TLDR: The dead spartans likely just represent all of the nameless (never individually named in lore) S3's that fell on Reach, all of the armor is random (some of the armors are just named after specific spartans). Adrianna - SPARTAN-111: MIA with the rest of Gray Team. Joshua - SPARTAN-029: Listed as MIA, assumed KIA during the Fall of Reach due to a direct hit from a Covenant cruiser's plasma weaponry. Sam - SPARTAN-034: Listed as MIA, confirmed KIA due to destruction of the Covenant ship they had boarded. First to destroy a Covenant ship in a non-ship to ship battle. Jai - SPARTAN-006: MIA with the rest of Gray Team. Skull - ??? Isaac - SPARTAN-039: Listed as MIA, assumed KIA after the Fall of Reach. Kelly - SPARTAN-087: Active as of July 2557. Malcolm - SPARTAN-059: Listed as MIA, confirmed KIA during the Fall of Reach. Li - SPARTAN-008: Listed as MIA during Slipspace anomaly battle. Assumed KIA due to nearby plasma torpedo detonation. Kurt - SPARTAN-051: Listed as MIA, confirmed KIA after the detonation of two FENRIS nuclear warheads at the core of Onyx. Nicole - SPARTAN-458: Listed as MIA, lost in space as of 2552 (she exists in the Halo universe, but has no canon lore). Vinh - SPARTAN-030: Listed as MIA, assumed KIA after the Fall of Reach. Rosenda - SPARTAN-344: Unknown status, was meant to be part of Noble Team, but was scrapped in development (she is only mentioned in Noble Team performance reports). Linda - SPARTAN-058: Active as of July 2557. Clinically KIA during the Fall of Reach but later resuscitated after the Battle of Installation 04. Many of these Spartans are meant to die along side other spartans/teams (which are not included here), some are meant to die elsewhere or at an earlier/later time, and some are meant to still be alive (lore-wise). All of the dead spartans in that mission are simply just a bunch of random Spartan III's (which is why the armor is random, because all of them are nameless/random spartan III's). Here's the list of known spartan III casualties (most of which are on Reach): Team Wolf Pack - Jane-A??? - KIA - Shane-A??? - KIA - Robert-A???- KIA Beta Company Team Echo - KIA Team Foxtrot - Adam-B004 - KIA - Min-B174 - KIA Team India - KIA Team Lima - KIA Team Romeo - KIA Team X-ray - MIA Team Zulu - KIA Gamma Company Team Gladius - KIA - Found deceased after several days of fleeing from Sentinels. Headhunters Team 1 - Jonah - KIA - Roland - KIA Team 2 - Unnamed SPARTAN-III - KIA - Unnamed SPARTAN-III - KIA Team Katana - Last known to under-go resuscitative surgery after being clinically KIA in Slipspace Field Pods Team Saber - Holly-G003 - KIA - Dante-G188 - KIA - Ash-G099 - KIA, September 2553 - Olivia-G291 - KIA, September 2553 - Mark-G313 - KIA, September 2553 Update: Ash, Olivia, and Mark were listed as KIA, because they're now ghosts working for ONI under Veta Lopis. They're now known as Ferret Team, and very well alive.
Well, they don't... those are honestly placeholder names so devs could quickly tell spartan from spartan... In truth those spartans are likely the two fireteams of seven that Jun brought up before leaving with Halsey
I doubt it, those fireteams where sent on civilian evac missions. The only reason Noble team was at the shipyard was because ONI (by extension Dr. Halsey and Cortana) secretly overrode their orders during their return to sword base. Since there were plenty of Spartan III Fireteams, it could be any of them
For those who don't know. These 14 spartans were placed as a reminder, of the last 14 people who played Halo 2 online in the original servers. They would not bow, and could not burn. And the 22 names stands for Apache N4sir who was the last one. He stayed on for 22hrs alone.
A feature that would of made Lone Wolf a bit better would be that you see the Spartans of people on your friend list who’ve played reach lying around, while would been hard to add, it would be really impactful on the player.
I mean, in theory it should be no different than a blood stain in the Dark Souls series. If you don’t know, they red spots that mark where you died, and interacting shows your character and how they died.
I was 10 when this game first came out. When I saw all the dead Spartans laying around, I just assumed there were people who played the game before me and didn’t make it, which made me even more sad when I ended up not making it. Obviously now I know that’s not the case but I always thought it was cool head cannon lol.
I was also 10 when reach came out. And I thought the same thing. But recently I learned that the 14 bodies were placed there as a memorial for the 14 players who remained on the Halo 2 servers after they were shut down. And the 22 names are memorial to Apache N4Sir who remained on the servers alone for 22 hours as the last Halo 2 online player.
I think they just used various Spartan names from lore as placeholders for the models. Rosenda-A344 was a cut member of Noble team, who the CQC helmet was designed for. She is still canon I believe, though her status is unknown.
@Gaming life for gamers Hmm, I can't check right now, but that doesn't seem to line up. It seems like she was first designed for Reach, but Onyx came out in 2006. Also it wouldnt make sense to plan to use said character if she had already died.
@@ogpharah6928 Yeah, I think her only mention besides being a loadout name is the Noble Team performance reports, where Holland mentions he is considering replacing Emile with Rosenda due to the former's violence against insurrectionists.
Cojiro yeah that’s all that’s really said about her , I think she had a thing with the pre order bonus as well , I hope they do something soon with Spartans that don’t have a lot and don’t just black team them
That's actually true. If you restart the mission over and over, all the dead spartan's armor change. Except for the one next to the sniper in white as a female.
The Famous Hacker prolly because they were file names they wanted to have names that their staff could use them by while not figuring out to have new names or be confused which was which
I like to think that Noble 6 went around reach gathering Spartans and marines in an attempt to allow the last few human ships to escape and Lone Wolf takes places right after what's left of Nobles little defense team die and He/She is the last one standing, trying to keep the covenant at bay just alittle longer
Ah yes, "Lone wolf" I remember that old trick where if you stacked boxes in the right place, none of the enemies could find you... ...I also remember credits too...
Mr.Machina And I remember trying to wait around an hour and a half each time hoping for a secret ending. And I also remember playing split with one of my brothers, trying to “cull the herd” and capture/destroy some vehicles, and sometimes when one of us died, the survivor would try to “Gun and run” (basically killing a few enemies, then running to a safer area to respawn to dead brother) and then we’d continue to play until it wouldn’t allow our tricks. Then I remember my brother holding out a good 30+ minutes without me and he saw and almost killed the elite that would eventually kill us... He died.
Repaid Raven we all shared your pain . The false sense of hope we all had, after all the sacrifices, all the deaths, and it seemed like it was for nothing. Your not alone brother/sister. To this day I hate Lone Wolf, but it was destined and Halo wouldn’t be the same without it...
@@ogpharah6928 They're real in the canon but I think Kanal's point was that none of these characters were (or even could have been) on Reach for the battle. In short: they're placeholder names, just like the ones used in the Load-outs as a reference or easteregg.
