Master Chief has retired

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With Didact dead (at least what the humanity knows so far) and there is no real threat to humanity and with great numbers of Spartan-IV’s available. Who needs Master Chief?

When you think about it, it all makes sence UNSC have retired Master Chief from the service. He is no longer needed in service specially with the great amount of Spartan-IVs. Yes. Spartan-II are superior than Spartan-IVs but the numbers makes up for that disadvantage and we also know the story of Master Chief will continue and that makes Halo 5 even more interesting. What will happen that will make Master Chief put on his Spartan armor again.

1.An attack on earth—but by whom? The Covenant are no longer a major threat. Requiem is gone and prometheans are extinct.Does that mean no more Promethens in halo 5 and 6? Maybe real forerunners Faber?..Flood?..Precursors? Something new (wink-wink Halo.CEA terminals)
Halo CE terminal 5 video link

2.Or Someone who has a personal vendetta against Master Chief –Didact?..Jul Mdama?
What also is an interesting plot to the Master Chief story is his confrontation with the librarian. She fast forwarded Chiefs genetic evolution. You can bet that ONI wants to know how Chief has evolved. Could Chief be going through same phase he went through as a child? When he was kidnapped and trained …augmentated and such!

How will Master Chief change…considering that all he ever have known is military service and now when he is not needed…surely it will change him .Also considering that he has also lost Cortana, his only true companion.
Halo 4 seems to be just an intro into the new trilogy and its characters. The way Halo 4 and spartanops ended pays the way for great changes in this trilogy and halo universe in generell. You bet Master Chief is getting a new armour :stuck_out_tongue:

Btw…sorry if some of you find my english to be lacking. English isnt my first or second language.

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Your English is fine. I wish I could speak three languages.

Speaking on topic, I really hope they don’t bring Spartan Ops into Campaign. Campaign needs to continue being its own story without the help of Spartan Ops. I think Spartan Ops has allowed for too many random plot twists which I feel like don’t belong in Halo.

This is just my opinion.

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> Your English is fine. I wish I could speak three languages.
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> Speaking on topic, I really hope they don’t bring Spartan Ops into Campaign. Campaign needs to continue being its own story without the help of Spartan Ops. I think Spartan Ops has allowed for too many random plot twists which I feel like don’t belong in Halo.
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> This is just my opinion.

I would like Spartan Ops in the campaign if it was mroe interesting, it kind of left a bad taste in the mouth of the community.

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M’dama is more poweful than you think.

#Halo5

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i’ll be so mad if the didact stays dead from the rather silly way to kill off somebody whos well apprantly very powerful.

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I think that the UNSC want to retire him.

I suspect that ONI wants to dissect him.

I hope that the Master Chief puts a bullet through the head of Serin Osman and rebels against the increasingly shady UNSC.

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The Didact was speaking in the end of Halo 4… He isn’t dead

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I don’t know how you could possibly come to the conclusion that the prometheans are extinct… Did you even play Spartan Ops or the campaign?

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Your english is excellent, bud!

Now I don’t particularly think Master Chief is just retiring- In the books, the other Spartan-IIs (Kelly, Fred, Linda) were all offered the chance to be integrated into the S-IV program, so it’s quite possible they’ll offer Chief that too. Which, if nothing else, means he’ll be rocking new duds.

If anything, they’ll stick him into a mission group or even back on Infinity to continue Infinity’s initial task: Find, study, and deactivate the Halos.

As for where the series could head…

  1. If there’s an attack on Earth, I think it would first and foremost take place during a second season of SpOps, not the Halo 5 campaign. However, I could see Earth being part of Halo 6 one last time.

As far as the main nemesis? Well, for one I believe we’ll see the Arbiter’s forces rally a fleet and get their act together; if Jul’s Storm Covenant could amass a fleet the likes of which they did while Sanghelios is apparently in bad shape, then the Arbiter and his forces can too. So we may see those two forces come to blows and we may participate. Halsey could also become a temporary antagonist; she’s working with Jul for the moment because of her so-felt betrayal by her own race. It’s possible the Flood may even infect her and amplify her as a dangerous enemy.

