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* [[Franchise/MassEffect Commander Shepard]]. There's a reason he reacts with almost no shock upon discovering [[EldritchAbomination the Flood]] -- he's already fought them.
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* [[VideoGame/MegaManX Sigma]]. They both wear green.
[[EldritchAbomination the Flood]] -- he's already fought them.
* [[VideoGame/MegaManX Sigma]]. They both wear green.
[[EldritchAbomination the Flood]] -- he's already fought them.
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* Jossed by ''New Blood'' (and his Bungie-era backstory at that): He joined the UNSC the moment he turned 18, and has little sympathy for the Insurrection, even after finding out the truth about the Spartan programs (in fact, he ends up becoming a SPARTAN-IV himself).
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This is mainly based around his {{Expy}} status as an Expy of [[{{Firefly}} Mal]]. Now, while Buck is an expy of Mal, there's one major difference. While Mal was a Browncoat, fighting against the 'verse's government, Buck works for his. But who's to say this has always been the truth? Perhaps, before the Covenant arrived, he was an Innie. But, when they did arrive, he understood that the UNSC was the better of two evils and joined up. Now that the Human-Covenant War is over and humanity is literally down to a few hundred million and is ruled by the UNSC, I could imagine that he'll either return to his roots or do something similar to Mal, but with his squad. Either way, the UNSC better hope that he never discoveres what they did to create the Spartan-[=IIs=] or [=-IIIs=], because as a Mal expy, he'll still have that HonorBeforeReason ChronicHeroSyndrome that leads to him taking down your entire organization.
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This is mainly based around his {{Expy}} status as an Expy of [[{{Firefly}} [[{{Series/Firefly}} Mal]]. Now, while Buck is an expy of Mal, there's one major difference. While Mal was a Browncoat, fighting against the 'verse's government, Buck works for his. But who's to say this has always been the truth? Perhaps, before the Covenant arrived, he was an Innie. But, when they did arrive, he understood that the UNSC was the better of two evils and joined up. Now that the Human-Covenant War is over and humanity is literally down to a few hundred million and is ruled by the UNSC, I could imagine that he'll either return to his roots or do something similar to Mal, but with his squad. Either way, the UNSC better hope that he never discoveres what they did to create the Spartan-[=IIs=] or [=-IIIs=], because as a Mal expy, he'll still have that HonorBeforeReason ChronicHeroSyndrome that leads to him taking down your entire organization.
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First of all, it makes no sense when applied to the Halo universe. No 2 characters have that sort of relationship. Now, why would it be on the soundtrack? Well, most employees of Bungie are huge {{Firefly}} fanboys, and a EasterEgg/Tribute being put on a soundtrack would fit their style. If you haven't heard it, go look it up and then, if you know alot about Firefly you'll notice it fits if it were from the viewpoint of Simon to River. So, best ShoutOut/Easter Egg/Tribute ever?
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First of all, it makes no sense when applied to the Halo universe. No 2 characters have that sort of relationship. Now, why would it be on the soundtrack? Well, most employees of Bungie are huge {{Firefly}} {{Series/Firefly}} fanboys, and a EasterEgg/Tribute being put on a soundtrack would fit their style. If you haven't heard it, go look it up and then, if you know alot about Firefly you'll notice it fits if it were from the viewpoint of Simon to River. So, best ShoutOut/Easter Egg/Tribute ever?
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** Except the Unified Earth Government was as good as gone by the end of the war. Besides, 343 Industries is headed by Frankie. Logic dictates that due to most of Bungie being {{Firefly}} fans, he is. The Innies seemed to be [[{{Expy}} expies]] of the Browncoats and the UNSC takes alot from the Alliance. So it's not too unlikely.
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** Except the Unified Earth Government was as good as gone by the end of the war. Besides, 343 Industries is headed by Frankie. Logic dictates that due to most of Bungie being {{Firefly}} {{Series/Firefly}} fans, he is. The Innies seemed to be [[{{Expy}} expies]] of the Browncoats and the UNSC takes alot from the Alliance. So it's not too unlikely.