@@yeetisthebold4866 Then you'd be a game dev working on the game, and wouldn't care because you know what would eventually come to be. By the time the first regular person played it there'd be bodies from the dev team and QA teams
@@kainey Helmets are like extensions of our head/face, and humans are really good at reading faces. So it doesn't surprise me that we do this. I've heard that we judge people almost instantly based on their facial features. So if their face is covered we will still do that, but we judge their helmet instead. Or that's my guess at least.
Fun fact: SPARTAN Malcolm is a reference within a reference. He has an ODST helmet, which is a reference to Buck from ODST, who is voiced by Nathan Fillion, whose claim to fame for many (and even in GameInformer's magazine back in 2009 when Halo 3: ODST was up) is that of Captain Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly. Halo 3: ODST was pretty well-received due to the voice actors used, which, three were part of the original Firefly cast. Adam Baldwin, who voices Dutch, played Jane from Firefly. Alan Tudyk voiced Micky, who was Wash in Firfly, and finally, Nathan Fillion, who voiced Buck, who was, Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly. So SPARTAN Malcolm being an ODST is pretty clever. I like it.
I like how they get armor attachments that you can't put on those helmets, kinda wish we could put any armor attachments on any helmet, hopefully 343 allows us to eventually
I hope we get a lot of crazy things, robot arm for any chest armor, being able to mix and match belt, chest, shoulders, have two wrist and thigh attachments, and fully customizable helmets. I’d also love different armor colors, like a true black, and the ability to change the undersuit color as its own separate option from primary and secondary.
@@mikeferguson1833 no I'm one of those "halo 4 had the most fucking boring weapon sandbox in the history of the franchise and halo 5 focused far too much on the squad mechanic in the campaign without polishing it's mediocre story and unlikable characters" any more stupid assumptions you'd like to make? 343 ruined reach with shield bleed through and removing 80% of Bloom sprint has nothing to do with it
It appears that Spartan Vinh has a variant of the EOD helmet that the player cannot unlock/wear. It looks like the last variant of EOD that the player has access to (the one without the little bits that line the jaw) minus the communication thing attached to the side of the helmet, and the additional armouring on the forehead.
Spartan Issac having a base version of the Operator Helmet without any attachments makes me jealous hopefully 343 adds more customization options to existing Armour for season 2
Season 2 will most likely not be for reach, it’s probably going to be for Combat evolved, think about it. Every single unlockable in reach is in season 1 already so it wouldn’t really make sense for them to keep adding more cosmetics to reach when combat evolved is coming soon. The whole seasons thing is straight out of the fortnite playbook and it’s kinda weird considering there will be a total of 6 games in the MCC on pc. There has to be a point to playing the coming games, otherwise there would be no sense of reward for a lot of people.
If CE gets customizable spartans we need playable and customizable elites, it would be dope but I'm pretty sure 343 wont do that. I'm expecting GRD and that other helmet for reach and a bunch of lame name plates...
@@Alotofnades There's far more stuff they can add to reach with minimal effort compared to CE tbh that's why I'm expecting it to be a bit of CE but mostly reach stuff
Because they're randomized each time, I always thought they were meant to represent sort of alternate versions of Noble Six, who can also have any armor. They're all dead to show that Six's death is inevitable.
I had always assumed, at least when it first came out, that the dead Spartans were fellow players who had beaten the game before you had. There is no real way to confirm or deny this but I distinctly remember beating the quickly on my first playthrough back when it first came out and there were no dead Spartans at the time, then I swear I did another playthrough and found my old armor setup as a dead spartan. I could easily be wrong considering how long ago that has been but if anyone feels the same or can prove me wrong, let me know.
@@GLJ94 Not all of the armor variants are available to the player. For example, that EOD variant in the video (4:01) can't be unlocked in the armory. So I'd say we can rule out that theory...
Roseneda was actually a scrapped member of Noble Team the CQC helmet being iconic to her. In canon, she is a fill-in for Emile as Noble 4 in case he gets too hostile in campaigns that involve insurrectionist forces.
@@ogpharah6928 At least we can understand him, unlike Halo Follower. Also, HiddenXperia is a pretty good Halo youtuber (he mainly deals with Flood stuff and Lore though) who I highly recommend.
Just thought of another something Im little curious about. The last challenge I remember every one trying before Halo 2 came on CE was this idea that you could break out of the ceiling of a map and land on an invisible wall on the edge of the map, so you’d be able to stand in the abyss. For the longest time I remember breaking through the ceiling alone was deemed impossible but then Ms Man did it on 343 Guilty Spark by launching himself with a covenant turret, and the turret managed to strike him and clip him through the ceiling while he was still alive.. which was incredible at the time, never understood how Ms Man accomplished so much. But the idea of somehow landing on the invisible walls on the edge of a map still seemed completely impossible. Not sure if there’s anyway to determine it. Maybe you already have a quick answer for it though..
They're Spartans from Echo, Red, and Gauntlet teams. They were "Cat II" teams like Noble that were stationed on Reach to help with the defense. It's unknown if these teams had any survivors though it's possible a few of the surviving Cat IIs we've been introduced to in the novels were members of these teams.
Unsure about the others at the moment, but through some research, I've found that Adrianna and Jai are a pair of Spartan IIs, Adrianna-111 and Jai-006. The two often escaped from their training facility on Reach just for the thrill rather than trying to go AWOL. They were both part of Gray Team along with Mike-120. EDIT: The rest of them have much, much longer stories, but you can find them in the wiki if need be. Some of these are supposedly the actual Spartans that their names imply them to be, others are merely references. But each of them are Spartan-IIs apart from Rosenda. To summarize, Joshua-029, Isaac-039, Vinh-030, Li-008, Malcolm-059, Linda-058 and Kelly-087 were all members of Red Team on Reach... along with Frederic-104. Kelly, Linda and Frederic, as some might know, are both members of Blue Team. Kelly, Linda and Fred survived, of course, but Joshua, Isaac, and Vinh all went MIA--Joshua when he was shot down, and Isaac and Vinh when their satchel charges went off prematurely while the remainder of Red Team attempted to escape. Li disappeared in a flash of light along with one other Spartan and a marine while escaping from Reach while the team the remainder of Red Team was on was caught in a slipspace bubble. When Red Team's Pelican, Bravo 001 was shot down, the team had to jump. Malcolm hit the ground too hard and died on impact. The remainder of Red Team escaped. Sam, or Samuel-034 was one of the first Spartans to die during the war, killed during the Battle of Onyx aboard a Covenant frigate. Him and Blue Team were deployed to the frigate while the UNSC Commonwealth was engaged with it. Their mission was to destroy the frigate from the inside, but a hole was shot into his armor, preventing him from escaping with his team. So instead, he held off the Covenant to ensure the missiles they used would go off. Kurt died during the Battle of Oryx, leading a team of what remained of Spartan-III Team, Beta Company to hold off the Covenant and allow Blue Team to escape. Nicole-458 doesn't have much of a story, but she's the Spartan-II that appears in Dead or Alive 4. Officially, she would be considered MIA, but technically, she's trapped in the 21st century according to her story in Dead or Alive 4. However, apparently this is considered canon. Rosenda-A344 was a Spartan III that never got finished. She was a concept that was never put into where she was intended to go. Originally, she was intended to be a member of Noble Team in Halo Reach. The only other info on her is in Noble Team's performance reports, documented by Colonel Urban Holland saying that Rosenda would replace Emile as Noble Four if another Insurrectionst Operation came up. The only Spartan on this list I can't find any info on is Skull. It's possible Skull was a nickname, but at the moment, I can't find them.
