UserProfile:ScaleMaster117

Name

Stephen Loftus

Location

Moncton, NB

Website

http://halo.bungie.org/misc/sloftus_scalecomparison/1280h.html

Joined

June 3, 2013

Xbox

ScaleMaster117

Waypoint

ScaleMaster117

About me

Hi, my name is Stephen! Long-time Halo fan. Mainly known in the community for articles on Halo.Bungie.Org involving the scale of the objects in the Halo universe and analyses of various aspects of Halo lore. Love any and all discussions about the Halo story.

I'm fortunate to be asked to regularly contribute to various Halo publications, including the Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide, and Halo: Mythos with 343 Industries as their Halo fact-checker, reviewer, and general consultant. For Halo Warfleet, I provided a bunch of up-front research into the ships highlighted in the book along with establishing many technical details in addition to the usual text and illustration reviews. I also contributed some corrections to the Definitive Editions of the original 3 Halo novels and supplied corrections for the second version of the Halo Encyclopedia. Most recently, I was a consultant for the 2022 edition of the Encyclopedia providing the usual fact-checking, plus contributed many ideas to help fill out the content of the book.

Hobbies & interests

Scale model making

Anything else

Visit my Halo Scale Charts! http://halo.bungie.org/misc/sloftus_scalecomparison/1280h.html

Hey man, thanks for getting those Marine Corps and Air Force logos up, can't believe it's only now we're getting those haha. The encyclopedia turned out great!

Oh, thats super interesting! I'll make sure to amend the page to suit. As it happens, I'm from the town Halifax in the UK, so I always like to pretend that's where the in-universe Halifax Spacewerx are based, even if I know it's not true haha

Hey again, to my knowledge the Special Warfare Center was never in any doubt. "Armor Testing" calls it out at the end. And I believe a couple sources prior mention a Warfare Center here and there prior. The UNSCOTEC actually judging by Armor testing and the blister are not the same location but near one another. (Or OTEC is just a facility part of the SWC but no source makes that clear sadly)

It was more the stuff that HBO (Happy 20th to them) was spouting without sourcing that was in doubt till yesterday.

And ahh yes the Joyride Series 4 ODST Figure. It has "NSWG2-ODST team 5" on it which I assume is short for "Naval Special Warfare Group 2-Orbital Drop Shock Troopers team 5". Which is a curiosity tbh, unless I am mistaken that may actually be the 105th. But I am left with a lil uncertainty.

Psst you may like this discovery I made. Its quite big I wont lie and actually I presume is the source of stuff folks tried to add a few times over the years.

TLDR: The 340th ODST Combat Training Unit is canon. And the UNSC Operational Test and Evaluation Center is canon.

Yo you may find "this" interesting. And a pain. https://www.halopedia.org/Special:WikiForum/Jake_Courage_and_canon