- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The Fall of Reach happened about 1-2 years previous the events of Halo 3, so it is a possibility that JOHN-117 is present... maybe even playable. However, the planet he crashed on at the end of Halo 3 is nowhere near reach, and is in fact nowhere near the Milky Way Galaxy... it is relatively close to The Ark's remnants (we believe... another theory is that he was automatically teleported via automated Forerunner slips pace jump to a safe zone. This safe zone would be considerably farther away from our galaxy than the Ark is)
The planet is not glasses, it appears to be some sort of 'mechanical' world. If you recall, the planet Onyx (where the remnants of the SPARTAN-II's and SPARTAN-III's were last reported) was a 'mechanical' world as well... entirely constructed of Onyx Sentinels. It is possible the planet MC landed on is similar.