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I just thought of this, but imagine the covenant being in 40k and them doing a reach to some big chapter named world. battle would be beyond epic
So, Covenant Space GPS Identifies humans with a symbol they thought meant "Reclamation" It meant Reclaimer. The prophets gaslit the entire Covenant into thinking it meant that they had sinned against the forerunners.
2ndly, I'd like to acknowledge Admiral Whitecomb (The high ranking individual he talked about) who both utterly fucked up the ground defense of the MAC generators (A guy in charge of space combat called in an airstrike…. welp, there goes the Division defending the generators)
He redeemed himself by single-handedly destroying more covenant ships with his 2 actions than any other individual during the war or after. Everyone knows he slipped the covies a Mickey, being that NOVA bomb they were developing at the time which destroyed nearly the entire elite fleet after going off several months later during the Covenant Skism. Cracking a moon and taking out a few thousand ships is always nice.
The one that's not talked about is when he sacrificed himself (along with the single surviving ONI officer from the Pillar of Autumn, go figure) to stop the preemptive invasion of Earth. A fleet several times the size of the one that took Reach was being assembled. And he Kamakazied himself to lure the hundreds of vessels that would have been outside the range of the detonation that destroyed them all into range.
That's all from First Strike, the novel that explains how Chief made it back to Earth after CE's events.
It also has Linda hang 30 feet off a catwalk from a rope, and shoot multiple elites out of their banshee's(A target the size of a nickel). All while upside-down, one-handed, from several km's away. Most busted Spartan
The best thing about the UNSC And their ships, they either look like a gun or a brick and they look amazing.
Wait, I see a cat in the background!
Grafton is cool and all but don’t forget that the UNSC Aegis Fate was there with it and then proceeded to survive Reach and be there for the Ark portal activation in Halo 3
YES I WAS HOPING FOR THIS VID
Planet Reach is straight up referred to as The Fortress World.
CREEK BROKE BEFORE THE DIVERS DID
What is ironic Oni wanted supersoldeirs to fight human insurrectionist, they hired Halsey they even put money and resources into the program and help kidnapped 75 children.
Oni made Spartan-IIs public with propaganda and some people found out about the origin of the Spartan-IIs they were not happy. Oni were also responsible for ODST's hated for the Spartan-IIs and after the war Oni decided to put all the blame on Halsey.
As much how we as viewers feel about Halsey, most all Spartan-IIs like Master Chief, Linda, Kelly, Fred, Jorge, Kurt, Jerome, Douglas and Alice all respected Halsey and accepted for what they were now, some even view her as the closest thing they had to a mother at times and Chief Mendez as their father figure.
The only thing that interprets the Banished being as powerful as the Covenant is kinda crappy wording by an AI (or the writers morelike), otherwise non, the Banished are nowhere near Covenant levels of powerful, just a bit more flexible. Also the Banished for the most part actively avoid UNSC attention, but good luck with that post-Infinite.
8:25 Reminds me of an image I've seen taken from a Guardians of the Galaxy comic (no I don't know the exact issue) where you see a few characters (including Rocket Racoon) with fancy space guns that are just straight up ships from Halo.
At least it's not as bad as that time someone made a Venom comic and had directly imported 3d models of Tau Devilfish as alien ships.
Something funny: at 11:37 Jorge doesn't actually throw you far enough to clear the ship, and you can see in the cutscene before the third-person switch that Six just slids those last few feet on their back.
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Holy hell! Halsey is basically Astarte and Erda combined. (Technically the other way round) The “humanity’s next evolution” not totally meant to kill humans and only became heroes because aliens happened to show up.
It’s kind of hilarious in a morbid way that both Reach and Earth were accidentally invaded by covenant because of the forerunner artefacts. And ONI was still scratching their head over how that happened, to quote a crazy smart man with desire to having tits: “This is intelligence, start using it!”
Five months into the war the knew was disclosed that we were at war
So when reach was going on all of humanity knew the human covenant war was going on
The general population knew about the war and that they were loosing they just didn't know just how bad it actually was.
In the book Master Chief returns to reach and finds Spartans and UNSC ground forces still fighting the Covenant on the grouund as well as what was left of the UNSC Airforce.
Reach fell about as slowly and begrudgingly as possible.
In hindsight, ONI did do one "good" thing. They greenlit the SPARTAN project.
And oh. Finally someone covers this. And the epicness. All the spartan II’s except blue team and a few others died. No. No Spartan iii’s existed.yet. No matter what is said. Was all Spartan II’s s at this point.
Humanity absolutely knew about the war. What they didn't know was how imminent our loss was, and they made sure that people didn't know when THEY were about to die.
Like everyone knows that entire colonies are disappearing, but you don't find out the guys who did it are about to bang down your door until they actually show up to do it.