History WMG / RedVsBlue

** An intereting point is that the Meta appears to be the collection of AIs not Maine himself, And the size difference may be explained by his armour as it is quite bulky compared to everyone elses. The Alien DNA can be supported through his mannerisms... the feral style Maine can adopt, the ability to stand up and fight after being shot in the neck. All these can point to come alien DNA. But there are other ways in which these things can be put in. Like (Even though the canonocity of the series is questionable) The Spartan III program with its painkilling affects. But he does seem very capable with that brute shot though... and the cast didn't mention weirdness because Maine was always weird and they accepted it and viewed it as unimportant when compared to everything else.

They were looking for someone to try and negotiate with the aliens, but everyone was too scared to. Then, shortly after their new infiltration specialist arrived, Tucker mistakenly believed his services were needed to punctuate the inherent innuendo. When he realized it was Donut, he was ashamed and attempted to leave. However, noticing Junior, they decided that he might make a good ambassador, and offered him a new position[[hottip:*:bow chikka bow wow]].

* His codename? "Florida".

* His codename? "Florida".

* It's possible, even, that he has found the way out that he mentioned...but that it's not the way out Command is offering. Double meanings, mistrust of authority, and hidden Xanatos Gambits are all established parts of his character.

* And his codename? "Florida".
** Unlikely, since the whole point of putting Church in Blood Gulch was to keep him ''away'' from Freelancers. Tex was only sent in because doing so fit into Commands XanatosRoulette to win the war.
*** Whelp, he wasn't Agent Florida, but Agent Florida was involved.

** It's actually heavily implied Tucker was the cause of the accident, which is where Wash's suspicions lie.

[[WMG:The Director is [[MassEffect the Illusive Man]]]]

** Also, brilliantly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] from the original series in that the Red team has the only soldiers who are actually concerned with "winning the war" - Sarge and Simmons - where the Blue team is generally apathetic to the war overall.

In episode 2 Season 11, Wash says he has a hard time believing that hundreds of well-trained crew members caused the ship to crash. I'm guessing that O'Malley or another malevolent AI fragment is still out there, and purposefully caused the crash. Whoever did it will be the antagonist for this season.

*** One note is that the books stated that the Spartan II armor was specifically designed to such a degree that the average person would be ripped to shreds if they used it (think that one poor guy in Iron Man 2 that was trying that prototype knock off). However, the Spartan IIIs which made up most of the cast in Reach were specifically a different branch of ONI trying to "mass produce" the SII project - the SII's were trained from 6 years and deployed when they'd fully matured while the SIIIs were able to use a similar age group but have them going within a few years. It isn't unreasonable to assume that other branches of ONI were trying something similar - and so it's not hard to argue that the Freelancer project falls along that timeline. Keep in mind that the SIIs were deployed for most of the 27 year war so there was plenty of time for these projects to get started.

* Why not just spartan IIIs who were poached from the program before their suicide mission?

* He might just be talking about the almighty Spartan IIs, like Master Chief. Spartan IIIs were genetically altered to impressive effects, but they were nowhere near the power of the IIs.
* Here's a thought: they're Spartan II washouts. It was mentioned that most washouts went on to work for ONI. What if Project Freelancer recruited them?

* Something that should be noted: In Halo, it was sadi that the Mjolnir armor was so heavy that if an unaltered human tried to wear it, they would literally tear themselves apart if they tried to move. The freelancers seem to lack the modifications that the Spartan-IIs had, most likely being unaltered, or having modifications closer to Spartan-IIIs. Perhaps the Freelancers use a form of armor similar to Mjolnir, but much lighter. Perhaps they Insurrectionists are trying to reverse-engineer that sort of armor. Or, going with the "Insurrectionists are actually the UNSC" theory below, perhaps the UNSC is trying to reverse-engineer that sort of armor for use with Spartan-IIIs.

The Director sent Captain Flowers to watch over Alpha, and presumably send him reports. After four years of no reports, the Director was likely wondering what happened to the Alpha. Sister explicitly stated that she was sent because Captain Flowers died. She couldn't give the real story, since the whole thing is supposed to be a coverup, so that's why she initially went to red base. She's not actually color blind, she was just trying to cover her ass since the whole red/blue thing is a sham (and it's possible nobody told her the Alpha would be on the Blue Team). She's also not that stupid, she just plays dumb as a cover, and really doesn't give a shit. It explains why somebody assigned to the Blue Team didn't have blue armor. Also note that while talking to Tex, Church said he suspected that Sister was into him. It's possible he mistook her investigating/note taking as romantic interest. As for why she didn't follow him out of Blood Gulch, she probably figured she was releived when Captain Flowers came back to life and partied. Or, if she's anything like her brother, she just BS's her reports and parties in Blood Gulch out of laziness.