User blog comment:Echowaffle8/SPARTAN-II Policy/@comment-1009967-20170624055726/@comment-2039204-20170624150522

I think the most important aspect from this new update is that all 33 (though there are 34 listed on Halopedia?) candidates who survived augmentation have in fact been named now. So it's a matter of ignoring the canon or simply having them become healed post augments.