Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.216.174.239-20150202232333/@comment-24198837-20150314210142

Alright, I went and read through the 2552 Halo timeline on the Halo Wiki and I saw what you mean.

I don't remember reading about the crystal bending time, but it seems it did.

According to that same page, even with the time anomoly, it's still around 20 days between H1 and H2. (Well, like 50 to Chief and co who had 3 extra weeks because of this time issue)

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See, when I read the orig. comment, it sounded to me like you were saying that Chief willingly, intentionally, and purposefully went back in time - something I know I certianly would've remembered if I had read.

The key here is that the time anomoly wasn't supposed to happen. It only occured because the crytsal (which we still don't even know what it was!!) was put into an unstable environment it was never supposed to be in the first place, and reacted in a way that even the Forerunners couldn't have predicted.

I like to think that the crystal didn't send them back in time, per say, it just screwed with the slipstream so much that they got shot out somewhere... different. It is canon that time functions different in the stream.

Man, slipspace is a bitch.

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On the topic of Bees, It seems that there is still debate going on as to it's canonical status. Frankie said it was cannon, but Joe said it wasn't, according to  it's Halopedia Article. The Halo wiki doesn't seem to discuss it's potential cannon.

Furthermore, again refrencing the above artice, some aspects of Bees "directly contradict more recent material od definate cannonical status".

It seems that the canonical status of Bees is more up to personal opinion; the site compares it to the Star Wars Expanded Universe.