3. Has Master Chief Become The Hunted?
From powerful battlefield behemoth in Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2, through to the hunted lone wolf of Halo 4 Master Chief has experienced plenty of diversity on the battlefield but Halo 5: Guardians could see Master Chief in a completely new role. On what is assumed to be the games box art Master Chief has been relegated to the second position, prime real estate being given to the new mysterious character Agent Locke. Is it unreasonable to assume that now Master Chief has gone AWOL from the UNSC, Agent Locke has been ordered to either retrieve Master Chief for trial or execute him for desertion? Some CSI level detective work over at teambeyond.net revealed that Agent Locke has a small ONI logo built into his armour on the cover of Halo 5: Guardians. The Office Of Navel Intelligence are well known for being the shadowy organisation that operate throughout human space almost completely unregulated, often committing crimes and human rights infractions to obtain their objectives. It may not be too much of a leap to assume that ONI have been developing their own Spartan programme, however limited, and the result is Agent Locke; a formidable opponent for Master Chief and his aging Mark V Mjolnir Armour.