Spartans United
Up to release, Halo 5’s story was billed as a hunt for the truth. Fireteam Osiris was ordered to track down the disappeared Master Chief and Blue Team and bring them back to the UNSC. It may have seemed like just an overblown marketing tactic, but it wasn’t entirely inaccurate; Chief’s unwavering loyalty to Cortana made him blind to see that Cortana had gone off the deep end and was planning on enslaving the galaxy. After being imprisoned by Cortana, Osiris managed to save Blue Team, so the only question is: where does this put them?
At the end of the game, we see Osiris and Blue Team return to Sanghelios to find Arbiter, Sarah Palmer, and Dr. Halsey. All eight Spartans – those two, Linda, Fred, Kelly, Vale, Buck, and Tanaka – are currently accounted for, and it’s doubtful that they’d bite it in the expanded universe stuff. Could we possibly see all eight of them working together as their own fireteam in comics and books? Could Halo 6 bring us full-blown 8 player co-op? If not that, could we end up having co-op with a mixed generation of Spartans? Wouldn’t that be awesome?
