User blog comment:Maslab/On the subject of Noble Six/@comment-138261-20130708061632/@comment-1009967-20130710001140

What is isn't certain, because Bungie ended with that gorram cut-away and let all this confusion start. Maybe I'm the last person who ought to be able to say which characters should stay dead given my expansions, as fan-ficcers we make a living off loopholes, exceptions, and bending rules, but I draw the line in my mind at Noble Six. Halo: Reach was about the fall of the UNSC's last defense before Earth, and B312's last stand is something of a metaphor for the planet's defeat. Halsey's monologue spells out, "I wish you could have lived to see it. But you belong to Reach," but since there's apparently enough ambiguity there for it to be argued, it may have to come down to a vote. The trouble is, I don't think anyone's going to be left satisfied by a vote in this case because being right ain't a democracy.