i remember buying halo ce when i was 12 and i always used to read the instruction manuals you got with a game (remember those?). The manual had a little prologue in which really fleshed out the story before i played it. It also contradicts halo reach and halo 5’s story. halo reach because cortana was already on pillar of autumn and didn’t need to be delivered and master chief was the last spartan 2. Its obviously because they just write the story on the fly and things get missed but its still interesting. This was also when halo’s story wasn’t a confusing mess to anyone who’s just a casual fan.
"The year is 2552. Planet Earth still exists, but overpopulation has forced many of her former residents to colonize other worlds. Faster-than-light travel is now a reality, and Earth’s unified government, through the United Nations Space Command, has put its full weight behind the colonization effort; millions of humans now live on habitable planets in other solar systems. A keystone in humanity’s colonization efforts is the planet Reach, an interstellar naval yard that builds colony ships for civilians and warships for the UNSC’s armed forces. Conveniently close to Earth, Reach is also a hub of scientific and military activity.
Thirty-two years ago, contact with the outer colony Harvest was lost. A battlegroup sent to investigate was almost completely destroyed; only one badly damaged ship returned to Reach. Its crew told of a seemingly unstoppable alien warship that had effortlessly annihilated their forces.
This was humankind’s first encounter with a group of aliens they eventually came to know as the Covenant, a collective of alien races united in their fanatical religious devotion. Covenant religious elders declared humanity an affront to the gods, and the Covenant warrior caste waged a holy war upon humanity with gruesome diligence.
After a series of crushing defeats and obliterated colonies, UNSC Admiral Preston Cole established the Cole Protocol: no vessel may inadvertently lead the Covenant to Earth. When forced to withdraw, ships must avoid Earth-bound vectors-even if that means jumping without proper navigational calculations. Vessels in danger of capture must self-destruct.
On Reach, a secret military project to create cyborg super-soldiers takes on newfound importance. The soldiers of the SPARTAN-II project rack up an impressive record against the Covenant in test deployments, but there are too few of them to turn the tide of the war. Existing SPARTAN-II soldiers are recalled to Reach for further augmentation. The plan: board a Covenant vessel with the improved SPARTAN-IIs and learn the location of the Covenant home world. Two days before the mission begins, Covenant forces strike Reach and annihilate the colony. The Covenant are now on Earth’s doorstep. One ship, the Pillar of Autumn, escapes with the last SPARTAN-II and makes a blind jump into deep space, hoping to lead the Covenant away from Earth."
> 2586218893182442;3:
> > 2660608708453433;2:
> > That doesn’t say anything about Cortana already being on the pillar. It doesn’t contradict halo reach.
>
>
> the campaign does
The Campaign starts after Halo Reach so I don’t see how it contradicts it or the book. Same thing with the “last Spartan II” thing, John was believed to be the last Spartan left after the rest were sent down to fight on Reach. This prologue text in the manual is still correct today. The only thing that’s wrong is the “Thirty-two years ago, contact with the outer colony Harvest was lost.” part, when in fact it was 27 years.
Chief was never the last Spartan II. Multiple books since CE have told of the remaining ones and what they’ve been doing up until Halo 5. 343 has also mostly fixed the inconsistencies between Halo Reach and The Fall of Reach. That manual has been retconned for over a decade now.
He was thought to be the last. A large amount of Spartan IIs were still alive on Reach during this time but the Pillar of Autumn had no clue. Also Linda-058 was on the Pillar of Autumn in critical condition in cryosleep.
> 2533274798250466;8:
> It’s sad how basically anyone can become a Spartan now.
Won’t surprise me if the Spartan-V program (if they ever make one) is aimed at turning all soldiers into Spartans. It’s certainly became easier, quicker and helluva lot more cheaper to produce the new GEN-2 MJOLNIR armour and mass produce Spartan-IVs.
No it doesnt, the other Spartan 2’s never died. Read the books. And Bungie screwed canon with Reach; things had to be retconed a bit to fix that. You really don’t know what your talking about.
Unless you have read all the books. (Like i have) And I dont mean Escilation. I mean the original ones. Fall of Reach for Example. There are a few Spartan 2’s still surviving. Forget the game Reach. The books are the cannon. And if you read them you will understand
First mission of Halo CE you can find a screen with info on Linda. And seeing how “Spartans never die” is their motto, it says enough about the “last spartan” myth already.
You want to kill off the 400+ spartans just so chief can feel special again?
From what I understand, the rest of blue team was severely injured and were presumed dead(MIA), so I don’t think anything was inherently contradictory, so much as new information was revealed that was a little too convenient.
Also, will someone fill be in on Buck’s story? I’m completely lost. Did he somehow become a spartan at the ripe age of 32? Or is he just so good he gets to roll with the big boys for a change?
> 2586218893182442;9:
> > 2533274816788253;7:
> > Read the books. Unfortunately it takes more than just playing the games to fully understand the story line.
>
>
> indeed, terrible storytelling
> 2533274800988973;17:
> > 2586218893182442;9:
> > > 2533274816788253;7:
> > > Read the books. Unfortunately it takes more than just playing the games to fully understand the story line.
> >
> >
> > indeed, terrible storytelling
>
>
> still better than Destiny
This. At least the story is pretty good considering.
Destiny cut scenes are pretty thanks to Activation …
Sure, Chief was the last Spartan-II. Outside of Linda in her cryo-tube on the Autumn, outside of the Spartan-IIs on Reach (do remember we know it was attacked but the details were elusive in The Fall of Reach and Halo: CE, but later fleshed out in First Strike) and the other S-IIs on secret missions like Team Black and Gray Team. It isn’t terrible storytelling, it was just a story that grew over time. Bungie didn’t know what they were doing with the story and essentially made -Yoink- up as they went along and cutting things left and right because of rushed schedules and mismanagement. The fact Halo: Reach was so different from The Fall of Reach is because they saw the EU as just some extra thing they didn’t need to care about.