I saw a YouTube comment a long time ago that did all the math and explained it a lot better than I could, but unfortunately that was a long time ago and I can’t find it anymore, so mine will have to do.
So both the Spartan-III and Spartan-III programs had strict genetic qualifications. S-III’s was a little less strict, but having the right genetics would still be pretty rare in terms of human society as a whole. Halsey only identified 150 candidates with acceptable genes for the S-II program in the entirety of the Outer Colonies. So if we assume the Outer Colonies had about half the human population (I couldn’t find any statistics on its population), and 1/15 of the population are children aged 4-6 (The same amount as today), the chance of being a child with the right genes are 1/8666666, or 1.15384624E-7%. Do the same math for Spartan IIIs (1245 total candidates), you get 1/1044176, or 9.57692956E-7%. So the chances of there even being a child with the right genes on a colony are fairly low, and the chance of there being 2 on the same colony without them being related are astronomically low. So it’s much more likely that John and Emile are blood relatives to each other (Like distant cousins or something, not brothers) than not.
tl;dr Due to the strict genetic qualifications and the extreme unlikeliness of two people on a colony having the genes and not being related, it’s very mathematically likely that Master Chief and Emile are distant relatives.
not much of a genetic scientist but i think there could be 2 different bloodlines that have similar gene or mutation, not fully though since i think that all the spartans could have exactly the same genes but the thing they were looking for in spartans that might have a certain gene or mutation. Besides, since Emile is black and chief is White it could take a pretty long time for that difference to develop. They could have some common ancestor like many humans have, even today. Though this similar gene thing could be just some newer lore which seems to sometimes contradict with the older lore or in some cases, it contradicts with itself.
I don’t think they are. Emile being black , there’s a chance , but an extremely slim chance.
I have enjoyed John and Emile’s parallels. Not only from the same colony. But both have made personality changes for the betterment of their team, but went in completely opposite directions. John became more quiet , emotionless and Emile became overly brash and ‘emotional’.
Not to mention neither has had their adult face shown and are not big fans of removing their helmet to begin with. Though I’m not sure what age Emile is in the early concept art
They were from the same planet but not blood related.
People can share certain genetic markers without being blood related. Just think about all the people that share your blood type; they aren’t all you family, but you all share that particular genetic marker.
Same could be said about blue eyes, brown hair, skin color, gender, immunity, and pretty much every other phenotype.
Also, at a certain point, familial distance reaches a point where you can no longer call it blood relation.
Technically she originally was granted funding for 300, but budget cuts brought it down to 150, then 75. It is not the actual number of viable candidates that reduced these numbers.
It should be noted that 300 was because of initial budgetary reasons, meaning there were likely actually over 300 such individuals. Furthermore, these numbers are merely drawn from individuals in the very specific age range due to training requirements. Meaning that even if there were absolutely 300 such individuals, and not a single person more, those were only within the ages necessary for the spartan program.
Well, seeing as how Emile is black and John is white, not to mention that John was an only child, I don’t know how there could be any family relationship between them.
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> I saw a YouTube comment a long time ago that did all the math and explained it a lot better than I could, but unfortunately that was a long time ago and I can’t find it anymore, so mine will have to do.
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> So both the Spartan-III and Spartan-III programs had strict genetic qualifications. S-III’s was a little less strict, but having the right genetics would still be pretty rare in terms of human society as a whole. Halsey only identified 150 candidates with acceptable genes for the S-II program in the entirety of the Outer Colonies. So if we assume the Outer Colonies had about half the human population (I couldn’t find any statistics on its population), and 1/15 of the population are children aged 4-6 (The same amount as today), the chance of being a child with the right genes are 1/8666666, or 1.15384624E-7%. Do the same math for Spartan IIIs (1245 total candidates), you get 1/1044176, or 9.57692956E-7%. So the chances of there even being a child with the right genes on a colony are fairly low, and the chance of there being 2 on the same colony without them being related are astronomically low. So it’s much more likely that John and Emile are blood relatives to each other (Like distant cousins or something, not brothers) than not.
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> tl;dr Due to the strict genetic qualifications and the extreme unlikeliness of two people on a colony having the genes and not being related, it’s very mathematically likely that Master Chief and Emile are distant relatives.
Yep MC and Emile came from the same planet, of course they were related ( in cultural and genetic stuf )
No, just because they were born on the same planet does not mean they’re related. I mean sure the chances are low, but luck is the last thing the Master Chief has to worry about. And besides, Chief is white, while Emile is black. They’d have to be really distant relatives.