[Naked Crook]

In Del Rio's defense...I can sorta see his point. MC basically had a dream. How is Del Rio supposed to justify a course of action based on a dream? As the players, we know what we saw...but Del Rio has no way of verifying if what MC saw was real, or it was a hallucination induced by any number of factors. There was no scientific way to prove what MC said. Del Rio did not accept that testimony. In hind sight, Del Rio was wrong...but...in Del Rio's mind, and I am sure in the minds of everyone there, Del Rio had a better chance at being right. I still refuse to accept that this one mistake is what got Del Rio fired. There was no evidence suggesting that MC had that dram/hallucination. In fact, I am sure there was a mountain of medical evidence to suggest that MC more than likely hallucinated the entire thing, which would have strengthen Del Rio's hand in a tribunal setting. I am sure there was no shortage of brain damage, blood loss, and stress induced physiological changes which would have been more than enough to induce the things MC saw. This is a Spartan that mourns for a computer program being lost in action. There is defiantly some questionable mental activity going on. And yes, while MC played a vital role in the Human-Covenant war...he technically didn't end the war. It was the Arbiter who finished Truth off, it was the Arbiter who sparked the civil war which divide the Covenant, and it was The Arbiter, Miranda, and Johnson who stopped Delta Halo. MC was just a soldier in the grand scheme, if you think about it. His role was not the be all and end all of the conflict. MC's understanding of the Forerunners was also considerably limited. It can be argued that ONI and the UNSC knew just as much, if not more, than Cortana and MC did about how advanced The Forerunners were.