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Re: What Retcon?
Posted By: Bry <bmulheran@gmail.com>	Date: 1/25/09 6:39 a.m.
: There were Elites on Earth when Regret's ship jumped. The ODSTs landed as the : ship jumped so there could easily have been Elites in the city when the : capsule opened. : October 20: New Mombasa, Kenya is destroyed by the Slipstream Space Rupture : Backlash from the Prophet of Regret's ship. : November 2: The Prophet of Regret's ship and In Amber Clad arrive at Delta : Halo. Prophet of Regret liquidated by SPARTAN-117. : I thought that ODST starts on October 20. That gives 13 days of game play : until truth has his pretext for attacking or removing the Elites. : We have a 13 day window where Elites are still part of the Covenant. : Bungie doesn't want Elites in the game. That is their perogative but this is : a free choice. They are not forced into it by chronology or awkward facts. I think its very safe to say that at this point, the blast from Regret's ship entering slipspace (remember the cutscene in Halo 2? It was hardly subtle. It was rather like a nuclear bomb going off) killed anything that was still on the ground in New Mombasa. And if there were any Elite survivors, the BWU would seem to heavily suggest the follow up invasion of Brutes would have had orders to eliminate them immediately, rather than risk any more Forerunner artefacts ending up in Sangheili hands. The point that is made clear here is that Truth's decision to replace the Elites goes back a looong way. It wasn't a spur of the moment reaction to Regret's death at all, that was just a very convenient excuse to make it more public. The Schism and Covenant civil war would still have occurred, and probably at a similar time, even if Regret had lived. Behind the scenes and outside of the Elites knowledge, it had already been happening. You could even trace the first hints of that to Contact Harvest.

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