Reading about the new feature, “Spartan Ops, ” got me thinking about what it might entail.

I suspect a mix of off-ship (UNSC Infinity) missions to fight insurrectionists lead by Lucy’s (Spartan B091) father. This gleaned from the Halo novel “Glasslands.” As well as deep infiltration mission to the Sangelli homeworld to aid the Arbiter in quelling an uprising there. So while there will be no playable elite’s in multiplayer, there may still be elite’s to fight against in Spartan Ops. The idea of fighting human insurrectionists though is a little chilling.

To follow the history of the Spartan program, they were indeed created for the purpose of dealing with insurrectionists FIRST, but then the Covenant just happened to come knocking and they were diverted to that war effort instead. Those two theories, IMO, seem to make the most sense and can loosely follow the novels forthcoming.

I do think it will be quite a task for 343 to maintain a weekly schedule if they are going to include cutscenes. However, they have a good headstart now. So, it’s likely when the game ships they’ll already be ahead by many weeks. If it’s something more simple along the lines of playing matchmaking and getting certain amounts of kills on certain maps, then it will be more like the weekly challenges we have in Halo Reach. That would be much easier to do. Given the scant bit of info released about Spartan Ops makes you wonder (as I did).

I hope it’s not as simple as a weekly challenge type of thing. Likewise, not so complex that 343 won’t be able to keep up after a time.

It’s fun to speculate, though I wish we had more official info instead. It is excited to think about what Halo 4 may become.

-HFFL