Talk:Black Team

Where does "Victor-101" come from? Can we get a source for it? If it was from the comic, I would assume the others would be named as well. -- Administrator Specops306 - Qur'a 'Morhek 00:31, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

I know, I did miss it the first time I read it, but he is named in the first issue. It's at the part where he introduces himself to Iona. About halfway through. Exact quote is "Victor-101. Nice to meet you, Iona." But yeah, the others aren't named at any point. --Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 06:27, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

Origins?

Halsey's journal, April 1, 2525:

"I've ordered that NO candidate autopsies be performed (noninvasive scans and blood tests are permissible). Brief funeral services (closed casket) served to help surviving Spartans attain psychological closure.

Bodies of augmentation washouts are cryogenically preserved, pending further study. Perhaps one day we'll discover ways to ameliorate or reverse lethal side effects and revive some, if not all, of them. That is my hope.

Reviving these candidates would be fraught with complexities - and not just from a technological perspective. How would they respond to an essentially new world when resuscitated months or even years later?

How would surviving Spartans react to their comrades' resurrection? I certainly can't predict. One thing is certain - ONI would find a use for them."

Hmm. "ONI would find a use for them." Could this remark suggest the origins of Team Black? Linda was brutally killed on Gamma Station, yet she was resuscitated about a month later - the space-time anomaly notwithstanding. The Forerunners could revive the nearly dead, so it isn't really a stretch that the UNSC could bring back the actually dead. Assuming that the washouts' bodies were placed on ice as soon as they were declared dead, it is quite possible that ONI was indeed able to resurrect some of them.

If Halsey's suspicions were correct - and when aren't they? - ONI could have a team of four Spartans who officially no longer exist: a black ops team who would report to no one but ONI. That describes Team Black perfectly.

On another note, if any of the other dead washouts were resuscitated and any of the crippled candidates were rehabilitated, as mentioned elsewhere in the journal, they might have taken part in the Fall of Reach, thus explaining the numbers discrepancy. As of the Fall of Reach, Cassandra was undergoing rehab, Fhajad was still a data analyst, and Soren was almost certainly dead, but the rest are up for grabs, so to speak. --Courage never dies. 19:09, 8 May 2011 (EDT)