I saw a thread like this on Halo Archive sooooo I decided why can’t we have one?
This thread is to discuss your personal headcanon in the Halo universe. Whether it be speculation or minor fan fiction this is a place to discuss it. This thread isn’t here to call out and say- “so and so’s speculation is completely wrong!” Or “my head canon is the right canon!” Or stuff like that. Just a place to discuss.
Here is what I have.
Spartan B170 is alive and kicking as an ONI Headhunter in the Spartan Branch after being deployed right before Operation TORPEDO.
Beta Red Team got extracted from Reach by pelican Iron Fist right before the MAC rounds hit, and Naomi-010 is Beta Red Actual.
Some Spartan IIs served under SPECWARCOM as opposed to NAVSPECWEP.
The 3 unknown members of Delta Red Team survived Reach.
James-005 survived after being picked up by a UNSC ship scouting through the remains of ships, looking for survivors.
Joshua-029 survived the Banshee crash and was picked up by Iron Fist.
Some members of Spartan III Gamma Company that joined the Spartan Branch received MJOLNIR Hoplite GEN2 armor.
Spartan III teams Gauntlet, Echo and Red escaped Reach.
Grey Team is still alive.
Team Saber is still alive.
Naphtali Contractor Corporation and Cascade Stronghold Technologies share a contract/license on ODST/MJOLNIR armor.
Jameson Locke is a former Spartan III Headhunter, he was orphaned on one of the planets that most of Alpha Company was recruited from, works for ONI to go after HVTs, was given prototype armor, and seems very more skilled than other Spartan IVs (fighting Jul 'M’dama in straight hand to hand combat, and was prepared to assassinate Thel Vadamee)
Black Team faked their deaths on Gamma Halo under orders from ONI using holographic decoys, to push the Chief more and make him more effective. Basically making him want to avenge all of the fallen Spartan IIs. Thus creating a drive for him to keep doing operations non stop. So then Black Team is still operating under ONI.
Noble Six survived- he was picked up a Pelican carrying Spartan III teams Gauntlet, Echo, Red and Jun-A266 from ONI Castle Base. Jun continues to not mention Noble Six surviving because he has slight PTSD and anything of Noble reminds him of the comrades he lost.
ONI Beta 5 Asymmetrical Actions Group is the Spartan II equivalent of the Headhunters and Grey, Black and atleast 1 other Spartan II team operated under it. And the Operator and Mark V armor they wore was a specialized version of MJOLNIR Black.
Noble Six’s first name is David.
If, by some miracle, he was able to survive Reach, he and Jun A266 upgraded to the Halo 2A Centurion and Hoplite armor, respectively, and fought together during the Battle of Earth.
All the denial in this thread… some people are just too stubborn to accept the death of certain characters.
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> All the denial in this thread… some people are just too stubborn to accept the death of certain characters.
If you’re referring to the Rookie and Black Team, it’s not people being stubborn, it’s the fact that those characters were given underwhelming deaths undeserving of characters of their caliber.
For a while, I’ve always assumed that the reason that the Covenant fleet that arrived right after LNoS’ destruction had managed to jump beneath Reach’s defense grid because the super carrier was transmitting its coordinates to the incoming fleet. But, while Fleet Battles has attempted to fix some issues with Reach, it unfortunately debunks this theory, and makes it seem like the fleet had jumped beneath the grid by pure chance.
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> All the denial in this thread… some people are just too stubborn to accept the death of certain characters.
This is exactly what I made this thread not to do. And Black Team and Rookie had terrible deaths, completely undeserved and underwhelming. We can believe what we want anyway, it’s our headcanon.
I always imagined the “Rookie” being an extremely high-up ONI agent. I just find it to be too much of a coincidence that a random Lance Corporal would be assigned to Alpha Nine while Dare was to override the squad’s mission so that they could capture a Huragok. Since Dare was assigned to take lead of the mission, I can imagine ONI wanting to issue her backup from an ONI spook, with or without her knowledge. I also think the Rookie must have been an adept soldier to survive an entire night in a Covenant occupied city.
Plus, whenever the Rookie was sleeping, I always imagined him actually recording the events around him with his helmet so that he could report back to his superiors. Not sure if this theory still holds up since he’s now dead.
