I know a lot of people don’t think Halo Follower is a great resource for halo lore and such, but I recommend you watch this video on the latest issue of Halo Escalation #8 if you do not read the comics.
I was surprised at the end of the video when he said that the team appears to be walking into a portal at the end of the comic and possibly go to the Didacts world.
It kind of fits the puzzle for me because Chief appears to be missing in Halo 5 Guardians. If this portal indeed takes them to a hostile world, what if the Didact closes the portal so they cant return.
Then the Master Chief and Fred, Linda and Kelly would not be able to return to report to the UNSC what they have learned.
The UNSC now have no contact with Chief and label him and his team MIA and send…
Agent Locke to find him. Sounds like switching from the perspective of Locke and Chief would make for very interesting story telling and mission design.
> I know a lot of people don’t think Halo Follower is a great resource for halo lore and such, but I recommend you watch this video on the latest issue of Halo Escalation #8 if you do not read the comics.
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> I was surprised at the end of the video when he said that the team appears to be walking into a portal at the end of the comic and possibly go to the Didacts world.
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> It kind of fits the puzzle for me because Chief appears to be missing in Halo 5 Guardians. If this portal indeed takes them to a hostile world, what if the Didact closes the portal so they cant return.
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> Then the Master Chief and Fred, Linda and Kelly would not be able to return to report to the UNSC what they have learned.
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> The UNSC now have no contact with Chief and label him and his team MIA and send…
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> Agent Locke to find him. Sounds like switching from the perspective of Locke and Chief would make for very interesting story telling and mission design.
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> What do you make of this?
This is more speculation than actual spoilers, but it’s an interesting theory just the same.
I still secretly wish that the events in “The Next 72 Hours” were part of a DLC extension of Halo 4.
And didn’t Brian Reed say in last week’s Halo Bulletin that one of his goals was to ensure that people who aren’t into the expanded media aren’t left in the dark?
I don’t know about you, but having a pivotal section of the Master Chief’s story being stuck in a comic series, the least accessible form of media, isn’t the way to do that.
I’m thinking more that whatever happens through that Portal causes Chief to disappear for his own reasons.
That leaves Blue Team’s involvement a little sketchy, but this is only 3 days after Halo 4.
That would mean Spartan Ops and most of Escalations happens long after they lose contact with Chief, which doesn’t really make sense. If Chief was sent to Installation 03 and doesn’t return, you would send Infinity there instead of Requiem.
The way 343i has been talking about Chief makes it seem like he is questioning everything, and is going to do things for his own reasons rather than the UNSC’s. Getting trapped by the Didact doesn’t neccesarily fit that.
> I’m thinking more that whatever happens through that Portal causes Chief to disappear for his own reasons.
> That leaves Blue Team’s involvement a little sketchy, but this is only 3 days after Halo 4.
How much do you want to bet that Blue Team will be dead by the end of Escalation issue 9?
> That would mean Spartan Ops and most of Escalations happens long after they lose contact with Chief, which doesn’t really make sense. If Chief was sent to Installation 03 and doesn’t return, you would send Infinity there instead of Requiem.
IMO, sending the UNSC’s signature vessel to find a single Spartan-II, even if it’s the Master Chief, isn’t really a good use of resources. Instead, I would send some Prowlers after him.
> The way 343i has been talking about Chief makes it seem like he is questioning everything, and is going to do things for his own reasons rather than the UNSC’s. Getting trapped by the Didact doesn’t neccesarily fit that.
I imagine that him being trapped by the Didact will serve as a prelude to whatever happens. Surely something’s going to happen there that would make him begin questioning everything.
I’m still speculating that Black Team was intentionally sent to their deaths. I speculate this not because of any logical reasons set up by the story, but rather in desperate hope that Black Team’s death served a greater purpose than for the sake of shock. However, ONI intentionally killing an extremely effective team of Spartan II’s would be a testimony to their incompetence and I doubt that that is the case.
> > I’m thinking more that whatever happens through that Portal causes Chief to disappear for his own reasons.
> > That leaves Blue Team’s involvement a little sketchy, but this is only 3 days after Halo 4.
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> How much do you want to bet that Blue Team will be dead by the end of Escalation issue 9?
I’m a realistic optimist so I’ll take that bet. I bet you one Autumn-class heavy cruiser Blue Team actually lives through Escalation.
> > > I’m thinking more that whatever happens through that Portal causes Chief to disappear for his own reasons.
> > > That leaves Blue Team’s involvement a little sketchy, but this is only 3 days after Halo 4.
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> > How much do you want to bet that Blue Team will be dead by the end of Escalation issue 9?
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> I’m a realistic optimist so I’ll take that bet. I bet you one Autumn-class heavy cruiser Blue Team actually lives through Escalation.
I agree with you.
I believe that 343 wouldn’t kill these heroes from the books in a comic, especially now when they are finally so close to be added into the game.
Also, we can’t say that they died only because we didn’t see them in the trailer of Halo 5, they may have been separated with Chief or 343 just didn’t want to put them in a TEASER trailer. (I wrote teaser with caps because I want to make you understand that teaser trailers aren’t giving us any kind of information about the story of a game except some general things)
What I believe is that 343 will use Blue Team as the other three players that exist when you play 4 player co-op. (Though I would prefer them to be with Chief as A.I when you are not playing co-op like noble team was at Reach).
As for Agent Locke, we learned that he is a playable character and with that I don’t think they meant that you can be him only when you play co-op nor that you can choose to be either Chief or Locke to play as. More likely he is going to be like the Arbiter was in Halo 2 and that means he will need three more players for 4 player co-op which will be the Arbiter and two Spartans or two Elites or Commander Palmer and Thorne.
Does anyone else think that the monitor talking to the Didact at the end was 343 Guilty Spark? It sounds a lot like him. “He will not be pleased”
I read the Forerunner Trilogy a long time ago and I remember that he was alive and took control of a UNSC ship and was heading for the librarians last known location I believe.
> Does anyone else think that the monitor talking to the Didact at the end was 343 Guilty Spark? It sounds a lot like him. “He will not be pleased”
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> I read the Forerunner Trilogy a long time ago and I remember that he was alive and took control of a UNSC ship and was heading for the librarians last known location I believe.
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> I read it in his voice and it seemed to fit.
Spark isn’t a Monitor anymore.
His carapace was discarded, but he (Chakas) uploaded himself into the Rubicon. I don’t think it’s Spark.
> Does anyone else think that the monitor talking to the Didact at the end was 343 Guilty Spark? It sounds a lot like him. “He will not be pleased”
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> I read the Forerunner Trilogy a long time ago and I remember that he was alive and took control of a UNSC ship and was heading for the librarians last known location I believe.
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> I read it in his voice and it seemed to fit.
I was thinking along the lines of 049 Abject Testament, but it’s definitely not Spark.
One could argue that 049AT had an orange light rather than a blue light, but this wouldn’t be the first time that the illustrators for Escalation screwed things up in ridiculous ways.