Just finished escalation #9. So Blue + John are in The middle of a fight with Ur-Didact right? And the Ur-didact has just been stabbed in the eye (His armor will repar it), and is about to kill John?
We also know that John has most likely gone AWOL due to his emotional s̶t̶r̶e̶s̶s̶ journey by Guardians right?
Well, -Yoink-.
He is fine during escalation isn’t he? There isn’t any new, canon master chief media coming out before Guardians apart from escalation #10 is there?
SO WHAT PUSHES HIM OVER THE EDGE?
This leads me on to very sadly say blue team will die, to make him go AWOL. Q_Q
I see no other alternative?
and the worst part about it will be that it is most likely going to be brutal, worse (and more fear-invoking) than blacks.
Can anyone else see a better alternative?
Additional questions, possible thingies.
halo 5: GUARDIANS WHY Guardians?
Are we going to see the 343GS variant + the ONI ship from primordium?
(A question within the question, how the hell did that ship find that AI? it should have been floating outside the galaxy, and the ONI ship had no way of getting there.)
A lot of people are jumping to this conclusion, but I don’t feel it’ll happen.
From what I can tell, there isn’t even proof that John goes AWOL, and I personally think it’s more likely he’s gone missing, and finds out something important he needs to do before trying to find his way back - maybe something that’ll help him fight the Didact since hand to hand/conventional weapons clearly aren’t working to well.
OP, you should probably remove all instances of you bypassing the word-filter (which is against the rules) before this thread gets locked and your post gets moderated.
> A lot of people are jumping to this conclusion, but I don’t feel it’ll happen.
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> From what I can tell, there isn’t even proof that John goes AWOL, and I personally think it’s more likely he’s gone missing, and finds out something important he needs to do before trying to find his way back - maybe something that’ll help him fight the Didact since hand to hand/conventional weapons clearly aren’t working to well.
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> We’ll have to wait and see though…
I’m personally a fan of Andycu5’s theory about the conclusion of Escalations.
The Master Chief will be separated from Blue Team and wind up on the Lesser Ark, possibly due to intervention by Mendicant Bias or some other source.
Then, my own theory kicks in; the Master Chief will re-encounter the Gravemind, which survived the destruction of Installation 04B, and be given the data chip shown in both Halo Legends: Origins Pt. 2 and the H5G teaser from E3 2013. He then sets out for whatever purpose 343i has in mind.
I think everybody is starting to assume that the Master Chief is going to “go rogue” because he disagrees with the UNSC on some things. These are the same people who are imagining Blue Team’s supposed death to be the trigger for John’s actions. I disagree.
I personally think John may be cut off from the UNSC again - Missing-In-Action. It’s already strongly foreshadowed in the newest comic - Blue Team notes that they could be anywhere in the galaxy. John notes that if the portal remains open, they can make it back. That said, it’s not surprising to me that once he learns of a larger threat that needs immediate attention, he would pursue it. It’s not unprecedented (Halo 4). I would personally say that the revelations in The Next 72 Hours would warrant John’s knack for saving the day, even if it means abandoning his post.
Now, I know Bonnie Ross said that John is left questioning his role to humanity after Cortana’s apparent death, but these issues of Halo: Escalation really have me doubting that this will be as deep in Halo 5: Guardians as they want us to believe. It’s apparent to me that John still sees the Didact as a huge threat, regardless of his role to humanity. So John’s just going to end up doing his usual thing - single-handedly saving the day where no one else can. There may be more drama involved in this one, but I don’t really think it will be too different from usual, other than that.
And I certainly don’t believe that Blue Team will be decimated to act as a catalyst for John. Given how cold we’ve seen him act towards them in this comic, I would say that their deaths wouldn’t even impact him more than Cortana’s. Something will happen to Blue Team, but it won’t be fatal. They’ll probably just conveniently manage to make it back through the portal to Installation-03, while John-117 just barely manages to be stranded god-knows-where again, conveniently positioned to bide his time, gather intelligence, and then save the day. Or maybe soul search for a little while and then save the day. Who knows?
<mark>dude527</mark> reading your post, I remembered that when I first see Chief in Escalation I dont really find him desperately sad because the lost of Cortana. And thats strange because in the end of Halo 4 he looked very sad for his loss.
Anyway is it possible that the Halo 4 Epiloge is takes places after The Next 72 Hours, because why is Chief take off his armor when he’s heading to Earth and going to report(which we saw in the 1st part of The Next 72 Hours)
> <mark>dude527</mark> reading your post, I remembered that when I first see Chief in Escalation I dont really find him desperately sad because the lost of Cortana. And thats strange because in the end of Halo 4 he looked very sad for his loss.
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> Anyway is it possible that the Halo 4 Epiloge is takes places after The Next 72 Hours, because why is Chief take off his armor when he’s heading to Earth and going to report(which we saw in the 1st part of The Next 72 Hours)
He’s desperately sad at the end of Halo 4 because 1: It just happened to him and, more importantly 2: He didn’t have anything to focus on, nothing to fight. It was just him, starring out into space and for a brief second Laskey was there.
He took his armor off because he’s been crammed in it for 4-5 years? I don’t know why people keep asking that question. There are very logical answers to it other than “it must mean something!”