It felt like all of humanity was in mourning. Memorials were everywhere. But it was the one on Biko, where they found Richard Sekibo’s body, that I couldn’t put out of my mind.
Sad 
R.I.P Richard Sekibo. Chief, I think, has killed Richard
This whole thing seems fishy. An Insurrectionist drops an image and video of Chief shooting up a peace conference. These peace talks were supposed to be big and yet, Chief was only by himself? Where was Blue Team and do you think they’d let him kill innocents? And for peace talks, the audio sounds nothing like it, it sounds more like an all out battle. I’m not buying this one bit.
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> This whole thing seems fishy. An Insurrectionist drops an image and video of Chief shooting up a peace conference. These peace talks were supposed to be big and yet, Chief was only by himself? Where was Blue Team and do you think they’d let him kill innocents? And for peace talks, the audio sounds nothing like it, it sounds more like an all out battle. I’m not buying this one bit.
Blue team was presumably the one’s driving the ship that allowed Chief and the alien delegation to escape. And how does the audio sound nothing like peace talks? Of course, naturally it will sound like a battle because the fighting you’re hearing is the Chief shooting up the embassy and likely in battle with the local security forces; it’s kinda gonna sound like that. But just before the fighting breaks out, we can hear people talking peacefully.
Incidentally, ONI was trying to cover up this attack and FERO found it and leaked it. FERO herself is as disturbed and confused as we are, and she denies point blank that she fabricated this. So based on what we know for sure, Chief really did this.
I believe the chief did this! But I forgive him.
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> > This whole thing seems fishy. An Insurrectionist drops an image and video of Chief shooting up a peace conference. These peace talks were supposed to be big and yet, Chief was only by himself? Where was Blue Team and do you think they’d let him kill innocents? And for peace talks, the audio sounds nothing like it, it sounds more like an all out battle. I’m not buying this one bit.
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> Blue team was presumably the one’s driving the ship that allowed Chief and the alien delegation to escape. And how does the audio sound nothing like peace talks? Of course, naturally it will sound like a battle because the fighting you’re hearing is the Chief shooting up the embassy and likely in battle with the local security forces; it’s kinda gonna sound like that. But just before the fighting breaks out, we can hear people talking peacefully.
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> Incidentally, ONI was trying to cover up this attack and FERO found it and leaked it. FERO herself is as disturbed and confused as we are, and she denies point blank that she fabricated this. So based on what we know for sure, Chief really did this.
That’s a pretty big presumption. From a tactical standpoint alone, it is incredibly bizarre for the Chief to go busting into a room full of people without having at least one of his teammates along to watch his back and help secure the aliens and the human delegate. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. We have also been told by the writer of ‘Halo: Escalation’ that the Master Chief and Blue Team did indeed go off the grid soon after the events of issue #10. So if that’s the case, would they suddenly pop back up in human-controlled space now, and attack a peace summit? How did they even find out about it?
Also it’s incrdibly difficult to gather anything concrete from the audio clip - the only thing I could make out before the shooting noise was someone saying “Stand down.” So actually is sounds like there was some kind of stand-off. Ben does not describe any kind of heavy security defending the embassy either.
It seems highly suspicious that just what Giruad needs to set up his blowout of ONI just so happens to occur right when he needs it to and FERO just so happens to be the only person with all the details. It’s also worth noting that the ambassador who could garner the most sympathy from outer colonists was the one that was singled out to be taken as a hostage, and then subsequently killed in the most undignified way…So what if FERO denies involvement? You ever consider the possibility that, like half the people Ben has talked to in this series, she’s lying?
We really don’t know anything “for sure” about this situation at all. And seeing as how almost nothing has been straightforward with this I think it’s definitely not something to be accepted at face value.
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> > > This whole thing seems fishy. An Insurrectionist drops an image and video of Chief shooting up a peace conference. These peace talks were supposed to be big and yet, Chief was only by himself? Where was Blue Team and do you think they’d let him kill innocents? And for peace talks, the audio sounds nothing like it, it sounds more like an all out battle. I’m not buying this one bit.
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> > Blue team was presumably the one’s driving the ship that allowed Chief and the alien delegation to escape. And how does the audio sound nothing like peace talks? Of course, naturally it will sound like a battle because the fighting you’re hearing is the Chief shooting up the embassy and likely in battle with the local security forces; it’s kinda gonna sound like that. But just before the fighting breaks out, we can hear people talking peacefully.
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> > Incidentally, ONI was trying to cover up this attack and FERO found it and leaked it. FERO herself is as disturbed and confused as we are, and she denies point blank that she fabricated this. So based on what we know for sure, Chief really did this.
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> That’s a pretty big presumption. From a tactical standpoint alone, it is incredibly bizarre for the Chief to go busting into a room full of people without having at least one of his teammates along to watch his back and help secure the aliens and the human delegate. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. We have also been told by the writer of ‘Halo: Escalation’ that the Master Chief and Blue Team did indeed go off the grid soon after the events of issue #10. So if that’s the case, would they suddenly pop back up in human-controlled space now, and attack a peace summit? How did they even find out about it?
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> Also it’s incrdibly difficult to gather anything concrete from the audio clip - the only thing I could make out before the shooting noise was someone saying “Stand down.” So actually is sounds like there was some kind of stand-off. Ben does not describe any kind of heavy security defending the embassy either.
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> It seems highly suspicious that just what Giruad needs to set up his blowout of ONI just so happens to occur right when he needs it to and FERO just so happens to be the only person with all the details. It’s also worth noting that the ambassador who could garner the most sympathy from outer colonists was the one that was singled out to be taken as a hostage, and then subsequently killed in the most undignified way…So what if FERO denies involvement? You ever consider the possibility that, like half the people Ben has talked to in this series, she’s lying?
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> We really don’t know anything “for sure” about this situation at all. And seeing as how almost nothing has been straightforward with this I think it’s definitely not something to be accepted at face value.
