Fun fact: The Spirit of Fire is the oldest known active ship in the UNSC. Also she and her class used to be colony ships before being fit for military service.
sort of like the grandpa of the infinity? right?, because the infinity was meant to be the best but the war "ended" so they used it as a colony ship...or am i wrong? xd
@@MrPopo9101 The Infinity is the most powerful warship the UNSC has, but yeah after the war ended she was used mostly for exploration and according to Lasky, deactivating the remaining Halo rings. The Phoenix class ships were made for being support/command ships, but they just so happen to be self-sufficient as well, and have not one, but three MAC cannons. The Spirit of Fire is as amazing as it is only because of Captain Cutter and his crew, otherwise, it's just a big old ships.
@@MrPopo9101 There are a few videos on youtube about infinity that say it could be used as a sort of life boat for humanity if earth fell you can find 2 good ones on Installation 00 and Eckharts Ladder They talk about the construction of the Infinity in the Kilo Five trilogy books and this video is a good overview of the spirit of fire ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bhP-YVpMK4o.html
@@TheFallenFaob Yeah the infinity was a literal lifeboat/ark in case humanity went extinct because of the covenant, the forerunner engines/drives was fast enough to let it reach other places in the galaxy that the human slipspace engines couldn't, since it would take decades or hundreds of years at their limited speed (2.1 lightyears per hour)
@@MrPopo9101 As others have mentioned, the Infinity, (and her sister ship the Eternity) was originally being built during the final years of the War as a last ditch effort to preserve Humanity in case the Covenant found and destroyed Earth. The Infinity would lead the last of the UNSC Fleet with the single mission to survive. When the War ended, she was repurposed for Scientific and Exploration missions, as well as being a Flagship. The only thing the Infinity has in common with the Spirit of Fire are their classifications as Carriers and practically mobile Military bases.
The Spartan with Isobel is Jerome 092, in the lore he failed augmentation the first time round along with Alice 130 and Douglas 042 and they had to go for a second attempt of augmentation which succeeded and was then attached to Spartan Red team, also I love the old Mark IV armour Jerome and red team wears it’s just sooo badass
@@DarkVargas-yv7qp ya because there body's didn't like the augmentation and failed but went and did it again and it was successful but left them 25% weaker
The crew of the Spirit of Fire truly shows the tenacity and the ferocity of humankind. Been out of the war for almost 30 years of and despite the age of their instruments, weaponry and tools and faced with a brand new enemy that proved to be stronger than the ones they’ve previously faced, they still blazed hotter than the fury of the Banished. Johnson was right when he said the covenant couldn’t have picked a worse enemy than the human race.
James Cutter is a good captain too Jerome holding up against foes with a 35 years, old armor. Just being able to survive the covenant, survive the first encounter with the flood and survive the banished... what a crew.
@@hzhang1228 It’s not like we don’t have real world examples of outnumbered, outgunned people giving a much stronger enemy hell using outdated equipment. It’s clear that when pushed against a wall humanity will go down kicking, punching, and biting to the very end.
@@cryamistellimek9184 looking at history of great civilizations and colonialism the real world examples of the outdated little guy coming on top are few and far in between. and those are battles not wars. realistically there is zero chance of winning against a foe with vastly superior tech. which is why there is plot armor and added bs. mega installations will always have 1 hit ko methods, things will always happen at the exact right time to tie up all loose ends, and advanced aliens portrayed like nothing more than beasts in armor
@@hzhang1228 Notice how nobody said the spirit of fire had won or that I said humanity would win. I said that people with outdated tech managed to give hell and punch far above what you thought they’d be able to. And besides the covenant vs unsc isn’t like the British empire vs the Indians tech wise.
Jerome, Alice, and Douglas had to take the Augmentations twice, Jerome was also in the tope leader positions during Spartan 2 training, along with John (MC) and Fred from Blue team. They are still rocking Spartan MK 4 armor since they were in Cryo and didn't get the MK 5, 6 and 7 upgrades that Master Chief and Blue team have gotten up to Halo Infinite. Also, just so you are aware, Douglas did not die in their fight against Atriox in the beginning. He joins back with you later in the game after his med bay stay. Also also, there is a fun bit of dialogue at one point in game where Jerome asks about the UNSC and Covenant war that happened on the ARK from Halo 3 and Isabelle tells him about Master Chief winning that war, Jerome then says "Good to know John is still out there"
@@odstsoldier6252 No, all of Red team is alive. Along with Blue team, Gray team and Omega team. And then Naomi, and outlier Spartan 2 who is not designated to a squad. (And Maria but she retired)
There is a DLC campaign called "Awaken the nightmare" with it's own batch of cutscenes to the same level of quality. It's unrelated to the main plotline though. So if you are feeling more Halo Wars 2, could always watch those :)
Such a fantastic story, Jerome-092 the badass Spartan, Isabel the badass and emotional AI, Cutter and his inspiration speech and courage, Anders’ magic hands and the UNSC spirit of fire taking on an unstoppable Banished force!! Another awesome reaction, can’t wait for more vids
Lore clarifications: The brute we’ve seen as the main antagonist in Halo Infinite is Escharum, Atriox’s second in command and his mentor. The banished didn’t ALL come to the Ark. most stayed back in the Milky Way with Escharum as their leader while Atriox was away with the one ship he took. He wasn’t expecting to find organized UNSC resistance, and really the Spirit of Fire wasn’t supposed to be there, one more mystery to add to Halo. As of recently, a book came out called Halo: Shadows of Reach, were we learn that Atriox has come back to the Milky Way after the events of Halo Wars 2, so yeah, fun stuff all around.
