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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

That's been a theme since the beginning though. It was never addressed in the games until Halo 4, but it's spelled out pretty clearly in The Fall of Reach (the first piece of Halo media) that the UNSC is far from good. There's the whole kidnapping children to turn them into supersoldiers thing. And of course the Spartans were originally created to squash insurrections, which were seemingly commonplace across human colonies.

Honestly I think the games should have leaned into it more. Would have been cool to fight some humans as well.

It was in there, but it was far from the focus of the Bungie games/books, because there was a far bigger threat. It was also a bit more nuanced in Fall of Reach, like Halsey did some fucked up shit, but without her and her Spartan 2s humanity would have been completely exterminated. You can make an argument that making the Spartans was a necessary sacrifice.

Once 343 took over after Reach, the nuance disappeared and Halsey is just evil and the UNSC is worse than the Covenant, it was no longer morally gray.