- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: GOD Halo Fan
here's a list of spartans we know of...
http://halosm.bungie.org/story/characters.html
I'm not convinced that it is a Spartan though
This link reveals "William-043" and "Kelly-087" with no pertinent information, i.e. no special rankings, no MIA or KIA records. "Linda-058" is supposed to be revived following Halo. Second in Command Frederic is not listed as MIA or KIA. Lastly, 3 nameless Spartans are away on other missions at the time of the Fall of Reach. Although we are told that all the other Spartans are dead, it could of course be quite convenient to list an MIA as a KIA under certain circumstances. SENTRYWALK was supposed to patrol, scout and protect Reach prior to its Fall and then Lebanon ends up crashed on Frigid after an attack by Covenant forces with no transmissions back to command. If a Spartan were deployed on the Lebanon (see list above) command could have looked at all of the facts presented to them and declared that Spartan KIA. The idea of JD being a Spartan, therefore, is not out of the question although it may be much less likely than some other answer. If somebody can give specific info on the list of names above for me, I'd be much appreciative.
As for the "secret character" that's supposed to be top heavy, I'm reminded of the Flood spore carrier, the guy that would blow up and release the squidies. They could've retooled that thing to be more disgusting and freakish. Also, in the recent GameInformer expose` on Halo 2 they make mention of some Covenant force that might be a huge beast capable of flipping Warthogs. The odd mechanics they could be speaking of for "the secret character" could be a primarily quadripedal, top heavy beast like that. Just spitballing ideas, I'm not that serious about CENSORED character ideas from the Frankie updates. :-) I'm more interested in what weapons I can play with.
Anyways, the massive void is according to Mathers a method for absorbing shock. So, beneath the void would have to be something sensitive that required massive shock absorption. Also, this could be tied in with the quakes they felt earlier. We know that the Covenant like to mine for more artifacts, so perhaps their method of drilling involves huge impacts (quake causing) as opposed to jackhammering to break up materials and the Covenant also know there's something useful down there. But, if that is the case, then the shock absorbing void would be stymying the Covies so we might see it before they do.
Or, totally unrelated to that theory, Mathers could be wrong about what the void is for and it could be positively massive because it has to house something positively massive. I'm wondering if perhaps we might see a Forerunner ship.