* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}:
** From the first game we are given: "You are the Master Chief, born for battle, bred for war, you are the last of Spartan-II project. Your brethren have died". The novel ''Literature/FirstStrike'' then reveals that a number of others survived. The games never reference any of this.
** ''HaloReach'' heavily retcons Eric Nylund's ''The Fall of Reach'', which described the origins and early years of the SPARTAN-II program, as well as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Fall of Reach]]. In the novel, the ''Pillar of Autumn'' is already on its way out of the system when the Covenant attack on August 30, 2552. The ship turns back and the Spartans split up; the Master Chief leading a small team to destroy a ONI Prowler's NAV Computer (In accordance with the Cole Protocol, all vessels are to destroy their navigational databases upon contact with the Covenant, lest they discover the location of Earth.); the rest head to the surface to defend the generators powering the orbital MAC Cannons, the only thing keeping the Covenant from achieving victory. By the time the Chief completes his mission, the generators have fallen, a ground invasion is underway and the Covenant have control of orbit. Left with no alternative, the Chief heads back to the ''Autumn'' which flees the system. Rather than plotting a blind path (again, the Cole Protocol), Cortana uses data from a Forerunner crystal to plot a course to Halo. The first game's plot follows. ''Halo Reach'', meanwhile, [[spoiler:has the Covenant raiding the planet as early as July 24, and the rest of their fleet arriving on August 14. The ''Pillar of Autumn'' is in drydock on the surface, with the exact location of the Spartans uncertain (an EasterEgg already has the Master Chief in a cryopod). The final mission has Noble Team escort a fragment of Cortana to the ''Pillar of Autumn'' just as it escapes Reach. Cortana plots a course to Halo based not just on the Forerunner crystal, but with data gathered from Reach's own Forerunner artifact.]] Cue massive FanDumb / FanWank.
** In the beginning, it was established that ''all'' the Forerunners went extinct after activating the Halo Array. [[spoiler:It was later retconned in the Halo Encyclopedia that most of the Forerunner population did die, but there were survivors on the Ark whom afterwards left our galaxy, and the BigBad of ''{{Halo 4}}'' happens to be a Forerunner himself.]]

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* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** From the first game we are given: "You are the Master Chief, born for battle, bred for war, you are the last of Spartan-II project. Your brethren have died". The novel ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'' then reveals that a number of others survived. The games never reference any of this.
** ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' heavily retcons Eric Nylund's ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'', which described the origins and early years of the SPARTAN-II program, as well as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Fall of Reach]]. In the novel, the ''Pillar of Autumn'' is already on its way out of the system when the Covenant attack on August 30, 2552. The ship turns back and the Spartans split up; the Master Chief leading a small team to destroy a ONI Prowler's NAV Computer (in accordance with the Cole Protocol, all vessels are to destroy their navigational databases upon contact with the Covenant, lest they discover the location of Earth.); the rest head to the surface to defend the generators powering the orbital MAC Cannons, the only thing keeping the Covenant from achieving victory. By the time the Chief completes his mission, the generators have fallen, a ground invasion is underway and the Covenant have control of orbit. Left with no alternative, the Chief heads back to the ''Autumn'' which flees the system. Rather than plotting a blind path (again, the Cole Protocol), Cortana uses data from a Forerunner crystal to plot a course to Halo. The first game's plot follows. ''Halo Reach'', meanwhile, [[spoiler:has the Covenant raiding the planet as early as July 24, and the rest of their fleet arriving on August 14. The ''Pillar of Autumn'' is in drydock on the surface, with the exact location of the Spartans uncertain (an EasterEgg already has the Master Chief in a cryopod). The final mission has Noble Team escort a fragment of Cortana to the ''Pillar of Autumn'' just as it escapes Reach. Cortana plots a course to Halo based not just on the Forerunner crystal, but with data gathered from Reach's own Forerunner artifact.]] Cue massive FanDumb / FanWank.
** In the beginning, it was established that ''all'' the Forerunners went extinct after activating the Halo Array. [[spoiler:It was later retconned in the Halo Encyclopedia that most of the Forerunner population did die, but there were survivors on the Ark whom afterwards left our galaxy, and the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' happens to be a Forerunner himself.]]

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