- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
at the end of the book "First Strike" Dr. Halsey hands the Forerunner artifact that she located on REACH while under the mountain to a marine... I can't remember his name, but neways, she takes Kelly, a spartan female, and steals a fighter from the conjoined ships "Ascendant Justice" and "Gettysburg", and using a Slipspace generator, jumps away from the battle that is about to ensue.Now we know there is at least one other surviving SPARTAN besides 117. In the last chapter of the book, they had set course for earth to warn the UNSC of an invasion that they stalled at the covie invasion rendevous point, "Unyielding Hierophant", at that point Master chief had 3 other SPARTANS on board the "Gettysburg". That brings our grand total of surviving SPARTANS to: 5.