RaptorGTA said:
In the third book i believe master chief goes back to Reach and finds out a few spartans have survived. He get them off Reach and back to earth. Ghosts of Onyx is much later...i think its right before the end of Halo 3. The characters in Ghosts of Onyx are young teen spartans who are taught by one of the Spartans who was on Reach. The new Spartans armor isnt like the Mjolnir suite the old spartans have..it sorta can active camo..but it cant take the sort of damage the old suite could. I might be wrong..but if the books were in tune with the game..then we should have seen and heard of other Spartans being brought back in Halo 2. |
The books are 100% canon, you just kinda have your facts all mixed up.
Ghosts of Onyx takes place from the years 2531 - 2552. It tells the story of the creation of the Spartan III's on the shield world Onyx. They were a top secret class that was created after the Spartan II's such as John 117, Master Chief. Their purpose for being made was they would be cheap super soldiers who could be sent on suicide missions deemed to dangerous to waste a Spartan II on. Spartan II's were considered to be for the most part the better soldiers but were MUCH more expensive to create thus destroying any chance of there being a second class of Spartan II's after the original batch. Kurt and Ackerson are the ones tasked with training these Spartan III's on a world hidden from all records. The planet is Onyx.
Kurt and Ackerson spend years creating multiple classes of S3's nearly all of whom are killed on their missions such as Pegasi Delta in the year 2545. Interestingly enough a few survive and our then hidden away in secret by ONI, one of whom is Noble Six who you play as in Halo Reach along with the rest of the S3's in Noble Team. Eventually the Covenant learn of Onyx by intercepting a transmission sent by Dr. Catherine Halsey and come to the planet.
By this time Onyx has already been awoken and is revealed to be an ancient Shield World built by the Forerunners to protect themselves from both the Flood and the Firing of the Halo rings. There are Sentinals everywhere and Kurt as well as the last few surviving members of his final S3 program are under attack from both Covenant and Forerunner forces. In the end *SPOILERS* Kurt is killed defending his team as well as Dr. Catherine Halsey, and the S2's Fred and Kelly as they enter the closing entrance to the Shield World. Once inside the survivors are saved from the Covenant forces but are now trapped with no way to communicate with the outside world. Also Onyx has hidden itself in Slipspace making it nearly impossible to discover.
Basically thats why no one ever learns of what happens on Onyx and is never mentioned in the mainline Halo trilogy. However some stuff such as Spartan 3's and Pegrasi Delta itself are directly mentioned in Halo Reach the game. I could also explain how the other books fit into canon but I've been as brief as possible here and it still is a massive post so I'd rather not! lol
