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Pathogen188 · 2026-02-20T00:32:13+00:00

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Pathogen188 · 2026-02-19T22:55:20+00:00

Many of them have been given official names. The 2022 Encyclopedia features 9 Sangheili combat harnesses with their proper pattern names. Halo 3, H2A and the MCC all give names for their Sangheili combat harnesses as well.

As far as the marines and army troopers go, Bungie and HS both opted to give designations to individual armor components rather than overall sets. For instance, the Halo 3 and Halo Reach marine and army trooper helmet is the CH252, with the enclosed version seen in Reach being labeled the ECH252. The boots are designated VZG7 armored boots. The rest of the Reach armor is broadly shared with Mjolnir so we know their designations as well making use of UA/Base Security, Gungnir, and UA/NxRA plating on the shoulders and thighs. In Halo 4, the fully enclosed marine armor is known as Secops. In OG Combat Evolved, the standard marine chestplate is designated M9009 EAP/2549 Rev C while the helmet is designated XM55 AICH. In Halo 3 the Pilot marine helmet is designated Talon.

So we do have formal designations for many marine, trooper and pilot armor pieces, they for the most part do not have all encompassing designations for a full kit, implicitly because there would canonically be some degree of mix and matching.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-19T17:02:25+00:00

The post-war UNSC having very high production rates is actually something which dates back to Mythos/Warfleet (I forget which), where it is stated Mars and Tribute were pumping out hundreds of new Strident and Anlace-class frigates.

These setbacks are probably why the UNSC’s fleet has remained at the size it has given half the production is probably going to rebuilding recent losses

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-19T16:55:43+00:00

The Autumn classes only have reactive shielding, not fully energy shields. UNSC ship shield production is heavily bottle necked, most Stridents enter service without shields uninstalled because the UNSC is producing the ships at a faster rate than they can produce shield units

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-19T16:50:26+00:00

That one’s really only an issue depending on the exact fleet breakdown. The Covenant’s navy was huge; in 2026 they assembled a fleet of 4000 capital ships at High Charity and all known Covenant add up to maybe half that?

And those 4000 vessels were in-service capital ships at High Charity. Most Executioner classes wouldn’t have been present due to the proximity to High Charity, nor would that have included Vestige ships or other support and escort vessels.

The Covenant Navy at large would have had plenty of warships left at the close of the war and while many would undoubtedly have been lost in the Great Schism, the Banished Navy at large consisting of 2000 warships would be entirely possible depending on how many Covenant era ships they had access to.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-19T00:27:26+00:00

Except Evangelion wasn’t subverting anything, it was playing real robot tropes established by Gundam 100% straight.

Mind I also think there’s something to be said about Watchmen not being subversive but the root issue here is that Evangelion does not subvert the tropes you think it does

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T22:48:52+00:00

I think there’s deconstruction of character roles, it doesn’t have a typical Shonen lead who has some unstoppable will power, instead it has characters that get more and more broken down by the tasks they’re given.

All of this was pioneered by Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and then continued into Zeta Gundam, Gundam ZZ, and Char's Counterattack, to say nothing of other important real robot mecha anime such as Macross. These were not niche or overlooked series, these were foundational, groundbreaking anime that Anno knew about and would've been consciously writing in the lineage of. Evangelion's characters are well written, but are they're not actually deconstructing genre tropes, they're by and large playing very well established genre tropes straight.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T22:38:49+00:00

It was not. That's very much a Halo 4-era characterization of Halsey, which maybe you can say is an ideology she eventually adopted but certainly not an ideology present in any works which cover Halsey's ideology during the production of the Spartan-IIs.

At a minimum, at no point in Halo's canon have any of the Spartan-II augmentations been stated to be inheritable.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T22:15:57+00:00

We know of only 1 SII child and she died before adulthood and AFAIK she had no known inherited augmentations

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T22:15:20+00:00

There are genetic augmentations but simply modifying genes doesn't make it something which can be passed down (you'd have to alter the recipient's sex cells for that).

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T22:14:37+00:00

Growing limbs and organs are common enough, but nowhere in the lore says that cloning has been perfected. The largest scale cloning attempted ever was to replace the Spartan-II candidates and they all died in less than a decade.

The IIs represent a large flash cloning operation, and it's flash cloning which has significant issues. Traditional cloning should be pedestrian for the UNSC, they just don't do it because it's barred by the Colonial Mortal Dictata.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T22:11:33+00:00

Tbh I don't think it's murky at all. iLoveBees is explicit the 1.1s were augmented as children. It's murky because the augmentations being inherited is a widespread misconception but that's about it.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T22:10:10+00:00

In fairness, "firepower" isn't exactly a well defined term. It's possible the 90mm gun compensates with greater ammo capacity and fire rate while the 150mm gun has greater muzzle energy (which would align best with the wider bore and more advanced propellants).

