This is something I’ve just stumble upon recently, and I havent seen any threads discuss it in the past several weeks, so perhaps this is new.
For those trying to stay dark, there be spoilers ahead. Yar.
In the E3 presentation cutscene, we see Buck mention “When every Spartan, every soldier hears about this. They’re gonna hate us. You know that right?” But in the Sprint season 2, in the episode dedicated to mo-caps, there’ an extended dialogue between them. Locke replies with “You know you’re not the only one here because of him.” At first, that didnt really mean much to me. It could have meant anything. Perhaps suggesting a exterior motive to…well, whatever they planned on.
But then I came across the old Halo Channel info on Locke. He was born on Jericho VII, 2529 (four years after the Covie war started for reference.) And his homeworld was attack in 2535 when he was 6. Well, that sounded familiar. Well, to the extended lore savvy, that was indeed the battle of Jericho VII from Fall of Reach. One of the missions where Blue team led an effective resistance on the ground.
And then we have the live action trailer of Locke. At first, I thought he was just being snarky about taking down the chief, but then it hit me that he sounded, almost remorseful about “you were supposed to be the one who saved us all…and now I must save us from you.”
So I put all that together in my mind and now it’s starting to make sense. Chief must have saved Locke, either directly or in-directly as a child. So he sees Chief as a hero. And it seems some turn of events come to light that paint Chief as a traitor. I imagine Chief was pinned by ONI for Locke to hunt him down as a threat rather than just tagging and bagging. I imagine this may lead to some moral choices for Locke, to either hunt and kill his ‘hero turned traitor’ or to see past the lies and see Chief as an ally.
This is very possible, although he may just be talking about the fact that MC saves the entire human race. Which includes Locke. But who knows, maybe it’s something more personal.
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> This is something I’ve just stumble upon recently, and I havent seen any threads discuss it in the past several weeks, so perhaps this is new.
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> For those trying to stay dark, there be spoilers ahead. Yar.
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> In the E3 presentation cutscene, we see Buck mention “When every Spartan, every soldier hears about this. They’re gonna hate us. You know that right?” But in the Sprint season 2, in the episode dedicated to mo-caps, there’ an extended dialogue between them. Locke replies with “You know you’re not the only one here because of him.” At first, that didnt really mean much to me. It could have meant anything. Perhaps suggesting a exterior motive to…well, whatever they planned on.
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> But then I came across the old Halo Channel info on Locke. He was born on Jericho VII, 2529 (four years after the Covie war started for reference.) And his homeworld was attack in 2535 when he was 6. Well, that sounded familiar. Well, to the extended lore savvy, that was indeed the battle of Jericho VII from Fall of Reach. One of the missions where Blue team led an effective resistance on the ground.
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> And then we have the live action trailer of Locke. At first, I thought he was just being snarky about taking down the chief, but then it hit me that he sounded, almost remorseful about “you were supposed to be the one who saved us all…and now I must save us from you.”
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> So I put all that together in my mind and now it’s starting to make sense. Chief must have saved Locke, either directly or in-directly as a child. So he sees Chief as a hero. And it seems some turn of events come to light that paint Chief as a traitor. I imagine Chief was pinned by ONI for Locke to hunt him down as a threat rather than just tagging and bagging. I imagine this may lead to some moral choices for Locke, to either hunt and kill his ‘hero turned traitor’ or to see past the lies and see Chief as an ally.
Who were the active blue team members on that mission? I can’t remember. Was it Chief, Fred, Kelly, and Linda? If it was it would make a good prologue to introduce us to blue team and maybe they even introduce Locke in the same scene.
To those asking about who was active, I believe it was Chief, Linda, Kelly, Fred and Will. Along with Red team, but Red team acted as getting behind enemy lines and activating a HAVOK nuke.
This is also the battle where Blue team truly acted as supersoldiers for fighting hundreds of covies (mostly grunts, but still.)
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> Chief saved Locke, and Locke will have to dig deep in his morality to determine Chief’s fate.
He’s not determining crap! Chief gonna whoops his -Yoink-!
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> Chief saved Locke, and Locke will have to dig deep in his morality to determine Chief’s fate.
As we have seen in the theater trailer, Chief will beat the -Yoink- out of Locke, so he is not determining anything.
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> So I put all that together in my mind and now it’s starting to make sense. Chief must have saved Locke, either directly or in-directly as a child. So he sees Chief as a hero. And it seems some turn of events come to light that paint Chief as a traitor. I imagine Chief was pinned by ONI for Locke to hunt him down as a threat rather than just tagging and bagging. I imagine this may lead to some moral choices for Locke, to either hunt and kill his ‘hero turned traitor’ or to see past the lies and see Chief as an ally.
Locke and ONI are hunting Blue Team because they went AWOL after Meridian, and ONI can’t afford to lose the UNSC’s greatest war asset.
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> > Chief saved Locke, and Locke will have to dig deep in his morality to determine Chief’s fate.
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> As we have seen in the theater trailer, Chief will beat the -Yoink- out of Locke, so he is not determining anything.
We saw a few seconds where Chief landed some punches. That doesn’t inherently mean it’s a one-sided fight.