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** Catalog has confirmed that occasional sightings of San'Shyuum still occur as late as 2558, and ''Broken Circle'' has revealed that [[spoiler:at least one Prophet sided with the Elites and subsequently actually survived the Great Schism]].
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** Actually, Catalog has revealed that Thel's faction of Elties is still on good terms with the UNSC, and ''New Blood'' confirms that Virgil is still alive, and still working for the UNSC.
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** Actually, Catalog has revealed that Gek 'Lhar (Jul's second-in-command in "Spartan Ops") was held there too for a time before he escaped, killing a bunch of guards in the process; so I think we can safely assume that Midnight Facility is indeed a prison for ''everyone'' whom ONI deems suitably troublesome, whether they're actually ONI employees or not.
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[[WMG: At some point in a future game, you (the Master Chief) will fight alongside Brutes against Elites]]
In one corner, we have Brute Chieftain Lydus, who seems to be allied with - or at least willing to no longer war against - the Arbiter-led Elites. In the other, we have Jul Mdama's terrorist-extremists. Who's to say we won't get a reversal of the 'classic' formula by having the Master Chief fight alongside Lydus' Brutes against Mdama's Elites at some point?
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* Possibly stolen or reverse-engineered from humans, which means they're not very good. That's why they look so different to how they did in previous games; the augmentation is having adverse effects, causing mutations.
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* Possibly stolen or reverse-engineered from humans, which means they're not very good. That's why they look so different to how they did in previous games; the augmentation is having adverse effects, causing mutations.
mutations.
** Actually, the official explanation is that the appearance of the ''Halo 4'' Covenant simply represent different phenotypes from what we've seen before, with their previous physical appearances still being canon (after all, it's not like humans or dogs all look the same either). The ''4'' Jackals are even explicitly stated be a separate subspecies from the ones in the original trilogy.
** Actually, the official explanation is that the appearance of the ''Halo 4'' Covenant simply represent different phenotypes from what we've seen before, with their previous physical appearances still being canon (after all, it's not like humans or dogs all look the same either). The ''4'' Jackals are even explicitly stated be a separate subspecies from the ones in the original trilogy.
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* Actually, the Chief and Cortana weren't simply left behind, but completely teleported to a new location far away from the Ark, due to the inherit wonkiness of slipspace physics; in fact, subsequent media has revealed that the Ark is still intact, if heavily damaged, and was ''still'' being visited by UNSC exploratory groups between the events of ''3'' and ''4'', with none of them seeing anything of the ''Dawn'' (and the Chief and Cortana seeing nothing of the Ark during the end of ''3''). Additionally, ''Halo 2'' points out that firing one ring the standard way ''will'' set off the other ones, the firing of the incomplete 04 being more of an exception.
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[[WMG: Who scratched 117 into the monument?]]
Not a Wild Mass Guess, just a Wild Mass Question.
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He also seems unable to interact with forerunner systems except in the broadest of senses, other than the ones he was put in charge of. He states this was a deliberate design choice by his creators in order to limit the damage should a monitor become compromised or fall into enemy hands. A rampant AI would probably have enough creativity to work around such failsafe lockouts, but Spark is either unwilling or unable to do so.
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He also seems unable to interact with forerunner systems except in the broadest of senses, other than the ones he was put in charge of. He states this was a deliberate design choice by his creators in order to limit the damage should a monitor become compromised or fall into enemy hands. A rampant AI would probably have enough creativity to work around such failsafe lockouts, but Spark is either unwilling or unable to do so. \n He's also unable to fire the halo network without a human operator enabling the firing sequence with the Index, a falesafe that a rampant AI would probably try to circumvent if they were as keen on firing Halo as Spark appears to be.
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[[WMG: 343 Guilty Spark and the other monitors aren't rampant, just broken]]
Spark certainly exhibits behaviour that doesn't seem "right" for an AI functioning normally; he's awfully keen on firing off what was supposed to be a weapon of last resort, he focuses on things that aren't strictly within the realm of his duties, he talks to himself, babbles about irrelevancies, throws temper tantrums, etc, but he never actually behaves as if he's acting outside of what he was programmed to do.