Obviously we are missing something, but it seems pointless to me to throw smoke like that; typically when someone makes a flat denial like FERO did then I’m inclined to believe them. It is of course possible it was a set up, but if it was, how’d they do it? How did they doctor the video? Why would ONI be covering it up and more importantly why would ONI send Locke to kill Chief if they know who actually did it? Or if they at least know Chief wasn’t the culprit? If FERO doctored the footage, then why would ONI believe FERO’s footage over their own footage which, incidentally, they were trying to cover up until FERO leaked it? Is it not more likely that the footage Ben sees is the very footage, undoctored, that ONI was trying to cover up, along with the incident report that had been classified for 10 days? Why would Chief be questioning his own motives in his Halo 5 trailer, asking if everything he compromised was worth it? Wouldn’t ONI just come out and say that the Chief is innocent and pin this on human Insurgents, especially if they know it was a sham? Ya know, instead of sending Locke to kill him? Obviously they’d have no reason to kill the Chief if he really hadn’t done this, and unless ONI is so stupid that they’d fall for doctored footage over their own investigations, then there’s no reason to believe that this was FERO’s doing.
And yes Ben does mention the security forces. “He abducted the ambassador and blasted his way through security personal, mowing them down with extreme prejudice.” He also says that a firefight ensued after he shot the ambassador’s bodyguard. So the sounds of battle are genuine; keep in mind that to Ben, he’s not listening to an audio file, he’s watching video footage, and he’s not questioning what he’s seeing. So sounds of battle are expected. I am of course not saying Chief is evil, there are clearly things here we do not yet know, but it would require some rather hefty logical gymnastics to try and say Chief didn’t actually do this. He’s been set up lately as being a traitor, it’d be a waste of time to suddenly go “no wait he didn’t do it” and frankly, it’d be a cheap cop out, lazy, after all of this set up.
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> > > > This whole thing seems fishy. An Insurrectionist drops an image and video of Chief shooting up a peace conference. These peace talks were supposed to be big and yet, Chief was only by himself? Where was Blue Team and do you think they’d let him kill innocents? And for peace talks, the audio sounds nothing like it, it sounds more like an all out battle. I’m not buying this one bit.
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> > > Blue team was presumably the one’s driving the ship that allowed Chief and the alien delegation to escape. And how does the audio sound nothing like peace talks? Of course, naturally it will sound like a battle because the fighting you’re hearing is the Chief shooting up the embassy and likely in battle with the local security forces; it’s kinda gonna sound like that. But just before the fighting breaks out, we can hear people talking peacefully.
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> > > Incidentally, ONI was trying to cover up this attack and FERO found it and leaked it. FERO herself is as disturbed and confused as we are, and she denies point blank that she fabricated this. So based on what we know for sure, Chief really did this.
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> > That’s a pretty big presumption. From a tactical standpoint alone, it is incredibly bizarre for the Chief to go busting into a room full of people without having at least one of his teammates along to watch his back and help secure the aliens and the human delegate. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. We have also been told by the writer of ‘Halo: Escalation’ that the Master Chief and Blue Team did indeed go off the grid soon after the events of issue #10. So if that’s the case, would they suddenly pop back up in human-controlled space now, and attack a peace summit? How did they even find out about it?
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> > Also it’s incrdibly difficult to gather anything concrete from the audio clip - the only thing I could make out before the shooting noise was someone saying “Stand down.” So actually is sounds like there was some kind of stand-off. Ben does not describe any kind of heavy security defending the embassy either.
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> > It seems highly suspicious that just what Giruad needs to set up his blowout of ONI just so happens to occur right when he needs it to and FERO just so happens to be the only person with all the details. It’s also worth noting that the ambassador who could garner the most sympathy from outer colonists was the one that was singled out to be taken as a hostage, and then subsequently killed in the most undignified way…So what if FERO denies involvement? You ever consider the possibility that, like half the people Ben has talked to in this series, she’s lying?
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> > We really don’t know anything “for sure” about this situation at all. And seeing as how almost nothing has been straightforward with this I think it’s definitely not something to be accepted at face value.
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> Obviously we are missing something, but it seems pointless to me to throw smoke like that; typically when someone makes a flat denial like FERO did then I’m inclined to believe them. It is of course possible it was a set up, but if it was, how’d they do it? How did they doctor the video? Why would ONI be covering it up and more importantly why would ONI send Locke to kill Chief if they know who actually did it? Or if they at least know Chief wasn’t the culprit? If FERO doctored the footage, then why would ONI believe FERO’s footage over their own footage which, incidentally, they were trying to cover up until FERO leaked it? Is it not more likely that the footage Ben sees is the very footage, undoctored, that ONI was trying to cover up, along with the incident report that had been classified for 10 days? Why would Chief be questioning his own motives in his Halo 5 trailer, asking if everything he compromised was worth it? Wouldn’t ONI just come out and say that the Chief is innocent and pin this on human Insurgents, especially if they know it was a sham? Ya know, instead of sending Locke to kill him? Obviously they’d have no reason to kill the Chief if he really hadn’t done this, and unless ONI is so stupid that they’d fall for doctored footage over their own investigations, then there’s no reason to believe that this was FERO’s doing.
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> And yes Ben does mention the security forces. “He abducted the ambassador and blasted his way through security personal, mowing them down with extreme prejudice.” He also says that a firefight ensued after he shot the ambassador’s bodyguard. So the sounds of battle are genuine; keep in mind that to Ben, he’s not listening to an audio file, he’s watching video footage, and he’s not questioning what he’s seeing. So sounds of battle are expected. I am of course not saying Chief is evil, there are clearly things here we do not yet know, but it would require some rather hefty logical gymnastics to try and say Chief didn’t actually do this. He’s been set up lately as being a traitor, it’d be a waste of time to suddenly go “no wait he didn’t do it” and frankly, it’d be a cheap cop out, lazy, after all of this set up.
If Chief did had the intention to do this, what would the point be? Random peace talks that is years after the war, with what appears to be the Elites even though there is a truce between the Swords of Sanghelios and the UNSC. Why does Chief go off the grid, pop up at a random peace talk, abduct the dude who organized it all, kills him in a field, and then just leaves his body? This all seems very odd, even if ONI is covering it up that means nothing. If an organization has some dirt against them, real or fake, wouldnt you think they’d try to cover it up as much as possible to safe their reputation?
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> > > > > This whole thing seems fishy. An Insurrectionist drops an image and video of Chief shooting up a peace conference. These peace talks were supposed to be big and yet, Chief was only by himself? Where was Blue Team and do you think they’d let him kill innocents? And for peace talks, the audio sounds nothing like it, it sounds more like an all out battle. I’m not buying this one bit.
