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Subject: Halo CE With Linda.

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So I was playing Halo CEA last night and saw on the monitors of where John was kept in cryo there was also a second Spartan whos vital signs were flat lined. Without having to look at the name I knew it was Linda and it made me think. How would the events of Halo CE unfolded had Linda not been wounded so grievously aboard Gamma Station? Would she have gone with the Master Chief during his missions around Halo? Or would she have stayed with the ODST's and eventually die with them aboard the Truth and Reconciliation?

If she followed the Chief, would she have been transported around Halo alongside the Master Chief by 343GS? Having two Reclaimers to get the Index sounds better than one.

Discuss.

  • 08.25.2012 4:12 AM PDT

Posted by: ElementalRunner

Posted by: Commander Stroll
Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.

omg not realistic stop game production plz

I reckon she'd have been with Chief the whole time, Spartans tend to stick together. It would have made for an awesome twist on the original story, though Linda's sniper would have been useless against the Flood. O.O

  • 08.25.2012 4:57 AM PDT

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In game, she's referred to as "player two."

  • 08.25.2012 9:06 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
Having two Reclaimers to get the Index sounds better than one.


Indeed. What puzzles me is why 343 GS only teleported John to the Library when there was about a dozen Marines with him...

  • 08.25.2012 9:16 AM PDT


Posted by: Alpha00
In game, she's referred to as "player two."
lol I was going to say something like that.

  • 08.25.2012 9:43 AM PDT

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Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: HipiO7
Having two Reclaimers to get the Index sounds better than one.


Indeed. What puzzles me is why 343 GS only teleported John to the Library when there was about a dozen Marines with him...
He was the only one wearing a class-two combat skin.

  • 08.25.2012 11:05 AM PDT

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Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: HipiO7
Having two Reclaimers to get the Index sounds better than one.


Indeed. What puzzles me is why 343 GS only teleported John to the Library when there was about a dozen Marines with him...
He was the only one wearing a class-two combat skin.
Book wise the marines were overwhelmed by the flood.

  • 08.25.2012 11:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: Alpha00
In game, she's referred to as "player two."
lol I was going to say something like that.

I was thinking the same thing. Hehe.

She gets ejected into space anyways.

But lets say she did make it out of Cryo, You would never see her in-game, you would just see random dead enemies miles away and random sniping trails that kill Elite pilots in Banshees. Maybe you'd see her in cutscenes and hear her voice in, in-game chat.

[Edited on 08.25.2012 12:05 PM PDT]

  • 08.25.2012 12:04 PM PDT

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I would like to think that John would order Linda to go with Keyes and Johnson to the supposed "weapons cache". Who knows? Keyes could still be alive if Linda went with him.

  • 08.25.2012 1:39 PM PDT
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The carnage within the life pod would be so much more severe with 2 unsecured Spartans bouncing around, being knocked into the marines and the pilot.

But seriously, it'd be a lot more interesting. T&R would be much less punishing, Keyes would be less scarier, and I'd have a gunner on The Maw!

  • 08.25.2012 11:31 PM PDT

Posted by: ElementalRunner

Posted by: Commander Stroll
Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.

omg not realistic stop game production plz


Posted by: Sliding Ghost
...I'd have a gunner on The Maw!

Implying that Linda wouldn't be crouched on the back sniping everything casually - Banshees, Elites, Grunts, Flood...

Wait, technically, Linda could have saved Echo 419 by sniping the Banshees that were chasing Foehammer! :o

  • 08.26.2012 3:04 AM PDT

Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Posted by: Sliding Ghost
Keyes would be less scarier


Keyes is teh best level in any Halo, IMO. The fights between Flood and the Spec Ops Covenant was just amazing... especially on Legendary when grenades started going off in chain reaction in the extreme tight corridors.

  • 08.26.2012 6:01 AM PDT

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Posted by: CoolCJ24
I reckon she'd have been with Chief the whole time, Spartans tend to stick together. It would have made for an awesome twist on the original story, though Linda's sniper would have been useless against the Flood. O.O
This.

  • 08.26.2012 7:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: Alpha00
In game, she's referred to as "player two."

That would have been awesome if Bungie had had the foresight to name Player Two Linda and give her own voice and lines back in Combat Evolved as an alternate story. I'm not saying she would go off on her own, but certain scenes would change.

  • 08.26.2012 7:35 AM PDT

I'm seeing a lot of alternate possibilities if Linda had been around.

I think a non canon alternate story (in game format) would have been cool.