@@brycebuchanan1138 I’m guessing they explain what happened to the spirit of fire in their? I hope they do cause it would suck if they just abandon their story arc overall.
That speech by Cutter is my favourite cutscene in Halo that speech gives me shivers everytime. Jerome 092 is a member of Red team and is from the same Spartan program as the master chief so they are both Spartan 2. There were several Spartan 2 teams such as Red team, Blue team, Black team, Gold Team and several other teams. Jerome now would be younger than cheif only because of the 28 years in cryo. But they were augmented in 2525 and halo wars 1 takes place in 2531.
I would say more mercenary leader; a lot of Banished aren't following him out of loyalty, they're following him because he's paying them. Pretty much all the various subspecies of the Jackals/Kig-Yar are under this catagory (As a aside, SOOOO happy skirmishers are back, those sprinty bois were FUN to hunt down), and even did so during the Covenant, so that's not changing with the Banished. Might be more "follow us for cool shit to loot" but still, they do it for the pay as we can hear a Jackal yell "Paid to Kill, not Die!" in the gameplay. I'd also imagine that quite a few Elites, possibly all of them, are also mercenaries, with maybe the expection of that spartan hunting crew we see (The elite with the red swords and, completely at odds with the established lore that Sangheli DON'T get Cybernetics, ever, is almost as chromed out as V from 2077), but I could see them being paid as well. As for the Brutes, could be a mix of both, as its established that the Brutes follow the strongest leader but are divided into packs, so probably most follow because Atriox and his mentor are the strongest, but I could see the more specialized packs (Those with technical skills or above all else, naval experience) being paid. Lekgolo/Hunters? Who the shit knows WHY those freakish things do what they do, but likely for pay as well, or resources of some kind; we barely know anything about the Lekgolo and even if they have some sort of civilization of their own, so could be they send the loot home to a home hive, could be they use it to bling out their combat shells more.
The cutscenes for Halo Wars 1 and 2 are worth the watch by themselves. But the actual games man. I don't care for strategy games AT ALL but the Halo Wars games are so fun and also provide a lot of development for what are now some of my favorite characters in Halo lore. Couple of gems. Hope you give them a shot. Great video!
@@_ObiOne_ the people who made it were Ensemble Studious. They were making a completely different strategy game at the time, but their parent company Microsoft wanted it to be Halo. It set them back a year making it Halo, and caused friction between them and Bungie. Bungie was making Halo 3 at the time and were being tight lipped about the Halo world, and they didn't like someone else using their franchise without their say so. Ensemble got dismantled by Microst after the game was released.
@@_ObiOne_ The other games take place at the end of the war, or after it. Halo wars 1 is the only one to take place somewhat at the beginning. The whole event was about 30 years long and there is a lot that happens.
The thing is the UNSC Spirit of Fire has almost a century of service with Humanity, but she is still kicking ass way above her weight class, she is my favorite ship of them all considering she doesn't have any Forerunner tech like the Pillar of Autumn.
Autumn is my favourite, it's almost completely conventional bar some upguns, cortana, and honeycomb reinforcing and still fucks over a super cruiser and multiple CRSs
I think you meant the Infinity with the Forerunner tech. Pillar of Autumn did not have any, although she did have a rather unique design for a cruiser that most UNSC ships did not, allowing ships of her class to survive little longer in battle.
I absolutely LOVE how they utilized the “Smart” AI quirks with our departed friend Serena deleting herself against regulations and how our new friend Isabel is literally terrified of the banished. Not to mention her screaming for joy when Jerome pulls a John MC outta that ship 🤣
It's actually by regulations. Or at least, the Smart AI's have a self-delete protocol. Usually done by the humans, but Serina did it on her own before her rampancy got dangerous.