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> > > > Blue team was presumably the one’s driving the ship that allowed Chief and the alien delegation to escape. And how does the audio sound nothing like peace talks? Of course, naturally it will sound like a battle because the fighting you’re hearing is the Chief shooting up the embassy and likely in battle with the local security forces; it’s kinda gonna sound like that. But just before the fighting breaks out, we can hear people talking peacefully.
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> > > > Incidentally, ONI was trying to cover up this attack and FERO found it and leaked it. FERO herself is as disturbed and confused as we are, and she denies point blank that she fabricated this. So based on what we know for sure, Chief really did this.
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> > > That’s a pretty big presumption. From a tactical standpoint alone, it is incredibly bizarre for the Chief to go busting into a room full of people without having at least one of his teammates along to watch his back and help secure the aliens and the human delegate. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. We have also been told by the writer of ‘Halo: Escalation’ that the Master Chief and Blue Team did indeed go off the grid soon after the events of issue #10. So if that’s the case, would they suddenly pop back up in human-controlled space now, and attack a peace summit? How did they even find out about it?
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> > > Also it’s incrdibly difficult to gather anything concrete from the audio clip - the only thing I could make out before the shooting noise was someone saying “Stand down.” So actually is sounds like there was some kind of stand-off. Ben does not describe any kind of heavy security defending the embassy either.
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> > > It seems highly suspicious that just what Giruad needs to set up his blowout of ONI just so happens to occur right when he needs it to and FERO just so happens to be the only person with all the details. It’s also worth noting that the ambassador who could garner the most sympathy from outer colonists was the one that was singled out to be taken as a hostage, and then subsequently killed in the most undignified way…So what if FERO denies involvement? You ever consider the possibility that, like half the people Ben has talked to in this series, she’s lying?
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> > > We really don’t know anything “for sure” about this situation at all. And seeing as how almost nothing has been straightforward with this I think it’s definitely not something to be accepted at face value.
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> > Obviously we are missing something, but it seems pointless to me to throw smoke like that; typically when someone makes a flat denial like FERO did then I’m inclined to believe them. It is of course possible it was a set up, but if it was, how’d they do it? How did they doctor the video? Why would ONI be covering it up and more importantly why would ONI send Locke to kill Chief if they know who actually did it? Or if they at least know Chief wasn’t the culprit? If FERO doctored the footage, then why would ONI believe FERO’s footage over their own footage which, incidentally, they were trying to cover up until FERO leaked it? Is it not more likely that the footage Ben sees is the very footage, undoctored, that ONI was trying to cover up, along with the incident report that had been classified for 10 days? Why would Chief be questioning his own motives in his Halo 5 trailer, asking if everything he compromised was worth it? Wouldn’t ONI just come out and say that the Chief is innocent and pin this on human Insurgents, especially if they know it was a sham? Ya know, instead of sending Locke to kill him? Obviously they’d have no reason to kill the Chief if he really hadn’t done this, and unless ONI is so stupid that they’d fall for doctored footage over their own investigations, then there’s no reason to believe that this was FERO’s doing.
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> > And yes Ben does mention the security forces. “He abducted the ambassador and blasted his way through security personal, mowing them down with extreme prejudice.” He also says that a firefight ensued after he shot the ambassador’s bodyguard. So the sounds of battle are genuine; keep in mind that to Ben, he’s not listening to an audio file, he’s watching video footage, and he’s not questioning what he’s seeing. So sounds of battle are expected. I am of course not saying Chief is evil, there are clearly things here we do not yet know, but it would require some rather hefty logical gymnastics to try and say Chief didn’t actually do this. He’s been set up lately as being a traitor, it’d be a waste of time to suddenly go “no wait he didn’t do it” and frankly, it’d be a cheap cop out, lazy, after all of this set up.
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> If Chief did had the intention to do this, what would the point be? Random peace talks that is years after the war, with what appears to be the Elites even though there is a truce between the Swords of Sanghelios and the UNSC. Why does Chief go off the grid, pop up at a random peace talk, abduct the dude who organized it all, kills him in a field, and then just leaves his body? This all seems very odd, even if ONI is covering it up that means nothing. If an organization has some dirt against them, real or fake, wouldnt you think they’d try to cover it up as much as possible to safe their reputation?
Nowhere does it ever say that, “Chief” killed the ambassador. They only said he was the last one with him in his custody. Any number of events could have transpired after. Also it is obvious that the whole event is taken out of context. The Chief had his reasons and that’s what Locke was tasked to find out.
It seems too coincidental that Giraud would speculate that Chief’s clone may have survived just before he starts acting strangely and shooting up embassies. It’s either 343 have thrown in some red herrings, or the clone has some part to play. I kinda hope the clone didn’t survive, just because that would be a such a cheesy and obvious plot device.
I believe that this embassy shooting is some kind of hoax by ONI to justify them hunting down the Chief because he’s done something they didn’t like while he was AWOL with Blue Team. They need to show the public why they’re hunting him.
EDIT: New Theory
The Alien delegation is the Arbiter and his allies. Chief saves them from an ONI assassination attempt well disguised as peace talks. The ambassador found in a field pursued the Chief but was killed as they escaped. While humanity seems to be friendly to the Elites we must remember ONI have been working behind the scenes to destabilise them in the Kilo Five trilogy. They even discussed outright genocide. So it’s not a big stretch to assume they wanted key Sangheili leaders dead to further spread chaos among the elites. So the Chief was actually acting in the interests of Humanity by preserving the peace- exactly what ONI didn’t want. This explains why ONI covered up the incident.
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> > > > This whole thing seems fishy. An Insurrectionist drops an image and video of Chief shooting up a peace conference. These peace talks were supposed to be big and yet, Chief was only by himself? Where was Blue Team and do you think they’d let him kill innocents? And for peace talks, the audio sounds nothing like it, it sounds more like an all out battle. I’m not buying this one bit.
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> > > Blue team was presumably the one’s driving the ship that allowed Chief and the alien delegation to escape. And how does the audio sound nothing like peace talks? Of course, naturally it will sound like a battle because the fighting you’re hearing is the Chief shooting up the embassy and likely in battle with the local security forces; it’s kinda gonna sound like that. But just before the fighting breaks out, we can hear people talking peacefully.
