Why Was Master Chief In Cryo On Reach
Reach may not star the iconic master chief but the spartan hero known as john 117 is indeed making a cameo appearance in halo.
Why was master chief in cryo on reach. Pillar of autumn along with cortana were right behind the scenes during halo reach noble team. During the final cutscene of the halo reach mission pillar of autumn there was a small easter egg where you could turn the camera during the cutscene and briefly see master chief in his cryopod. It could just be an easter egg like sarge was in the ce legendary ending. That means he was covered in painful blisters.
Mc is on reach but he is on his own mission at the time to destroy a navchip to prevent the covenant from finding earth at that time. The location of earth by then was still a closely guarded secret. Finally certain medical procedures can be done within the cryo tube and i am sure things like mjolnir armor maintenance could be done as well. He probably just wanted a catnap.
But the halo reach game is played from the perspective of a completely different group of spartans doing other missions in other locations at the same time as the master chief was doing his own missions. It was on this station were james was killed and linda fatally wounded where the master chief escap d on the pillar of autumn which leads to the beginning of halo combat evolved. During halo reach where was blue team master chief fred linda and kelly. On top of all of that chief just fought for reach blew up a space elevator and covenant ship and watched a lot of people friends included die.
In eric nylund s book the flood it mentions how the chief was in quite the large amount of discomfort when he stepped out of his cryo pod. As for why they seemed weaker it could partially be due to the fact that most of them were spartan 3 soldiers rather than spartan 2s jorge was the only spartan 2 in the group at the time of reach. John master chief with linda and james was sent to reach station gamma to destroy an unsecured nav database onboard the unsc circumference. Maybe not once you learn the context.
In the first halo game master chief was awoken from cryo sleep and he was seen wearing his mjolnir armor. That part of the books was retconned mc being asleep in a tube during the fall of reach is canon makes perfect sense. If the covenant obtained the database they would discover the location of every human world including earth.