How Wealthy is Master Chief? | Lore and Theory 

You know for a fact she did but properly in the ill gotten gains form on her tax return since the program was breaking so many laws. Dr. Halsey doesn't mess with the IRS.

@archerstown The one organization is more scary than the flood, and ONI combined the IRS

The IRS is actually ONI section 0.

MJOLNIR-ARMOUR/EGYPTIAN-POWER ARMOUR/POWER-ARMOUR-COOLANT-SYSTEM/VENTILATION-SYSTEM A Egyptian power armour will need small, twin ventilation and coolant system. These will be outfitted near the shoulder [blades] of the wearer/user. They will resemble large, bulky protrusions (like twin backpacks) that system from the shoulder area, as though they were wings. This complex ventilation system is what makes the power armour comfortable to wear for extended periods of time. Like the life support system, the ventilation and coolant system will need to be monitored and regulated by an in-built Ai system. Update (08/03/2022): I wonder if slime-mold [technology] can be utilized to optimise the efficiency of the ventilation system, i.e. to integrate a thin suit-made of living slime mold (if successful, this would also help to minimise weight of the power armour, thus aiding and ensure that energy is spent elsewhere). The slime-mold suit will need to make contact with the wearer/user; where it can conduct heat and other biological waste (such as sweat, and potentially dead blood cells from a bleeding wound) away from the user, and expel it near the air-ducts or any other preferred location. NOTE: Egyptian power-armour will combine the functionality of a thin space suit (like that seen in "space X's space suit"), a basic medical, life support system and monitors, and finally a knights suit of armour. The suit will electronic, and obviously computerized (assisted by a combination of AI systems). When it action, it will be somewhat fluent, and capable of making fluid action and movement, despite being a robotic suit (LLMs that are dedicated to mimicking natural body moment in fluid motion will comprise the majority of the suit's AI output). Lastly, the suit will need to be water resistant (water resistant spray, that is difficult to chip and wear out after extended usage will be preferred), and its ventilation system will be integrated with a small filtration system. This will make the suit resistant to poison or environments with airborne, hazardous substance. NOTE: A tough plastic material should be utilised on the exterior of the [Egyptian] power-armour. While being weather resistant and durable, its primary pose will be to give the power armour form (so that it looks futuristic and formidable-further adding to its ability to function as a deterrence), as well as double as additional shock-absorption/shock-dampener. The material will then need to be painted with metallic paint, so as it give it a metallic aesthetic in its composition (deceit/material mimicry).

You Max out at 3 kids.

He'd probably give it back to u, give that to the covenant

This is probably the most likely thing barring something insane like having a whole planet for himself, I have little doubts that if his demands were reasonable or weren't against the interest of the UNSC that he would be granted it. I would argue the same is probably true for the other spartan 2s and most other Spartans if they desired such except maybe the Spartans 4s but that would probably change with time as well. Besides why would they want the public relations disaster of denying a savior of humanity.

Yeah I’d be willing to bet they’d give him any commodity he asked for, and multiple houses. I don’t think they’d give him a skyscraper, but they’d probably buy him a penthouse

​​​Considering what he did for humanity, fighting to defend the species as a whole, which in the Halo universe aren't confined to a single planet like us,but live on countless others,we can assume that the human population is way more than the 8 billions we have today, I think it's safe to assume he'd get more than a skyscraper if he wanted to. But,we know Chief, he'll settle for something reasonable,even mundane and ordinary.

I'd like Chief to have his "Warrior in a Garden" moment. I wish Microsoft had given him a happy ending at this point, mostly because he's just so tired (conceptually and literally). 4 was a perfect place to end on for him, they just needed to go *a little bit further* with it. He wouldn't have been caught in all their messy writing that came afterwards, too. If they had retired him and focused on some of the side content (like the books), and started over with a new Spartan 3/4, maybe their games wouldn't have been so harshly disliked.

He's going to be in This Man's Army until he is... 510 years old

Black project, it'd be bad for business if they made him pay for it.

Considering the amount of Covenant war material he's destroyed I think he's paid his armor debts off

As everyone knows: when you get assigned to a tank unit in the army, you have to buy the tank 🤦

Don't forget all the pelicans, warthog, ships, and weapons he lost damaged or destroyed

Fun fact, you don't pay taxes while on deployment in the US military. You still need to file taxes though.

