How Many Spartans are Left? | Lore and Theory

[@fracture27]

There were several dozens of Spartans at the mortal reverie, most died but Vettel, Kovan, Horvath and the two that hijacked a phantom are MIA.

[@SATRNisLUV]

Are those two not the same two we see in halo infinite season 2 flying in on the phantom?

[@crota6233]

@@SATRNisLUV no those guys are Spartan Dinh and Ecklund, spartan IV headhunters who were not aboard the infinity when it departed for zeta halo

[@NBBTTxT]

I was going to say Horvath as far as we know is alive. Given our last contact with him is the audio log he leaves for chief at the end of the rubicon protocol. Kovan from the same book is alive as well. Both as of the event of infinites campaign are unaccounted for but they're not actively marked kia on any wiki and just because we haven't heard from them doesn't mean they are dead.

[@Aidan00HD]

Spartans never die....

[@hidanprime]

​@@NBBTTxTHorvath's final radio transmission was 2 days before Esparza found Chief adrift. It is extremely likely he survived to the end of Infinite's campaign. (Note that there was cut audio logs confirming the deaths of Horvath, Kovan and Vettel but Rubicon Protocol proves that the cut logs aren't canon.)

[@mekboy7403]

Most of the Spartans Branch Spartans were not on the Infinity at the time. Running operations against Created and setting up small hidden bases caused them to leave a significant amount of personnel all around. Then the operation on Reach prior to the game had them leave many Spartans and ODSTs behind to flee from the Created. We know that most of Gamma Company is still active along with an unknown number of Headhunters. Also Rosenda, Olivia and Ash.

[@Cailus3542]

If memory serves, most of Gamma became either S-IV's or went on to other positions. There was no longer a need for suicide missions after the war, and thus no need to keep Gamma together. Given the political risk if the S-III project was uncovered, it wouldn't surprise me if the Gamma S-IV's were kept separate from the other Spartans. Or, judging them to be emotionally unstable and difficult to conceal, ONI simply killed most of them. I honestly wouldn't be surprised. They were always meant to be expendable, after all.

[@admiralfishface8750]

@@Cailus3542 Where are you getting this information about the gammas? I could have sworn ONI tried to keep them away from the Spartan IV program because they didn’t want the branch to be tainted by the negativity that the old IIIs had.

[@Cailus3542]

@admiralfishface8750 Halopedia, mostly, plus some deduction. Jun (an S-III) commands the Spartan branch, so he'd know better than anyone how to handle Gamma Company. Bear in mind that in 2552, those Spartans are still children. Even in 2558, the oldest would be only nineteen. The UNSC would have to handle them extremely carefully.

[@mekboy7403]

@@Cailus3542 Many were rolled into the Spartan branch and serve alongside the IV's but some are still Navy like how Blue Team declined to joined them but at this point they are kind of an open secret and still considered III's. Chief mentioned he ran some Wargames with them prior to Infinite.

[@TheZamaron]

@@Cailus3542 They're still Spartan 3s, but yes, those of Gamma Company who managed to survive were folded in with the 4s. Remember the number simply refers to their class. SPartan 2s were childeren taken from their families, 3s were orphans of the war recruited to be made Spartans often with a desire for revenge on the COvenant, and the 4s are basicaly just mass producable SPartans often recruited from the best of other military branches as adults.

[@StaidSgtForge]

Jun is still alive, somewhere there’s a conversation between him and someone anonymous after the destruction of Laconia station. I believe there was two other training stations as well

[@minecraftmatty2]

He forgor

[@raptorjesus3894]

Jun: Dying is gay, I'm out.

[@krios7299]

Jun went on to become Commander-in-Chief of spartan operations

[@OliverStabile]

@@krios7299 I can see that

[@Gothtides]

He's just old now

[@GuyverTron]

Hey there, love the channel but I think you overlooked some Spartans. Thomas Horvath is still alive. He’s wandering the surface of Zeta looking for survivors away from Banished territory. Also the Alpha 9 squad had five members after Gretchen joined Buck, Romeo, Mickey (that traitorous bastard) and Dutch and also there’s Tom-B292 and Lucy-B091 at Trevelyan on Onyx and Jun-A266 who’s believed to have survived Laconia Station. And don’t forget Ferret team, Olivia-G291 and Ash-G099 on the Ark.

[@ClericOfPholtus]

Wait when did more Spartans get on the Ark after Spirit of Fire's arrival?

[@GuyverTron]

@@ClericOfPholtus happens in the books. Ferret team makes a cameo appearance in Shadows of Reach and take the portal to the ark with the Keepers group and their story continues in Divine Wind.

[@Brodezzzz]

I believe Jun is still alive also

[@ClericOfPholtus]

@@Brodezzzz Head of the SIV program recruitment in fact He had a hard time getting Buck to join

[@toothlesstaco2685]

Also Jun from Reach, he left with the Piller of Autumn

[@thewerdna]

Actually Spartan Horvath seems to still be alive. Last we heard of him was from a recording two days prior to Chief's recovery and we never find his body.

[@addisonbagwell6151]

You forgot to mention Laconia’s sister stations who haven’t been confirmed destroyed. Naxos and Virgo stations who each had their own compliment of Spartan-IV’s.

[@diosbatman]

And Anvil station

[@Nara.Shikamaru]

He forgot to mention the two remaining Ferret Team members. Also there’s still the subject of the fourth Spartan III class, Delta Company. They were on route to a training facility when Reach fell and we don’t know if their training was ever finished.