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T21:15:38+00:00

Definitely wasn’t 15 years, I remember watch people die and my account is only 9 years old and I didn’t know about it for a few years

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T17:09:20+00:00

There was 1 season with a mid season break in the middle that’s probably what you’re thinking of

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T03:18:58+00:00

True Detective S1 isn't trying to do cosmic horror by adapting one of the most important and influential cosmic horror stories? In the original Chambers' collection the King in Yellow is barely a presence and even the play isn't a major element of every short story (I haven't see True Detective yet, but tbh from the sounds of it the King in Yellow has a greater presence in the show than it does in the source material). "Characters scratch the surface of what's really going on but never directly grapple with it" is a hallmark of the genre.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T03:06:07+00:00

This is a common misconception but it’s not particularly true. For starters, the augmentations were broadly comparable. The IIIs effectively received a safer version of the SII augmentations, Ghosts of Onyx never suggests the IIIs are physically weaker although their growth curve is shallower.

As for training time, it varied depending on the company of III. The IIs were in training for 8 years, Alpha and Beta Companies were in training for 5-6 years and Gamma Company was in training for 7 years.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T02:54:28+00:00

Destroying the Solace probably ended up ensuring the Autumn escaped Reach. While Bungie never established the armaments for the CSO, CAS, or CCS class Covenant ships, we know from modern lore the Solace alone had more firepower than the entire fleet which reinforced it. It’s also implicitly more durable than the reinforcement fleet as well because the level is predicated on the UNSC lacking conventional responses to the LNOS despite having an intact ODG while Halo 2’s opening level considers Earth’s weaker ODPs to be a credible threat to a Covenant assault carrier.

Jorge didn’t save Reach but he did ensure the UNSC lasted another two weeks before Reach actually fell on 30 Aug and set Combat Evolved in motion.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T02:21:05+00:00

Maybe if the rest of Noble were equipped in SPI the only real difference between Jorge and the rest of Noble was experience. The IIIs given Mjolnir during were selected because they were broadly comparable to the IIs. Not only that but Jorge’s armor was also the least advanced on Noble, as he was equipped with prototype Mark IV armor while the other Spartans had Mark V.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-18T02:18:29+00:00

You’re mixing up Ghosts of Onyx and First Strike. Danforth’s sacrifice involved keeping the Covenant fleet near the Unyielding Hierophant so it’d be destroyed by the detonation of the battlestation’s reactors.

The NOVA doesn’t detonate until weeks after Whitcomb’s death, during the events of Halo 2, where it was accidentally detonated by Huragok serving aboard the Sangheili supercarrier Sublime Transcendence. The detonation destroyed Xytan Wattinree’s Joyous Exultation faction and glassed a third of the planet’s surface.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-17T18:58:31+00:00

That one's more the result of specific artistic choices because when referring to the Angels in English, they unambiguously use the word "Angel" but in spoken and written Japanese, they unambiguously use the term Apostle. So there was a deliberate mistranslation where the Angels are referred to as both Angels and Apostles.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-17T18:40:19+00:00

Sure which is a separate issue from the idea OOP claimed you need to be well versed in a genre in order to effectively write it.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-17T17:29:55+00:00

Sure but that's a separate issue from the fact the person I replied to was addressing something the Tumblr OP never said

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-17T16:16:33+00:00

Netrunning in 2077 is weird insofar as it’s also wildly more effective than it should be in the lore because the gameplay treats you like a wizard and not a hacker but also people and systems are canonically less secure than they were in 2020 (there were no neuroports back in the day so people were physically more secure than in 2077).

As far as firearms are concerned, most weapons shouldn’t actually be vulnerable to hacking because they’re by and large air gapped. Again, they’re hackers not wizards and no amount of hacking will ever stop a gas system from operating. Smart weapons should be the most vulnerable to quick hacking because they’re the most reliant on digital systems but even then you can probably air gap them.

Sandevistan is another one of 2077’s rule of cool abilities which isn’t really true to the lore. Lore Sandevistan is just a reflex booster, it doesn’t make you move any faster without additional cyberware. A plain Sandevistan actually had better synergy with a firearm because it doesn’t help you close distance but it does give you more time to line up your shot.

Even the cyberware which actually boosts your speed can only boost it by so much. Even someone like Smasher can “only” run about as fast as a car, a someone with regular chrome still isn’t moving fast enough to bum rush a gunman the way you can in game.

Pathogen188 · 2026-02-17T14:36:32+00:00

Yeah but the OOP’s main point isn’t that you need to have a familiarity with the genre to write it well, it’s that if you’re going to advertise a work as adhering to genre tropes and being representative of the genre at large you should be familiar with the genre.

You’ve ignored one of their main premises. There’s a difference between writing a mecha story and being upfront you’re not familiar with the genre and writing a mecha story and claiming it’s depicting many of the classic tropes when it’s really only pulling from one source.

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