It's not canon (Off-Topic)

by EffortlessFury , Wednesday, February 02, 2022, 19:03 (803 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Is it current canon? No. However, they're establishing a second canon where things will be consistent within it, "The Silver Timeline." The question will be execution, but I think there's a lot of opportunity here. Halo's EU has established a solid handful of themes that have threaded through the entire canon, but Bungie barely integrated them in their games, and 343i tried to do so too quickly and so it became a muddied mess. This second timeline is an opportunity to tell the story using those themes from the beginning with a greater focus on them. That could also serve to make people more aware of them in the mainline canon, making them more obvious.

It's smart reasoning. Let's see if they can actually pull it off, though.