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I don't think it would have been the best way, just how ONI thought it'd be the best. We know from ''Reach'' that the Spartan Program was really the brainchild of the Assembly, wanting to speed up the pace of human evolution for defense against invading aliens. So they would have manufactured data to lead ONI to think that supersoldiers are the answer to colonial rebellion. While the Spartans had good results early on against Innies, as shown with Watts, we don't know what would have happened after that. Perhaps the leaks would have happened sooner. Perhaps the Insurrection would only escalate. Perhaps discovery of what happened to their children would cause the public view of the rebellion movements to go from "fringe extremists" to "mainstream". Or perhaps ONI would have succeeded and have Spartan police patrolling the colonies in a few generations. We can't know what would have happened then, but we're gonna see something about it happen now. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 02:05, 25 May 2015 (EDT) | I don't think it would have been the best way, just how ONI thought it'd be the best. We know from ''Reach'' that the Spartan Program was really the brainchild of the Assembly, wanting to speed up the pace of human evolution for defense against invading aliens. So they would have manufactured data to lead ONI to think that supersoldiers are the answer to colonial rebellion. While the Spartans had good results early on against Innies, as shown with Watts, we don't know what would have happened after that. Perhaps the leaks would have happened sooner. Perhaps the Insurrection would only escalate. Perhaps discovery of what happened to their children would cause the public view of the rebellion movements to go from "fringe extremists" to "mainstream". Or perhaps ONI would have succeeded and have Spartan police patrolling the colonies in a few generations. We can't know what would have happened then, but we're gonna see something about it happen now. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 02:05, 25 May 2015 (EDT) | ||
[[User:DJenser|<span style="color:#008000">'''''DJenser'''''</span>]]'s thoughts: | |||
*Ben Giraud is a photographer/blogger playing at being a journalist... Journalism 101: A journalist lives and dies by their sources. They are solely responsible for verifying their sources' information and protecting their secrecy, otherwise they will LOSE their sources to any number of things like other journalists or vengeful governments. Ben has clearly never learned how to cover his tracks and protect his sources. | |||
*Ben Giraud has been played by all sides from the beginning. His small-time status made him an attractive mouthpiece for ONI while his need to pull at the many dangling threads surrounding the Chief specifically (and the SPARTAN II program in general) have made him a convenient foil for the New Colonial Alliance to undermine ONI and the UNSC's position in the Inner Colonies. | |||
*Ben suspects that something is fishy with the whole "Chief is a Traitor" rhetoric that is spreading like wildfire across Human space, but he's in grave danger of losing any ability to prove that unless he gets control of his story quickly. | |||
*The communication loss in the outer colonies isn't the work of the UNSC or ONI, but has to do with the deep space anomalies which have conveniently been forgotten by Ben & everyone else... FERO seemed to think they were important, but all of her actions thus far seem to have drawn attention '''away''' from them instead of toward them and the threat they supposedly represent, which calls her actual motives into question... Mshak conveniently going dark at that exact point in the narrative leads me to believe this particular plotline has been deliberately crafted in such a way as to generate conspiracy fodder and keep listener discussions going until the next reveal in a future episode. | |||
The bottom line is that there are still too many variables at play to get s definite sense of where this is leading, so we'll have to wait & see what the next episode brings, though I suspect we won't know the whole ''TRUTH'' until 10/27... | |||