  • 08.26.2012 10:28 AM PDT

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I wonder the same kind of thing regarding Noble Team, OP, and a lot of it stems off of this:when there was about a dozen Marines with him..."Did they really need a Spartan to do that?

Did an armored super soldier that took billions of dollars to train, equip, and augment really have to stay behind to press a button to sabotage a Covenant corvette?

Were all of the marines dead? Why do all of the marines end up dying when fighting alongside Spartans? If they didn't die, couldn't they have looked around and asked, "Is there anyone here who doesn't have much to lose, isn't a cyborg death-dealing machine, and would like t die a hero?"

Same goes with Emile and Noble Six; couldn't one of the marines accompanying Captain Keyes have gotten out and manned the gun? It's not like they had to take on Covenant infantry or anything. Sure, maybe their armor wouldn't have withstood the plasma barrage by the waves of phantoms, but if we go by novel lore and not adjustments made for gameplay, a Spartan wouldn't have lasted very long either.

I wonder how different the Battle of Installation 04 would have been had the UNSC used their vital personnel for equally vital and suitable objectives.

Also, what if Kat had survived? Do you think she would have accompanied Carter, Emile, and Six to the Pillar of Autumn, or would she have gone with Jun to escort Halsey to CASTLE Base?

Personally, my money goes on Halsey. Tactically, another Spartan gives Jun and Halsey more of a fighting chance, and Kat's place as Noble's de facto tech expert seems like it would be of more use in Halsey's company.

How would she have effected the events in First Strike? Would she have (presumably) died alongside Jun, or would she have stayed back as Halsey's personal guard? If the latter, how would that have played into the ship to ship combat in the warped slipspace bubble, or Unyielding Hierophant?

Would more S-IIs be alive?

Anyway, it's a lot of 'what-ifs,' and there really isn't any point in dwelling on them, but why not?

  • 08.26.2012 11:03 AM PDT

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Maybe... Johnson is secretly Linda! It's a conspiracy!

  • 08.26.2012 11:15 AM PDT
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I imagine she would have stayed with the Chief until they found Keyes, then it is likely she would have accompanied the Captain while the Chief went to unlock the Cartographer.

  • 08.26.2012 1:11 PM PDT
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She'd most likely be with John, but then that's a whole change in events of the Halo Trilogy so far. She could have died in any one of the games.

  • 08.26.2012 2:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: CoolCJ24

Posted by: Sliding Ghost
...I'd have a gunner on The Maw!

Implying that Linda wouldn't be crouched on the back sniping everything casually - Banshees, Elites, Grunts, Flood...

Wait, technically, Linda could have saved Echo 419 by sniping the Banshees that were chasing Foehammer! :o
Magnetized?

Is it even possible to snipe Banshee pilots out in CE? How about grenade sticks? I think that'd be even more amazing.

Posted by: HipiO7
Posted by: Sliding Ghost
Keyes would be less scarier


Keyes is teh best level in any Halo, IMO. The fights between Flood and the Spec Ops Covenant was just amazing... especially on Legendary when grenades started going off in chain reaction in the extreme tight corridors.
Exactly why it's so scary.

It's even scarier when Grunt Funeral is turned on.

[Edited on 08.27.2012 3:06 AM PDT]

  • 08.27.2012 3:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: Primo84
Sure, maybe their armor wouldn't have withstood the plasma barrage by the waves of phantoms
Oh it would have. They are damage sponges.

Honestly, I don't see why Bungie couldn't just put infinitely spawning marines up there like on The Storm, when the Scarab arrived and there were 2 unmanned missile pod turrets.

The least Emile could have done is hand over his shotgun. I think his death would be much better with fists than killing a single Elite and gloating about it.

[Edited on 08.27.2012 3:08 AM PDT]

  • 08.27.2012 3:04 AM PDT

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Posted by: TilledMule9946
Maybe... Johnson is secretly Linda! It's a conspiracy!

I think, just maybe, you're on to something.
This. Could. Be. Massive!

  • 08.27.2012 3:05 AM PDT

She would have died in the lifeboat crash.

  • 08.27.2012 1:10 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wolverfrog
She would have died in the lifeboat crash.

How do you know that?
Also, consider the fact that, if she was active during the Halo event, she might have not of gotten on the lifeboat, she could have still been on the Pillar of Autumn when Keyes took manual control and crashed it on the Halo ring.

[Edited on 08.27.2012 1:42 PM PDT]

  • 08.27.2012 1:41 PM PDT

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