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Yeah there's a lot that 343 lore changed, especially since Bungie lived by rule of cool so 343 lore had to come up with justifications for certain things, like High Charity suddenly showing up at the Ark for no reason whatsoever.
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True. Granted, if Microsoft hadn't decided to make it another cash cow it would have ended at 3, and ODST would have been the equivalent of DLC.

But as always our corporate necromancer cannot let a corpse lie...