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October 16, 2001 Link to this post
Book plot points
Eric Trautmann, MS Content Developer, drops by to pass along a tantalizing tidbit about the Halo backstory - there had been some forum speculation about the credibility of the plot - why, for example, would the Covenant go to the trouble of a ground war against the inhabitants of Reach, rather than simply wiping the human population out from space, and then just going down and taking the information they needed from remaining computers? Someone suggested that maybe the humans had wiped their navigational databases, to prevent this information from falling into Covenant hands... and Eric confirmed that this, indeed, is what happened - the process was named the Cole Protocol, after the admiral who implemented it. Slowly, it comes... The book will be on shelves in two weeks. (Louis Wu 01:27:28 UTC)
