The Fall of Reach: The UNSC's Darkest Hour by PancreasNoWork - Reaction 

UNSC ships are often referred to as "A MAC cannon with engine pogs strapped on the back"

I'd say that losing Reach would be more like losing Mars to the Imperium than Cadia. I say that because Reach is the second most important planet to the UNSC.

In the book Master Chief returns to reach and finds Spartans and UNSC ground forces still fighting the Covenant on the grouund as well as what was left of the UNSC Airforce. Reach fell about as slowly and begrudgingly as possible.

The slipspace rupture detected spam is top 10 "humanity is boned" sci fi moments, along with caprica's nuking, battle of the line, kalsim's extermination fleet breaking the venlil flank, and choose 6 more.

The 40K Equivalent for the Human-Covenant War would be imagine if the 500 Worlds of Ultramar got so thoroughly decimated that the only thing left was McCragge.

Halo also has the best ship names in all of fiction. Some of my favorites include: Shadow of Intent Long Night of Solace Harbinger of Piety UNSC Say My Name UNSC Two For Flinching UNSC All Under Heaven UNSC Bum Rush UNSC Do You Feel Lucky?

Reach will be remembered as one of the greatest last stand linear storytelling portions of lore ever. If only there were more instances like this. I can hardly remember a vigilant last stand in central importsnt magnitude of Reach in Star Wars Expanded Universe even during the Yuuzhan Vong war. Thel'Vadam will be remembering Reach just as much as the UNSC for the remainder of his days.

So, Covenant Space GPS Identifies humans with a symbol they thought meant "Reclamation" It meant Reclaimer. The prophets gaslit the entire Covenant into thinking it meant that they had sinned against the forerunners. 2ndly, I'd like to acknowledge Admiral Whitecomb (The high ranking individual he talked about) who both utterly fucked up the ground defense of the MAC generators (A guy in charge of space combat called in an airstrike.... welp, there goes the Division defending the generators) He redeemed himself by single-handedly destroying more covenant ships with his 2 actions than any other individual during the war or after. Everyone knows he slipped the covies a Mickey, being that NOVA bomb they were developing at the time which destroyed nearly the entire elite fleet after going off several months later during the Covenant Skism. Cracking a moon and taking out a few thousand ships is always nice. The one that's not talked about is when he sacrificed himself (along with the single surviving ONI officer from the Pillar of Autumn, go figure) to stop the preemptive invasion of Earth. A fleet several times the size of the one that took Reach was being assembled. And he Kamakazied himself to lure the hundreds of vessels that would have been outside the range of the detonation that destroyed them all into range. That's all from First Strike, the novel that explains how Chief made it back to Earth after CE's events. It also has Linda hang 30 feet off a catwalk from a rope, and shoot multiple elites out of their banshee's(A target the size of a nickel). All while upside-down, one-handed, from several km's away. Most busted Spartan

Grafton is cool and all but don’t forget that the UNSC Aegis Fate was there with it and then proceeded to survive Reach and be there for the Ark portal activation in Halo 3

What is ironic Oni wanted supersoldeirs to fight human insurrectionist, they hired Halsey they even put money and resources into the program and help kidnapped 75 children. Oni made Spartan-IIs public with propaganda and some people found out about the origin of the Spartan-IIs they were not happy. Oni were also responsible for ODST's hated for the Spartan-IIs and after the war Oni decided to put all the blame on Halsey. As much how we as viewers feel about Halsey, most all Spartan-IIs like Master Chief, Linda, Kelly, Fred, Jorge, Kurt, Jerome, Douglas and Alice all respected Halsey and accepted for what they were now, some even view her as the closest thing they had to a mother at times and Chief Mendez as their father figure.

I think you mean that Cadia was the Reach of 40K. Cadia is nothing compared to the true hopelessness and defense of humanities second most defended planet, falling like nothing under the march of the Covenant. Halo's humanity during the Human-Covenant war is what GW wants you to think Humanity is in 40k, beset on all sides losing an unwinnable war against the overwhelming odds of the galaxy. (Also yes all of Halos ships are amazing because most are literally built around the mac gun, which gives them their classic "gun" shape, because the whole ship is literally just a nuke-railgun. However the Spirit of Fire is my absolute favorite, a colony-ship turned military vessel that shows up randomly and kills everything. It's like the Grombrindil/Gotrix of Halo.)

The best thing about the UNSC And their ships, they either look like a gun or a brick and they look amazing.

REACH BROKE BEFORE THE SPARTANS DID!!! Edit: In reference to Pancreas' mention of "60% of the UNSC Fleet at Reach" line, I'm personally convinced that this is in regard to the Epsilon Eridani Defense Fleet as a military unit and not as shorthand for the entire human navy. My reasoning for this is due to the lack of any other named or numbered fleets being referenced during the Defense of Reach and the Epsilon Eridani System in general. In comparison, we know that no less than six fleets were involved in the Defense of Earth and the Sol System. The Fleets in being: Home Fleet, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 16th. To my knowledge, the only one of these named Fleets that can be argued for participating in the Defense of Reach would be the 7th, with a single frigate being contributed in the UNSC Aegis Fate. The other 250+ ships involved in the Fall were assigned to the Epsilon Eridani Defense Fleet. Had 60% of the whole UNSC Navy been sent to Reach, then it would not have Fallen to the force canonically sent in either the novel or game. The Covenant would have been required to send a mess of reinforcements to take Reach at that point! So yes, I guess I'm one of those "Reach *could* have been saved" people now. However, it is with the caveats that the UNSC actually sends reinforcements from out system instead of leaving Reach out to glass and provided that the Covenant doesn't just throw the High Charity Defense Fleet at the problem. If someone actually bothered reading this far, then thank you for your time. =)

Halo Reach was my second Halo game

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8:25 Reminds me of an image I've seen taken from a Guardians of the Galaxy comic (no I don't know the exact issue) where you see a few characters (including Rocket Racoon) with fancy space guns that are just straight up ships from Halo. At least it's not as bad as that time someone made a Venom comic and had directly imported 3d models of Tau Devilfish as alien ships.

