What were you going to say here?

: Wonder if that's still true. I mean, they chucked away Requiem in Spartan
: Ops, perhaps as a way to start from a clean slate?

I hope they don't bring them back, or at least not in large numbers.

: Yeah, good job, you can barely even see it in a firefight.

I can't see it at all unless I get really close, which is very rare.

: Hell, wonder what people thought of the shields on the Prometheans and
: Watchers. You can barely see them.

Watchers have shields? seriously, do they?

: Why are we mining fantasy for archetypes?

to make me confused and disappointed?

: I dunno. If you are writing fantasy or soft science fiction, you can probably
: get away with stuff like this. But if the universe is ostentatiously a
: hard science fiction setting (I mean, 343i DID hire Greg Bear for the
: Forerunner Trilogy)

and he introduced "hard light"

: Are they war machines, or are they meatpuppets?
: Are they weapons with which to defeat the Flood, or are they broken
: mechanical slaves?

It seems like they're both, and it seems like that's part of the problem.