Reasons why Master chief should get a high Ranking Forerunner Combat Skin.
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Longer life: Forerunners in their suits were virtually immortal. They were immune to disease and Poisons(Flood is the only exception). Wounds, even near instant fatality wounds, could be healed in seconds. The only time Forerunners ever really died was during war it seems.
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Halo: the Flood: Chief said that he would be first in line to try out a Forerunner Combat skin… Epic Foreshadowing!
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Fighting tougher opponents: As we can see in Halo 4 we were fighting the Didact(a Forerunner) and his army of Promethean Knights. It only makes since that we will be fighting other Tougher Forerunner constructs. aka. War Sphinxes, Seekers, stronger Prometheans, The Didact, etc. I don’t see Chief fighting stuff like those and winning in MJOLNIR Mark 6, 7, or 8(unless 8 is a Forerunner hybrid MJOLNIR).
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Epic looking armor: Look at the Didact’s Suit. If Chief’s Combat suit looks half a cool as that it would be great!
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Forerunner weapons. As we see in Halo 4, weapons formed into your hand and when Prometheans had them they look like part of their bodies. It would be understandable that the weapons would fuse with the suit.
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Younger Chief: This goes with number one but I thought it deserved it’s own number. As we see at the end of Halo 4 Chief’s face is old and wrinkled. Understandable, he is a 40+ year old soldier(not adding in time in cryo). Older soldiers can still look cool but come on… Who here thought Old Snake looked Cooler than Young Snake?
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Blamming Forerunner Combat Skin!: If you have read the Forerunner Books you will understand this.
Seems like a pretty cool idea, but it would be pretty hard to give a canon reason for master chief acquiring his personal forerunner suit
> Seems like a pretty cool idea, but it would be pretty hard to give a canon reason for master chief acquiring his personal forerunner suit
Why do you Say that? The way things are going I don’t see a reason not to give him a Forerunner Combat Skin. If you had told me 5 years ago that Chief was going to fight one of the Most powerful forerunners and that his existence was because of a Forerunner Call the Librarian. I would have have called you a lair.
> > Seems like a pretty cool idea, but it would be pretty hard to give a canon reason for master chief acquiring his personal forerunner suit
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> Why do you Say that? The way things are going I don’t see a reason not to give him a Forerunner Combat Skin. If you had told me 5 years ago that Chief was going to fight one of the Most powerful forerunners and that his existence was because of a Forerunner Call the Librarian. I would have have called you a lair.
Okay… there actually could be a canonical way… for the Master Chief to acquire a Forerunner Combat Skin/Mjolnir Hybrid…
After the events of the Second Requiem Campaign, the Covenant ‘Storm’ Remnant left Requiem… with Doctor Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, as a co-operative ‘hostage’. They were not officially seen on Ealen IV, even though the Remnant was the insurgents disrupting the peace summit, lead by Shipmaster Vata’ Gajat.
So being the most highly intellectual and competent Forerunner expert, Halsey could definitely reverse engineer a Forerunner Combat Skin… and having made the original version of Mjonir power armor she can implement a hybrid. This could be given to John… who most would agree Halsey has a close relationship with him… even for a Spartan-II. This could also mean it fits to look like the Mark V, Mark VI helmet designs… chief’s signature look…
I say that he keeps his Mk.VI as a reminder of Cortana. She did alter it while he was in cryo after all.
> I say that he keeps his Mk.VI as a reminder of Cortana. She did alter it while he was in cryo after all.
This. ^^
I think keeping him the green giant in MJOLNIR should stay a thing. Too iconic to get rid of that look for him. 
Chief’s armor, despite changing over the years, is his look, his identity. His face is the gold/orange visor with the green helmet that hasn’t change all that much really.
If he switched to forerunner armor, it’d either try too hard to retain his old look while looking forerunner that it’d probably look lame, or it’d look so much not like chief that he wouldn’t feel like the same char.
While H4 did do some pretty radical departures in design, atleast chief still looks like chief. Giving him forerunner armor would be like what happened covenant redesigns.
Oh and most games like to keep their single player and multiplayer relatively similar. Chief having some new pimped out armor would completely change gameplay.
I believe Chief’s encounter with the Librarian, and the new voice in his head, means that he will likely end up wearing Promethean armor.
| While the idea sounds pretty cool, I’m not I’d be up for this. Preferably John should keep the “mean green fighting machine” look till the end of his days. Having him wear a Forerunner combat skin would take away from his signature look, and even if they had a design that melded the two armors together it most likely wouldn’t feel right.
Cobra also brings up a fair point, John should keep wearing the armor as an homage to Cortana. |
That would be cool, but I would like Chief to aware some precursor or ancient human engineered armour, something that will be his and only his. iI want him to be able to fight against foes as strong as the Didact by himself, with awesome pace magic.
I don’t agree with him wearing forunner armour. After losing Cortana, his only true companion, his armour is the only thing keeping him who he is. Without it he’d just be another soldier, lost and waiting for someone to tell him what to do.
Forerunner combat skin that is superior in every way…or an outdated Modified MJOLNIR Mk. VI. Mark VI has emotional value…but emotional value don’t mean much on the battlefield when faced against superior firepower. Maybe fuse it with forerunner tech, like the Prefect Armor…or grab a finished Mk. VII. Also, like someone else mentioned, could somehow find a Ancient Human Combat Armor/Skin.
