What happened to Halo: Reach's Skirmishers?

Everyone remember the guys that were related to Jackals?

I havent seen anything related to them being in Halo 5 :frowning: Did they all get wiped out like the flood or something?

I was hungry.

“They saw extensive action during the Fall of Reach, and as a result of the catastrophically high casualties, the Skirmisher ranks were utterly exhausted and the Skirmishers themselves were nearly wiped out” from the wiki.

So maybe need more time to breed before a reintroduction in a game, or just a cheap way to write them out of the future stories.

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> “They saw extensive action during the Fall of Reach, and as a result of the catastrophically high casualties, the Skirmisher ranks were utterly exhausted and the Skirmishers themselves were nearly wiped out” from the wiki.
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> So maybe need more time to breed before a reintroduction in a game, or just a cheap way to write them out of the future stories.

hmm I didn’t know that. I kinda liked those guys.

The simply befell the fate of Bungie wanting to add in a new enemy in an “already occurred game”. Obviously they were going to have to retcon their entire absence from other games.

True true but i still wouldn’t mind to have them instead of jackals at least. Jackals are old and outdated and to easy to kill. almost easier then grunts -.-

> 2533274794847033;3:
> “They saw extensive action during the Fall of Reach, and as a result of the catastrophically high casualties, the Skirmisher ranks were utterly exhausted and the Skirmishers themselves were nearly wiped out” from the wiki.
>
> So maybe need more time to breed before a reintroduction in a game, or just a cheap way to write them out of the future stories.

Cheap way to explain why they were absent in halo 1-3 and if they were gone after halo reach, rendering them out of combat for halo 1 2 and 3 and now 4 and 5, maybe they will return in infinite. Seems like a decent explanation for them being gone after reach but falls a little short for why they haven’t returned in 5