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> > > Incidentally, ONI was trying to cover up this attack and FERO found it and leaked it. FERO herself is as disturbed and confused as we are, and she denies point blank that she fabricated this. So based on what we know for sure, Chief really did this.
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> > That’s a pretty big presumption. From a tactical standpoint alone, it is incredibly bizarre for the Chief to go busting into a room full of people without having at least one of his teammates along to watch his back and help secure the aliens and the human delegate. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. We have also been told by the writer of ‘Halo: Escalation’ that the Master Chief and Blue Team did indeed go off the grid soon after the events of issue #10. So if that’s the case, would they suddenly pop back up in human-controlled space now, and attack a peace summit? How did they even find out about it?
> >
> > Also it’s incrdibly difficult to gather anything concrete from the audio clip - the only thing I could make out before the shooting noise was someone saying “Stand down.” So actually is sounds like there was some kind of stand-off. Ben does not describe any kind of heavy security defending the embassy either.
> >
> > It seems highly suspicious that just what Giruad needs to set up his blowout of ONI just so happens to occur right when he needs it to and FERO just so happens to be the only person with all the details. It’s also worth noting that the ambassador who could garner the most sympathy from outer colonists was the one that was singled out to be taken as a hostage, and then subsequently killed in the most undignified way…So what if FERO denies involvement? You ever consider the possibility that, like half the people Ben has talked to in this series, she’s lying?
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> > We really don’t know anything “for sure” about this situation at all. And seeing as how almost nothing has been straightforward with this I think it’s definitely not something to be accepted at face value.
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> Obviously we are missing something, but it seems pointless to me to throw smoke like that; typically when someone makes a flat denial like FERO did then I’m inclined to believe them. It is of course possible it was a set up, but if it was, how’d they do it? How did they doctor the video? Why would ONI be covering it up and more importantly why would ONI send Locke to kill Chief if they know who actually did it? Or if they at least know Chief wasn’t the culprit? If FERO doctored the footage, then why would ONI believe FERO’s footage over their own footage which, incidentally, they were trying to cover up until FERO leaked it? Is it not more likely that the footage Ben sees is the very footage, undoctored, that ONI was trying to cover up, along with the incident report that had been classified for 10 days? Why would Chief be questioning his own motives in his Halo 5 trailer, asking if everything he compromised was worth it? Wouldn’t ONI just come out and say that the Chief is innocent and pin this on human Insurgents, especially if they know it was a sham? Ya know, instead of sending Locke to kill him? Obviously they’d have no reason to kill the Chief if he really hadn’t done this, and unless ONI is so stupid that they’d fall for doctored footage over their own investigations, then there’s no reason to believe that this was FERO’s doing.
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> And yes Ben does mention the security forces. “He abducted the ambassador and blasted his way through security personal, mowing them down with extreme prejudice.” He also says that a firefight ensued after he shot the ambassador’s bodyguard. So the sounds of battle are genuine; keep in mind that to Ben, he’s not listening to an audio file, he’s watching video footage, and he’s not questioning what he’s seeing. So sounds of battle are expected. I am of course not saying Chief is evil, there are clearly things here we do not yet know, but it would require some rather hefty logical gymnastics to try and say Chief didn’t actually do this. He’s been set up lately as being a traitor, it’d be a waste of time to suddenly go “no wait he didn’t do it” and frankly, it’d be a cheap cop out, lazy, after all of this set up.
And what on earth makes FERO, a (currently unknown) rebel leader who seems hellbent on taking down ONI at any cost, a trustworthy source?
This is the 26th Century we’re talking about here, I think it would be incredibly easy to create a digitally fabricated/doctored video. We also don’t know if ONI was covering this up at all, as FERO is the only source of all this information. We haven’t yet heard ONI or the UNSC’s side of this argument yet. And the timing of this supposed incident still suspiciously aligns perfectly with FEROs plans. Once again you’re simply taking what FERO says at face-value, when there’s still some major problems with this story in how they present it. Also those live action trailers are not canon, and we don’t even know the context of the Chief’s or Locke’s words in them. I think you’re jumping to conclusions here.
Well the last time we saw a peace conference being held between humans and aliens, an entire Spartan-IV contingent was guarding it. Less than a dozen security guards still sounds pretty lax for something like this if you ask me. I don’t think Ben can be considered a reliable/impartial narrator either. He didn’t get around to questioning the authenticity of his ONI contacts either until the false information started to pile up so high it was impossible to dismiss.
Also it should be noted that in the H2A prologue/epilogue scenes both Locke and the Arbiter seem to have no knowledge of why the Chief has disappeared.
I doesn’t require any “logical gymnastics” at all to assume this situation is a farce. In fact I would argue it requires more to assume the opposite - because then you have to try and reason away where the other members of Blue Team are, who the mysterious alien delegation was, how the Chief came to know about this peace conference in the first place, and why the most important human ambassador was the only one kept alive but then unceremoniously left for dead in the middle of nowhere.
The Chief not actually being a traitor isn’t a cop-out or lazy at all, especially when there’s no reason for him to have done this with any kind of traitorous intent. Him being set-up to be a traitor is likely just that, a set-up, as in he’s being framed/blamed unfairly. What I think we’re seeing here is something similar to what happened to Capatin America in ‘The Winter Soldier’ movie. The Captain may not have been a traitor, but some of his allies not knowing for sure and the villains behind it all manipulating things still made for a compelling story.
I doubt it is chief, simply for the fact that he has stated he feels bad killing humans when he was fighting insurrectionists. His armor could also easily be replicated.
> And what on earth makes FERO, a (currently unknown) rebel leader who seems hellbent on taking down ONI at any cost, a trustworthy source?
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> This is the 26th Century we’re talking about here, I think it would be incredibly easy to create a digitally fabricated/doctored video. We also don’t know if ONI was covering this up at all, as FERO is the only source of all this information. We haven’t yet heard ONI or the UNSC’s side of this argument yet. And the timing of this supposed incident still suspiciously aligns perfectly with FEROs plans. Once again you’re simply taking what FERO says at face-value, when there’s still some major problems with this story in how they present it. Also those live action trailers are not canon, and we don’t even know the context of the Chief’s or Locke’s words in them. I think you’re jumping to conclusions here.
