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Eric Nylund came up with the the aesthetic of the unsc, Insurrection, SPARTAN program, ODSTs, Spartan vs ODST rivalry, Dr Halsey, Blue Team, Captain Keyes and Dr Halsey romance, John-117 backstory, Keyes loop, Onyx, etc

Joe Staten came up with Captain Keyes (Captain Exposition), Cortana, Sgt Johsnon, Master Chief's one liner personality, 343 Guilty Spark, Lord Hood, Miranda Keyes, Arbiter, Prophets, Tartarus, Mendicant Bias, Gravemind, The Rookie, a lot of Halo Wars ideas, Covenant lore

Lee Wilson, Marcus Lehto and Marty O'Donnel came up with Noble Team to tell "Bungie's version" of the Fall of Reach as a swan song before moving on to Destiny

>Bungie was against the whole concept initially of the insurrectionists and just wanted humans to have these super soldiers for no sort of reason.

>The crew behind FoR felt that there needed to be some in universe reason to justify the spartans, and since there was no alien threat at that time in the story, the insurrection and human civil war was what they landed on

Also, Nylund notes that with the reprints of his books, he hasn’t been paid the royalties. 343 kiked him