[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] KoO 101 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] OrderedComa I see no problems with the [i]Autumn[/i] landing at some point between those time. [/quote] Why would the Autumn land, though? There's no reason for it to except for maybe to escape the space battle to retrieve the data. But, really, landing would make the Autumn defenseless and it would have to exit atmosphere before jumping to slipspace which makes no sense to do. Why not just fly Pelicans in from space like they always do? It's not even a big thing because everything would have still played out the same way, but it just seems sloppy that Bungie would have rather been able to show TPoA taking off than respect TFoR's canon that TPoA was in space not that long ago and then enters atmosphere, equips the thrusters to break atmosphere just to retrieve some data and then exits atmosphere again. All that assuming that TPoA can even enter atmosphere. [/quote] Pelicans are far more vulnerable to hostile fire than, and Red Team had gotten shot down on their way to the planet. I think it would be rather obvious that Pelican transport wasn't going to really work. Either coming or going it would be shot down, heck even traveling in a lone Pelican on the planet wasn't that safe, look what happened to Noble on their way to Aszod. And the [i]Autumn[/i] wouldn't be defenseless on the ground, it would be much like sitting in a base, granted it wouldn't be entirely safe from larger Covenant ships like cruisers and such, but the UNSC was still strong enough in numbers and defenses to keep Covenant capitol ships away from Aszod until right around when Noble got there. The PoA would most definitely be completely safe from the likes of Banshees and Covenant dropships, it has point defense guns on it remember? As for whether it can enter an atmosphere, Halo: Combat Evolved says hi. ;P