

In issue 4, Fireteam Majestic rides booster frames seen in Halo Legends.While the Arbiter wears a new form of armor, Lydus's armor is reminiscent of Halo: Reach, and their Elite and Brute bodyguards wear armor from Halo 3.General Strauss, one of the members in First Strike, is also shown on the Council. The UNSC Security Council first seen in Halo: First Strike makes an appearance in the opening issue.The Cavalry: Monitor 859 Static Carillon saves John-117 and Blue Team more than once during the Next 72 Hours arc.Casual Danger Dialogue: John-117 and Monitor 859 Static Carillon have a discussion while Blue Team is battling a huge army of Prometheans.Breather Episode: Issue 7, which deals with Thorne and Grant attending the reopening of New Phoenix after Halo 4, and is set between the end of the Mole arc and The Next 72 Hours arc which focuses on the Master Chief.Bodyguard Betrayal: Despite being part of the UNSC delegation's bodyguard detail at Ealen IV, Spartan-IV Vladimir Scruggs is actually working with Vata 'Gajat's forces.Big Damn Heroes: Sarah Palmer and Fireteam Majestic, who destroy Vata 'Gajat's ship just as it's about to attack the crippled Infinity.The Bad Guy Wins: At the end of the Janus Key arc, Jul 'Mdama successfully acquires both halves of the Janus Key, giving him the real-time location of the Absolute Record.Badass Normal: Petra Janecek is a human civilian who is nonetheless more than capable of taking care of herself in ex-Covenant territory at one point, she uses an ancient revolver to blow an angry Elite away and scare off his buddies.To top it off, their deaths happened offscreen the next issue had a very brief flashback showing them encountering the Didact, but said flashback ends just as they're about to fight. Back for the Dead: In Issue 8, this happens to Spartan Team Black from Halo: Blood Line, who had not shown up in any Halo media since 2010 and were only confirmed to be alive less than a month before said issue came out.True enough, "The Next 72 Hours" shows six fully operational Composers at the Composer's Forge, which has the capability to make even more. Ascended Fridge Horror: After Halo: Silentium came out and revealed that the Forerunners used Composer s on the defeated ancient Humans, it left fans with the horrified realization that the Forerunners built more than one Composer.Scruggs: That is not the answer I was expecting.