@@TyllerBoom Well, you better not pay fucking taxes if you're serving in the military funded by those taxes. Imagine... Giving money to fund the organization that pays your checks, so you can give money to the organization that pays your checks and... yeah.

@@darkySp Wait until you find out about government work. Government funds agency, agency pays salary/hourly to employee, employee pays a % back as taxes to the government. God bless the USA

@@malderino3515 The biggest business in the world, brought to you by the United States of America!

and like every living thing in the galaxy.... MULTIPLE TIMES

That’s why SEALs get out and go to the private sector.

I imagine they’d give him whatever he wanted, were he to retire. He could also make a fuck ton doing speeches and books

I wonder if he got any salvage for the recovery of Covenant and Forerunner Tech?

That's the government for you

if it's an action figure, you likely only see the armor and not himself, the Navy or maybe whatever corporation that was responsible for the production of his armor would probably be entitled to those royalties.

@@mazhiwezakizo3513 If they called it Master Chief on the box. and they probably did, they definitely aren't.

There’s probably a video game called Halo as well where you play as master chief taking down the covenant. I bet he gets royalties for that

@@Tokyoprism I feel like the alien market for that game would be very limited lmaooo

@@dist0rted320 You ever a hear of a little game known as "Dead by Daylight"?

😂😂👍

I understand that reference… Halo CE, The Pillar of Autumn, Captain Keyes…

😂 he gots that Cash flow . Fa sho

That's a phrase often said at blue collar jobs where you aren't being paid much, though, so Jorge might be saying that he actually gets paid too little for his work.

​@@rootsnootthnute8598It's kind of an odd line for a Spartan to toss out either way, although I always got the sense that Jorge was intended to be similar to Kurt - you know, an SII that tends to interface more with other personnel, which also kind of explains why he works well in a team of SIIIs.

@@rootsnootthnute8598 I mean, Noble Team are all pretty highly ranked Spartans. Just based on that, they're likelymaking Mint compared to chief. So stated, considering Spartans have no next of Kin, high pay scales don't mean much when they're more likely to die than to retire and take thier backpay.

I'd imagine their pay would be better than typical soldiers/officers. If they do manage to live to retirement you'd want them to get something nice, big and quiet so they can't tell anyone about the lives they lived. There have been a few Spartans that left service, but there will never be true peace for the Master Chief. He's been through too much to try and live a normal life. He will fight until the end unless he becomes some sort of entity in the Domain.

​@@AS-fp4gb SIII's don't, being orphans, but SII's sometimes do. Of course, they're all listed as dead, so there next of kin might not get anything 😂

give him a wepon

Give him all the weapons!

That’s what I said.

At least...

Give him his own fleet and sector system as his personal fiedom

This raises several questions. Has chief ever tasted beer? Does he even drink? Does he have a preferred brand?

Chief on the beach only with heart trunks and his helmet.

Zanzibar & piña colada's

@@manchannel7003 Master Cheeks canonically does not drink alcohol

@@manchannel7003the pilot got chief to be a Modelo guy

I'm sure some private company would swoop in and start paying him millions per year to continue doing contracted work

4 Million in their future economy no less... accounting for inflation that's gunna get him a snicker's bar (and not even a full snickers I bet)? I bet a big mac was 5 million before the covenant war started.

"your injuries are not service related" -- UNSC High Command

​@dean1625 what injuries? The surgical scars?

@@RipOffProductionsLLC It's a running US military joke . . .

that's kinda what i'm thinking, they just give him a card with a balance total of YES.

Got a cash count that matches his kill count. And he had done a lot of that

@@TheCulturedMan34 Sounds about right

@@MarkoDash LOL, a balance of YES is so funny

Where's the lamb sauce

​@@hoze1235 sir coming right up.

Probably, IRL soldiers that were lost and later found years after ww2 ended were paid for all the years they spent lost and, from their perspective, still at war

@@drenemelia2960 Oh okay. That would make sense.

Do they count cryoslewp between travel as time off

@@salazarcosplay i doubt it, all UNSC soldiers would hate to go into cryo knowing they gonna lose all their time off :D

Yeah, if you're a POW or Declared MIA and later are found you get back pay for all the days you were not paid.