Spartan Jerome 092, he is a second generation spartan just like master chief, if you read some of the lore books, there are many spartan II’s and III’s are still alive (spartan III’s are noble team or like headhunters), well a few are left but they still make a major amount of secured victories for the UNSC Like Jun A266, he survived reach and i’m pretty sure he was part of a couple secret missions before returning to earth and training the next spartan IIII’s.
@@EmoChipmonkVOD actually they can't because like the IIs their augmentations were done as children and like the IIs they grew into their augmentations. Not to mention Gamma Company's augmentations included the illegal drug that made them near impervious to shock and pain overload which probably wouldn't mix well with new augmentations. Also Project Orchid augmentations which are those of the Spartan IVs are designed for adults not children with pre-existing augmentations.
That ring was proably another replacement for Installation 04, the one Chief blew up in the first game. The ring at the Ark during Halo 3 that was also destroyed by Chief was also a replacement.
@@shiningamaterasu2579 But, due to damage sustained in the deep past, most of the ring was shed and its size reduced to become the same as the other 6.
Bear in mind that Jerome-092 (the chad Spartan in these cutscenes) was only 20 here and had old, outdated Mark-IV armor with no shielding at all, so he was able to take on those brutes and elites in basically hand to hand combat on his own, imagine him with Mark-VII
I’m going to go out on a limb and say I’m Mark-VII Jerome would probably enter the realms of _’Unstoppable”._ Compare his performance against these Brutes to that of Chief’s in the _”Carry On”_ trailer, Jerome displayed a higher degree of lethality and efficiency.
@@ricodee3188 Wouldn't be a fair comparison considering these were animated by different teams who for the most part animate the spartans with vastly different thoughts in mind for how fast or efficient they would be.
@@klekykleky that is a fair point, The amount of resources That Blur puts into even a minute of animation is probably orders of Magnitudes higher than any Halo infinite trailer. So my comparison may not be fair, due to this subtext.
@@hotjonmw90 his body initially rejecting the augmentations doesn’t have any bearing on his general proficiency and combat acumen, it just means the augmentations simply failed, not that he is _’Weak’._
Interesting fact. Red Team were first defective and were not a Spartan, when they went through the augmentation process they were defective but overtime they got better and were good enough to go through it again and the second time they succeeded and finally became a Spartan.
it actually makes sense that it would be successful the second time as they would only need to have augmentations done to the parts that were unsuccessful the first time
There is a book called "Shadows of Reach" which kind of fills the same role as "Fall of Reach" did to the first game. A kind of prequel. It also fills some of the gap between HW2 and Infinite. If you don't have time to read it. HiddenXperia will without a doubt be ok with you making a rection to his breakdown on the plot
@@chrissonofpear1384 True. I've just seen others react to HX's video before so I was more confident that was ok. But I'm sure Halo Canon would probably be completely fine with it too. So it's what ever is prefers I guess.
Fun Fact, Captain Cutter's Executive Officer was The Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood, Cutter was the one who seen to it that Hood got his own ship to Captain.
Seeing more Elites die really make me want for them to have a limelight again... Whether they be a friend or at least neutral like the Arbiter, or some group like the Banished (other than the Banished) where they are sort of the bad guys.
There seems to be an Elite in Infinite who sees Master Chief as a more of a fun sparring partner rather than true enemy, but there's only like 10sec of footage of him.
As an introduction to the Banished, having Atriox manhandle (Brutehandle?) Not just one Spartan, but three, just... He took on three Spartan-II's by himself and clearly could have easily taken them all out with very little effort. As an introduction, this very quickly makes Atriox absolutely terrifying, and the Banished alongside him the same because they choose to follow him.
This game and it’s cutscenes are what gave me hope for the future of Halo storytelling within the games. It was a joy to watch you get excited for the future as well, thank you for sharing the experience with us.
Imagine being such an imposing force well executed at the beginning of a spinoff game that you become the BoaT Badass of all Time and your army of traitors that said "fuck the covenenant" became such a problem they had to be left unattended by the primary threat of the first trilogy to deal with humanity and just grew to the point they grew into an even bigger problem that became the core threat of the main series. I haven't played HW2 but Atriox makes himself fucking known and a serious threat by cutscenes alone with how bad he jumps Omega team. So smart for a brute he even got elites following him. The honorable equal to the average spartan. This guy tactically ambushed a whole squad on his own that took on a troupe of honor guards in the finale of the first game. Props to Bluepoint (i believe) for the cutscenes. Who also did the remaster of Halo 2's cutscenes. They made an actual believable threat.
If you love the AI, there are hints of an AI "council" (The Assembly) that are scattered throughout Halo:Reach data pads as well as the Waypoint. Not sure what happened to the original posts though as some of them were also made by 343'ss "Catalog" account which has been scrubbed for some time.