He never actually lies (something which a rampant AI can do but not one that isn't rampant), the best he can do in that regard is withhold information that might cause his companions to make what he considers to be the wrong decision. When asked flat out about those things he always replies with the truth. He also doesn't seem to diminish in cognitive function after the destruction of Installation 04, meaning his entire personality and all his memories are housed in a small floating basketball-sized contraption. Rampant AIs require huge computing resources and often end up inhabiting planet-wide computer networks, which would suggest that a rampant Spark would have been using the Halo's computer systems to contain his rampant personality and would be greatly diminished by its destruction.
He also seems unable to interact with forerunner systems except in the broadest of senses, other than the ones he was put in charge of. He states this was a deliberate design choice by his creators in order to limit the damage should a monitor become compromised or fall into enemy hands. A rampant AI would probably have enough creativity to work around such failsafe lockouts, but Spark is either unwilling or unable to do so.
It's certainly possible that he did go rampant at some point and is just crafty enough to avoid lies or giving away facts like being able to operate equipment he wasn't supposed to be able to, but given the UNSC personal he met in Halo 3 didn't know he wasn't meant to be able to interact with the Ark it seems odd he'd withhold the fact that he actually could if he was able to do so.
Given this, my suspicion was that the forerunners simply created AIs with personalities that turned out to be defective. Remember how eager the monitors are with regards to firing the halo network? Maybe the forerunners spent so much time crafting AIs to fight the flood that they neglected to also give them a respect for non-flood life forms so they would only be prepared to fire the halo network if there really was no other option. Spark was ready to fire it over a relatively minor failure to contain the flood on Installation 04.
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*** In Halo 4, the Librarian fairly strongly implies that John-117 is TheChoseOne, as is Cortana. So while not the contingency of the entire Forerunner race, a Forerunner was definitely planning on a very large scale.
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* Daniel Clayton, an NCA officer, is sent to the Midnight Facility detention center after his capture, and it is a place run by ONI and notably the location Parangosky sentenced one of her ONI researchers, Dr. Magnusson, after her failure at keeping Jul 'Mdama contained. Why would an Insurrectionist and known terrorist be sent to the same prison as an ONI researcher that was sentenced there by her boss out of spite? It wouldn't make any sense unless this is a place ONI agents are sent to for failing their missions if they aren't killed outright.
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[[WMG: The New Colonial Alliance is actually an alias for an ONI group]]
Think about it, the NCA has access to information as well as committed actions that only ONI would be motivated to do.
* They knew about the Infinity, which was being built by ONI over the span of 20 years with total communications blackout in effect so that the word about it doesn't get out. The only ones outside of ONI that knew about it were the senior members of the Admiralty, most notably Lord Hood, who took it for the fleet instead of naval intelligence. Admiral Drake, the leader of the NCA, has nothing on his past revealed, and he could easily be affiliated with ONI.
* Ilsa Zane was sent to lead a team to take over the Infinity by the time it was finished. Zane's official story was that the experimental SPARTAN-IV augmentations made her insane, and as a result she was discharged from the program and assigned to ONI before becoming an NCA member. As I said, that was the official story, because if she really was crazy, Zane would not have been selected to lead the group to capture the Infinity.
* The fact that they wanted to take the Infinity for themselves, because as I said above, the Infinity's construction was originally an ONI project before the fleet branch took it. And since the Infinity was the most powerful ship humanity has ever built, ONI would want that ship back to carry out their increasingly illegal actions. But since they can't have their own members wearing ONI uniforms as they perform their hijacking, they revealed (fabricated) intelligence on a new Insurrectionist group called the New Colonial Alliance that would carry out with performing the more illegal crap, the kind that would send the heads of ONI to the firing squads should Hood discover that what they're doing is practically treason, whenever ONI wishes.
