I think he made a few too many wild guesses here and there. First off, Cortana would've made sure noble team knows the arc creates rings and spark would've informed them that Cortana still has the index. They'd absolutely recover her and halo 3 would end largely the same. Only difference I think would be that earth would be lost because there were no glassing measures so if the UNSC doesn't decide to start dropping nukes it's over for earth BUT noble team would've lit installation 04B and the gravemind dying would weaken earths flood severely. So upon going back it would just be a campaign to either reclaim or destroy an infected earth. If it's the latter, the remains of humanity will just choose another homeworld. Elites and brutes would also be fighting each other with no good leadership amongst elites so they'd be kind of screwed. Idk why hidden thinks the schism wouldn't have happened with tartarus dead. The brutes were already given orders to begin fighting before arbiter even reached the index. Everything would've played out mostly the same just without chief and arbiter and with a few darker story elements.
Y'know. Thinking on it more... You could have had it where Arbiter still falls down to be captured by the gravemind. Just have him get tossed down by Tartarus for failing to get the icon from the humans, or something like that. The Arbiter doesn't strike me as someone who'd engage on a full fireteam of spartans alone. The Brutes would still, and more than likely still fail. This would still allow most of Halo 3's story to unfold like normal. With only the most Zealous of the Covenant sticking with Truth, and the rest realizing the truth from the Arbiter's prospective.
I'm actually not sure all of Noble could take Tartarus. The shield that's invincible unless somebody hits the hammer three times with a beam rifle is a very specific gimmicky boss mechanic.
Huh? The whole reason the Gravemind let Chief and the Arbiter live, was because Truth had the Icon and was planning on using it. The big, disastrous twist of Gravemind infecting Chief and Cortana didn't happen because the Arbiter wasn't there. If he was, be would just meet the same fate as Chief and Cortana. There's no winning for Arby or Chief and Cortana
The Combat Evolved campaign would have been one mission long and consisted of the Master Chief and Noble 6 taking turns curbstomping Covenant leadership. Wouldn't have even had time to release the Flood.
a lot could have been avoided. master chief goes to the control room, and noble 6 could have gone with keyes. but how would noble 6 get to halo? the ship leaves him on planet
@@Blox117 I mean... it's easy to set up how Six gets onto the Ring... Just have Emile live and be the guy who clears the way. Or even has it that lives long enough to take the shot at the Covie cruiser.
If noble team is alive to that point, there is nothing stopping them from boarding the pelican with Keyes while others sacrifice themselves on the MAC gun. More, with Kat still alive she could probably help in some technical way, maybe even automate the Mac’s firing algorithms or something
@@gabrielperez-ze9tk if you go for the automated angle, pretty much all of halo could be avoided by just building robots and removing humans from combat entirely.
Honestly, that's a scene I've imagined as well. 😅 We would literally have chief and the bomb free fall into earth's orbit. That would be BAD for everyone. Not only would chief probably die, Cairo would be destroyed and well, we both know what happens then... What do you say? Do you agree? 😅
@@keshav4940 um, he would just be floating around in orbit and then someone would pick him up. you dont just stop orbiting and fall to the ground. thats looney tunes physics
Noble Six comes back to life and saves my childhood And all my friends come back from their 9to5s and play split screen with me again And my mom makes us popcorn and gives us soda Life is good again. *alarm wakes me up*
10:37, no way would the UNSC allow for 7 Spartans to leave Earth while it is being invaded, Miranda would be allow to leave with just the Chief since he has Cortana, while Noble Team would be spread out to help defend Earth. That would mean the rest of Halo 2 would play out the same, with Halo 3 having most of the changes in the timeline.
The unsc allowed all the Spartans on earth to leave during the invasion in the actual timeline lol apart from the Spartan 3s deployed to London all the 2's left, (blue team) 3 to onyx and 1 to delta halo (chief)
@@Star_Commander_Nip_Nup if they had the Spartans to spare on Earth, most or all of Noble might have been sent with the ODST's to try for regret's carrier from above, or help Dare go for the rogue engineer.
@@Stop_motion_Wyatt Six got us a pretty sweet deal on some high speed internet for our (literal) man cave. It’s made the years being stranded on Reach a lot more enjoyable.
If the energy sword wasn't ignored when that elite snuck up on you, you'd have plenty reason to turn around. Those blades make a fairly audible sound when activated. No chest wound for you, unless you allowed it to happen
Don't forget about Halsey with the Spartans inside of Onyx. They probably could have repopulated given that Onyx was supposed to have supplies and tools for repopulation.
What if the S-II augmentation process had a 100% success rate? Or if all original 300 prospective S-II candidates Halsey originally wanted before the budget cuts were taken and trained?
@@kumonelend5400 75 were taken with 33 successfully completing the augmentation process. The rest were killed or crippled, with a small number of those being rehabilitated later
This one right here would be amazing. So much potential. Hidden Xperia should take notes from the Star Wars 'What if' guys, like Pente Patrol, cos he still needs improvements.
@@JustinLaFleur1990that would be great. Would produce 2 different timelines too. -what if all 75 Spartans survived? -or what if all 150 children were kidnapped, but still 1/3rd survived augmentation? -Or both? Hidden Xperia should take notes from Pente Patrol, on how to do 'What ifs'.
Fun, though I disagree with the fate of the Arbiter and Chief. Upon arriving to Delta Halo, I think the more tactically sound option chosen by NOBLE is to split the Spartans into 2 fireteams, with Carter leading Emile, Kat and Jorge to the Library, leaving Miranda and Sgt. Johnson behind aboard the Amber Clad (because why send your ranking officers when you have Spartans). Chief would take Six and Jun on the assassination mission to kill Mercy, and with Jun's master marksman abilities to remove the jackal snipers, and Chief and Six ganging up on Mercy with twice the punches, the whole effort would be expediated so Fireteam Chief would be able to exfil from the temple via Pelican before High Charity and Truth arrive to glass it. Meanwhile, Fireteam Carter retrieves the Index to then encounter the Arbiter, but rather than a prolonged fight, they retreat when Tartarus arrives to reinforce Arby. Fireteam Carter manage to escape with Arby and Tartarus and Brutes in pursuit, and the Brutes again betray Arby for the failure to secure the Icon. I still think Arby survives this, and him and Half-Jaw kill Tartarus early. Both Spartan Teams then return to the Clad either before or during the attempted Flood capture, but manage to repel the parasites because Sgt. Johnson was aboard to ensure the ship doesn't fall into the Gravemind's tentacles. With Index secure, and with prior Alpha Halo experience, the gang decides to mix things up a little by using In Amber Clad's reactor to blow up the ring, escaping orbit on the remaining Pelicans. Added bonus is that High Charity is right there in orbit, so the shards of the ring basically destroy or disable the Holy City. Gravemind and Flood problem is deleted from the plot. Mass chaos as the Brute and Elite ships battle amidst the debris fields, but the Elites also have the Arbiter and aren't also distracted with a Flood infested High Charity since the Gravemind never made it aboard without the Clad. Truth still escapes aboard the Keyship, but the Elites have quick victory against the Brutes, and make an alliance with the Demon-filled Pelicans floating in space. It would be a little more uncomfortable, since Arby didn't have the Gravemind/2401 Penitent Tangent to reaffirm what the Heretic Elite told him, but the loss of the Elite Council and total backstab of the Prophets might be enough to make friends from enemies. They all travel back to Earth together, with the full Elite fleet instead of just Chief alone, arriving to chase Truth through the Portal, reaching the Ark, and basically repeating Halo 3 with the exclusion of the Flood, so Halo 3 is 4 missions shorter, maximum happy ending.
just 1 little detail you overlooked for Halo 2-3, immediately when Regret jumped away from New Mombasa, and parts of Truths fleet arrived to earth at the same time, the Brutes started to kill the Elites, so Schism is prob still happening
@@3l_Raro Exactly... I also don't see Lord Hood keeping all of Noble team with Chief together to defend one single platform. lol There are a lot of questionable decisions that just happen with HiddenXperia's alternative timeline... Like Arbiter randomly attacking a room full of Spartans or that both Tartarus and the Arbiter together would outright lose.
@@robertmcdougall1144I feel like Tartarus would rush in and get himself killed, Arbiter might try to utilize his active camp to steal the key or to recon the situation and determine the time is not right to try to obtain the key. Its possible a Schism could still occur, as Brute Chieftans would learn their leader had died while the “cowardly” Arbiter yet lived. If the Arbiter does manage to copy his predecessor and take Miranda Captive for the index and flees the scene, it could give the Gravemind reason to spare Chief.
Honestly I just wanna know what kind of silly schenanigens 6, Emile and Chief would be up to if they(6 and Emile) survived. I can totaly see them take a Warthog and go crazy haha!
@@HiddenXperia You once again partnered with Apex Gaming pcs. -Tech reviewers on youtube (such as Braethorn) have lambasted them, saying how they're bad SIs -They have so many bad reviews from people not getting their products, or shipping happened etc -Also are SUCH terrible value for money. Even amongst prebuilt brands.
there was a time period in humanity where an ice age nearly whiped out humanity, there where about 600 humans left. just give it some time and humanity would repopulate on the Ark quite easily... hopefull without finding any flood storage facilities. if the ark even had any
Yeah it would take generations but humans would repopulate and eventually I guess become basically the forerunners without any competition beyond discovering the endless on Zeta
The problem is that we've already done that once, and it's caused problems. We have one of the lowest biodiversity of any species. If that happened AGAIN, procreation with your 5th cousin would be the genetic equivalent of procreation with your sister now.
In all likelihood, the Ark probably didn't have any flood on prior to the Gravemind showing up with High Charity. It's very clear that the Forerunner intended for the Ark to be a safe haven from the Flood outside the galaxy. Even the name "Ark" is a clue of this.
Honestly I think it led up pretty decently until the part of the arbiter bring killed. The man was incredibly smart AND The Top leader of an entire covenant fleet for a reason, so after seeing the destruction a group of spartans caused, imo I think he would stay back. Tartarus and the others would still die but I think Arbiter would definitely get out of there to try and either steal the artifact, or at the very least demand to know why Tartarus is there when the arbiter was supposed to reclaim the key. Thus showing that something is off and allowing for either Noble 6 to still kill him, or they capture him to figure out what is going on and why he wanted the key
While I do agree that Thel's strategist side would consider a retreat, you gotta remember he's "the Arbiter" now And the only way he can regain any amount of his honor back is by either fulfilling the Prophets' orders or die trying
@@chiefsenpai969 this is true, and it's during a period where, despite what he's seen, he has yet to be betrayed and truly understand the depravity of the situation he's been cast into. Imo I just like the idea, lil side cannon to a head canon which is pretty interesting and dark lol.