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> Well the last time we saw a peace conference being held between humans and aliens, an entire Spartan-IV contingent was guarding it. Less than a dozen security guards still sounds pretty lax for something like this if you ask me. I don’t think Ben can be considered a reliable/impartial narrator either. He didn’t get around to questioning the authenticity of his ONI contacts either until the false information started to pile up so high it was impossible to dismiss.
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> Also it should be noted that in the H2A prologue/epilogue scenes both Locke and the Arbiter seem to have no knowledge of why the Chief has disappeared.
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> I doesn’t require any “logical gymnastics” at all to assume this situation is a farce. In fact I would argue it requires more to assume the opposite - because then you have to try and reason away where the other members of Blue Team are, who the mysterious alien delegation was, how the Chief came to know about this peace conference in the first place, and why the most important human ambassador was the only one kept alive but then unceremoniously left for dead in the middle of nowhere.
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> The Chief not actually being a traitor isn’t a cop-out or lazy at all, especially when there’s no reason for him to have done this with any kind of traitorous intent. Him being set-up to be a traitor is likely just that, a set-up, as in he’s being framed/blamed unfairly. What I think we’re seeing here is something similar to what happened to Capatin America in ‘The Winter Soldier’ movie. The Captain may not have been a traitor, but some of his allies not knowing for sure and the villains behind it all manipulating things still made for a compelling story.
Welp, nice to know that Hunt the Truth has been a waste of everyones time. “There’s two sides to every story?” If Chief is someone who’s pure, innocent and always doing the right thing, obviously UNSC, Locke, ONI and anyone who tries to oppose him is objectively evil and wrong. No clash of priorities or ideals, no moral dilemmas, no believable characters or events. Just good versus bad. Spoilers, good (The Chief) will win and everyone who was against him either get their just punishment or realize how wrong they were to oppose the almighty hero who can do no wrong.
That would be no different from what we’ve had before. It seriously unbalances a narrative with two protagonists who are pitted against each other. How are we supposed to sympathize with Locke if there’s no compelling argument for his actions besides that he was mistaken? People will just think that Locke is an idiot for not realizing the truth.
I’d much rather see Halo get rid of labes like “good” and “bad”, and focus more on the fact that from the right perspective, anything can be justified. That no one is objectively right or wrong. On how it is impossible to make decisions that satisfy everyone, someone will always lose no matter what you do. Sometimes you can’t just choose between right and wrong, you must pick the lesser evil.
This approach gives the story so much more substance, and the characters actually get room to grow.
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> > And what on earth makes FERO, a (currently unknown) rebel leader who seems hellbent on taking down ONI at any cost, a trustworthy source?
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> > This is the 26th Century we’re talking about here, I think it would be incredibly easy to create a digitally fabricated/doctored video. We also don’t know if ONI was covering this up at all, as FERO is the only source of all this information. We haven’t yet heard ONI or the UNSC’s side of this argument yet. And the timing of this supposed incident still suspiciously aligns perfectly with FEROs plans. Once again you’re simply taking what FERO says at face-value, when there’s still some major problems with this story in how they present it. Also those live action trailers are not canon, and we don’t even know the context of the Chief’s or Locke’s words in them. I think you’re jumping to conclusions here.
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> > Well the last time we saw a peace conference being held between humans and aliens, an entire Spartan-IV contingent was guarding it. Less than a dozen security guards still sounds pretty lax for something like this if you ask me. I don’t think Ben can be considered a reliable/impartial narrator either. He didn’t get around to questioning the authenticity of his ONI contacts either until the false information started to pile up so high it was impossible to dismiss.
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> > Also it should be noted that in the H2A prologue/epilogue scenes both Locke and the Arbiter seem to have no knowledge of why the Chief has disappeared.
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> > I doesn’t require any “logical gymnastics” at all to assume this situation is a farce. In fact I would argue it requires more to assume the opposite - because then you have to try and reason away where the other members of Blue Team are, who the mysterious alien delegation was, how the Chief came to know about this peace conference in the first place, and why the most important human ambassador was the only one kept alive but then unceremoniously left for dead in the middle of nowhere.
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> > The Chief not actually being a traitor isn’t a cop-out or lazy at all, especially when there’s no reason for him to have done this with any kind of traitorous intent. Him being set-up to be a traitor is likely just that, a set-up, as in he’s being framed/blamed unfairly. What I think we’re seeing here is something similar to what happened to Capatin America in ‘The Winter Soldier’ movie. The Captain may not have been a traitor, but some of his allies not knowing for sure and the villains behind it all manipulating things still made for a compelling story.
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> Welp, nice to know that Hunt the Truth has been a waste of everyones time. “There’s two sides to every story?” If Chief is someone who’s pure, innocent and always doing the right thing, obviously UNSC, Locke, ONI and anyone who tries to oppose him is objectively evil and wrong. No clash of priorities or ideals, no moral dilemmas, no believable characters or events. Just good versus bad. Spoilers, good (The Chief) will win and everyone who was against him either get their just punishment or realize how wrong they were to oppose the almighty hero who can do no wrong.
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> That would be no different from what we’ve had before. It seriously unbalances a narrative with two protagonists who are pitted against each other. How are we supposed to sympathize with Locke if there’s no compelling argument for his actions besides that he was mistaken? People will just think that Locke is an idiot for not realizing the truth.
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> I’d much rather see Halo get rid of labes like “good” and “bad”, and focus more on the fact that from the right perspective, anything can be justified. That no one is objectively right or wrong. On how it is impossible to make decisions that satisfy everyone, someone will always lose no matter what you do. Sometimes you can’t just choose between right and wrong, you must pick the lesser evil.
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> This approach gives the story so much more substance, and the characters actually get room to grow.
It’s nothing but speculation amongst the community members, and we won’t know what has happened until E3 or October.
Today we will get the 9th part of the Hunt the Truth, so are there only 2 part left?
Son, Abductee, Victim, Orphan, Recruit, Soldier, Warrior, Ally, Hero, Savior, Traitor…and if I’m correct than we didn’t hear about Hero, Savior, and Ally…yet.