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> I always imagined the “Rookie” being an extremely high-up ONI agent. I just find it to be too much of a coincidence that a random Lance Corporal would be assigned to Alpha Nine while Dare was to override the squad’s mission so that they could capture a Huragok. Since Dare was assigned to take lead of the mission, I can imagine ONI wanting to issue her backup from an ONI spook, with or without her knowledge. I also think the Rookie must have been an adept soldier to survive an entire night in a Covenant occupied city.
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> Plus, whenever the Rookie was sleeping, I always imagined him actually recording the events around him with his helmet so that he could report back to his superiors. Not sure if this theory still holds up since he’s now dead.
It doesn’t matter if the theory doesn’t hold up that good because it’s headcanon! Make up your own explanation for how the Rookie survived 
Maybe ONI used a flash clone or life model decoy, or a hologram to fake Rookie’s death to protect his cover? It’s your headcanon so you can believe what you want 
The crash-landed ship is actually from the mass-effect universe but was in an slipspace-anomaly and landed in an different universe.
An Rho Barutamee was launched through slipspace (when noble team destroyed his ship) to Maethrilian, accomplishing his dreams.
My main thing is that the suit in 4 is the exact same one he got in 2, and in-universe, everyone sees them as the same visually.
That explanation they gave is just awful, and I think it would have been easier to just say this instead of theirs.
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> My main thing is that the suit in 4 is the exact same one he got in 2, and in-universe, everyone sees them as the same visually.
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> That explanation they gave is just awful, and I think it would have been easier to just say this instead of theirs.
I honestly think that would be a great explanation for the way it looks in Halo 4. But by Halo Escalations and Halo 5 they could have just said that he replaced his old suit for the new one 
but 343 had bad writing on the part of Chief’s armor so atleast you have a better way to explain it.
After sending Noble 6 planetside, Jorge puts on his helmet and activates the slipspace drive. As the drive charges, he heads into one of the nearby passageways, and the combination of his armor, shield, and the hanger’s hull protects him from the lethal radiation when the drive activates. Although the slipspace rift tore the middle out of the Long Night of Solace, it easily encompassed the corvette, Ardent Prayer, leaving it unscathed. The corvette’s systems detected the unnatural entry into slipspace and soon was about to drop itself out using its own slipspace drive, leaving Jorge alone with a slightly damaged Covenant corvette until he was able to make contact with the UNSC and be rescued.
This is why of all the Noble Team deaths, I find Jorge’s to be the most questionable.
I always imagined that the SPARTAN-II teams were more than just simple division of units, and that each team operated differently. Grey Team has basically already been called a deep recon unit, and I’m fairly certain that Black Team is a specialized team for classified ONI ops, but Red, Blue, and Green teams remain undefined. My headcanon is that Red Team is, as it usually is depicted in canon, a unit of SPARTAN-IIs more commonly sent to the front lines together. Blue Team, being John’s personal team, handled more covert and delicate operations, working in tandem with Red Team as seen on Sigma Octanus IV and Reach, or independently, seen during their capture of Col. Watts or OPERATION: WARM BLANKET. Green Team, given the incredibly lacking amount of information on them, I assume to be where everyone else in the II Program goes. IIs such as Cal or Sheila or Daisy, who operate independently of a unit, would be assigned where it makes sense for the UNSC to assign individual IIs. This would make particular sense given that Linda was team leader of Green in 2552, and that Linda is commonly regarded as a lone wolf. For assignments with the need of more than two teams, a group of Green Team members would be pulled together to complete tertiary assignments.
I always thought Noble 6 was alive because the cutscene at the end of Reach cut off before the the blade stabbed him. I always imagine a commander yelling “Wait!” right before the Sangheili kills him. The Covenant capture Noble 6 because of his skill on the battlefield. It’s not common for the Covenant to take prisoners, but the Sangheili saw prison as dishonorable, so it would make sense for them to try and dishonor a great enemy instead of letting him die with honor on the battlefield.
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> I always imagined that the SPARTAN-II teams were more than just simple division of units, and that each team operated differently. Grey Team has basically already been called a deep recon unit, and I’m fairly certain that Black Team is a specialized team for classified ONI ops, but Red, Blue, and Green teams remain undefined. My headcanon is that Red Team is, as it usually is depicted in canon, a unit of SPARTAN-IIs more commonly sent to the front lines together. Blue Team, being John’s personal team, handled more covert and delicate operations, working in tandem with Red Team as seen on Sigma Octanus IV and Reach, or independently, seen during their capture of Col. Watts or OPERATION: WARM BLANKET. Green Team, given the incredibly lacking amount of information on them, I assume to be where everyone else in the II Program goes. IIs such as Cal or Sheila or Daisy, who operate independently of a unit, would be assigned where it makes sense for the UNSC to assign individual IIs. This would make particular sense given that Linda was team leader of Green in 2552, and that Linda is commonly regarded as a lone wolf. For assignments with the need of more than two teams, a group of Green Team members would be pulled together to complete tertiary assignments.
