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One day... I am gonna grow wings... A chemical reaction... Hysterical and useless... hystecial and let down and hanging around... crushed like a bug in the ground.
Q: Is Masterchief the last Spartan?
A: No There are 4 Spartan II's and 10 Spartan III's known to be alive. If you were thinking that at Reach every single Spartan II died, sorry you were wrong.
Q: What is Reach?
A: Reach is a human colony which is used as a Naval shipyard aswell as the center of many other imporatant battlefield assets such as intellignce and communications. Reach is also were the Spartan II's (Masterchiefs generation of Spartans)were trained and grew up.
Q: Who are the Spartans in the Banner?
A: Nobody knows but our best bet is that they are from (Left to Right) Sam: Johns (Masterchiefs)closest friend. He was killed in the Spartans first engagement with he covenant. Kelly: Also one of Johns closest friends. She is slightly shorter than John and is the fastest out of all of the Spartans speed wise.
John: The Masterchief (Self Explanatory)
Fred: A veteran of the combat knife and close combat. He is the secound highest ranking Spartan at the time of Reach being attacked.
Linda: The Spartans best sniper and marksman. She was badly wounded in the battle of Reach.
Out of these 5, only Sam (The one on the left) is confirmed dead.
Q: How did the Masterchief make it off Reach?
A.At the begining of the battle of Reach the Spartans were split into 2 groups. There was the Splinter group Alpha, Led by Masterchief which contained Linda and another Spartan james, this group was sent out to destroy the coordinates of earth which were contained on an orbital installation. The reason for this was that The Covenant did not know about earth so the info had to be destroyed. The secound group was the remainng 2 dozen or more Spartans who were sent onto the ground to fight for the generators that powered the Orbital MAC cannons a giant gun firing a nuclear slug (Halo 2 Begining). This group was led by Fred and contained Kelly aswell as many other notable Spartans. Out of the splinter group only James persihed while grounside, Red Team (Freds Team) took heavy casualties with less than 10 of the Spartans surviving the engagement.
Q.What happened to Reach:
A.Reach was turned into a unihabitable desert becasue the Covennant used a weapon called a glassing beam to burn the planet. To see the beams in use go to the end of floodgate, its in the cutscene. As for the people on Reach preety much all of them died, making it one of the bloodiest if not the bloodiest battle in Human history.
There was one area on reach however that was not glassed as the Covenenant wanted to protect a crystal hidden deep below the planet. If you want to find out more about the end of reach I sugest you read First Strike aswell as the Fall of Reach, as First Strike goes into more detail.
Q:Why cant the BR be in Reach
A:It can, dont listen to them, back when the war was just starting the BR was in prototype and was being used by Sergeant Johnson and his team. The Battle Rifle was also in a bunker under Reach in the novel First Strike.
Q: What is Reach Like
A: Reach is almost like a secound Earth for the UNSC. The enviroment is similiar to that of earth aswell as this, it is quite litreally on Earths doorstep and if it falls, Earth is left unguarded.
Q: When did this happen
A: Reach was attacked in Late august and it spanned for a few days. There were a few mini enagagements on Reach after this, such as the rescue of the Surviving spartans after the first Halo.
Q: Who is Sierra 259
A: Anything...Spartans, Pelican Dropships, Marines.
You see Siera does not mean just "Spartan" in a world called real life, sierra is simply a designation for anything, even the Police use it.
Thanks for reading. I created this thread to educate people so that they do not make non sensical comments to the other half of the communtiy who have not read the novels. Feel free to discuss anything mentioned in this post in the thread.
If you want to learn more about the battle of Reach please go here.
Please note that this goes by what is still considred canon and Bungie may change these "Facts".
I belive that that is in sour tastes espically towards fans if Bungie decided to screw with what was et over 8 years ago.
And if you think 8 years ago we were doing this tango, you are wrong.
8 Years ago the forums were at peace.
[Edited on 11.04.2009 9:56 PM PST]