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Posted by: Drowsy Demon
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Drowsy Demon
No they all died.
No, there are roughly 350 Spartans still alive (Gamma Company, Black Team, Red Team, Blue Team, Grey Team etc).
Some lived and got stranded in the Onyx Shield World or something but that's only if you read the books and accept it as canon before 343 Industries/Bungie makes another game and goes "oh lol no that never happened" like they did with Reach.
Er... 343 have about 6 novels planned to be written by Greg Bear and Karen Traviss exploring the Halo universe before and after the war delving deep into the history of the Forerunners. There is no way they're going to be dumping the story of the books when they're intent on continuing the story through books.
No there might have been 350 Spartans alive at the start but all of them are dead except for the ones stranded on Onyx. I mean, seriously, in Halo 3 do we see 350 Spartans walking around? Hell no, they all got killed, or, as ONI likes to put it, became "Missing in Action." As soon as each Spartan was ready the UNSC sent them into the field. Also, I think the 350 number is what you get after you combine both the Spartan 2 and Spartan 3 programs headed under Doc. Halsey and Ackerson, respectively.
And while I'm fully aware that all those new shiny and nice Halo novels are coming out soon...well, 343 industries hinted they'd do a Halo 4 and that's probably going to screw up Karen Traviss's work completely, since she is focusing on post-Halo 3 stories.
There's a bunch of inconsistancies with the Reach game and the book, but I don't want to point out every little tidbit that was changed.
*Cough* Like how the Pillar of Autumn was in a completely different place in-game compared to the book *cough*
*Cough* Like how there were absolutely no MAC platforms at all defending Reach *cough*
just because you dont see the remaining spartains doesnt mean there all dead, just deployed somewhere else. Reach only breacks Nylunds canon where the two contradict. Most of Fall of Reach still applies