Possible Halo Reach News Snuck into Halo Encylopedia! March 4, 2010

I’ve got a copy of the Halo Encyclopedia for Christmas and I’ve been thumbing through it for the past few days (it’s a beautiful coffee table book of Halo Goodness(TM)!) and found something I think they wanted to keep buried.

After watching the full Halo Reach trailer, everyone seems to be pointing to Noble Six,  called the Lone Wolf, as the probable playable protagonist of Reach, sounds pretty interesting, but here’s what I caught in the Encyclopedia.

There is one section on SPARTAN-IIs in the encyclopedia, with a listing of SPARTAN-IIs that have previously found their way into canonical backstory, like the Halo novels. I found one buried entry in there that caught my eye.  There is one known SPARTAN with the nickname “Lone Wolf”, it’s SPARTAN-058, Linda.

Now since that discovery Bungie has come forward with much more Halo Reach information, such as character bios of the members of Noble Team.  They appear to be a diverse group of men and women comprised mostly of SPARTAN-IIIs and one SPARTAN-II (Spartan-052 seen clearly in the trailer).  However, Noble Six’s character bio still been intentionally left blank.  There’s no telling if Nobel Six is a man or a woman.

However, according to several of the Halo books, Linda never was on the surface of Reach during the battle, making it unlikely that she is Noble Six, but the possibility is still there that for the first time in a Halo game, you might play as a female.  Would be very interesting if it were true.

This is only my opinion/conjecture and this article has the EDITORIAL tag, this is NOT confirmed news.  What would you think if the next Halo protagonist was a woman?