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* TheWorfEffect: Cobalt Team are a team of highly-trained SPARTAN soldiers. They're ambushed and killed by the Covenant, having failed to see their attack coming.
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* TheWorfEffect: Cobalt Team are a team of highly-trained SPARTAN soldiers. They're ambushed and killed by the Covenant, having failed to see their attack coming. (In the next episode, Keyes confesses that two of them didn't even get a chance to fire their weapons, which either downplays or exaggerates the trope depending on how you think [=SPARTANs=] are supposed to handle themselves.)
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While ONI has never been portrayed as a very morally minded organization, their goals were still about finding ways to defeat the Covenant. This usually manifested as sending troops on a SuicideMission without telling them as much, as well as the controversies of the Spartan project. But when it came to minimizing civilian casualties and simply fighting back, even if it's a HopelessWar, they usually stayed out of the way. Here, ONI suppressed information that the Covenant had located Reach because they wanted to avoid complications in evacuating key personnel and resources off world, leaving Reach and a population of several million wide open. Admiral Keyes is shaken by this discovery.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While ONI has never been portrayed as a very morally minded organization, their goals were still about finding ways to defeat the Covenant. This usually manifested as sending troops on a SuicideMission without telling them as much, as well as the controversies of the Spartan project. But when it came to minimizing civilian casualties and simply fighting back, even if it's a HopelessWar, they usually stayed out of the way. Here, ONI suppressed information that explicitly writes off Reach -- the stronghold of the UNSC military, the single most important human planet besides Earth itself, and the home of the Spartans, who are themselves priceless because they are literally the ''only'' reason the Covenant had located Reach hasn't already won -- because they wanted to avoid complications in evacuating doing so makes it easier for key personnel and resources off world, leaving Reach and a population of several million wide open. Admiral Keyes is shaken by this discovery.to get out safely.
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** Ackerson intends to get rid of the bodies of Cobalt Team and list them as MIA, so their actual cause of death won't be revealed. This was the official stance on all fallen Spartans in the main canon, with a type of BadassCreed of "Spartans don't die, they're just missing in action."
** Chief's lines to his ONI escorts highly resembles the random NPC chatter in the games. "You get any closer and we'll have to talk about our feelings."
** Chief's lines to his ONI escorts highly resembles the random NPC chatter in the games. "You get any closer and we'll have to talk about our feelings."
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** Ackerson intends to get rid of the bodies of Cobalt Team and list them as MIA, so their actual cause of death won't be revealed. This was the official stance on all fallen Spartans in the main canon, with a type of BadassCreed of "Spartans don't never die, they're just missing in action."
** Chief's lines to his ONI escorts highly resembles the random NPC chatter in the games. "You get anycloser and we'll closer, we're gonna have to talk about our feelings."
** Chief's lines to his ONI escorts highly resembles the random NPC chatter in the games. "You get any
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* ItsAllAboutMe: While ONI claims they're evacuating Reach with only the best UNSC personnel they need to win the war, deeming Reach and her people an acceptable loss, it's clear that everyone except Ackerson are bailing because they see the writing on the wall, and don't want to get trampled in the ensuing chaos should a mass-evacuation be implemented.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: While ONI claims they're evacuating Reach with only the best UNSC personnel they need to win the war, deeming Reach and her people an acceptable loss, it's clear that everyone except Ackerson are is bailing because they see the writing on the wall, wall and don't want to get trampled in the ensuing chaos should a mass-evacuation mass evacuation be implemented.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Chief's going rogue did come with the caveat that he knowingly lied to his team about being sanctioned and cleared for duty, but Keyes realizes too late that Chief was dead right about the Covenant being on Reach. Now all he has to show for it is Chief going rogue, Cobalt Team lying dead in the morgue, and UNSC at odds with ONI over their deception.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Chief's Chief going rogue did come with the caveat that he knowingly lied to his team about being sanctioned and cleared for duty, but Keyes realizes too late that Chief was dead right about the Covenant being on Reach. Now all he has to show for it is Chief going rogue, Cobalt Team lying dead in the morgue, and the UNSC at odds with ONI over their deception.
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* AMillionIsAStatistic: Ackerson says that there is no hope of defending Reach against the Covenant so he's quietly diverting assets off planet and [[PlausibleDeniability covering up any knowledge they knew of the attack in advance]]. This is called out as hard as possible by Keyes, telling Ackerson "[[PrecisionFStrike Go fuck yourself!]]"
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* AMillionIsAStatistic: Ackerson says that there is no hope of defending Reach against the Covenant so he's quietly diverting assets off planet and [[PlausibleDeniability covering up any knowledge they knew of the attack in advance]]. This is called out as hard as possible by Keyes, telling Ackerson "[[PrecisionFStrike Go fuck yourself!]]"yourself.]]"
