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"Sometimes life gives you lemons, and then you have to say 'f**k the lemons' and bail."
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From Halsey's Journal:Bodies of augmentation washouts are cryogenically preserved, pending further study. Perhaps one day we'll discover ways to ameliorate or reverse lethal side effects and revive some, if not all, of them. That is my hope.
Reviving these candidates would be fraught with complexities - and not just from a technological perspective. How would they respond to an essentially new world when resuscitated months or even years later?
[...] One thing is certain - ONI would find a use for them.
I've assigned Deja to investigate as-yet theoretical therapies that may resuscitate these washouts as fully functioning Spartans. (One protocol already looks promising: the complete bone restructuring and attendant nanografts to effectively replace the skeletal system system in toto; this may prove especially useful for Rene or Kirk.)
Planning is under way for experimental surgery, therapies, and rehabilitations for more than 80% of the augmentation washouts. Several of these protocols may take years to complete. AIs predict a survival rate of no greater than 50%, but I suspect the Spartans' will to serve - to live again - will radically boost that percentage.
They've always exceeded expectations.And then, we get this little note in the margins on the page detailing Halsey's briefing with the surviving Spartans for Operation: RED FLAG.
That lie about all the Spartans gathered here, save for Gray - will that come back to haunt me?That last quote is what did me in: was Halsey referring to Jorge and Black Team, or had ONI gone ahead with the experimental rehabilitation on the Spartan washouts?
On that note, is there a possibility that Black Team consisted of rehabilitated/resuscitated Spartans? Looking back at Linda in First Strike, we know for sure that reviving the recently deceased in the Halo Universe isn't out of the question. This begs the question, how advanced were the washouts' side effects, and did ONI go along with reviving them?
I'm pulling at strings here, and I wouldn't be surprised if this were never explored and meant nothing, but I thought it was worth discussing.
[Edited on 05.09.2011 1:47 PM PDT]