: 1) Story & Characters. Where we go from here is anybody's guess. Halo 4
: did set up plenty of story threads. Halsey is the captive of Jul Mdama.
: This needs to be explored in detail. Jul should be one of the primary
: antagonists of Halo 5. Let the Didact sit this one; with Requiem, the
: Composer, and his ship destroyed, which means he may have no means of
: replenishing his Promethean forces, and he's probably too injured to do
: much of anything. John should probably be Consider bringing ONI in as a
: new antagonist. Sarah Palmer and her hand-picked S-IVs could be tasked by
: ONI with bringing down the "renegade" Chief and Halsey; having
: her make a face-heel turn would give us the satisfaction of killing her
: ourselves in an awesome fight against other Spartans. The lack of human
: enemies in the Halo series has been surprising, considering that the
: potential for them is there. Bring back the Arbiter and Half-Jaw.
: Considering having the surviving S-IIs actually be in the game.

Whoops. I got distracted by something else and forgot to finish the bolded line. It should have read something like "John should encounter Halsey at some point during the story." I also forgot to mention Halsey's stated desire for revenge against ONI. I can imagine some setup where John (and perhaps the other Spartan-IIs), who views Halsey as a mother figure, having to protect her from ONI and their Spartan-IVs, led by Palmer. Because you know John would like to snap Palmer's neck for what she tried to do to Halsey.