- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: K Funk
Posted by: jestr boy 123
that does make sense and in the book the fall of reach wen masterchief and the other spartan 2's grduate CPO mendez says he has to go train the second wave of spartans and i doubt he is talking about the spartan 3's because that was a secret project
Well it's exactly what he did; train the S-III's.
Mendez left reach on November 2, 2525. He began training the S-III's on December 27th, 2531.
There was no second group of spartan II's ever trained...
Ghosts of Onyx: p. 62
Ackerson stared at him a moment, then seemed to look through Kurt, past him. "I want you to train the next generation of Spartans."
Kurt blinked, taking in what Ackerson had just said, not quite understanding. "Sir, i was under the impression that chief petty officer Mendez had been reassigned years ago to carry out that mission."
"The effort to tain additional Spartan-II's was postponed indefinitely by Dr. Catherine Halsey," Ackerson said.
This doesn't mean that a second class never existed. It wasn't cancelled only postponed, also one line of dialogue fixes that "She said that as a cover" or "somebody else took over the project" or "five minutes after she said that, it started up again".
If it's not a second class of Spartan 2s then Bungie is either breaking canon of the novel(entirely possible) or these Spartans mentioned are Spartan 3s.
Were the Spartan 3s even present on Reach(don't think so but not sure)?