The ponies do need to realize that Planet Reach ISN'T the only human-colonized planet that got glassed, right?

The covenant destroyed a whole lot of human planets over the almost 30 year-old Human-Covenant War. And the ponies do need to fully learn the Covenant's cruelty. So, they will finally realized and getting into their naive pacifist heads; That "talking peacefully" ISN'T a reliable option in here.

( That is until the Great Schism happens, and we do see "friendly" Covenant full of guilt. But that's for much later. )

The Captain does needs to "update" them on that.

P.S. Do the ponies also need to know about the Insurrection civil war, and the human's long history? I know that's sounds irrelevant, but I just want the ponies to be more educated on the Halo lore. And what Humanity is all about.

Because I don't want them to go into a galactic war with little to no info on what, who, and why this is going on? Knowledge/Learning is half the battle. Get it?

And also need to learned on how to use the UNSC and Covenant weapons/guns safety and properly, and know the various named species of the Covenant, and their roles/rank/hierarchy.

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Yes, I know that. I have plans for that. But one meeting with the captain isn't going to fully fill them in on the whole war. As Reach was only a few days ago, so it was relevant at the time, and still fresh in the minds of humans. If I were to info dump in that one chapter, it would be 50,000 words long in just that one chapter. So I will be spacing out all the info they will learn through various interactions with th humans. As this was their first experience with a war to to this scale, they will need to learn human combat weapons. It will be a whole journey for them as they get more acquainted with Humanity

Idk if the insurrection will be all that important yet.

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Touche.

P.S. I edited to include the ponies to learn how to use the Covenant's own plasma weapons too.

Idk if the insurrection will be all that important yet.

Twilight might learned that eventually, because it is a part of human history from that holo tablet. It isn't UNSC/ONI top secret like the "truth" of the creation of the Spartan II's, and the Spartan III's kinda specifically being "expendable" to ONI's eyes.

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So Chief will appear in the sequel story. In Halo 3. Can’t wait to see humanity, pony kind, and the Elites unite to defeat Truth and the Covenant for good!

Can’t wait for the action to continue. Twi’s first Elite kill with its own Energy Sword.

Celestia, Luna. This is ehy sheltering your ponies was a bad thing.

The sword was surrounded by her magical aura as she pulled it out of the ground.

When the choice of life or death is given, there may not be time to fully answer without action ...

"I'd rather be a monster and live, then an animal that dies ... "

Okay I'm going to be square with you. First off, your descriptive writing in regards to details such as the fights are good, dare I say impressive (at least, better than I could do), so well done there. Your dialogue between characters on the other hand needs some solid work. Not to say they are terrible, but it needs some polishing. I can read them talking but I don't feel engaged in their conversation. The dialogue feels mechanical rather than organic; mostly reactionary rather than naturally flowing, mostly due to the characters needing to properly process the situation.

Oddly enough, the humans and Covenant talk naturally but the Equestrians need this character in their conversation.

Not saying this to put you down, I just think it needs a better flow of dialogue. I like what you've setup here, I just see how much more it could be when improved.

Okay, so im just gonna point out, Twilight having the strategy doesnt seem right, because Celestia and Luna would have had LOTS OF war experience. HOWEVER her brother is in the gaurd, so i could see her also studying things.