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All Right I did some reasearch on some Other sites and I found Out some of the spartains So...
Out of 150 original candidates out of which there was funding for only half

75 total pre-augmentation (stated several times; also mistakenly mentions "seventy-four"; as well, there other reports of 67, etc.)

30 died during surgery ("Thirty candidates had 'washed out' of the Spartan program; they died during the augmentation process."

No names known
12 crippled in surgery ("There were a dozen others, though, who had lived... but were no longer soldiers."; "The other dozen, suffering from side effects of the process, had been permanently reassigned within the Office of Naval Intelligence.")

Kirk
Fhajad-084
Rene
9 others left unnamed
33 left in the squad ("There were only thirty-two soldiers left in his squad [besides John?]" ; "John glanced around the launch chamber; Sam, Kelly, and thirty others still stood at attention in their black dress uniforms [1+2+30=33]" 7; "The other Spartans stood at attention. Thirty-three - too many for this operation."

3 away on missions too distant to be easily recalled (This Is gray team from New book.)

3 Spartans MIA (KIA) over the past decade, 2542-2552; not including Samuel ("...there have only been three KIAs..."

1 more Spartan (Samuel-034) MIA (KIA) during Covenant ship infiltration in 2525

1 Spartan seriously wounded, could not continue active duty ("...and one Spartan too wounded to continue active duty." [possibly Cassanndra?]

This leaves 25 present at Reach before splitting into Red and Blue teams (with 3 more away making 28 active Spartans in total) which adds up and is confirmed during Halsey's briefing ("Clustered around him were two dozen Spartans: Fred, Linda, Joshua, James, and many others he had not spoken to for years...[2 dozen + John = 25]"

However, it is stated that there are 30 Spartans at Reach at the beginning of H1/First Strike ("The primary storage bay had been converted into barracks for the thirty Spartans" ; "Twenty-seven Spartans braced themselves... [plus the 3 in orbit = 30]" ). This is inconsistent with the number of 25 at Reach established earlier/above.

Regardless, from here they split into 2 teams:


Blue Team has 3 members:
John-117
Linda-058 is 'killed' but eventually revived
James is blasted of into space Frank Poole style, marked MIA

Red Team supposedly has 27 members (number mentioned several times; it "should" have 22):
4 KIA during the Reach freefall
Malcolm-059
3 others unnamed

Alpha Team: 3 members
Red 1: Frederic-104
Red 2: Kelly-087 (later abducted by Halsey; alive, but MIA)
Red 3: Joshua-029 (goes missing in LZ Assault; MIA, assumed KIA)

Beta Team: whoever is left from Red 4-11 and Red 13-20; either 11 or 6 Spartans depending on the accepted initial count
No members named
All MIA/KIA during generator defense purple]

Gamma Team 3 members
Red 21: Anton-044, killed by a ship plasma bolt, MIA/KIA (
Red 22: Grace-093, who is later killed by Brutes aboard the Unyielding Hierophant, KIA (
Red 23: Li-008, killed by a ship plasma bolt, MIA/KIA (

Delta Team 6 members
Red 12: William-043
Red ?: Isaac-039, assumed dead retreating into Forerunner caves on Reach, MIA/KIA (
Red ?: Vinh-030, assumed dead retreating into Forerunner caves on Reach, MIA/KIA (
3 others unnamed, MIA/KIA

So Spartain 259 is not listed

[Edited on 06.01.2009 7:17 PM PDT]

  • 06.01.2009 7:16 PM PDT

so u are inferring this could be halo 4 the Spartans are united again?

  • 06.01.2009 7:19 PM PDT

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No, Im saying that if the game is based on the book the fall of reach that they would come up a new spartain cause in all the books and games their is not a Spartain "sierra" 259 Like in the trailer

  • 06.01.2009 7:24 PM PDT

Brains beats brawn get used to it

Fear the Red Comet

Variety is the spice of life.
Long live games.
Death to all fanboys.

Just to add in. The 3 missing Spartans other than the three from Gray team is the original red team squad of Douglas, Alice, and (forgot the third one's name) from Halo Wars. They are currently lost in space along with the entire crew of the Spirit of Fire.

Edit: Also true, while there were 150 canidates initially. We don't know if there were any prior eliminations. The book didn't specify if the 150 potentials were actually chosen from a larger batch. It's possibly there was another larger pool beforehand. That pool narrowed to 150, but then had to be narrowed again due to lack of funding. The book already confirms that the 150 were trimmed in half because of funding, but leaves open the possibility that that 150 wasn't the entire list of the original potential Spartans. However, if someone finds exact wording to definitely disprove this possibility do mention it so as to eliminate this theory.

[Edited on 06.01.2009 7:34 PM PDT]

  • 06.01.2009 7:30 PM PDT
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People seem to think that this game is the fall of reach. The intro to the game say's you know how it ends.

There is also talk of the game is a prequal.

What if the game is a sequel. What is master chief went forward in time. And what if the numbers they call out in the trailer are spartans.

Sierra 117 master chief.

Sierra 320

Sierra 259

[Edited on 06.01.2009 7:36 PM PDT]

  • 06.01.2009 7:34 PM PDT

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alright that still leaves a couple more

  • 06.01.2009 7:34 PM PDT

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I dought it cause it does say at beging of trailer it does say you know how it ends so it would refur to the book the fall of reach

  • 06.01.2009 7:37 PM PDT

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where did you get 320?

  • 06.01.2009 7:39 PM PDT
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http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=33413089

Could be wrong?

  • 06.01.2009 7:43 PM PDT

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where did you get 320?


She's around the middle of the trailer. Russian accent, hard to understand.

  • 06.01.2009 7:47 PM PDT

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It says Bird is going down refurring when they got shot in the fall of reach book they jumped out and it crashed into the moutain hence it crashed they said o my god that might night refur to when they saw over 300 covent ships coming in to orbit

  • 06.01.2009 7:49 PM PDT