You know there is actually a secret locked door behind a hill at the beginning of The Ark from halo 3 it is behind a hill on The Ark that is near the first covenant base you encounter, you know the first enemies in that level that you meet. Could you see what is behind the door? Please could you do a video on this?
These spartans are most likely a reference to the book The fall of Reach where a group of spartans were sent to the surface to protect the generators keeping the orbital mac cannons active.
Adriana and Jai are from Grey Team/ the Cole Protocol book they survived the war and Rosenda was supposed to be Noble 4s replacement in case Nobel Team was doing counter insurrection ops cause Emile was way to aggressive even against humans we never found out what happened to her throughout Reach, Spartan Skull is a rando that doesn't exist i don't think
So this is where this brings us. Dead Spartans that are of familiar characters. They will always be remembered, even though I have no idea of what they did.
Some of those names are in halo fall of reach and first strike as well as The Cole Protocal. Kurt-051 was the tallest spartan he was 8'2 and was asked by Colonel Ackerson to spear head the spartan 3 program but he unfortunately died on Onyx. He was the highest ranked spartan before he died he had the rank of Lieutenant commander. Joshua-029 died trying to save the generator complex for the orbital MAC guns on Reach when he tried to blow up a Covenant cruiser with a bomb inside a banshee. He had a good working relationship with spartans like the MasterCheif and the rest of blue team. Adriana-111 was part of gray team along side Jai-006 and Mike-120 in the Cole Protocal book and halo envoy I think. Vinh-030 and Isaac-039 were both in halo reach as well. They were freinds good friends since they grew up together in the spartan 2 program. They went missing during Operation:WHITE GLOVE they probably died in an explosion trying to get into a Coventant crusier via gravlift under the command of William-043. Will or William-043 was one of the only spartans to survive the fall of Reach since they were all protecting the generator complex on Reach that powered the orbital MAC gun. But he was later Killed on Onyx. Nicole-458 is rather mysterious because she was actually introduced in Dead or Alive 4 as the only spartan fighter available she is presumably canon but it is unknown how she died. Rosenda-A344 was a spartan 3 and was originally going to be part of noble team but was replaced with Emile-A239. It is unknown how she died. Malcom-59 was on a pelican with the rest of the Spartans on the way to the generator complex on Reach. Their pelican was shot down by seraph fighters a few thousand feet above ground forcing them to jump to the target zone. Malcolm suit wasn't properly pressurized and he died instantly upon impact with the ground. Li-008 was killed in a slips pace battle with the Coventant shortly after reach he was known for his expertise in zero gravity combat and hand to hand combat. I may not have covered them all in detail but I tried not to spoil the books too much. If you want to know more than I recommended reading The Fall Of Reach, First strike and Cole Protocal or go to Halopedia.
I believe this is a reference to the Noble 14 who played the original Halo 2 on Xbox and continued to play online after server shut down, little before the launch of Reach.
Well we haven't heard anything from Rosenda since before the Fall of Reach and considering she was a reserve for Nobel Team during that time she would have been planet side during the assault making her death/ appearance in lone wolf possible and i can't find anything on Skull he may just be a place holder name but considering all of the others are existing Spartans he could be one too so we possibly have at least 2 names for the Spartans on lone wolf
Sypher Ti Then Noble 6 would’ve been Noble 7, and Earth would’ve never been located. Winter Contingency would’ve never been put in affect. The war would’ve been won.
In the novel The Fall of Reach there was a team of Spartans that went to the surface of reach on a mission and John, Linda, and one other spartan went on a mission onto a UNSC ship to enact the cole protocol and destroy information. The ground team was left behind because The Pillar of Autumn was getting overwhelmed we enemy fire and they were left behind.
What if all those dead soldiers, and Spartans all went there to rally together. Trying to survive as long as possible. Noble 6 finds out about the rally point but arrives to see them all dead and covenant occupying the area.
Fun fact about "skull". Emile in the halo reach concept art wore the HAZOP helmet and was black and red. Spartan skull might be Emile's original look, hence the name.
These are all characters from Halo lore - specifically names of Spartans from the books. Its likely that bungie threw the names in as a cheeky way of naming the models. I wouldn't count it as lore as a lot of these characters are still living in the universe.
Agreed, though I think the characters mostly existed before different armour sets existed. Weren't different permutations introduced in 3? Well after most of these Spartans had been introduced? I remember hearing something early in Reach's development that it was supposed to follow the Spartan IIs originally, so perhaps there was at some point an intention to give each Spartan their own design so we could distinguish them from one another? I mean Noble all have unique sets so its not too crazy to think.
Anqry / Evelyn that is true, but at that time period (in the canon at the time) all the spartans had identical armour. It made them seem less human #metaphor
@@reminiscentiaoff4669 I can see that, and I can understand the development later on for individualistic upgrades. At first they wanted to have as much of a morale damage on the Insurrection as a physical one, but once they started warring with the Covenant the Spartans became a symbol of hope to Humanity.
These aren't actually canon Spartan-III's. The names of each model were most likely used as placeholder to differentiate models as they are named after various Spartan-II's who have appeared in the lore, however they are clearly not actually meant to be those people. The most likely identity of these Spartan-III's is that they are simply unnamed and belong to the various teams mentioned throughout Halo: Reach.
The one with the odst helmet is an homage to Buck, because his middle name is Malcolm, which is also an homage to Nathan Fillion's (he voices Buck) character Malcolm Reynolds on Firefly.
Jai and Adrianna are part of grey team who are still alive as far as i know. Kurt was killed on Onyx after allowing the spartan 3s to escape and blowing up a nuke, killing a bunch of covenant in the process.
Rosenda is an alternate member of NOBLE Team, that Holland would sub in for Emile for ops against the Insurrectionists, as Emile's more violent methods looked bad in press footage.
Jai, Adrianna, and Micheal (Not listed) are part of Gray Team. They are Spartans who went into sleep like Chief did in Halo 3-4 they went to sleep for 6 years. They are ALIVE AND WELL. Also Jai is the spartan you see trying to kill Thel Vadam or the Arbiter back before he became the Arbiter.
I always believed that they were the Red Team Spartans in fall of reach sent to protect the shield generators for the orbital Mac cannons. Also explains the generator defence game mode in firefight.
Seeing Kelly and Sam there brings me waaaaayy back to reading Fall of Reach as a kid. I'm having a nostalgiattack. What really bothers me though is that the cover of the book depicts all spartans in the classic Mark V armor from CE and not all this fancy stuff.
The Spartans are all from the books and lore and didn’t die on a random battlefield. Eg in Fall of Reach Malcolm dies hard dropping onto Reach from space and Joshua dies in a Banshee. Both were part of Blue team under Fred’s command from memory. But the game already retcons all the books so who knows.
I remember Sam from the books. Malcolm is likely referring to Malcolm Reynolds, since Nathan Fillion was one of the characters from Halo ODST and he wasn't canonically a Spartan in Halo Reach.
