Halo Encyclopedia ( What is considered Cannon ? )

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Spartans,

I recently just purchased the Halo: Mythos and then the Halo:Encyclopedia ( before the expanded and including Halo Reach). Just wanted to know if the Halo encyclopedia is considered Cannon as Bungie left a lot of lore hols that 343 had to patch. I appreciated both parties but just wanted to ask.

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Anything in the encyclopeida that wasn’t retconned by 343i later on is canon.

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Everything is canon that havent been retconned or is a visual from Halo:Legends.Excluding Odd one out,this story is also considered non canon.

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> Anything in the encyclopeida that wasn’t retconned by 343i later on is canon.

They didn’t retcon all that much. Im looking at it now and Im not seeing any issues.

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> They didn’t retcon all that much. Im looking at it now and Im not seeing any issues.

I have the one before the expanded one. I will just keep using the Mythos Book.

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> I have the one before the expanded one. I will just keep using the Mythos Book.

Most of the data there’s the same so fear not

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There is the oddity regarding Super MAC projectile velocity. In the novel, it is mentioned as “point four-tenth’s the speed of light,” causing fans to speculate whether this means the projectile is moving ((0.4)/10)c=0.04c, or if the author made a typo and it is supposed to be 0.4c
The first of the two editions of the Halo Encyclopedia states 40%c.
The second edition of the Halo Encyclopedia restates it as “nearly half the speed of light”.
All things considered, I’m inclined to interpret this information as 0.4c being the canonical velocity of the Super Mac’s projectile.

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The reference to the Forerunners rising as the preeminant civilization in the galaxy and initiating the Mantle around 150.000 BCE.

  • Circa 150,000 BCE, the Forerunners are claimed by some records to have risen as the preeminent species in the Milky Way Galaxy by advancing technological discoveries gathered from the remnants left by prior ancient races. Believing themselves responsible for the lives of all those less advanced then they, the Forerunners initiate the Mantle.[1][note 1] - Humanity is believed by the Forerunners to have “moved their interstellar civilization outward along the galactic arm” around this time, possibly to escape Forerunner control.[2]This entry, originating from the Halo Encyclopedia, is of dubious accuracy in light of information from The Forerunner Saga, in which the Forerunners are stated to have been spacefaring for millions of years (albeit having experienced a number of technological dark ages and large-scale record loss events over the course of this period) and that they held the Mantle since 10,000,000 BCE, having forcibly seized it from the Precursors and humanity has been spacefaring since at least 1.1 million BCE as Halo: Silentium mentions. However, the Encyclopedia notes that “all Forerunner era dates are approximate, based on available translation and scattered historical data”, which provides a canonical explanation for the possible inaccuracies of this entry.

Also there were a number of dark ages for both species since 10 million BCE so it’s possible for both species to have lost records of earlier times several times throughout history or for the Forerunners to have lost the Mantle to another species or forgotten about it only to rediscover the Mantle at a later time. The Forerunners considered themselves Reclaimers before they passed the Mantle and title to humanity. You can’t reclaim something unless you lost it at some point so either the Forerunners lost the Mantle to another species or lost all records and knowledge of it between 10 million and 150,000 BCE before reclaiming it.

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Guys, I am a lazy -Yoink-, too lazy even to play a digital game sometimes, but I like science-fiction. I am definitely unwilling to read all the Halo mainstream lore books, while in fact, if I have a choice, I would rather read some genuine popular science, if I am not too busy listening to some trance music doing nothing but feeling deep and grave, that is, so if you could recommend to me any essential Halopaedia articles on the Halo universe, I would be grateful, to sustain our discussions here on a reasonably concrete level, y’know. Thanks!

Hopefully I am not a representative of the next-gen Halo fandom.

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Can I just say how much I love Mythos. I finally brought it a couple of weeks back and finished reading it at the weekend. Absolutely gorgeous artwork in there and a really comprehensive detailing of everything. Really recommend it - the artwork alone is worth it IMHO.