Actually it would technically be safe because Noble Six wasn't even a character until Halo:Reach. Doing so would have to retcon the original trilogy 😂. Lovely enough this video is just a very likely what if
25:50 if noble team doesn't stay with the master chief, the games play out the same other than halo: ce, which wouldn't effect the timeline negatively for humanity, therefore they would just be 6 extra elite spartans at that point in the same timeline.
Came to agree on that. Earth has all of noble and grace? She died in first strike but I know they're were two spartans plus the pelican pilot who died in the slip space world fight. Don't see why they werent deployed like blue team. Making the defense of earth much much quicker or even sense they had so many Spartans they pushed the assault on Regrets ship much sooner before he can retreat and potential relaunch operation red flag.
@@wb7585 I agree, I would say Noble team would be sent off to do their own stuff on Earth and Noble 6 would either stay with them or be reassigned back to his Oni lone wolf missions, as things just carry on as normal with maybe Noble reappearing back in H3 with since they would have knowledge on Halo from their time in the new HCE timeline.
I’ve got a more horrifying ending and a optimistic ending for you. Horrifying ending: Infected chief wipes out Noble and the remaining UNSC. Flood wins. Optimistic ending: The remaining humans search the forerunner archives and discover the the cylixes on Zeta Halo and slowly reseed the galaxy that way. Seriously though I got whiplash from how quickly the tone changed we literally went from Reach and CE good ending to creepypasta bad ending
Couple of orphaned plot beats i noticed: - If Keyes was never captured, how did they learn about the existence of the Silent Cartographer? I seem to recall it was first mentioned after he's freed from the brig. - What happened to Anton and Li? They disappear from your narrative when talking about First Strike, without elaborating the battle in the slipspace anomaly; a battle, I imagine, that would have developed fairly differently had they had Noble Team as backup. The UNSC personnel in general is also greatly boosted, as more people survived Installation 04, so it's no longer JUST the Spartans. - Related to this, what happens to Jacob Keyes? He disappears from the narrative after the end of Halo CE, with his role from that point going forward being taken over by his daughter. I'm also curious as to what would be your take on the relationship between the IIs and the IIIs during these events. I imagine Jorge would be some sort of a peacekeeper between both generations.
Honestly, Arbiter surviving halo 2 to create that alliance is probably THE single most imporant event in halo. Without him, Earth can't get glassed by R'tas when the flood are released, and the Galaxy is wiped out by humanity at the end of this alternate Halo 3. This mean that yes, arbiter is the most important character in Halo history, he literally saved the galaxy and no one really recognises that .
Carter: *hears flood noises* Captain, I advise we head back pronto, I don't think we're alone here. I'm hearing something and the motion tracker's off the charts.
If Noble team protected Miranda and Johnson in the Library during Halo 2 then its safe to assume that In-Amber Clad never fell to the flood because they never would have gotten captured and abandoned it. Also the Great Schism would’ve still happened although the alliance with Humanity wouldn’t have. After the death of regret, Truth still puts the brutes in charge but the Elites would fight back however still believe in the Great Journey
But The Heretic from Halo 2 would still be running around stirring up Trouble, he already had a large enough amount of Converted Troops that the Prophets sent the Arbiter to kill him. The Schism was already under way before The Chief got involved. No idea how but im betting The Heritic would team up with The Chief against the Arbiter, then move ahead in the Arbiters place in the game.
Noble 6 living in a cave has a special name beyond copium. Ifs called Caveium. It's called that because he *IS LIVING IN THAT CAVE, HALO STUDIOS, BRING HIM BACK AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!*
You don’t understand what you’re asking lol you actually trust anyone other than bungie to do 6 any justice? They’d assassinate his character and story. They give him cat ears and have him carve an uwu face on his visor while he got sturdy. No. Let that legend rest. He’s earned it.
I feel like in Halo 2, 6 would stick with the rest of Noble team, then later dropped bit deeper in New Mombasa (Unlike Chief, where his dropship crash landed on the outskirts) trying to board Regret ship. When Regret's ship about to jump, Chief goes back to In Amber Clad like in the game, but the Noble team didn't have time to escape. Surviving the slipspace explosion, Noble team tried to help marine evacuate and even help defending ONI HQ and/or retrieving the Superintendent with the help of the ODST. While all that happen, Chief story would still be the same like in the game after In Amber Clad arrive in 03. Not saying the story bad, it just Flood taking over earth and Chief died leave a bit of bad taste in my mouth and just wanted to share my version of "What would happen"
We are dealing with Mirada in Halo 2, but according to the new timeline, Jacob Keys would have been with Chief and Johnson for the award cermony instead of, or included, Miranda...
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Did i miss something with how Jorge's armor got damaged? I thought he had to stay behind because the bomb needed manual activation after it got damaged...right?
Yeah, you are right. I wonder if he confused Jorge's death with Sam's death. They were both similar, one was protecting a damaged bomb while the other was protecting a bomb with damaged armour.
Yep. The timer was fried during the infantry assaults on the Pelican in the hanger so it had to be fired manually. Six also couldn't get back to his Sabers as the UNSC Savannah caused damage to the Ardent Prayer and the way back up to the Sabers. An SII for a Supercarrier. One helluva trade.
@@bryancol318 here's my issue, it took the ship that dropped elites to kill emile 5 seconds to go from 6s location to emile. surley keyes could wait 6 seconds to do the same for a spartan after shooting down the cruiser
@Wasted117. i see what you're saying, but who was gonna pick him up after the gun? I think the autumn was is full scramble mode after that shot. After all you have to keep in mind those were rockets attached to the bottom of the autumn which means everything from our prospective was probably a good a good 3 to 5 miles away from where Noble 6 was standing for safety reasons and you were also up pretty high. The ship was in the process of being sealed or already sealed. I think his best bet would have just been not to fight but to seek shelter. I mean, if he knew about it, he could have escaped to the castle base somehow, like how Dr. Halsey, did that's probably the only way he makes it into the rest of the lore. Idk how far he was from Castle, though.
@@bryancol318 keyes pelican was literally floating about. he only lands after the player takes the shot, where you can look right and see the master chief easter egg.
Unfortunately at 17:40 you mention that they would find Cortanas message. They wouldn't. Cortana is still with the Gravemind on Delta Halo and I doubt he would let her go. The cruiser that goes through seems to be from the High Charity fleet, which Cortana wouldn't have access to because she's stuck on Delta Halo, and only the In Amber Clad outbreak allowing the Gravemind to form on High Charity would that be possible. But still. Shenanigans Overall cracked theory, but good on you piecing it all together 😂
@HiddenXperia Interesting what if Luc, but there are plot holes and loose ends that aren't addressed in your scenario. For example, Delta Halo is never primed and shutdown, which means that the Array can't be fired remotely from the Ark. Another is that NOBLE likely does not enter the Flood cruiser to retrieve Cortana, but rather overload its reactor, as per Hood and Keyes' instructions. The objective is only altered to retrieving Cortana after being informed by the Elites that she is on the cruiser. Even assuming that the quarantine fleet pursues the Flood cruiser to Earth, I doubt that the Elites in this timeline will be on speaking terms with the UNSC. In either case, I could see the Fleet of Retribution or the Humans contain the Voi outbreak by glassing or overloading the reactor followed by subsequent nukes in order to spare Earth from infection. Next in line would be the effect the absence of Cortana's message on this timeline. Without Chief, the Elites, the message, or Spark it is likely the UNSC just remains in defense of Earth and only sends a prowler or Scout ship through the portal to assess it's threat to Earth. At this point, High Charity arrives in the Sol System and takes its special slipspace jump through the portal without infecting Earth. In orbit over the Ark, an intact Covenant fleet engages High Charity on its descent to the surface. The fleet can't stop the new Hive from crashing on the Ark, but they can glass the surrounding area and prevent the Gravemind from leaving the limited safety of High Charity. This leaves the Flood contained for the rest of this new scenario. As for Truth, he can't fire the Rings remotely as per my first point. However, even if a combination of Huragok and Spark shenanigans enable Truth to fire the Array, a portion of the galaxy will be left untouched due to Installation 04 never being replaced and leaving a gap in the coverage of the Halos. A convenient gap, it would seem, as Alpha Halo covered the area where humanity's colonies preside. In this event, the Covenant worlds would likely be wiped out, leaving only the remains of Truth's fleet as the last remnant of a once great empire. Isolated and blocked from using the portal by the UNSC Home Fleet waiting with 300 ODPs (298) until such a time as the UNSC can muster an expeditionary fleet to the Ark to wipe out the remains of their once, great enemy... Too much? If anyone actually bothered reading this mess, I thank you for your patience. P.S. We never find out the fate of the Onyx group in this timeline either. In mine, it would likely play out similarly to canon.
Honestly if any of the noble team members went to the library themselves the corruptor protocol wouldn't even be established. Chief barely made it through the library and nearly died multiple times while his luck being an active factor. All while being a spartan 2 with his own lethality tier
this is honestly what we need man, "What if" scenarios are some of the most interesting things you can do when a franchise is starved of good content. Just look at star wars what if creators, they're doing very well. I hope you do more what if's in the future because this one is awesome even if everyone dies in the end.
Well the only thing is, if keys didn't get captured. They weren't of heard about the *weapons cash* lol But cortana did hack the battle network So it's possible she could have picked something up
10:34 Maybe Noble Team would stay on Earth, because they are still being atacked and they didn't know if Regret was going to a Covenant Dominated Space or something important, so probably Noble Team would meet up with Alpha Nine, then all Halo 2's Events are preserved, Sierra 117 would still happen but this time with Noble Team, Arbiter would be alive since Noble Team never went to Delta Halo to kill him No Flood on Earth(Glassed) Arbiter doesn't die Chief doesn't die
I agree with everything up until the point in Pre Halo 2 where Fred, Kelly, and Linda are split off from Chief to do their missions around the Earth. I don't see why ONI would split up Blue team instead of just sending the entirety of Nobel Team to do those jobs.
25:19 I disagree, what if Noble Team didn't go with the Master Chief and stayed on New Mombasa to help earth's ground forces and help evacuate the civilian population.
Others commented this too. produce 2 different timelines too. -what if all 75 Spartans survived? -or what if all 150 children were kidnapped, but still 1/3rd survived augmentation? -Or both? Hidden Xperia should take notes from Pente Patrol, on how to do 'What ifs'.