As a comment on here pointed out, the names are only used for placeholder, not meant to indicate the actual characters themselves - as some of these names are actual canon characters established by the books and/or games. Moreover, the Lone Wolf level randomizes their appearances, while their appearances are already established by their respective medias. The references to other Halo medias here are very interesting to say the least. To the best of my memory: - Sam is Samuel-034, a Spartan-II. He appeared in the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach (and its animated adaptation by 343), and was a major character that greatly influenced the Chief and fellow S-IIs. - Kurt is Kurt Ambrose. He’s a S-II that appeared in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. ONI faked his death so that they could task him with training Spartan-IIIs. Another interesting tidbit is Spartan Isaac’s helmet at 2:43, which is the OPERATOR helmet in-game. The helmet shown in the video is blank and has no attachments to it, but the default OPERATOR helmet actually has an integrated camera attachment (I forgot the name).
Malcolm is probably a nod to Nathan Fillion (Buck). Who is best knows for being Captain Malcolm Raynolds on Firefly. Fillion also voiced other marines and ODSTs in halo 3 one of which being Sargent Raynolds in the first mission. Which oddly enough is the rank Mal Raynolds held in the Independent Planets Army before they lost the battle of Serenity Valley.
Spartan Malcom is an Easter egg. It's a reference to Malcom Reynolds from the show Firefly. This character is played by nathon fillion who voices and models the character Buck from ODST and Halo 5
I would not be surprised if Spartan Malcolm was a nod to Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly. Malcolm Reynolds was played by Nathan Fillion who voices Buck from in ODST hence the ODST helmet on Spartan Malcolm
Most of these spartans died on reach defending the generators for the orbital mac guns. Some where declared mia by oni and are actually recruiters and trainers for next gen spartans
In lore UNSC personals had last stands at lone wolf since most of the UNSC Evacs or even UNSC itself has left reach at this point. So to hold out and make a last stand the last of the UNSC (Or most) on reach the went to lone wolf and along those troopers were noble six. Noble six fought for weeks and troopers fell one by one and until noble six, died.
The names are all familiar or correct but the armour permutations honestly seem pretty random, and obviously blue team survived so I'm not sure why they were part of the dead spartans in this. Linda died but was revived by Halsey after H1. All the other ones were other Spartans that died during the fall of reach mentioned in the books and stuff. Sam died on first contact with the covenant on Chiefs OG team.
TLDR: The dead spartans likely just represent all of the nameless (never individually named in lore) S3's that fell on Reach, all of the armor is random (some of the armors are just named after specific spartans).
Adrianna - SPARTAN-111: MIA with the rest of Gray Team.
Joshua - SPARTAN-029: Listed as MIA, assumed KIA during the Fall of Reach due to a direct hit from a Covenant cruiser's plasma weaponry.
Sam - SPARTAN-034: Listed as MIA, confirmed KIA due to destruction of the Covenant ship they had boarded. First to destroy a Covenant ship in a non-ship to ship battle.
Jai - SPARTAN-006: MIA with the rest of Gray Team.
Skull - ???
Isaac - SPARTAN-039: Listed as MIA, assumed KIA after the Fall of Reach.
Kelly - SPARTAN-087: Active as of July 2557.
Malcolm - SPARTAN-059: Listed as MIA, confirmed KIA during the Fall of Reach.
Li - SPARTAN-008: Listed as MIA during Slipspace anomaly battle. Assumed KIA due to nearby plasma torpedo detonation.
Kurt - SPARTAN-051: Listed as MIA, confirmed KIA after the detonation of two FENRIS nuclear warheads at the core of Onyx.
Nicole - SPARTAN-458: Listed as MIA, lost in space as of 2552 (she exists in the Halo universe, but has no canon lore).
Vinh - SPARTAN-030: Listed as MIA, assumed KIA after the Fall of Reach.
Rosenda - SPARTAN-344: Unknown status, was meant to be part of Noble Team, but was scrapped in development (she is only mentioned in Noble Team performance reports).
Linda - SPARTAN-058: Active as of July 2557. Clinically KIA during the Fall of Reach but later resuscitated after the Battle of Installation 04.
Many of these Spartans are meant to die along side other spartans/teams (which are not included here), some are meant to die elsewhere or at an earlier/later time, and some are meant to still be alive (lore-wise). All of the dead spartans in that mission are simply just a bunch of random Spartan III's (which is why the armor is random, because all of them are nameless/random spartan III's).
Here's the list of known spartan III casualties (most of which are on Reach):
Team Wolf Pack
- Jane-A??? - KIA
- Shane-A??? - KIA
- Robert-A???- KIA
Beta Company
Team Echo - KIA
Team Foxtrot
- Adam-B004 - KIA
- Min-B174 - KIA
Team India - KIA
Team Lima - KIA
Team Romeo - KIA
Team X-ray - MIA
Team Zulu - KIA
Gamma Company
Team Gladius - KIA - Found deceased after several days of fleeing from Sentinels.
Headhunters
Team 1
- Jonah - KIA
- Roland - KIA
Team 2
- Unnamed SPARTAN-III - KIA
- Unnamed SPARTAN-III - KIA
Team Katana - Last known to under-go resuscitative surgery after being clinically KIA in Slipspace Field Pods
Team Saber
- Holly-G003 - KIA
- Dante-G188 - KIA
- Ash-G099 - KIA, September 2553
- Olivia-G291 - KIA, September 2553
- Mark-G313 - KIA, September 2553
Update: Ash, Olivia, and Mark were listed as KIA, because they're now ghosts working for ONI under Veta Lopis. They're now known as Ferret Team, and very well alive.
what the fuck
@@sneed9793 Google is one hell of a drug
that's information
Ash isn’t dead
Neither is mark
Wow they actually have names. A moment of silence for the Spartans "missing in action"
Tomahawk M468 F in the chat. Lost but not forgotten...
Like bungie once said:
Remember *Reach*
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That'll be a LONG moment of silence to account for 'em all...
Four squads MIA
Well, they don't... those are honestly placeholder names so devs could quickly tell spartan from spartan... In truth those spartans are likely the two fireteams of seven that Jun brought up before leaving with Halsey
They're presumably the fireteams Jun mentioned at the end cutscene of New Alexandria
The weird thing is that we didnt see them fighting the covenant in the poa mission but we see them dead in lone wolf
Thanks...
Gauntlet red and echo
@@crusaderherman7343 yeah them
I doubt it, those fireteams where sent on civilian evac missions. The only reason Noble team was at the shipyard was because ONI (by extension Dr. Halsey and Cortana) secretly overrode their orders during their return to sword base.
Since there were plenty of Spartan III Fireteams, it could be any of them
For those who don't know.
These 14 spartans were placed as a reminder, of the last 14 people who played Halo 2 online in the original servers.
They would not bow, and could not burn.
And the 22 names stands for Apache N4sir who was the last one.
He stayed on for 22hrs alone.
Oh wtf that’s weird
@@jazzhands6055 Nay, it was *ICONIC*
@@Riflery yee ur right
A true spartan,standing by untill the end.
Literally killed xboxes
A feature that would of made Lone Wolf a bit better would be that you see the Spartans of people on your friend list who’ve played reach lying around, while would been hard to add, it would be really impactful on the player.
Would have had a hell of an impact.