[@martinvicktor]

​@Nara.Shikamaru not sure cause they never arrived before Onyx returned to been a shield world, but i would like to think they were still trained, its that or they weren't due to the transition to S4 and they would have been children when the war had just ended

[@Jiub_SN]

Tbh spartan-IV's shouldn't be called Spartans. IIs and IIIs are still leagues above them

[@IamDude2]

@@Jiub_SNeh, III’s are nowhere near IV’s, III’s are barely better than the average soldier, IV’s are similar to II’s but not quite

[@TheSeanSpillane]

7:25 Thomas Horvath wasn't found KIA by the Master Chief. Unless you know something I don't? Last I understood, Horvath was on another section of Zeta entirely to the events occurring in Halo Infinite. Nina Kovan's status is also indiscriminate, as intended by Kelly Gay. 343i originally planned to kill them via audio logs, but she requested they be pulled so she could expand on their fates. My information could be outdated, but I'd be interested in knowing where their fates are learned.

[@crota6233]

Yeah I was gonna say this, at the end of the book they are separated a mere few days before chief reappears. Their bodies are in forge but are not actually in the campaign.

[@insertnamehere5417]

He mistook Soreil for Horvath

[@GHOSTY_ON_TOP]

Horvath is fire

[@thewerdna]

In fact the last audio log from Horvath was dated two days before chief wakes up, indicating he at least is still alive

[@Hadgerz]

I don't know what Installation was smoking when he said Horvath was dead. Everyone knows he isn't. And last we heard of Kovan, Bender and Dimik (both marines not spartans), they were going to stage an all-in assault the Tower. By the time the Chief gets to the tower....well, either their attack didn't go so well, or they hadn't yet done it as of the time of the Infinite campaign - in which case they are still alive and are aware the Chief is back. 343 is sitting on a G O L D M I N E of campaign content that they simply aren't willing to pay people to develop. Grinding out those cheap seasonal battlepasses seems more what they care about. Shame.

[@gamedammeister2934]

Most likely Palmer is also still alive. Her VA Jennifer Hale confirmed that she recorded for Palmer for Infinite, but we never hear her in the game. I imagine Palmer, Lasky, Halsey, and the others are for either an expansion or sequel.

[@Matt-md5yt]

or for some AI thing in Forge

[@xpraimfayax4504]

I agree palmer,team Osiris, and blue team are atleast alive still

[@ImperialGuardsman2]

If memory serves, Infinite won't be getting any story updates.

[@JamesJome123]

Sadly, no campaign DLC, damn you 343, but still, there’s most likely hundreds if not thousands of Spartans, since multiplayer is canon, and always has been in some way, there’s Spartans undergoing training as Infinite is taking place. If we’re talking Spartan II’s, then I’ve got nothing, I only know that Blue and Red team are alive, and that’s it.

[@kiwikemist]

We're never getting an expansion lol

[@Manofsteelxkr]

Anyone else read Rubicon Protocol? I think a survival game as a Spartan IV after crash landing from Infinity would be sweet. A customizable Spartan IV searching and rescuing survivors while performing Guerilla warfare with the Banished and having to loot crash sites and dead bodies for ammo, weapons, armor, mods, etc. would be an awesome survival game. At the end, you team up with Chief

[@KurtT-051]

Pretty sure my old left and right hands are still out there kicking. Any status update on those two would be greatly appreciated.

[@TheCommssioner]

Tom and Lucy are on Onxy inside the shield world

[@donovansughrue708]

Tom B292 and Lucy B091 are stationed at ONI RF Travelyon as of early 2560.

[@protozoanpro]

Kurt Ambrose, I salute you

[@thizzmonkey7846]

Sorry Kurt no sit rep yet if I find them You’ll be the first one to know sir. spartan Seamus out.

[@loneflamescale326]

i thought kurt spartan 051 died detonating some type of bomb or nuke on a covenant war ship as 2 hunters stood beside him against a sanghelil zealot while he bought enough time to let the other spartans retreat to safety while he detonated the bomb

[@chrisgrin6915]

There are several inconsistencies in this video, the most obvious being that only 2 Spartans escaped reach. The 2 he said were correct, but Jun also escaped.

[@kaifairclough211]

I was waiting for him to say Jun the whole time but he never mentioned him

[@daedalus6433]

@@kaifairclough211 Yeah, he would be correct if he said SPARTAN-IIs

[@davidbeauchemin1840]

@@daedalus6433 he said right after that S-IIIs were still classified, making Jun's survival a secret. So as far as people involved with installation 04 knew, Master Chief was the last Spartan.

[@reecey1504]

We all fail. We all make mistakes. It’s what makes us human.

[@obiwankenobi5769]

Jun is so stealthy that even the narrator forgot

[@Squirtsock]

I believe the ferret team with Lopez has 3 Spartan 3 gammas. One died (MIA) I believe it was mark. The other 2 (Olivia and Ash) r alive. Also if I’m not mistaken there is omega team.(Leon,Robert and august) then there’s the random Spartan 3s that have no company or r head hunters( hazel, Kevin, rosenda, Lucy ,thom, Owen and Spartan G059) then all the Cat-2 personnel that we have no ideal about but where nvr confirmed to be KIA.

[@MichaelBoumanPegasus4x4]

Correct. UNSC Sprit Of Fire recovered Ferret team in one of the books, Mark was KIA.

[@fracture27]

What Michael Bouman said. At the end of Divine Wind, the remaining Ferrets join the surviving spirit of fire crew.

[@killer13324]

@@MichaelBoumanPegasus4x4 which book? i've fallen behind.

