- MLG Cheehwawa
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No, S-IIIs have different numbering schemes. They would have been Sierra-G320 Sierra-G259 (G stands for Gamma Company). However, I do think we may see some S-IIIs in REACH.
If you remember right, in 2531, Kurt is kidnapped after ONI fakes damage done to his jetpack when he nears an FTL generator. He jettisons into space, away from Blue Team, and is later recovered by Circumference, an ONI vessel that is most likely used to transport S-IIIs, or simply to scout out areas for their future attacks.
After the Gammas graduate, it is quite apparent that Kurt disproves of putting the children through any type of pain via augmentations, he even went against Ackerson's orders for what to apply a few times. He is told that the Deltas' training is put on hold indefinitely, and then Onyx is attacked late October.
Reach falls in early September, around the time that the Gammas would have been graduating, or nearing their graduation. If Ackerson wanted to train the Deltas with his own specifications in mind, he may have scrubbed Kurt as the trainer.
Ackerson had knowledge of the Cote d'Azure crystal, which had coordinates to Reach. The Covenant would soon find the world, so Ackerson may have figured to take advantage of this horrible situation. Do you know how he acquired S-IIIs? He took child-refugees from glassed worlds, and their anger at their loss helped get them through their training.
Blue Team in 2552 was sent from the Pillar of Autumn to Gamma Station, to destroy a nav database on Circumference. That ship again? Maybe it was at Reach to pick up candidates for the S-III Deltas, or to transport the Gammas on their mission, possibly one like the Pillar of Autumn's (to capture a Prophet), since they were both leaving from Reach.
Why do I think James was kidnapped? His disappearance is very similar to Kurts' as James was a unique Spartan like Kurt (Kurt saw bad things coming, James never gave up.) and they were both set off into space by a malfunction with their jetpack near the Circumference.
James' jetpack was shot by a Needler round, but its possible that ONI planned on this as a cover for a remote malfunction, like the FTL generator was for Kurt's malfunction.
If the Gammas already graduated and were on Reach readying for their mission, when Gamma Station was overrun, they may have gotten stuck on the planet.
Either way, I think that something is going on since the two Spartans went MIA near the Circumference.