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Parasyt · Boot Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 12 Location: Everywhere

ILB Is Now Cannon! (Sorta)

**Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:36 am

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**Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:07 am

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ubersaurus

That's a good question as to the time frame of Nicole's inclusion.

My guess is that they had been in talks since last year, but hadn't come up with any actual story element for a character yet. Of course, you'd have to ask someone at Bungie to find out.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:05 am

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Tar Ecthelion · Veteran Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 86 Location: Manteca CA

That's very very cool. I just wish that they would tie in ILB with the official game... Halo III (or the one that follows Smile

). Still it's nice to see that Bungie continues to think about the ILB plot, and that it might in some way influence there work.

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**Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:41 am

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From the article.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:57 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:04 pm

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L.S. · Boot Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

I just read this and was all grins; of course, I came straight here afterwards. When DoA 4 drops, I might be willing to shell out the $400 for the system.

edit: OOOKAY, I finished reading Nicole's background, and am loving the Halo-halo joke, ooh, the XBox is calling me now Smile

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**Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:47 pm

Heucuva

**Posted:** Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:47 am

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Oh, man, to see an ILB game? That would be worth the ENTIRE thing. Not that it wasn't worth it at first just...really awesome idea, dude.
Yeah, something tells me we'll at least see some hints to ILB. What would be cools is maybe a Jersey, a Durga, maybe a Sleeping Princess or Pious Flea in Halo 3...maybe an easter egg where if you walk into a room, you see the ILB page on a computer.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:38 pm

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Heucuva

chances of a SP would be low seeing she got put together in the future. unless of course something scrambles her again.

in all seriousness though, the only thing ILB related thing we're probably gonna get is that Apocalypso/slip stream reference for Nicole.

but yes... t`would be cool indeed...

**Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:45 am

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Nola · Unfettered Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 675

Well here's another one... There's a new Halo novel on they way titled Halo: Ghosts of Coral. Anyone remember Coral from ILB? Woot!!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765315688/qid=1142803697/104-5043484-3616701

**Posted:** Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:15 pm

br2z

What the heck does "cannon" mean?

**Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:10 am

Shad0

Re: canon

**Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:17 am

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Sypheran · Greenhorn Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Posts: 5

What I don't get is according to Bungie staff, "ILB is not canon, at all". I've asked on their official boards and that's what some of the staff replied! I think their lying.

Also, several fans like to say that because Staten said:

"The Bees would not make the cut.

Those guys basically did their own thing with very little Bungie input (save for massaging and approving the initial plot-treatment). While we helped define the boundaries of their fiction, we let them do what they thought best. And I think the game turned out great."

But I think that the fans should remember that Bungie likes to be cryptic. He says that they would not make the cut, but he says that it's because "those guys basically did their own thing." So in all reality, he's saying that the initial plot of ILB is canon, while ILB in general is not. But several fans just don't listen.

**Posted:** Thu Apr 13, 2006 2:57 am

ubersaurus

I asked Frankie about the canonocity, and he said that ILB didn't break canon at all. Which essentially means that for all intents and purposes, it is canon that Bungie can contradict without concern-a stance Joe Staten also seems to have taken towards the novels(though to a lesser degree).

Personally, I just think Joe Staten is a "hands on" sort of guy when it comes to the Halo story, and doesn't like other people playing with it.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:05 am

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