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Not that new. As for that, they do have several connections that are considered canonical. Grif and Sarge work as pelican drop mechanics during the Spartan Ops. As for the flip side, MC, the Infinity, & the ODSTs have been mentioned. Sarge is even one of the canon ODSTs in the novels about the early war. And to put a nail in the coffin, one of the ODST novels mentions the theft of the huragok they managed to save in H3: ODST. Aka, the key piece in making the fragments.

Your evidence about Chorus is good, but you forget their mentioning that it is alien, not forerunner, something that Simmons, Wash, Epsilon, Freckles, & Carolina would all have known to correct. Yet they call it alien, and note plasma rifles as the same alien tech. Chorus isn't forerunner, it's Sangheli.