* An ONI prowler appeared to pick up Ilsa Zane after she was thrown out of the airlock during her failed attempt to capture the Infinity. The fact that not only did the prowler showed up to bring her inside the ship, but also knew exactly where she was after getting spaced, shows that Zane still has ONI connections.
* Five years after their attempt to take the Infinity, the NCA shows up again on Ealen IV, this time hiring a mercenary army to assassinate the peace delegation ambassadors, Thel and Lydus, two powerful and extremely influential members of the Sangheili and Jiralhanae races. Their deaths would cease any attempts at peace talks between the two races and resume the fighting, which as shown in the first two [[HaloGlasslands Kilo]]-[[Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar Five]] novels, is something that ONI is actively attempting to do in a (poorly thought out) attempt to ensure humanity's survival after the Human-Covenant War.
* Vladimir Scruggs, [[spoiler: the NCA mole]], appears to know why Thel is unable to unite his people; seeing as how splintering the Sangheili people was an ONI black-ops assignment known only to Parangosky and the Kilo-Five squad, there is no way that Scruggs can know about this unless he was privy to such information, meaning he has to be ONI himself (in addition to Osman trusting him enough to give him such information). And Scruggs taking Lord Hood hostage? Who's to say that Osman, the head of ONI, hasn't secretly arranged the deaths of everyone in her way until she's placed herself as being next in command of the entirety of the UNSC should anything happen to Hood?
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** But wait: even if he did manage to survive 343's Spartan Laser-resembling burn, how would/did he get off of the ring before it exploded to pieces?
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* An alternate universe version of Cloud Strife. Both are super-soldiers quite fond of using weapons way too big for them. Both have mysterious pasts. Judging from his stoicism and the fact we never see his face, we can deduce in a [[{{Fanwank}} fanwanky]] manner that Master Chief has issues with self-identity, just like a certain blonde bishie we know! Not to mention, Master Chief's pretty handy with that energy sword... Don't be distracted by MC supposedly being ghostly pale and vaguely melancholy-looking underneath his armor and brunet. They have no proof.
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* An alternate universe version of Cloud Butt Strife. Both are super-soldiers quite fond of using weapons way too big for them. Both have mysterious pasts. Judging from his stoicism and the fact we never see his face, we can deduce in a [[{{Fanwank}} fanwanky]] manner that Master Chief has issues with self-identity, just like a certain blonde bishie we know! Not to mention, Master Chief's pretty handy with that energy sword... Don't be distracted by MC supposedly being ghostly pale and vaguely melancholy-looking underneath his armor and brunet. They have no proof.
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** Are you implying that Duke Nukem, Samus Aran, and Cloud Strife are all the same person? Makes sense.
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[[WMG: Destiny is a prequel to Halo.]]
The Traveller is an ancient Forerunner ship of some kind. It helps Humanity (through the Guardians) to reclaim their home system and develop interstellar travel. This leads them to encounter the Forerunners proper. Destiny's timeline ends with the first firing of the Halo Arrays, and Humans rebuild again, without the Traveller, into the UNSC in the Halo universe.
Both made by Bungie, so it's legit.
The Traveller is an ancient Forerunner ship of some kind. It helps Humanity (through the Guardians) to reclaim their home system and develop interstellar travel. This leads them to encounter the Forerunners proper. Destiny's timeline ends with the first firing of the Halo Arrays, and Humans rebuild again, without the Traveller, into the UNSC in the Halo universe.
Both made by Bungie, so it's legit.
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* Tommy Oliver, [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original Green Ranger,]] put on ice until Earth needed him again. Think about it- he's a superpowered badass [check] in green armor with gold accent [check] taking orders from a glowy blue nonphysical entity [check].
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** Not really, Jan from ''ILoveBees'' is also a 1.1, and she's only about 17 years old. The real question here is whether Spartan-II Class II is even canon (yes, most of the ARG has been adopted as such, but most indications are that John's class of [=IIs=] is the only one).
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* According to ''Primordium'' and ''Silentium''... [[spoiler:we already have - The Flood.]]
