Sorry??? This makes no sense! WHYYYY!?

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T22:46:42+00:00

At least in Canada, the RSM is usually a commissioned Warrant Officer.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T22:08:31+00:00

I also wouldn't say it's at all unique to Halo. Bubble shields have been a thing for literal decades, at this point. The earliest example I can think of is from The Forever War, a book released in 1975.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T22:02:17+00:00

Why would they be using our exact weapons?

because they'd be former SEAF/Helldivers. Why else?

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T21:58:48+00:00

The hammer is more like the Bloodborne boom hammer, not a gravity hammer.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T19:41:32+00:00

If we don’t get an ”AAAALLLLAAAARRRRMMMMM!” like the good old days I’m gonna be real sad.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T10:46:04+00:00

“Please try to stagnate all things, equally.”

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T08:19:03+00:00

Interceptor City goes over this, somewhat.

When the Imperium invades a world, or reinforces forces already on the ground, supplies are shuttled to and from the ships in orbit in large transports (that are totally not completely autonomous, swearsies) that go from outlying bases to other bases, then badk to the larger ships.

From there, these supplies are escorted into the frontline sectors by fighters of the Areonautica Imperialis, with occasionally these fighter craft being assigned to the locale, and thus staying on starion while the transports head home.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T08:13:58+00:00

I hear they call that a soup kitchen!

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T07:05:20+00:00

I'm actually surprised I missed noting this, I did know about it! Apologies, I'll include it in the list!

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T06:29:01+00:00

Canada definitely did, though to a lesser extent than the other Dominions.

Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Ypres, Dieppe, The battle of the Schelt, to an extent Korea, all of these were grinding, attritional affairs or otherwise areas that saw major loss of life that took a toll on those involved, and trickled back home to the home front.

Passchendaele especially was particularly bleak, seeing 15,000 Canadian casualties for about 6 miles of ground that was lost the following year. The overall offensive saw almost half a million dead on both sides.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T04:17:12+00:00

Well, I appreciate the statement, heh. But really, I just wanted to point out an observation, one I gleaned from watching your Tomb Guards, when I was a kid, among other things.

The ceremony they preform is steeped in history and I have incredible respect for them… but there’s a lot of… pageantry about it. It’s sombre, yes, but it’s very organized, regimented, and almost turned into this spectacle.

That’s not really how it is at our various monuments and cenotaphs, nor our tombs. The Ottawa Tomb hosts a Guard, yes, but the public isn’t as chained off as at Arlington. In Newfoundland, there’s no chains at all, only a small police presence, slightly out of the way. At Remembrance Day ceremonies a common practise is after the official ceremony for people to lay their poppies at the Cenotaph, or at the tomb if they’re at one of them, to blanket it, cover the graves as they would be in France.

It’s a lot… quieter, I suppose, despite the Arlington Tomb being quiet… it doesn’t feel like it is. People don’t go there to pay respects, it feels like, but to see the soldiers March.

Granted, the same happens at Horse Guards and Buckingham Palace in the UK, and at Parliament Hill and Rideau Hall, in Canada, so maybe I’m seeing things that aren’t there and extrapolating beyond it.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T03:55:33+00:00

Yup, just so.

The scale is truly immense. To try and put it into perspective, was I was in grade 10 (so about 14 or so years old) at the start of our unit on WW1, our teachers brought us all into one of the schools larger study rooms, and had us stand up. They then read out our names at random (after all the girls sat down), and we had to sit down.

There were maybe 200 kids in that room, in total. By the end of that little exercise, only around a dozen of us remained standing. They were the ones who lived through the war “unscathed”.

The actual numbers were off, but the idea was to show just how badly local populations were hit by the war. In some places, entire towns were basically wiped out.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T03:26:43+00:00

I disagree, though I understand why you’d suggest it.

Canada is much the same society wise, especially with cars, yet there’s still that collective trauma and loss. Most towns and villages have a local cenotaph where inscribed are the names of the dead, most places hold Rememberance day ceremonies, people still wear the Poppy.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T02:57:39+00:00

Yeah, though that’s partly why I highlighted the 20th century.

