- kippa
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"Then, there is the fact that only he can do it. When Keyes and Halsey go to check out John to see if he was right for the Spartan program (The Fall of Reach, pg 21), Keyes said, "What difference could a child make?" and Halsey replied, "This child could be more useful to the UNSC than a fleet of destroyers, a thousand Junior Grade Lieutenants--or even me. In the end, the child may be the only thing that makes any difference." This shows that the Master Chief is the only one able to save humanity."
I dont know whether this has been pointed out yet, but you reference this incorrectly. Dr Halsey along with Humanity was unaware of a Covenant presence during this stage of Fall of Reach. The Children were actually being chosen to act as super-soldiers to keep the Human Confederacy together, as it had grown unstable and in fact was falling apart.
So originally, SPARTANS were not designed to be the savoir of human kind, that ideal came along with the Covenants appearance.