Otherwise, you are right to presume Prometheans are likely ‘done’. Unless there are other areas the Didact left some (unlikely), Requiem housed just about every Promethean that wasn’t on Mantle’s Approach.

The Forerunners, on the other hand, I am doubtful of as enemies. Faber died at the Greater Ark with the last bastions of the Forerunner Empire. The Ur-Didact was sealed away to meditate until humanity’s return and reclamation. The Iso-Didact and the few Lifeworkers that survived on the Lesser Ark are the only other candidates for Forerunner encounters, and I think they’ll serve more as meet-on-unfriendly terms, become-best-buddies.

Precursors/Flood would likely have to be the exact same nemesis. Given what Silentium has revealed to us, it is very unlikely we’d come into contact with actual Precursors, but rather just a new Gravemind/a superior Gravemind. If the Flood do indeed come back, however, I also reckon that they might bring the remaining Star Roads to their service, thus providing some new flavor in our nemesis.

Finally, another Metarch A.I. Where did Offensive Bias go? They seem to leave his ultimate fate somewhat blurry after he ripped Mendicant into pieces and scattered him. So what of Offensive? Perhaps the Gravemind has reclaimed him and made him a new weapon as much as Mendicant had been? Also let us not forget a shard of 343 Guilty Spark lives on, and has hijacked a human ONI prowler.

So I’m with you in that I feel Halo 4 itself left such a sense of conclusion that it’s difficult to tell WHERE the series will go next. I mean, it still feels like part of a trilogy but they drop very few hints as to the where or why!

I also think/hope that for Chief’s humanity and personal connection with reality, they will reintroduce Blue Team (Kelly, Fred, Linda). He grew up with them and spent far more time with them than Cortana; they should get some sort of nod by the writers as part of John’s humanity.

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> I think that the UNSC want to retire him.
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> I suspect that ONI wants to dissect him.
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> I hope that the Master Chief puts a bullet through the head of Serin Osman and rebels against the increasingly shady UNSC.

Now, now… It’s not the UNSC, it’s ONI. In the books especially you can see just how different the two sects are. ONI has always been super shading and breaking every rule in the book; they’re just being more aggressive now that there’s no Alien megalo-empire hunting down their spieces. The UNSC, on the other hand, is quite earnest and honest. Lord Hood and Parangosky’s interactions on the Infinity made this quite clear how different the two sects are.

Just like how the Arbiter and 'Telcam’s sects are very much different but the same. They both represent interests of their species and militaries, but they have very different approaches and tried to look the other way for a short while.

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Maybe the Halo 5 campaign will also feature us playing as the Arbiter and switch back and forth like it did in Halo 2, which i thought was a very unique style of storytelling.I would welcome this approach by 343, Perhaps even bring John and his old spartan team back together for a special mission.My guess would be to track down Halsey or go in a joint operation with the Arbiter to find Jul M’dama and his rebel faction.

So many possibilities remain at the moment.It’s all speculation so far since 343 is staying rather tight lipped about any events that will take place in Halo 5.

I’m pretty sure the Chief won’t be retired, there are still plenty of huge threats.Requiem was only one of many shield world’s just like the Halo Array.The Flood still exists, they are an unstoppable parasite that shoved the incredibly advanced Forerunner race into a corner.The Halo Array fired before and yet the Flood still remained.The Flood have only been pushed back but not beaten, so they will return.In what way they return i do not know, i can only speculate.

So i’ll leave the storytelling to 343 and just wait since it is their story that will, in the end… be the truth.

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> Your English is fine. I wish I could speak three languages.
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> Speaking on topic, I really hope they don’t bring Spartan Ops into Campaign. Campaign needs to continue being its own story without the help of Spartan Ops. I think Spartan Ops has allowed for too many random plot twists which I feel like don’t belong in Halo.
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> This is just my opinion.

Thanks :slight_smile:
If I remember right, 343i did say that SpartanOps story would lead into Halo 5.

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> The Didact was speaking in the end of Halo 4… He isn’t dead

Yes, you are right. We know he is alive but Master Chief doesnt and neither does the rest of mankind.

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> i’ll be so mad if the didact stays dead from the rather silly way to kill off somebody whos well apprantly very powerful.