What’s crazy is that Jerome-092 was a Spartan II washout, meaning they either were crippled or literally died during genetic augmentations. After separate rehabilitation, Jerome and the rest of Red Team became the successful Spartan team we see today
Spartan 092 aka Jerome is personally one of my favorite spartan 2s because this man in the comics fought off a flood infection aboard the spirit of fire with nothing but a metal chair from the cafeteria
Honestly I would love to play a game where Jerome and Isabel are saving the universe if chief retires. Love the campaign and the banished are the greatest idea 343 has ever had.
Fun Fact: The voice actor (Gideon Emery, one of my favorites) who played Cutter in this game, was the voice of Jerome 092 in the original Halo Wars. In the HW2 cutscenes, the actor is CGI'd as the likeness of Cutter as well, and he also did the live action trailers for the game on top of all that. I recommend watching those too, they're surprisingly funny!
I have a suggestion for a reaction video, several actually. SCP-001 When Day Breaks especially the ones made by SCP Illustrated because theirs are the most heart bre- Heart melting...
Just a reminder that SPARTAN Red Team is wearing MJOLNIR [GEN1] Mark IV armor, which completely lacks energy shielding and AI-Human neural integration (an AI can be loaded into the armor, but they can't further enhance the SPARTAN's reactions like with Mark V and later armor).
For gameplay the one strat that always helps me is to focus on the economy first then have your army based as scorpions and hornets primarily. Nothing beats an enemy faster than an army of tanks. As for lore, the suit of mjolnir the spartans are wearing are mk IV which was designed without energy shields. The mk V was, but the spartans in halo wars have never received their upgraded armor due to problems in logistics (ex being adrift in space for the development of mkV and landing on the ark). Shielded mjolnir is in gameplay but primarily for gameplay purposes and not lore.
The forerunner facility the SoF has found itself around is is called the Lesser Ark, but we just call it the Ark. and yes, it does manufacture Halo rings! It was the smaller of 2 Arks, but the greater Ark was destroyed by the flood during the forerunner-flood war.
Hey Luke, Great video but I really do hope get around to playing these games soon they’re such good games and there’s so much more to experience than just watching the cutscenes. Also you should check out the trailers before you play them, they’re awesome and really get the hype going.
the 3 spartans are Red Team. In 2531, Red Team was under the leadership of Jerome-092. The team was a three-person unit, comprised of Jerome, Douglas-042 and Alice-130. these 3 spartans are of the same generation as Master Chief, and the far more well known, Blue Team. (for those who are unfamiliar with Halo)
Jerome, Douglas, and Alice all are spartan 2 along with Master Chief and Jerome was considered to be one of the leaders along with John and a couple of others. He's amazing
Spartan 092 is Jerome, one of the three Spartans apart of Red Team (other two are Alice 130 and Douglas 042). They're all Spartan IIs like Master Chief, Blue Team, Jorge (from Halo Reach) which are the best of the best and defiantly most badass.
The one thing I'll say is while Infinite seems to portray a mildly diluted form of the Banished, they still have done an excellent job painting how utterly hopeless Humanity is to contend against them. Many of the lines the Chief says are tear-jerkers, and the scenes with Echo 216 are game storytelling gold. I'm curious to see where things will go from here.
Yeah, you were right. That Installation (designated Installation-00) is called the Ark (well more specifically the lesser Ark, a story for another time). It is what we saw in Halo 3. If you remember we got there via portal in that game. It was reopened after it closed in Halo 3, hence why there was research outpost on the Ark and where Isabel was stationed. The reason the portal actually closed all of a sudden is because in Halo 5, Cortana’s Guardians used their pulse (which disables electronics of any kind) over Earth, and that’s why the portal or the Ark was shutdown. The Spartan Team featured in this game is called Red Team (but keep in mind other Spartan-II Teams have used that name in the lore). The main Spartan we see is Jerome-092, leader of Red Team and who was last we heard promoted to Field Commander of all Spirit of Fire forces on the Ark as their battle with the Banished is still ongoing. As for Douglas-042, the one who you thought was dead is still alive. He just isn’t seen again in the cutscenes is because he was recovering from his injuries. The third Spartan is Alice-130. She is still active in the field too. You okay a few mission segments controlling Alice after the first mission too, but you get to experience that better from playing the game which you said you’ll eventually do, so I’ll leave that for you to experience
The place at the beginning is Infact the Ark we were on in Halo 3, where they make the rings that chief blew up once more and scorched the center of the Ark some
I really wish they would bring these characters in the future halo games. There’s a scene where Douglas mentions he’s happy to hear John is still in the fight. You should watch the DLC for this as well if you get the chance.
Atriox gathers his followers because of one common reason, he lets them CHOOSE to follow him. It's explained through the Rise of Atriox comic series that Atriox will not accept followers unless they choose to follow him willingly. This extends to every race, including humans.