That’s a really interesting theory actually. Here is my breakdown of it, only Black Team and Gray have defined roles though in canon.
Gray Team: Special Reconnaissance and Infiltration
Black Team: Covert Activities and Unconventional Warfare (in my headcanon Black and Gray work under Beta 5 Asymmetrical Actions Group mentioned in Reach, and ya know, Black faking their deaths :P)
Blue Team: Clandestine/Black Operations (there is a difference between covert, clandestine and black ops but it’s too confusing to explain in a post)
Red Team: Direct Action and Force Multiplication
Then there is the possibility of different sub specializations for each splinter group, so Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Omega. Only ones I can infer are
Alpha- C4ISR due to this being the main unit and Fred being the leader
Omega- Close Quarters since the member either had SMGs or Shotguns
All the others no clue, but all definitely worked as Direct Action teams
Green Team: Forward Observation? I dunno it’s hard to infer, but since Linda is a sniper and Kurt has a ‘sixth sense’ for danger it’s possible they could be a scout/spotter team. They could very well just be a specialist unit though comprised of Spartans that could be deployed in various hotspots dependent on a team or not.
Some of your ideas aren’t bad.
The only problems I have:
Is that there is a lot of avoiding of death. I really hope that Beta Red are dead because otherwise the Battle of Reach will seem a lot less dramatic if so many SII’s survived it. The Spartan II’s should be low in numbers. If 343i really want to tell a story involving new SII’s they don’t need to bring any more back to life; they can tell a story about the some of the many SII’s who fought for decades but are now dead.
And it doesn’t make sense the Locke is an SIII, he was unaugmented prior to joining the Spartan IV’s. He was just a very successful ONI operative.
However, I tend to think Delta Red might have survived too and I like your explanation for the Hoplite.
In my head I tend think the dead Spartans at the end of Reach are the members of Echo, Gauntlet and Red [S3] teams (or perhaps maybe just 2 of them with the other one escaping the battle and joining the S4’s). Rosenda was a member of on of the teams. I imagine that they were also under Colonel Holland’s command and were sent to Aszod to help draw fire from Noble and stop the Covenant from reaching the Pillar of Autumn or the Package, but they were ultimately overwhelmed.
Another head canon is that Naomi was revived along with other SII’s after being put in cryo when they were declared dead during augmentations. Some of these individuals were assigned more secretive missions and kept separate from the main Spartans while others were sent to fill in the gaps made by Spartans KIA (explaining the inconstancy over their numbers).
ONI recovered Team Black and revived them a second time, even stitching one of their heads back on. Tis but a scratch.
Here is some fun headcanon to drive everyone nuts…
-ONI is secretly weaponizing Halos for use as smaller scale WMDs.
-ONI or The Covenant has or had dispatched ships outside of the known Galaxy or there are other Ark-like portals linking to other galaxies.
-ONI is conducting psychiatric experimentation (brainwashing) on the Sangheili in order to plant Operatives in the ranks of the SoS.
I am typically an ONI fan, but, I love it when ONI is bad.
) - The Next 72 Hrs never happened. - The Flood is actually an inter-galactic virus, from which the Precursors evolved. This explains how the Precursor dust magically mutated into Flood so easily, and (in my mind at least) makes the Flood seem like more of a threat. - The Ark is working on an Installation 04C, right under the noses of the researchers stationed there. - Venus has been terraformed and colonised, and Mercury is in the middle of being terraformed as of 2558 (with so many refugees, the UNSC decided to terraform it to provide homes (even though previous studies had indicated it would be easier to find new planetary systems, than terraform it) because most habitable terrestrial planets nearby the Sol system had been glassed). - For the SPARTAN-Is (I know they’re technically ORIONs, but S-I sounds cooler), ONI was initially working on powered armour, to take advantage of their augmentations, but it was scrapped at the prototype phase due to the fact the armour was unable to provide a significant improvement in combat prowess.There’s more, but the rest is a massive, inter-connected web of ideas, which span all the way from 2523 to 2553, and so it’d take too long to explain.