Far exceeds? Bruh, this is public knowledge that can be found within seconds of googling it. I’ll never understand why people say things like this fishing for likes. This is literally nonsense.

It's a joke that the military is kinda stupid sometimes​@@TheHannukahZombie

@@TheHannukahZombie when you deal with some of these service members on a daily basis you'll understand.

@@lordofshades9852 exactly! Anything that makes sense we do the opposite.

combat income is tax-exempt by IRS if you are deployed to a warzone IRS recognizes so no doubt ONI can force some low level bureaucrat to fully tax-exempt Chief from paying taxes

enough to get all halo infinite content for free

Imagine Chief walking into the payday loan office

Yea but since master Chief is basically a SOF element and a SNCO I’d assume he gets something similar to BAH and the extra “Special Pay” our SOCOM pays their SOF members, at least considering that’s how the army pay works idk if sailors get BAH after achieving E6 and if the SEALs get that special pay

Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about

Not entirely true all service members in every branch gets BAH and BAS it shows up in your LES but it automatically gets taken out you never actually see it. Because living in the barracks and eating at the chow hall isn’t free. Now you can apply to leave the bricks and get housing at the rank of E-4(rarely does that happen unless the bricks are full) mainly at E-5 do they allow this more. And in doing so you get all your BAH and BAS. So long as you choose to not live in on base housing as you will lose all BAH even if you have a house that is lower in cost compared to what you get in BAH i.e. if your house on base is let’s say $1500 a month and you get $2000 for BAH you lose that extra $500.

You could also make the argument that he never had a residence off a military installation and only ate at base mess/ships galley facilities so wouldn't get bah or bas

@@jimmorrison2783 definitely. There is also his COL(cost of living) that needs to be taken into consideration especially during his time on Reach as that was his main stay on an actual planet for a long period of time that didn’t rate hazard pay before it was glassed. There is also his uniform allowance that he should get at the end of every year which is about $250-$300. And given that the Spartan program is also more public Chief should be entitled to reenlistment bonuses and if we use the modern day bonuses of select special warfare groups that bonus can range from $80,000-$100,000.

Retired Spartans form a sports team

​@@hoze1235joining local law enforcement too

You still get a reduced BAS even when living in the dorms since it's also meant to cover things like toilet paper and toothpaste. Also, even for someone living in base housing instead of the dorms, their meals at the chow hall wouldn't automatically be free.

and civil-military reforms.

Probably for all of his career. I doubt he lived on private housing or cooked for himself. Imagine seeing John 117 shopping at a commisary and cooking in a kitchen.

@@ThexKiidxSausageman only knows how to cook covenants

@@ThexKiidxSausage lmao that would be hilarious. Why aren't you on the battlefield spartan? Finishing the shopping sir.

He got the purple heart, first medal he's ever got actually. The ones he did not get were for being a POW and another one i cant remember.

@@snperkiller1054 he only lacks the pow medal

@@snperkiller1054 he should though considering innies captured blue team on one of their first ops in the books

@@mythicknz8203 I would assume you gotta be captured for more then a few minutes, that and the UNSC would have to recognise innies as a legit entity that can have POWs.

They were captured for hours and Kurt rescued them, they were legitamitely captured@@snperkiller1054

That's easy, each other unless you can't to fellow inlisted for w/e reason

SGLI beneficiary : Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, MD PhD

it's a wash with inflation anyway. So you could add the pay increase, but the effective buying power is still the same.

To survive as an interstellar civilisation humanity would definitely have to evolve beyond current Capitalism. There's no way you can support a society spread across multiple solar systems with the ultimate goal being accumulate wealth. The abundance of space immediately kills market prices since there's so much raw material and you have so much automation.

@@revanamell1791 except that we have proof of capitalism in the games

@@thatoneguy9666 I didn't say "There is no Capitalism in Halo". I said what I said, dingus.

@@revanamell1791 oh yeah that clears it up a lot, thanks

Of course! Why wouldn’t there be?

@@Brucie_Boy they deserve there happiness together I’ve always shipped them

I mean, Cortana is based off of Dr Halsey right?

just clone halsey

Oh brother

Indeed

Bro 😂

you were a master chief?! im a bit skeptical

That said, I may be wrong if the books differ, as I have not read the books

He was offered a promotion many times but he just likes the sound of master chief.