wouldn’t they be able to see a phantom above them

barren ferry
#

Do keep in mind spartans are enhanced so they can survive plasma burns a bit more effectively.

cedar surge
#

Though may be it was a plasma pistol that did those

#

They seemed snall

west silo
#

Where 2 Spartans got jumped by stealth elites?

#

An entire team of them

cedar surge
#

Well its not they been forgotten

west silo
#

With both dying as a result

barren ferry
#

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

west silo
#

So cut emile some slack

cedar surge
#

I think its more they are just not relevant except for the silent shadow

barren ferry
#

Only energy swords or lightsabers really have that capability.

west silo
#

I hate the guy but you guys have me defending him

#

I hate myself now

craggy sierra
#

I’d hate that too

cedar surge
#

Well in halo plasma can blast off limbs with 1 or two shots

barren ferry
#

Id think those are specific plasma weapons.

west silo
#

Nah

cedar surge
#

Remeber when rex got hit directly in the chest right next to the heart and survived?

barren ferry
#

Plasma rifles can probably do that with repeated firing.

west silo
#

All of them

#

Nope just one shot

barren ferry
#

That was only due to his pauldron and armor.

craggy sierra
#

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.

cedar surge
#

Yea all plasma weapons do thar

#

Clone armor is plastic advanced that spreads heat around

barren ferry
#

I wouldn't be surprised if blasters could do that too

#

Plastoid.

cedar surge
#

Yea

barren ferry
#

And it's nigh immune to Slugthrowers.

#

So it's pretty tough.

cedar surge
#

I think paply was planning something with silo beast armor but that went nowhere

west silo
#

Only in legends is it fully immune

cedar surge
#

Unless for a empire project

#

Oh yea

west silo
#

I have also have the perfect counter for that

barren ferry
#

I'm basing it off legends so

cedar surge
#

Remeber that stormtrooper armor is made of the same stuff

barren ferry
#

Although less quality.

cedar surge
#

And the ewok fight in return of the Jedi

west silo
#

There a comic were stormtroopers get impaled by rocked

barren ferry
#

Oh yes, the infamous ewok scene.

west silo
#

Just rocks

cedar surge
#

Remeber when those stormtrooper got killed by rocks and spears

west silo
#

Not magic super sharp rocks

barren ferry
#

I can explain that. Ewoks are actually pretty strong.

cedar surge
#

Which technically happened in both versions

barren ferry
#

And it went through the body glove, not the armor itself

cedar surge
#

Stronger than a bullet?

barren ferry
#

Bullets have no continued amount of force.

west silo
#

Oh yeah and a book explains that blasters are just more convenient

#

As in blasters have different settings and a lot of ammo

cedar surge
#

Wasn't the legends explanations was that everyone agreed that solid guns were unethical?

barren ferry
#

No.

cedar surge
#

I Remeber seeing that in a lore video

barren ferry
#

The legends explanation was that blasters made most armor almost useless.

cedar surge
#

Huh

west silo
#

So yeah have fun with you OP slugthrower it'll be a shame once you run out of ammo

barren ferry
#

Slugthrowers were ineffective against most modern body armor.

west silo
#

Remember guys

#

Legends was highly inconsistent

cedar surge
#

I wonder where the unsc will reach that point

west silo
#

Remember the ICS?

barren ferry
#

Blasters were honestly just more effective.

cedar surge
#

Because in star wars everyone gets one shot

west silo
#

Terraton turbolasers

barren ferry
#

And legends is only inconsistent on few occasions.

cedar surge
#

Unless you are a main character

#

Well hey

barren ferry
#

Do remember thats only on star destroyers or capital ships. @west silo

cedar surge
#

Accirding to SoR

west silo
#

Gigaton x wings

barren ferry
#

It's what they use to glass planets.

cedar surge
#

The infinity can fire at a quarter of the speed of light

west silo
#

Base delta zero

barren ferry
#

Exactly.

west silo
#

Oh and my favorite

#

FTL grandmaster like Skywalker

cedar surge
#

Man the C.I.S had the right idea

barren ferry
#

The Jedi Droid comics aren't canon fyi

cedar surge
#

It doesn't matter if you can one shot droids when there are trillions of them

barren ferry
#

And I agree post ROTJ legends is kinda trash.

west silo
#

No legends are canon anymore

cedar surge
#

And barely any loss of life

west silo
#

Actually yes

barren ferry
#

Pre ROTJ legends is what I like for the most part.

