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Subject: *SPOILER* What happened to the spartans...
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Can ne1 clarify something 4 me. At the end of First strike there are 3 other spartans with MC. Now in the trailer and demo they never show ne thing about them. I think they stayed on the ship and went to different locations. I could be wrong tho.

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  • 04.24.2004 3:00 PM PDT
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On some of the orgional cover art for the UK OXBM, there is a artist's drawing of MC and e other spartans holding various weapons.... unfortunately the piccy isn't in the gallery. If you want i'll scan it in for you.

Basically what i'm trying to say is that they'll be in there somewhere lol

  • 04.24.2004 3:02 PM PDT
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or they died, or theyre someplace else, like in a ship

  • 04.24.2004 3:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: LeetSpartan
or they died, or theyre someplace else, like in a ship


Nah, you'll be fighting along side them, or so OXBM was told by bungie.

  • 04.24.2004 3:05 PM PDT
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Hopefully. Im praying. well there can be eight because in Fall of Reach some1 says ther a # of spartans save 3. Then Halsey takes Kelly. So there can be eight. 4 multiplayer that is.

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  • 04.24.2004 3:05 PM PDT
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No, there arent 8 remaining Spartans, there's only 5. I'm alnost positive well meet up (or start off) with them in H2.

  • 04.24.2004 3:07 PM PDT
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they didnt say anything because that would ruin the story line. but we already know.

  • 04.25.2004 12:33 PM PDT
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In the original OXM Halo 2 Edition Magaizine, on the cover it is a picture of the Master Cheif and some ODSTs behind him. Many people thought they were Spartans because of the way their armour looked, but they they are actually ODSTs.

  • 04.25.2004 12:37 PM PDT
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Well I'll throw in my little postulation about all of this

1) all the Spartans are alive that were at the end of FS by the time Halo2 rolls around. Fred, John, Kelly and Linda are all together (was Will alive at the end of FS? I can't remember) Plus, in TFoR Mendez said that 3 Spartans were too far away to recall. Now, if that little tidbit was unimportant then Nylund wouldn't have taken the time to write it, but he did so it must be significant. Now lets do some quick math. . . add the total number of Spartans, subtract twenty, raise that to the fifth power, multiply by quantity cosine45 times sine30. . . and we get 7 spartans (everything after adding was a joke if you didn't notice). And what is 7 class? Bungie's magic number of course! Now we have 7 Spartans who participate in Halo2
Next big point, remember in FS when the Spartans went into the tunnels around that forerunner gravity crystal, some of them had their parts replaced by newer ones and each received some upgrade in one area or another (doubled shielding, better motion tracker, etc). Now this part of the book was just screaming spoiler at me. Anyway, if you haven't guessed already, I'm betting that in Halo2, we get to choose 1 of the 7 Spartans (or be forced to choose between a few that aren't indisposed for the next mission or whatever) and benefit from their little upgrades depending on our choice. I believe this would make things a bit interesting and make you think about what kind of Spartan would best suit your playstyle.

Time. . . will tell.

  • 04.25.2004 12:53 PM PDT
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The surviving Spartans were Will-043, Linda-059, John-117, and Fred-104. Kelly-087 went missing in action with Dr. Halsey.

  • 04.25.2004 1:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: Scipio
all the Spartans are alive that were at the end of FS by the time Halo2 rolls around. Fred, John, Kelly and Linda are all together (was Will alive at the end of FS? I can't remember) Plus, in TFoR Mendez said that 3 Spartans were too far away to recall. ...........................Now we have 7 Spartans who participate in Halo2
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You're right, this is a fact that everyone miss, the 3 spartans that weren't at Reach when the covenants attacked.

  • 04.25.2004 3:29 PM PDT
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Maybe that would be the explanation of xboxlive

  • 04.25.2004 3:30 PM PDT

My thumbsticks will be your Doom.... sorry 'bout that.
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Wait a second... if John, Fred and Linda are together, with Will (who's still alive) plus Kelly, who's chillin' with Dr.Halsey. Then that's 5 Spartans not including the long lost three which would add up to make a total of 8 surviving Spartans. A nice number for some multiplayer action if you ask me.

Anyways, I like the idea of getting to choose what Spartan you get to play. What would even be cooler if there were branching paths in the game (i.e. depending on if you chose Kelly or John on level 2 you get to chose from Fred and Will or Linda and somebody else on level 3 etc... This would lend lots of replayability especially if different starting points are encorporated). I don't know why I didn't consider the new Spartan abilities as potential Halo 2 goodies but it does make perfect and obvious sense.

  • 04.25.2004 7:01 PM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

Those "3 other Spartans" made it back to Reach before the Covenant got there. The weren't there at the time Halsey was talking about the mission, but they were most likely on there way to make it there for the mission (since the mission started the same day that the Covenant attacked). After all, it was a mission for the Spartans, not part of them.

If you do the math, the number of Spartans alive after Sam died (possibly minus one... I'm not sure if another died after that, but no more than 1, if so) is equal to the number of Spartans present on the Pillar of Autumn before they split up during the attack on Reach.

  • 04.25.2004 7:12 PM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

And where did the idea of taking sines and cosines of some numbers to get 7 come from? ... No offense, but it doesn't make that much sense to me. It would if all the numbers involved 7, not just the answer (like the Echo 419 equation).

  • 04.25.2004 7:15 PM PDT
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i personaly am agianst alot of new stuff ppl want in halo 2 like this and bots in multi i just think it would make it feal like it wasnt halo and kinda take away from the games atmosphere

  • 04.25.2004 7:57 PM PDT
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I think the idea of picking s spartan to be is a nice idea, but wouldn't it be wonderful if you were still Chiefy all the time, but you got to either have all the spartans with you, or at least choose one or two of them to tag along, like have kelly sniping junk while you andfred go in mauling and fragging? i think that would be great. Oh and if they get killed they can't be respawned, then it would be a little side challenge to get all your spartans through the game alive. oh and they could have a part where your most often used, or most... ooh like friend meters - sounds -blam!- but coud be interesting, spartans are like family you know - ... befriended opts to go on a suicide mission and you lose them, gets a little plot twist and some pissed players ready to maul some covies. all sorts of greatness could come from this

  • 04.25.2004 8:14 PM PDT
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i agree with InSpeculation, mainly cause i think the mc is to cool to not play as him and the spartans as backup would be awsome.... i also thing they should do a co-op mode where theres either a 2 or 4 player limit and possibly make other ppl play as the other spartans(on the 4 player ver)just cause it'd be cool to coop 4 players and it'd be cool for story

  • 04.25.2004 8:29 PM PDT
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Sam Was always my Favorite Spartan ... but he had to die :( ..... It'd be cool to be John and have his friends fighting beside him .

  • 04.26.2004 1:27 PM PDT