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::Disappointing. I viewed the previous two as setting up the resurgent Covenant remnant as a threat, and I thought this novel might perhaps pay off Telcam and Mdama, with Mdama hijacking Telcam's Covenant, perhaps revealing his collaboration with ONI in the process, setting up tensions between the Arbiter's forces and the UNSC, with Hood embarrassed and enraged at Parangosky's double-dealing. It looks like that isn't going to be happening, if this is the last Traviss novel. A shame. -- [[User:Morhek|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 23:44, 28 January 2014 (EST) | ::Disappointing. I viewed the previous two as setting up the resurgent Covenant remnant as a threat, and I thought this novel might perhaps pay off Telcam and Mdama, with Mdama hijacking Telcam's Covenant, perhaps revealing his collaboration with ONI in the process, setting up tensions between the Arbiter's forces and the UNSC, with Hood embarrassed and enraged at Parangosky's double-dealing. It looks like that isn't going to be happening, if this is the last Traviss novel. A shame. -- [[User:Morhek|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 23:44, 28 January 2014 (EST) | ||
==Dr. Halsey and Lies: A Conspiracy Theory== | |||
I already touched on this in the above, but I thought the topic might warrant further attention and/or speculation, even if it's probably going nowhere (the best-case scenario is probably going to be 343i completely ignoring this bit in future media). In ''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' (page 29 in the 2001 edition), we hear the following exchange between Dr. Halsey and Déjà just before the SPARTAN-II children are first brought into the amphitheater of the [[Reach FLEETCOM Military Complex]]: ''"I'm forgoing your recommendations, Déjà. I'm going to tell them the truth." (...) "The truth has risks," Déjà cautioned. "So do lies," Dr. Halsey replied. "Any story fabricated to motivate the children—claiming their parents were taken and killed by pirates, or by a plague that devastated their planet—if they learned the truth later, they would turn against us."'' | |||
Halsey says no to ONI's suggestions to fabricate stories about the kids' parents, for reasons that make perfect sense. Yet, for some reason, in ''Mortal Dictata'', BB has a recording of Halsey lying to a six-year-old Naomi in the first days of Spartan indoctrination that her father won't be coming for her and that he's actually in on the whole thing. This provokes a predictable reaction of hatred against Halsey in Naomi (which is where ''TFoR'' Halsey got it wrong apparently - she thought they'd turn against ''us'', in plural, ONI or the whole of UNSC, but it seems they just turn against Halsey personally when that happens). | |||
Now, I'm sure Karen Traviss meant every word because if there's an opportunity to make Halsey look bad you bet she'll take it, but, what if this conflict could be explained another way? <small>If you're listening, 343i, you're totally free to use this.</small> Tinfoil hat time. We know ONI's out to tarnish Halsey's reputation and dump all their own dirt on her every chance they get. So what if ONI, with the aid of AI-assisted photorealistic video fabrication, forged a whole bunch of "evidence" to further incriminate Halsey, even turn her former allies against her? We also hear that the ''Mortal Dictata'' recordings show the kids fighting back considerably more than Halsey indicates in her journal - this one is more justifiable and actually makes a bit of sense, but it can easily be construed to support this theory as well. | |||
BB's videos very conveniently show exactly what Naomi needs to see, from ONI's standpoint; she's just finished chatting with her father for the first time in decades, and then BB hands her a video of Halsey lying about ''her father''. And she has to rely entirely on these videos because she still can't remember the details. That's awfully good timing. Hell, BB himself could've made (and/or altered) the videos in his spare time if it wasn't a Section II project, probably as part of a neatly-arranged "Halsey Media Packet" in the event Parangosky decides to go public with the whole thing. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 11:50, 29 January 2014 (EST) | |||