Once thing looking back at Halo Wars and overlook or mistakenly not accounted for as part of Spirit of Fire while taken expected losses it was also gaining as much as it was losing as the ground forces of the original mission ship Prophecy like Alpha Base and others from Harvest taken abroad as likely too wounded to fight and take awhile to return to combat then there the crew of the Armstrong as evacuate all non essential personnel to Spirit of Fire and any crew who mange to bail from the Texas and Belfast plus transfer from Pillar of Autumn so while half the original crew gone best guess in HW2 those extras would start to replace losses or bring Spirit back to full strength to take on the Banished Overall extras taken abroad from Harvest and Arcada before went MIA not taken into account but provides a loophole to replace combat losses.
While a lot of people don’t know the Spirit of Fire is the B ship that was suppose to support the Prophecy with the A Team before it all went sideways.
Plus as we’ve seen in the Rise comic a new AI Seth brought online as the rush the original equipment has start to be unpack for the original mission now after Spearbreaker a new and secure outpost set thanks to location.
Plus if we’re lucky we might even have a Spartan I from the Prophecy or wounded in action from Alpha Base along with crews from maybe 4 to 5 other ships and more plus the personnel to assist Anders likely still in cryo
On the Ark I wonder of the survivors of the outposts and bases on the Ark as there was Spartan modules to upgrade Red Team where are the Spartans that had them as well.
Now I hope on the side add some more story as love to see them saved by a ship from the dead when at there low.
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