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: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/db05ce78845f4120b062c50816008e5d/topics/halo-fleet-battles---lore/8b89379f-38b0-4a2c-b209-8524f7cd027b/posts

: Combine this with the Data Drops and Reach' s events aren't quite as
: conflicting with The Fall of Reach as they once were. Still several
: unexplained discrepancies though but oh well.

I dunno how much it really does to solve the Halo: Reach inconsistencies—the biggest issue has always been the timeframe of the events depicted rather than the idea that they sent some scout teams to the surface and engaged a part of the fleet before more arrived.

Not entirely surprising, given that 343 did not pursue the H=F avenue that Contact Harvest did, but it's interesting that the Luminaries as described here do not function as the Luminaries in Contact Harvest did—that is, detecting humans, but rather activated Forerunner tech. To me it was always odd that the Luminaries would work that way—leaving aside the dramatic reveal that humans are Forerunner inheritors, how did the Covenant not easily find and exterminate every human hole via that method? Space is big, but it's not that big given the speed of FTL travel in Halo and the apparent range of sensors.