Credit to GrimBrother One with his Canon Fodder series serving as inspiration.
Everybody is familiar with alternate history. What if the Roman Empire existed to this day? What if the Confederacy won the American Civil War? The Star Wars Universe experiments with this concept with Infinities, stories that are non-canon accounts of alternate events of what happened in the films or expanded universe. What if Luke didn’t destroy the Death Star? What if Leia is trained as a Jedi?
However, in this thread we will do the same for other parts of the Halo Universe. I will offer up the point of divergence and go from there. This week we will discuss and speculate on how the Halo Universe would’ve been changed had Noble Six not stayed behind on Reach and instead fled with the Pillar of Autumn.
Point of Divergence: Instead of getting impaled by the second Zealot near the Mass Driver, Emile manages to dodge the attack. Noble Six is ordered by Emile to escape with the Autumn and defends it from continued attacks by the Covenant. Upon watching the Autumn leave, Emile confronts a team of Zealots and dies a heroes death.
Would Six be there with Chief on the Ark? in that case would he go with Requiem? Would he stay at Earth? The possibilities, maybe he would of been killed by the Flood, like when Chief almost got infected but Cortana saves him, so Six not having an A.I he may of got killed by the Flood
First of all, they would help each other get off the Autumn.
Then when they catch a breath, they’ll have a nice long talk. Mainly because Chief has no idea who this “Spartan” is. Once they learn they can trust each other and such, they prove their capabilities rescuing Marines and bringing them to the base.
They’ll go get Keyes together and Silva will be a bit less rude to Chief now that there are 2 Spartans. Then, I imagine they’ll split up. As suggested earlier, Six may go with Keyes to the facility. He can escape and warn Chief and they may go to the Library together, or Six goes and warns the other survivors.
Six’s fate depends on this though… will he go to the Autumn with Chief, or board the Truth and Reconciliation with the survivors? If its the latter… he may have died. If its the former, Chief will have some new company throughout First Strike.
He may be present at the ceremony aboard Cairo Station in Halo 2, which puts him alongside Chief in this area. The Gravemind would have lots of toys to play with.
What happens to Six afterwords is questionable. Does he stay with Miranda and perhaps kill the Arbiter and Tartarus? Does he go with Chief through High Charity? If he is on High Charity, does he stay behind or go with Chief on the Dreadnought?
JSA brings up a very good point, if he was with Keyes and Johnson when they found the Installation 05 Index, would he kill the Arbiter? I’d say he’d be capable of doing so since he is hyper lethal, which would alter Halo 3, I wouldn’t see the Sangheili and Humanity uniting then, which would make a 3 front war, I could imagine the Flood showing up as well.
Would Hood then let Chief go through the portal to the Ark? He was with the Elites so they had more reinforcements to spare. The Forward Unto Dawn would be incapable of standing up to all that covenant alone, so I could see either Earth falling or the humans not going to the Ark, ultimately a bad thing as the covenant could then fire the Halo’s unless the Elites show up and decide to help us anyway. We still see that they are partially hostile to us in floodgate
Lord Hood: “And you, Ship Master, just glassed half a continent! Maybe the Flood isn’t all I should be worried about…”
Rtas 'Vadum: “One single Flood spore can destroy a species. Were it not for the Arbiter’s counsel, I would have glassed your entire planet!”
We see it says “Were it not for the Arbiter’s counsel” so that sort of shows us that the Arbiter knows what must be done, yet shows sympathy to the Humans
> JSA brings up a very good point, if he was with Keyes and Johnson when they found the Installation 05 Index, would he kill the Arbiter? I’d say he’d be capable of doing so since he is hyper lethal, which would alter Halo 3, I wouldn’t see the Sangheili and Humanity uniting then, which would make a 3 front war, I could imagine the Flood showing up as well.
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> Would Hood then let Chief go through the portal to the Ark? He was with the Elites so they had more reinforcements to spare. The Forward Unto Dawn would be incapable of standing up to all that covenant alone, so I could see either Earth falling or the humans not going to the Ark, ultimately a bad thing as the covenant <mark>could then fire the Halo’s</mark> unless the Elites show up and decide to help us anyway. We still see that they are partially hostile to us in floodgate
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> Lord Hood: “And you, Ship Master, just glassed half a continent! Maybe the Flood isn’t all I should be worried about…”
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> Rtas 'Vadum: “One single Flood spore can destroy a species. Were it not for the Arbiter’s counsel, I would have glassed your entire planet!”