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> > Obviously we are missing something, but it seems pointless to me to throw smoke like that; typically when someone makes a flat denial like FERO did then I’m inclined to believe them. It is of course possible it was a set up, but if it was, how’d they do it? How did they doctor the video? Why would ONI be covering it up and more importantly why would ONI send Locke to kill Chief if they know who actually did it? Or if they at least know Chief wasn’t the culprit? If FERO doctored the footage, then why would ONI believe FERO’s footage over their own footage which, incidentally, they were trying to cover up until FERO leaked it? Is it not more likely that the footage Ben sees is the very footage, undoctored, that ONI was trying to cover up, along with the incident report that had been classified for 10 days? Why would Chief be questioning his own motives in his Halo 5 trailer, asking if everything he compromised was worth it? Wouldn’t ONI just come out and say that the Chief is innocent and pin this on human Insurgents, especially if they know it was a sham? Ya know, instead of sending Locke to kill him? Obviously they’d have no reason to kill the Chief if he really hadn’t done this, and unless ONI is so stupid that they’d fall for doctored footage over their own investigations, then there’s no reason to believe that this was FERO’s doing.
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> > And yes Ben does mention the security forces. “He abducted the ambassador and blasted his way through security personal, mowing them down with extreme prejudice.” He also says that a firefight ensued after he shot the ambassador’s bodyguard. So the sounds of battle are genuine; keep in mind that to Ben, he’s not listening to an audio file, he’s watching video footage, and he’s not questioning what he’s seeing. So sounds of battle are expected. I am of course not saying Chief is evil, there are clearly things here we do not yet know, but it would require some rather hefty logical gymnastics to try and say Chief didn’t actually do this. He’s been set up lately as being a traitor, it’d be a waste of time to suddenly go “no wait he didn’t do it” and frankly, it’d be a cheap cop out, lazy, after all of this set up.
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> And what on earth makes FERO, a (currently unknown) rebel leader who seems hellbent on taking down ONI at any cost, a trustworthy source?
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> This is the 26th Century we’re talking about here, I think it would be incredibly easy to create a digitally fabricated/doctored video. We also don’t know if ONI was covering this up at all, as FERO is the only source of all this information. We haven’t yet heard ONI or the UNSC’s side of this argument yet. And the timing of this supposed incident still suspiciously aligns perfectly with FEROs plans. Once again you’re simply taking what FERO says at face-value, when there’s still some major problems with this story in how they present it. Also those live action trailers are not canon, and we don’t even know the context of the Chief’s or Locke’s words in them. I think you’re jumping to conclusions here.
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> Well the last time we saw a peace conference being held between humans and aliens, an entire Spartan-IV contingent was guarding it. Less than a dozen security guards still sounds pretty lax for something like this if you ask me. I don’t think Ben can be considered a reliable/impartial narrator either. He didn’t get around to questioning the authenticity of his ONI contacts either until the false information started to pile up so high it was impossible to dismiss.
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> Also it should be noted that in the H2A prologue/epilogue scenes both Locke and the Arbiter seem to have no knowledge of why the Chief has disappeared.
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> I doesn’t require any “logical gymnastics” at all to assume this situation is a farce. In fact I would argue it requires more to assume the opposite - because then you have to try and reason away where the other members of Blue Team are, who the mysterious alien delegation was, how the Chief came to know about this peace conference in the first place, and why the most important human ambassador was the only one kept alive but then unceremoniously left for dead in the middle of nowhere.
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> The Chief not actually being a traitor isn’t a cop-out or lazy at all, especially when there’s no reason for him to have done this with any kind of traitorous intent. Him being set-up to be a traitor is likely just that, a set-up, as in he’s being framed/blamed unfairly. What I think we’re seeing here is something similar to what happened to Capatin America in ‘The Winter Soldier’ movie. The Captain may not have been a traitor, but some of his allies not knowing for sure and the villains behind it all manipulating things still made for a compelling story.
Locke only told the Arbiter that it was Chief out of good will, for trust. Telling him that it was Chief they were hunting wasn’t an immediate thing to do.
And Locke says that Chief went AWOL. Chief shooting up peace talks while AWOL is stoll AWOL. He doesn’t need to tell the Arbiter everything. They can know that the Chief committed this action without knowing why he did it. That’s what Locke said, that he wants to find out why. Which means he’s done something.
ONI controls the media. If there was an attack on a peace conference, people would know. If it was a Spartan that did it, people would know. Since people didn’t know, ONI obviously wasn’t planning to release it. It took a rebel hacker to get the one source document out to the public.
Ben was on a job. ONI isn’t a completely shady, hidden superpower to everyone. When they gave him convincing contacts, they were convincing. It took ONI’s attacking him on the shuttle to convince Ben to drop the job and face the consequences of digging deeper.
I would be tremendously dissapointed if Halo 5’s story ends up being a cliche “hero framed, other guy misled” story, rather than the morally complicated two-sided drama it’s being set up as. All the attention of Chief being a traitor, questioning himself and those around him, and a desire to protect humanity above anything… all for nothing?
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> > And what on earth makes FERO, a (currently unknown) rebel leader who seems hellbent on taking down ONI at any cost, a trustworthy source?
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> > This is the 26th Century we’re talking about here, I think it would be incredibly easy to create a digitally fabricated/doctored video. We also don’t know if ONI was covering this up at all, as FERO is the only source of all this information. We haven’t yet heard ONI or the UNSC’s side of this argument yet. And the timing of this supposed incident still suspiciously aligns perfectly with FEROs plans. Once again you’re simply taking what FERO says at face-value, when there’s still some major problems with this story in how they present it. Also those live action trailers are not canon, and we don’t even know the context of the Chief’s or Locke’s words in them. I think you’re jumping to conclusions here.
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> > Well the last time we saw a peace conference being held between humans and aliens, an entire Spartan-IV contingent was guarding it. Less than a dozen security guards still sounds pretty lax for something like this if you ask me. I don’t think Ben can be considered a reliable/impartial narrator either. He didn’t get around to questioning the authenticity of his ONI contacts either until the false information started to pile up so high it was impossible to dismiss.
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> > Also it should be noted that in the H2A prologue/epilogue scenes both Locke and the Arbiter seem to have no knowledge of why the Chief has disappeared.
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> > I doesn’t require any “logical gymnastics” at all to assume this situation is a farce. In fact I would argue it requires more to assume the opposite - because then you have to try and reason away where the other members of Blue Team are, who the mysterious alien delegation was, how the Chief came to know about this peace conference in the first place, and why the most important human ambassador was the only one kept alive but then unceremoniously left for dead in the middle of nowhere.
