[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] privet caboose [quote][/quote] [b]Error:[/b] Alpha Company was wiped out completely during Operation: PROMETHEUS in 2537. Carter, Emile, and Jun should not be alive. [b]Proof:[/b] Halo: Ghosts of Onyx goes into quite a bit of detail on Operation: PROMETHEUS. Spartan-III Alpha Company (comprised of 300 Spartans) were sent to K7-49 on a mission to destroy plasma reactors the Covenant were using to liquefy metallurgical components. The operation was a success, but it is explicitly stated that it cost the lives of [i]every Spartan-III on the asteroid[/i] because they got cut off from their Calypso-class Exfiltration crafts and completely lost their unit cohesion. Halo Reach chooses to ignore this. Carter (A-259), Emile (A-239), and Jun (A-266) are a part of Noble Team when they should have been dead years ago; Bungie have given us no explanation on [i]how[/i] they escaped at all. [b]Sources: [/b] - Ghosts of Onyx, page 83-87. - Halo Reach [quote][/quote] [/quote] while there was said to be only 300 slots, there was a massive chunk of time missing between alphas first test and kurts arrival on the point of no return. it may be possible that the number of slots was increased, similar to gammas(or was it beta?) they say in the book that 300 spartans launched the attack, they never specifically said ALL of the spartans participated.some spartans, possibly even 20+ may have been deployed elsewhere. it does state, in your own words(which you quoted from the book, i think. "it cost the lives of [i]every Spartan-III [b]on the asteroid[/b][/i]" [Edited on 12.16.2011 5:53 PM PST]