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@planefag Supposedly more auspicious and manageable than the events generated as a result of the operations of the Bat Distribution System.

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@S0ggyB0ttomB0ys @hawkmoonvonkoln @nikos_on_yt So, you can't prove your claim that 343i's intention was "our red Covie OCs were krumpin' Bungo's purple Covies lololol" instead of the Banished being hit-and-run scavs that were damn near impossible to pin into an engagement where they could be dealt with?

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@Whoknow11057418 @nikos_on_yt Blot out the AtN DLC from canon, introduce Voridus and Pavium in a character pack or make Sacrifice into the Banished campaign DLC.
Does HW2 still deserve canonical annihilation as a whole?

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@nikos_on_yt @CallMeMike_02 Looking at Fort Jordan's lack of a preview image, I think we might have been about to get one before support was canned.

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@S0ggyB0ttomB0ys @hawkmoonvonkoln @nikos_on_yt It's an interpretation of the stated facts.

Unless you can dredge up some canon or 343i saying something to back up your interpretation of "oh Atriox was totes clobbering the Covenant pre-collapse", the posts above are a considerably more reasonable claim.

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@Durkmesterzurc @hawkmoonvonkoln @nikos_on_yt Such is the problem with attempting to fight a faction with no fixed infrastructure or colonies to force into a defense of and thus actually initiate a decisive battle.

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@Durkmesterzurc @hawkmoonvonkoln @nikos_on_yt Unless the Covenant were able to put ships (not just a penny packet of some Zanars &/ Aktons, and maybe a RPV, but actual warships) over every world with water on it, and complex life that could be taken as food for obligate carnivores, the Banished could never be pinned down.

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@S0ggyB0ttomB0ys @hawkmoonvonkoln @nikos_on_yt And so the Banished survived, and were set up to thrive once the Schism kicked off. And then the Covie hegemony collapsed, leaving a power vacuum they were pre-poised to exploit.

Media literacy is a lost art.

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@S0ggyB0ttomB0ys @hawkmoonvonkoln @nikos_on_yt The Covenant sphere of sovereignty is massive, but so is space, and there are plenty of places to hide.
If the Covenant was not distracted by the conflict with humanity, perhaps they could have put a ship in orbit of every world and installation to deter raids, but they didn't.

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@GeorgeAtlanMail @nikos_on_yt Or it was an equalizer for Humanity in a period of time in which it is a very good idea to invest in a quantity of quality (+preservation of skill) instead of quantity over quality.

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@ReclaimerStudio @nikos_on_yt Fucking look at what the Covies were bringing to battles and come back to this post about SIVs being supes instead of equalizers.

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@Tyson_wd @nikos_on_yt Fucking how.
How is it worse than H5?

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@JlWillis14 @nikos_on_yt That is what the cutscene and most related media were attempting to convey from the start, but it seems like most Halo fans just fail to possess enough media literacy to discern that instead of reinterpreting it as "dis red cobbie fakton bettah dan de puhple ones lolz".

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@hawkmoonvonkoln @nikos_on_yt This misconception is irksome.
The Banished were not "beating the Covenant" at any point on a grand scale.

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@fehn_digler_ @nikos_on_yt How does HW2 (aside from the AtN DLC) undo H3's ending?

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@Nuna36077579 @nikos_on_yt Ending =/= post-credit cutscene that can be trimmed away.

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@pehruhnoyd @nikos_on_yt @Halo_VFX I'll sacrifice the Strident & Anlace FFGs, the Akton FFs, the D102 Owls, and the Varric CA, along with the concept of the remote (sticky) detonator, for HW2+Spearbreaker DLC and everything within to remain canon.

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@pehruhnoyd @nikos_on_yt @Halo_VFX Not this time.

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@PartisanRot @nikos_on_yt Awakening the Nightmare is DLC (that barely functions), not the main game. Surgically removing it from canon but keeping the base game + Spearbreaker within canon is not impossible.

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@PartisanRot @nikos_on_yt And then 343i wrapped up the whole infestation in a single paragraph in a book (P&V purged through the whole city-station, Voridus really went above and beyond with "Clean up your mess").