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> > The Chief not actually being a traitor isn’t a cop-out or lazy at all, especially when there’s no reason for him to have done this with any kind of traitorous intent. Him being set-up to be a traitor is likely just that, a set-up, as in he’s being framed/blamed unfairly. What I think we’re seeing here is something similar to what happened to Capatin America in ‘The Winter Soldier’ movie. The Captain may not have been a traitor, but some of his allies not knowing for sure and the villains behind it all manipulating things still made for a compelling story.
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> Locke only told the Arbiter that it was Chief out of good will, for trust. Telling him that it was Chief they were hunting wasn’t an immediate thing to do.
> And Locke says that Chief went AWOL. Chief shooting up peace talks while AWOL is stoll AWOL. He doesn’t need to tell the Arbiter everything. They can know that the Chief committed this action without knowing why he did it. That’s what Locke said, that he wants to find out why. Which means he’s done something.
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> ONI controls the media. If there was an attack on a peace conference, people would know. If it was a Spartan that did it, people would know. Since people didn’t know, ONI obviously wasn’t planning to release it. It took a rebel hacker to get the one source document out to the public.
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> Ben was on a job. ONI isn’t a completely shady, hidden superpower to everyone. When they gave him convincing contacts, they were convincing. It took ONI’s attacking him on the shuttle to convince Ben to drop the job and face the consequences of digging deeper.
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> I would be tremendously dissapointed if Halo 5’s story ends up being a cliche “hero framed, other guy misled” story, rather than the morally complicated two-sided drama it’s being set up as. All the attention of Chief being a traitor, questioning himself and those around him, and a desire to protect humanity above anything… all for nothing?
But that supports my point though. If the Chief was unequivocally a traitor, why not say so to the Arbiter? Especially if Locke telling the Arbiter about it was in the interest of “trust”? All that does is set up Locke to look bad as being even more of a liar/ONI tool. The “why” they’re talking about is directed at the concept of the Chief going missing in itself - nothing else is referenced. And as for the Arbiter, even if these peace talks were not with his faction, you think he would have at least heard about the Chief wrecking a supposedly “landmark” conference like this. It’s still very odd.
Or the “peace talks”, or at the very least the Chief’s attack, was fabricated and FERO is using this as a means of getting ONIs attention. Again, the timing is awfully convenient.
And so how is what FERO is supplying Ben any more straightforward than what ONI was doing? Both parties obviously have their own agendas, and have both fed Ben convincing stories. Who knows at this point if FEROs will fall apart after further scrutiny just like ONIs did.
The Chief shooting up a peace conference isn’t “morally complicated” though - it’s just downright wrong. And it’s completely out of character for him to do something like that. We’ve been told by the devs that the Chief is still the hero of this story. So busting up a peace conference unprovoked, with Blue Team conspicuously absent, and leaving a human ambassador’s corpse in the middle of nowhere? That just doesn’t work - at least not if things as FERO presents them are true. So if this did really happen, something about the situation isn’t right and the Chief’s actions were justified. Ergo, he is indeed being framed/blamed unfairly and Locke is still being misled. The Chief being AWOL in itself is a huge step away from the norm for him, that still shows him questioning his past role as the ultimate soldier and doing what is necessary to save everyone. Him not randomly killing some people doesn’t make this “all for nothing”, not in the slightest.
We don’t know why he did it.
It very well could have been an assassination attempt, or a group of Insurrectionists. The NCA is in UNSC ranks. ONI is trying to keep the Sangheili away from humans.
His character is protecting humanity, whatever the cost.
Whatever the cost.
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> We don’t know why he did it.
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> It very well could have been an assassination attempt, or a group of Insurrectionists. The NCA is in UNSC ranks. ONI is trying to keep the Sangheili away from humans.
> His character is protecting humanity, whatever the cost.
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> Whatever the cost.
And therein lies my point. If it’s true that the Chief did this (and there’s still plenty of red flags making it a possibility that he didn’t), it was for a very good reason and it’s impossible that he just went in and gunned down a bunch of innocent ambassadors as per FERO’s account - the situation cannot be what it appears. So that still makes him the victim in all this no matter what…Also that “whatever the cost” line has no bearing on this situation other than sounding crypic if you’re not going to bother to explain your context. :\
> If the Chief was unequivocally a traitor, why not say so to the Arbiter? The “why” they’re talking about is directed at the concept of the Chief going missing in itself - nothing else is referenced.
Likely just a case of not wanting to reveal too much of the plot 1 year before release. Even now we still know almost nothing outside the basic premise. The traitor part was intentionally left out of the picture before Hunt the Truth strated.
> Or the “peace talks”, or at the very least the Chief’s attack, was fabricated and FERO is using this as a means of getting ONIs attention. Again, the timing is awfully convenient.
19 people were killed. Among them a well-known peace activist. The whole human space is mourning them. Someone had to kill them, at that place and time. There are also likely survivors who saw what happened. FERO just coming up with imaginary peace talks doesn’t really sound plausible when so many people were involved. The witnesses also can tell whether there really was someone like Master Chief present or not.
> The Chief shooting up a peace conference isn’t “morally complicated” though - it’s just downright wrong.
From the right perspective anything can be justified. There are no such things as objectively right or objectively wrong.
> And it’s completely out of character for him to do something like that. We’ve been told by the devs that the Chief is still the hero of this story. So busting up a peace conference unprovoked, with Blue Team conspicuously absent, and leaving a human ambassador’s corpse in the middle of nowhere? That just doesn’t work
Too little information. We know nothing about Chief’s objectives to begin with- not even why he went missing in the first place. Blue Team has no obligation to stick within 50 metres of each other. Chief might have very well decided to do this alone to shoulder all the blame, so the rest of Blue Team wouldn’t be directly associated with his actions. We also don’t know under what conditons the human ambassador died.
> Chief’s actions were justified. Ergo, he is indeed being framed/blamed unfairly and Locke is still being misled.
What’s justified to some isn’t the same to everyone else. Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have hurried the end of the war and spared human lives, since Japanese would have fought to the bitter end in traditional warfare. But they still resulted in inhumane suffering. Sometimes to cost for doing what you think is right is too great for others. Same could be said about Locke and Chief. Locke or rest of human space won’t approve Chief’s methods, even if they were for “greater good”. Especially since “All Hail” implicated that Chief will be responsible for the destruction of an entire city.
