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| *According to ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', John met Cortana when her chip was inserted into his neural interface for the first time. This occurred just after he received his second-generation [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V MJOLNIR armor]] and took place inside a large tent. However, the cutscene shows John wearing a variant of the Mark IV (see below) and Cortana appears in holographic form; the meeting instead seems to take place inside a bunker. The comic ''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]'' also shows John being introduced to Cortana via her avatar, although John is correctly depicted as wearing his new Mark V suit. | | *The Spartans' Mjolnir armor (despite representing the [[Mark IV]] and [[Mark V]]) resembles the upgraded [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI|Mark VI]] version that Cortana devised for John-117; however, Dr. Halsey was not aware of the existence of this suit at the time of her interrogation. [[Josh Holmes]] has confirmed that the appearance of John's unique armor in the cutscene is not canon. The development team recycled the existing Mark VI geometry because they had insufficient time to create canonically accurate models.<ref name="notIV">[https://twitter.com/JoshingtonState/status/474224115608731650 '''Twitter'''] ('''Josh Holmes''': ''We didn't have time to build S-II armor just for intro so we used the S-IV armor in its place. Canonically incorrect I know. :('')</ref> The suits are shown to possess energy shields; while this may represent the field testing that began in [[2531]], it is more likely an example of artistic license of Halsey's imagination.<ref>''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]'', page 119</ref> |
| *The Spartans' MJOLNIR armor resembles the upgraded [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI|Mark VI]] version that Cortana devised for John-117, despite Dr. Halsey not knowing such a variant existed. However, ''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]'' establishes these suits as the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV|Mark IV]] variant upon which John's revised armor was based,<ref>[http://www.dk.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781409334828,00.html '''DK Publising''' - ''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide'' '''Preview''']</ref> much like the original Mark VI was canonically based on John's Mark IV variant from ''[[The Package]]'' and ''[[Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn]]''. From a production standpoint, the use of the ''Halo 4''-era armor design is out of necessity to employ existing 3D assets for the cinematic.<ref name="notIV">[https://twitter.com/JoshingtonState/status/474224115608731650 '''Twitter'''] ('''Josh Holmes''': ''We didn't have time to build S-II armor just for intro so we used the S-IV armor in its place. Canonically incorrect I know. :('')</ref> Notably, the suits are shown to possess energy shields; while this may seem anachronistic, MJOLNIR energy shielding prototypes had entered field-testing by [[2531]].<ref>'''Halo: The Essential Visual Guide''', ''page 119'': ''"Energy shielding was a key feature of Mark V, although other Spartan squads had field-tested prototypes of this technology as early as 2531."''</ref>
| | *According to ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', John met Cortana when her chip was inserted into his neural interface for the first time. This occurred just after he received his second-generation [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V Mjolnir armor]] and took place inside a large tent. However, the cutscene shows Cortana being introduced in holographic form outside his suit, which is depicted as the aforementioned Mark VI; the meeting seems to take place inside a bunker (likely inside [[CASTLE Base]]) rather than a surgical tent. The comic ''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]'' also shows John being introduced to Cortana via her avatar, although John is correctly depicted as wearing his new Mark V suit. |
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