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Subject: What perspective do you think we will be playing from? (Theory)

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"When the game is over, the king and pawn go into the same box." - Dr. Catherine Halsey

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I just caught a review of the Halo: Reach E3 video over at IGN.com and a few of the guys over there have an interesting theory that we'll be playing as the second generation of Spartan II's.

In case I've completely lost anyone here, in the Halo Novel, Halo: The Fall of Reach; Dr. Catherine Halsey mentions upon the graduation of the first "class" of Spartan II's that CPO Mendez will be leaving John (S-117) and the others to train the next group of Spartans.

I wouldn't be surprised if we end up playing as this "2nd" group of Spartan II's in Halo: Reach.

So my question for you guys is which group of Spartans or specific Spartan(s) would you like to play as?

-Hawk

  • 07.15.2009 5:45 AM PDT

playing as the second group would be intresting...

but the only think I care about is playing as a "new" Spartan, and maybe the Female Spartans will have a more appropriate armour for them (something more femenine, but you can clearly see a female spartan in the banner so..)

I think Halo reach will be better than we all think


[Edited on 07.15.2009 5:53 AM PDT]

  • 07.15.2009 5:53 AM PDT

you'll be playing as spartan II's, coz the spartan III's arn't on reach at the time when this game is set. youll probs be playing as linda, kelly and fred and so on from the book

  • 07.15.2009 6:08 AM PDT

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The new Spartans Mendez goes to train are the Spartan-IIIs. We won't see any Spartan-IIIs in the game since the only living company were on Onyx until about 3 weeks after Reach fell.

[Edited on 07.15.2009 11:24 AM PDT]

  • 07.15.2009 11:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
The new Spartans Mendez goes to train are the Spartan-IIIs. We won't see any Spartan-IIIs in the game since the only living company were on Onyx until about 3 weeks after Reach fell.
I doubt it. Halsey didn't know anything about the S-|||s until First Strike, and even then it was just a guess. I haven't read that book in a while though, so i could be wrong, and it is possible that he was training S-|||s then.

  • 07.15.2009 11:28 AM PDT

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But we learn in Ghosts of Onyx that Mendez was sent to Onyx to train the Spartan-IIIs after he left Reach...

  • 07.15.2009 11:33 AM PDT

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Im not a master of the story behind the halo trilogy, i havent even played the original, but from what i can gather reach is where all the spartans fell except for humanity's savior, 117. So in the campaign i would assume that we will once more take the place of John otherwise we would have to die before the end of the campaign...

  • 07.15.2009 11:41 AM PDT

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
But we learn in Ghosts of Onyx that Mendez was sent to Onyx to train the Spartan-IIIs after he left Reach...
I dont know the dates of all of this, but was there a gap between the S-IIs graduating and the S-IIIs training? there may be an unrecorded part about teh S-IIS wave 2.

Also, there is a very good chance of the games going against the books. There were no Brutes in FoR because they were not designed or planned for yet, and at the part where they are discussing their intell on the covenant, the only known species recorded were Grunts, Jackals, and Engineers. They thought there were Elites and Prophets, but they had never seen them. Brutes were not mentioned. Then, in Contact Harvest, Brutes invade Harvest. It goes against FoR entirely, but still happened. They may add a new wave of Spartans for gameplay, even though it's against the books.

  • 07.15.2009 11:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
But we learn in Ghosts of Onyx that Mendez was sent to Onyx to train the Spartan-IIIs after he left Reach...
I dont know the dates of all of this, but was there a gap between the S-IIs graduating and the S-IIIs training? there may be an unrecorded part about teh S-IIS wave 2.

Also, there is a very good chance of the games going against the books. There were no Brutes in FoR because they were not designed or planned for yet, and at the part where they are discussing their intell on the covenant, the only known species recorded were Grunts, Jackals, and Engineers. They thought there were Elites and Prophets, but they had never seen them. Brutes were not mentioned. Then, in Contact Harvest, Brutes invade Harvest. It goes against FoR entirely, but still happened. They may add a new wave of Spartans for gameplay, even though it's against the books.
The S-IIs graduated in 2525 and the S-IIIs began training in 2531, so it is possible that a second wave was trained in this time, though the novels state that Halsey postponed this class indefinitely.

The Brutes were actually mentioned in FoR, though not by name, as a second leadserhip caste which was capable of commanding troops and piloting ships like the Elites.

  • 07.15.2009 11:49 AM PDT

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Posted by: Viva la Vache
Im not a master of the story behind the halo trilogy, i havent even played the original, but from what i can gather reach is where all the spartans fell except for humanity's savior, 117. So in the campaign i would assume that we will once more take the place of John otherwise we would have to die before the end of the campaign...


or perhaps the spartan who was MIA instead of KIA

  • 07.15.2009 11:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: mubox47
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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Posted by: The EAKLE
Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
But we learn in Ghosts of Onyx that Mendez was sent to Onyx to train the Spartan-IIIs after he left Reach...
I dont know the dates of all of this, but was there a gap between the S-IIs graduating and the S-IIIs training? there may be an unrecorded part about teh S-IIS wave 2.

Also, there is a very good chance of the games going against the books. There were no Brutes in FoR because they were not designed or planned for yet, and at the part where they are discussing their intell on the covenant, the only known species recorded were Grunts, Jackals, and Engineers. They thought there were Elites and Prophets, but they had never seen them. Brutes were not mentioned. Then, in Contact Harvest, Brutes invade Harvest. It goes against FoR entirely, but still happened. They may add a new wave of Spartans for gameplay, even though it's against the books.
The S-IIs graduated in 2525 and the S-IIIs began training in 2531, so it is possible that a second wave was trained in this time, though the novels state that Halsey postponed this class indefinitely.

The Brutes were actually mentioned in FoR, though not by name, as a second leadserhip caste which was capable of commanding troops and piloting ships like the Elites.
But they didn't have any info on them, which is weird because the Brutes were the second species the UNSC made contact with. That is the only example i could coem up with, but im pretty sure there are other similar contradictions in the book. It is possible we play as one of the teams you mentioned in another thread, but the two Spartans in the trailer appear to not be from teh original 150 candidates. Like you said, the S-IIIs weren't at Reach, so those two appear to be from a new wave of S-IIs.

  • 07.15.2009 11:58 AM PDT