I mean, in theory it should be no different than a blood stain in the Dark Souls series. If you don’t know, they red spots that mark where you died, and interacting shows your character and how they died.
@@Slender_Man_186 theres a zone with cursed/petrified players
The astronaut on the Zombies map Moon does that
@@yazansakran3326 yeah, but that's just a name, itd be cool if their spartan armor was lying around
and here I am playing Reach for years and never knew there were dead spartans
This manssss
I literally had to go replay lone wolf; I thought they where marines not spartans
Lol me too
Wtf is wrong with you guys lol
wow
I was 10 when this game first came out. When I saw all the dead Spartans laying around, I just assumed there were people who played the game before me and didn’t make it, which made me even more sad when I ended up not making it. Obviously now I know that’s not the case but I always thought it was cool head cannon lol.
I was also 10 when reach came out.
And I thought the same thing.
But recently I learned that the 14 bodies were placed there as a memorial for the 14 players who remained on the Halo 2 servers after they were shut down.
And the 22 names are memorial to Apache N4Sir who remained on the servers alone for 22 hours as the last Halo 2 online player.
@@Riflery oh wow, i didnt know that either lol
I clicked so fast I thought it said “HOw DEAD ARE THE SPARTANS...”
they're ok but they're dead
Samy Dee lmaooooo
@Fish Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Spartans never die. They just MIA
You have 343 likes :)
I think they just used various Spartan names from lore as placeholders for the models. Rosenda-A344 was a cut member of Noble team, who the CQC helmet was designed for. She is still canon I believe, though her status is unknown.
@Gaming life for gamers Are you sure, the wikis don't day that, though I may havr missed it.
Cojiro as far as I know they haven’t done anything with her
@Gaming life for gamers Hmm, I can't check right now, but that doesn't seem to line up. It seems like she was first designed for Reach, but Onyx came out in 2006. Also it wouldnt make sense to plan to use said character if she had already died.
@@ogpharah6928 Yeah, I think her only mention besides being a loadout name is the Noble Team performance reports, where Holland mentions he is considering replacing Emile with Rosenda due to the former's violence against insurrectionists.
Cojiro yeah that’s all that’s really said about her , I think she had a thing with the pre order bonus as well , I hope they do something soon with Spartans that don’t have a lot and don’t just black team them
Some of these names also appear on the loadout names for firefight.
😲 Good point! I forgot all about that!
@Michael Conley yep
Presets or when we customize our loadouts in the settings?
Benny toledo it’s an option in settings.
They are Spartan 2 references
Just to note, the Spartan that appears by the sniper and Drop Shield is ALWAYS female and in white armor. The others change but not that one
Very true
That's actually true. If you restart the mission over and over, all the dead spartan's armor change. Except for the one next to the sniper in white as a female.
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Maybe a reference to Linda?? I mean, she did technically die on Reach
Li was in "Operation First Strike", iirc he loved 0G missions and knew Kung-fu (I'm not even joking, classic chinese cliché)
It’s never actually stated that he knew Kung-Fu, only that he was an expert in Martial Arts, for all we know he was an expert in Streetfighting.
@@kpmh2001 Or HEMA.
Onii-chan is watching you
What’s HEMA?
Or Hamon
Its a cliche that asian people know asain martial arts...?
Kelly and Sam both exist in the books, in like a good half way through fall of reach, he died so i dont know why Sam is here
Theres also Linda
*im like a good half way through fall of reach
And Jai, Adrianna and Mike but they're not dead, they're still.alive in cannon. They weren't on Reach.
Nicole also exists....Sorta kinda. She's a non-canon, unlockable character in DOA4
@@MasterOfKnowledge. nicole is canon!
not her fighting people, but her and the station did get teleported to yhe 21st century. he made a video on it
The Famous Hacker prolly because they were file names they wanted to have names that their staff could use them by while not figuring out to have new names or be confused which was which
One theory I remember hearing was that it's a reference to THE NOBLE 14 as there are 13 bodies and Noble 6 being number 14
And it's a 22 total names are reference to Apache N4Sir who was the last online Halo 2 player.
Who remained online and alone for 22 hours.
I like to think that Noble 6 went around reach gathering Spartans and marines in an attempt to allow the last few human ships to escape and Lone Wolf takes places right after what's left of Nobles little defense team die and He/She is the last one standing, trying to keep the covenant at bay just alittle longer
Ah yes, "Lone wolf" I remember that old trick where if you stacked boxes in the right place, none of the enemies could find you...
...I also remember credits too...
Mr.Machina And I remember trying to wait around an hour and a half each time hoping for a secret ending. And I also remember playing split with one of my brothers, trying to “cull the herd” and capture/destroy some vehicles, and sometimes when one of us died, the survivor would try to “Gun and run” (basically killing a few enemies, then running to a safer area to respawn to dead brother) and then we’d continue to play until it wouldn’t allow our tricks. Then I remember my brother holding out a good 30+ minutes without me and he saw and almost killed the elite that would eventually kill us...
He died.
Free your Mind your brother died?
Thor is the Best avenger Oh shit no he didn’t DIE die. When he was the outliving me on Lone Wolf, he eventually took too much damage and “died.” xD
@@freeyourmind1529 I hate lone wolf but I had to do it
Repaid Raven we all shared your pain . The false sense of hope we all had, after all the sacrifices, all the deaths, and it seemed like it was for nothing. Your not alone brother/sister. To this day I hate Lone Wolf, but it was destined and Halo wouldn’t be the same without it...
All of these Spartans are real and cannon and are all found within novels/comics some of which are still alive
But they haven't all been there during Reach or even were alive
Kanalkucker I never said they were ever on reach
Even Skull?
@@ogpharah6928 They're real in the canon but I think Kanal's point was that none of these characters were (or even could have been) on Reach for the battle.
In short: they're placeholder names, just like the ones used in the Load-outs as a reference or easteregg.
Well would have been awesome if they were other Noble 6 of the other players who finished the mission before you
@T0xic yea or just random people
That's what I always thought they where
but what if you were the first person in the world to play it?
@@yeetisthebold4866 Then you'd be a game dev working on the game, and wouldn't care because you know what would eventually come to be. By the time the first regular person played it there'd be bodies from the dev team and QA teams
@@ClassicPopble ok that makes sense thanks
Spartan Isaac's helmet is such an "Isaac" helmet...Trust me, I'd know
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I think it's a reference to Dead Space, it sorta looks like Issac Clark's helmet. Likewise, Skull's helmet resembles a skull.
Sam’s helmet is definitely a “Sam” helmet, as well. Haha
Amazing how our brain can give a personality and expression to an helmet and its visor.
@@kainey Helmets are like extensions of our head/face, and humans are really good at reading faces. So it doesn't surprise me that we do this. I've heard that we judge people almost instantly based on their facial features. So if their face is covered we will still do that, but we judge their helmet instead. Or that's my guess at least.
been wondering this for a decade, they always had such cool armor
I know where your profile picture is from...
I always copied their armor
Sapi147 What’s it from?
