Blue Team

Lore & Background

Blue Team is led by Master Chief and includes Linda-058, Kelly-087, and Frederic-104. They are among the last Spartan-IIs left alive. In Halo 5: Guardians, set in the year 2558, eight months after the events of Halo 4, Blue Team goes absent without leave to track down the artificial intelligence construct Cortana. Master Chief receives a cryptic message from Cortana directing him to Meridian, a human colony world.

Ordered to return to Infinity, Master Chief and Blue Team disobey orders and set out after Cortana. On the Forerunner planet Genesis, John and Cortana reunite. Cortana says that her terminal condition was cured by the same Forerunner technology that had saved her. Blue Team reveals that Cortana is planning on using the Guardians to achieve galactic peace through forcible disarmament.

Master Chief attempts to convince Cortana to stand down, but she refuses and confines Blue Team in a Forerunner prison. Osiris manages to free Blue Team before Cortana leaves the planet.

Reader's Guide

Blue Team operates as a persistent fireteam of non-player character Spartans who are present at all times during the campaign. During cooperative play, other human players assume control of these Spartans, who each have different loadouts and attributes. Players can direct computer-controlled fireteam members via the d-pad to perform actions such as picking up a weapon, getting into a vehicle, or prioritizing a selected enemy. If a Spartan takes too much damage, they enter an incapacitated state, and can be revived by another fireteam member before dying. The game's difficulty scales to compensate for the number of human players.

Did You Know?

• Master Chief bests Locke in hand-to-hand combat on Meridian.
• Cortana confines Blue Team in a Forerunner prison on Genesis before Exuberant Witness frees them.