Something funny: at 11:37 Jorge doesn't actually throw you far enough to clear the ship, and you can see in the cutscene before the third-person switch that Six just slids those last few feet on their back.

It’s kind of hilarious in a morbid way that both Reach and Earth were accidentally invaded by covenant because of the forerunner artefacts. And ONI was still scratching their head over how that happened, to quote a crazy smart man with desire to having tits: “This is intelligence, start using it!”

8:26 I remember this game I played a while ago called dreadnought, which was basically a team-based pvp game using ships, and there’s legit ships in that game that are USC ships, guns with engines

Humanity absolutely knew about the war. What they didn't know was how imminent our loss was, and they made sure that people didn't know when THEY were about to die. Like everyone knows that entire colonies are disappearing, but you don't find out the guys who did it are about to bang down your door until they actually show up to do it.

I wonder how the nations of New Eden from Eve Online would fair against the Covenant. They have some really really big ships and they plenty of them with big populations. I think a few Capsuleer fleets with a Titan or three defending Reach they may be able to make Thel'Vadam's assault fleet in Reach sweat alot because it would be a heavy challenge and would have to resort to indepth strageies and tactics to fight the present Capsuleers. A Supreme Commander ACU should be able to defend the planetary ground from the Covenant pretty well with overwhelming industrial output and spawning endless defenses.

Holy hell! Halsey is basically Astarte and Erda combined. (Technically the other way round) The “humanity’s next evolution” not totally meant to kill humans and only became heroes because aliens happened to show up.

The general population of humanity had known about the war for about 25 years by the time Reach fell, they very much knew the war was happening

Planet Reach is straight up referred to as The Fortress World.

It was Kats' death that really made us realize these Ultimate Super Soliders are not invincible like they are portrayed through the other games with Master Chief.

I just thought of this, but imagine the covenant being in 40k and them doing a reach to some big chapter named world. battle would be beyond epic

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00:13 me too

dude you should read the book its fantastic

the "one good thing" ONI did IMO would be hiring Sadie to be Vergil's handler

The Covenant suck at astrology. Can't even find human worlds without a map or blind luck.

CREEK BROKE BEFORE THE DIVERS DID

The general population knew about the war and that they were loosing they just didn't know just how bad it actually was.

Aliens that would explain the National Guard presence in New York😂

The Covenant didn't come through the Space Border so they are illegal alien😂

Remember Reach

"Don't forget Reach or some shit" -Me, 2024

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They did know, the war was made public 6 months into the first year of it, they made it public alongside the Spartans because Draco III happened (a legit massacre with Covenant let to hunt and eat everyone or just have fun and whatnot as a Prophet war experiment, the entire planet was eaten and slaughtered), and the leadership was like "Yeah, this one can't be hidden" and decided to deploy THE ENTIRETY of the available Spartan-IIs after hammering the weak stationed Covie orbital support, leaving them stranded. Then the Spartans and support came down and support RECORDED EVERYTHING, showing the Spartans practically retaking a planet by themselves and using the footage as a rally propaganda to enlist and fight the Covenant. They also made fake background careers for the Spartans as Marines who rose quickly and gave themselves for the S-II experiments and to hide the "kidnapping and indoctrionation of 150 candidates as kids" bit. The ONI and the UNSC made a heavy censorship effort to keep the facade of humanity and the Covenant more or less inflicting equally devastating loses on each engagement but it completely fell apart when Earth was found by the Covenant at the start of Halo 2. This is well known as the people of Earth really believed that despite Reach falling, there was still hope. Only for the illusion to completely fall apart once a metric ton of carriers came into orbit after a massive space battle between the remaining human vessels ready to engage in the Sol System and the nonstop arrivals of Covenant ships completely left the humans with almost no orbital or space faring support of any kind. The only ones who kinda managed to hold out were some rebel worlds that completely shut themselves and their telecommunications off after most of the outer colonies under UEG rule and some of the free colonies also fell. The Covenant never found them. And now that the war is over many of them are buying Covie tier or makeshift new era alien tech from ethnical origin to create massive nets of AA batteries with beyond atmospherical effective range on a planetary defense system scale to stop any sort of funny invader, be it human or alien, from trying to threaten the planets. Most of their hardware is being bought from Jackal traders, the race in halo that is space pirates by pure genetics and evolution.

The only thing that interprets the Banished being as powerful as the Covenant is kinda crappy wording by an AI (or the writers morelike), otherwise non, the Banished are nowhere near Covenant levels of powerful, just a bit more flexible. Also the Banished for the most part actively avoid UNSC attention, but good luck with that post-Infinite.

14:35 eveyone knew about the war. they have been fighting for 30 years and lost most of their colonies at this point. not something that can be kept secret and no reason to anymore.

UNSC ships look like guns. Well they are guns. UNSC ships are basically mac guns first, space ships second.

Do the fan animated short film "Remember"

Five months into the war the knew was disclosed that we were at war So when reach was going on all of humanity knew the human covenant war was going on

Wait, I see a cat in the background!

In hindsight, ONI did do one "good" thing. They greenlit the SPARTAN project.

Dont forget Reach, or some shit

F Gorge

I fucking hate xenos.

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And oh. Finally someone covers this. And the epicness. All the spartan II’s except blue team and a few others died. No. No Spartan iii’s existed.yet. No matter what is said. Was all Spartan II’s s at this point.

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