Everything You Need to Know About Halo’s Dramatic, Devastating Fall of Reach

Although they didn’t appear in the original telling of the Fall of Reach as seen in the 2001, Noble Team—a squad of next-generation Spartan-III supersoldiers, the successors to the Spartan II program—were the primary protagonists of the version of the Fall of Reach depicted in Halo: Reach. There were six members of the team—Carter, Kat, Jun, Emile, Jorge, and Noble Six, Reach’s customizable player character—and spoiler, but unsurprisingly so given everything you’ve read here so far, all but one of them perishes over the course of the game.

The events told in Halo: Reach contradict the version of the Fall depicted in The Fall of Reach in multiple ways, and it’s likely further still that Halo season two will contradict Halo: Reach, given its already operating in its own timeline. We don’t currently know if Noble Team will have any role in the show’s version of events, but considering we’re likely going to see Reach’s downfall from Master Chief’s primary perspective again, his path rarely aligned with Noble Team’s during Halo: Reach outside of a brief cameo connection during the climax of the game, so it’s not like they’re entirely necessary to a version of these events the show wants to tell.