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Subject: My theory on the Rookie
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I think that the Rookie is actually James, and here is why.

His body was never recovered, and we don't even know if he died. We know he drifted off into space, and wasn't found before John boarded the Pillar of Autumn, and jumped to Halo. He could have been drifting, found by ONI, and reinstated as an ODST similar to Kirk in Ghosts of Onyx.

Earlier in the Fall of Reach, his arm was melted off by a Hunter's plasma cannon. His prosthetic could simply not be very strong, thus he can't dual wield.

Also, the Rookie's initials are J.D. Most think that means John Doe, or my friend Zekkalkan things he is a character from Scrubs. It could easily be James, but we don't know his last name.

To sum it all up, James could easily be the Rookie. I think this makes more sense that him being some random ODST, who just happens to be in this squad, or some other crazy theory.

  • 07.26.2009 5:38 AM PDT
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J D O S H

He's actually Jason something, I think..judging from a source of information I read ( Don't have it now)

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Explain why he's so small, why they gave him -blam!- armour and why they'd put him in a mission which an ODST could do?

Edit: It's a crazy theory that a soldier would happen to be in a squad?

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who is james coz i know a guy called james murray he goes to my school is it him?

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Posted by: Zombine
and reinstated as an ODST similar to Kirk in Ghosts of Onyx.


who the -blam!- is kirk? and if you mean kurt no he was never an odst he was still a spartan and he was send there to train SPARTAN IIIs and james could not have been recovered that fast because he would ran out of oxygen supply. And dont you think his skelatal structure would still have the affect of the augementaion and would atleast weak MARK VI or MARK V

  • 07.26.2009 5:54 AM PDT
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No, I meant that this specific no named soldier would be there.

And if I remember correctly, James wasn't as tall as the others. He was also disabled, so he wasn't as useful as a Spartan, but maybe as an ODST.

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oh yeah and spartan and odsts despise each other so i dont think james would join them and betray the spartans he knew since they were 6 op you fail so leave

  • 07.26.2009 5:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: Zombine
and reinstated as an ODST similar to Kirk in Ghosts of Onyx.


who the -blam!- is kirk? and if you mean kurt no he was never an odst he was still a spartan and he was send there to train SPARTAN IIIs and james could not have been recovered that fast because he would ran out of oxygen supply. And dont you think his skelatal structure would still have the affect of the augementaion and would atleast weak MARK VI or MARK V


Yeah, that's what I meant.

And he could have been recovered, because there were several ships there. And of coarse his skeletal structure would still have the affect of augmentation, but he wouldn't have to wear MJOLNIR armor. If you can remember, they didn't even wear powered armor until just before Sam died.

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oh yeah and spartan and odsts despise each other so i dont think james would join them and betray the spartans he knew since they were 6 op you fail so leave


1) Grammar.
2) They didn't despise each other, the Spartans merely knew they were better than ODSTs.
3) By you logic, I fail because of a simple theory. Is a theory really that threatening to you that you would want me to leave?

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and reinstated as an ODST similar to Kirk in Ghosts of Onyx.


who the -blam!- is kirk? and if you mean kurt no he was never an odst he was still a spartan and he was send there to train SPARTAN IIIs and james could not have been recovered that fast because he would ran out of oxygen supply. And dont you think his skelatal structure would still have the affect of the augementaion and would atleast weak MARK VI or MARK V


Yeah, that's what I meant.

And he could have been recovered, because there were several ships there. And of coarse his skeletal structure would still have the affect of augmentation, but he wouldn't have to wear MJOLNIR armor. If you can remember, they didn't even wear powered armor until just before Sam died.


yes but only one ship got away from reach and thats the autumn. and he would choose his MJOLNIR armour over dinky little odst armour and when they wore power armour was there first strike on the rebel base it was basically mark v without shields

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Humanity was in a bad, bad situation. If hey found James, they would have put him back on the field as a Spartan kicking ass.

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and reinstated as an ODST similar to Kirk in Ghosts of Onyx.


who the -blam!- is kirk? and if you mean kurt no he was never an odst he was still a spartan and he was send there to train SPARTAN IIIs and james could not have been recovered that fast because he would ran out of oxygen supply. And dont you think his skelatal structure would still have the affect of the augementaion and would atleast weak MARK VI or MARK V


Yeah, that's what I meant.

And he could have been recovered, because there were several ships there. And of coarse his skeletal structure would still have the affect of augmentation, but he wouldn't have to wear MJOLNIR armor. If you can remember, they didn't even wear powered armor until just before Sam died.