#

Dark empire was pretty good from what I've heard though.

west silo
#

The dark empire trilogy is canon now

cedar surge
#

I think the clone wars was the best era

gilded mason
west silo
#

Looks at tros

gilded mason
#

That it was among the worst of Legends

cedar surge
#

Yea Disney is introducing legends stuff slowly

barren ferry
#

Disney canon is honestly trash imo

cedar surge
#

Like cherrypicking

#

Oh yea

west silo
cedar surge
#

The new republic

barren ferry
#

They could have improved upon the post ROTJ EU

cedar surge
#

I wanted NR vs FO

west silo
#

It's why people hated where TROS was going

cedar surge
#

What we got was rebellion 2.0

barren ferry
#

But no, they just took the bad bits of it and made it even worse

west silo
#

At least palpatine didn't try to possess a baby

cedar surge
#

Oh yea

#

Was it ever explained how he came back

#

Except for fortnite

west silo
#

You guys think the new planet killer ships are bad?

#

Just look up sun killer

cedar surge
#

Its just the ISD with big gun

west silo
#

Dear God

barren ferry
#

That was honestly dumb tbh. 200 Gigatons can't destroy a planet with one shot.

#

The most it can do is glass it.

west silo
cedar surge
#

What

west silo
#

It ripped of a cool ship in legends

#

The executioner class

cedar surge
#

Wait as sec

barren ferry
#

Not the eclipse class?

west silo
#

Yes

#

Sorry that's it

cedar surge
#

Yea I Remeber a eck vid where it was found Disney was copying a lot of fan ships

west silo
#

Palpatines personal flag ship

barren ferry
#

Tbh the eclipse seems cool

cedar surge
#

For their comic

barren ferry
#

Never really delved into it though.

west silo
#

And it wasn't broken

#

Fun fact

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It had a death star laser

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But surprise

barren ferry
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Although it was way weaker

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Gotcha

west silo
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It didn't have enough power to fully use it

cedar surge
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Man star wars being real creative with its planet busters

west silo
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But Disney did not get the memo

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"Blows planet up but bigger"

west silo
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They made palpatine really stupid

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At least keep them off the impossible to get out of world

cedar surge
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I mean he should have learned that fear is not a good thing to lead your empire with

west silo
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Jesus

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Oh yeah and announce you return to the entire galaxy

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But not do anything after

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It seems his intelligence took a nosedive after becoming emperor

west silo
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Lazy ads old man

cedar surge
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Like he used all his brainpower for that

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Clone wars best era

west silo
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Man if I had to choose between the covenant or the empire

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The coveant all the way

cedar surge
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Though shouldn't it be also called the galactic civil war?

west silo
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At least I die quickly

barren ferry
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Also btw for all you non SW fans out there just wanna give some clarification

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The AT-AT is not a tank

west silo
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You know what they did to the remaining alderaians?

gilded mason
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Didn't they try to exterminate them?

cedar surge
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Put em on a moon

gilded mason
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Or something

stable flower
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The anti-Prequel crowd loves the Sequels because they're rehashes

west silo
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They hunted the last one done

cedar surge
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Then tricked a guy into killing them up

west silo
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Oh you read the Vader comic

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But this is from the new game

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Squadrons

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Wait what

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But

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Why

west silo
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Because empire evil

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You know what the siths are right?

