User:Jugus

It seems that they didn't want to go through the trouble of rewriting FoR. It would appear that the Covenant invasion was focused primary in the Viery Territory until mid-August, where the reinforcement fleet began striking cities such as New Alexandria.

There was a total blackout in satellite communications, it seems. Early on in the invasion you could put the blame on the relay; lack of knowledge as to the size of the invading force and ONI coverups... but the invasion just got out of hand later, particularly when the EEF was engaging the Covenant on other colonies. At no point does the Pillar of Autumn receive word of what is going on - they don't even know that something strange is happening until shortly before the Fleet of Particular Justice arrives, when one of the crewmembers notices unusual EM readings bouncing from Reach's moons.

The thing about the majority of the EEF over Reach being unaware of the Covenant is shown in the last data drop. They had been placed in traffic at the opposite side of the planet, and the downed relay meant that they were isolated - it was only when the Fleet of Particular Justice arrived that they realised what was going on. Perhaps the majority of satellites were interdependent on each other, meaning that a single downed comms. relay would play havoc on the whole planet.

Personally I found 343i's explanation somewhat sloppy in places. It would make more sense to keep this large part of the EEF contained together if RED FLAG was already green-lit: the rest of the EEF around Reach (along with the reinforcements that engage whichever fleet arrived after the Long Night of Solace's demise) would be kept away from the Covenant as they search around for Forerunner relics - when a (super)carrier finally heads into the atmosphere, the EEF engage and disable it.

I'm having some difficulty updating the Operation: RED FLAG article; I make a couple-thousand bytes worth of extra content before rejecting it because of its poor quality - I just can't get it into the right words.

The problem is bringing up the events that caused RED FLAG to fail:

• The loss of communication across parts of Reach and between the colonies when the Visegrad relay went down.
• The Army and Navy not working together, related to the above. This is evident in the destruction of the Long Night of Solace, a target that Admiral Stanforth would have had captured, had he been informed of Operation: UPPER CUT, or even its mere existence. He wasn't notified until several days later.
• Related to the first two, ONI appears to have collapsed on the colony - Stanforth wasn't aware that the Covenant were on Reach until at least a week after an ONI base was nearly destroyed. He was also not informed of UPPER CUT, as previously-stated, despite his established career in the organization (albeit, within Section 3).
• The majority of the Epsilon Eridani Fleet around Reach was left on one side of Reach in heavy "traffic" (that is to say, a large number of ships were clustered within a small area) while the Visegrad relay was being repaired. While it could be viewed as solely being a cover-up by Stanforth, this had been going on since it went down. As such, much of the Navy was unable to defend Reach, or even aware that it was under attack until the Fleet of Particular Justice jumped over their side of Reach on August 30.

Overall, I'd say that communications problems were the reason for the failure of RED FLAG, which only got as far as Phase 1, either because Stanforth was willing to risk lives while waiting for a supercarrier or no one informed him of what was going on in time to progress further.

Could you help me make a page or something for users to post times that they have gotten a random headshot with a non-headshot capable weapon such as a headshot with the MA5B Assault rifle

I added that mistake as it wasn't the Elites that gave the order to exterminate the humans. that order came from the Minister of Fortune. The elites were not seen until 2526

Where do you find all the concept art on pages like Anchor 9? If you could tell me or send me a link, it would be greatly appreciated. ~~~~

Hey there, sorry to be bringing this topic up again but for Christmas my bro got me the book Halo: the essential visual guide, on the page talking about the mark vi armor it mentions that blue team received the armor upon there return to earth after operation first strike, but there was one mistake which concerned me, it mentioned all of spartan blue team, being John, Fred, Kelly and Linda. Obviously they made a mistake cause Kelly was abducted by doctor Halsey before operation first strike and were going to onyx at the time of the operation. I was wondering if the mistake should be mentioned in the Halo: the essential visual guide's trivia area and also that Fred and Linda received the mark vi armor upon there return to earth

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I've put the forum up. If you don't mind I paraphrased one of our discussions in it. Could you maybe put it in the "What's going on?" bar in Recent Changes? Thank you.

Should the GRD helmet have its own page? I know not much is known about it, but we could add some secondary information... like how it is similar to Recon or Bungie Armor. We could also add info about the teddy bear easter egg. The permutation itself is only mentioned once in an image on the Armory page but I feel that there is more we could do with it, like a physical description on its own page, and maybe even a history if there's enough info. As for the acronym however, I have no idea, but I found terms like "Ground Resolved Distance", if that means anything relevant.