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The was never a second batch of SII's, Ackerson's S-III's took over after Halsey's funds and staff were diverted years before.

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Again, it never states that the 150 candidates Halsey mentions after observing John that they are the "first" or "original" or "only" candidates for the class II ever. Simply at that point in time there was only 150 candidates left for that class.

Same way as, saying: After sorting my currency I have $50 in my pocket and only need $20 to buy dinner. Doesn't mean I only had $50 ever, and wouldn't be a stretch if I said it ($50) was from an "original" (pre-statement) $200 where I removed any bills larger than $10 to be left with $50 .

They needed a list of people to do genetic tests on, even if it was everyone the UNSC had genetic data on that they would've been the "first" pool. Even if it was how ever may billion/trillion, you need to have a large group to shrink down to a small one.

[Edited on 06.30.2009 4:29 PM PDT]

  • 06.30.2009 4:23 PM PDT

iF Your Not 1st Your Last!

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"S" means Spartan, if you didn't know....


S means Seirra
Seirra means Spartan

  • 06.30.2009 4:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: DeathPenalty16
"S" means Spartan, if you didn't know....


S means Seirra
Seirra means Spartan


Sort of like in the first mission of Halo 3, when they say Sierra 117 is on board.

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It is also possible that Sierra-259 is the designation for a Pelican based on the use of the NATO phonetic letter "Sierra" followed by three numbers, similar to E419.

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Sierra 259
S as in spartan
2 as in Spartan class 2
59 as in Malcolm


i hope you play as Malcolm

  • 08.09.2009 1:20 AM PDT
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there john and his team as a sparton 1!

  • 08.09.2009 5:52 AM PDT

Woop woop.

It's likely Spartan II class II, like Nicole 458.

  • 08.09.2009 6:23 AM PDT

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S-259 could be a drop ship, full of half trained spartens...

actualy the more i think about it the more ODST makes sense, i think the newly bred spartens will hav to hav helth packs and not be able to kick as much ass as the cheif and that ODST is reeli ther to get us used to the idea of not being a tank on legs...still better than being an ODST(d) trooper but not as epic as chief

  • 08.09.2009 6:38 AM PDT

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I think it means Spartan-II (Project 2) and he's 59. He is number 59 and he's apart of project 2.

Spartan-IIs' ftw.

  • 08.09.2009 7:29 AM PDT

You half to remeber though... theres a spartan-II with the number 006. Than the Masater Chief with 117. Even though there are only 75 spartan-IIs their numbers are really spread out for some reason. So most likely it is a spartan-II. Could be Adriana from the Cole Protocol book. I only say this though because the accents are similar to me.

  • 08.09.2009 7:37 AM PDT

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Sierra-259 is not Malcolm. Malcolm fell to his death before doing ANYTHING on Reach, and besides, his number is 059, not 259. If they had meant he was SPARTAN-II 059, they would have SAID "Spartan Two Oh Five Nine", not "Spartan Two Five Nine." The zero is not silent. =P

It cannot be a Spartan-III. Regardless of the fact that they were never deployed on Reach, they use a different numbering system than the Spartan-II. Their numbers are A, B, or G, followed by three numbers, eg. A174, B188 G. The first isn't an actual Spartan-II, they never said the numbers for Alpha Company, the other two are Lucy and Dante respectively.

I suppose S-259 could be a Class 2 SPARTAN-II, but they diverted the funding from that project to the SPARTAN-III project. I suppose the project could have found funding elsewhere, but in 2536 Alpha Company was deployed, a full 16 years before the Covenant invasion of Reach in 2552, according to Halopedia anyway. By the time of the invasion of Reach, actually, Alpha Company was slaughtered in Operation: Prometheus, Beta Company was activated, then slaughtered in Operation: Torpedo, and Gamma Company was in training, with the events of Ghosts of Onyx occurring not long after Reach, after the interrupted firing of Instillation 04.

TL;DR Version: Sierra-259 is not absolutely Malcolm, is absolutely not a Spartan-III, and is probably not a Spartan-II, Class 2. However, "probably not" is better than "absolutely not", so I'm going with Spartan-II, Class 2, and assuming they found new funding, at least until I get more information. =P

  • 08.09.2009 8:26 AM PDT

its NOT Malcolm, he died on impact at reach, read the books!

  • 08.09.2009 8:28 AM PDT

oops someone beat me to it

  • 08.09.2009 8:29 AM PDT

I don't think its Malcom. I heard that their may have been another group of spartans during that the SPARTAN II PROJECT. this video will give you more information http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC7zveMPWek

  • 09.08.2009 5:11 AM PDT

Posted by: Bazuka T
Spartan 2 - 059 is Malcolm


malcolm died on impact

  • 09.08.2009 5:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: Bazuka T
Spartan 2 - 059 is Malcolm



I don't know, maybe...
But why would he said "..259", why not "059"


.....And then I remember why I hate the kids on Bungie.net forums

Sierra 2 = Spartan 2 then add your 59

There you have Spartan 2 - 59 and with it Malcolm
This actually only response that makes seance so far he sais sierra259 ..... how do you not know that it was actually ment like sierra2 59 .... not sierra 259 >.> i mean c'mon people this guy is actually intellegent and you aren't even trying to figure his response out

  • 09.08.2009 5:59 AM PDT