NightHammer's board-to-board with 262VigilantGuardian

Hey NightHammer, long time no see. How have you been man?

Hard to estimate. I'd argue it was more than that, as we know that a lot of Earth's current population are refugees from other colonies. In addition, a lot of the people who evacuated from Earth may have never returned or chose to resettle elsewhere. I'm sure if we looked at Mars' population prior to the Covenant attack, it would be smaller than it is in 2558. Not just from the Covenant attack, but because Mars was known to have a large amount of refugee camps and the UEG made a post-war effort to settle those refugees on other worlds, decreasing Mars' population.

So apparently Earth has 7.9 billion people compared to 10 billion before the battle of Earth. Should we assume then that 2.1 billion people had been killed during that battle?

Hey Nighthammer, how are you doing? It's been a while, what's new around here?

I was hoping to ask you a quick question if you have a minute to spare. No image requests, just wanna get up to speed on something.

Oh, finally! Now we know the name of that second carrier the Chief totaled over Earth. About bloody time. Nice to see more bits of new info coming out.

Well, we finally have the UNSC Supercarrier. Nice! Been waiting forever to see that, lol :D

Hey Nighthammer. Long time no see man, how have you been?

That would be awesome. Sith Venator filled me in on it too, not quite sure how he got the message though. I appreciate you guys telling me, there are some questions I'd love to get in the next time they open. :)

The Q&A thread on Waypoint is what people are using to ask the questions. It's closed right now, but Grim will likely open it when he feels like answering more questions.

Hello NightHammer, long time no see. How you been man?

I have a quick question for you, I presume you have seen a lot of those blogs from the Waypoint site, right? We've been getting a lot of fresh info from their blogs lately filling the gaps in the canon.

This was their most recent Q&A session which you may have already seen: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-clarity-grace

You know what you have to do to get a question forwarded to one of these Q&As? If anymore surface, I'd love to ask some questions myself. I mean we've learned the names of some unnamed ships, the fates of some characters seen in the Expanded Universe.....You know how you can send questions to them? If not that's alright, but I suddenly just got very curious as to how it is done.

Hey NightHammer, how are you doing?

Interesting updates from New Blood huh? I mean wow. I haven't read it, but I'm surprised at the fates of Alpha-Nine in this one.

Just had a curious question I thought I'd ask you. With the SPARTAN-IV program in full swing, do you suppose anything of the SPARTAN-III program remains active in any capacity after the war?

Wow. So, the CAS-class design is now also the design for the CSO-class supercarrier and the DDS-class carrier. I hope that's the last re-use of the design in question.

More new ship designs courtesy of Spartan Games, this is pretty wild, isn't it? :) Always good to get new information on each side's arsenal.

Hey bro, how are you doing? Just curious, where are all of today's new images coming from? This is great stuff I'm seeing here right now, glad to see some more official material from H2A coming out. :)

Hey NightHammer, how's your month been so far?

I see everyone's keeping busy, things have been slower for myself, not really having been able to keep up with Escalation or whatever else is presently ongoing. Still trying to update the galleries and mission pages though, no easy task obviously. I now know that gameplay images from H2A are not coming anytime soon thanks to the lack of a theater mode with these editions. That's sadly inconvenient. But I'm still trying to make improvements where I can.

That said, what do you think about a few more suggestions from the H2A cutscenes for the sake of improving the level articles? I think there's still a few places where I can help touch those up or other entries on top of them. Of course you can turn it down since we covered a lot of ground already, so I leave that up to you. You've already been very helpful to that end, and I thank you again for that.

Hey NightHammer, Happy New Year, man! How you doing this week?

Hey there NightHammer, what's up? Hope your Christmas month's been a good one so far.

There are a few, hopefully last remaining suggestions I had for some new images covering various stuff from Halo 2 Anniversary, a bit more randomized this time, mostly last minute. If you're interested in one last set of suggestions, feel free to let me know later. No rush though, since we have covered so much ground. Hope to hear from you later nonetheless.

Hey there NightHammer, how are you doing this evening?

Oh yeah, Nighthammer, if it's alright with you my friend, I might have just a couple of new picture suggestions if you're open to hearing a few out this week. Not that many for the moment and not if you're too busy to be worrying about that right now. But if you're interested in hearing what they are, let me know.

I see all the main images for the level pages for the games in the Master Chief Collection were all changed according to what was shown in the collection pack. Glad that factor's been settled.

Hey there NightHammer, how you been this week man? Hope your holiday week was good to you.

Whoa, how about these Terminals, NightHammer? I only just got around to viewing them on YouTube. Great stuff.

Hello there NightHammer, how are things going today man?

Oh Nighthammer, when you get back, if you can recommend anyone who can get some good gameplay shots of Halo 2 Anniversary for some of the image replacements, let me know. Eventually we'll want to do those too. If not right away, then eventually for sure.

Oh Nighthammer, I might have a few additional suggestions I'd like to offer. No rush if you're not up for it now though. But are you interested in hearing of some others I just thought of?

Hello there Nighthammer, how are you doing today?

You still uploading new images and such this week? Sorry if this is of any inconvenience, but could I make one or two requests on some images I hope to obtain and upload on some articles? If you're too busy, that's cool, thanks for reading.