User blog comment:Maslab/On the subject of Noble Six/@comment-104730-20130708021609

This subject seems to be hotly contested in Ajax's -B312, which I exprect will result in most arguments in the matter coming to the table (with secondary issues with Ajax's explaination of the survival.)

Personally, I hold the opinion that this developer's commentary expresses the opinion of a single individual: it is stated that others on the development team wanted Six to live. So, in this case, 'word of god' is decidedly more of an opinion of one of the developers than a definitive line drawn in the canonical sand. Its not a contestable point that Six was supposed to have been implied to have killed: but but his fate is not a cast-iron "Six is DEAD beyond any hope of revival"; indeed, fanon like Ajax's is creating circumstances for his survival - however statistically improbable it is. The whole matter boils down to if it can be stated without a shadow of doubt that Bungie has established airtight canon that Six was killed in action on Reach as a direct result of being overwhelmed in a final unarmed melee.