: Honestly, I feel like Black Team was the least compelling of all the ones
: you've listed. At least in Blood Line, they read like amateurish fanfic.
: They wear black armor unlike all the other Spartans, they get special
: equipment other Spartans don't get, one of them gets paired an AI even
: though that was supposed to be unique to the Chief, etc. And I found both
: their stories kind of forgettable.
It could be that Black team was tied up in rights issues with Marvel/Disney, and this was just the best way to pay them some measure of respect while quietly eliminating them.