I still make tributes to noble 6 and see many theories about the noble 6 cave theory. Jun was the only one who survived and still needs to return in the next Halo game. You know what they say, "Spartans Never Die, They're Only Missing in Action".
There was just no way all of Nobel team would’ve made it off reach and to regroup with Jun. Someone had to have been left behind to man the gun to cover the Autumns escape which if everyone but Jun were there, would’ve been Carter so throughout halo 1-2 it would’ve been 4 instead of 6. Things would’ve still went as you said but at the point where Regret leaves Earth it would only make sense if at least 1 Spartan stayed behind to help defend earth or was just left behind and I’d say Nobel 6 would’ve stayed because he was their second best Spartan and ONI definitely would’ve wanted him to accompany Dare and Bucks team to get the engineer. So that would leave Chief, Emile, Kat, and George and frankly it’s also a no brainer to send someone else with Chief to kill Regret but I feel like Kat would either way still go get the index and the Arbiter would wait and ambush the team with Tartarus and I’d say Kat would die because she was never lucky when it came to surprise attacks and Emile and/or George would be knocked into the pit during the fight along with Arbiter afterwards. So the Gravemind would have the Arbiter, Chief, Emile, and George to work with so it would probably just send all the Spartans to High Charity because sending 1 Spartan with the Arbiter would probably just end in a fight. So now with 2 extra Spartans the team would steamroll through the city and rescue Miranda and Johnson but let’s say Tartarus would be wounded but still escapes with the Index and because the UNSC forces have idea if they still have human prisoners they’ll still need to chase after him and it wouldn’t really matter all that much if Chief goes after Truth or not. And so with 3/4 Spartans, Johnson, and the Arbiter going after Tartarus they easily stop the ring from lighting. You never did talk about How Keyes would affect the battle and would also probably have been promoted for his actions on Installation 04 so he would definitely have saved multiple ships. The battle for earth would go around the same as it did in halo 3 so would most of the battle on the Ark except for some more human ships being present for the fight and Truth not capturing anyone and being steamrolled by the UNSC and Elite forces. It’s only reasonable that the Spartans would stay to light the new right while everyone else leaves with the elites so Spark would stand no chance and everyone would make it out to the Dawn
11:11 Not to question this what if but I feel like this could probably go more differently than you think (feel free to prove me wrong on this but I just find it hard to believe that tartarus would lose this battle) Maybe I'm over thinking but Tartarus isn't a normal brute, he's a powerful chieftain, he even has a unique overshield (which to me still seems like a precursor to the invincibility equipment in halo 3 but for him it recharges unlike the one in Halo 3) that only a beam rifle seems to be able to disable temporarily, not even an energy sword or any other weapon like the plasma rifle seems to have any effect, maybe standard bullets could break it but we've never seen that happen so it could still have no effect, also his gravity hammer is unique compared to the gravity hammers we usually encounter, its more powerful as well AND it can pull in targets which I don't think the standard hammer can do. (I want to remind everyone in the comments that despite how much people joke at Tartarus being a 'weak' brute compared to Atriox, that he is still a very powerful brute chieftain, so and so that he could easily take down a single spartan with ease.) Bare in mind tartarus was already in the room with the arbiter when he was preparing to attack miranda and johnson, he was just waiting for the right moment to betray the arbiter, but seeing as in this what if noble team is there he'll immediately assist the Arbiter (in addition to having a brute squad with him) So logically this could still end with the great schism still happening, noble team is a strong spartan fireteam but they aren't invincible, noble 6 is a highly effect lethal vector but I doubt even he could turn the tide of battle in noble teams favour, the arbiter could likely attack from the shadows with his cloak and target spartans like Jun and Jorge to render their heavy and sniper support useless leaving them open to overwhelming attacks. And for the sake of everyones love for noble 6, Tartarus casually yeets him into the hole and soon after the arbiter joins him after revealing his true intent to him. Sidenote: Brutes aren't no push over's either, they can easily go toe to toe with a spartan. Sure noble team has fought plenty of brutes on reach but they haven't fought against an EXTREMELY powerful brute chieftain alongside brutes AND an arbiter simultaneously. I mean if you consider that Atriox took down 3 spartans II's without even trying AND bodying the Master Chief WITHOUT even trying as well then I think Tartarus could still come out on top in this battle and it could still end with arbiter falling into the hole.
Only problem i have with this is they might break noble team into 2 seperate teams, 2 with chief and and 2 with carter once they reach the halo operations. Keys might have 2 seperate teams doing other things. What we did on the first halo, we had to do out of necessity due to being only 1 spartan. But if you had a second team they would have the liesure of having secondary objectives. Maybe even stealing a covenant ship and bypass asscendant justices capture. All the same during the battle of earth after the defense of cairo they may split the team yet again and noble may have been sent on a seperate mission away from what chief was doing. If not leaving him with noble 6 and emile while the other team goes to defend oni headquarters or something and bump into alpha 9. And who knows if any spartans would have been with chief or with commander keys on delta halo, maybe they might have been sent ahead to secure the control room on a seperate mission while keys gets the index, chief kills the prophet and is captured by the gravemind and sent to high charity, while (i would assume) noble 6 and emile are chilling at a loved beachside escape in the mountains waiting for tarter sauce to show up with johnson, keys and the index.
@@pokapoka3686 Like there was some force behind reality that pulled the strings and moved the pieces in such a way to kill Noble team, knowing that their survival could put the fate of the galaxy at risk.
I disagree with what happens on Earth - they would just overload the covenant ship, like Miranda said at the start of the mission. Hopefully that destroys the city & the infection.
Some great video ideas like “What if the forerunners and ancient humans worked together to defeat the flood” or “what if the great schism happened alot earlier”
I think chief would make it out ngl, just like in that one book where Cortana over loads his shields to burn the infection. Something that would be cool would be chief saying. “Ima piss this thing off”, then over charge and gameplay wise your in an escape scene running from the grave mind.
Thats really an interesting timeline, but for me that timeline ended, when all spartans boarded keyes pelican, cause now nobody is mannig that AA-turret and the PoA is just gonna get shot down, end, credits.
Awesome! I always think if there's an alternative universe if the Noble Team did survive which could change the rest of the timeline in other installments. HiddenXperia, you really making this more awesome, who knows if there will be other what-if scenarios for any other characters did survive throughout in Halo franchise.
I think you confused Billions with Trillions of humans, also if the great schism never happened I don't see how any ships could of got past the fleets at High Charity.
Also as a similar video suggestion: how do you think Noble Team (either the full team or individual Spartans) would have handled the events of each Gears of War campaign? To make things more fair for the Locust/Lambent/Swarm, let's assume Noble Team have unshielded Mark IV Mjolnir and without B312...
I find it quite amusing that noble 6 could effectively replace chief up until halo 5 where chief being a spartan 2 is now relevant to the rest of blue team
(SPOILERS) I enjoyed this video as the ending kinda shocked me as well and I believe you made some really good points however I would like to make a few points that would go against some of your. For example, due to the Great Schism being a key factor for High Charity's fall to the Flood, without it it could have been more probable that it could have been contained due to Covenant technology. Another point I'd like to make is that the key ship that went to the Ark was definitely not alone as they would have had a lot of ships (hell maybe even more as they have more resources available due to no great schism) to escort it + also the leader experience of Half Jaw and his intelligent strategies. As a result of this it could be a possibility that the UNSC's remaining forces would be completely decimated by the Covenant along with Noble team. Therefore in this ending, the UNSC and human race would likely be nearly or completely wiped out, High Charity never falls as the great schism never happens as Tartarus is not available to use to ignite the plans set out by the prophets, the Covenant control the Ark and also the flood threat would likely be at least contained by the Covenant due to their high energy technology available.
I thought Cortana explained in Halo 2 that Master Chief was just a diversion so the Gravemind could get In Amber Clad aboard High Charity while the Covenant were distracted/confused. I think if that’s the case, it’d just mean Gravemind needs a different lie to tell Master Chief to go kill stuff. I think if there were truly no other reason to send Chief to High Charity, you have it down 100%. Either way, I loved the video! Very fun idea and great work as always!
I think the scenario of the UNSC not using nuclear bombardment over the crashed Flood site and its surrounding areas is a bit of a stretch. Morality and later consequences be damned, they no doubt would have done so to save Earth as they're well aware of just how dangerous the Flood are. The most likely choice would be to both go through the portal AND detonate a couple HAVOKS or so all to make sure not so much as a single Flood Spore survived.
