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Welcome back, great to have you return.

This looks great, I'm looking forward to seeing the final product.

Welcome to the community, nice to have you here.

Endless supply of cake. Would you rather speak and understand French fluently, or speak and understand Spanish fluently?

Boss and Shadow Fiend joined after you had left. Edit: Edward Kenway also attended afterwards. On top of that, attendees of Bnus' Mecha March Event: Week 3 (Titanfall), also need theirs. Attendees: Jack of Harts, Yang Xiao Long, myself, and Bnus(host). Thank you.

Congrats to everyone, well played. Nice work on hosting such a big game SD.

Nice response. It's true that Chief has witnessed a lot, but he's not a Marine or an ODST, he's a Spartan-II. Spartan-IIs are trained to have almost no emotion, I don't see how he would all of a sudden feel destroyed after losing Cortana. He's lost soldiers, friends, and still continued to fight. All those you mentioned Chief had witnessed suffering and dying did not affect his performance and he continued to follow protocol, now an AI he's spent 5 years with is gone and he's not the same. It's almost as if 343i are over-doing it with the whole story and emotional part (if this is all true). The training of Spartan-IIs does not wear off and lead to them starting to get emotions again. Even aft6er all those losses he faced, he still fought professionally obeying commands. I understand that Cortana is important, but if he has gone rogue, then that's taking it too far. Disobeying Captain Del Rio's command of surrendering Cortana was fair enough, but to the point where he's all of a sudden going rogue and classified as a 'traitor' by the UNSC is just taking it too far. Keep in mind I speak of what has been speculated so far, I'm not stating that this is all true.

1. What is it that doesn't exist? 2. What make you think I'm taking this 'WAY too seriously'? 3. I'm speaking of what has been speculated so far.

Hey forum, Ever since E3 2013, we've been hearing rumours about how Chief has gone AWOL, and we now know that those rumours are true. Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 is a Spartan-II. Spartan-IIs have nothing below the best training the UNSC have to offer. They are professional soldiers, trained in many aspects. One of those aspects is loyalty. A Spartan-II would not betray the UNSC for whatever reason. After being indoctrinated, contained, and trained, they are under the influence of the UNSC and would follow every order until death. No Spartan-II would betray the UNSC for their own personal reason(s). Now we have the well know Master Chief, becoming a so-called 'traitor'. This is something that seriously bothers me because it is almost wrong. Out of all Spartans, Chief ends up leaving for his own emotions. No matter how long he fought with Cortana, he would have still let her go. He wouldn't abandon the UNSC for her. He has had longer lasting relationships with his fellow Spartan-IIs, and he would accept their death and carry on. Now maybe he's doing this because he can actually bring Cortana back unlike other dead soldiers, but this is not a legit reason. He would never go off course just because he gained an emotional attachment to Cortana. He is more professional than that, and his duty would always come first. To me it seems as if 343 have just broken Halo's lore, and have ruined the whole universe (Halo universe) all together by doing this. Am I thinking a little too extremely? No, because the Spartan-IIs' behaviour plays a vital role in the Halo universe. It's as if everything we've ever known about Spartan-IIs (Chief in this case) has been a lie. All this knowledge from books, games, comics, and so on has been burned to ashes. I believe 343 can do a good job with the gameplay, but affecting Halo's lore is something else. I personally take this far more seriously than the gameplay, because it's what makes Halo. If it were Bungie, they may never have made Chief go AWOL. Chief is far too professional to do such a thing, it just wouldn't happen. I just hope that it won't get any worse than this. There is still some time left and lots we don't know, so hopefully we'll get a better reason overall. What do you all think about this? Thanks for reading. - Spartan

This looks great, it's especially well thought out. I'd definitely keep my eye out for this every week if I played Destiny, nice work EK.

I vote Kittens...again

Sounds real interesting. I'd love to see what martial art the Spartan-IVs would be trained with. The combat could play out similarly to how Mirror's Edge's combat does. This sounds great, I hope 343 do something similar to this in a future Halo game, taking assassinations a few steps further.

I change my vote to Church.

We all need to vote together on one target, I vote Mr. Kittens. Mr. Kittens and Church are mafians.

Congrats on one year Rue, nice to have you around.

M6D Magnum. Those Semi-Armour Piercing High Explosive rounds are a must when it comes to deciding effective weaponry.

Fight starved wolves, higher chance of survival. It also depends on how many lions and wolves, and the area/surrounding environment. Would you rather win $10,000 for certain, or have a 50/50 chance of winning $200,000?