ilovebees was an ARG used as a marketing piece for Halo 2 back in the day. This story takes place in 2552, though some of the story actually involves time travelling back to 2004. However, ilovebees makes some mistakes and contradictions such as saying that Shaw and Fujikawa are still alive. However, that’s not my biggest issue, my biggest issue is time travelling back to 2004. I really, really don’t like time travel being in Halo. I’m ok with the 2552 stuff being canon, however, I would really hope that the 2004 stuff is NOT canon. What do you know, what has 343 said, mainly on the 2004 time travel stuff??
The I love Bees ARG is considered mostly canon, but not entirely. So rest assured time travel is not part of main stream Halo. From the Halopedia page:
> Still, i love bees cannot be considered entirely canonical. Some elements of i love bees directly contradict more recent material of definite canon status, such as the time in which Tobias Fleming Shaw and Wallace Fujikawa were alive. Thus, i love bees could be considered canonical unless contradicted by more authoritative sources.
Really ILB was created with little input from Bungie to begin with:
> "The Bees would not make the cut. Those guys basically did their own thing with very little Bungie input (save for massaging and approving the initial plot-treatment). While we helped define the boundaries of their fiction, we let them do what they thought best. And I think the game turned out great.[10]"
It was more or less an entertaining way to drum up hype for H2. So while some of the story elements are canon, like the Spartan 1s and the existence of the UNSC Apocalypso, stuff like Tobias and Wallace being alive are explicitly stated as non-canon.