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[[File:H4L - John 117 abduction 2.jpg|thumb|250px|John being abducted by ONI agents.]] | [[File:H4L - John 117 abduction 2.jpg|thumb|250px|John being abducted by ONI agents.]] | ||
When Dr. Halsey and [[Jacob Keyes|LTJG Jacob Keyes]] visited Eridanus II in [[2517]] to study him, they were impressed with his intellect and luck. In a final test of his viability as a candidate, he was asked to determine which side [[Quarter|an old coin]] would land on. He watched the coin as it flew in the air and caught it before it could land; correctly stating which side was face-up, on the side of the eagle. Later that same year, John and 74 other six-year-old children were conscripted to [[Reach]]: they were covertly kidnapped from their homes and replaced with [[Flash cloning|flash clones]] to cover up the kidnappings.<ref group="note">''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp]]'' originally showed John being abducted by ONI agents at the back of a van after school; he also sees his clone during the process. However, in the ''[[Scanned]]'' live-action trailer, he is seen being abducted by night during his sleep.</ref> All of the clones would later die of [[Metabolic Cascade Failure|seemingly natural causes]] as a result of their accelerated growth process, with John's flash-clone dying on December 7, 2517.<ref name="HtT1"/><ref>'''[[Hunt the Truth]]''': ''[[:File:Ep 1 image.jpg|UEG public record]]''</ref> | When Dr. Halsey and [[Jacob Keyes|LTJG Jacob Keyes]] visited Eridanus II in [[2517]] to study him, they were impressed with his intellect and luck. In a final test of his viability as a candidate, he was asked to determine which side [[Quarter|an old coin]] would land on. He watched the coin as it flew in the air and caught it before it could land; correctly stating which side was face-up, on the side of the eagle. Later that same year, John and 74 other six-year-old children were conscripted to [[Reach]]: they were covertly kidnapped from their homes and replaced with [[Flash cloning|flash clones]] to cover up the kidnappings.<ref group="note">''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp]]'' originally showed John being abducted by ONI agents at the back of a van after school; he also sees his clone during the process. However, in the ''[[Scanned]]'' live-action trailer, he is seen being abducted by night during his sleep.</ref> All of the clones would later die of [[Metabolic Cascade Failure|seemingly natural causes]] as a result of their accelerated growth process, with John's flash-clone dying on December 7, 2517.<ref name="HtT1"/><ref>'''[[Hunt the Truth]]''': ''[[:File:Ep 1 image.jpg|UEG public record]]''</ref> | ||