Forerunner combat skins and mutations are what made them so strong. From what people have told me and the little research I have done the Didact and the Forerunners aren’t as powerful as the Didact would lead us to believe. Sure, their technology is much more advanced than our but even the Librarian knows that humanity can surpass the Forerunners.

What it’s going to come down to now(if the Didact is still alive which I think he is) is whether or not the Didact(and possibly some other Forerunners) can overtake the humans(if they did so I’m sure they would also devolve us or compose us as punishment) and continue to hold the Mantle. I would personally love to see humanity fall to the Forerunners. It would make for a very interesting finish. After everything went humanities way they fall. And of course for some odd reason Master Chief floats to the bottom of the ocean on a frigate in cryosleep. Forerunners find him 100,000 years later and he totally beats the universe up(with the Librarian AI at his side) and humanity finally takes the mantle of responsibility. When this finally happens the Librarian reveals her biological form and reveals her true intentions. Without the Forerunners around… The Librarian would be the unstoppable queen of the human race. (sorry, I got a little trollish their at the end)

> > The Didact was speaking in the end of Halo 4… He isn’t dead
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> Yes, you are right. We know he is alive but Master Chief doesnt and neither does the rest of mankind.

He wasn’t talking in the present. That talk was like a flashback to the Ecumene council. (at least that is what it sounds like)

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> I don’t know how you could possibly come to the conclusion that the prometheans are extinct… Did you even play Spartan Ops or the campaign?

Yes I did play the campaign and spartanops. Requeim is the Promethans home world which housed every known Promethean. Promethans cant teleport far away from Requiem so I do think they along with Requiem got sucked into the sun and the sun blew up.

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He is not dead. He just got sucked into the composer when master chief chucked his grenade at him.He was also talking at the end of the campaign.

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> > I don’t know how you could possibly come to the conclusion that the prometheans are extinct… Did you even play Spartan Ops or the campaign?
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> Yes I did play the campaign and spartanops. Requeim is the Promethans home world which housed every known Promethean. Promethans cant teleport far away from Requiem so I do think they along with Requiem got sucked into the sun and the sun blew up.

Care to explain the Prometheans on the Didacts ship when it was certainly far away from Requiem?(Above Earth…)

Their will be more Promethean Knights considering the fact that we’ve seen them away from Requiem and the composer probably composed a nice handful of humans during the New Phoenix incident. Where those humans ended up is beyond me. I don’t know where the designation was for the composed humans.

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I think Halo 5 will be chief literally in retirement we get to have first person views of him buying a condo…Going out to eat…Maybe he’ll even workup the courage to take out a new A.I. because even though he misses his lady friend he still deserves to be happy. We can watch him yell at spartan 4’s to get off of his lawn…there is no limit :D!!!

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Jul 'Mdama still has a huge Covenant fleet and thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Promethean Knights likely left Requiem with Jul and his forces. There is no reason for Chief to be put into retirement at this point.

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> > > I don’t know how you could possibly come to the conclusion that the prometheans are extinct… Did you even play Spartan Ops or the campaign?
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> > Yes I did play the campaign and spartanops. Requeim is the Promethans home world which housed every known Promethean. Promethans cant teleport far away from Requiem so I do think they along with Requiem got sucked into the sun and the sun blew up.
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> Care to explain the Prometheans on the Didacts ship when it was certainly far away from Requiem?(Above Earth…)
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> Their will be more Promethean Knights considering the fact that we’ve seen them away from Requiem and the composer probably composed a nice handful of humans during the New Phoenix incident. Where those humans ended up is beyond me. I don’t know where the designation was for the composed humans.

There is a chance of their return, but Requiem was the main stronghold for Prometheans.
The humans composed in New Phoenix were ones used six months later in Spartan Ops. Madsen says “Wasn’t this planet supposed to have been cleared already?”. That is because the Prometheans they were fighting were the residents of New Phoenix. That is also why Thorne grew angered when finding out how Prometheans are created. He was practically fighting his friends, family and neighbors, now mindless killing machines.

So, not very many Prometheans remain. A few could have tagged along with Jul as he escaped.