linda is alive you div on first strike she is above earth with other spartan 2's after halo 2 events get some halo mythos in ya son b4 you enter the battle feild of the forums
i like this but what if it is all the old spartans looking for halsey like the dssabled ones in wheelchairs that became like that through augmentations or meeting fred after a prison sentance for his actoins on reach after the oni interveiw at the end of first strike but he went to prison after the events of halo 3 and gets let out because oni has been dissolved because chief has testified to his accounts of growing up with the "yes sir" and "no sir" at the court and show a bit of that as the first cut scene and him looking at a photo of him in his youth or reports about his missions before cortana then going to the infinity asking for a place on ship "permission to come aboard sir" to which lasky replies "sure thing chief" and infinitiy's mission to be capture and kill Halsey which John finds hard to come to grips with but in the end either putting a bullet in Halseys head seeing himself as nothing but a weapon as he takes he second half of the key or takes her aboard infinity but lets her steal a pelecan to go as a last act of mercy or respect for the things she has had to do and that he understands