How did Johnson survive the first game?

[BossMorris1]

In the end of the first game Cortana says they were the only ones who made it.
But in the second game Johnson looks better then ever.

[OriginOrange]

he has had too much radiation and is dying so the flood didnt take his body. Its in the books

[zombiecrc]

A wizard did it.

[OriginOrange]

引用自 XBL Laberbacke：

引用自 Pyrocitor：

Halo: First Strike includes the story.

December 2003. That's what we in the business call "retcon".

first strike was not reconned

[Noah le TG (SFM Commissions)]

In the canon, he managed to escape last minute aboard a pelican with some other Marines.
He survived the Flood because of his ORION Project (aka SPARTAN-I) augmentations complicating the infection process for him, but also gained full immunity to infection because he was basically nipped by an old infection form that basically just inoculated him from the Flood altogether.

Crazy stuff. You should read Halo: The Flood.

[Big John]

引用自 SinisterSpektre：

In the canon, he managed to escape last minute aboard a pelican with some other Marines.
He survived the Flood because of his ORION Project (aka SPARTAN-I) augmentations complicating the infection process for him, but also gained full immunity to infection because he was basically nipped by an old infection form that basically just inoculated him from the Flood altogether.

Crazy stuff. You should read Halo: The Flood.

Where did that come from? From the books, he managed to get off halo with 3 others (Locklear, Polaski, and Haverson) aboard a pelican. They docked in the debris field, after MC and Cortana pick Up another Spartan II - Linda, who was "killed" during a space op in the fall of Reach. The MC almost kills Johnson, thinking he is flood infected because he doesn't understand how he got away from the flood, after having view the Jenkins video footage midway through the 343 Guilty Spark mission. Dr. Halsey later reveals that the reason he was rejected by the flood infection form is that he had Boren's Syndrome. They explained it was caused by his heroic efforts during the Siege of Paris IV, caused by him using an entire box of plasma grenades and getting a massive dose of radiation, which made him unable to be controlled by the flood. Dr. Halsey then hive the MC a choice of which report to give to ONI, knowing that if the full source of flood data she had compiled has the reference to Johnson, ONI will likely dissect him in an effort to search for a flood cure. The MC decides to give ALL the data to ONI, which would likely result in Johnson's death. Fate later gave him a second chance to decide, at which point he chose the data that omitted Johnson from the file, believing that he had made a mistake the first time and that everyone needed to be saved.

[GabeKirk24]

If I'm remembering correctly it was in some kind of lore, can't remember where I heard it but a few factors come into play, first of Johnson was a candidate in the spartan 1 program, no special suit like the chief but some enhancements to him as a human, another thing was him contracting some kind of illness, not life threatening but it came from extensive use/testing of covenant weaponry, I'm not sure if it was true when I heard it but this was years ago, so I could be remembering it wrong

[Pyrocitor]

引用自 XBL Laberbacke：

引用自 Pyrocitor：

Halo: First Strike includes the story.

December 2003. That's what we in the business call "retcon".

Nope - it came out between Halo CE and Halo 2, and filled in some details.
It didn't retcon anything except the jokey legendary bonus ending on CE

[:partyhat:]

引用自 cb4n28：

引用自 BossMorris1：

In the end of the first game Cortana says they were the only ones who made it.
But in the second game Johnson looks better then ever.

The answer is implied in the bonus ending scene you get if you beat CE on Legendary and it's pretty clear so long as you've read enough of the fluff.

In the bonus scene, Johnson is seen wrestling for a gun with an Elite below the Pillar of Autumn just as the reactor starts to explode. Realizing they are about to die, Johnson says "This is it baby" and spreads his arms for a hug. The Elite returns his embrace as the explosion approaches and there's some butt squeezing going on.

But see, what happens is that the power of their tragic last minute love; born out of their mutual affection for butts; activated an ancient Forerunner teleportation device built by the brilliant Builder Rump-o'-Smooth-Skin (yes, the one referenced in the Sir Mix A Lot Song). The device was powered by the purity of their love for each other's rears and teleported them both to safety

Glad someone knows the truth around here ;)

[Rai]

It's explained in Halo: First Strike and in the comic "Breaking Quarantine" (which explains how he escaped the flood). Long story short, he has Boren's syndrome from hanging around plasma grenades for too long, which means he's somehow immune to flood infection.

First Strike also explains how Chief got back to Earth, btw.

[Spinning Harlot]

He hitched a ride with his new Elite boyfriend.

Edit: Yeah cb4n28 did the joke better.

[ED-209]

引用自 Cylixx：

引用自 Pwnage：

thats the first biggest question i have too, the second is in halo 3, chief activated the ring and so everyone within 20k light years distance died?? and the arbiter suddenly teleported to earth to have a farewell goodbyes to the humans while chief is still on the ship abandoned somewhere in space?? didnt they both escaped the ring in the last mission????????????

Physics don't exist in Halo. Ships don't even have any visible means of keeping themselves in the air. The just hover somehow.

Star wars does the same thing, don't think about it.

Orrrr you just weren't paying that much attention to the plot and didn't realize that the ship broke into two halves, one with Chief and another with the Arbiter. Arbiter's half contained the engine and managed to return to Earth while Chief and Cortana barely made it out of the blast radius and kept floating in space until the mentioned help would arrive. What is there to not understand?

[Lowrain]

引用自 WeTheFearless：

Sorry Guns, it's classified.

Hmph!?! My ass! Well you can forget about those adjustments to your A2 Scope, and your-

[Drakzen]

Because Johnson is some kind of god

[Cooperal]

Explosive-proof vest made from pure plot.

[Dic Tator]

引用自 BossMorris1：

In the end of the first game Cortana says they were the only ones who made it.
But in the second game Johnson looks better then ever.

Even if that's all you've got to go by, you could argue that a Longsword's scanners would be relatively short-range (and that Johnson went the other way in a ship), that the scanners were broken/malfunctioning, or that they just couldn't see anyone else through the radiation from the explosion. Him surviving is pretty much a retcon though.

引用自 Pwnage：

thats the first biggest question i have too, the second is in halo 3, chief activated the ring and so everyone within 20k light years distance died?? and the arbiter suddenly teleported to earth to have a farewell goodbyes to the humans while chief is still on the ship abandoned somewhere in space?? didnt they both escaped the ring in the last mission????????????

Pretty sure the Ark was in deep/dark space, and thus far from any other life. I think that they set off a mini-pulse (Correction, they fired it prematurely) to kill the Flood, which had gathered on the Ark to stop them from firing it in the first place. The Arbiter ended up on Earth because the ship that he and Master Chief traveled on went through the portal, but the portal was interrupted by the Ark ring firing, bisecting the ship and leaving MC in the butt end of nowhere. How did MC survive the ring firing? Well, plot armour would be my best guess.