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To be honest, I dropped Halo 4 as a game, but I'm still interested in canon, clearly.


So to start out: Exactly when do the spartan ops episodes start? After the events of Halo 4?

So Halsey was also on the Infinity, couldn't she recreate Cortana?

[Edited on 12.23.2012 8:12 PM PST]

  • 12.23.2012 1:15 PM PDT

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  • 12.23.2012 1:25 PM PDT
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Yes they're canon, they take place 6 months after Halo 4's campaign.


What I want to know is who are we supposed to be playing as?

  • 12.23.2012 1:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

They take place 6 months after the end of Halo 4. They are canon.
Edit: Ninja'd.

We play as Crimson team, one of the Infinity's many Spartan teams.

[Edited on 12.23.2012 1:31 PM PST]

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Posted by: Xd00999

We play as Crimson team, one of the Infinity's many Spartan teams.


I meant what particular Spartan do we play as.

  • 12.23.2012 3:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: Xd00999

We play as Crimson team, one of the Infinity's many Spartan teams.


I meant what particular Spartan do we play as.
Just a member of Crimson team, with no particular backstory. Make your own backstory, immerse yourself.

  • 12.23.2012 3:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: Xd00999

We play as Crimson team, one of the Infinity's many Spartan teams.


I meant what particular Spartan do we play as.

There is no "particular Spartan" in Crimson Team. You are Crimson Team; just like Noble Six in Halo: Reach. That's why we don't see what Noble Six looks like because he/she is you.

  • 12.23.2012 3:26 PM PDT

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Posted by: Xd00999

We play as Crimson team, one of the Infinity's many Spartan teams.


I meant what particular Spartan do we play as.

There is no "particular Spartan" in Crimson Team. You are Crimson Team; just like Noble Six in Halo: Reach. That's why we don't see what Noble Six looks like because he/she is you.
Correct.

  • 12.23.2012 3:32 PM PDT
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Interesting.

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Posted by: TheSpiderChief

Posted by: Aang the Avatar

Posted by: Xd00999

We play as Crimson team, one of the Infinity's many Spartan teams.


I meant what particular Spartan do we play as.

There is no "particular Spartan" in Crimson Team. You are Crimson Team; just like Noble Six in Halo: Reach. That's why we don't see what Noble Six looks like because he/she is you.


Okay, I was confused because I thought Crimson Team only consisted of the 5 members we saw in the cutscenes. Also because my Spartan isn't in the cutscenes, I thought I played as one of them.

  • 12.23.2012 3:40 PM PDT

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Posted by: Xd00999

We play as Crimson team, one of the Infinity's many Spartan teams.


I meant what particular Spartan do we play as.

There is no "particular Spartan" in Crimson Team. You are Crimson Team; just like Noble Six in Halo: Reach. That's why we don't see what Noble Six looks like because he/she is you.


Okay, I was confused because I thought Crimson Team only consisted of the 5 members we saw in the cutscenes. Also because my Spartan isn't in the cutscenes, I thought I played as one of them.

The Spartan team you see in the cutscenes is called "Majestic". They sort of have a... rivalry with Crimson, for lack of better wording.

Spartan Ops follows the missions of Majestic and Crimson in and around Requiem.

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  • 12.23.2012 3:54 PM PDT

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So Halsey was also on the Infinity, couldn't she recreate Cortana?

  • 12.23.2012 8:11 PM PDT

Halsey was brought onto the Infinity in one of the episodes to study the Forerunner tech.
Why would she need to recreate Cortana? It would just be like creating just another AI. It would not be the same as Cortana, since it would not have any of the knowledge the original Cortana had.

  • 12.23.2012 10:01 PM PDT
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I sure hope not. Jul 'Mdama and Halsey are the only ones who make it Halo IMO. Until I see a familiar face (i.e. Arbiter), I will not give a -blam!-.

Also, Crimson Team = one man army

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Posted by: Sliding Ghost

Also, Crimson Team = one man army


With four men?

  • 12.24.2012 2:04 AM PDT

Now tell me; Which was the man, and which was the machine?

You can't just "create" or "recreate" an AI.

Cortana was made from a clone of Halsey's brain, and if Halsey tried it again, it'd be unlikely to work, and the AI would have a different personality and be a different person

  • 12.24.2012 2:13 AM PDT


Posted by: ONI12
You can't just "create" or "recreate" an AI.

Cortana was made from a clone of Halsey's brain, and if Halsey tried it again, it'd be unlikely to work, and the AI would have a different personality and be a different person

Yeah, and she beefed up the brain of the clone. Apparently, this is also illegal so I doubt she was able to recreate Cortana or anything similar. They'll probably introduce another smart A.I, unless the Chief refuses. I really like the search for Spock idea. It's seems the most fitting for the story.

  • 12.24.2012 8:51 AM PDT

http://www.rfgeneration.com

For the Spartan Ops episodes, you play as Crimson team, but the videos for each episode fill in what team majestic (the blues) are doing. It is a bit misleading because it just drops your normal matchmaking spartan in place of a Crimson team member.

I would recommend replaying all the missions (on normal) one afternoon and watching all the videos. It's easier to tie things together when you get all the info at once.

  • 12.24.2012 8:57 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Spartan Ops takes place six months after the end of Halo 4.
Also, I think Halsey could use whatever remained of Cortana in MC's armor to recreate her, but I don't know for certain.

  • 12.24.2012 7:22 PM PDT


Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
Spartan Ops takes place six months after the end of Halo 4.
Also, I think Halsey could use whatever remained of Cortana in MC's armor to recreate her, but I don't know for certain.


Why do people always forget that this was one of Cortana's greatest fears, and the Chief emphatically told her 'that won't happen'?

He's not going to take another AI as replacement, and he's certainly not going to accept a copy of Cortana.

  • 12.25.2012 3:41 AM PDT


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Posted by: Sliding Ghost

Also, Crimson Team = one man army


With four men?


You can play Spartan Ops alone so Crimson Team can be one dude alone. Or it could be two Spartans..... or 3.

  • 12.25.2012 1:03 PM PDT

Silly people don't know the difference between crimson and majestic.

  • 12.25.2012 1:24 PM PDT