[@Legendary-557]

Omega team are stuck in cryo on the Spirit i believe. And im pretty sure Rosenda was on Reach when It fell, cause she was Émile's replacement for if they were facing off against Insurrectionists.

[@aleximuslopez4028]

I believe the numbers for Spartan IIs and IIIs remained mostly the same. I feel like 343 wouldn't do another black team situation and kill off those we love so simply again. As for the 4s, I'm hopeful because in bad blood, it looks like the spartans were already leaving the station before it was destroyed, and we know Jun made it off. Then there were 2 other stations Naxos and Virgo, the academy, Anvil stations where spartans and elites trained, probably the important groups like majestic and crimson and hopefully other survivors.

[@xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhu]

off-screen deaths are kind of their thing though

[@mj3541]

Don’t put it past them

[@Iridescent_Astraea]

@@mj3541 Until it is written, no reason to believe it. Plus, Infinity, the spartan branch, the !V's, were all things they put forth and continue to show up in multiplayer in each recurring game. To just mince it all to up the stakes would be lame. Naw, I imagine that with a whole branch but shaky UNSC, there's probably hundreds scattered around.

[@bobthebuilder1360]

Well even if they are all dead halo infinite let’s u know that this black lady is ur trainer sooo more can be trained

[@thegodinme83]

I think there’s still plenty of Spartans left up to the 1000s or 1500 or even 2000 the Spartans on infinity were only a fraction of them compared to the ones out in the galaxy

[@an_empty_warhead8669]

Only two classes of Spartan-IV have been confirmed both numbering at about 350. No classes were confirmed after the death of captain O’day in new blood. The destruction of the infinity and Laconia station(I think that’s how it’s spelled) should account for most of them

[@aleximuslopez4028]

​@an_empty_warhead8669 we do know that classes kept continuing since new spartans were being pumped out aft those dates.

[@dizzypro4974]

Isn't the story of the Infinite multiplayer set after the campaign? We're supposedly in a spartan academy so there's at least 24 spartans there (enough to fill up one BTB lobby) plus agryna. (My point being that it being an academy implies to me thet they're making new Spartans, not just having 7 randos hanging out with agryna)

[@thegodinme83]

@@an_empty_warhead8669 doubt it as the number kept growing after 350 and those were the ones who were counted for there plenty other Spartans that aren’t mention yet in the lore including the 3s also not to mention most Spartans 4s who were on infinty wasn’t even on infinity as they were doing operations and setting up bases to fight the guardian and there’s not really much saying infity fell either so there still more

[@thegodinme83]

@@dizzypro4974 there’s rumors that there even more that weren’t seen which is not surprising as new Spartan IVs keeps growing everyday that’s why it’s hard to believe there’s 22 Spartans left when a lot of the Spartans haven’t even made it to the lore yet

[@sithlord2225]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Halsey in the audio logs you collect in the game mention that Blue Team is away on a mission while the Infinity was on its mission?

[@lukakirasic8358]

Yeah I'm pretty sure you are correct. I'm like 99% sure there is an audio log which says blue team wasn't abroad the infinity and were instead with halsey

[@xpraimfayax4504]

Blue team and Osiris are more than likely alive and probably palmer too

[@domrisi7569]

that last sentence was so hard. “But when it comes to humanities future and fighting against extinction let’s be honest you only really need the chief”

[@clearlywrong6520]

Of the S-IIs, there is at least Maria, all of the original Blue Team sans Sam, Red Team, Jai, Naomi, Leon, Robert, August, Adriana, and Michael. And this is all the S-IIs who managed to successfully undergo augmentation. There's a handful that were never clarified and then there's Soren, Serin, Kirk, Musa, Cassandra, and Fhajad who are either serving in some different capacity or just aren't in combat at all. I might've missed a few throughout this list. In total, there are at least 20 of the original 150 chosen for the program that are still alive. Of the S-IIIs, they had a much higher mortality rate due to how the program was made specifically to make a branch of much more expendable Spartans compared to their S-II counterparts. Operation: PROMETHEUS, Operation: TORPEDO, and the Fall of Reach was largely responsible for the deaths of the first two companies. To my knowledge, there's Jun, Lucy, Tom, Rosenda, and Hazel from Alpha and Beta companies. I don't know enough about Gamma Company as they've largely flown under 343i's radar, as are Delta Company and the Headhunters are an unknown. I assume even under the pressure of the Created and the Banished, the S-IVs still see active recruitment because of how the program works. Though they still make up a minority of the total UNSC ground infantry, I still assume they're in the multiple hundreds.

[@pugwash1]

We’ll for gamma company there’s 2 Olivia g291 and ash g099 part of their own group called the ferrets after the events of shadows of reach and divine wind their with red team on the ark

[@RookBone]

​@@pugwash1the ferrets were the survivors of the last group of gamma's that went for extra training as they were supposedly the best of gamma company (if I recall correctly, it's been a while since I read ghosts of onyx). There's still about 300 of them that went through training and augmentation that we haven't heard from since. Last time they were mentioned was in last light with ONI basically just saying they needed to be careful with them because of their unique augmentations. It's implied that they wanted to retire those spartans for fear that they would be too unstable, however the galaxy was a much more peaceful place at the time. With the created uprising and rising banished threat perhaps now is a better time than ever to get some of the best spartans (according to Kurt-051) back on the front lines. It was also confirmed that they had the next batch of 3s ready for training before onyx became unavailable. We have not seen them mentioned anywhere else since. It's possible that with both the training facility and the instructor gone that Delta company was cancelled but it's also quite possible they were trained elsewhere, we simply don't know. There could be around 600 spartan IIIs still kicking across the galaxy that we just haven't seen yet.

