: I haven't read those paragraphs since turning in final copy sometime in 2001
: - and luckily, neither has anyone else! Could have been worse. I only
: cringed two or three times.
And then pieces of it started getting retconned before Halo 2 even came out.
Speaking of H2, I've been replaying the ass-tastic PC port Microsoft pushed out to incentivize Windows Vista, and the graphics look amazingly bad compared to H1. I guess we never did find out what the S'pht text on the loading screens actually says, if anything.