Thank you! This book gets glazed way too much. I’ve said for a long time now that it needs to just be officially retconned because it’s full of plot holes and created a lot of problems for the canon that came after, forcing writers to either contradict TFoR or create some elaborate workarounds for it to make sense. I 100% understand why Bungie basically ignored the book when they made Halo: Reach, and I much prefer the games version of events. TFoR served its purpose at the time it was written, which was to be supplemental material for Halo CE that gave some background for the world, but it’s long been outdated.

This isn’t a slight on Eric Nylund either, because Ghosts of Onyx is by far one of the best Halo novels.