A few issues can be seen in this what if, halo CE makes me wonder why they would be looking for the control room or learn what halo is. Keyes got the info from overhearing the guards of his cell prompting Cortana to look into it. Without that she would’ve kept the assumption that the control room mention in the battle net is a cruiser control room. Least for longer meaning either chief goes on other missions, noble team is split into multiple missions and chief goes with Keyes or some different combination. This would allow the flood to propagate more and depending on when Cortana figures out the significance of various facilities the assault on the control room either is flood infested or the halo is fired with whoever is sent into the library. Other than that the rest of CE seems solid under the assumption they figure out the meaning of the control room without Keyes being captured. Keyes seems absent from the rest of the series in the what if so what does he do? Idk where he would go, maybe takes Miranda’s place which could change how things go on delta halo such as maybe his new ship not being near the library so it isn’t taken over leaving the flood stuck on the ground. Noble team following them is an interesting question as what if they didn’t have time to board, maybe they stay behind to help Mombasa cleanup and thus ODST is affected. If only chief gets into the ship commanded by one of the Keyes family (noble 6 too I guess considering how events played out in your what if) then halo 2 plays out similarly whether noble 6 comes or not Now miranda following basically halo 2 occurs with noble facing Arby (probably an even fight considering arby is considered on par with chief) with Tartarus and his brutes backing him up either potentially forcing a retreat where 6 Johnson and Miranda have to attempt to leave or 6 might die depending on how tough the brutes and arby are working together. Option 3 has Noble being a 3rd capture by the gravemind and thus he is sent somewhere along the way to where the index could be (or one of the 3 is kept behind to be eaten but that’s kinda meh) maybe noble is sent to back up chief to set high charity in more chaos for an even easier capture. Rest follows the same except noble 6 probably helps maybe joins chief in the key ship or potentially stays behind and figures out a way for Cortana to escape Now for the captain Jakob Keyes version. Only difference is at the library where he is far more cautious regarding the flood presence likely ensuring his ship is able to take out any potential flood ships coming towards him. This leaves Gravemind to figure out a new way to take high charity which if he cannot capture a slip space capable ship he can’t effectively do so. Either this means Arby 6 and chief are flood food to capture one of the covenant ships or it tries to send whatever drop ships it can get its tentacles on to take whatever ship is available likely Keyes ship as it’s the most vulnerable in comparison to the covenant ships. After that halo 2 continues if the raid on Keyes ship is successful assuming the former possibility isn’t the case here. Halo 3 basically becomes Halo 3 noble team edition. 6 either joins Johnson after escaping high charity or he is inside the flood ship that lands on earth a bit sluggish but still perfectly capable least enough to get rescued. The latter puts him out of commission to recover for a couple levels assuming he didn’t become a flood form (think he can survive the few weeks on high charity?) Either way Cortana is probably with us as noble kept her safe (the the latter possibility mentioned above she could’ve been lost with only a message left in 6’s armor) so now the Ark raid happens and maybe in the Cortana is kept safe scenario they know exactly what’s happening and either send more troops or keep many behind in case the flood show up to fight off flood that come to earth. Ark raid proceeds as normal or super smoothly. If the latter with noble team staying behind occurs they likely join after unsc long range censors notice the mars jump to the Ark meaning that they can spare them now to make a big raid on truth (in this case flood plus noble team including 6 plow through the covenant) In the super smooth timeline where Cortana escapes with 6 flood covenant spartan team 3 way brawl. High charity might be dependent on Cortana’s situation due to the need for an index. If anything it becomes halo wars now where they have to contain the site and spark tries to help coordinate sentinels on the ark to make the shield surrounding it. This could lead to a tactical pulse that doesn’t shatter the 04B now that they’ve contained the threat and are about to sterilize it. Spark will be overjoyed and probably become a companion helping humanity with their forerunner archeology expeditions. Everyone can go home… except the ship carrying chief disappears to requiem still Idk who would be with this team and idk how they would react assuming the ship is perfectly fine. My guess is that it should be and they try to find their way home whoever is on it and start halo 4 immediately instead of after a few years Oh and in the Cortana left behind scenario one of the Keyes family dies whether it be Miranda or Jakob probably Jakob… wait this could lead to Miranda if she stays behind to take command of the infinity down the line instead of Del Rio and have Lasky as her second in command… pretty cool idea
Very interesting scenario, thanks for the video, but I think you forgot about Halsey and the other Spartans on Onyx though... I bet she would come up with something after leaving the shield world, hopefully after the activation of the rings and not before lol
I don't think your judgement about Halo 2 is good, it does not make sense nor does it make a good game/story. I think the primary point of failure starts with the Index. Thel isn't a moron, he wouldn't attempt to take on 6 Demons, especially after he was almost killed during a duel with one during the Cole Protocol, Thel would instead contact Tartarus who would bring a much larger force with him, this would overwhelm noble team, causing them to retreat, and the story stays the same from this point, Tartarus betrays Thel after securing the index, leading the gravemind to the same course of action.
Yeah i was thinking the same thing. Plus Brutes aren’t weak and it feels like he overhyped Noble team i mean besides Jorge Noble team is relatively weak. Yeah Noble 6 is hyper lethal blah blah at this point we all know it was marketing move every spartan is hyper lethal.
@@antoine121 Fr, and why the hell would chief have to go to the other halo ring if there's another spartan team, and why would the UNSC go to the ark? The only reason Lord Hood went to the ark is because the master chief was coercing him. Also, in my headcannon Noble 6 and Chief were the only hyperlethals. All the other ones were good but not as good as them. Pair Noble 6 with a smart ai too and pair him with chief and cortana, CE, Halo 2 and halo 3 would go by much faster, or more effeciently. 343 is the only people who made every spartan "hyperlethal" anyways have a good day
@@jxstbakerproductions yeah, the only parts that really make sense are the Halo CE parts, but I think there was some errors there too. like why would captain Keyes take noble team to secure the weapons cache? clearly Keyes didn't think it was a very important or defended after all he only took a single squad there, why would he suddenly take a squad of Spartans to something he thought was only worth taking as many marines too? I left it out on my comment but that logic also applies to Miranda attempting to secure the Index, why would Miranda take the entirety of noble team when for whatever reason, she thought only taking Johnson was enough?
Well, something's wrong here, even if Emile simply 'turned around', he would have still died. He was planning on stayng on the MAC and giving the Autumn a chance to leave, it was his plan for Six to escape, but not him. Just a little nit-pick i noticed. And even with the explanation of "He just hid and he could have gotten picked up after Halo: CE", that was one of the last places that a human ship was managed to get off, The Covenant would have prioritized that location and easily overpowered that place as soon as the Autumn left.
Wasn't the reason that one had to stay behind was that the marines manning it had died? to defend the premise of the video, maybe with the full team still available Noble team was able to make it to the gun that the marines or whatever crew it was survived to that point.
This is a really good video idea. I’d love to see more “what if” scenarios and see how seemingly little changes can have a butterfly effect on the story and events that occur
I like thinking that Noble team died on Reach, *noble* souls were lost on Reach and even if the planet was fully destroyed their stories live on. I think a Halo Reach anniversary game would be pretty cool, and adding a different ending in so it was confirmed that Noble 6 died/survived and where Reach survived too.
Point that was kind of missed. Miranda originally sends Chief to the ship where Cortana's message is to overload its engine core. I'm not sure how big of an explosion that would cause but it does imply that brand of force would be accepted to eliminate the flood.
Why would they all survive halo 1 and 2 against the flood and covenant, why would they not raid the truth and reconciliation. Why would spark not tell rtas the truth like he did with the arbiter. Why would Tartarus and arbiter both die . Why would chief still be by himself on delta Why would the ark and halos not have reseeding protocols, wouldn’t they still have the data from the first reseeding
If we assume Chief fell into the water, which he probably doesn't because he likely wouldn't have gotten glassed on his way to Regret. If Noble team is alive I can see that entire scenario playing out differently.
Jorge had the easiest opportunity to survive... his armour was fine if I remember so all he needed was for one of the regular soldiers to survive the battle to sacrifice themselves since none of them had a way out without Mjolnir.
PLACE YOUR BETS IN THE COMMENTS NOW - What would've happen to Halo's story if Noble Team survived Reach?
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halo ce would be solo difrent o my god
The council would have had their corpse.
@@DiamondDukTrue, it would have been a bad day for a certain fleet commander…
This is the reality I'm choosing to believe 😂.
Well that escalated quickly like real quick went from “Yippe Nobel team
Is alive” to “The universe is dead chief is infected the rings are being lite”
lite
I know understand how ominous this comment is the moment I found out that the arbiter died, talk about some unforeseen consequences.
@@ZepyClown nobel
all hope is lost i'm depressed XD
I think he made a few too many wild guesses here and there. First off, Cortana would've made sure noble team knows the arc creates rings and spark would've informed them that Cortana still has the index. They'd absolutely recover her and halo 3 would end largely the same. Only difference I think would be that earth would be lost because there were no glassing measures so if the UNSC doesn't decide to start dropping nukes it's over for earth BUT noble team would've lit installation 04B and the gravemind dying would weaken earths flood severely.
So upon going back it would just be a campaign to either reclaim or destroy an infected earth. If it's the latter, the remains of humanity will just choose another homeworld.
Elites and brutes would also be fighting each other with no good leadership amongst elites so they'd be kind of screwed. Idk why hidden thinks the schism wouldn't have happened with tartarus dead. The brutes were already given orders to begin fighting before arbiter even reached the index.
Everything would've played out mostly the same just without chief and arbiter and with a few darker story elements.
It would be pretty cool if Six survived and went on that podcast Chief & Arbiter run
OH MY GOD ITS DA MAN
@@gravemind2004 yes it is me, Master Cheeks
That would quite literally be the most podcast ever
He already did lol
yes it would be pretty cool
"where Emile simply decided to turn around" 💀💀💀 but fr if he's such a badass soldier but he can't use his motion tracker? Noob
The elite was crouch walking slowly
@@Eskeletor_210That’s a good point
He had the fog skull on
His motion tracker was in the part of his HUD that was scratched out by his knife 💀
“I was ready”(shotgun cocked) “You werent
Y'know. Thinking on it more... You could have had it where Arbiter still falls down to be captured by the gravemind. Just have him get tossed down by Tartarus for failing to get the icon from the humans, or something like that. The Arbiter doesn't strike me as someone who'd engage on a full fireteam of spartans alone. The Brutes would still, and more than likely still fail. This would still allow most of Halo 3's story to unfold like normal. With only the most Zealous of the Covenant sticking with Truth, and the rest realizing the truth from the Arbiter's prospective.
I'm actually not sure all of Noble could take Tartarus. The shield that's invincible unless somebody hits the hammer three times with a beam rifle is a very specific gimmicky boss mechanic.
Peak timeline restored
That was a boss mechanic though, otherwise he's still just a brute in lore
Huh? The whole reason the Gravemind let Chief and the Arbiter live, was because Truth had the Icon and was planning on using it. The big, disastrous twist of Gravemind infecting Chief and Cortana didn't happen because the Arbiter wasn't there. If he was, be would just meet the same fate as Chief and Cortana. There's no winning for Arby or Chief and Cortana
Why's Jorge alive? Who blows up the supercarrier over reach?
The Combat Evolved campaign would have been one mission long and consisted of the Master Chief and Noble 6 taking turns curbstomping Covenant leadership. Wouldn't have even had time to release the Flood.
a lot could have been avoided. master chief goes to the control room, and noble 6 could have gone with keyes. but how would noble 6 get to halo? the ship leaves him on planet
@@Blox117 I mean... it's easy to set up how Six gets onto the Ring... Just have Emile live and be the guy who clears the way. Or even has it that lives long enough to take the shot at the Covie cruiser.
If noble team is alive to that point, there is nothing stopping them from boarding the pelican with Keyes while others sacrifice themselves on the MAC gun. More, with Kat still alive she could probably help in some technical way, maybe even automate the Mac’s firing algorithms or something
@@googleisevil8958 someone has to get left behind. as i remember it, they had to get out fast because more ships were coming.
@@gabrielperez-ze9tk if you go for the automated angle, pretty much all of halo could be avoided by just building robots and removing humans from combat entirely.
What if, for a brick, he didn’t fly pretty good?
Honestly, that's a scene I've imagined as well. 😅
We would literally have chief and the bomb free fall into earth's orbit. That would be BAD for everyone. Not only would chief probably die, Cairo would be destroyed and well, we both know what happens then...