[@Rader2A]

Delta Company most likely never received training due to Spartan 4’s being a thing around that time.

[@RookBone]

@@Rader2A there was only about two months between kurt-051s death and the first spartan 4s. Had Kurt not died the 3s would have still been training at the same time as the 4s so it's still possible they chose another location and instructor for Delta company despite the unavailability of Onyx and Kurt-051

[@hughtravis]

We don’t know for sure how many Spartans confirmed are at the academy but considering overall language describing the academy, the simulation total for BTB being 24, the Spartans you see in the background in customization menus and on the pelican in the intro, the Spartans in the multiplayer trailer, there has to be a substantial amount. Since multiplayer takes place after the campaign with chief, it’s been my opinion the academy Spartans (you) should be graduating from training and being sent out on actual operations canonically, maybe including a reworked version of the original campaign map and other locations

[@captain_arbiter3167]

In the Saturn Devouring His Son short story 343 just released we know of Fireteam Leviathan who all perished to the flood at Site 22. It would be safe to say there are a few spartan fireteams floating around the UNSC

[@marranin007]

Saturn devouring his son takes place in 2556 i believe, a year before halo 4 took place

[@ruthlesstech]

@@marranin007 Ture but I understand what he is saying, If a random frigate patorling mining facility had a team of spartans at least other will to.

[@Paintsecretions]

7:29 Correction: It was Sorel, not Horvath that was found by Chief. Horvath could still be out there.

[@TCRP117]

Fantastic video once again man. Keep up the great work! To the best of my recollection: 4 additional Spart III's: Lucy-B091 and Tom-B292 - Still on Onyx as far as we are aware. Ash-G099 and Olivia-G291 - Still in active service as Ferrets. 2 additional Spartan IV's: Thomas Hovath - Actively searching for survivors of the Infinity shortly prior to the Chief's thawing. Nina Kovan - Like Hovath, no confirmation of KIA although what they're doing is more nebulous.

[@thewerdna]

Two that were missed are Ash and Olivia, two Spartan IIIs from Gamma Company. Last we saw, they were on the Ark and had just linked up with the Spirit of Fire. Tom and Lucy of Spartan III Beta company are also still alive, having been inside the Onyx shield world when the created conflict happened.

[@houndsofmeath3376]

What media has ash and Olivia linking with the spirit of fire ? I don't remember reading that anywhere?

[@wyattbhoffman]

@@houndsofmeath3376Halo Divine Wind

[@thewerdna]

@@houndsofmeath3376 one of the more recent books, Divine Wind, they end up getting saved by Red Team at the end of the book (the 3ed Spartan with them, Mark, sadly dies before a Red Team's save). Last chapter has them on board the Spirit of Fire

[@ruthlesstech]

I think Tom and Lucy had to have, escaped because in the book Halsey was there and Halsey obviously got out some how.

[@nartaga1624]

I don't care if they killed Locke (in fact I like that idea), but if they killed Blue team or Buck that sucks

[@RebelOfTheNorm242]

Hmmm I wonder why that may be

[@RiddleAnim]

@centralintelligenceagency2815 Because he's functionally an invasive OC made to be the protagonist of Halo 5 Guardians,and the developers are on record saying that they had no idea who John 117 was,and why he was such a big deal. Effectively an intentional Chief replacement without knowing what they were replacing,showing a complete lack of respect for the property they were supposed to be the stewards of.

[@remi2317]

I think blue team wasn't on the Infinity

[@unboxing_legend7708]

the fact in 2 short stories now, spartans have been killed off with such ease. one being black team and the other being spartans who lost to the flood and infected is so cheap imo. spartans are known to mostly be tough soldiers and never die to the flood. if they wanted to kill off spartans to the flood, they shouldve gave them far more significance and a fighting chance to survive.

[@mantictassadar2931]

I think in the infinite codex you find, two Spartans hijacked a banished transportand flew off on a mission

[@Kawasaki10rr]

So they basically have close to the same numbers of Spartans they had when they only had the Spartan 2s

[@EpsilonO17]

In some way, I love the fact that there are few spartan left, and the fact that we are part of the few that are still active, because it means that humanity has to use something else to fight than just super soldiers. Like : ODST’s, more advanced gear for marines… But it also means that we could be in the same team as chief !

[@stuperman117]

In a way, Chief is one of the last 'True' spartans, the one the propaganda machine 'loves' to show off. And in regards to his story, yeah, easy enough to see. He's probably the reason why so many sought to become Spartan 4's, to get even a fraction of what he did, because damn it, Humanity needed a win like that. But seeing so many fall, even Project Orions? Once again, we are seeing Chief being that 'last spartan standing' whether we like it or not. Not because everyone else is weak or pathetic etc, even Spartan 4's can absolutely ruin anyone's day. It's just that Chief somehow keeps on trucking along, for good or ill. It'll be a sad day when chief is finally marked as MIA, either due to retirement.. Or him finally following along in his brothers and sisters footsteps. Even if there isn't too many spartans left, they'll somehow return, maybe not as insane as we see for what the Spartan 3's and 4's were, but still as a bastion for what Humanity could achieve and still achieve. I just hope that when it comes to Chief's final mission, it's the bang that he deserves.

[@SchizmKing]

I'd hate to see Chief die. However if there were ever to be a replacement, it should've been Noble 6... I actually felt that Team Noble should've been KIA on paper only but still around doing the missions that nobody could. Or want. Let Chief be the hero. But when you need clandestine things done. You have noble. Such a missed opportunity 😅

[@stuperman117]

@@SchizmKing Noble is absolutely beyond a doubt dead. There's no way, after not only 4 days hard fighting, with gear and weapons running low, and with the injuries that he sustained by the time we all got that infamous 'survive' section.. However, there's other potential characters that could take the torch. Jerome? Fred? Who knows? Maybe it'll be 'our' spartan who takes that torch.

