As we know John and Cortana have gone through a lot of Yoink. Defeating a galactic empire, eliminating the flood, and stopping space -Yoink!-. John had fought the search results of your creepy uncle, and Cortana had sacrificed herself to save Chief from a nuke. Halo 5 is also described as the beginning of the greatest hunt in history. After Cortanas betrayal we haven’t heard one single word from John. They have fought through hell side by side, and you think that Chief still won’t try his hardest to save her?
So in Halo 6, Chief will probably leave Osiris and Halsey grab a poncho and a ship, and FIND CORTANA
After Cortana’s betrayal, the only words Chief said after that were “Where is Cortana?” when he was speaking to Locke right after they were released from the Cryptum. One question though, why would Chief leave Osiris when he was never with them in the first place?
Or he’ll realize they had a wacky socially-dysfunctional relationship for half a dozen years, now this gardening tool is crazy and he’ll shut her down for good.
HAHAHAHAHAHA ‘gardening tool’ xDDDDD
I think “The Beginning of the greatest hunt in gaming history” line was just deceptive marketing, I really don’t think there’s anything to go on there.
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> Or he’ll realize they had a wacky socially-dysfunctional relationship for half a dozen years, now this gardening tool is crazy and he’ll shut her down for good.
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> HAHAHAHAHAHA ‘gardening tool’ xDDDDD
That’s messed up.
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> I think “The Beginning of the greatest hunt in gaming history” line was just deceptive marketing, I really don’t think there’s anything to go on there.
I have to agree sadly 
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> I think “The Beginning of the greatest hunt in gaming history” line was just deceptive marketing, I really don’t think there’s anything to go on there.
I half agree with your statement. Though I believe the portrayal of Locke hunting Cheif was a lie I still think the hunt part is alive. Instead of hunting Cheif we have to hunt Cortana. Due to her insane abilities it will be the greatest hunt if 343 plays their cards right as Cortana can really go anywhere in the Forerunner domain that she desires and is nearly impossible to track down. This is what “the greatest hunt” could refer to.
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> > I think “The Beginning of the greatest hunt in gaming history” line was just deceptive marketing, I really don’t think there’s anything to go on there.
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> I half agree with your statement. Though I believe the portrayal of Locke hunting Cheif was a lie I still think the hunt part is alive. Instead of hunting Cheif we have to hunt Cortana. Due to her insane abilities it will be the greatest hunt if 343 plays their cards right as Cortana can really go anywhere in the Forerunner domain that she desires and is nearly impossible to track down. This is what “the greatest hunt” could refer to.
agreed
Is there anyone else who thinks that sending one Fireteam after Chief, the greatest hero of the human race, is strange (or funny).
Hundreds or more precisely thousands of Spartan IV’s Fireteams are on the board of Infinity, and if we consider the fact that Jul’s Covenant has become weaker (so didn’t have to use all the Fireteam to beat Jul), I wondering why Lasky or whoever ordered to hunt down Chief, sends ONE team. If I want to hunt someone down I would mobilize as many fireteam as I can, and not only one…makes no sense to me.
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> Is there anyone else who thinks that sending one Fireteam after Chief, the greatest hero of the human race, is strange (or funny).
> Hundreds or more precisely thousands of Spartan IV’s Fireteams are on the board of Infinity, and if we consider the fact that Jul’s Covenant has become weaker (so didn’t have to use all the Fireteam to beat Jul), I wondering why Lasky or whoever ordered to hunt down Chief, sends ONE team. If I want to hunt someone down I would mobilize as many fireteam as I can, and not only one…makes no sense to me.
Overkill dude. They didn’t want chief dead, they just wanted him back on the reservation.
I would like to point out that the Chief already put himself and his only true friends in grave danger in an attempt to reach out to Cortana and offer her a chance to turn back from what she’s doing - she refused, and betrayed him the most horrible way possible. The Chief now has no reason to “save” something that has lied to, manipulated, and abused him - as well as outright threatened and attempted to murder his only friends and family, while also stripping him of his free will and very nearly keeping him prisoner for a millennia. He owes her nothing, and it would be absolutely sick for him to continue to attempt to placate his abuser any longer.
