SchizophrenicMC
Well-Known Member
If you consider yourself a Halo historian, then you'll take well to realize there is dialogue from Fall of Reach, concerning Red Team, playing on various radios. You ought to realize the Fall of Reach was not a one-front battle. There were countless places the Covenant engaged the UNSC, both in space and on the ground. We've seen 2 perspectives of this: Red Team's and Noble Team's.
Another thing you need to seriously recall is that Bungie is the undeniable storywriter for Halo canon. If they say something is canon, you'd better believe it's canon. Halo: Fall of Reach was revised and tweaked to match more closely the events that are stated to have taken place before and during the battle, so it wouldn't contradict Halo: Reach. And it doesn't contradict it. Even the dates work out right. Halo: Reach happened.
The Artifact is the only reason the Covenant didn't just immediately glass the surface of the planet. They needed to retrieve the object at any cost. So they did. Unbeknown to them, the artifact was very near a UNSC base, CASTLE. That's how Halsey and the remainder of Red Team found it. (Halsey was headed for CASTLE Base when she left SWORD Base, in Reach) As for its effect on Slipspace travel, we know it had an effect on superluminal speed and relative time, as well as releasing massive amounts of radiation inside the ship. However, its properties are very much irrelevant to Jorge, because its Slipspace-manipulation properties don't hold to the same standard as a UNSC Slipspace drive. (Or rather, vice-versa. Also, note it does effect Master Chief's travel from the Ark, potentially, because the sheer speed it granted allowed for lightyears' travel in mere moments, possibly meaning the Chief was exposed to a minimal amount of lethal factors, while still traveling an incredibly long distance)
UNSC Slipspace drives tear the slipstream open, grab a filament and hang on for the ride.
Covenant Slipspace drives surgically cut open the slipstream, select a much finer filament, much more accurately, and remain on it the entire journey.
Forerunner Slipspace technology works in an entirely unknown fashion. All that IS known about it is they could even more finely manipulate the slipstream than the Covenant, and contain entire worlds within it. In fact, their stasis systems are stated to use Slipspace instead of freezing.
The drive Jorge encountered was a UNSC drive. It punched a hole in slipspace, but instead of projecting that hole ahead of it, it smashed it around itself, engulfing it in an overload that caused the utter destruction of the ships.
This brings another note to my attention: Even if he somehow survived and reappeared in normal space, what would stop the 45% of a Covenant Supercarrier docked to the Corvette from exploding and taking him with it, as its reactors overloaded? Even if that didn't happen, an entire Covenant army was aboard the ship. Even Hyper-lethal Vectors like Master Chief and Noble Six couldn't fight those odds, and Jorge isn't nearly as effective a fighter, if his actions in the game are anything to go by.
There are too many even-if's, and those even-if's are punctuated with death.
I think we just need to let this rest. (Or should I ask if one Major Robert Ernest Rausch, who went MIA on April 16, 1970, after his RF-4C crashed, is still alive? (Sorry for any offense anyone might take in my using a real veteran for comparison))
Another thing you need to seriously recall is that Bungie is the undeniable storywriter for Halo canon. If they say something is canon, you'd better believe it's canon. Halo: Fall of Reach was revised and tweaked to match more closely the events that are stated to have taken place before and during the battle, so it wouldn't contradict Halo: Reach. And it doesn't contradict it. Even the dates work out right. Halo: Reach happened.
The Artifact is the only reason the Covenant didn't just immediately glass the surface of the planet. They needed to retrieve the object at any cost. So they did. Unbeknown to them, the artifact was very near a UNSC base, CASTLE. That's how Halsey and the remainder of Red Team found it. (Halsey was headed for CASTLE Base when she left SWORD Base, in Reach) As for its effect on Slipspace travel, we know it had an effect on superluminal speed and relative time, as well as releasing massive amounts of radiation inside the ship. However, its properties are very much irrelevant to Jorge, because its Slipspace-manipulation properties don't hold to the same standard as a UNSC Slipspace drive. (Or rather, vice-versa. Also, note it does effect Master Chief's travel from the Ark, potentially, because the sheer speed it granted allowed for lightyears' travel in mere moments, possibly meaning the Chief was exposed to a minimal amount of lethal factors, while still traveling an incredibly long distance)
UNSC Slipspace drives tear the slipstream open, grab a filament and hang on for the ride.
Covenant Slipspace drives surgically cut open the slipstream, select a much finer filament, much more accurately, and remain on it the entire journey.
Forerunner Slipspace technology works in an entirely unknown fashion. All that IS known about it is they could even more finely manipulate the slipstream than the Covenant, and contain entire worlds within it. In fact, their stasis systems are stated to use Slipspace instead of freezing.
The drive Jorge encountered was a UNSC drive. It punched a hole in slipspace, but instead of projecting that hole ahead of it, it smashed it around itself, engulfing it in an overload that caused the utter destruction of the ships.
This brings another note to my attention: Even if he somehow survived and reappeared in normal space, what would stop the 45% of a Covenant Supercarrier docked to the Corvette from exploding and taking him with it, as its reactors overloaded? Even if that didn't happen, an entire Covenant army was aboard the ship. Even Hyper-lethal Vectors like Master Chief and Noble Six couldn't fight those odds, and Jorge isn't nearly as effective a fighter, if his actions in the game are anything to go by.
There are too many even-if's, and those even-if's are punctuated with death.
I think we just need to let this rest. (Or should I ask if one Major Robert Ernest Rausch, who went MIA on April 16, 1970, after his RF-4C crashed, is still alive? (Sorry for any offense anyone might take in my using a real veteran for comparison))