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* [[spoiler:Confirmed. The BigBad is the Didact from the Forerunner saga books.]]
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** For 4, at least.
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* Actually, in-fiction, his immunity is shared by other members of Project [=ORION==] (i.e., [=SPARTAN=] 1s). It's covered up as a fake disease called Boren's Syndrome, and seems to be a result of the augmentation process. Originally, the cover-up was because the side effects of augmentation included headaches and tumors, but the discovery of the Flood revealed a more useful side effect.
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*** It's stated in-canon that the Covenant CAN glass the entire surface, but it takes ''years''. Even their entire fleet surrounding one planet isn't enough firepower to do it in a reasonable amount of time, and that would leave them vulnerable.
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[[WMG: Johnson faked his death and became a dimension-travelling bounty hunter.]]
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*There is a possibility that the SOF could appear in the Reclaimer Trilogy. [[spoiler: At the end of Spartan Ops Season 1 the UNSC has the half of the Janus Key leading to the Forerunner's arsenals which could lead to the the Apex (hiding a mothballed Forerunner fleet) which was where Halo War's endgame was fought. From there, they may be able to pick up the ''SOF'''s trail. At the same time, the Didact is likely to remember the location of something as significant as a Forerunner boneyard.]]
**Additionally but on a tangential note, [[spoiler: Serina, the ''SOF'''s ''Smart'' AI would have been getting on in years by the time of this new trilogy so that could likely mean rampancy for her as well.]]
**Additionally but on a tangential note, [[spoiler: Serina, the ''SOF'''s ''Smart'' AI would have been getting on in years by the time of this new trilogy so that could likely mean rampancy for her as well.]]
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[[WMG: The Rookie is descended from MetalGearSolid 3's The End]]
Look at it thusly - When not actively in combat, The Rookie sleeps. In every cutscene he appears in while not actively deployed, you can count on him to be catching his requisite 23 hours per day of sleep. Once the time for combat has come, however, he is about as hyper-lethal as the Chief and Noble Six. The reason? He is saving himself for combat. All other things are immaterial. That's the real reason he was out for six hours at the beginning of ODST - not catastrophic head trauma, the drop was too long and boring for his tastes so he took a nap until things got exciting.
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** Wait a minute, A.I.s running the universe? That sounds suspiciously like the Metal Gear Universe....except that the Patriots have been destroyed as of MGS4. We would either be dealing with an alternate timeline version of that universe where they were NOT destroyed, or perhaps humanity didn't learn from it's mistakes and made more A.I.s....hmmm.
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Not so much a true WMG as an invitation to speculate, but...adding up all the killing that the Chief has done throughout his entire career....just how many [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Insurrectionists]], [[AlienInvasion Covenant]], [[TheVirus Flood]], and [[RobotWar Prometheans]] [[SerialEscalation will he have killed by the end of the Reclaimer Trilogy!?]] Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?? I mean, it would have to include him [[EarthShatteringKaboom blowing up Installation 04 with the Pillar of Autumn]] and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard destroying that Capital ship at the beginning of Halo 2]]. And if he blows up Requiem...
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[[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Insurrectionists]], [[AlienInvasion Covenant]], [[TheVirus Flood]], and [[RobotWar Prometheans]] [[SerialEscalation will he have killed by the end of the Reclaimer Trilogy!?]] Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?? I mean, it would have to include him [[EarthShatteringKaboom blowing up Installation 04 with the Pillar of Autumn]] and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard destroying that Capital ship at the beginning of Halo 2]]. And if he blows up Requiem...
[[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Insurrectionists]], [[AlienInvasion Covenant]], [[TheVirus Flood]], and [[RobotWar Prometheans]] [[SerialEscalation will he have killed by the end of the Reclaimer Trilogy!?]] Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?? I mean, it would have to include him [[EarthShatteringKaboom blowing up Installation 04 with the Pillar of Autumn]] and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard destroying that Capital ship at the beginning of Halo 2]]. And if he blows up Requiem...
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