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Poll: What do you think the names "Sierra 259 & 320" imply? [closed]
| SPARTAN-IIs, as-of-yet unnamed from MC's class.:
24%
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(8 Votes)
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| SPARTAN-II, Class 2 Spartans:
39%
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(13 Votes)
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| SPARTAN-IIIs:
21%
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(7 Votes)
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| Sierra =/= SPARTAN codeword (S could be anything):
15%
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(5 Votes)
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Total Votes: 33
I'm just curious as to what the majority of the people here think regarding the two supposedly Spartans that are heard in the trailer. It's possible that they aren't Spartans and Bunige is just teasing us. But I'd be willing to put money on Sierra referencing S for SPARTAN, not some other identification.
Personally, I like to think that Spartans 320 and 259 are perhaps survivors from Beta team (made up of about 15 Spartans) on Reach, the team assigned by Fred-104 to guard the power generators for the orbital MAC guns (from Eric Nylund's First Strike). Beta team was assumed dead, but some Spartans seem to have a habit of surviving against all odds, so it may be possible that some survived that op. Maybe we play as at least one of them in the game. Who knows? It's more of a pipe-dream of mine, you could call it, than anything else
I know the numbers don't really match up to the 150 candidates for the first SPARTAN-II class (one would assume that the numbers only go up to 150), but perhaps the numbers are less important than that anyway. Maybe the numbers were assigned to children up for consideration before the 150 candidates were selected. A long shot, yeah, but possible.
I would have more faith in the concept of a "Class 2" of SPARTAN-IIs were it not for a passage in Nylund's Ghosts of Onyx on pages 62 and 63 (see THIS thread for my thoughts on that passage). I take this passage and the lack of further reference to a second class in other Halo novels as evidence (but not proof) of there not being a second class. Nicole-458 is not canon, and as for Yasmine Zaman and those of her Class from I Love Bees, I don't really know if that is canon. If the ILB ARG snippets are canon, then I guess that's proof of a second class.
And it doesn't seem all that possible for SPARTAN-IIIs to be present on Reach during its fall if you look at the timeline of Ghosts of Onyx, but I'm currently rereading that book to verify this.
Please take part in the poll, if you will.