- Rebuker92
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On open radio channels, when calling out their call sign, a soldier always uses phonetics for letters, saying C I over the radio could be misinterpreted into a billion things. If the WANTED to say CI they would have said, "this is Charlie India three two zero" not "C I". If you listen the lady said Sierra.
Okay, according to the official storyline given by the Halo books written by Eric Nylund, There never was a Spartan II designation higher than 150. There were 150 candidates in the initial pool, and only funding for 75. There were 45 surviving Spartan II's after the augmentation: 12 were crippled (remember Fhajad?), 33 had no complications. Their numbers did not go above 150. Period. The End.
However, if Bungie wants to create a second wave of Spartan II's even though they go against everything we know about Halo, that's their thing. The only other reference I remember to a Spartan above designation 150 besides the Spartan III's, which have been discussed already, was the cameo appearance as a character in Dead or Alive 4 I believe. That's where Spartan 493 comes in. But regardless, that Spartan was trained and commissioned after the Covenant-Human conflict (circa 2525-2554). I really need Bungie to give some information about this...