[@wet_weather_imp]

@@SchizmKing Jerome is my go to to replace Chief (if it ever happened)

[@yoshug7041]

I would say that all the spartan 2s in the their original green Mjolnir armor are the "true Spartans" due to them being known and shown to the be savior of humanity. And to be honest the old spartan 2 mjolnir is the face of halo. I hate how the rest of blue team and the spartan 4s look in Halo 4/5. This is why I like red team from Halo wars because they still keep that original spartan 2 look due to their old armor.

[@stuperman117]

@@yoshug7041 Ironically, Red Team is washouts from the augmentations. Which is impressive in that while stuck with not only heavily outdated gear (Mk 4 without shields), but that they had by the time of Halo Wars 1, just recently been brought from whatever fuckery the augmentations had done to their bodies to being back to looking like humans. (I could also be heavily wrong on this, but the concept of 3 Spartan 2s who were washouts effectively and absolutely still kicking ass? God damn that's awesome) I don't mind to a degree certain Halo 4/5 spartan armor designs, especially in the context of both further experiments of the armor platform itself, but as mass production quality tiers of armor. That being said.. There has never been more stinkers of armor than in Halo 5 especially. I also kinda dislike and sorta like Halo 5's rendition of Blue Team's armor.. To a degree. As for Mk V and Mk VI being the face of the way people see Spartans? That's fair and a very good point. It's why Chief stands out the way he does, as an excellent propaganda tool, and as a beacon of hope. And if anything, we could look at halo CE to 3 to be the UNSC 'propaganda' sorta things, on why the covenant war went the way it did.

[@CodyHomes]

About 22 Spartans still alive who survived the Covenant UNSC and Rebellion Wars. If they spit up into squads of 3 that's 7 squads and a lone Master Chief.

[@EZEnforcer]

As far as I'm aware, these are the other Spartans that should still be active that weren't mentioned. Spartan 2's: Spartan Leon 011 (Omega Team) Spartan Robert 025 (Omega Team) Spartan August 099 (Omega Team) Spartan Maria 062 (Retired) Spartan Osman 019 (Head of ONI)(Sequestered away along with Hood by BB during Created uprising). Spartan 3's: Spartan Hazel A302 (ONI) Spartan Lucy B091 (Currently locked in Onyx Shield World) Spartan Tom B292 (Currently locked in Onyx Shield World) Spartan Owen B096 (ONI) Spartan Oliva G291 (Currently on the Ark) Spartan Ash G099 (Currently on the Ark) I always thought it was weird that there would have been any Spartans on the station when it blew up. When Buck and company broke Mickey out of the prison there, Buck communicated to spartan Junn that Leonidas was compromised. I would expect him to evac everyone on that station before it blew up. (This is mentioned in the Novel Bad Blood).

[@Wizard_Pepsi]

Don't forget Spartan Jun A266, the only remaining member of Noble Team. Though he's now Chief of Staff of Spartan Operations, so technically not a Spartan but also technically still a Spartan? There is also some dialogue which hints that he survived the destruction of the training facility and was making plans for a continuation of operations at the Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science, so he's most likely one of the instructors in the Infinite Multiplayer Tutorial.

[@EZEnforcer]

@@Wizard_Pepsi I hadn't seen that. That's good to know. I didn't include him because I wasn't sure if he had made it off the station or not. I'd be nice to have Jun still kicking around out there.

[@GlockShock]

I love me my Omega Team

[@CaptainDJ_VT]

There are also the Ferrets, Ashe and Olivia, on the Ark along with Red Team. Also, I didn't remember until I bought his boots, but Spartan Horvath is still kicking up Forerunner dust on Installation 07. Here's hoping we get him along with Blue Team in an upcoming title!

[@Comet_373]

And omega team with red team

[@Unchainedful]

Something to note too is by canon, confirmed by 343 themselves, that your multiplayer spartan in Infinite is is either a spartan 2,3, or 4 based on whichever you chose them to be. By canon I chose my spartan to be a spartan 2, so Masterchief is not the last spartan 2, there are as many spartan 2,3 and 4’s as there are as people who identify as them. *The more you know*

[@jackspicer5261]

Really?…..that’s interesting. Is that based on the armor cores or something??

[@limymage9186]

I believe 343 canonized i love bees so we actually have a few confirmed spartan 1s As for confirmed still living spartans there are additionally 2 spartan 3s from gamma company who are currently in active service aboard the spirit of fire that followed the keepers of one freedom to the ark in the events of shadows of reach. There were originally 3 spartans in their team but 1 was killed by a prelate who is still present on the ark

[@slimjames1917]

Wasn’t it confirmed that each multiplayer spartan was cannon ? If you take the number of active players wouldn’t that make it far higher

[@harutothefriendlyodst7639]

so atleast 18,000 (judging off it's peak)

[@TexasDinoHunter]

Spartans Kovan and Horvath are MIA on zeta halo, with Kovan having to ditch her armor due to damage and fighting the Banished in small “hit-and-run” operations. While Horvath was last seen in a mountainous area wounded. I think it would be cool to see one if not both of these Spartans make a physical appearance in a future campaign assisting the Chief.

