Forum:Are the Halo novels canon?

Can someone please answer my question concerning the Halo canon. I really need to know if the Halo novels are canon cause the timeline between the book FoR and the game Reach are off by alot. Those who have read the book before playing the game would have the same issue and as confussed as me. SPARTAN-225 22:03, 17 May 2011 (EDT)

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Yes, the novels are canon. However, the Halo canon policy is that newer material overrides older material. -- SFH 09:39, 17 May 2011 (EDT)


 * As has been stated several times, the games, the novels, and all other official media are canon. Some elements have been retconned; newer material overrides older material. The Fall of Reach was changed from being a one-day battle to a month-long campaign so Bungie could do more, both with the story and with the gameplay, as well as to make it more believable. Think about it; the Fall of Reach was the biggest, most devastating battle the UNSC suffered during the war. It's ridiculous to think that such a colossal tragedy occurred in less than a day.


 * Nearly all the issues this brings forth are explained in Halsey's journal and on Halopedia. For example - Bungie addressed this several months before the game came out, and Halsey's journal reiterates it - the Mark V was issued in November 2551, not the day before the invasion. John didn't test the armor itself; he tested its functionality with a piggy-backed AI. The invasion was ongoing as John performed the test, but it was an absolutely necessary, last-ditch effort to commence Operation: RED FLAG before the planet was lost. Halsey notes that she had been aware of Spartans who were "not [hers]" for about a year, though she did not know that they were SPARTAN-IIIs. She assumed that they were from a later class of SPARTAN-IIs and did not learn the truth until she hacked Ackerson's computer in CASTLE Base a month later. Instead of escaping immediately, the Pillar of Autumn went groundside after the mission to Gamma Station to retrieve Cortana's fragment from Noble Team. Cortana correlated the data from this fragment with that of the Sigma Octanus IV artifact, leading the vessel to Installation 04.


 * As I've stated on the Halo: Reach talk page, Halo: Reach is the definitive source of canon. Any apparent inconsistencies are not inconsistencies at all; they are refinements. Thus, defer to the game, not to the books. --Courage never dies. 09:53, 17 May 2011 (EDT)


 * Sweet as. SPARTAN-225 09:00, 18 May 2011 (EDT)