Since it's been brought up before, I've taken the liberty of changing the colour of the wiki text to make it actually viewable. Why no one bothered doing that earlier is beyond me, and holding off from such a basic change runs counter to the mission of restoring activity.
If the opaque dark-grey background gets changed (e.g. to be transparent with that neat, blue Infinite art we currently have), naturally I'll remove that coding.
It was quite straining to read the page "1st Battalion 12th Marines". I suggest a .css change to replace the content colour, as black does not suit an ever-so-slightly-dark-grey background.
Ideas for what to change it to are appreciated.
Oppose It won't solve the problem of there being two Wikis at all - halo.fandom will remain at the top of search results, and new fans will continue to check here first for information. Kudos to Wikia for removing the Featured Videos, not that I particularly cared about them one way or another.
It's a minor retcon Bungie made to better tie their novels to the games - they'd confirmed the novels as canon some years prior, but consistently failed to acknowledge that fact in the games (e.g. John as the last Spartan). They'd already been interested in Class-II Spartan-IIs when they submitted Nicole for Dead or Alive 4, insisting the character was in some way canon (but obviously without interacting and fighting other characters). Halo: Glasslands made a brief mention of Class-II early on, saying that Halsey lost interest in the project when she didn't approve of the new candidates (GoO said that MJOLNIR's funding was being redirected to the S-IIIs, which Kurt interpreted as meaning there'd be no Class-II).
We can reconcile these depictions by having Halsey aware that Class II was eventually successful in some way but not caring about the actual individuals, and not being aware that these new Spartans are actually a spin-off of a SPARTAN-III Army project to create hundreds of drugged-up child soldiers. In retrospect, that's probably why Noble Team lost the letters in their designations - "A259" becomes "259".
Since there's still a fortnight to go until Christmas, I'd like to remind readers to add the new Halo novels and comics out this year to their Christmas wishlists.
Outnumbered in fleet size, yes. But the Covenant had larger territory to police. If they had committed the entire fleet to the war, the UEG would have been defeated much faster. But, they had other things to worry about: border patrol, policing, transporting supplies to High Charity, defending pilgrim convoys, and of course fighting Atriox's revolt. Even though they already outnumered the UNSC, they simply could no commit everything to fighting them without a massive rearmament plan.
Because that was in the 2550s; the Covenant had nearly 30 years to build up their forces. The loss of the 300 ships at Psi Serpentis and the 500 at Unyielding Hierophant were still huge losses to the Covenant and, from the latter, Truth was unable to scrape together a second armada to conquer Earth and instead we just got small flotillas arriving intermittently.
Actually, Warfleet suggests the very opposite, at least at the start. To prevent a Sangheili uprising, the Covenant Empire doesn't have a large force of heavy warships in peacetime, and is busy policing Covenant space with CRS-class ships. When the Human-Covenant War began, they were at a disadvantage and were mostly using lightly-armoured ships, only making progress in the war thanks to the Outer Colonies themselves being lightly-defended. Even in the early 2530s, the Covenant navy is not strong enough, which is why Regret needed the Forerunner fleet stored in the Shield World in Halo Wars.
Don't forget the Gravemind was actively consuming Forerunners. It's like Star Trek's Battle of Wolf 359 - your numerical and tactical advantage goes out the window the moment the enemy assimilates people who have intimate knowledge of your defenses and how to bypass them.
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You just did it again - it's not one thing. The Insurrection is a series of largely unrelated insurgencies committed by unrelated groups vying for their own worlds' independence. Since they're paramilitary/terrorist organizations, they have no 'standing army' and therefore no way to count the size of one planet's Insurrectionist population (let alone all of them). Do you count the peaceful pro-independence activists? Do you count people who have a brother in the FLP but didn't actually join despite knowing secrets? Do you count curriers knowingly transporting weapons but who aren't part of the groups?
The Insurrection isn't really one thing as it is a series of insurgencies across human space, with each colony having its own insurgent groups using whatever they have available. CMA equipment was one source of weapons prior to the HCW, but there are groups who performed pirate raids.
Their methods of attack depend on the group and their resources. Eridanus II's rebels attacked places occupied by soldiers, but it was seen as relatively safe for civilians (so long as they didn't get in the way). A character in Hunt the Truth stresses that rebels there did not make whole streets disappear, unlike ONI's propaganda claims.
Mamore however was notoriously bloody. Someone got their hands on a nuclear weapon and killed 2 million people by blowing up a city in 2511. SPARTAN-IIIs had to be sent there in 2537, and B312 took part in a mission in 2552.
The colony of Tribute was known for its sophisticated bomb making factories, advanced enough that UNSC tech designed to detect explosive substances frequently failed to identify compositions. One of its bomb makers actually blew herself up in a restaurant in Casbah in 2524, killing over 30 people when she got found out.
On Reach, rebels (possibly non-citizens) seem more crude. In the National Holiday disaster, two VBIEDs were crashed into a cruise ship with no strategic value whatsoever, killing 1500+ civilians.
You say 'huge leak', but less than a minute of your video is of it, and it's just a Gravemind-like voice...
When you say "16 billion", you're forgetting that that's almost all civie. When the UNSC's fleet is almost entirely wiped out by the Forerunner dreadnought in the moments before Halo 3, there's no defense left to protect all those people on Earth. If the Covenant had decided to continue their fight rather than go to the Ark, there's nothing stopping them.
The UNSC is too weak to go up against the Covenant - it lacks a big enough navy, its ships are vulnerable to plasma damage, their weapons aren't strong enough to defeat the Covenant ships fast enough to avoid serious losses (An Assault Carrier can incapacitate a marathon-class cruiser in one attack, as we see in H2, while it can absorb a number of macs). Then we take into account the UNSC wasn't able to replace its ships fast enough, to the extent there's 20 operational cruisers (of any class) by August 2552.
I assure you there is no way the UNSC could ever 'win' a war against the Covenant on their own. All realistic ways for the Covenant to 'lose' are for scenarios comparable to the Great Schism. And even then, it was the Arbiter and the Arbiter alone who could persuade the Fleet of Retribution to cease their destruction of humanity - without him, any other Covenant break up scenario would have resulted in the UNSC fighting a series of wars against the various Covenant remnants - which they later do fight.
I've gotta ask - are you testing us for our knowledge/Q&A reliability, or are you desperate to make your fanon workable?
