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[Heresiarch]

Jan as Spartan III definitely sounds like the best theory to me. If for nothing else, because her name is "Janissary." Seriously. Who the hell would name a kid after an elite unit of Ottoman slave soldiers? Ackerson would, from what I've heard.

If Jan and J^2 were on the run from SIII and Ackerson, (a) they wouldn't be living on a military base (b) no-one would know that J^2 is/was SSF and (c) they would have changed her somewhat peculiar name. Whereas if they were being hidden by a faction of the military, then an obscure military base would be perfect. Easy to keep tabs on, but out of the way. That also explains the fake histories, if Ackerson was ordered to close down SIII but didn't.

Also: I read the "we" in "there are certain things we can't do" as referring to "people with fake identities," not "Genetically-enhanced freaks."

[META] Why are we being introduced to Jan? Maybe we play her in Halo II, with Durga as her AI, when the Covenant invades Earth.

[Heresiarch]

[Gemini]

I just have to interject - I think that if Bungie introduces a secondary playable character to Halo 2, you'll feel a bigger player backlash than when people found out about Raiden. People like playing as Master Chief, just like they like Snake, and like hearing Cortana.

Plus, the theatrical trailer is rather Master Chief-centric, don't you think?

[SecondSundodger]

[quote="Heresiarch"]

[zerosknightmare]

no the flash clones die around the age of 20 from brain anurisums

[SecondSundodger]

But for all this speculation of J^2's real identity, why couldn't Jersey just have agreed to let Durga find out? Grrrrr.

[zerosknightmare]

realy realy off topic but very cool

[CoffeeJedi]

[jellyfish_green]

re the military base idea: yes, apparently she's a military brat.

a) she lives on the 4th floor of the dorm (?) and our friend Jersey lives on the first (?)

b) "the guys turtled a Razorback", ie flipped a military jeep, which they were driving without permission but obviously had access to

c) she was sneaking into the secure area - to return the pass they used to check out the jeep, possibly, so her fellow brats wouldn't get in trouble.

d) it was a civilian police lab that was burned. No proof I can see that the base had a military lab the MP's could have used. (Open to correction of course.)

Sorry if trout but it seems relevant to whether this is a covert civilian or covert military way of hiding Jan.

[JackBurt0n]

[WILD SPEC]: Something tells me that Jan won't be a playable character even if she is in Halo 2. Why? Ackerson's a bad guy. He hates the Spartan IIs. If anything, I think they're meant to help out the Spartan IIs, but perhaps because of a side effect of the process/training that they go through, they're very unreliable and mischievious. Thus, we can see that Jan sneaking into the military base just for "fun" as the first in many incidents where Spartan IIIs start going awry. Just a thought. And yes, I'm pretty sure somewhere in Halo 2 Ackerson will come very close to destroying Earth himself, mainly because he's evil.

-Jack

[mrzarquon]

Re: Jan in Halo 2

Just because Raiden had a group backlash does not mean that Halo fans would revolt at the same idea.

Maybe one does COOP missions with Jan, which is a HUGE thing for Halo (you and a buddy can compete in levels), so while you have an option to switch between the two characters, both are available in the map.

Bungie likes big surprises also. To give you an idea, for the original Halo, there was no mention of the Flood prior to the games release, people thought it was just a Human vs Covenant fight on a ring.

And then there was this "oh sh*t" moment in "I wish i had a shotgun" where you see the flood for the first time.

MasterChief is old and busted, Jan is new hotness.

But Jan doesn't have the combat experience so the two would need to work together.

[sheeps]

Re: [SPEC] Who is Jan?/Col. Ackerson/sIII