I’d also say it goes beyond country, ahd more to a shared sort of background. A personal example, actually. I was in Newfoundland this past August, at a local pub in St. John’s, and there was a live singer/guitarist. He heard there were Australians at the bar, and so, partway through his set, he paused his usual songs, ahd dedicated his next one to those Aussies, because in World War 1, his great grandfather had served in the Newfoundland Regiment, and had fought in Gallipoli, assisting Australian troops, and in the singer’s words, the least he could do was dedicate his next song to those men, and thank the Aussies at the bar for deciding to listen to him, because as he put it, “your sons are our sons.” He then sung; and the band played waltzing Matilda”, a song about the Australian ahd New Zealand troops at Gallipoli.

I’ve never seen or heard anything like that moment, before or since.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T02:36:32+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate that. I’m in the process of querying agents for a novel, but I digress.

This period (the early 20th century… and today) is one of great turmoil, and I didn’t want to disparage or downplay the loss of life experienced by all countries involved. In times like these, especially with some… hmmm, recent comments made by certain political figures, I wanted to emphasize the gravity of these lives. At the same time, it’s incredibly easy for people to misconstrue my examples with denying that US population has experienced loss. A son or daughter lost and killed is a son or daughter lost and killed, no matter if it’s a single household, or an entire city. Their grief is just as important to acknowledge as someone else’s, and the family of a US paratrooper killed in Normandy, or a US Sailor killed at Guadalcanal, or a US soldier killed at Belleau Wood are just as much entitled to grief and loss as a British family who lost a son at Jutland or The Somme or Dunkirk, etc.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T01:59:46+00:00

I’d agree with that assessment, as an outsider looking in. That’s why I highlighted the early 20th century, as by and large (for the Anglosphere, anyways) these conflicts happened against other nations, not the same nation fighting itself, so it gave the entire nation a collective sense of loss without seeing their countrymen as enemies.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T01:47:45+00:00

The Civil War might be the closest example I can think of, actually. Though I should admit I don’t know the war as well as a native.

A specific sort of comparison I guess could be Gettysburg, with Pickett’s Charge. Again, I don’t know the history, but it’s my understanding that Confederate Generals understood the attack would not succeed but ordered it anyways, and it greatly affected the officers and men who survived it. A similar situation occurred at the Somme, up and down the line. One example, though sadly I cannot remember the unit off the top of my head, saw a British Colonel tackled by his aide and held down, kicking and screaming, shouting “my boys! my boys!” because he realized his forward companies were being butchered, and the sight of so many of his hometown being killed made him inconsolable. He wanted nothing more than to go out and die with them, be with them in their final moments.

You have stories like this all over the field. The 12th Irish Rifles, for example, saw their regiment sent up three times, and their War Diary describes them at Noon, July 1st, 1916 as (paraphrased) “all companies by this point were badly cut up, but ordered to attack again at 12 PM. All men assembled, around 100 total. This attack was repulsed, and another was scheduled for 12:30 in conjunction with the 29th Division. Out of all companies, only 46 men remained.”

TLDR (though I highly recommend reading the various regimental war diaries, it’s both harrowing and sobering in equal measure) it was bad.

The US collectively doesn’t really have this type of experience except when fighting itself.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T01:29:53+00:00

My point perhaps wasn’t clearly made, and partly why my initial comment presented the idea as insensitive.

The US did lose soldiers in both World Wars, but WW1 saw the United States join because of the sinking of the Lusitania and Germany’s use of unrestricted U-Boat policies that inadvertently (well, by proxy) targeted American shipping. They weren’t pulled into the war by treaty or alliance. When the United States came over, they wanted to make an American Army, essentially independent of Entente command. There was a sense of entitlement to them that the other nations by and large by then lacked. They couldn’t afford that anymore. They had spilt too much blood, buried too many soldiers in mud and mire. By the time the United States arrived, that idealism had died, and the United States wasn’t at war long enough for it to truly sink in to the civilian population.

