I was just reading through Dr. Halsey’s research book from Reach’s Limited Edition Package, and found something interesting:
"Bodies of augmentation washouts are [cryogenically preserved, pending further study. Perhaps one day we’ll discover ways to ameliorate or reverse lethal side effects and revive some, if not all, of them]. That is my hope.
Reviving these candidates would be fraught with complexities - and not just from a technological perspective. How would they respond to an essentially new world when resusitated months or even years later?
How would survivng Spartans react to their comrades’ resurrection? I certainly can’t predict. One thing is certain-
ONI would find a use for them."
Halsey wasn’t about to throw away the subjects that didn’t respond properly. She was going to reanimate them from the dead, and repurpose them for who-knows-what.
In the first released trailer, Josh Holmes said “we’re really delving into Master Chief’s humanity, and exploring what makes him tick as a character”. Knowing that as one of 343’s goals, we can expect to see nostalgia in Halo 4’s story. With this quote, and the knowledge from Halsey, director of the SPARTAN program, could incorporate the failed SPARTAN-II subjects into the SPARTAN-IV program. Even presuming that Halsey is dead in the seven years after Halo 3, she knew that ONI would find something for them.
What do you all think? Any other theories that would pertain to either Halsey’s research or other special info?
> I was just reading through Dr. Halsey’s research book from Reach’s Limited Edition Package, and found something interesting:
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> "Bodies of augmentation washouts are [cryogenically preserved, pending further study. Perhaps one day we’ll discover ways to ameliorate or reverse lethal side effects and revive some, if not all, of them]. That is my hope.
> Reviving these candidates would be fraught with complexities - and not just from a technological perspective. How would they respond to an essentially new world when resusitated months or even years later?
> How would survivng Spartans react to their comrades’ resurrection? I certainly can’t predict. One thing is certain-
> ONI would find a use for them."
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> Halsey wasn’t about to throw away the subjects that didn’t respond properly. She was going to reanimate them from the dead, and repurpose them for who-knows-what.
> In the first released trailer, Josh Holmes said “we’re really delving into Master Chief’s humanity, and exploring what makes him tick as a character”. Knowing that as one of 343’s goals, we can expect to see nostalgia in Halo 4’s story. With this quote, and the knowledge from Halsey, director of the SPARTAN program, could incorporate the failed SPARTAN-II subjects into the SPARTAN-IV program. Even presuming that Halsey is dead in the seven years after Halo 3, she knew that ONI would find something for them.
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> What do you all think? Any other theories that would pertain to either Halsey’s research or other special info?
I sense infection is canon.
There aren’t going to be zombie Spartans. Those dead Spartans would have to be preserved immediately to alleviate brain damage from the loss of oxygen being dead depraves from your brain. Those washouts may not even be dead, but in a severe coma or near-death state and were simply frozen to preserve them.
> There aren’t going to be zombie Spartans. Those dead Spartans would have to be preserved immediately to alleviate brain damage from the loss of oxygen being dead depraves from your brain. Those washouts may not even be dead, but in a severe coma or near-death state and were simply frozen to preserve them.
True, but who knows how freezing someone really works over 500 years from now.
What do I think? You need to change that cyan text. VERY hard on the eyes. I could barely see it.
Hence why I said they MAY not all be dead. Plenty of washouts had crippling side-effects that could become lethal and yet were not preserved in cryo, some were even cured. In order to even have the chance to revive someone who is dead, they need to be preserved immediately. Once your dead, you brain is deprived of oxygen, killing brains cells. Ergo, brain damage.
Besides, that isn’t how you make zombies. Traditionally you’d need a virus, the closest thing in Halo to that is the Flood. People in real life after suffering brain damage don’t start feasting on the living.
Hopefully we get to see some of the old Spartan II wash outs as Spartan IVs.
> Hence why I said they MAY not all be dead. Plenty of washouts had crippling side-effects Besides, that isn’t how you make zombies. Traditionally you’d need a virus, the closest thing in Halo to that is the Flood. People in real life after suffering brain damage don’t start feasting on the living.
You’re mixing up the title with the post. Of course they wouldn’t be flesh-eating necromorphs, but Halsey was still talking about reanimation. And as I stated before, medicinal knowledge is likely more advanced in the Halo universe, so bringing a person back from the dead might not be as crazy 500 years from now.
> > Hence why I said they MAY not all be dead. Plenty of washouts had crippling side-effects Besides, that isn’t how you make zombies. Traditionally you’d need a virus, the closest thing in Halo to that is the Flood. People in real life after suffering brain damage don’t start feasting on the living.
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> You’re mixing up the title with the post. Of course they wouldn’t be flesh-eating necromorphs, but Halsey was still talking about reanimation. And as I stated before, medicinal knowledge is likely more advanced in the Halo universe, so bringing a person back from the dead might not be as crazy 500 years from now.
Well it sure seemed to stump the medical community 500 years from now according to Halsey.