What do you say? Do you agree? 😅
@@keshav4940It would put Master Gunn’s claim about his shields being “Extremely resilient, very efficient.” to its ultimate test.
He'd make a second reentry, but this time from high orbit
You have me dying here 🤣
@@keshav4940 um, he would just be floating around in orbit and then someone would pick him up. you dont just stop orbiting and fall to the ground. thats looney tunes physics
Noble Six comes back to life and saves my childhood
And all my friends come back from their 9to5s and play split screen with me again
And my mom makes us popcorn and gives us soda
Life is good again.
*alarm wakes me up*
Waaaaaaaaauuuughhhh😭😭😭😭
😔
Sadness 😔
o7
and the alarm is: aaaawubadugh
10:37, no way would the UNSC allow for 7 Spartans to leave Earth while it is being invaded, Miranda would be allow to leave with just the Chief since he has Cortana, while Noble Team would be spread out to help defend Earth. That would mean the rest of Halo 2 would play out the same, with Halo 3 having most of the changes in the timeline.
Agreed I can’t see them send all of noble team with the in amber clad
The unsc allowed all the Spartans on earth to leave during the invasion in the actual timeline lol apart from the Spartan 3s deployed to London all the 2's left, (blue team) 3 to onyx and 1 to delta halo (chief)
@@JVCK_UK yes but surely with extra Spartans in this case they’d keep some on earth
@@Star_Commander_Nip_Nup if they had the Spartans to spare on Earth, most or all of Noble might have been sent with the ODST's to try for regret's carrier from above, or help Dare go for the rogue engineer.
especially since it is one force in an army they would probably split the Spartans to different countries
Well to be fair, that Elite wasn’t moving fast enough for my motion tracker to pick him up.
that makes sense so are you in the cave with 6 and how do you have wifi
@@Stop_motion_Wyatt Six got us a pretty sweet deal on some high speed internet for our (literal) man cave. It’s made the years being stranded on Reach a lot more enjoyable.
@@EmileA239_from_Halo_Reach good to know so is it just you and six
Emphasis on that "I'm ready" yeah?
If the energy sword wasn't ignored when that elite snuck up on you, you'd have plenty reason to turn around. Those blades make a fairly audible sound when activated.
No chest wound for you, unless you allowed it to happen
Saw the title and immediately clicked
Same here 🫡
Same. I know this is not his usual things (what if videos), but it was great.
@@thomassevy4930 facts
Same, too good.
Same 😂
All the bad stuff happens here because Miranda decides to park the Frigate unguarded in easy reach of the flood lmao
"Ma'am? You sure its safe to park here?"
"The covenant already have all of the best spots, im sure this is fine. We will be gone just for 5 minutes"
@@falloutgamer347 grave mind in the announcer voice: "YOINK"
"Woman drivers" am I right!
If it was her dad, like it should have been in this scenario, there wouldn't have been a problem.
Miranda causing problems again, smh. Just like when letting her guard down while surrounded and not giving a Johnson a gun got her killed.
Don't forget about Halsey with the Spartans inside of Onyx. They probably could have repopulated given that Onyx was supposed to have supplies and tools for repopulation.
Oh shit, true! And with the human cylixes on zeta halo Halsey could definitely figure out a way to kickstart humanity
What if the S-II augmentation process had a 100% success rate? Or if all original 300 prospective S-II candidates Halsey originally wanted before the budget cuts were taken and trained?
What if both happened?
How many actually were taken? How many were successful out the bunch?
@@kumonelend5400 75 were taken with 33 successfully completing the augmentation process. The rest were killed or crippled, with a small number of those being rehabilitated later
This one right here would be amazing. So much potential.
Hidden Xperia should take notes from the Star Wars 'What if' guys, like Pente Patrol, cos he still needs improvements.
@@JustinLaFleur1990that would be great.
Would produce 2 different timelines too.
-what if all 75 Spartans survived?
-or what if all 150 children were kidnapped, but still 1/3rd survived augmentation?
-Or both?
Hidden Xperia should take notes from Pente Patrol, on how to do 'What ifs'.
Fun, though I disagree with the fate of the Arbiter and Chief. Upon arriving to Delta Halo, I think the more tactically sound option chosen by NOBLE is to split the Spartans into 2 fireteams, with Carter leading Emile, Kat and Jorge to the Library, leaving Miranda and Sgt. Johnson behind aboard the Amber Clad (because why send your ranking officers when you have Spartans). Chief would take Six and Jun on the assassination mission to kill Mercy, and with Jun's master marksman abilities to remove the jackal snipers, and Chief and Six ganging up on Mercy with twice the punches, the whole effort would be expediated so Fireteam Chief would be able to exfil from the temple via Pelican before High Charity and Truth arrive to glass it. Meanwhile, Fireteam Carter retrieves the Index to then encounter the Arbiter, but rather than a prolonged fight, they retreat when Tartarus arrives to reinforce Arby. Fireteam Carter manage to escape with Arby and Tartarus and Brutes in pursuit, and the Brutes again betray Arby for the failure to secure the Icon. I still think Arby survives this, and him and Half-Jaw kill Tartarus early. Both Spartan Teams then return to the Clad either before or during the attempted Flood capture, but manage to repel the parasites because Sgt. Johnson was aboard to ensure the ship doesn't fall into the Gravemind's tentacles. With Index secure, and with prior Alpha Halo experience, the gang decides to mix things up a little by using In Amber Clad's reactor to blow up the ring, escaping orbit on the remaining Pelicans. Added bonus is that High Charity is right there in orbit, so the shards of the ring basically destroy or disable the Holy City. Gravemind and Flood problem is deleted from the plot. Mass chaos as the Brute and Elite ships battle amidst the debris fields, but the Elites also have the Arbiter and aren't also distracted with a Flood infested High Charity since the Gravemind never made it aboard without the Clad. Truth still escapes aboard the Keyship, but the Elites have quick victory against the Brutes, and make an alliance with the Demon-filled Pelicans floating in space. It would be a little more uncomfortable, since Arby didn't have the Gravemind/2401 Penitent Tangent to reaffirm what the Heretic Elite told him, but the loss of the Elite Council and total backstab of the Prophets might be enough to make friends from enemies. They all travel back to Earth together, with the full Elite fleet instead of just Chief alone, arriving to chase Truth through the Portal, reaching the Ark, and basically repeating Halo 3 with the exclusion of the Flood, so Halo 3 is 4 missions shorter, maximum happy ending.
just 1 little detail you overlooked for Halo 2-3, immediately when Regret jumped away from New Mombasa, and parts of Truths fleet arrived to earth at the same time, the Brutes started to kill the Elites, so Schism is prob still happening
also, logistics wise, I dont see Lord Hood sending the whole of noble with the In Amber Clad .
also forgot Zeta Halo cylixes
@@3l_Raro Exactly... I also don't see Lord Hood keeping all of Noble team with Chief together to defend one single platform. lol
There are a lot of questionable decisions that just happen with HiddenXperia's alternative timeline... Like Arbiter randomly attacking a room full of Spartans or that both Tartarus and the Arbiter together would outright lose.
@@robertmcdougall1144I feel like Tartarus would rush in and get himself killed, Arbiter might try to utilize his active camp to steal the key or to recon the situation and determine the time is not right to try to obtain the key. Its possible a Schism could still occur, as Brute Chieftans would learn their leader had died while the “cowardly” Arbiter yet lived. If the Arbiter does manage to copy his predecessor and take Miranda Captive for the index and flees the scene, it could give the Gravemind reason to spare Chief.
Honestly I just wanna know what kind of silly schenanigens 6, Emile and Chief would be up to if they(6 and Emile) survived. I can totaly see them take a Warthog and go crazy haha!
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Did he really say "trillions of humans wiped out"?? 💀 22:40
there was a time period in humanity where an ice age nearly whiped out humanity,
there where about 600 humans left. just give it some time and humanity would repopulate on the Ark quite easily...
hopefull without finding any flood storage facilities. if the ark even had any
Damn. We're fucking resilient no wonder we climbed to Apex status
Yeah it would take generations but humans would repopulate and eventually I guess become basically the forerunners without any competition beyond discovering the endless on Zeta
The problem is that we've already done that once, and it's caused problems. We have one of the lowest biodiversity of any species. If that happened AGAIN, procreation with your 5th cousin would be the genetic equivalent of procreation with your sister now.
In all likelihood, the Ark probably didn't have any flood on prior to the Gravemind showing up with High Charity. It's very clear that the Forerunner intended for the Ark to be a safe haven from the Flood outside the galaxy. Even the name "Ark" is a clue of this.
@@googleisevil8958 you never know with these fore runners...if they hadnt saved a couple of samples on the rings, the flood might not have returned...
Honestly I think it led up pretty decently until the part of the arbiter bring killed. The man was incredibly smart AND The Top leader of an entire covenant fleet for a reason, so after seeing the destruction a group of spartans caused, imo I think he would stay back. Tartarus and the others would still die but I think Arbiter would definitely get out of there to try and either steal the artifact, or at the very least demand to know why Tartarus is there when the arbiter was supposed to reclaim the key. Thus showing that something is off and allowing for either Noble 6 to still kill him, or they capture him to figure out what is going on and why he wanted the key
While I do agree that Thel's strategist side would consider a retreat, you gotta remember he's "the Arbiter" now
And the only way he can regain any amount of his honor back is by either fulfilling the Prophets' orders or die trying
@@chiefsenpai969 this is true, and it's during a period where, despite what he's seen, he has yet to be betrayed and truly understand the depravity of the situation he's been cast into. Imo I just like the idea, lil side cannon to a head canon which is pretty interesting and dark lol.
Did he really say "trillions of humans wiped out"?? 💀 22:40
@@chiefsenpai969 never did he try to take on several Spartans at once
If they survived halo reach, 343 would still find a way to kill them off in a book lol.
Actually it would technically be safe because Noble Six wasn't even a character until Halo:Reach. Doing so would have to retcon the original trilogy 😂. Lovely enough this video is just a very likely what if
more like in a comic as part of a 2 page flashback and would make it the most glossed over deaths ever
25:50 if noble team doesn't stay with the master chief, the games play out the same other than halo: ce, which wouldn't effect the timeline negatively for humanity, therefore they would just be 6 extra elite spartans at that point in the same timeline.
Came to agree on that. Earth has all of noble and grace? She died in first strike but I know they're were two spartans plus the pelican pilot who died in the slip space world fight.
Don't see why they werent deployed like blue team. Making the defense of earth much much quicker or even sense they had so many Spartans they pushed the assault on Regrets ship much sooner before he can retreat and potential relaunch operation red flag.
