Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)/Mistakes

This page documents errors, inconsistencies, and mistakes in the Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition). Given the sheer size and scope of such a book, the majority of these issues are rather minor, especially when compared to the volume of issues present in the Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition). Regardless, this page is here to serve as a public resource for fans and writers. Some of these are nitpicks, particularly in the typos and grammar section.

Inconsistencies and errors

Issue	Page(s)	Issue	Relevant quote(s)
Wrong captions	237	The images for the Sangheili High Councilor and Honor Guardsman are swapped (acknowledged by 343 in Canon Fodder - Encyclopedia Extravaganza)
Wrong captions	153	The images for the Series 8 and Series 12 jet packs are swapped
Wrong images	411-412	The images for the Gaunt and Abomination are swapped. The image used for the Abomination is a render of Blur Studio's model used to represent the Gaunt in the cutscene for the level What Could Go Wrong?, while the image used to represent the Gaunt is an image of the Abomination's concept art. They're both derived from the same design so it's far from the biggest issue, but did cause some confusion at first.
Wrong images	411	The images used to represent the Spawner and Infester appear to be swapped, when compared to their respective in-game models.
Inconsistency	32	The page notes that Earth had six space elevators, before listing seven cities with them installed. The cities listed are New Mombasa, Malabo, Havana, Borneo, Quito, Aranuka, and Colombo. Malabo and Colombo are the only two in this list that had never been referenced in lore established prior to the Encyclopedia.	Earth's six tethers were the first to be constructed...
Inconsistency	67	The page notes that the SPARTAN-II training lasted for decades. As per Halo: The Fall of Reach, it is well-established that the training lasted from 2517 to 2525.	The candidates of SPARTAN-II were segregated from human society and subjected to severe training and mode conditioning for decades in the Highland Mountains of Reach.
Inconsistency	102	Spartan Bonita Stone is stated to have been born in 2535. In chapter 30 of Halo: The Rubicon Protocol (released a few months after the Encyclopedia), Stone is established to have served aboard UNSC Relentless Watch for a decade prior to 2560. This would mean that Stone was only 15 years old when she began her service aboard Relentless Watch.
Inconsistency	192-193	The Unggoy are stated to have joined the Covenant in 2142 (as per prior-established media). The Infusion Incident that began the Unggoy Rebellion is stated as starting twenty years later in 2162. The Unggoy Rebellion is well-established as having started in 2462, meaning that this should be amended to say three hundred and twenty years later.
Inconsistency	51	The colony world of Reynes is established to have been glassed in 2548. The Halo Waypoint Chronicle Halo: Fireside (which was released two years after the Encyclopedia) establishes the colony to have been glassed some time before Kinsano joined UNSC Spirit of Fire's crew prior to 2531. This is a fairly minor issue, if assuming that the Covenant simply attacked the planet twice, as they did with Arcadia.
Inconsistency	252	Nizat 'Kvarosee's birthdate is given as August 23, 2470. In chapter 5 of Halo: Oblivion (set in 2526), Nizat is noted to have had a hundred years of service in the Covenant navy.
Inconsistency		in Halo: Last Light, Lucy-B091 is established as being slightly taller than Veta Lopis. The Encyclopedia provides their heights as 5'3 and 5'10, respectively. Assuming this is Lucy's height out-of-armour, this may simply be dismissed as intending Last Light's statement to refer to Lucy in-armour. However, a 7 inch difference does seem rather large for SPI armour to make to one's height.
Inconsistency	110-111	Olivia-G291 is noted to be a Lieutenant, Junior Grade and Veta is noted to be a Petty Officer, Second Class. In Halo: Divine Wind's epilogue, Veta is noted to be a Lieutenant, Junior Grade. Presumably, these two were swapped around, as it would make little sense for Veta to command the Ferrets while being outranked by several of its members.
Inconsistency	458	Okro 'Vagaduun is stated to be one of the Bloodbrave Guardians of Suban and born on Feldokra. Halo Infinite's High Value Target bio states 'Vagaduun to have been born on Suban, which would align with the mercenary band he is a part of.
