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Subject: The Ghosts of Onyx back cover.
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On the back cover of the Ghosts of Onyx it's talking about the Spartan III's. From what the cover says "...Section Three devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. They're going to need hundreds of willing soldiers,though... and one more spartan to get the job done. So from this information... it would appear there would be plenty of Spartan III's to possibly be Spartan 259 and 320. That's the only explanation that I can see possibly fitting. Since there was no second class of Spartan II's really proven I don't see another way to figure this out. I don't think the time travel theory is relevant although I can understand how the planets at the end of Halo 3 and Reach might look alike with this game being announced. I do not believe MC will be in the game seeing as Keyes picked him up and jumped out-system immediately. Thoughts? BTW as some idiot pointed out, they think I didn't read the books just looked at the back cover and extrapolated it out. Wrong. I own all the books and have read all the books multiple times. Thanks

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  • 07.03.2009 8:28 PM PDT

Oh yeah It's Rayzed.

Spartan IIIs are a realistic entity for Reach. They state that Gamma Company got their orders right after the initial battle for Reach. But if thats true, the Spartan would have gone by Sierra G259. The Spartan III call sign is different from the Spartan IIs. They use the letter of their company first then number.

  • 07.03.2009 8:33 PM PDT
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They sound too old to be Spartan III's in my opinion.

  • 07.03.2009 8:33 PM PDT
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I noticed that. But I thought if they had given that away in the trailer... it would have been too easy for us all to guess then who or what Sierra 259 is.

  • 07.03.2009 8:36 PM PDT
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I read a timeline thread that showed it to be impossible for it to be S3's, plus I doubt that they would be introduced in this game, more likely in a game based on Ghosts of Onyx, if there is one.

  • 07.03.2009 8:40 PM PDT

Ugh...

First on a BWU.. yeah, I'm cool.

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I brought this up a long time ago, it was shot down by things like:

"Their callsigns would be Sierra G320 and G259 if they were Spartan - III's from gamma company"

"They didn't leave Onyx until weeks after the first battle of reach, it would be over by then."

"They would be too young"

etc etc.

Though Spartan-III's was my first theory for Halo:Reach, it is an unlikely one.

  • 07.03.2009 8:45 PM PDT
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And this is the second part of something I have in mind about the Halo Universe. In GoO Dr. Halsey is on the Beatrice and says something about her "wondering about what thread she was in now" speaking about slipspace and events that have occurred because they had to at exact moments. Meaning that the forerunner relics that are around bend space and time to make things happen. I'm not talking about time travel, I'm talking about temporal illusions. Two different things. A temporal illusion is a distortion in sensory perception caused when the time between the occurrence of two or more events is very short. In such cases a person may misperceive the order/timing of the events. This discussion happened between Cortana and Dr. Halsey about John and her having to be at Halo at that exact moment to [i[reclaim[/i] that item. Again John won't be in this I don't believe. But how do we know that the events in the books didn't get distorted by the artifacts... truly we don't. It goes by Military Calendar and Time Which people do not notice the difference. The only reason Halsey did is because her and Cortana charted it out on a timeline.

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  • 07.03.2009 8:50 PM PDT

i like halo i have played it since halo came out

it look like master cheif and his team

  • 07.03.2009 8:51 PM PDT
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Yes it does. But Sam is dead and to me that kind of kills that whole theory. Also the differences in armor because they all had the exact same armor in the books. It's easy to see why the CQB armor on the left is thought to be Sam and the Scout Kelly the Mark IV MC the knife wielder Fred and the Sniper as Linda. I doubt MC will be in this game as the main character.

  • 07.03.2009 8:53 PM PDT

Ugh...

First on a BWU.. yeah, I'm cool.

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Just to point something out, why does the Banner have to do with the main characters of the game? What if they are John, kelly, linda, fred and Sam? But they are just the cover models for the Game? Can that not be a possibility?

  • 07.03.2009 8:57 PM PDT

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Aren't SPARTAN-III's around 12-14 years old? Sierra 259 sounds a bit old for that.

  • 07.03.2009 9:00 PM PDT
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is that what you think they are pokey?

  • 07.03.2009 9:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: Arbiduck
Aren't SPARTAN-III's around 12-14 years old? Sierra 259 sounds a bit old for that.


yeah but they are forced through puberty early through their upgrades. So their voices would be deeper than a regular 12-14 year old.

  • 07.03.2009 9:01 PM PDT

Oh yeah It's Rayzed.

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Posted by: Arbiduck
Aren't SPARTAN-III's around 12-14 years old? Sierra 259 sounds a bit old for that.


yeah but they are forced through puberty early through their upgrades. So their voices would be deeper than a regular 12-14 year old.

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The Spartan III's probably didn't make it to Reach until after Mastercheif left. They probably arrived during the rest of the excavation of the mountain. Although unlikely that they would make it to the Planet and even more unlikely they would arrive in time to actually make a difference, they can be a 'maybe' in the game.

  • 07.03.2009 9:06 PM PDT