@@wb7585 I agree, I would say Noble team would be sent off to do their own stuff on Earth and Noble 6 would either stay with them or be reassigned back to his Oni lone wolf missions, as things just carry on as normal with maybe Noble reappearing back in H3 with since they would have knowledge on Halo from their time in the new HCE timeline.
I’ve got a more horrifying ending and a optimistic ending for you. Horrifying ending: Infected chief wipes out Noble and the remaining UNSC. Flood wins. Optimistic ending: The remaining humans search the forerunner archives and discover the the cylixes on Zeta Halo and slowly reseed the galaxy that way. Seriously though I got whiplash from how quickly the tone changed we literally went from Reach and CE good ending to creepypasta bad ending
Couple of orphaned plot beats i noticed:
- If Keyes was never captured, how did they learn about the existence of the Silent Cartographer? I seem to recall it was first mentioned after he's freed from the brig.
- What happened to Anton and Li? They disappear from your narrative when talking about First Strike, without elaborating the battle in the slipspace anomaly; a battle, I imagine, that would have developed fairly differently had they had Noble Team as backup. The UNSC personnel in general is also greatly boosted, as more people survived Installation 04, so it's no longer JUST the Spartans.
- Related to this, what happens to Jacob Keyes? He disappears from the narrative after the end of Halo CE, with his role from that point going forward being taken over by his daughter.
I'm also curious as to what would be your take on the relationship between the IIs and the IIIs during these events. I imagine Jorge would be some sort of a peacekeeper between both generations.
No, he talks about the Control Room, not the Cartographer.
Honestly, Arbiter surviving halo 2 to create that alliance is probably THE single most imporant event in halo. Without him, Earth can't get glassed by R'tas when the flood are released, and the Galaxy is wiped out by humanity at the end of this alternate Halo 3. This mean that yes, arbiter is the most important character in Halo history, he literally saved the galaxy and no one really recognises that
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In the games, yes, but overall, the most important even would be the Forerunners betraying the Precursors
@ali_m_ yeah I was more on about recent events but yeah, my wording was kinda whack there
@@Azrael_Equinox i think a good runner up would be the grunt jumping on a human at the beginning of the human-covenant war
Carter: *hears flood noises* Captain, I advise we head back pronto, I don't think we're alone here. I'm hearing something and the motion tracker's off the charts.
If Noble team protected Miranda and Johnson in the Library during Halo 2 then its safe to assume that In-Amber Clad never fell to the flood because they never would have gotten captured and abandoned it.
Also the Great Schism would’ve still happened although the alliance with Humanity wouldn’t have. After the death of regret, Truth still puts the brutes in charge but the Elites would fight back however still believe in the Great Journey
But The Heretic from Halo 2 would still be running around stirring up Trouble, he already had a large enough amount of Converted Troops that the Prophets sent the Arbiter to kill him. The Schism was already under way before The Chief got involved. No idea how but im betting The Heritic would team up with The Chief against the Arbiter, then move ahead in the Arbiters place in the game.
Imagine Halo 2s opening but it’s Chief, Noble 6 & Johnson going to the ceremony.
Halo 3 never happens and the war ends lol.
Chief would live because gravemind knows chief could stop the ark, and he mainly keeps people alive in favor of living
Maybe, but the Gravemind didn't know the Covenant could go to the Ark and Chief, being Chief would still try to finish the flood in a way or another
Noble 6 living in a cave has a special name beyond copium.
Ifs called Caveium. It's called that because he *IS LIVING IN THAT CAVE, HALO STUDIOS, BRING HIM BACK AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!*
You don’t understand what you’re asking lol you actually trust anyone other than bungie to do 6 any justice? They’d assassinate his character and story. They give him cat ears and have him carve an uwu face on his visor while he got sturdy. No. Let that legend rest. He’s earned it.
I feel like in Halo 2, 6 would stick with the rest of Noble team, then later dropped bit deeper in New Mombasa (Unlike Chief, where his dropship crash landed on the outskirts) trying to board Regret ship. When Regret's ship about to jump, Chief goes back to In Amber Clad like in the game, but the Noble team didn't have time to escape.
Surviving the slipspace explosion, Noble team tried to help marine evacuate and even help defending ONI HQ and/or retrieving the Superintendent with the help of the ODST. While all that happen, Chief story would still be the same like in the game after In Amber Clad arrive in 03.
Not saying the story bad, it just Flood taking over earth and Chief died leave a bit of bad taste in my mouth and just wanted to share my version of "What would happen"
We are dealing with Mirada in Halo 2, but according to the new timeline, Jacob Keys would have been with Chief and Johnson for the award cermony instead of, or included, Miranda...
You are single handedly (with some help from Mint Blitz) keeping my love for Halo alive. Incredibly impressive how you have kept up the content and to such a high quality. Props to you, Sir.
Did i miss something with how Jorge's armor got damaged?
I thought he had to stay behind because the bomb needed manual activation after it got damaged...right?
Yeah. Not sure where he got that info, but Jorge definitely mentioned the timer being fried.
Yeah, you are right. I wonder if he confused Jorge's death with Sam's death. They were both similar, one was protecting a damaged bomb while the other was protecting a bomb with damaged armour.
Yeah
Yep. The timer was fried during the infantry assaults on the Pelican in the hanger so it had to be fired manually. Six also couldn't get back to his Sabers as the UNSC Savannah caused damage to the Ardent Prayer and the way back up to the Sabers. An SII for a Supercarrier. One helluva trade.
Xperia is about to pay the bills for Oct in one video.
0:28 lmao “decided to survive”
I mean, he's not wrong... if he would have fought to get to safety.. there is a chance. Maybe only a 0.1% chance he survived, lol
He didn't afraid of anything
@@bryancol318 here's my issue, it took the ship that dropped elites to kill emile 5 seconds to go from 6s location to emile. surley keyes could wait 6 seconds to do the same for a spartan after shooting down the cruiser
@Wasted117. i see what you're saying, but who was gonna pick him up after the gun? I think the autumn was is full scramble mode after that shot. After all you have to keep in mind those were rockets attached to the bottom of the autumn which means everything from our prospective was probably a good a good 3 to 5 miles away from where Noble 6 was standing for safety reasons and you were also up pretty high. The ship was in the process of being sealed or already sealed. I think his best bet would have just been not to fight but to seek shelter. I mean, if he knew about it, he could have escaped to the castle base somehow, like how Dr. Halsey, did that's probably the only way he makes it into the rest of the lore. Idk how far he was from Castle, though.
@@bryancol318 keyes pelican was literally floating about. he only lands after the player takes the shot, where you can look right and see the master chief easter egg.
11:26 noooooo! I was just about to say that this would have been a timeline I would want to see but now I don’t want it anymore…..
Unfortunately at 17:40 you mention that they would find Cortanas message. They wouldn't. Cortana is still with the Gravemind on Delta Halo and I doubt he would let her go. The cruiser that goes through seems to be from the High Charity fleet, which Cortana wouldn't have access to because she's stuck on Delta Halo, and only the In Amber Clad outbreak allowing the Gravemind to form on High Charity would that be possible. But still. Shenanigans
Overall cracked theory, but good on you piecing it all together 😂
Even if they did. Six might be a legend but I believe Lord Hood would only trust the Chief alone to wing Humanity's fate
Oh I'm stupid nevermind yeah there wouldn't be the opportunity. The flood would absolutely show up
About the high charity one, if the Great Schism didnt end up happening there i believe the Covenant should've been able to eliminate the flood
@HiddenXperia Interesting what if Luc, but there are plot holes and loose ends that aren't addressed in your scenario. For example, Delta Halo is never primed and shutdown, which means that the Array can't be fired remotely from the Ark. Another is that NOBLE likely does not enter the Flood cruiser to retrieve Cortana, but rather overload its reactor, as per Hood and Keyes' instructions. The objective is only altered to retrieving Cortana after being informed by the Elites that she is on the cruiser. Even assuming that the quarantine fleet pursues the Flood cruiser to Earth, I doubt that the Elites in this timeline will be on speaking terms with the UNSC. In either case, I could see the Fleet of Retribution or the Humans contain the Voi outbreak by glassing or overloading the reactor followed by subsequent nukes in order to spare Earth from infection. Next in line would be the effect the absence of Cortana's message on this timeline. Without Chief, the Elites, the message, or Spark it is likely the UNSC just remains in defense of Earth and only sends a prowler or Scout ship through the portal to assess it's threat to Earth. At this point, High Charity arrives in the Sol System and takes its special slipspace jump through the portal without infecting Earth. In orbit over the Ark, an intact Covenant fleet engages High Charity on its descent to the surface. The fleet can't stop the new Hive from crashing on the Ark, but they can glass the surrounding area and prevent the Gravemind from leaving the limited safety of High Charity. This leaves the Flood contained for the rest of this new scenario. As for Truth, he can't fire the Rings remotely as per my first point. However, even if a combination of Huragok and Spark shenanigans enable Truth to fire the Array, a portion of the galaxy will be left untouched due to Installation 04 never being replaced and leaving a gap in the coverage of the Halos. A convenient gap, it would seem, as Alpha Halo covered the area where humanity's colonies preside. In this event, the Covenant worlds would likely be wiped out, leaving only the remains of Truth's fleet as the last remnant of a once great empire. Isolated and blocked from using the portal by the UNSC Home Fleet waiting with 300 ODPs (298) until such a time as the UNSC can muster an expeditionary fleet to the Ark to wipe out the remains of their once, great enemy...
Too much? If anyone actually bothered reading this mess, I thank you for your patience.
P.S. We never find out the fate of the Onyx group in this timeline either. In mine, it would likely play out similarly to canon.
Honestly if any of the noble team members went to the library themselves the corruptor protocol wouldn't even be established. Chief barely made it through the library and nearly died multiple times while his luck being an active factor. All while being a spartan 2 with his own lethality tier
Uh i think the arbiter would be alive because he realize he outmatch with noble and surrendering or he just tackles 6 and him into the hole
this is honestly what we need man, "What if" scenarios are some of the most interesting things you can do when a franchise is starved of good content. Just look at star wars what if creators, they're doing very well. I hope you do more what if's in the future because this one is awesome even if everyone dies in the end.
