I dont know if most of you realize that ODST was pretty much a game to bring us into a tighter comunity as well give us perspective of the difrents between the elite forces of the USNC (ODSTs) and the geneticly enhance/bread/selected/super armored with more enhanceing proportys on the armor with enhanced shielding taken from a jackles sheild and upgraded tech on the sheilding to creat a feild around the user soildures (spartans). for this reason i comand a ton of respect for the ODSTs. they are amazeing. also the on Halo: reach its painfuly obvious that you going to be spartans. after all reach was our military colony planet and basicly where the spartans HQ was. though i would love to see more ODSTs, Marines and Spartans working together in this game. i doubt that ODSTs and Marines will be playable though asumeing they dont have the kind of tech that the ODST's had on N.M. so basicly in that time peroid im sure the Spartans were the best of the best even when it came to newer tech unlike when 99% of the spartans were either dead or missing like in the ODST timeline of the story. so asumeing that one of the reasons they "knocked off the dust on our electronics and set us up real nice with weapons" in the game. the lack of the spartans and all youd have to spead whats left over to give our races as a whole a beter chance. i know i would