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Dang it look at the only good sith raven

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And he's just an edgy jedi

barren ferry
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Praying to God Rey gets sniped with a DLT-19X in the new trilogy

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But hey her head will probably regenerate from the Blaster burn cause Disney

cedar surge
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The whole blowing up alderran thing was dumb anyway

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Like they just made it into a matyr

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Pretty sure there was a whole video bout how the empire is a dumb empire

barren ferry
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I really don't take those videos words tbh

gilded mason
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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.

west silo
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You'd be surprised by the amount of people who think the Empire are good guys

barren ferry
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They aren't exactly evil in the traditional sense.

west silo
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Looks at YouTube

gilded mason
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I mean yea the rebels have committed a bunch of crimes

west silo
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I can't even find it funny

west silo
barren ferry
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The Empire definitely aren't the good guys though

cedar surge
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Like remember in rebels where they put every imperial in the city onto one station and blew it up yet framed it as good?

barren ferry
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They blew up an entire planet of pacifists just to prove a point.

west silo
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Hey wanna hear something more depressing?

cedar surge
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Pls no

west silo
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The Empire starved an entire planet of people that were on their side

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Wait for it

barren ferry
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Ha ha yes

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Good times

cedar surge
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Cauuse jede?

barren ferry
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Empire are totally the good guys 100%

west silo
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Because they knew the rebels would rush in to provide relief

cedar surge
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Yknow

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Its kind of like

barren ferry
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You know that actually isn't all that bad of a plan, but there were better ones

cedar surge
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Palpatine was asking for a rebellion

west silo
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Oh if you have no morals its a great plan

cedar surge
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Like he gave them a truckload of propaganda to work with

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Not even truck load

west silo
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And is not afraid of half the population dying

cedar surge
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Warehouse sized

west silo
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But ehh they have thousands of planets soo who cares am I right?

cedar surge
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Not thousands millions

west silo
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You get the point

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Business is booming

cedar surge
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Oh yea don't forget the "human superior" ideology

west silo
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That the funny part

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They don't care about humans

cedar surge
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Seriously did palpy want the empire to crash and burn

west silo
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They'll slaughter you too

cedar surge
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Cause this is the way to do it

west silo
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Remember a lot of people apart of the Empire are aliens

cedar surge
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Its like throwing gasoline onto a fire

west silo
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Tho there are some cases of humans feeling superior

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Like thrawn

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You think Cole equal to thrawn?

barren ferry
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Tbh I prefer the Galactic Republic a lot more

cedar surge
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Or Keyes maybe?

west silo
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Man imagine if we got the yuu son vung trilogy

cedar surge
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Yea the republic was really corrupt

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But was diplomatic

gilded mason
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Though at least not "genocidal" corrupt

west silo
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Hey get this

cedar surge
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And wasn't breaking its own knees

west silo
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They had 4000 years of peace

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The Empire was around for only 30 years

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And is considered the most bloodliest periods ever

cedar surge
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Man every galactic governement after the republic was a failure

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None lasted more than 50 years

west silo
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Want to know what was the bloodiest?

cedar surge
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Uzang vong?

west silo
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Yes

cedar surge
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Trillion dead

west silo
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A battle that wage 2 galaxies against each other

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And the Empire was a close second

cedar surge
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Man if only the C.I.S were around

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They could produce trillions of droids

west silo
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Me

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Hay remember that the most amount of clones produced were 2 million

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Yeah

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Oh yea

west silo
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That's canon

cedar surge
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2 million vs trillions

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Yea the republic would have lost

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Should have

west silo
cedar surge
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If not for palpatine

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The C.I.S could take on a bunch of factions

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Doesnt matter if you take down hundreds if they can make thousands in a few minutes

barren ferry
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There's a lot more than 2 million clones.

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Legends

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I knoe

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But remember that's also canon

barren ferry
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They couldn't and wouldn't give us a clear figure for the clone army numbers in the EU.