The Chief should never have to be around Cortana ever again. And if 343i has any sense left whatsoever, they won’t stoop to glorifying obsessive and abusive dynamics simply to further some cheap, exploitative “drama”.
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> > Is there anyone else who thinks that sending one Fireteam after Chief, the greatest hero of the human race, is strange (or funny).
> > Hundreds or more precisely thousands of Spartan IV’s Fireteams are on the board of Infinity, and if we consider the fact that Jul’s Covenant has become weaker (so didn’t have to use all the Fireteam to beat Jul), I wondering why Lasky or whoever ordered to hunt down Chief, sends ONE team. If I want to hunt someone down I would mobilize as many fireteam as I can, and not only one…makes no sense to me.
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> Overkill dude. They didn’t want chief dead, they just wanted him back on the reservation.
Yeah, I know you right, but to find him you wouldn’t send a 4 people team through planets, Forerunner structures and against dangerous Prometheans and Guardians. The risk level is very high, plus there could be things that cannot be foreseen, and these could finish even a well prepared team. That’s why I think it’s ridiculous that they sent only Osiris. And remember that Buck was close to die 2 times (which annoys me, why just he, but that’s another thing).
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> Is there anyone else who thinks that sending one Fireteam after Chief, the greatest hero of the human race, is strange (or funny).
> Hundreds or more precisely thousands of Spartan IV’s Fireteams are on the board of Infinity, and if we consider the fact that Jul’s Covenant has become weaker (so didn’t have to use all the Fireteam to beat Jul), I wondering why Lasky or whoever ordered to hunt down Chief, sends ONE team. If I want to hunt someone down I would mobilize as many fireteam as I can, and not only one…makes no sense to me.
ONI wanted it as secret as possible they even went as far as to declare him dead, hundreds of Spartans suddenly searching the galaxy would look suspicious to many.
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> > Is there anyone else who thinks that sending one Fireteam after Chief, the greatest hero of the human race, is strange (or funny).
> > Hundreds or more precisely thousands of Spartan IV’s Fireteams are on the board of Infinity, and if we consider the fact that Jul’s Covenant has become weaker (so didn’t have to use all the Fireteam to beat Jul), I wondering why Lasky or whoever ordered to hunt down Chief, sends ONE team. If I want to hunt someone down I would mobilize as many fireteam as I can, and not only one…makes no sense to me.
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> ONI wanted it as secret as possible they even went as far as to declare him dead, hundreds of Spartans suddenly searching the galaxy would look suspicious to many.
Makes sense too.
Thing is - while John and Cortana have a VERY UNIQUE and strong bond, that isn’t true - they haven’t been together for years. Rather for weeks or months.
Why? Cry-Sleep. Chief has been majority of it just dreaming.
Also, Chief cared for Cortana a lot. That’s why he was still coping and when he heard of her, he wanted to go and investigate. When he seen another Fireteam and to let “them” handle Cortana - he was afraid they’d shut her down.
He felt like he owed her. He made a promise to her to keep her save, to save her. From Graveyard and later to help her to get to Halsey to cure her rampancy.
Then, he not only failed to help her but he failed to even save here.
She was gone. Dead.
So, after he learned she might be alive, he would have done anything and everything to check it himself.
However, when he met her eye to eye and he betrayed him and wanted to imprison him and his team, he was devastated.
I don’t think he’ll just run off. Halsey is scared of Cortana too or rather, what she’s planning to do.
They’ll rather think of any plan(s) how to deal with her, and especially her Guardians and her army.
If Chief will get the chance, surely he’ll try to save her. But he won’t recklessly run off.
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> > > Is there anyone else who thinks that sending one Fireteam after Chief, the greatest hero of the human race, is strange (or funny).
> > > Hundreds or more precisely thousands of Spartan IV’s Fireteams are on the board of Infinity, and if we consider the fact that Jul’s Covenant has become weaker (so didn’t have to use all the Fireteam to beat Jul), I wondering why Lasky or whoever ordered to hunt down Chief, sends ONE team. If I want to hunt someone down I would mobilize as many fireteam as I can, and not only one…makes no sense to me.
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Yup. They had to cover it up. ONI wanted Chief taken as quietly as possible.