@@SentientBeefStew no idea
Jeppek1ng That’s why I’m asking
Fun fact:
SPARTAN Malcolm is a reference within a reference. He has an ODST helmet, which is a reference to Buck from ODST, who is voiced by Nathan Fillion, whose claim to fame for many (and even in GameInformer's magazine back in 2009 when Halo 3: ODST was up) is that of Captain Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly. Halo 3: ODST was pretty well-received due to the voice actors used, which, three were part of the original Firefly cast. Adam Baldwin, who voices Dutch, played Jane from Firefly. Alan Tudyk voiced Micky, who was Wash in Firfly, and finally, Nathan Fillion, who voiced Buck, who was, Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly.
So SPARTAN Malcolm being an ODST is pretty clever. I like it.
I like how they get armor attachments that you can't put on those helmets, kinda wish we could put any armor attachments on any helmet, hopefully 343 allows us to eventually
I hope we get a lot of crazy things, robot arm for any chest armor, being able to mix and match belt, chest, shoulders, have two wrist and thigh attachments, and fully customizable helmets. I’d also love different armor colors, like a true black, and the ability to change the undersuit color as its own separate option from primary and secondary.
@@Slender_Man_186 I hope they don't fuck with it cause 343 has in the past bungled what bungie handed them.
@@RageUnchained oh are you one of the people that go “343 rUiNeD hAlO bEcAuSe YoU cAn RuN”?
@@mikeferguson1833 no I'm one of those "halo 4 had the most fucking boring weapon sandbox in the history of the franchise and halo 5 focused far too much on the squad mechanic in the campaign without polishing it's mediocre story and unlikable characters" any more stupid assumptions you'd like to make? 343 ruined reach with shield bleed through and removing 80% of Bloom sprint has nothing to do with it
@@RageUnchained you like asparagus with mustard?
It appears that Spartan Vinh has a variant of the EOD helmet that the player cannot unlock/wear. It looks like the last variant of EOD that the player has access to (the one without the little bits that line the jaw) minus the communication thing attached to the side of the helmet, and the additional armouring on the forehead.
TurkeyMuncher117 glad someone else noticed that! I wonder if it’s an early concept of the EOD
Same thing with the operator helmet which lacks any attachments
also Spartan Isaac has a version of the operator helmet without any modifications
@@matthewcoyle4131 I know the wiki mentions it's based on the standard Marine helmet but without the attachment I can really see it now.
@@1SilverDollar I thought that was more the Military Police than Operator but both could be.
Spartan Issac having a base version of the Operator Helmet without any attachments makes me jealous hopefully 343 adds more customization options to existing Armour for season 2
Season 2 will most likely not be for reach, it’s probably going to be for Combat evolved, think about it. Every single unlockable in reach is in season 1 already so it wouldn’t really make sense for them to keep adding more cosmetics to reach when combat evolved is coming soon. The whole seasons thing is straight out of the fortnite playbook and it’s kinda weird considering there will be a total of 6 games in the MCC on pc. There has to be a point to playing the coming games, otherwise there would be no sense of reward for a lot of people.
If CE gets customizable spartans we need playable and customizable elites, it would be dope but I'm pretty sure 343 wont do that. I'm expecting GRD and that other helmet for reach and a bunch of lame name plates...
@@Alotofnades There's far more stuff they can add to reach with minimal effort compared to CE tbh that's why I'm expecting it to be a bit of CE but mostly reach stuff
Because they're randomized each time, I always thought they were meant to represent sort of alternate versions of Noble Six, who can also have any armor. They're all dead to show that Six's death is inevitable.
"Who are the dead Spartans on Lone Wolf?
Alternate versions of Noble 6 is the only plausible answer.
I had always assumed, at least when it first came out, that the dead Spartans were fellow players who had beaten the game before you had. There is no real way to confirm or deny this but I distinctly remember beating the quickly on my first playthrough back when it first came out and there were no dead Spartans at the time, then I swear I did another playthrough and found my old armor setup as a dead spartan. I could easily be wrong considering how long ago that has been but if anyone feels the same or can prove me wrong, let me know.
Now the gate has been unlatched, headstones pushed aside; corpses shift and offer room, a fate you must abide
GLJ94 you realize there would be millions of dead Spartans then lmao
@@GLJ94 Not all of the armor variants are available to the player. For example, that EOD variant in the video (4:01) can't be unlocked in the armory.
So I'd say we can rule out that theory...
Who are you? I see you everywhere man XD
Roseneda was actually a scrapped member of Noble Team the CQC helmet being iconic to her. In canon, she is a fill-in for Emile as Noble 4 in case he gets too hostile in campaigns that involve insurrectionist forces.
I'm pretty sure that they all appear in the lore
Kurt is here so he definitely does.
They all do I’m baffled on how he runs a halo based RUclips and doesn’t know about them
@@ogpharah6928 At least we can understand him, unlike Halo Follower. Also, HiddenXperia is a pretty good Halo youtuber (he mainly deals with Flood stuff and Lore though) who I highly recommend.
kabob 007 yeah I watch them all lol I mostly just read everything constantly as I write halo books so I make sure to not mess things up 😂
Li and jai do aswell
Just thought of another something Im little curious about. The last challenge I remember every one trying before Halo 2 came on CE was this idea that you could break out of the ceiling of a map and land on an invisible wall on the edge of the map, so you’d be able to stand in the abyss. For the longest time I remember breaking through the ceiling alone was deemed impossible but then Ms Man did it on 343 Guilty Spark by launching himself with a covenant turret, and the turret managed to strike him and clip him through the ceiling while he was still alive.. which was incredible at the time, never understood how Ms Man accomplished so much. But the idea of somehow landing on the invisible walls on the edge of a map still seemed completely impossible. Not sure if there’s anyway to determine it. Maybe you already have a quick answer for it though..
lol
@@ayylmaotv lol
My god its oddheader
They're Spartans from Echo, Red, and Gauntlet teams. They were "Cat II" teams like Noble that were stationed on Reach to help with the defense. It's unknown if these teams had any survivors though it's possible a few of the surviving Cat IIs we've been introduced to in the novels were members of these teams.
The heroes that defended reach, we will not forget your sacrifice.
Most of the Spartans were in Halo First Strike.
can't believe i wasn't added to the dead spartans! ill have you know i hold the world record of dying in halo 3 ... probably
hahahaah, i present to you, well, me and my friend playing cortana on LASO
@@joaovc2002 introducing the entirety of halo 2 on legendary
Unsure about the others at the moment, but through some research, I've found that Adrianna and Jai are a pair of Spartan IIs, Adrianna-111 and Jai-006. The two often escaped from their training facility on Reach just for the thrill rather than trying to go AWOL. They were both part of Gray Team along with Mike-120.
EDIT: The rest of them have much, much longer stories, but you can find them in the wiki if need be. Some of these are supposedly the actual Spartans that their names imply them to be, others are merely references. But each of them are Spartan-IIs apart from Rosenda.
To summarize, Joshua-029, Isaac-039, Vinh-030, Li-008, Malcolm-059, Linda-058 and Kelly-087 were all members of Red Team on Reach... along with Frederic-104. Kelly, Linda and Frederic, as some might know, are both members of Blue Team. Kelly, Linda and Fred survived, of course, but Joshua, Isaac, and Vinh all went MIA--Joshua when he was shot down, and Isaac and Vinh when their satchel charges went off prematurely while the remainder of Red Team attempted to escape. Li disappeared in a flash of light along with one other Spartan and a marine while escaping from Reach while the team the remainder of Red Team was on was caught in a slipspace bubble. When Red Team's Pelican, Bravo 001 was shot down, the team had to jump. Malcolm hit the ground too hard and died on impact. The remainder of Red Team escaped.