[@Real_Halo_MC]

Don't forget Horvath is still alive in the last audio log, which was recorded ~5 days before Infinite starts! As well as Ash and Olivia are on the Ark with Red Team now after Divine Wind Also, were some Spartan IV's not trapped on Reach after Shadows of Reach?

[@Pine_Willow]

This was actually really good i didnt think id he interested but i thoroughly enjoyed that and the fact that there's only a couple dozen spartans left is crazy itd be great if they gave us a odst game thats genuinely scary and bleak

[@lkmaxis2678]

The three Spartan II washouts from Omega squad. They were inactive until Jerome upgraded their armor

[@jasonbesinger6499]

You said in the video that only 2 made it off reach, Chief and Linda, but didn’t June get off of Reach? I thought he evacuated

[@Rcurran13]

He did, yes.

[@carsonbode6640]

Does Serin-019 count? She washed out fairly early and was rerouted to officer training around the time the other Spartan-II candidates were undergoing their skeletal enhancements. She was in charge of ONI, but is currently in hiding.

[@kylershahalami6453]

Unless she was in Australia when the Guardians nuked Sydney

[@unloyal4847]

I feel like blue team with chief would have slapped Atriox silly if they were together so them being not there could have meant that they were sent off somewhere.

[@GenericChaos]

always love a post from 00. Keep it up my man! Your content is the best on the platform

[@Tribalwerewolf]

All I have to say is no matter how many Spartans they produce the true Spartans will always be the Spartan IIs. Love the videos man. Edit: thanks for all the likes guys.

[@kcdodger]

Objectively incorrect.

[@xeno.protocol]

The threes have very similar training as well. Not to mention in GoO they seem to be the more blindly aggressive as well.

[@bable6314]

The threes have arguably superior augmentations, and definitely superior training. During the war, they had inferior equipment and inferior experience, but both of those have been rectified by 2560. The threes are what the Spartans were always meant to be.

[@m.v.a.l7669]

Nah, if we were to become Spartans we would realistically be 4's ourselves. They are strong, effective and the best of the best

[@gavinfreenone6626]

I'd say two's and threes. Threes at least uphold the image of what's expected of a Spartan. Fours... Maybe a select few, unfortunately. They just aren't as interesting by comparison.

[@Spartan_803]

Spartans were nerfed to hell in Halo Infinite. In Halo 4, Spartans were actually powerful and able to not immediately die to teleporting murder robots. In Halo 5, Spartans were made stronger and given armor abilities.

[@The_succ_of_87]

You forgot one spartan that as far as I'm aware wasn't killed in a book nor off screen, and they would be Noble 3/A266/Jun, you did not mention how he was the only survivor of Noble team and escorted Halsey off planet and he avoided sharing the same fate as the rest. On a unrelated note I noticed you didn't mention that Linda was revitialized and is the tan colored spartan on Blue team in Halo 5

[@darkshadowking7346]

ok in books and lore that I've seen we know there used to be a facility to train Spartans in space destroyed by AI loyal to Cortana. Then there's the multiplayer where its spartan training. Safe to say there are dozens of Spartans running around. Now if we limit it to gen 1-3. 20 or so max because new Spartans are gen 4 or 5 therefore Spartans are still being trained and created.

[@kreamsupreme2935]

5:50 didn’t Jun escape reach to the knowledge of everyone?

[@Scrambledggman]

real

[@the_SolLoser]

I believe 3 more members from the Spartan IIIs are still active: Mark, Tom, and Lucy. I think i remember they were with a Spartan II, as well. Last I heard of them they were running an undercover op on Gao, i think. Details are fuzzy - it's been a long time since i read that book. Did you mention Naomi-010 of Kilo-5 and Gold Team? And does Serin Osman count? I think she does.

[@chipsdubbo5.56]

Your videos are the best brother!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@Goldeggz71]

The 5.8367183 best billion I see in multiplayer be like:

[@med5674]

I’m still hoping that the remaining members of Noble team (Jun and Rosenda) survived the created conflict simply because it would open the possibility of a new noble team being formed with maybe Lucy and Tom of Beta company.

[@kuurooii9350]

Sorel was found KIA not horvath whilst being transported to another part of the ring due to the ring being damaged and randomly transporting him. and Kovan is also currently alive on the ring with the survivors of the reverie

[@mydnitekobra3385]

The Spartan killers actually just stripped Locke of his armor and let him run. You can hear a grunt talking about him at some point in the game, I can't remember when lmao

[@Jesarot]

No. Cause the Spartans on the Spirt of Fire are still out there. And probably on their way to add cheif in defeating Anthrosacs

[@Talex-td6xf]

As far as I'm aware, Noble team were all Spartans 3's, and all, besides Jun-A266, died on Reach. As far as I was aware, Jun was still alive, I thin k he was tasked with training Spartan 4's, not sure where, but she should still be alive.

[@palosalpha117]

Not all, jorge was a spartan 2 that got recruited into noble team

[@freeeze49]

Spartan 1 in lore Within the expansive Halo lore, two Spartan-Is have received notable attention. The first is the iconic Sergeant Major Avery Junior Johnson, a beloved character within the series. The second is the grandfather of Rion Forge, whose background and narrative are thoughtfully explored in the novel "Halo: Smoke and Shadow." Missed Spartans It's worth mentioning a few additional surviving Spartans you’ve missed. Tom and Lucy exist within the slipspace bubble of Onyx. Furthermore, among the members of the ferret team, you'll also discover the characters Olivia and Mark are still around as well.

[@da_mitchello2815]

Jun also survived the fall of reach, he took Cortana from Six and went aboard the pillar of autumn via pelican

[@abduckion]

I was looking for this comment. how could he forget this. jun actually trains all the spartan IVs

[@caseypayne5138]

Isn’t the whole point of the Infinite Multiplayer storyline that the Spartan branch has started up a new training facility at an old ONI black site because of Laconia station getting destroyed?