Well the only thing is, if keys didn't get captured. They weren't of heard about the *weapons cash* lol But cortana did hack the battle network So it's possible she could have picked something up
Weapons cache info came from a captured elite post truth and reconciliation according to the novels
@@Xeno-The-Wanderer that's very true!! Good point
10:34 Maybe Noble Team would stay on Earth, because they are still being atacked and they didn't know if Regret was going to a Covenant Dominated Space or something important, so probably Noble Team would meet up with Alpha Nine, then all Halo 2's Events are preserved, Sierra 117 would still happen but this time with Noble Team, Arbiter would be alive since Noble Team never went to Delta Halo to kill him
No Flood on Earth(Glassed)
Arbiter doesn't die
Chief doesn't die
I agree with everything up until the point in Pre Halo 2 where Fred, Kelly, and Linda are split off from Chief to do their missions around the Earth. I don't see why ONI would split up Blue team instead of just sending the entirety of Nobel Team to do those jobs.
25:19 I disagree, what if Noble Team didn't go with the Master Chief and stayed on New Mombasa to help earth's ground forces and help evacuate the civilian population.
Maybe part 2?
I disagree. I think donkey kong is the best game ever...
@@fusedjames1173 get outa here this is a Xbox safe space
That is a good point. Odst shows mombasa was very screwed. after the aid from the spartains may fix that.
Others commented this too. produce 2 different timelines too.
-what if all 75 Spartans survived?
-or what if all 150 children were kidnapped, but still 1/3rd survived augmentation?
-Or both?
Hidden Xperia should take notes from Pente Patrol, on how to do 'What ifs'.
24:55 SpongeBob: "That didn't help at all!"
I still make tributes to noble 6 and see many theories about the noble 6 cave theory. Jun was the only one who survived and still needs to return in the next Halo game. You know what they say, "Spartans Never Die, They're Only Missing in Action".
There was just no way all of Nobel team would’ve made it off reach and to regroup with Jun. Someone had to have been left behind to man the gun to cover the Autumns escape which if everyone but Jun were there, would’ve been Carter so throughout halo 1-2 it would’ve been 4 instead of 6. Things would’ve still went as you said but at the point where Regret leaves Earth it would only make sense if at least 1 Spartan stayed behind to help defend earth or was just left behind and I’d say Nobel 6 would’ve stayed because he was their second best Spartan and ONI definitely would’ve wanted him to accompany Dare and Bucks team to get the engineer. So that would leave Chief, Emile, Kat, and George and frankly it’s also a no brainer to send someone else with Chief to kill Regret but I feel like Kat would either way still go get the index and the Arbiter would wait and ambush the team with Tartarus and I’d say Kat would die because she was never lucky when it came to surprise attacks and Emile and/or George would be knocked into the pit during the fight along with Arbiter afterwards. So the Gravemind would have the Arbiter, Chief, Emile, and George to work with so it would probably just send all the Spartans to High Charity because sending 1 Spartan with the Arbiter would probably just end in a fight. So now with 2 extra Spartans the team would steamroll through the city and rescue Miranda and Johnson but let’s say Tartarus would be wounded but still escapes with the Index and because the UNSC forces have idea if they still have human prisoners they’ll still need to chase after him and it wouldn’t really matter all that much if Chief goes after Truth or not. And so with 3/4 Spartans, Johnson, and the Arbiter going after Tartarus they easily stop the ring from lighting. You never did talk about How Keyes would affect the battle and would also probably have been promoted for his actions on Installation 04 so he would definitely have saved multiple ships. The battle for earth would go around the same as it did in halo 3 so would most of the battle on the Ark except for some more human ships being present for the fight and Truth not capturing anyone and being steamrolled by the UNSC and Elite forces. It’s only reasonable that the Spartans would stay to light the new right while everyone else leaves with the elites so Spark would stand no chance and everyone would make it out to the Dawn
11:11
Not to question this what if but I feel like this could probably go more differently than you think (feel free to prove me wrong on this but I just find it hard to believe that tartarus would lose this battle)
Maybe I'm over thinking but Tartarus isn't a normal brute, he's a powerful chieftain, he even has a unique overshield (which to me still seems like a precursor to the invincibility equipment in halo 3 but for him it recharges unlike the one in Halo 3) that only a beam rifle seems to be able to disable temporarily, not even an energy sword or any other weapon like the plasma rifle seems to have any effect, maybe standard bullets could break it but we've never seen that happen so it could still have no effect, also his gravity hammer is unique compared to the gravity hammers we usually encounter, its more powerful as well AND it can pull in targets which I don't think the standard hammer can do.
(I want to remind everyone in the comments that despite how much people joke at Tartarus being a 'weak' brute compared to Atriox, that he is still a very powerful brute chieftain, so and so that he could easily take down a single spartan with ease.)
Bare in mind tartarus was already in the room with the arbiter when he was preparing to attack miranda and johnson, he was just waiting for the right moment to betray the arbiter, but seeing as in this what if noble team is there he'll immediately assist the Arbiter (in addition to having a brute squad with him)
So logically this could still end with the great schism still happening, noble team is a strong spartan fireteam but they aren't invincible, noble 6 is a highly effect lethal vector but I doubt even he could turn the tide of battle in noble teams favour, the arbiter could likely attack from the shadows with his cloak and target spartans like Jun and Jorge to render their heavy and sniper support useless leaving them open to overwhelming attacks.
And for the sake of everyones love for noble 6, Tartarus casually yeets him into the hole and soon after the arbiter joins him after revealing his true intent to him.
Sidenote: Brutes aren't no push over's either, they can easily go toe to toe with a spartan.
Sure noble team has fought plenty of brutes on reach but they haven't fought against an EXTREMELY powerful brute chieftain alongside brutes AND an arbiter simultaneously.
I mean if you consider that Atriox took down 3 spartans II's without even trying AND bodying the Master Chief WITHOUT even trying as well then I think Tartarus could still come out on top in this battle and it could still end with arbiter falling into the hole.
Only problem i have with this is they might break noble team into 2 seperate teams, 2 with chief and and 2 with carter once they reach the halo operations. Keys might have 2 seperate teams doing other things.
What we did on the first halo, we had to do out of necessity due to being only 1 spartan. But if you had a second team they would have the liesure of having secondary objectives. Maybe even stealing a covenant ship and bypass asscendant justices capture.
All the same during the battle of earth after the defense of cairo they may split the team yet again and noble may have been sent on a seperate mission away from what chief was doing. If not leaving him with noble 6 and emile while the other team goes to defend oni headquarters or something and bump into alpha 9.
And who knows if any spartans would have been with chief or with commander keys on delta halo, maybe they might have been sent ahead to secure the control room on a seperate mission while keys gets the index, chief kills the prophet and is captured by the gravemind and sent to high charity, while (i would assume) noble 6 and emile are chilling at a loved beachside escape in the mountains waiting for tarter sauce to show up with johnson, keys and the index.
Talking about alternative Halo universes gives me Paramount+ PTSD
How much are the Flood paying you?
Master chief not having his magic luck is tragic
Ngl I think it’s kind of poetic how this theory shows that the sacrifice noble team had was needed, and had to be that way
It's almost like it was written, it had to be that way.
@@sakkra93 ikr
@@pokapoka3686 Like there was some force behind reality that pulled the strings and moved the pieces in such a way to kill Noble team, knowing that their survival could put the fate of the galaxy at risk.
I disagree with what happens on Earth - they would just overload the covenant ship, like Miranda said at the start of the mission. Hopefully that destroys the city & the infection.
Time Traveler: * _moves a chair_ *
Noble Team: + _makes it to the Halo_ *
Covenant: * _Son of a brute..._ *
Also, 24:48: *_A Winner is You_* : *INTENSIFIES*
time travel doesnt exist
Some great video ideas like “What if the forerunners and ancient humans worked together to defeat the flood” or “what if the great schism happened alot earlier”
Saw Noble team and immediately thought you had finally done a Winter Contention video. Nobody is talking about it and its about Rosenda and Thom!
I think chief would make it out ngl, just like in that one book where Cortana over loads his shields to burn the infection. Something that would be cool would be chief saying. “Ima piss this thing off”, then over charge and gameplay wise your in an escape scene running from the grave mind.
Or all of noble 6 gets thrown in the hole with Arby because tartar sauce is as strong as Atrox and the story picks up from there
Carter:
We're a team. That lone wolf stuff stays behind.
Jun:
Ha ha. Yeah.
Thats really an interesting timeline, but for me that timeline ended, when all spartans boarded keyes pelican, cause now nobody is mannig that AA-turret and the PoA is just gonna get shot down, end, credits.
Awesome! I always think if there's an alternative universe if the Noble Team did survive which could change the rest of the timeline in other installments. HiddenXperia, you really making this more awesome, who knows if there will be other what-if scenarios for any other characters did survive throughout in Halo franchise.
This is truly the darkest timeline. Chief and Arbiter dying is the most horrible thing that could happen.
I think you confused Billions with Trillions of humans, also if the great schism never happened I don't see how any ships could of got past the fleets at High Charity.
Also as a similar video suggestion: how do you think Noble Team (either the full team or individual Spartans) would have handled the events of each Gears of War campaign? To make things more fair for the Locust/Lambent/Swarm, let's assume Noble Team have unshielded Mark IV Mjolnir and without B312...
1000 humans would indeed be able to repopulate, it would just take a few hundred years to be an actual large population
I find it quite amusing that noble 6 could effectively replace chief up until halo 5 where chief being a spartan 2 is now relevant to the rest of blue team
Glad these videos are back
Honestly, Chief would probably have a members of Noble Team with him, and the assault on Regret's temple may have gone differently as a result.
(SPOILERS)
I enjoyed this video as the ending kinda shocked me as well and I believe you made some really good points however I would like to make a few points that would go against some of your. For example, due to the Great Schism being a key factor for High Charity's fall to the Flood, without it it could have been more probable that it could have been contained due to Covenant technology. Another point I'd like to make is that the key ship that went to the Ark was definitely not alone as they would have had a lot of ships (hell maybe even more as they have more resources available due to no great schism) to escort it + also the leader experience of Half Jaw and his intelligent strategies. As a result of this it could be a possibility that the UNSC's remaining forces would be completely decimated by the Covenant along with Noble team.
Therefore in this ending, the UNSC and human race would likely be nearly or completely wiped out, High Charity never falls as the great schism never happens as Tartarus is not available to use to ignite the plans set out by the prophets, the Covenant control the Ark and also the flood threat would likely be at least contained by the Covenant due to their high energy technology available.
