'Tis the season for early copies to start showing up on the shelves at shops. I've seen several people posting photos of copies and story details. Keep an eye out!
The carver report says that the situation will devolve into full blown civil war unless the UNSC develops a way to decapitate the Innie leadership. The Spartans were the answer. Most people seem to agree they would have worked and the Insurrection would have fizzled out of fear of the Spartans. But the Spartans don’t address the root cause of the insurrection which was the outer colonies being subservient to Earth and the Inner colonies.
Sure, constantly crushing the rebellion will cool things down but the fundamental causes still remain. As far as I’m aware, The UEG and UNSC had no intentions of ever addressing the problems the Innies had and just filed them away as trivial reasons the Innies blew up into rebellion issues, while choosing to just send fleets and Spartans to any rebelling world.
In real life, constant military crushing may temporarily end rebellions but inevitably military force stops working and the government either has to properly address the grievances or decide to cut its losses and let the rebels have their freedom.
The only outcome I see happening is that years, decades, maybe centuries down the line, the UNSC and UEG become rightfully known as authoritarians who will destroy entire worlds and their populaces for their grievances, leading to a full blown outright Civil War that will devastate the UEG and lead to its collapse
There was also a mention of 33 Spartans at Chi Ceti, implying that he was there.
Who was he then? Do we have an unknown Spartan he could take the place of?
I initially missed the part about the Harvest Spartan and figured he was removed from the group of escapees to fill that role but now im just confused. I feel like there must be a reason he was saved from being the Homecoming or Harvest Spartan.
So in the Kilo 5 Trilogy Admiral Margret Parangosky chews out Dr Catherine Halsey for the Spartan IIs mostly for using flash clones. However Parangosky was the one to authorise the abduction of the Spartan IIs and the use of the flash clones in the first place. Why did Karen Traviss, the author of the Kilo 5 Trilogy decide to make the person who authorised and knew everything about the Spartan II program be the person who became the main critic of the Spartan II program's unethical nature?
This could be a stupid question but how do Spartans get their armor? Like, I know it is given to them by the UNSC, but how do they get different helmet and armor types like Air Assault, CQC, and Commando (using Reach stuff as an example)
Do they get assigned, say, CQC if they show favor for close combat, or do they pick what armor they want to wear?
I was randomly bored and did some reasearch on WH40K and found that 1mm of Ceramite plating was roughly equal to 5mm of conventional hardened steel, so is there anything to say how much steel Titanium-A is worth? I know that UNSC material science is wildly above ours considering UNSC body armor can take crazy amounts of punishment but that's it.
I don't mean the science, more what they achieve. Since I've heard they:
Kill everything, flood included
Kill everything but the flood, which then died of starvation after the fact with no living food.
If 2, how did the burn work, since they were areas completely consumed by the flood but where the flood was still active. So did external flood bring living food back or did the domain of it all transfer the necessary living food needs?
Additionally, if it did die of starvation how long does that take? Since the forerunners then did the reseeding effort and needed to purge all the dead stuff so it didn't kill the plant life. So there were bound to be planets were the flood was but hadn't fully consumed yet or were newly on.
Was the burn left alone or did they need to purify that of the dead flood mass?
Did Bungie mean to leave it ambiguous about the status of the Ark or was it always intended by them to be destroyed? Spark says the ring’s premature firing would end up destroying the Ark and the Ring, but in the post credit scene we don’t get complete confirmation it was destroyed Cortana just says the ring “did a number on the Ark”. To me that line from Cortana implies it was left up in the air by Bungie whether the Ark was destroyed or not for a story writer to decide in the future