Halo 5: Guardians

Indeed. The 2s were stoic, but the 4s will gladly give a fight if the Helljumpers want one.

I expect to see many a Heljumper come out of a bar brawl with a crushed skull.

Edit: Come to think of it event eh 3's wouldn't take it well, could you imagine the fate of any Helljumper who mouthed off to Emile?

edited 19th Apr '15 4:01:59 PM by JackOLantern1337

It's gonna be even more interesting considering the large percentage of former ODSTs within the ranks of the IVs; Buck, Romeo, Palmer, DeMarco, Hoya, etc.

Also, regarding Giraud's adventures; looks like ONI might have reverse-engineered some Forerunner/Covenant camo tech.

edited 19th Apr '15 4:09:15 PM by UmbrellasWereAwesome

This one sounds human through and through. Why? It's too perfect, too uniform, such to a degree the few missing details like sound and the uniformness of the "civilians" in front are at a glance unnoticed. Covenant and especially Forerunner stuff has no such inconsistencies. Their stuff is indistinguishable from the real thing without advanced technologies pointing out its fakeness.

edited 19th Apr '15 7:45:09 PM by MajorTom

To some degree, that's the idea: nobody said it was well-done reverse-engineering. Heck, the Bubble Shield is apparently based off recovered Warrior-Servant gear, but likely inferior to the original.

Would have been content with Locke being awesome and then a message at the end instead of the obnoxious Gamestop voiceover.

Escalation 17 is out.

Looks like some Outer Colonies are still getting glassed post-war by rogue Covies.

Not surprising.

Those dicks. :/

One would think that the Insurrection would be getting goodwill from the Outer Colonies by protecting them against the Covenant instead of continuing to attack the UNSC.

Though maybe if all of the Outer Colonies are glassed then they'll stop fighting. 'Cause I bet the Inner Colonies don't want independence.

Ok how many colonies did the UNSC establish? It seems like no matter how many get set to the flame they're like cockroaches and always there will be more.

There are most likely hundreds, considering the wiki lists several dozen.

I think it was said the known human population before the war was about 25 billion. Earth was around 9 billion before the final battle. The colonies had various sizes, ranging from a few thousand to a few million. Reach was the largest (or at least one of the largest) and it topped out at 700 million. Sedra from Halo: Nightfall was only a few million and that seemed about average. So that would be quite a few colonies to be destroyed or even untouched.

Yeah, there's a few places where the Covenant were driven off and then places like Minister that escaped the Covenant's notice due to being too out of the way or small.

The Halo CE manual claimed there were over 800 human colonies. Joseph Staten contested this in Contact Harvest, claimed there were only 17, but later backtracked on a HBO forum saying the number only referred to Inner Colonies and that were numerous other outposts and planets with only small settlements on them. Later fiction has ignored the 17 figure and gone with the 800.

800 colonies with 29 billion total humans...I wonder what the total percentage of dead was after the war was over? It lasted for thirty years, and at least a few dozen colonies were glassed.

Additionally, Halsey's journal mentions that, statistically speaking, over 39 million different DNA samples were needed to find the requisite number of candidates for the Spartan-II program, and also points out that colonists had a tendency to try and avoid being listed on any official record, with the vaccination records being the closest thing the UNSC had to an accurate headcount of the Outer Colonies.

edited 22nd Apr '15 9:39:11 PM by UmbrellasWereAwesome

There's also another reason why 800 is closer to the total number of colonies. 17 lasting 30 years? With the Covenant glassing rate? Yeah, no.

If I recall, at the end of Halo 3, there were only 500 million humans left.

Um, no. That is way too small, plus a lot of colonies got bypassed when Regret went to Earth.

From the info recorded here, humanity's pre-war population was 39 billion. Post-war it was 16 billion, making 23 billion casualties. Earth's prior to its attack was 10 billion, immediately after the war it was 200 million, though that was also due to evacuations as well as deaths. It's apparently at "several billion" again according to Halo Waypoint's Twitter.

These are big numbers to wrap one's head around.

edited 24th Apr '15 6:11:39 PM by Tuckerscreator

Post-war population boom. Not just for Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex but also needing to pop out babies due to the enormous drop in population, along with spouses returning home and people getting married.

edited 24th Apr '15 6:28:41 PM by theLibrarian

Rumor has it that Kelly◊ and Linda will be in Halo 5. These turned up on Halopedia today. I need to find the source for them.

edited 26th Apr '15 11:45:57 AM by Tuckerscreator

No Fred? :(