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oh yeah and spartan and odsts despise each other so i dont think james would join them and betray the spartans he knew since they were 6 op you fail so leave


1) Grammar.
2) They didn't despise each other, the Spartans merely knew they were better than ODSTs.
3) By you logic, I fail because of a simple theory. Is a theory really that threatening to you that you would want me to leave?


i know my grammar is terrible i have been up all night they did despise each other if read the books you would know that john got into several fights with odsts and killed one while fighting and by leave i was just kidding sorry if you took seriously

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and reinstated as an ODST similar to Kirk in Ghosts of Onyx.


who the -blam!- is kirk? and if you mean kurt no he was never an odst he was still a spartan and he was send there to train SPARTAN IIIs and james could not have been recovered that fast because he would ran out of oxygen supply. And dont you think his skelatal structure would still have the affect of the augementaion and would atleast weak MARK VI or MARK V


But what if ONI wanted a Spartan? ONI wasn't too fond of the Spartans, so they could have put him on the frontlines, and not brought him back as a Spartan. This would just be adding like adding fuel to a fire, and Dr. Halsey would have "won" in that regard.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

And he could have been recovered, because there were several ships there. And of coarse his skeletal structure would still have the affect of augmentation, but he wouldn't have to wear MJOLNIR armor. If you can remember, they didn't even wear powered armor until just before Sam died.


yes but only one ship got away from reach and thats the autumn. and he would choose his MJOLNIR armour over dinky little odst armour and when they wore power armour was there first strike on the rebel base it was basically mark v without shields


I just said that, moron.

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i know my grammar is terrible i have been up all night they did despise each other if read the books you would know that john got into several fights with odsts and killed one while fighting and by leave i was just kidding sorry if you took seriously


They attacked him first. He was only retaliating.

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Posted by: Zombine
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and reinstated as an ODST similar to Kirk in Ghosts of Onyx.


who the -blam!- is kirk? and if you mean kurt no he was never an odst he was still a spartan and he was send there to train SPARTAN IIIs and james could not have been recovered that fast because he would ran out of oxygen supply. And dont you think his skelatal structure would still have the affect of the augementaion and would atleast weak MARK VI or MARK V


But what if ONI wanted a Spartan? ONI wasn't too fond of the Spartans, so they could have put him on the frontlines, and not brought him back as a Spartan. This would just be adding like adding fuel to a fire, and Dr. Halsey would have "won" in that regard.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

And he could have been recovered, because there were several ships there. And of coarse his skeletal structure would still have the affect of augmentation, but he wouldn't have to wear MJOLNIR armor. If you can remember, they didn't even wear powered armor until just before Sam died.


yes but only one ship got away from reach and thats the autumn. and he would choose his MJOLNIR armour over dinky little odst armour and when they wore power armour was there first strike on the rebel base it was basically mark v without shields


I just said that, moron.


They attacked him first. He was only retaliating.


no you didnt just say that you added that into the quote and dont be a dick and they did despise eachother or well atleast odsts despised spartans

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good to be named james if its in a game in it? or john for master chief?

  • 07.26.2009 6:15 AM PDT
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The ODSTs might not have known about James being a Spartan.

And I did say that in my theory.

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Posted by: Zombine
The ODSTs might not have known about James being a Spartan.

And I did say that in my theory.


yeah when you posted that you said it look at all your posts none of have that exact thing about wait the first line was What if ONI wanted a spartan? none of that paragraph was on above posts so please dont try to lie. And no matter what james would be sporting MJLONIR he has less of a risk of dying in that meaning he would probably get with john eventually

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I meant I had just said that in the OP.

And James wouldn't HAVE to wear MJOLNIR, he wasn't in a critical condition. His arm had been melted off several years before, so he wouldn't even have been feeling any pain from that.

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Posted by: Zombine
I meant I had just said that in the OP.

And James wouldn't HAVE to wear MJOLNIR, he wasn't in a critical condition. His arm had been melted off several years before, so he wouldn't even have been feeling any pain from that.


but he would since he feels the most comfortable in it im just saying that james somehow coming back to earth conveniently exactly when the chief leaves makes no sense and dont you think he would try to seek out his old spartan friend?

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1) Sure, he might feel more comfortable in it, but humanity is in the middle of a war, so comfort will eventually be thrown out.
2) Tons of ODSTs were dropping into New Mombasa, so it wouldn't be a coincidence. No oen had a clue that the Chief would be leaving vie Slipspace.
3) No he wouldn't, because they Spartans were trained to follow orders no matter what. He wouldn't abandon his squad to go in search of John, or anyone for that matter.

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it could explain how he survived such a catastrophic crash without dieing but his arms and hands dont look prosphetic maybe he is james or just another name with the same letter who knows its just a theory hes a hero to me anyway know matter what he is or was im sure im not the only 1

  • 07.26.2009 7:10 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

So...The Rookie is James but Bungie say that the Rookie is a brand new character...

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You thought you lagged, it took jesus three days to respawn, and even then he commit suicide



wait wat (srry i havent read the books) which book and why did he attack odst's?

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Posted by: Zombine
1) Sure, he might feel more comfortable in it, but humanity is in the middle of a war, so comfort will eventually be thrown out.
2) Tons of ODSTs were dropping into New Mombasa, so it wouldn't be a coincidence. No oen had a clue that the Chief would be leaving vie Slipspace.
3) No he wouldn't, because they Spartans were trained to follow orders no matter what. He wouldn't abandon his squad to go in search of John, or anyone for that matter.


yeah but i highly doubt oni would wanna risk a spartan for a few odsts
and lord hood and that whole station knew that chief was jumping
and yes he would search for john why do you think the chief forced them to do a space scan for him?

please just get it through your head its not SPARTAN james nor any other spartan

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