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bloody jumper:

--- Quote from: McJob on September 28, 2017, 10:07:42 PM ---Noble Six is killed by Energy Sword as the camera swings up during that final cutscene (a trope known as "Gory Discretion Shot"; keeps it tasteful but implies what is happening). After expending all his ammo, losing his weapons and taking several hits (his shields are down and not recovering), Six is worn down and literally surrounded by Elites who close in on him, pin him to the ground and end his suffering.

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A little depressing but it makes sense. Would have been cool if he just kept going until Reach itself fell, but that wouldn't have been very realistic.

PhantOS:
why did noble six even stick around? he coulda just fled the planet by then or some stuff

Dreams_Of_Cheese:

--- Quote from: PhantOS on September 28, 2017, 10:14:29 PM ---why did noble six even stick around? he coulda just fled the planet by then or some stuff

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cause forget aliens

McJob:

--- Quote from: PhantOS on September 28, 2017, 10:14:29 PM ---why did noble six even stick around? he coulda just fled the planet by then or some stuff

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Because there was no avenue of escape, and Six is a proud warrior.

The Pillar of Autumn was the last of the cruisers to escape Reach before the glassing. Anything smaller than a Cruiser wouldn't have the fuel or engines necessary to get to another system (there were no safe planets within Reach's vicinity), and would struggle to slip the net the Covenant had created with their ships surrounding Reach. Anybody left behind was left for dead at that point.

Six was born on Reach, the SPARTANs as a concept were born and raised on Reach, the hope of humanity was sheltered on Reach and his entire team (which he probably considered family at that point) died on Reach. It makes sense he would take one last opportunity to go down fighting for the military's homeworld, even though it was a futile effort.

McJob:
If you're wondering why he wasn't on the Autumn; after spending a while retrieving the Cortana AI from Halsey and getting to the PoA (which was already carrying John-117 and was intended as the last hope for humanity on Earth), a whole bunch of Covenant ships arrive to forget the PoA's chances of getting off world. Six stayed behind so he could jump on a MAC Cannon and buy the PoA a window to escape.

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