Before all, my post is all based on the games and a bit of what I’ve read here. I haven’t read any of the books, so pardon me if
So, I was thinking a few days ago, after I finished Halo 4 once again (this time on Heroic. Yeah, I take it slowly). So, Chief at the end of H4 is removing his armor and such, as they think he now deserves to rest after a such long time wearing that, and saving the universe countless times.
Considering we will have Halo 5 and, of course, Master Chief will be the main character, how it will be the part of knowing and reaching the next threat, and him suiting up again? Do anyone think they will show John’s face finally at the start of the game, or save it for the end of it or even Halo 6, or they gonna do something a bit sarcastic as, for example:
“Hey, John, don’t remove it just yet… We’ve got so bad news and need you back on your armor”
After it, they put the armor back again, and he runs to the bridge or something?
LOL canon-wise he has already been debriefed. And it takes a lot of time , so I guess Chief has had ample rest to return back in full fighting shape and focus.
I’ll just throw a wild guess in the air and say Halo 5 happens after exactly a year after the First battle of Requiem
I see… Well, i hope they don’t show his face just yet… Considering canon, something like a back story giving the reason to him to come back to the armor, and then showing him suiting up with a scene showing his back, and then we start.
They’ll probably make a joke of having the opening vid show him not in armor, but not show his face. Then of course it’d probably go first person anyway, so you cant see his face.
I imagine them giving him his new armor would be halo 5’s tutorial, like it was in 2.
I can imagine the game starting off with a duologue, similar to the prologue of Halo with Catherine Halsey and the ONI agent. This time it would feature Serin Osman and John-117. The introduction would continue to express themes such the humanity of SPARTAN-IIs, their place in the UNSC’s future, along with additional themes such as loss and sacrifice.
Throughout the interview it would be made clear that Serin Osman is attempting to manipulate the Chief’s ambitions and morality for the benefit of ONI. She would do so by asking him deeply troubling philosophical questions. These will all feature ample simultaneous visualizations of prior events of the Chief’s life.
Such questions could include how he feels about Catherine Halsey and her betrayal, the morality of the Spartan-II program as a whole, and the people he’s lost throughout his life (namely Sam-034 and Cortana). These questions would obviously be hard for the Chief to answer, and naturally he would resort to staying neutral with the success of his missions in mind.
The interview would come to a halt, as an incoming threat has been identified. The chief would have to suit-up and prepare to defend those around. And thus begins Halo 5’s epic journey involving discovery, sacrifice, betrayal, reclamation and what it truly means to be human.
> I can imagine the game starting off with a duologue, similar to the prologue of Halo with Catherine Halsey and the ONI agent. This time it would feature Serin Osman and John-117. The introduction would continue to express themes such the humanity of SPARTAN-IIs, their place in the UNSC’s future, along with additional themes such as loss and sacrifice.
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> Throughout the interview it would be made clear that Serin Osman is attempting to manipulate the Chief’s ambitions and morality for the benefit of ONI. She would do so by asking him deeply troubling philosophical questions. These will all feature ample simultaneous visualizations of prior events of the Chief’s life.
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> Such questions could include how he feels about Catherine Halsey and her betrayal, the morality of the Spartan-II program as a whole, and the people he’s lost throughout his life (namely Sam-034 and Cortana). These questions would obviously be hard for the Chief to answer, and naturally he would resort to staying neutral with the success of his missions in mind.
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> The interview would come to a halt, as an incoming threat has been identified. The chief would have to suit-up and prepare to defend those around. And thus begins Halo 5’s epic journey involving discovery, sacrifice, betrayal, reclamation and what it truly means to be human.
Other than the assumption that Halsey has indeed betrayed all of humanity, and not just ONI (or that she’s not just trolling Jul), I really like this. Instead of the interviewer’s face being hidden, it’d be John’s as he sits at the table. And Palmer’s questioning could lead into a possible Chief vs. ONI situation I find likely since they seem to fight for the state of the UNSC rather than humanity (and the Reclamation process I feel would greatly threaten their power), furthering the question of what it truly means to be human. At this point though it would be Chief and anyone who trusts him more than they fear ONI, vs. the universe, and that would be simultaneously so awesome and so hard to pull off properly I doubt they’ll do it to the full extent I’m thinking of, though I can’t see how they can just not do it all together. ONI’s clearly a bad-guy-with-good-intentions type of faction. Rightfully xenophobic, but they actually come off as more like the Forerunners we associate Faber with, more concerned with the State rather than the Race, or what it represents (and Ur-Didact as well, post mind-rape).
I feel this is a deliberate compare/contrast between the Kilo-5 and Forerunner books (extended into Halo 4 of course). Keeping the idea in mind that everything that happens serves one universal purpose of mankind’s ascension to the Mantle of Life, both the Forerunners and the humans are presented as being lead primarily by xenophobic or otherwise ultra-arrogant jack-offs in it more for personal benefit than for the good of the species, or everyone else for that matter (and both races have shunned a legendary genius who was only trying to help). And both races have certain individuals willing to look beyond their leaders’ vision and see a better world, being the aforementioned geniuses, but the contrast comes into play when you realize the humans seem more capable of taking the role the Forerunners failed to take too because the good people are in a workable position of power, such as Halsey being DaVinci and Master Chief being effectively Jesus to everyone else.
Really if you break it down, both races are depicted as being lead by the same, corrupted malcontents in it for the short run. But the humans stand chiefly among them as being the ones willing to evolve (and also the ones who weren’t mind-jacked by a Precursor). This contrast I feel is what will play a key role in the Precursors’ judgment (provided they’re still into that sort of thing), which will obviously compare with their previous failures.