[@playthreetwo]

just paused at 0:28 and i already know the answer for around just under half. 10,547 24-hour peak. 272,586 all-time peak 2 years ago, 5,961 spartans right now.

[@blackwingz55]

The question should be how many spartans there was and then how many are still active?

[@cosmic_twin769]

Fun fact about infinite, in one way odsts do show up. When cheif is first in the pelicans and they scan iff tags they shows different icons on the tags before showing deceased, some of them had helljumper symbols which meant they were dead odsts 9:09

[@asimovstarling8806]

I'd love to see footage of all the cosplays from the recent convention, I wasn't able to attend. I saw my first halo related cosplayer this past April at Sakura Con in Seattle, and that was an ODST. That was also my first attendance of a convention. Sharing knowledge and construction techniques is how we cosplayers make our costumes better.

[@k.ladmusic]

5:50 you talk about how linda and MC were the only Spartans to leave reach but Jun left too and ended up on Laconia Station which was blown up by Cortana but was never confirmed if he was present at the time of the explosion or if he was off station

[@TheCommssioner]

The Spartan 3s of gamma company the "ferrets" Olivia and Ash are on the ark with Red team

[@sadswolf936]

Correct me if I’m wrong but I do believe that the Spartans of Omega team are still active aboard the spirit of fire

[@DarkJediHunter117]

Spartan Locke and Palmer are still unaccounted for. They were both on Zera Halo and Hyperius took Locke's helmet as a battle trophy, but its implied that it went down similar to how Atriox thought he killed Chief, but managed to survive.

[@declancain2988]

I would like to note that Jerome and Red Team didn't actually die but their bodies did still reject augmentations so they did get messed up. Due to them not..dying they were able to be rehabilitated, take the augmentations again and be released into active duty roughly the same time as Master Chief. Although some sources vary there are those that say that Jerome and Red Team were also on Reach but got off some time beofre its fall. As well as Omega Team who is also on the Spirit of Fire is alive so yeah there is that.

[@floppyglot]

luck was the defining feature Cortana chose Chief for after all

[@jamestkirk9165]

Last I checked, Kovan and Horvath were still alive as of the end of The Rubicon Protocol. Unless there was an update about their status elsewhere

[@Noseylemon]

I could be dead wrong but fireteam omega is presumably still active, they were on Arcadia in halo wars 1 and I don’t know what the deal is with them

[@jameshinderliter9037]

Just checked online, idk if anyone mentioned it but apparently if you are wearing the skull that gives extra dialogue, the brute with locke’s armor will reveal that he didn’t kill Locke, just sent him packing as a warning after defeating him. So apparently there’s a good chance Locke is alive.

[@RucaYT]

June(Noble 3) made it off Reach and is a recruitor for the Spartan 4 program, the entire Gamma Company of Spartan 3s are all in cryo, so while they aren't in active duty, they are still alive and are found and fielded sever years later, bringing the total number of Spartan 3s left up to 312

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

I haven't yet watched the whole video, but seeing as you said you wouldn't be covering this, I decided to do my own little analysis. How many Spartans have there ever been (at least in the existing lore, as more may be made in the series' future)? I would say around 1300 to 2000. A very small amount of Orions. 75 S-IIs if you count them as soon as they are conscripted, probably around 35-45 if you count them when they get the armor as being true Spartans. 930 confirmed S-IIIs, a potential 300-ish more with Delta Company, but I don't know if they ever went through training as the events of Ghosts of Onyx happened while their trainers were getting the training grounds ready for their arrival. They may have been returned to the normal human population (pure speculation from me). A few hundred S-IVs, probably 400-800 (the number is not listed in lore as far as I'm aware). This obviously isn't an accurate number, but it is as close as I can get with what I know. I don't know everything about the subject, but I definitely would have heard of it if a major amount of Spartans existed, so I feel comfortable with the 1300-2000 figure.

[@bryanlowe3346]

I love how he narrates "Okay straight away" at the 10:02 mark 🤨🤨

[@spartans122ouellette3]

To be honest there is another group that you did forget that works alongside red team and that would be called Omega team that was technically serviced by at least 7 to 8 other Spartans in reality there was about 10 Spartans and total on Spirit of Fire only three were actively being used while the others were more likely dealing with other situations on the ship to be honest a lot of people do actually forget about fireteam Omega team

[@_Xerota_]

Fireteam Omega from Halo Wars 2

[@SladeIndominus]

Jun of noble team was confirmed to be aboard the station that exploded woth the 70 something spartans. A lore snippet in the halo infinite's menu confirmed him to have survived the explosion.

[@horus1074]

Also the spartans of Fire Team Omega should also be alive, I guess

[@renton0915]

Pretty Jun escaped with the rest of the folks from Laconia.

[@an_empty_warhead8669]

Most of S-III Gamma company should still be serving so that’s an additional roughly 300

[@streaming_mit_nino7945]

Im not sure if i overheard it, but you might have forgott the Class II of the Spartan II. Bungie never mentioned a real Number here on purpose so that they can create some more surviving spartans für the Books etc. which couldn fit into the 1st class.

[@darkmethods9149]

Ash-G099 and Olivia-G291 were both alive in 2559 (Infinite takes place in 2560) so they are still out there but on the Ark. Also Tom-B292 and Lucy-B091 were both relatively safe on the shield world of Trevelyan (Onyx) in 2558 and were out of the reach of Cortana at that time so should be considered still active.