Sam, or Samuel-034 was one of the first Spartans to die during the war, killed during the Battle of Onyx aboard a Covenant frigate. Him and Blue Team were deployed to the frigate while the UNSC Commonwealth was engaged with it. Their mission was to destroy the frigate from the inside, but a hole was shot into his armor, preventing him from escaping with his team. So instead, he held off the Covenant to ensure the missiles they used would go off.
Kurt died during the Battle of Oryx, leading a team of what remained of Spartan-III Team, Beta Company to hold off the Covenant and allow Blue Team to escape.
Nicole-458 doesn't have much of a story, but she's the Spartan-II that appears in Dead or Alive 4. Officially, she would be considered MIA, but technically, she's trapped in the 21st century according to her story in Dead or Alive 4. However, apparently this is considered canon.
Rosenda-A344 was a Spartan III that never got finished. She was a concept that was never put into where she was intended to go. Originally, she was intended to be a member of Noble Team in Halo Reach. The only other info on her is in Noble Team's performance reports, documented by Colonel Urban Holland saying that Rosenda would replace Emile as Noble Four if another Insurrectionst Operation came up.
The only Spartan on this list I can't find any info on is Skull. It's possible Skull was a nickname, but at the moment, I can't find them.
The dead Spartans are all a reference to the Noble 14, the last 14 people who played Halo 2 on OG Xbox Live before it's shutdown in 2010.
You know there is actually a secret locked door behind a hill at the beginning of The Ark from halo 3 it is behind a hill on The Ark that is near the first covenant base you encounter, you know the first enemies in that level that you meet. Could you see what is behind the door?
Please could you do a video on this?
Shayna Gray I believe he did, but a long time ago. Not sure though
Yeah, but the armors aren’t randomized and are specifically that armor and color every time (at least for me)
These spartans are most likely a reference to the book The fall of Reach where a group of spartans were sent to the surface to protect the generators keeping the orbital mac cannons active.
I believe Jai and Adrianna are two names from Spartan II Gray Team in lore
They are, indeed.
A lot of these Spartans are mentioned in The Fall of Reach and/or First Strike. Kurt is from Ghosts of Onyx. Not sure about some of them though.
Adriana and Jai are from Grey Team/ the Cole Protocol book they survived the war and Rosenda was supposed to be Noble 4s replacement in case Nobel Team was doing counter insurrection ops cause Emile was way to aggressive even against humans we never found out what happened to her throughout Reach, Spartan Skull is a rando that doesn't exist i don't think
Wait! Spartan Isaac is using my helmet, the Operator helmet, but it's a unique variant with nothing on the helmet!!!
Wao dude I'm amazed that these games still has a lot to show and that there are people like you who takes time to dig and present it to us. Thanks
So this is where this brings us. Dead Spartans that are of familiar characters. They will always be remembered, even though I have no idea of what they did.
Some of those names are in halo fall of reach and first strike as well as The Cole Protocal. Kurt-051 was the tallest spartan he was 8'2 and was asked by Colonel Ackerson to spear head the spartan 3 program but he unfortunately died on Onyx. He was the highest ranked spartan before he died he had the rank of Lieutenant commander. Joshua-029 died trying to save the generator complex for the orbital MAC guns on Reach when he tried to blow up a Covenant cruiser with a bomb inside a banshee. He had a good working relationship with spartans like the MasterCheif and the rest of blue team. Adriana-111 was part of gray team along side Jai-006 and Mike-120 in the Cole Protocal book and halo envoy I think. Vinh-030 and Isaac-039 were both in halo reach as well. They were freinds good friends since they grew up together in the spartan 2 program. They went missing during Operation:WHITE GLOVE they probably died in an explosion trying to get into a Coventant crusier via gravlift under the command of William-043. Will or William-043 was one of the only spartans to survive the fall of Reach since they were all protecting the generator complex on Reach that powered the orbital MAC gun. But he was later Killed on Onyx. Nicole-458 is rather mysterious because she was actually introduced in Dead or Alive 4 as the only spartan fighter available she is presumably canon but it is unknown how she died. Rosenda-A344 was a spartan 3 and was originally going to be part of noble team but was replaced with Emile-A239. It is unknown how she died. Malcom-59 was on a pelican with the rest of the Spartans on the way to the generator complex on Reach. Their pelican was shot down by seraph fighters a few thousand feet above ground forcing them to jump to the target zone. Malcolm suit wasn't properly pressurized and he died instantly upon impact with the ground. Li-008 was killed in a slips pace battle with the Coventant shortly after reach he was known for his expertise in zero gravity combat and hand to hand combat. I may not have covered them all in detail but I tried not to spoil the books too much. If you want to know more than I recommended reading The Fall Of Reach, First strike and Cole Protocal or go to Halopedia.
I finished the game again yesterday and was wondering this
I believe this is a reference to the Noble 14 who played the original Halo 2 on Xbox and continued to play online after server shut down, little before the launch of Reach.
Isaac has Operator helm but no attachments so his helmet is unique since you cant actually make the helmet look like that
They just used Spartan II names as filenames, some of them died long time before the fall of Reach and some are still alive. Nothing canon here
Well we haven't heard anything from Rosenda since before the Fall of Reach and considering she was a reserve for Nobel Team during that time she would have been planet side during the assault making her death/ appearance in lone wolf possible and i can't find anything on Skull he may just be a place holder name but considering all of the others are existing Spartans he could be one too so we possibly have at least 2 names for the Spartans on lone wolf
Make a video about who’s driving the spirits on halo reach
"Spartans never die, they just go missing in action"
I like to think that they are hallucinations of noble 6 as he’s seen too much and his fallen comrades boosted his loss of sanity
I thought of this for a very long time
do you think the spartans would have won on reach if they had guns that shot other spartans?
What if Spartans shot from guns can also shoot Spartans?
Sypher Ti Then Noble 6 would’ve been Noble 7, and Earth would’ve never been located. Winter Contingency would’ve never been put in affect. The war would’ve been won.
In the novel The Fall of Reach there was a team of Spartans that went to the surface of reach on a mission and John, Linda, and one other spartan went on a mission onto a UNSC ship to enact the cole protocol and destroy information. The ground team was left behind because The Pillar of Autumn was getting overwhelmed we enemy fire and they were left behind.
Been wondering about this.
Thanks for doing this, enjoyed watching.
It's simple: I see a GeneralKidd video, I click like.
Finally the question I needed to hear
What if all those dead soldiers, and Spartans all went there to rally together. Trying to survive as long as possible. Noble 6 finds out about the rally point but arrives to see them all dead and covenant occupying the area.
Fun fact about "skull". Emile in the halo reach concept art wore the HAZOP helmet and was black and red. Spartan skull might be Emile's original look, hence the name.
I always thought they were devs
Same here
These are all characters from Halo lore - specifically names of Spartans from the books. Its likely that bungie threw the names in as a cheeky way of naming the models. I wouldn't count it as lore as a lot of these characters are still living in the universe.