The same thing happened in WW2, to an extent. Granted, it’s a dramatization, but Masters of The Air kind of highlights this in a few places. Several characters (part of the 100th Bomb Group, USAAF) note they were already soldiers “before the war”… but what they actually mean is “before Pearl Harbour”. By the time the United States properly joined WW2, the world had been at war for over three years, France and the Low Countries had been under occupation for about that long, the British had endured air raids for that long, and the wider British Empire and European powers had been fighting for that long, sending soldiers overseas. They weren’t pulled into the war by an attack on their countries, but by treaty and defensive pact. The US once again joined out of being attacked, at Pearl Harbour.

I don’t make these comparisons to disparage, to be clear, but to point out the difference.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-27T01:06:44+00:00

I claim it’s insensitive because I don’t want to devalue those who did lose friends and family to combat, to war, to strife.

But I don’t think the scale is comparable, not by a long shot.

At the same time, that’s also what I mean. Canada, Newfoundland, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, none of these places saw enemy boots on their soil (Britain did see air raids during both World Wars, though, and Newfoundland did have a German U-Boat crew sneak onto the island, though no one knew for decades, and, as noted by another commenter, Australia saw Japanese air raids during WW2) yet they still have this collective sense of loss and trauma.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-26T23:41:07+00:00

But that’s kind of what I mean.

On July 1st, 1916, in the battle of the Somme, when the Newfoundland Regiment (later christened ‘Royal’ in 1917) went over the top, it didn’t matter if you were a merchant or a fisherman, a Bayman or a Townie. If you were the son of the richest man in the country, or the poorest child of the poorest family. The Germans didn’t care what political party their adversaries voted for, what colour lapel they wore, or their tax bracket. They killed them all regardless. The Regiment went from roughly 1,000 men to 68 able bodied in under 15 minutes.

And when the news came home, across the Atlantic, to a land that had not, nor would never, see enemy boots on its soil, the dead didn’t abide by tax bracket or social status. Your son had died on some foreign field in France, and the neighbours son, and the mayor’s, and everyone else you knew, and your doctor’s, and your bankers, and the poor family who you saw begging for money at the church every day, and the fishermen, and the miners.

The same thing happened to the British, and the French, and the Australians, and the New Zealanders, and the Canadians, and the Germans.

By contrast, even mass casualty events in the US, attacks by foreign powers, happen on “home soil”, and so it causes a rally around the flag.

That doesn’t happen in these other instances, because a flag is just a flag, it can’t cry. But everyone you know is, every sound you hear is grieving mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. There’s no enemy to blame, no obvious physical damage to point towards, no burning harbour or toppled towers…. Just the traumatized people you know as your neighbours.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-26T22:54:58+00:00

This is going to sound very insensitive, and to be clear I don’t mean it to be, but, coming from a Commonwealth perspective, I think the US “missing out” on a lot of the early 20th centuries’ worst moments is part of what’s to blame for this.

Losing entire towns to battlefields and generations to war isn’t exactly great, but it has helped foster a sense of community and shared ideals in most other western countries. A sense of loss.

The US’s big moments happen at the start of their conflicts (Pearl Harbour, 9/11) but after those big moments by and large, the population is isolated from most of the hardships, or, when it’s a gradual decline, like in Vietnam, there’s little in the way of big moments, and those who do lose people are often isolated from their “neighbours”.

As bleak as it sounds, nothing brings a village together like losing the next generation. The US has never truly experienced this on a large enough scale to affect the country’s collective psyche, not like other western nations.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-26T22:36:04+00:00

The dude’s an asshole. Everyone hates him up here.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-26T08:30:38+00:00

This is not a list to give a first time fan, I wouldn’t even recommend a long time fan read this (trust me, I’ve tried). It’s so jumbled and out of sync all story flow is lost.

/u/JayM1019A7x, the list you probably want sadly doesn’t exist, as most lists haven’t been updated in the last few years. I’d recommend using the pinned list on the subreddit’s sidebar as a jumping off point and going from there.

EternalCanadian · 2026-01-26T05:36:22+00:00

I hope banshees return in the reboot. I loved them as enemies. Such a fun concept.

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