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> We see it says “Were it not for the Arbiter’s counsel” so that sort of shows us that the Arbiter knows what must be done, yet shows sympathy to the Humans
Who would they use ?
Johnson wouldn’t be there or an other Human to fire the rings.
> > JSA brings up a very good point, if he was with Keyes and Johnson when they found the Installation 05 Index, would he kill the Arbiter? I’d say he’d be capable of doing so since he is hyper lethal, which would alter Halo 3, I wouldn’t see the Sangheili and Humanity uniting then, which would make a 3 front war, I could imagine the Flood showing up as well.
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> > Would Hood then let Chief go through the portal to the Ark? He was with the Elites so they had more reinforcements to spare. The Forward Unto Dawn would be incapable of standing up to all that covenant alone, so I could see either Earth falling or the humans not going to the Ark, ultimately a bad thing as the covenant <mark>could then fire the Halo’s</mark> unless the Elites show up and decide to help us anyway. We still see that they are partially hostile to us in floodgate
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> > Lord Hood: “And you, Ship Master, just glassed half a continent! Maybe the Flood isn’t all I should be worried about…”
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> > Rtas 'Vadum: “One single Flood spore can destroy a species. Were it not for the Arbiter’s counsel, I would have glassed your entire planet!”
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> > We see it says “Were it not for the Arbiter’s counsel” so that sort of shows us that the Arbiter knows what must be done, yet shows sympathy to the Humans
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> Johnson wouldn’t be there or an other Human to fire the rings.
Well, I can only think N6 would be aiding the marines most of the time, possibly. Maybe staying at the base they established in the ring and helping to holdout the Covenant and Flood attacks.
But what would Zuka do with two Spartans now…?
> What is Leia is trained as a Jedi?
Just for you to know, that did happen in the SW Universe.
Like most have said, I see them working together on Installation 04. Possibly a lot of character development between the two, John wanting to know who this Spartan is because he doesn’t recognize him from his Spartans.
I’d love to see John’s thoughts on Spartan-IIIs that early on.
> Well, I can only think N6 would be aiding the marines most of the time, possibly. Maybe staying at the base they established in the ring and helping to holdout the Covenant and Flood attacks.
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> But what would Zuka do with two Spartans now…?
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> Just for you to know, that did happen in the SW Universe.
Within the timeframe of films, which the Infinities are set, no. I know she got some training later on.
Assuming (as I think we are right to) that 6 goes with Keyes into the jungle and fights off the Flood, this means we get a surviving Captain Keyes to return from Installation 04 too. Which will have consequences down the line, I would imagine!
As a huge fan of AH (I’m a writer on alternatehistory.com) the idea of Halo AH is just delicious. Please keep it coming!
Actually, when miranda and johnson get to the library on 05, if Noble 6 is there, he wont be able to kill Arbiter because Tartarus would be there. He would probably immobilize 6 first, then Arby would come out of cover or wherever he was after getting sprayed by smg and take out miranda. or 6 could have gotten thrown over the edge by Tartarus because he is a more lethal threat than two normal humans.
Assuming he escapes 04 like Johnson, that ONI agent, the ODST and pilot did due to him being sent with Keys like the others above have already said he would probably end up with Chief and Blue team in First strike.
If he’s one of the lucky ones than he’ll survive and still be on Blue team when they are called to Onyx by Halsey and get trapped in the shield world just before Halo 2.
So Six wouldn’t be there to affect the treaty with the Arbiter and things should take the natural flow that it did originally even up until Halo 4.
Because Six was there he could possibly change events like which Spartans died and how many of them did but lets assume that Six survived along with all the characters that originally did.
He would arrive at Onyx fight the good fight go through the portal. Then we could see Six’s reunion with Tom and Lucy. He was a SIII Beta.
Then Kilo-5 would find them and he’d drop out of the story like everyone else and then you have Six as one of the Blue team characters that we so desperately want to appear in a future game.
But if Six is there during First strike and Onyx think about all the characters he could save as well as possibly cause to die (We can see that he has that kinda effect on the people around him in Reach). All the same though any Spartans that he would save would probably just drop out of the story like before.
Some key points Six could possibly change is Halsey being saved at Reach, The Spartans escaping through the portal at Onyx and Halsey being arrested along with possibly many others. If Six saved someone than that person can also cause these changes don’t forget.