Right off the bat I don’t mean his legal age, I mean his psychical age. Encase that isn’t clear: John-117 is legally 47 years old by the UEG, yet due to the events throughout the lore he has literally not had to “age” for a extended period of that. Just between Halo 3 and Halo 4 around four and a half years past with no impact on his biologic form. Two important points would be how long does the average jump through slipspace take and how often has he spent drifting in cryo all together. Plus at the speeds these ships move and how often he spends time orbiting planets relative velocity time dilation & gravitational time dilation would also impact him.
So considering he was picked up by the UNSC at the age of 6, shipped from an outer to an inner colony right away, and hasn’t had any personal life since how old is his body at this point? Would it be unreasonable to say this nearly 50 year old on paper would only have aged 30 something years?
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> Right off the bat I don’t mean his legal age, I mean his psychical age. Encase that isn’t clear: John-117 is legally 47 years old by the UEG, yet due to the events throughout the lore he has literally not had to “age” for a extended period of that. Just between Halo 3 and Halo 4 around four and a half years past with no impact on his biologic form. Two important points would be how long does the average jump through slipspace take and how often has he spent drifting in cryo all together. Plus at the speeds these ships move and how often he spends time orbiting planets relative velocity time dilation & gravitational time dilation would also impact him.
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> So considering he was picked up by the UNSC at the age of 6, shipped from an outer to an inner colony right away, and hasn’t had any personal life since how old is his body at this point? Would it be unreasonable to say this nearly 50 year old on paper would only have aged 30 something years?
Yep.
It’s impossible to tell without knowing for exactly how long the Chief was in cryosleep throughout his military career, but if we hazard a guess using Jorge from Noble Team as a base example, you can probably put the MC’s actual age at 45-47. Let’s just say that the amount of time the MC has spent in cryosleep, plus the augmentations that is equal to about ten years…
So an accurate guess would probably be about 37-40 for how ‘old’ his body is.
He is most likely 44 years of age physically by the end of Halo 5, because by what I can remember, there isn’t anything in the books/EU that takes place before Halo 3 that says he was in Cryo Sleep for awhile(and by that I mean months to a year). So due to this assumption, his yearly age by Halo 3 (42) would be his physical age as well, and then he woke up in Halo 4 as 42 years of age. His bday is March 7, 2511, so by December of 2552 (Halo 3), he is 42. But since Halo 4 takes place in July of 2557, and he didn’t age during cryosleep, he is still 42. Then, add three months to July and you get October. In October of 2557, he physically turns 43. The reason for this is because he went into cryo sleep in December, 3 months before his bday in March, so we add three months to the time he woke up, which is July, and it would be October. So, by the time Halo 5 rolls around, which takes place in October of 2558, he is physically 44 years old, while yearly 48. I hope this helps!
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By the end of Halo 5 he is on paper going on 48 (as he was born early 2511 and the game ends late 2558). So just from Halo 3 to 4 he couldn’t be older than 42, and that would be if all time in cryo before and after his time on the Dawn amounted to less than a year. I also didn’t even take into account the augmentations may slow or increase aging; he maybe 47 on paper, biologically aged 40 years, but physically a late 20 year old.
Leading up until that the events of Halo 3 he has been in cryo a lot so I’d say at least a year or 2 total; then you have time dilation added to that. One of the books I think mentions most of the jumps take weeks to months depending on distance and John’s earliest trips would have been be way older/slower ships than what the UNSC has in the current lores date.
In general most of the characters ages would be crazy; as they are pretty much all different ages than their birth date. This stuff could also be cool for side games or stories. Like if the Spirit of Fires crew ever wakes don’t they basically have a full army and wouldn’t have any clue the War is over. They could end up causing an entirely new conflict just by being unfrozen in the wrong place.
Then it could also be funny Buck for example is a year older than the Chief but likely spent far less time in cryo/traveling on spaceships, so maybe Buck is his irl actors age
yah,probably something close to 50 years old,but Spartans get old slower than normal humans,don’t they?
Spartans don’t age the same as regular humans though. Johnson was in his late sixties at the end of Halo 3, and he smoked a lot. He was a spartan (Orion) and didn’t show any signs of slowing down at an age where most would have settled down. Chief is a Spartan 2, i imagine he could live for several hundread years without slowing down due to age. So he is still quite young and unless he dies in combat has a lot more years ahead of him.
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> Spartans don’t age the same as regular humans though. Johnson was in his late sixties at the end of Halo 3, and he smoked a lot. He was a spartan (Orion) and didn’t show any signs of slowing down at an age where most would have settled down. Chief is a Spartan 2, i imagine he could live for several hundread years without slowing down due to age. So he is still quite young and unless he dies in combat has a lot more years ahead of him.
We don’t know how much Johnson has been in cryo before. But, I suppose it would make sense that Spartans live longer due to their healthy and augmented bodies. I wouldn’t say they age slower though.
We just know he was born on 2511, we also know he is a -Yoink!-, which is of course the most important discussion. Is he the oldest -Yoink!- in the galaxy?
Didn’t I read somewhere that Chief and other Spartan IIs aren’t on the decline and will continue to get physically better for a while yet? It had something to do with how they were augmented and that their age isn’t indicative of what a ‘peek’ age would typically be in a normal person.
Or am I mistaken on this?
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> We just know he was born on 2511, we also know he is a -Yoink!-, which is of course the most important discussion. Is he the oldest -Yoink!- in the galaxy?
All the Spartan 2’s and 3’s I think, had there -Yoink!- drive reduced, so being a -Yoink!- probably doesn’t bother him or any of the other spartans. And if anyone tried to mock chief about being a -Yoink!- i’m sure they would get the same treatment as those ODST’s did in the fall of reach.
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Poor poor Spartan 2s, they are basically like the UNSC version of the Game of Thrones Unsullied, trained from childhood to fight and no -Yoink!-! Though i guess chemically controlling hormones is a lot better than being a eunuch, Chief got a steady diet of saltpeter in the future.
Also the Spartan IIs weren’t augmented at their peek, wasn’t that the point? They were taken as children and augmented mid-puberty so that if they survived the body would better adapt to the augmentation/armor. I mean if you look at the 3s and 4s they all tend to take off their helmets a lot, the Spartan IIs (other than Jorge) pretty much never take theirs off. None of Blue Team takes them things off. I mean of their say 20-30 years of waking adult life what 10% was out of armor?
I guess also it could be an effective way to give the characters that “everyman” protagonist. Sure he has a birthdate/age but due to cryo the Spartans are very “ageless”. Overall you’d thing all the Spartan IIs would just have an age of “25XX” or something, not like ONI would want people to have details about those they kidnapped.
Chronologically, he’s in his late-40’s. Biological age is up for debate, given his usage of cryotubes and whatever the hell the Librarian did to him in Halo 4 (which still has not been addressed).