> The Chief being AWOL in itself is a huge step away from the norm for him, that still shows him questioning his past role as the ultimate soldier and doing what is necessary to save everyone. Him not randomly killing some people doesn’t make this “all for nothing”, not in the slightest.
Him just being absent doesn’t sound like an avid standalone reason to send a manhunter after him, especially during time of crisis.
It was never about him “randomly killing some people”. It’s obvious that his first priority was to swiftly evacuate the alien delegation, for one reason or another. Not to commit a mass murder.
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> And what on earth makes FERO, a (currently unknown) rebel leader who seems hellbent on taking down ONI at any cost, a trustworthy source?
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> This is the 26th Century we’re talking about here, I think it would be incredibly easy to create a digitally fabricated/doctored video. We also don’t know if ONI was covering this up at all, as FERO is the only source of all this information. We haven’t yet heard ONI or the UNSC’s side of this argument yet. And the timing of this supposed incident still suspiciously aligns perfectly with FEROs plans. Once again you’re simply taking what FERO says at face-value, when there’s still some major problems with this story in how they present it. Also those live action trailers are not canon, and we don’t even know the context of the Chief’s or Locke’s words in them. I think you’re jumping to conclusions here.
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> Well the last time we saw a peace conference being held between humans and aliens, an entire Spartan-IV contingent was guarding it. Less than a dozen security guards still sounds pretty lax for something like this if you ask me. I don’t think Ben can be considered a reliable/impartial narrator either. He didn’t get around to questioning the authenticity of his ONI contacts either until the false information started to pile up so high it was impossible to dismiss.
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> Also it should be noted that in the H2A prologue/epilogue scenes both Locke and the Arbiter seem to have no knowledge of why the Chief has disappeared.
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> I doesn’t require any “logical gymnastics” at all to assume this situation is a farce. In fact I would argue it requires more to assume the opposite - because then you have to try and reason away where the other members of Blue Team are, who the mysterious alien delegation was, how the Chief came to know about this peace conference in the first place, and why the most important human ambassador was the only one kept alive but then unceremoniously left for dead in the middle of nowhere.
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> The Chief not actually being a traitor isn’t a cop-out or lazy at all, especially when there’s no reason for him to have done this with any kind of traitorous intent. Him being set-up to be a traitor is likely just that, a set-up, as in he’s being framed/blamed unfairly. What I think we’re seeing here is something similar to what happened to Capatin America in ‘The Winter Soldier’ movie. The Captain may not have been a traitor, but some of his allies not knowing for sure and the villains behind it all manipulating things still made for a compelling story.
Did I say she was trustworthy? No. I am approaching this from the perspective of a viewer and a writer; you don’t flatly tell the viewer something and then deny it later, because that is what is called “wasting the audience’s time.”
And yes we do know that it was being covered up. By Ben’s own words, the incident report was “suppressed,” suggesting classified. The attack had taken place 10 days before FERO leaked it, and no one in human space had heard of it until the leak. The attack was being suppressed, and if ONI is suppressing the attack, then what reason do we have to think ONI is framing the Chief? Framing 101: if you’re going to frame someone, don’t fake an attack and then refuse to release it; again, that is the opposite of what ONI should be doing. In fact, all of their actions are the opposite of what they should be doing if they were trying to smear him, and smearing him at all is in fact political suicide for ONI. As for FERO, once again, if she truly faked this footage, all ONI has to do is say “this footage is faked, Insurgents attacked the embassy, and they do not represent the interests of the UNSC or ONI” and they’d be in the clear. Seeing as how they clearly have NOT done that, then it stands to reason that it is in fact genuine footage.
Also, it is clear the people of Biko seem convinced it was him too. A memorial service was held, and again, no one is questioning that it was the Chief, including the people who were there.
Also: “It is the 25th century, surly they can fake footage” isn’t an argument, because according to Halo, 500 years from now we are still using gas operated, 7.62mm NATO rounds. Future=/=better, so until we have evidence suggesting the ability to fake video footage like that, then we can’t assume they can do it. And even if they could, it would stand to reason people’s immediate response would be “could this have been faked?” Seeing as how Ben, Petra, the UEG Senate and so on are NOT saying this, either FERO has brand new technology no one has seen before, everyone in the entire UEG is an idiot–including and especially Ben–or they do not, in fact, have the ability to fake security footage like that.
The peace talks you refer too were between UNSC, Sangheili and Brutes, watched over by the Infinity. Infinity’s presences allows Spartan security, but unless the Infinity was at Biko, no Spartans would be present. They are few and far between, they can’t police every peace conference in the galaxy.
And what reason to Ben have to question his contacts until the falsehoods piled up? You’re literally asking Ben to make bricks without clay; Sherlock Holmes does not approve of such nonsense. He’s a reporter, he’s not clairvoyant.
Well these are all factors that we do not yet know, as I stated before. What Chief’s motives are are clearly the entire point of HTT going forward and Halo 5, though I would wager that Blue is off screen providing transport. It doesn’t take a Spartan team to break into a peace embassy that is guarded by human security forces. One Spartan is sufficient, and that way Blue can remain anonymous. As for his “not having a reason” prove it. Prove he didn’t have a reason. I don’t know what his motives are, neither does FERO as she admits, neither does anyone because figuring out his motives is, ya know, the entire point of Halo 5 and Locke’s story. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t do it.
But do you want to know the biggest reason why I think Chief did it? Because if he didn’t do it, HTT and the entire Halo 5 marketing campaign, as well as all the hype the Master Chief trailer gave us, and Locke’s entire motivation, is a colossal waste of time. It’s all a red herring, a false dilemma, to be replaced by a cliche as hell “innocent victim” story we’ve seen a thousand times. I like my stories to actually have substance beyond the main character being perfect all the time, I like when my stories tell me something and set something up for them to deliver on what they are setting up; and unless the Master Chief questioning his own motives in Halo 5 is a bare faced lie, then yes, Chief did attack this embassy. Out of character, strange, bizarre? Yes. But again, that’s literally the entire point; you can be shocked and confused–we all are–but to deny it is to basically try and claim that 343i are wasting our time for a cheap scare.