Or noble team stays on earth thats a possibility
I always liked when the typical mission objective would say something ominous like "survive" or "run". Fallout did that, it would always set the vibe
i don’t see lord hood sending all of noble team with master chief so everything would be okay i think
And everything would play out the same way cuz noble team is on earth so master chief arby and 6 would be find
I thought Cortana explained in Halo 2 that Master Chief was just a diversion so the Gravemind could get In Amber Clad aboard High Charity while the Covenant were distracted/confused. I think if that’s the case, it’d just mean Gravemind needs a different lie to tell Master Chief to go kill stuff. I think if there were truly no other reason to send Chief to High Charity, you have it down 100%.
Either way, I loved the video! Very fun idea and great work as always!
I think the scenario of the UNSC not using nuclear bombardment over the crashed Flood site and its surrounding areas is a bit of a stretch. Morality and later consequences be damned, they no doubt would have done so to save Earth as they're well aware of just how dangerous the Flood are. The most likely choice would be to both go through the portal AND detonate a couple HAVOKS or so all to make sure not so much as a single Flood Spore survived.
A few issues can be seen in this what if, halo CE makes me wonder why they would be looking for the control room or learn what halo is. Keyes got the info from overhearing the guards of his cell prompting Cortana to look into it. Without that she would’ve kept the assumption that the control room mention in the battle net is a cruiser control room. Least for longer meaning either chief goes on other missions, noble team is split into multiple missions and chief goes with Keyes or some different combination. This would allow the flood to propagate more and depending on when Cortana figures out the significance of various facilities the assault on the control room either is flood infested or the halo is fired with whoever is sent into the library. Other than that the rest of CE seems solid under the assumption they figure out the meaning of the control room without Keyes being captured.
Keyes seems absent from the rest of the series in the what if so what does he do? Idk where he would go, maybe takes Miranda’s place which could change how things go on delta halo such as maybe his new ship not being near the library so it isn’t taken over leaving the flood stuck on the ground. Noble team following them is an interesting question as what if they didn’t have time to board, maybe they stay behind to help Mombasa cleanup and thus ODST is affected. If only chief gets into the ship commanded by one of the Keyes family (noble 6 too I guess considering how events played out in your what if) then halo 2 plays out similarly whether noble 6 comes or not
Now miranda following basically halo 2 occurs with noble facing Arby (probably an even fight considering arby is considered on par with chief) with Tartarus and his brutes backing him up either potentially forcing a retreat where 6 Johnson and Miranda have to attempt to leave or 6 might die depending on how tough the brutes and arby are working together. Option 3 has Noble being a 3rd capture by the gravemind and thus he is sent somewhere along the way to where the index could be (or one of the 3 is kept behind to be eaten but that’s kinda meh) maybe noble is sent to back up chief to set high charity in more chaos for an even easier capture. Rest follows the same except noble 6 probably helps maybe joins chief in the key ship or potentially stays behind and figures out a way for Cortana to escape
Now for the captain Jakob Keyes version. Only difference is at the library where he is far more cautious regarding the flood presence likely ensuring his ship is able to take out any potential flood ships coming towards him. This leaves Gravemind to figure out a new way to take high charity which if he cannot capture a slip space capable ship he can’t effectively do so. Either this means Arby 6 and chief are flood food to capture one of the covenant ships or it tries to send whatever drop ships it can get its tentacles on to take whatever ship is available likely Keyes ship as it’s the most vulnerable in comparison to the covenant ships.
After that halo 2 continues if the raid on Keyes ship is successful assuming the former possibility isn’t the case here.
Halo 3 basically becomes Halo 3 noble team edition. 6 either joins Johnson after escaping high charity or he is inside the flood ship that lands on earth a bit sluggish but still perfectly capable least enough to get rescued. The latter puts him out of commission to recover for a couple levels assuming he didn’t become a flood form (think he can survive the few weeks on high charity?)
Either way Cortana is probably with us as noble kept her safe (the the latter possibility mentioned above she could’ve been lost with only a message left in 6’s armor) so now the Ark raid happens and maybe in the Cortana is kept safe scenario they know exactly what’s happening and either send more troops or keep many behind in case the flood show up to fight off flood that come to earth. Ark raid proceeds as normal or super smoothly. If the latter with noble team staying behind occurs they likely join after unsc long range censors notice the mars jump to the Ark meaning that they can spare them now to make a big raid on truth (in this case flood plus noble team including 6 plow through the covenant)
In the super smooth timeline where Cortana escapes with 6 flood covenant spartan team 3 way brawl. High charity might be dependent on Cortana’s situation due to the need for an index. If anything it becomes halo wars now where they have to contain the site and spark tries to help coordinate sentinels on the ark to make the shield surrounding it. This could lead to a tactical pulse that doesn’t shatter the 04B now that they’ve contained the threat and are about to sterilize it. Spark will be overjoyed and probably become a companion helping humanity with their forerunner archeology expeditions. Everyone can go home… except the ship carrying chief disappears to requiem still
Idk who would be with this team and idk how they would react assuming the ship is perfectly fine. My guess is that it should be and they try to find their way home whoever is on it and start halo 4 immediately instead of after a few years
Oh and in the Cortana left behind scenario one of the Keyes family dies whether it be Miranda or Jakob probably Jakob… wait this could lead to Miranda if she stays behind to take command of the infinity down the line instead of Del Rio and have Lasky as her second in command… pretty cool idea
Ah yes.
A timeline where Noble Team ain't dumb and extremely unlucky with that ONE DUCKING ELITE.
"Your primary objective? Commander are you a PUPPET or a Spartan?"
@@UnrulyRantLord Best response
Seriously fuck that zealot
You should do another one of these but instead: how much better are the 343 games if Johnson SURVIVED
8:09 So basically the Mass Effect 2 Suicide Mission with full squad loyalty.
Very interesting scenario, thanks for the video, but I think you forgot about Halsey and the other Spartans on Onyx though... I bet she would come up with something after leaving the shield world, hopefully after the activation of the rings and not before lol
I don't think your judgement about Halo 2 is good, it does not make sense nor does it make a good game/story. I think the primary point of failure starts with the Index. Thel isn't a moron, he wouldn't attempt to take on 6 Demons, especially after he was almost killed during a duel with one during the Cole Protocol, Thel would instead contact Tartarus who would bring a much larger force with him, this would overwhelm noble team, causing them to retreat, and the story stays the same from this point, Tartarus betrays Thel after securing the index, leading the gravemind to the same course of action.
Fr, this story kinda sucks up to halo 2.
Yeah i was thinking the same thing. Plus Brutes aren’t weak and it feels like he overhyped Noble team i mean besides Jorge Noble team is relatively weak. Yeah Noble 6 is hyper lethal blah blah at this point we all know it was marketing move every spartan is hyper lethal.
@@antoine121 Fr, and why the hell would chief have to go to the other halo ring if there's another spartan team, and why would the UNSC go to the ark? The only reason Lord Hood went to the ark is because the master chief was coercing him. Also, in my headcannon Noble 6 and Chief were the only hyperlethals. All the other ones were good but not as good as them. Pair Noble 6 with a smart ai too and pair him with chief and cortana, CE, Halo 2 and halo 3 would go by much faster, or more effeciently. 343 is the only people who made every spartan "hyperlethal" anyways have a good day
@@jxstbakerproductions yeah, the only parts that really make sense are the Halo CE parts, but I think there was some errors there too. like why would captain Keyes take noble team to secure the weapons cache? clearly Keyes didn't think it was a very important or defended after all he only took a single squad there, why would he suddenly take a squad of Spartans to something he thought was only worth taking as many marines too? I left it out on my comment but that logic also applies to Miranda attempting to secure the Index, why would Miranda take the entirety of noble team when for whatever reason, she thought only taking Johnson was enough?
@@MJS-lk2ej I dunno, but i would advice watching "Ivanicoh" he has a series like this, but imo its much better.
Well, something's wrong here, even if Emile simply 'turned around', he would have still died. He was planning on stayng on the MAC and giving the Autumn a chance to leave, it was his plan for Six to escape, but not him. Just a little nit-pick i noticed.
And even with the explanation of "He just hid and he could have gotten picked up after Halo: CE", that was one of the last places that a human ship was managed to get off, The Covenant would have prioritized that location and easily overpowered that place as soon as the Autumn left.
Wasn't the reason that one had to stay behind was that the marines manning it had died? to defend the premise of the video, maybe with the full team still available Noble team was able to make it to the gun that the marines or whatever crew it was survived to that point.
That plug was too smooth 8:16
ayyy tyvm I try my best 🙏
This is a really good video idea. I’d love to see more “what if” scenarios and see how seemingly little changes can have a butterfly effect on the story and events that occur
I like thinking that Noble team died on Reach, *noble* souls were lost on Reach and even if the planet was fully destroyed their stories live on. I think a Halo Reach anniversary game would be pretty cool, and adding a different ending in so it was confirmed that Noble 6 died/survived and where Reach survived too.
Point that was kind of missed. Miranda originally sends Chief to the ship where Cortana's message is to overload its engine core. I'm not sure how big of an explosion that would cause but it does imply that brand of force would be accepted to eliminate the flood.
Why would they all survive halo 1 and 2 against the flood and covenant, why would they not raid the truth and reconciliation.
Why would spark not tell rtas the truth like he did with the arbiter.
Why would Tartarus and arbiter both die .
Why would chief still be by himself on delta
Why would the ark and halos not have reseeding protocols, wouldn’t they still have the data from the first reseeding
I was not expecting such a high price to keep Noble Team alive
Dying is gay. I'm out.- Jun
The last words he said before ditching 6 on Reach.
If we assume Chief fell into the water, which he probably doesn't because he likely wouldn't have gotten glassed on his way to Regret. If Noble team is alive I can see that entire scenario playing out differently.
What if my dad came back from getting milk and Pokémon cards
Ironic that when Noble team survives, EVERYONE else dies instead lmao
You know this could work in CE remake as a what if scenario where emile and Noble 6 become coop partners alongside linda. Similar to halo 3
Please oh please make more “what if” halo vids! By far the most interesting style of halo lore. Exploring alternate timelines in my favorite universe.
Reads title
Me: "The battle of Isolation 4 would be VERY short."
would love to see more what-if scenarios on this channel!
1 minute ago is CRAAAZY.
Good vid tho, good morning from Australia! (Its 7:59am here)
gday mate!
Jorge had the easiest opportunity to survive... his armour was fine if I remember so all he needed was for one of the regular soldiers to survive the battle to sacrifice themselves since none of them had a way out without Mjolnir.
I would play the hell out of this timeline though
But the Chief......
@@UnrulyRantLord Fuck the Chief, *EVERYONE* bro! We’re so cooked 💀
Absolutely WILD theory, the butterfly effect was crazy. Def one of my fav videos