The Idea of wearing a Forerunner combat Skin >.<, but it must temporary for a mission or 2. Chief’s Mjolnir is just too iconic to be replaced.
> Forerunner combat skin that is superior in every way…or an outdated Modified MJOLNIR Mk. VI. Mark VI has emotional value…but emotional value don’t mean much on the battlefield when faced against superior firepower. Maybe fuse it with forerunner tech, like the Prefect Armor…or grab a finished Mk. VII. Also, like someone else mentioned, could somehow find a Ancient Human Combat Armor/Skin.
If we face the Precursors, NONE of that will cut it.
> > Forerunner combat skin that is superior in every way…or an outdated Modified MJOLNIR Mk. VI. Mark VI has emotional value…but emotional value don’t mean much on the battlefield when faced against superior firepower. Maybe fuse it with forerunner tech, like the Prefect Armor…or grab a finished Mk. VII. Also, like someone else mentioned, could somehow find a Ancient Human Combat Armor/Skin.
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> If we face the Precursors, NONE of that will cut it.
That is obvious.
His suit would have highly classified ‘luminescent’ deflector prototypes in lieu of the conventional shield tech. You could easily assume what I mean by classified.
Aesthetics, it would be a cooler version of my Spartans armor configuration. 
P.S. it’s just an improvised setup I know, I just cannot photoshop that well heh.
> > Forerunner combat skin that is superior in every way…or an outdated Modified MJOLNIR Mk. VI. Mark VI has emotional value…but emotional value don’t mean much on the battlefield when faced against superior firepower. Maybe fuse it with forerunner tech, like the Prefect Armor…or grab a finished Mk. VII. Also, like someone else mentioned, could somehow find a Ancient Human Combat Armor/Skin.
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> If we face the Precursors, NONE of that will cut it.
Most if not all Precursor tech was destroyed. Also there’s no reason for the Precursor to attack humans. Human were meant to take up the Mantle.
Also Forerunner Combat Skins at made of mostly hardlight. Hardlight can be molded into anything, so I don’t see a reason why a Combat skin could’t look similar to versions of MJOLNIR.
> > > Forerunner combat skin that is superior in every way…or an outdated Modified MJOLNIR Mk. VI. Mark VI has emotional value…but emotional value don’t mean much on the battlefield when faced against superior firepower. Maybe fuse it with forerunner tech, like the Prefect Armor…or grab a finished Mk. VII. Also, like someone else mentioned, could somehow find a Ancient Human Combat Armor/Skin.
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> > If we face the Precursors, NONE of that will cut it.
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> Most if not all Precursor tech was destroyed. <mark>Also there’s no reason for the Precursor to attack humans.</mark> Human were meant to take up the Mantle.
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> Also Forerunner Combat Skins at made of mostly hardlight. Hardlight can be molded into anything, so I don’t see a reason why a Combat skin could’t look similar to versions of MJOLNIR.
They don’t care about humans anymore, they just want all life to suffer.
> > > > Forerunner combat skin that is superior in every way…or an outdated Modified MJOLNIR Mk. VI. Mark VI has emotional value…but emotional value don’t mean much on the battlefield when faced against superior firepower. Maybe fuse it with forerunner tech, like the Prefect Armor…or grab a finished Mk. VII. Also, like someone else mentioned, could somehow find a Ancient Human Combat Armor/Skin.
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> > > If we face the Precursors, NONE of that will cut it.
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> > Most if not all Precursor tech was destroyed. <mark>Also there’s no reason for the Precursor to attack humans.</mark> Human were meant to take up the Mantle.
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> > Also Forerunner Combat Skins at made of mostly hardlight. Hardlight can be molded into anything, so I don’t see a reason why a Combat skin could’t look similar to versions of MJOLNIR.
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> They don’t care about humans anymore, they just want all life to suffer.
Then why did the Flood spare the Human during the Human Forerunner war?
“Only the threat of the Flood itself could have forced me back from utterly extirpating humanity. And that is how the flood saved humanity from our wrath. By first infecting and then withdrawing, and so implying humans new of a way to combat or avoid the disease.” Halo Silentium String 12.
> > > > > Forerunner combat skin that is superior in every way…or an outdated Modified MJOLNIR Mk. VI. Mark VI has emotional value…but emotional value don’t mean much on the battlefield when faced against superior firepower. Maybe fuse it with forerunner tech, like the Prefect Armor…or grab a finished Mk. VII. Also, like someone else mentioned, could somehow find a Ancient Human Combat Armor/Skin.
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> > > > If we face the Precursors, NONE of that will cut it.
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> > > Most if not all Precursor tech was destroyed. <mark>Also there’s no reason for the Precursor to attack humans.</mark> Human were meant to take up the Mantle.
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> > > Also Forerunner Combat Skins at made of mostly hardlight. Hardlight can be molded into anything, so I don’t see a reason why a Combat skin could’t look similar to versions of MJOLNIR.
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> > They don’t care about humans anymore, they just want all life to suffer.
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> Then why did the Flood spare the Human during the Human Forerunner war?
> “Only the threat of the Flood itself could have forced me back from utterly extirpating humanity. And that is how the flood saved humanity from our wrath. By first infecting and then withdrawing, and so implying humans new of a way to combat or avoid the disease.” Halo Silentium String 12.
Humans were not ripe then. Getting to Cobra. Other Precursors took off…to create something new or gathering their strength again. Either way…when The Originals come back…everyone will know.