Inconsistency		The many inconsistencies surrounding Michael Stanforth's age and rank were carried forward into the Encyclopedia. See here for full details.
Inconsistency	136, 181	The Halo 5: Guardians M555 Gauss cannon is given two new conflicting designations to better match with the other Gauss weapons. On page 136, it is referred to as the M69, while on page 181 it is referred to as the M70 in its dedicated infobox. Presumably the studio did not want to name a weapon M69, and the mention on page 136 was a leftover from an earlier draft.
Inconsistency	181	The text notes that Gauss cannons fire their slugs at velocities "approaching the speed of sound". Presumably these weapons are firing much higher-velocity projectiles than that.
Inconsistency	174, 136, 180	The Halo 5: Guardians M343A2 chaingun is given two new conflicting designations; the M250 HMG on page 174 (presumably to match in sequence with the M247 and its cousins) and the M49 on pages 136/180 (presumably to match the M41 and M46 models).
Inconsistency	306, 483	The Jovokada Workshop spike grenade is given two infoboxes on the two listed pages - one covering the Halo 3 iteration of the grenade and one covering the Halo Infinite iteration. Both have conflicting size statistics, to reflect the respective game models.
Inconsistency	306, 483	The same issue as noted above is also present for the Anskum-pattern plasma grenade.
Inconsistency	295, 483	Two size statistics are given for the Jovokada Workshop brute shot; one representing the Covenant/Sacred Promissory model 72.4 inches (184 cm) (originally given in Halo: The Essential Visual Guide) and the other representing the Banished/Jovokada foundry model (59.3 inches (151 cm)). Both measurements conflict with the size given in the now-defunct Halo Waypoint Universe + Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual pages on the weapon (71.3 inches (181 cm)). It would seem that all three are derived from different game models.
Inconsistency	183	The M9 fragmentation grenade's weight is given as 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg); this is extremely heavy for a grenade. An older Halo Waypoint page on the grenade gave its weight as 0.9 pounds (0.41 kg); a much more reasonable mass. This may be an instance of crossed wires, in which 0.9lb became 0.9kg in the new book.
Inconsistency	141	The infobox for the M400 Kodiak does not mention the machine gun the vehicle is equipped with in both gameplay and on its model.
Inconsistency	141	The M850 Grizzly infobox does not mention the vehicle's missile launchers seen in Halo Wars 2 gameplay and on the model.
Inconsistency	140	The section on the M808B3 Tarantula inherits an issue from prior material; the Scimitar rocket pods are described as firing 4x170mm rockets - a ludicrously thin projectile. This is presumably intended to be 40x170mm.
Inconsistency	157	A prior Canon Fodder esablished the design of Hornet seen in Halo 2: Anniversary\Halo Wars 2 as the AV-14B Hornet. The same design is simply referred to as the AV-14 in the Encyclopedia (with presumably the Halo Wars version intended as the standard AV-14?)
Inconsistency	276	The Ekesan-pattern Umbra is listed in its infobox to be armed with a single medium plasma cannon. Its illustration depicts it as armed with a Shea'p-pattern plasma cannon; these handheld plasma cannons are generally classified as light plasma cannons.
Inconsistency	277	The Pnap-pattern Goblin's infobox does not mention several weapons they are equipped with in-game (Power Wrist, EMP Stomp/Furious Feet, Focus Beam).
Inconsistency	467	The Skitterer's dimensions seem wildly inconsistent with prior lore and in-game depictions of the unit. The Phoenix Logs refer to the Skitterer as a smaller gestalt, while the in-game depiction of the Skitterer depicts them as much smaller. By contrast, the provided size statistics are huge (20x20m), contradicting the prior-mentioned sources alongside the size scale provided in the original concept art.	"They are cheap, expendable vehicles, and their twin-linked beam cannons are surprisingly lethal for a vehicle of this size." — Phoenix Log - Skitterer
Inconsistency	142	The M35 Cougar's dimensions seem wildly off; the vehicle's "small size" is described as ideal for use in urban terrain, but the dimensions provided are more than twice as large as any other APC in UNSC inventory, and larger than most buildings.
