User blog comment:Maslab/On the subject of Noble Six/@comment-138261-20130708061632/@comment-1009967-20130708205621

There's always a way to justify survival, but there comes a point where it is simply unwise to do so. I almost started a Grace-093 expansion to illustrate this very point. The points I'd have to make would be a reason John-117 believed she was dead (the systems monitoring her vital signs were damaged) and for her to escape her bolted-on armor before it explodes (probably damaged by the Brute Shot hits). Then, it'd be a simple matter of a highly-trained commando making her way through a Covenant civilian populace to escape High Charity. But while her survival could conceivably be possible, the character has so many signs pointing directly to her death that to try bringing her back is just a bad idea. Sheila would be possible because there's so little evidence. Vinh, similar case if she were captured, not said to fight her way through an army. B312, Johnson, Cortana, these are characters that shouldn't be brought back.