I like to think they're hallucinations of Noble 6 as he's dying/potential ptsd of seeing his squad killed. They were never actually there.
I like how on Spartan Josh, the halo music starts playing. Reminds me of Josh fight.
None of these helmets reflect what these characters use in the lore lmao. They’re just references or names that are easy to identify.
Agreed, though I think the characters mostly existed before different armour sets existed.
Weren't different permutations introduced in 3? Well after most of these Spartans had been introduced?
I remember hearing something early in Reach's development that it was supposed to follow the Spartan IIs originally, so perhaps there was at some point an intention to give each Spartan their own design so we could distinguish them from one another? I mean Noble all have unique sets so its not too crazy to think.
Anqry / Evelyn that is true, but at that time period (in the canon at the time) all the spartans had identical armour. It made them seem less human #metaphor
@@reminiscentiaoff4669 I can see that, and I can understand the development later on for individualistic upgrades. At first they wanted to have as much of a morale damage on the Insurrection as a physical one, but once they started warring with the Covenant the Spartans became a symbol of hope to Humanity.
spartan Sam still epic
You should mod the Spartans & have them fight with you in lone wolf 💪🔥🔥 #LikeSoHeCanSee
2:43 Interesting permutation of the Operator helmet. Doesn't have the goggles/cameras on the forehead.
The graveyard of Spartans really gave credence to Chief being the Last Spartan during the original trilogy to anyone who didn't read the books
The names are just references to other spartans or characters in Halo lore
All of them.
Halo 3: ODST: Engineers infected by the Flood!
Elite:Army of Spartans run.
Grunts:Way ahead of you.
Spartans:Look at em run.
These aren't actually canon Spartan-III's. The names of each model were most likely used as placeholder to differentiate models as they are named after various Spartan-II's who have appeared in the lore, however they are clearly not actually meant to be those people.
The most likely identity of these Spartan-III's is that they are simply unnamed and belong to the various teams mentioned throughout Halo: Reach.
"The helmet stays the same but the gender can vary" THIS GUY WAS WAY AHEAD OF HIS TIME
The dead Spartans were our friends we met on reach that never logged back on
I think is cool how they’re names are spartan 2s in lore
The one with the odst helmet is an homage to Buck, because his middle name is Malcolm, which is also an homage to Nathan Fillion's (he voices Buck) character Malcolm Reynolds on Firefly.
Jai and Adrianna are part of grey team who are still alive as far as i know. Kurt was killed on Onyx after allowing the spartan 3s to escape and blowing up a nuke, killing a bunch of covenant in the process.
Idk why I was expecting the dead Spartans to talk when you punch them
I remember that each time I played this mission the armor eas random yes but it always tend to show the same ones
It's probably a sort of either dev team reference, or them just making various character references to pre-existing characters, or a mix of both.
Rosenda is an alternate member of NOBLE Team, that Holland would sub in for Emile for ops against the Insurrectionists, as Emile's more violent methods looked bad in press footage.
Jai, Adrianna, and Micheal (Not listed) are part of Gray Team. They are Spartans who went into sleep like Chief did in Halo 3-4 they went to sleep for 6 years. They are ALIVE AND WELL. Also Jai is the spartan you see trying to kill Thel Vadam or the Arbiter back before he became the Arbiter.
I always believed that they were the Red Team Spartans in fall of reach sent to protect the shield generators for the orbital Mac cannons. Also explains the generator defence game mode in firefight.
Seeing Kelly and Sam there brings me waaaaayy back to reading Fall of Reach as a kid.
I'm having a nostalgiattack. What really bothers me though is that the cover of the book depicts all spartans in the classic Mark V armor from CE and not all this fancy stuff.
I always thought those were the spartans of players who died, before me that day.
The Spartans are all from the books and lore and didn’t die on a random battlefield. Eg in Fall of Reach Malcolm dies hard dropping onto Reach from space and Joshua dies in a Banshee. Both were part of Blue team under Fred’s command from memory.
But the game already retcons all the books so who knows.
Joshua was the sniper, and died when a banshee got a direct hit on him with a plasma missle.
I remember Sam from the books. Malcolm is likely referring to Malcolm Reynolds, since Nathan Fillion was one of the characters from Halo ODST and he wasn't canonically a Spartan in Halo Reach.
They aren’t all different each time. You forgot about the one behind you at your spawn point that always looks like Jun
I originally thought that the dead spartans are hallucinations from the PTSD
I think some of these Spartans might be people from Bungie to say farewell while putting down dead bodies
Josh and vinh and Isaac are spatans in the book fist strike
Just to confirm one thing,
Spartan Vinn is NOT spartan 099 Makugan aka Strife one of horseman of god dragon’s apocalypse
Kurt was a spartan on Blue Team in the book "Ghosts of Onyx"
As a comment on here pointed out, the names are only used for placeholder, not meant to indicate the actual characters themselves - as some of these names are actual canon characters established by the books and/or games. Moreover, the Lone Wolf level randomizes their appearances, while their appearances are already established by their respective medias.
The references to other Halo medias here are very interesting to say the least. To the best of my memory:
- Sam is Samuel-034, a Spartan-II. He appeared in the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach (and its animated adaptation by 343), and was a major character that greatly influenced the Chief and fellow S-IIs.
- Kurt is Kurt Ambrose. He’s a S-II that appeared in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. ONI faked his death so that they could task him with training Spartan-IIIs.
Another interesting tidbit is Spartan Isaac’s helmet at 2:43, which is the OPERATOR helmet in-game. The helmet shown in the video is blank and has no attachments to it, but the default OPERATOR helmet actually has an integrated camera attachment (I forgot the name).
Malcolm is probably a nod to Nathan Fillion (Buck). Who is best knows for being Captain Malcolm Raynolds on Firefly. Fillion also voiced other marines and ODSTs in halo 3 one of which being Sargent Raynolds in the first mission. Which oddly enough is the rank Mal Raynolds held in the Independent Planets Army before they lost the battle of Serenity Valley.
If you chuckled at the first few names. This isn't your first time getting your hands all nerdy.
Spartan Malcom is an Easter egg. It's a reference to Malcom Reynolds from the show Firefly. This character is played by nathon fillion who voices and models the character Buck from ODST and Halo 5
I would not be surprised if Spartan Malcolm was a nod to Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly. Malcolm Reynolds was played by Nathan Fillion who voices Buck from in ODST hence the ODST helmet on Spartan Malcolm
Most of these spartans died on reach defending the generators for the orbital mac guns. Some where declared mia by oni and are actually recruiters and trainers for next gen spartans
In lore UNSC personals had last stands at lone wolf since most of the UNSC Evacs or even UNSC itself has left reach at this point. So to hold out and make a last stand the last of the UNSC (Or most) on reach the went to lone wolf and along those troopers were noble six. Noble six fought for weeks and troopers fell one by one and until noble six, died.
The names are all familiar or correct but the armour permutations honestly seem pretty random, and obviously blue team survived so I'm not sure why they were part of the dead spartans in this. Linda died but was revived by Halsey after H1. All the other ones were other Spartans that died during the fall of reach mentioned in the books and stuff. Sam died on first contact with the covenant on Chiefs OG team.