- blarghonk2
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I beleive that this theory is probably correct, and I'd like to add a few more supporting points.
For the age thing there is a very good reason why the rookie may still be young: Cryogenics. Non-essential UNSC personel are put into cryo sleep during slipspace jumps, and your body dosen't age during this period, meaning that military personel often live a lot longer, especially if they spend a lot of time jumping between systems. The chief is actually over 60 in the events of halo 3, but he still has the body of a 30 year old because of all the time he has spent in cryo.
This next part is based on the ODST name change trailer. The superintendent is watching the rookies vehicle crash, and at 0:56 seconds he estimates the fatality rate at 99.99%
The superintendent then attempts to identify the vehicle, and runs the vehicles ID through the new mombassa police department database, and finds no match. He then runs it through the UNSC database, and then has his search terminated by ONI, and his data core is shut down. Obviously someone dosen't want the rookies identity being known.When his data core comes back online, and we next see the rookies pod at 1:34, the fatality estimate is at 00.52%. Obviously the rookie is something more than human, as he can easily survive crashes that would have killed a normal human with ease.
However, another possibility is that he is not a Spartan I but a Spartan III, which also fits all of the evidence.
[Edited on 07.09.2009 11:40 PM PDT]