They framed him into being a humanity’s traitor just few months earlier! So yeah, they didn’t want the civilians or even most of UNSC to know they were hunting for Chief for him to stand down.
ONI does work rather in secret.
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> As we know John and Cortana have gone through a lot of Yoink. Defeating a galactic empire, eliminating the flood, and stopping space -Yoink!-. John had fought the search results of your creepy uncle, and Cortana had sacrificed herself to save Chief from a nuke. Halo 5 is also described as the beginning of the greatest hunt in history. After Cortanas betrayal we haven’t heard one single word from John. They have fought through hell side by side, and you think that Chief still won’t try his hardest to save her?
> So in Halo 6, Chief will probably leave Osiris and Halsey grab a poncho and a ship, and FIND CORTANA
Well I think the “Hunt” clearly referred to Locke hunting Chief and was a marketing gimmick that horrifically back fired because there is no conflict between those two characters. We weren’t hunting for Cortana.
My assumption is that they are going to pull the “you were the only one who ever believed in me” trope. That in Halo 6 there will be some revelation, most likely that Cortana has the logic plague via the Warden and that its possible to save her somehow. This would create conflict of some kind with other human characters who think she is Skynet who needs to be destroyed and prefer a simpler/less risky/ more vengeful option in dealing with her.
Now, atm, the UNSC has no means of killing Cortana and the Chief thinks she is doing this of her own volition. So the only thing both groups can do is oppose Cortana’s efforts to conquer the galaxy. This will mean that Chief will not leave and will probably work with humanity for most of the game. None of them agree with her plan and there is no conflict here with Chief/UNSC. But, when the UNSC does inevitably learn a way to kill her, the Chief is probably not going to be okay with that. Theres also probably going to be some reveal that she doesn’t fully have her own free will or has been corrupted some how.
At which stage 343 can either cop out and have all the UNSC characters agree to help Chief cure Cortana of the Logic Plague (which would be sooo stupid and lame) or it creates a conflict and the Chief goes against the UNSC on this point. I think the latter is the more natural and dramatic way for things to go. The Chief might be okay with Cortana killing millions and saying “its not too late to stop this” but every other human is not going to share that attitude. As far as they are concerned, she is Skynet. “The machine must be destroyed” should be what every human character tells the Chief.
I mean Halo 5 does stress that Locke and Vale (good people) have a pretty negative view of AI and this is portrayed as the way most humans think of them. This heavily contrasts to how the Chief views Cortana as a person and his friend. When Locke says “you were built, not born” in the campaign I was like “that’s mean! :D” and that’s a pretty horrible thing to say to somebody. I don’t think the Chief would ever say that to Cortana. So, hopefully that is where they are going with the plot at some point and in some form.
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> I would like to point out that the Chief already put himself and his only true friends in grave danger in an attempt to reach out to Cortana and offer her a chance to turn back from what she’s doing - she refused, and betrayed him the most horrible way possible. The Chief now has no reason to “save” something that has lied to, manipulated, and abused him - as well as outright threatened and attempted to murder his only friends and family, while also stripping him of his free will and very nearly keeping him prisoner for a millennia. He owes her nothing, and it would be absolutely sick for him to continue to attempt to placate his abuser any longer.
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> The Chief should never have to be around Cortana ever again. And if 343i has any sense left whatsoever, they won’t stoop to glorifying obsessive and abusive dynamics simply to further some cheap, exploitative “drama”.
Woah well i guess im wrong
When did the game ever suggest that he had given up on Cortana? After Fireteam Osiris released Blue Team from the Cryptum, Chief asked Locke, “Where is she?” Chief definitely still cares.
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> When did the game ever suggest that he had given up on Cortana? After Fireteam Osiris released Blue Team from the Cryptum, Chief asked Locke, “Where is she?” Chief definitely still cares.
Well seeing as how Cortana made it abundantly clear that she had no plans to release him anytime soon, naturally he would want to know where the heck she went/what happened after being freed from the Cryptum and seeing Osiris standing in front of him. Any other “meaning” of that line is entirely subjective, and until we know for sure what happens in the next game (which won’t be for 3 years) any notions of what the Chief’s stance is on all this will remain as such.