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> > And as for the thing about dialogue, the game may have more dialogue but it’s mostly minor stuff from Blue Team and therefore shouldn’t count.
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> Where does blue team have a deep, meaningful conversation in the books?
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> The closest I can think of is probably when they meet back up in First Strike.
This is just a section from the prologue of ‘The Fall of Reach’:
> “Red Team reports mission objective achieved, Chief,” Blue-Two said. “They send their compliments.”
> “It’s hardly going to balance the scales,” Blue-Three muttered, and kicked the sand. “Not like those Grunts when they slaughtered the 105th Drop Jet Platoon. They should suffer just as much as those guys did.”
> The Chief had nothing to say to that. It wasn’t his job to make things suffer—he was just here to win battles. Whatever it took.
> “Blue-Two,” the Chief said. “Get me an uplink.”
> “Aye aye.” She patched him into the SATCOM system.
> “Mission accomplished, Captain de Blanc,” the Chief reported. “Enemy neutralized.”
> “Excellent news,”the Captain said. He sighed, and added,“But we’re pulling you out, Chief.”
> “We’re just getting warmed up down here, sir.”
> “Well, it’s a different story up here. Move out for pickup ASAP.”
> “Understood, sir.” The Chief killed the uplink. He told his team, “The party’s over, Spartans. Dust-off in fifteen.”
> They jogged double-quick up the ten kilometers of the beach, and returned to their dropship—a Pelican, scuffed and dented from three days’ hard fighting. They boarded and the ship’s engines whined to life.
> Blue-Two took off her helmet and scratched the stubble of her brown hair. “It’s a shame to leave this place,” she said, and leaned against the porthole. “There are so few left.”
> The Chief stood by her and glanced out as they lifted into the air—there were wide rolling plains of palmgrass, the green expanse of ocean, a wispy band of clouds in the sky, and setting red suns. “There will be other places to fight for,” he said.
> “Will there?” she whispered.
Here we see the members of Blue Team engaging in mission-relevant dialogue that simultaneously shows off their personalities, including physical gestures. And it even ends with a rather thoughtful moment between John-117 and Kelly-087 as the prospect of humanity’s dwindling chances to win the war rears it’s ugly head.
Obviously there are plenty more that take place after this, as well as throughout the 4 subsequent novels featuring these characters. Furthermore, circa ‘Halo 5’ there is lots for Blue Team to be talking about, and there was more than enough room to highlight their bonds with each other and every members own unique attributes. There is absolutely no excuse to Blue Team being relegated to a mere cameo in their premier game.