(Spoiler)Halo TV series is a “What If?” AU from books

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I had been re reading Halo The Fall of Reach this weekend when I came to a certain point of the beginning of the book that gave me pause.

Within chapter three to give a brief summary is about Dr Halsey stating that she will tell the future Spartans the truth of being in the program. The alternative as suggested by Deja had been to lie and claim that pirates or even a plague had hit there homeworlds or for even selective memory loss.

Now at this point as I had read over and over this section, I wondered why it sounded to similar when it occurred to me as to why.

It was because while Dr. Halsey of cannon verse rejected this idea, Dr. Halsey of the TV series had not as shown by the current episodes aired by the series.

It seems as the TV series can be considered a “What If” of were Dr. Halsey who choose to be truthful in cannon, chose then to be deceitful with her Spartans in the beginning and thus lead to different outcomes to develop.

Maybe I’m seeing to much into this but what do you all think?

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You’re seeing too much into it. There’s too many other changes for this single point to be the divergence point.

Brainwashing the spartans isn’t why Makee is a thing, or why the background of John’s home planet is entirely different.

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Wait, didn’t the 3rd ep say his homeworld was Eridanus II? Not explicitly, but his flashbacks of his parents took place there, no?

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I’m pretty sure the planet has the same name, but Eridanus II in the show is mentioned to be some sort of special terraforming project and the planet was abandoned when some virus broke out.

Whereas in lore Eridanus II is more or less a normal outer colony, if not one of the better one. Other than some issues with innies, nothing special happened there till the covies glassed it.

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A “What if”, like marvel did, would be change one element and see chat happen. Halo Silver have too much difference to be a “what if”