This is something that has bothered me for a while, so maybe someone more versed in Halo canon has the answer. At the end of Halo:CE, you destroy Installation 04 by overloading the reactors on the crashed Pillar of Autumn. After escaping on the fighter, Cortana does a scan and declares there are no human life signs remaining.
Yet, somehow Johnson survives. How? If he was evacuated by Echo 419 at some point, to where?
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Will find it but Bungie had intended to kill Johnson off and while that cut scene is at the end of Legendary CE it is Canon not Non-Canon. When Halo 2 came out i figured Johnson died but it was never explained how he was still alive until first strike. [Edited on 01.08.2013 7:32 AM PST]