User blog comment:Delta1996/The Halo timeline and the Red Vs Blue timeline/@comment-10990964-20131202112758

Since the Freelancer project was very similar to the SPARTAN project in halo i believe it was happening DURING the great war, and probably for the same purpose, except the Director kind of "tricked" the UNSC and was acctually doing it for his own reason, to bring back Allison Curch.