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I couldn't care less about disney's canon to be honest.

west silo
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Tell that to karen

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Okay

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Traviss

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It was one planet that was supposed to produce a army to protect a galactic empire

barren ferry
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Hey Karen traviss

cedar surge
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The republic as the empire

barren ferry
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Screw your canon

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Ez

west silo
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Am a be honest

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Anakin is irredeemably

cedar surge
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Dumb

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Edgy

west silo
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I don't care what you say

cedar surge
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Rude

west silo
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He doesn't deserve happiness

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Guy killed a bunch of kids

cedar surge
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I wonder how the covenant would fare

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Their weapons are more deadly

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Oh yea

west silo
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The coveant would lose after a long bloody war

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The covenant is too unsable

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And too small to fight a war against such a big threat

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Remember the galactic empire has millions of worlds

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And 25 thousand SSD alone

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And that's there most technically rarest type of ship

cedar surge
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I meant how would the covenant fit in

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All of the sudden you got these new aliens and a faction

west silo
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Well they'd probably try to kill humans

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And it just goes down hill from there

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Because when the covenant attack a galactic empire world well it basically all out war

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What worse this would make the Empire look like good guys

uncut kernel
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They just... Were Incompatible with themself

cedar surge
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How long would you say ghat war would last

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Also since these are star wars humans not halo humans

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They won't have the directive for forerunner stuff

west silo
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The Empire could barely handle some rebels

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Soo a good decade or 2

uncut kernel
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If the covenant used hit & Run they'd be very very effective imo

west silo
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Depends on if they find any covenant worlds

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Because that world will fall very soon

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High charity is safe

uncut kernel
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They just didn't use very good tactics in my opinion.

west silo
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Until the death star is constructed anyways

cedar surge
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Well the covejant have a huge advantage

uncut kernel
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If they did they'd be far more deadly.

cedar surge
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The empire would have to manually map out hyperspace lames to their planets

west silo
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So would the covenant unfortunately

cedar surge
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While the covenant don't have to worry about hitting stuff

west silo
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New lore from warfleet

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What

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They have to map out slipspace routes to move faster or something

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Hey ostral

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Yeh

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I'll go see if I can find a quote

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Oh my god

uncut kernel
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The factions ways of attacking are very similar though - just brute force & overwhelm the ships and units to destroy their enemy

west silo
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Do I have powers

cedar surge
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The covenant could sacrifice thousands of ships

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They treated losing 500 as nothing

west silo
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And the galactic empire has 25 thousand of one class of ship

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It's that one sided

uncut kernel
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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

cedar surge
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Range tho

west silo
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Covenant kamikaze?

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Covenant has better range

uncut kernel
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They do it on small and big scale.

west silo
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And weapons

cedar surge
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Covenant ships can fight from other side of the planet

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Side of the system too

uncut kernel
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They just didn't really need to during the main parts of the war

west silo
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The war was one big game of cat and mouse

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Except the mouse was in some fog

uncut kernel
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This is really just 50,000 weak pew pew vs 500 Strong zap zap

west silo
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Fun fact just look at star wars rebels

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There lasers are weak

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But there is a lore reason for that

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Turbolasers lose energy in atmosphere

uncut kernel
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I mean 1 plasma lance can turn part of a planet to nothing but glass. not a large area

west silo
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Over a long period of time yes

west silo
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Thanks

gilded mason
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👌

uncut kernel
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But still, I'd say they were stronger weapons but weaker in numbers.

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Everybody gangster till the covenant got the rings.

west silo
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So yeah slipspace travel is pretty much the speed of plot

gilded mason
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Yup

uncut kernel
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You can dial it up to
WE GOTTA USE A PLOT THING NOW!!!!
Or yeah that took 5 months what of it.

west silo
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Yep
Speed of plot

uncut kernel
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Like, if truth saw a rough map to the ark humanity galaxy would be finished according to the atriox thing.

west silo
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Then again maybe the crystal had something to do with it

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Then again maybe not

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It just opened it

uncut kernel
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~~ T H E C R Y S T A L G U I D E S M E~~

delicate notch
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So when do you believe Disney will buy the Halo francize and merge it with Star Wars?

uncut kernel
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No.

west silo
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When Microsoft goes bankrupt

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So never

fair hazel
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wait is there a star wars vs halo fight going on

cedar surge
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It ended

uncut kernel
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Yes.