Inconsistency	123	The Charon-class light frigate is noted to be introduced into naval service in 2520. In chapter 6 of Halo: Silent Storm the turncoat vessel Bellicose is identified as a Charon. The first appearance of Bellicose is in the short story The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole, in which the frigate battles against UNSC Gorgon at the turn of the century - 20 years prior to the Encyclopedia's commission date. It is possible that Lyrenne Castilla may have simply captained multiple vessels and named them all Bellicose.
Inconsistency	123	The Charon frigate's armaments spec is that established in the promotional material for Halo 4, which reflects the Halo 4 redesign of the ship. These include several Hyperion missiles, which cannot physically fit inside the ship alongside a ludicrous number of Archer missile pods - much more than could ever fit onto a ship this size. The Charon's canon status was confirmed as the Halo 3 iteration of the ship back in Canon Fodder - Have S'Moa, meaning that the weapons physically shown on the ship in Halo 3 should be used instead.
Inconsistency	119	The Marathon-class heavy cruiser is established as having been introduced in 2520. This contradicts a panel in Halo: Fall of Reach, in which the cruisers can be seen involved in Operation: TREBUCHET in 2513. The Encyclopedia's information is more accurate than the comic's in this regard, as the Halcyon-class light cruiser is noted to have launched in 2510; for the Halcyon to be replaced in only three years (or less) would be an unusually efficient process of ship procurement. A larger issue is that VADM Stanforth was said to have captain the cruiser UNSC Leviathan in 2503; however this may simply be another ship of the same name - and also ties into the aforementioned issues surrounding Stanforth's age and career.
Unclear wording	125	The Vindication-class light battleship is noted as having two 76G3V5 MAC batteries in its infobox, while the description text notes it is equipped with "two Mark X superheavy MACs". It is unclear how these statements relate to one another; the former implies multiple batteries of MACs, while the latter simply implies two guns.
Inconsistency	122	The Stalwart-class light frigate's MAC designation is given as the 21X5V9 MAC. This contradicts the model given for UNSC In Amber Clad in Halo: Warfleet, which establishes the ship as having a 56A2D4 MAC. The 56A2D4 code is referenced again with Warfleet's page on the Epoch-class heavy carrier, meaning this is an error.
Inconsistency	127	The Epoch-class heavy carrier and Orion-class assault carrier masses are given as 35 million and 40 million tonnes, respectively. This directly contradicts a statement given in Canon Fodder - In the Loop, quoted on the right.	"The Epoch-class is the heaviest of the UNSC carriers, trumping both the mid-range Orion-class carrier and the post-War Poseidon-class light carrier (seen in Halo 4) in tonnage." — Canon Fodder - In the Loop
Inconsistency	128	The Point Blank-class prowler's length is given as 485 metres (1,590 ft) - a holdover from the "Stealth Cruiser" length given in the original 2009 Halo Encyclopedia, which was itself copied from a series of fan assumptions on this very website. However, in Halo: Silent Storm and Halo: Outcasts, Point Blank vessels are shown to carry thousands of personnel and dozens of dropships/fighters, acting more akin to a carrier than a destroyer-sized ship. The original length comes from a literal reading of a passage in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, in which a stealth cruiser's construction dock is around the same size as a destroyer. At this time, UNSC Point of No Return was the only stealth cruiser in canon, and depicted to be a very unique ship; the concept of the Point Blank did not emerge until 2018's Silent Storm. The Sins of the Prophets model used to represent the ship was modelled to a scale of around 1.3km; scaling this down to 485m makes some of the model details completely impossible to reconcile with the ship as a whole.
Inconsistency	125	The Hillsborough-class heavy destroyer is noted as having entered service in 2499. However, the same page also notes that it was one of the prevailing symbols of CMA power in the 25th century; given it was only in service for the final year of the century, it seems like this may have been intended to say 26th century.
Repeated information	266	The Wik-pattern light destroyer's armaments sheet is a clone of the Sinaris-pattern heavy destroyer's. While the Halo Waypoint page on Covenant Destroyers did note the two to have identical armaments, it's unlikely it quite literally meant them to be identical patterns and numbers.
