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WoW is like Girls Gone Wild without the tits: idiots and douches taking turns doing anything to get noticed, and no one knows what a condom looks like.
Posted by: Dream053
Posted by: Archon Kixx
wasnt yasmin something to with ilovebees, bungie has been over this hundreds of times, ilovebees is not cannon!!!!
Actually, I Love Bees may or may not be canon. Both Joe Staten and Frank O'Connor stated that in 2006, they were working toward figuring out whether it was or wasn't (actually, Frankie stated that they were already "embracing it as canon", but Staten contradicted him a month later saying they weren't done figuring it out), so the answer is currently unknown.
If ILB turns out to be canon, Yasmine will confirm the existence of a second wave of Spartan-IIs. However, there are mounds of evidence to suggest otherwise: that the two teaser characters, if they are Spartans, are from the first class of the Spartan-II program.
A brief summary of that link:
The common misconception about no Spartan numbers above '150' would be easily explained by an originally larger selection pool of subjects, say 350 or even 400. In the novels, all we are ever told about the Spartan candidacy is that they found '150' subjects through genetic screening that they wanted to indoctrinate, but found they could only utilize half that number, which is when they started inspecting them personally. What means of criteria they used before the genetic screening process is unknown, but it would make sense that they would have a smaller, controlled number of subjects from which to do proceed with their genetic screening rather than just scanning the entirety of humanity en masse.
This is further reinforced by a hugely prevalent plot device in Dr. Halsey's character. She begins to feel increasingly guilty about her involvement with the Spartan project as early as 2525. This exponentiates throughout the novels until she kidnaps Kelly at the end of First Strike and eventually travels to Onyx in an attempt to "save" the Spartan-IIIs from their militaristic fates.
For Halsey to restart her Spartan-II program even after she began to relent her involvement would make absolutely no sense whatsoever, so the only real evidence toward the Spartan-II Class-II theory is the I Love Bees involvement and the number (which again, can be explained)... so until the canon of ILB is settled, this really isn't something that can be answered.
Yes. This is all wild and rampant speculation. Bungie is probably laughing at how off we are. Oh well, I look forward to the game, regardless. Can't wait for the "wort, wort, wort"