Seeing how this will be the next installment of the halo franchise I feel like this would be the proper place to post this. As you all know there are not even a handful of ways that spartan 2 can retire, which they aren’t supposed to. 1. Which was the initial, failure in augmentation. This discarded much of the Spartan 2 candidates before they even got to see combat. They were disabled and take care of in treatment homes if I’m correct. That’s pretty much the only way that is allowed. The others were on technicalities. Such as that guy in halo nightfall who was a spartan 2. He was listed as Mia after a space battle above the planet but was still alive and made a home with some survivors and residents of the planet and even had a family, his wife died and he took care of his daughter. Oni then found out he was still alive and tried to take him back but he refused in order to take care of his daughter. They made a deal and all of his implants and things done to him during augmentation were taken out of him or separated him, making the first successfully augmented spartan 2 to retired and partially unaugmented, of course this would have many side effects and be very painful to him, and yet he still survived. Later on the events in nightfall on the planet occurred and his daughter passed during the gene bomb. He worked with agent Locke to destroy the shard, sacrificing himself. Then there is the Kurt technicality, Kurt was in a way retired as a spartan 2 and place d in the spartan 3 initially as a teacher but once as a spartan 3 but died on a mission.
What I have noticed is that they were all discharged or died. I think that ONI doesn’t plan on ever letting a single Spartan 2 retire without assuming another rank in the UNSC, or even at all, and what scares me is that the Spartan 2s know this or at least the chief does, cause in a way chief is long over due for r & r. He actually disobeyed when he was supposed to take it and began working on other missions. I noticed he’s constantly looking for trouble or fights no matter what. And I would assume in a way that it’s the only way he knows or scarier, the only way he wants to go out, he’s been fighting over 30 years. Now the covenant are gone, again. I’m just worried of how much he will keep doing this. Eventually he will give out, we’ll maybe idk, but what happens when there’s nothing left, and I mean nothing, not even Insurectionists, of course there will always be someone against the UNSC, but they would be too small of a threat that Spartans wouldn’t be necessary. There is also the possibility of headhunter but I’m not sure if that would fit chief, and I’m not sure if it’s available for spartan 2s. I can’t even count how many people chief has lost close to him, Johnson, Miranda, Jacob Keyes, Sam, and even Cortana once, we saw his hands shaking on blue team in halo 5 and I don’t think that was an accident on 343’s part. Chief isn’t immortal and everyone’s gonna die eventually and chiefs option to get out of the UNSC are about next to none. He may have an opening because following the Meridian incident chief was confirmed Kia, even though we see him alive after that. But knowing him he wouldn’t ever stop fighting until the end. I want to think of this type of mental thought as a closed fighting loop. If user is alive user fights, if user is alive after fight repeat, if not end program. So in short he’s in a way suicidal, but not suicidal, best I would explain is a warriors death, dying while fighting. Trust me when I say this. I don’t want to ever call chief suicidal. If anyone can, could you give me a better word then suicidal cause I can’t find the exact word I’m looking for other then that, and I pray to God that this theory and mental state or thought process is 100% wrong. But I can’t just see it any other way cause even if chief had the choice to retire, I just don’t see him doing it no matter how much they pay him.