Inconsistency	460, 462	The Karve is noted as being the backbone of the Banished fleet, while the dreadnought is noted as being the most common of Banished warships. It would be odd to describe a smaller, less powerful, and less numerous type of vessel as the "backbone" of the fleet.
Inconsistency	129	The Razor-class prowler's armaments are established as 2 Rampart PDGs, 12 Shrieker missiles, and 8 Argent V missiles. This contradicts some (themselves, contradictory) statements in prior novels; Halo: Silent Storm mentions the ship as equipped with two nose-mounted 30mm autocannons in chapter 8, and two specifically belly-mounted Rampart guns in chapter 25. In Halo: Oblivion chapter 6, UNSC Night Watch is equipped with Archer missiles. It may be that these all represent different loadouts for the ship.
Inconsistency	172	The CQS48 Bulldog's magazine size is given as 8 rounds. In Halo Infinite, its revolver magazine can only hold 7. The actual model for the magazine only has spaces for 6 rounds.
Inconsistency	477	The Disruptor's magazine size is given as 10 rounds. In Season 02: Lone Wolves (after the book released), this was changed to 12 rounds.
Omission	464	The Marauder is mentioned as being equipped with an "integrated missile launcher". In-game, the missiles use the same model, VFX, and sounds as the Thrasher missiles fired by the Reaver and Scarab.
Omission	265	The Maugen-pattern armored cruiser's weapons loadout omits the Stasis Enfolder System mentioned in Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide page 194.
Inconsistency	120	The Paris-class heavy frigate's armaments are listed to include 12 M870 Rampart point-defence guns. These seem to be intended to refer to the naval guns on the side of the frigate in Halo: Reach, but these turrets reuse the model of the Sentry autocannon. Furthermore, only 11 such guns are on the frigate.
Inconsistency	456	The Reaver is noted as having two spike cannons (consistent with the Phoenix Logs). However, the model for the vehicle has two Zubo-pattern beam rifles, and the weapons in-game fire blue plasma bolts.
Inconsistency	283, 475	The terminology used to describe the main weapon of the Lich is described inconsistently between pages. Page 283 describes the Covenant Lich's armament as a focus beam, while page 475 describes the Banished Lich's weapon as a heavy plasma cannon.
Inconsistency		In general, the terminology used to describe the armaments on Covenant and Banished vehicles has an inconsistent level of specificity; Covenant vehicles are generally ascribed light/medium/heavy designations for plasma mortars/plasma cannons, while Banished weapons omit the "heavy" designations entirely.
Inconsistency		The allocation of light/heavy descriptors for spike cannons is inconsistent. The Choppers are described to have heavy spike autocannons, while the Griever and Gravemaker - much larger vehicles - are only listed as "spike cannons".
Inconsistency	217	The second paragraph of the page notes that Sangheili did not care to retrieve their wounded from the battlefield; the next sentence contradictingly notes that they get taken to temples for healing. Halo: Silent Storm also notes that they have dedicated hospital ships. The end of the paragraph also notes that Sangheili don't make use of stimulants or painkillers; Halo: Warfleet notes that Sangheili serving on smaller warships make widespread use of stimulants to stay active and alert.

Typographical and grammar errors

This section is inherently rather nitpicky. None of the issues presented here are so glaring as to reduce the legibility of the text or the quality of the book overall, but are presented anyway.

Issue	Page(s)	Issue	Relevant quote(s)
Typo	361	Typo in the Genesis section of the article, the world world is used as singular instead of plural	These world were populated...
Grammar	239	Incorrect wording used in the paragraph on Supreme Commanders and Covenant fleet organisation	The supreme commander who often the lead fleetmaster among several in an armada
Typo	360	Seems to be missing an "a" after the word "lies"	Under the massive gleaming stalactite formations across the Interior of its protective shell lies hollowed-out planetoid…
Typo	77	the Geyrion is repeatedly referred to as "Geyrion". This appears to be a consistent misspelling for "Geryon".
Unclear wording	161	The X671 designation given for the Turaco is unclear whether it refers to a specific craft's hull classification symbol (ie FFG-201) or a model designation (ie D77-TC)