[@TheSuitMusicOfficial]

Well. Add Project Freelancer in the mix since they Coexist with UNSC. So- Carolina and Wash are Active/Rogue, and there are 33 more agents that are considered MIA for the sole reason that they've never had screentime, the Triplets aren't considered dead they're MIA even though they were forgotten, but they still count. Technically speaking 5 Agents are still alive, but 33 are MIA, take away the ones from Temples room, so that leaves you off with 22-25 agents that are actually MIA and probably are living normal lives after the project got shut down.

[@s-1348]

Jun, ash, Olivia, Tom, Lucy and gamma team are alive also

[@s-1348]

Omega*

[@zombiekillerr9764]

Blue Team: MIA but possibly still alive. Location: Unknown, Last known location, Planet Reach. Red Team: Active, Location: The Ark Gray Team: Active. Location: Unknown/classified. Fire-Team Majestic: Missing in Action/Killed in Action. Location: Halo Ring Instalation Zeta. (Halo Infinite) Foreteam Crimson: MIA/KIA Location: UNSC Infinity, Presumed Lost with All hands. Fire-Team Osirus: Missing in Action, Presumed killed in Action. Location: UNSC Infinity/Zeta Halo.

[@ryankaufman8788]

I already saw somebody mention this but they talked about other teams and Spartans as well, so I wanted to focus on this one team. Fireteam omega is confirmed to still be alive and in active service as of halo wars 2. Since there has been no followup or additional comments, I think it would be safe to assume they are still alive and active until someone confirms the contrary

[@chayschnee957]

There is one Spartan II Team that was Forgotten, Spartan Group Omega (Omega Team) S-011 Leon S-025 Robert S-099 August And 3 unamed Spartan II if we're talking about the Halo Wars 1 and 2

[@anotherfriendlyshikikan6960]

What would be cool is someone going around Zeta Halo and the graveyard around Zeta Halo searching and confirming the death of Spartans. This would kinda be like ODST where we investigate clues like the rookie but working for ONI and there would be two types of gameplay. The more grounded and possible stealth as the ONI agent and the normal spartan gameplay as we relive how some spartans died. This could be one way to explain how Locke died without putting it into a side cutscene or a book. We wouldn’t find all the dead spartans, but we would find a lot more than ONI had estimated.

[@palosalpha117]

“Die? Didn’t you know? Spartans never die.” Spartan II 051 Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose of the SPARTAN III’s, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

[@duran4689]

Jesus this spartan lore just keeps goin on. Glad to see halo fans be passionate and informed on all this, I need to catch up on all this

[@loafspartan6357]

This video was so well put together and made! I’m subbing!

[@matttiberius1900]

I'm fairly certain that George survived Reach too. It wasn't a bomb he set off, it was an engine that teleported them to random coordinates. Even if it was vented to space he was still i side the corevette that had life support. He's just stranded somewhere. The only reason we thi k he's dead is because Carter said he died thinking he'd saved the planet.

[@CommanderDevissCT-]

There was merchandise made for Agent Lock on Halo infinite, that's something to consider because he had a completely overhauled design.

[@Reaperfighter04]

The only dead spartans that chief finds in Infinite are Sorel and makovich who are killed at an excavation site, stone who is the first one we find and griffin who is tortured to death. Fun fact all but Griffin are new characters as Griffin was in Spartan Ops and in some of the comics.

[@playaplays57]

3 of the 6 members of Team Omega: Robert-025, August-099, and Leon-011 are confirmed to still be active but their current whereabouts are unknown (they were officially cemented as canon by the 2022 Halo Encyclopedia)

[@Zivin]

Also Halo Infinite Multiplayer has a whole secret spartan training facility on an unknown planet (yes i know its for multiplayer but it is considered canon). Blue team was also not on Infinity as per audio logs in Infinite's campaign

[@verbalviper]

I love that the top comments are all pointing out, very politely, what he got wrong/left out 😄

[@amdkillaplays]

Halo Infinite was a nice return to being head and shoulders above the rest of humanity. No wonder there was speculation that it was a soft reboot. Being one of 3000 feels less special than just under 30. On the flipside, it was nice rolling with a team in Reach, and occasional help from Spartan 4's in Halo 4. Halo 5 improved upon the squad mechanics, but it was nice to feel that you were all that was standing between the Banished and their goals. It helped me feel like actually wanting to liberate the ring from the Banished and not just rush straight through the campaign. But now we need some major firepower back, even if its only for 1 or 2 missions

[@TheCommssioner]

Two Spartan 4s and one Spartan 3 were mentioned in the Halo book Fractures, all three are alive and active. Also Omega team from halo wars and halo wars 2 dlc might exist

[@jackmcmorrow9397]

I remember when H4 was coming out, there was some promo material that listed chief as the last remaining SII. I always liked the kind of implication in the original trilogy that chief was, like, the LAST spartan. That the covenant had humanity so on the ropes that they had all but wiped out their super soldiers, and that chief had only survive because he was the absolute best of the best.

[@wt1664]

I was so thoroughly convinced he was THE last spartan for so long lol, made him so much cooler

[@RMT_IrishRedneck]

Looking forward to seeing Alpha-nine as a full Spartan team in the future especially Dutch as he’s my favourite ODST now Spartan 4

[@MEISTERNACHT]

Honestly, I do believe June is back in active duty because in the events of Halo 5 if you see his armor, it does say he did make a new set of it. Why would a Spartan recruiter make a new armor if he was not planning to go back to active duty?

[@zacharythompson2430]

Where was this mentioned?