User blog comment:Maslab/On the subject of Noble Six/@comment-138261-20130708061632/@comment-33741372-20130708203600

(many Spartans died during augmentation, but so many were brought back conveniently, as their death was only a staged cover, and many alpha and beta Spartan-IIIs survived, despite the odds, and the fact both companies were annihilated, in one case to only 2 operators, in the other to zero.)

Ah but we have an exception here. I don't see anything wrong with, as ever elusive and secretive as they are, covering up a probable death, with death being the official record, to cover up any probability of ONI involving said individual in questionable activities, because if they're dead, there's no way to implicate them in said activities. Seeing the fact that Six has already been involved in several clandestine and questionable activities involved with ONI, I find it unlikely they would use the same tactic twice for the same individual, as it is quite likely they have vectors other than Six, and it is unlikely a secret society as elite and precise as ONI would use the same method twice.